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How Debt Collectors Get Away With Terrorizing Consumers -- With the Blessing of Public Officials

Thanks to a congressional loophole, local prosecutors actually hire private firms to harass citizens

Consumer Reports Study Finds Pork Teeming With Bacteria

Oh, you dirty swine. A new and alarming Consumer Reports study found that pork chops and ground pork are teeming with nasty bacteria that cause food poisoning, CBS News reports. Urvashi Rangan, Consumer Reports' director of consumer safety and sustainability, told CBS, "We found potentially harmfu ... More >>

Most Meat Is Full of Antibiotics, Survey Finds

Rep. Louise Slaughter of New York has released the results from a survey of more than 60 fast food, retail, production and grocery companies asking them about their policies on the use of antibiotics in meat and poultry, Forbes reports. The purpose of the survey was to evaluate their level of transp ... More >>

National Anthem Renditions So Bad, You'll Want to Renounce Your Citizenship

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time Top 20 Greatest Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of all Time Even if you love this country -- and boy do we love this country! -- there are times it makes you question your long-term commitment. ... More >>

Safeway, Vons Will Stop Selling Ground Beef Containing 'Pink Slime'

The days of "Let them eat pink slime" are over. Today Safeway Inc., the second-largest supermarket operator in the country, said it will stop buying the ammonia-treated beef filler "because of widespread customer concern," MSNBC reports. Since Safeway owns Vons, hamburger sold at Vons will also be p ... More >>

Ready Pac Recalls Bagged Romaine Salads

FDAToss your salad.​ Irwindale-based Ready Pac Foods Inc. is recalling 5,379 cases of bagged salad products containing romaine lettuce because they may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria, Reuters reports. The voluntary recall includes a dozen different salad products including Caesar salad ... More >>

U.S. Still a Dumping Ground for Crappy Honey, Study Finds

Flickr/Joelk75​ They're calling it "honey laundering." More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores is filtered to the point where it contains no pollen -- which would make it flunk the quality standards set by most of the world's food safety agencies, according to testing ... More >>

V-Nasty as She Wants to Be

Kreayshawn's Controversial Associate Tells Her Side

V-Nasty on Jail, Being Pregnant At 15, and Why Oakland Is Not Where It's At

Fred Harper​See also: *As Nasty As She Wants to Be: Kreayshawn's Controversial Associate Finally Tells Her Side of the Story *Free V-Nasty; Why I'm Fascinated by Kreayshawn's Controversial Crewmate *Our review of Kreayshawn's show at The Roxy Our music feature story this week is on V-Nasty, t ... More >>

Q & A With Municipal Winemakers' Dave Potter: On Surfing, Sourcing Grape Stigmas His New Tasting Room

JGarbee Potter In The Former Scuba Shop That Will Become His Tasting Room​If you need an excuse to for a coastal drive, winemaker Dave Potter is your man. He is the face behind Santa Barbara-based Municipal Winemakers, a small but mighty 600 cases per year operation that he tends to between ba ... More >>

Tomato Recall Alert: Grape Tomatoes in California Packaged Salads

Flickr/smcgeegrape tomatoes​ Your food recall alert of the day. (Getting tired of these yet? Right.) A specific lot of grape tomatoes grown by a Florida grower has been recalled by the FDA for possible salmonella contamination, prompting a larger recall of packaged salads. Six L's of Immokale ... More >>

California Merchant Recalls 64,000 Pounds of Chicken, Pork Products

Flickr/Tony Austin​ A Tracy, California, food supplier has recalled 64,000 pounds of chicken and pork products because some broccoli in the products was found to be contaminated with Listeria, the Associated Press reports. The 10 varieties of premade foods, which include "Raley's" rice bowls ... More >>

Are Leg-less Chickens the Future?

Tiggywinkle/FlickrSome day, these may be like dinosaurs​ Due to their prominence in café sandwiches and the pages of health, food, and lifestyle magazines, we've long figured Americans ate more chicken breasts than legs, thighs, and those ragged, slithery bit parts one has to vigorously disen ... More >>

Jared Loughner Tucson Massacre Case Coming to Southern California, According to Report

Loughner could be en route to SoCal.​A possible gift to L.A.'s television news stations, the Washington Post reported late Sunday that the trial of Tucson massacre suspect Jared Loughner will be moved to San Diego to take negative publicity in Arizona about the 22-year-old out of justice's equ ... More >>

Tucson Massacre: Jared Loughner Case Could End Up Being Heard In Southern California?

Loughner, accused of murder, times six.​A Southern California federal court judge was tapped to takeover the murder case of Jared Loughner, the 22-year-old accused of killing six people and injuring 14 outside a Tucson Safeway over the weekend. Because the Tucson region's U.S. District Court ... More >>

Tucson Massacre: Dodgers Set Up Memorial Fund To Honor Christina Green, Daughter Of Dodgers' Scout

Christina Green, a member of the Dodgers family.​One of the most heart-wrenching stories out of Arizona over the weekend was that of 9-year-old Christina Green, who had been elected to her local student council and had gone to a Tucson Safeway to meet Rep. Gabrielle Giffords that fateful Satur ... More >>

Tucson Massacre: Sarah Palin Takes To YouTube To Criticize Critics' 'Blood Libel'

CBS / YouTubeSarah Palin shoots at critics.​Clearly responding to jabs that her presidential aspirations were the least-important victim of the weekend's massacre in Tucson, Sarah Palin took to YouTube Wednesday to criticize the critics. She said attempts to link her kind of violence-laced po ... More >>

Marijuana: Tucson Massacre Suspect Jared Loughner Was 'Habitual' Pot User

Suspect Jared Loughner.​An Army official says Tucson massacre suspect Jared Loughner, who wanted to sign up for military service two years ago, was a "habitual drug abuser." The revelation brings up the question of whether marijuana played a role in an apparently troubled man's life. While ca ... More >>

Giffords Tragedy: Nine-Year-Old Victim Christina Taylor Green Was Daughter Of Dodgers Scout John Green

APChristina Taylor Green.​The youngest victim of the weekend massacre in Arizona, 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, was the daughter of Dodgers East Coast scout John Green. Green told a reporter that he has a lot of anger over the attack would like to spend some one-on-one time with suspect ... More >>

L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa Calls Shooting Of Ariz. Congresswoman Giffords 'Senseless'

Suspect Jared Loughner.​L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa reacted to Saturday's shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others at a Tucson supermarket, saying the violence was "senseless." Six people, including a 9-year-old, were killed, and 13 others, including Gifford, sur ... More >>

An Open Letter To Whomever Is Placing Raisin Boxes On Top Of A Chain Link Fence At Cheviot Hills Park: Who Are You?

M. Rochlinraisin boxes on a fence​ Dear Creator Of Raisin Box Fence at Cheviot Hills Park: Who are you? Are you an extremely tall elementary schooler for whom it has become a habit to consume the naturally sweet, wizened contents of the mini-raisin box from the sack lunch your mom packed for ... More >>

Prop. 26 Is Emission-Happy Prop. 23's Sneaky, Environmentally Unfriendly Stepsister

indybayA lonely Prop. 26 protestor​While environmentalists get their panties in a twist over Prop. 23, a slicker plan to dodge environmental regulations is making its way past protesters. By changing the definition of "fee" to "tax," Prop. 26 would require a 2/3 majority of the California Sta ... More >>

Worlds Apart

Federal law gives gay citizens with foreign partners tough choices: Leave the U.S.A. Lose your love. Break the law

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/17-5/21

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Put it in your boat noodle Rolodex alongside Sapp, Noodle Thai Town and Pa-Ord."

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Q & A With Walter Manzke: The Church and State Chef on The Importance of Salt, His Knife Collection Why He Hates Food Trucks

Anne FishbeinWalter Manzke at Church & State​Since Walter Manzke took over the stoves at Church & State, the downtown bistro in the old National Biscuit Company building, almost exactly a year ago, the restaurant has become a haven for bistro fans, cooks on their days off and anyone who loves ... More >>

Price Wars: Southern California Supermarkets Slash Prices

In an effort to regain customers who are shopping at discount stores and watching their ever-tightening budgets, supermarket chains are lowering prices, sometimes dramatically. Today Vons dropped the prices on 15% of its products in the chain's 274 stores. Ralph's also announced that it's reducing p ... More >>

Got Brains? They'll Settle For Pie: Hollywood Outdoor Cinema's 'Shaun of the Dead' Night

Nicole CamposStick that in your corpse pipe and smoke it.There's something about zombies - something innately unifying, a sense of shambling, blood-dribbling community - that brings people together. Especially at a time when the horror genre has turned tide toward mopey emo vampires and the latest ... More >>

GO LA: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Young Frankenstein and Other Horrors

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Special Tortilla Contest Edition

Corn vs. flour: Cual es mas masa?

Girls Gone Border Patrol!

Arizona teens get their cop on

The New Blacklist

Corporate America is bowing to anti-gay Christian groups’ boycott demands

Not So Young Frankeneisner

Eisner successor Robert Iger is more like Mel Brooks’ Igor

Time of Misery

AIDS: Snoozing after the wake-up call

Dancing Around a Hollywood Square

Michael Airington’s A Night With Paul Lynde

Surrender at the Supermarket

The national failure of the grocery workers’ union

Pilgrims’ Progress

Blue and clerical collars team up

Supermarket Sweeps

And the strike grinds on

More Than a Food Fight

The deeper meaning of the grocery strike

Now, That’s a Real Strike

Teamsters idle their grocery-laden trucks

Sam and His Pals

L.A. is a Wal-Mart town. Get used to it.

My New Dirty Book

Trouble With Angels

Back to Bataan

A brief history of one of the thousands of DIY singles released in 1979

Bernie Dresses Down

It takes a Bernie Parks to make Gil Garcetti look good

The Sporting Life

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