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21: Anson Mills Grits & Eggs at Milo & Olive

Celebrating this year's Best of L.A. issue -- now out in print and online -- we're counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 21: Anson Mills Grits & Eggs at Milo & Olive. Finding good grits is hard in LA -- finding good breakfast grits is even harder. So the bowl of grits ... More >>

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Food News Roundup: Josh Goldman Challenges Our Cocktail Choices, Cat Cora's DUI Mugshot Homemade Hummus

Zester Daily: The sweet, peppery bite of ginger-infused summer drinks. MSNBC Bites: Food Network Chef Cat Cora's DUI mugshot. Good Food: A recipe for lemon meringue tarts with canned lemon curd. L.A. Foodie: Vicious Dogs in North Hollywood is Ben and Drew's number one favorite hot dog place in ... More >>

Alfonso Ribeiro's 'Carlton Dance' Flash Mob Attempts Record (For Dorkiest Moves): VIDEO

Updated at the bottom with crowd estimates. First posted at 5:30 a.m. Alfonso Ribeiro of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air might do the nerdiest, preppiest dance of all time. But that didn't stop hundreds if not thousands of followers from joining him yesterday at Universal CityWalk and other locales in ... More >>

South L.A. Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Wants to Send Black Youth Back to Plantation

Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich helped win over South Carolina last week with a pretty condescending suggestion for lifting black American youth up by their bootstraps: Hire them all as janitors! "They'd be getting money, which is a good thing if you're poor," he argued, to standing o ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/3-10/7

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "'Not me, but it's been fun having people think it is. I'm on my way to tour a rice plantation in South Carolina.'" [Updated] Ruth Bourdain's Identity: The Village Voice's Robert Sietsema? "It was ten meringue whites on top o ... More >>

Californians Like to Shoot People: State Tops Nation in Gun Murders

When we think "gun crime" we think Deep South and toothless, pickup-truck driving yokels who'll shoot you for even looking at their property. Stereotype. We're wrong, because California, the self-obsessed, yoga-centric, surf-'em-if-you-got-'em state is also the capital of shoot-'em-up homicides. ... More >>

The Cavemen Were White Dudes, and Other Intriguing Notions from Science for Christian Schools Grade 5

​ Science for Christian Schools Grade 5 Author: Joseph Henson, Ph.D; George Mulfinger, Jr., M.S.; Emmett Williams, Ph. D Date: 1977 Publisher: Bob Jones University Press . . . Yes, that South Carolina college that demands its students "abstain from lust and immorality" yet still goes by ... More >>

Save The Dates: The Riverside County Fair and Date Festival

Dancing With Ghosts/FlickrDate Festival​ In some dim corner of the country, every food has a festival. For three days each April, the World Grits Festival engulfs St. George, South Carolina. Waikiki holds the Spam Jam. In Clinton, Montana, there is the Rocky Mountain Oyster Festival, or "Te ... More >>

Blacks vs. Mexicans: South Carolina Lawmaker Says Immigrants Work Harder Than 'Brothers'

Sen. Robert Ford.​An African-American state lawmaker in South Carolina was under fire for suggesting that "brothers" don't work as hard as Mexicans. We in L.A., arguably the Latino capital of the United States, know that nobody works as hard as Mexicans. (We're Mexican and we're selling orang ... More >>

Cows In Space: Scientists Working to Make Meat in Laboratories

Santa Monica farmers market​ Meat is more trendy than cupcakes these days, with all standard apologies to Morrissey. Consider the seemingly permanent bacon trend, the rising popularity of butchery, happy whole pig farm-to-table excursions, and local butchers who generate so much interest that ... More >>

Daufuskie Island: Photographs by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

Lowes Recalls 11 Million Roman Shades, Roll-Up Blinds -- Sold Widely Since 1999 -- Before Another Innocent Child Chokes To Death

LowesCurtain cord with a Kung Fu grip​Hope you're not too attached to those tiki-fabulous Roman blinds hanging in your toddler's playroom. 'Cause have we got news for you, furniture-phile: The classic Lowes product has been recalled due to its dangerous, child-strangling cordage. Six million ... More >>

In Filing Pro-Prop. 8 Brief, 10 States Solidify Their Ass-Backwardsness

​Yesterday, we mentioned how 10 terrified states -- Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming -- recently filed an amicus brief that supported Proposition 8, California's gay marriage ban that's been deemed unconstitutional in federal co ... More >>

California Death Row Countdown: Four From L.A. And Inland Empire Cleared To Die In California's $853,000 Gas Chamber This Month

​It's almost funny that they call it "corrections." Six people on the Golden State's Death Row are expected to get their breathing permanently corrected this month, with Albert Greenwood Brown, Jr. set to be the first  executed in nearly five years. Of the six who officials tell the Weekly a ... More >>

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Theater Reviews: Thurgood, As the Globe Warms, I'm Not Here Anymore

Also, Othello, Redhead Cuban Hausfrau Husband and more

Stage Raw: Two Plays by Yukio Mishima

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE on KING LEAR​NEW REVIEW GO TWO PLAYS BY YUKIO MISHIMA ​Photo by Yukata Takeuchi Perhaps most notorious in the West for his sensational, 1970 suicide by seppuku, controversial poet-novelist Yukio Mishima was also a pl ... More >>

Holy Ghost

Stage Raw: Holy Ghost

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD and THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO NEW REVIEW GO HOLY GHOST ​ Photo by Darrett Sanders The ghosts in Jon Tuttle's play  -- in a glorious production at Theatre of NOTE, directed by Michael Roth ... More >>

Fowler Museum Photography Exhibit

JUST WHERE ARE THE WILD THINGS? ALHAMBRA!

L.A.'s Episcopal Diocese Stokes Gay Controversy

The L.A. Times reports today on the Los Angeles Episcopal Church Diocese's nomination of two gay ministers for suffragan bishop's seats. Only last month leaders of the national episcopate, meeting in Anaheim, ​voted to permit the consecration of homosexual clergy. The L.A. diocese put forward six ... More >>

LA People 2009: The Re-Percussionist — Sexual Chocolate

The Crystal Antlers' drummer and wingman might be known to his mother by his birth name, but everyone else calls him Sexual Chocolate

The Day the Muzak Died

Muzak has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection -- but it doesn't put the blame on illegal downloads of its marzipanny melodies. Instead, the company pointed to longstanding debt and the cancellation of contracts by companies put out of business during the recession. A New York Times notice men ... More >>

Base Heads: "Army Wives" Do Gitmo

I guess I've never understood the allure of Army Wives, the Lifetime Channel hit filmed on a real Army base in South Carolina. It's not because most of the adult characters are far more gorgeous and sensitive than the grumpy old potato sacks I remember growing up with on military installations -- th ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Bustin' Down the Door, Love Comes Lately

Also, A Man Named Pearl, CSNY: Deja Vu and more

Capitol Films' Crash and Burn

The company's cash crunch is shutting down indie after indie

BBC's Gavin & Stacey Heading to NBC?

A fine romance

ELECTION NIGHT AT PINKS

Six Inches of Soul

Obama: Ain't No Such Thing as Superman

The audacity yet to come

Fashion on the Campaign Trail

Primary colors

John Edwards: I Am Third

Why I still love him

15 More Minutes

Fashion week is officially over, but that doesn't mean the strutting has stopped completely. Thanks to a power outage in my area, I missed the David Yurman menswear show at the Paramour mansion last night (cant get dressed in the dark!) but I hear it was, as Kimora Lee Simmons would say, pure fabu ... More >>

Shower Power

While a few pals questioned the choice to have my co-ed baby shower bash at Boardner's in Hollywood, they soon saw that it wasn't quite what they expected. This place sure aint the rock dive of yore! First of all, owner Tricia Labelle has really classed it up, adding and revamping the art deco tou ... More >>

Kiss Their Grits

Square One and the most important meal of the day

Theater 2005

The year of indignant irony and bloody machinations

What’s That Sound?

Rich With Possibilities

Edwards has the right stuff — the civil rights stuff

Talk Radio for Lefties

Firing Arnold

Kerry Goes National

Edwards hangs in, Dean vanishes, and Bush provisionally tanks

A Southern Stand

John Edwards wins his biggest trial

Putting on Your Party Best

Feed the Goats

Nine Democrats in search of a message

Crush and Cuddle

The sheer heart failure of Ozzfest 2002

Establishment Boys

Bush, Gore and the limits of orthodoxy

Gamecock Confidential

Mob Rule

Swept away in New Orleans

Banana Republicans

By any other name, seizing power in defiance of popular will is a coup