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  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    World Cup Update: South African Grub at World Fare Bus

    South Africa, in case you've been living under a rock -- but can for some reason still read Squid Ink -- is the host nation for this year's World Cup. Thus far, their team has tied with Mexico and lost to Uruguay, with another Group A game coming up against France. But what if you want to get into t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Top 10 Places To Watch the FIFA World Cup

    ​Tomorrow begins the the most widely watched sporting event in the world, the 2010 FIFA World Cup. And for the next month, from June to July 11th, even Laker mania will take a back seat to soccer. The World Cup, held for the first time in Africa, showcases 32 countries. And while you can of co ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    December 10, 2009

    Invictus: All's Well That Ends Well

    Not much truth, but plenty of reconciliation in Clint Eastwood's South Africa

  • Film+TV

    December 10, 2009

    EASTWOOD ON THE PITCH

    At 79, Clint tackles Mandela in Invictus

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    Ed Boks Exits and a Dog Named Stu Faces Termination

    Today was Ed Boks' last day on the job as general manager of L.A.'s Animal Services Department. The Ed Boksformer Christian minister ("Religious values," he recently advised on his personal blog, "call upon us to show kindness and mercy to animals") has easily been the most controversial appointee t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2009

    City Council Members Not Done With Ed Boks

    On Wednesday Ed Boks announced that L.A.'s Department of Animal Services would resume its distribution of $30 coupons and $70 full-fee vouchers for the department's spay-neuter program. Two days before, members of the City Council's Public Safety Committee had raked the general manager over the coal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2009

    City Council to Boks: Restore Spay-Neuter Pet Vouchers

    L.A.'s Animal Services general manager Ed Boks left a City Council committee hearing with his tail between his legs yesterday, after being grilled about his unilateral decision to suspend his agency's spay-neuter voucher program. Last week Boks, claiming his department had to plug a huge budget gap, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    ALF: We Trashed Villaraigosa Deputy's Parents' Home

    The "communique" from a group claiming to be the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) struck a triumphant note:"On Dec. 30th we decorated Jimmy Blackmans parents front porch at [address removed] in LA with red paint and glued their locks. This action was done to bring attention to the blood being spilled ... More >>

  • News

    February 28, 2008

    L.A.'s Toothless Spaying Law

    A new neutering rule appeases the wrathful animal-rights lobby but offers little hope

  • News

    December 22, 2005

    A Billionaire’s Bark

    Surgeon-inventor is behind shakeup of L.A.’s animal services

  • Eat+Drink

    July 7, 2005

    Valley of the Swills

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