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These SoCal Colleges Turn Out Top Money Makers

If you're looking for more than a worldly education, a sense of history, and a decent grasp on literature, then you're in the right place when it comes to colleges. Yes, Southern California offers you higher education that pays. Eventually. The latest "Payscale College Salary Report," based on what ... More >>

USC, UCLA Tied in Academic Ranking

As if USC and UCLA needed any more fuel for their decades-long crosstown rivalry, the latest US News Best Colleges ranking has the schools neck-and-neck. Yep. This year USC and UCLA will not only battle over which campus has the best football team, best basketball squad, or hottest students. They'l ... More >>

John O. Dabiri: The Jellyfish Genius

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here.John O. Dabiri, 32, is the impossibly young chair of faculty at the California Institute of Technology, where he studies jellyfish propulsion and fish schooling behavior — ... More >>

Alexander Woo, a Playwright Who Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the 'Idiot Box'

Admission Review: Tina Fey's Great, But the Film Doesn't Have the Marks

UCLA Is A Top 5 Value Among American Public Universities, Princeton Review Says

There are times in life when cheaper is not necessarily better: when you're choosing a doctor, a life-mate or, perhaps, an institution of higher learning. In this case, we'll give UCLA props. It keeps scoring big lately: The Westwood campus was recently named one of the best schools in the world by ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Jane Kaczmarek in The Snake Can

Kathryn Graf's new comedy about women slipping into middle-age, The Snake Can, is this week's pick of the week. Also a nod for Cathy Rigby reprising her decades-long performance in Peter Pan. See below for all the latest New Theater Reviews, and this week's comprehensive stage listings. Also, two s ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground

Nods this week for Laguna Playhouse's production of Neil Simon's Chapter Two and Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground at Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood. For the latest new reviews and comprehensive stage listings, see below. Tanna Frederick and Robert Standley star in N. Richard Nash's T ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Solo Show About Pioneering Actress Hattie McDaniel

Our critic Lovell Estell was entranced by Vickilyn Reynolds' performance in a show based on the life of Hattie McDaniel, Hattie -- What I Need You To Know. For all the latest New Theater Reviews, and comprehensive stage listings, see below.This week's Stage Feature takes a look a three shows th ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Sherlock's Last Case

No new reviews this week, but these will return at the same time next week, as the new theater season gets underway. See below for complete listings of shows to see this week.In this week's stage feature, we asked our stable of critics what they most dread and anticipate when being assigned a s ... More >>

Cheese-Making May Date Back 7,500 Years

Aged cheeses are delicious, although 7,500 years old might be a bit much. But that's how old the practice of cheese-making may be -- much older than previously thought -- according to an article in the journal Nature. Scientists have reportedly discovered 7,500-year-old pottery fragments that have ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Japanese War Brides Musical Tea, With Music

A musical about World War II war brides, Tea, With Music, for which the author, Velina Hasu Houston, has added songs and music for this production, is our Pick of the Week. For all new theater reviews, see below. This week's stage fature looks a couple of plays aiming to be light fare: Micha ... More >>

What if Texas Seceded? Comedy Writer Bob Smiley Imagines What Would Happen, in Don't Mess with Travis

Sometimes, something has to make you truly miserable before you can see the humor in it. Los Angeles-based TV writer and ESPN.com contributor Bob Smiley entered Princeton University with the idealistic dream of studying politics and eventually becoming a small-town mayor back home in Southern Cali ... More >>

USC, UCLA Make National Top 10 Wish Lists of Would-Be Students, Parents

USC and UCLA barely made the top 25 of U.S. News & World Report's annual Best Colleges rankings, but the crosstown rivals seem to do just find in other contests (and we're not just talking football and basketball). The London Times' Higher Education rankings recently placed UCLA at number 9 -- one ... More >>

Black Friday: How the Feds Shut Down Online Poker

$2.5 billion industry cut off, taking livelihoods with it

Henri Ford: Doctor Sans Frontieres

Geeky on the Radio

Stage Raw: Comedy of Errors

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Oedipus the Tyrant and King LearL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO COMEDY OF ERRORS ​Photo by Craig Schwartz A strongman, a ventriloquist, three showgirls and a mimic with 1,000 voices make up just half of the Bu ... More >>

Jose Huizar Unfriends Rudy Martinez

Every voter counts as ex-pals fight for 10,000 elusive Eastsiders

Stage Raw: Holiday Listings

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset LimitedHOLIDAY LISTINGS:To be honest, the quantity of theater playing this week in Los Angeles is about as thin as it gets. Still, our comprehensive LISTINGS are back up. Things do pick up in January, so ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Caught, The Santaland Diaries, Julia

Also, Remembering the Ladies, Cyrano de Bergerac and more

Stage Raw: Caught

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS and OPENINGS THIS WEEKSTAGE FEATURE on Vieux Carre at REDCATNEW REVIEW GO CAUGHT ​Photo by Michael LamontIn the aftermath of Proposition 8 passing in November 2008, one of the regrets of those who fought valiantly for gay marriage and against the p ... More >>

William Harsh, Meg Whitman's Princeton-Attending Son, Charged With 'Careless' Driving

GawkerDid Meg Whitman spawn demon children?​In her $160 million or so of self-funded campaigning (yeah -- it's up to $160-mil-plus now), Meg Whitman boasts that she ran a major corporation, eBay, so she'll have no trouble making Sacramento more efficient and businesslike if she's elected Calif ... More >>

BEST ROLLING TOME

Meg Whitman's Son Disrupts Princeton Softball Game, Claims Field For Rugby

IvyGateWill Harsh, Meg Whitman's rugby-playing son​If Meg Whitman becomes governor, one of the big payoffs will be the chance to follow the exploits of her Princeton-educated sons.The older son, Griffith Rutherford Harsh V, was once charged for shoving a woman whose friend had mocked his fraternit ... More >>

Opponents Of Westside's Bundy Village Development Say Emergency Response Times In Area Would Go Up As A Result Of Increased Traffic

​Opponents of the Westside mixed-use development called Bundy Village on Friday cited a study they say shows a possible 4.5-minute increase in emergency response times for police, paramedics and firefighters in the area if the traffic-creating project goes forward as planned. The developer, S ... More >>

L.A. Council's Travel, Lavish Accomodations Questioned

​A recent report by NBC4's Colleen Williams (pictured) questions the Los Angeles City Council's sometimes-lavish travel arrangements, especially in light of City Hall's $585 million deficit and impending layoffs. The station found that the mayor and council spent $70,000 on travel in 2008 and ... More >>

Let the Golden Globes (and etc.) bad-mouthing begin!

Because it's awards season and there's no holiday cheer

GO LA: Gay Fusion, Jackie Kashian and the Gold Standard Food Festival

Plus, lots more to see, hear and consume in town, March 6-12

Best War Painter

Teaching for America in Crips Territory: Relentless Pursuit

Hope and little glory at an L.A. high school

Splitsville

Watch out for whiplash as Villaraigosa spins his wrecked marriage

Splitsville: Villaraigosa Spins his Wrecked Marriage

Watch out for whiplash

Mexican American Princes: ¡Mas Suave!

They’re handsome, charming and so good to their mothers. They’re Mexican American Princes, and they rule Los Angeles

Is This the Part They Call Reform?

Villaraigosa doesn’t win a decisive victory, and one of his own candidates is already minimizing his role

No cartooning today

All three of these bear the date 11/25/84.  I remember some details of the day.  I was a freshman art student at Rutgers University and had just gotten the thick black frame glasses, modeled more on Arthur Miller and Jean Paul Sartre than Woody Allen, that I still wear today.  It was ... More >>

Quiet, Dear

Variety of responses to the outing of David Dreier

Pit Bulls and Tigers and Bears — Oh My!

Hackers Unite

Geeks rally for jailed Russian programmer. But it’s hard to explain why it really does matter.

Slippery Slopes

Peter Singer’s Ethical Life

No Experts Please

Mayor Riordan backs interested novices for the school board

The Coffee Table