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Time Runs Out for 5-Second Rule Bacteria is the Winner in Beer Pong

It's happened to all of us. Just as we grab a morsel of something mouth-watering, it slips from our fingers and lands on the floor. It's times like these when invoking the so-called 5-second rule is tempting. As the latest Berkeley Wellness Letter says, many people want to believe that "anything is ... More >>

Facebook Knows If You're Fat

While Facebook's stock price has taken a noticeable dive since its IPO last year (sorry, Zuckers), the company has been quietly working on slicing and dicing your data to the delight of advertisers. They can know deep stuff about you, and that's money. This week researchers at Boston Children's Ho ... More >>

Govind Armstrong and Brad Johnson to Open Willie Jane in Venice

Post & Beam Hospitality Group, made up of restaurateur Brad Johnson, chef Govind Armstrong and Director of Operations David Borrego, will be opening a new restaurant in the next few weeks in Venice called Willie Jane. The restaurant will replace Wolf In Sheep's Clothing, which began as a pop-up but ... More >>

Is Le Creuset's Lifetime Warranty Legit? After Several Cassoulet-Free Weeks, We Find Out

We love our Dutch oven. Really love it. It never argues over $85 billion budget cuts or sends Kardashian-sighting Tweets. And it makes one hell of a cassoulet. But we recently wondered, by sudden necessity: Is that Le Creuset lifetime warranty that we've all heard so much about really legit? "Defect ... More >>

Trader Joe's Butter Chicken Recalled for Listeria Risk

We're still fond of you, TJ's, and we're hoping we can work this out, but your empty promises about caring for our health and safety are beginning to make us sick (literally). Coming on the heels of recalls this year of barbecue chicken salad (Listeria, July) and peanut butter (Salmonella, Septemb ... More >>

Aziz Ansari

California is America's Most-Hated State, According to Public Policy Polling

Don't hate us because we're beautiful. Or do. It turns out the left-most state is also America's most-hated, according to a recent survey by Public Policy Polling. And California's left-leaning politics seem to have a lot to do with it. The Golden State is the most-disliked in the union, and Hawai ... More >>

Jay Leno's Sikh-Temple-as-Mitt-Romney's-Summer-House Joke Enrages Some in Indian Religious Community

Oh no he didn't. Jay Leno is in hot water this week after a quip about Mitt Romney's summer house was accompanied by a photo of the Sikhs' sacred Golden Temple in India, a grand palace indeed. Romney's real summer home, or at least one of them, is right here in Southern California, and isn't half ... More >>

[Updated] Ruth Bourdain's Identity: The Village Voice's Robert Sietsema?

Update: This just in from Robert Sietsema himself via secret hyper-encrypted internal Village Voice Media email (that's a joke). "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." Sorry, everybody. Some mysteries are better left mysterio ... More >>

Band of Horses - The Wiltern - September 8, 2011

Timothy Norris(See also: Our Band of Horses and Brett Netson slideshow)​Band of Horses The Wiltern September 8, 2011 Better Than: Sitting on the porch of a cabin in the woods with loved ones drinking a beer and listening to cicadas. Band of Horses has two gears: mellow-pseudo-philisoph ... More >>

C.A.V.E. Gallery's New Show is 'Street Art Saved My Life,' But How Exactly Does that Happen?

Courtesy of C.A.V.E. GalleryGerman street art duo Various & Gould's self-portrait, Street Art Saved OUR Lives​ Now that MOCA's "Art in the Streets" exhibition has finally shut its doors, where can you go for your next fix? C.A.V.E. Gallery in Venice has the answer: this Friday, it opened "Str ... More >>

Music Picks: Roseanne Cash, Theophilus London, Acid Mothers Temple

Also, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Raphael Saadiq, Wu Man and others

Potluck Purpose: New Hollywood Chapter Of Dining For Women Launches Tomorrow

Michael Sears, www.jsonli.jpgAfghani Culinary Themed Potluck At A Milwaukee Dining For Women​Charity dinners at restaurants are great presuming you can afford the high dollar price tag that comes along with them. For the rest of us, or at least half of us, Dining for Women's first L.A. chapter ... More >>

Proposition 8: Thirteen Out-of-State Attorney Generals Don't Want California Gays to Get Married, Join George Wallace in History Books

Prop. 8 supporter and Alabama Attorney General Troy King​With the appeal hearing for the Proposition 8 lawsuit set for Monday, December 6, we thought it would be a good time to look into the out-of-state attorney generals who stuck their noses into California's business and filed a friendly b ... More >>

10 Terrified States Want Gay Marriage Ban to Stand in California

Wyoming Attorney General Bruce Salzburg​10 states not known for their gay-friendliness are mightily nervous about last month's federal court ruling that deemed California's Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional. Why? If the Proposition 8 decision stands as it goes through the federal appeals ... More >>

Last Night: Caribou Toro y Moi at El Rey

Is a fake genre dead when The New York Times acknowledges it unironically - or when iTunes monetizes it via smiling little "suggested subgenre"? Maybe neither: last night at the El Rey, Toro y Moi and Caribou both (inadvertently?) killed the chill by (accidentally?) rocking the fuck out of "Blessa" ... More >>

Haunted Houses

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and Holy Ghost

Sparks Notes on Modern Romance

A guide to the mind-set behind the new model of cash-cow chick flick

Lawsuit: First AME Pastor Pushed For Sex As "God's Will"

A lawsuit against controversial First AME Church Rev. John J. Hunter claims that he pressured a subordinate for on-demand sex as "God's will."First AME ChurchRev. John J. Hunter is alleged to have pressured a subordinate to have sex.​Rev. Brenda Lamothe, who now works for the office of Mayor Anton ... More >>

Did Obama Live Tweet His Own Speech? No, But Everybody Else Did

This morning Twitter user @denisbaranov asked for summary of Barack Obama's speech, specifically one without subjectivity (since most of the amateur punditry concerned the "You lie" outburst from a now infamous Senator from South Carolina, Joe Wilson). ​We went straight to the L.A. Times tra ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Our Town, The Crucible, Big

Also, The Fantasticks, Courting Vampires, A Number and more

Last Night: Celeb Packed DJ AM Benefit at Avalon, Rockin' til the Early Hours

By Pamela Chelin It was a packed house at Avalon last night in Hollywood with a line extending down the street. DJ AM, who survived a plane crash (along with Travis Barker) in South Carolina recently, threw a party to raise funds for the families of the victims who were tragically killed in the cra ... More >>

Election '08: McFarce

BY MARC COOPER Call me naive or even delusional, but I think we can surmise the political implications of McCain's transparent campaign-suspension gimmick. I'm standing by my view that these past two weeks we have witnessed the implosion of his campaign. The American people take this catastrophic t ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Regretrosexual, 1776

Also, The Boychick Affair, Othello

Two Paths Diverge on the Campaign Trail

Will Dems move toward darkness or light?

The Unlikely Comeback of John McCain, Maverick Warmonger

How Johnny got his groove back

Malice in Hillaryland

It's all about Bill, of course

1776

Rock Picks: John Fogerty, Band of Horses, Eek-a-Mouse, Gram Rabbit

For the week of November 23 - 29

A Scourge, Not a Surge

When it comes to Iraq, Momma J is on a mission too

The Art of Spooning

New jewelry measures healing

Theater 2005

The year of indignant irony and bloody machinations

Rock Like an Egyptian

a.k.a. The Year in Greg Burk: Metal Went Mideastern, Paul Rodgers became Freddie Mercury, and Diana Krall did not become Ella Fitzgerald

Passions Most Noble

Trial by Bush

Constitution-shredding in the Jose Padilla case

Yellow Peril

When hate is more than skin deep

Split Over Atoms

Who will pay for San Onofre’s rehab?

The Gospel Hours

Networks retool primetime for religious Republicanism

Don’t Mess With Texas

Gay governors, oil money, KKK fish camps and Karl Rove

Smoke-filled Churches

Searching for the Heart of John Edwards

A trip home to assess the legendary lawyer

Top Ten Bush Administration Outrages

Sober Justice

The long list of problems with Bush’s nominee for DEA chief

Finally, Anti-War Democrats

Howard Dean: “I want my country back”

The Bully Pulpit

Hollywood’s not-always-welcome role in national politics

American Idyll

Whatever happened to dirty bombs and homemade polio?

Letters

bLAnd LAnd

Sitegeist’s semiannual scene column (with special guest editor Rita Elkbrute)

Letters

Barrio Logic

Immigration will revitalize Fortress L.A.