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  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    10 People Making L.A. a Better Place

    From to a 70-year-old woman teaching others how to use medical marijuana to a man dedicated to saving the sea lions, these Angelenos prove that do-goodery can be vastly more interesting, creative, and fulfilling than writing a monthly charity check or two. Check out our entire People 2012 issue her ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 26, 2012

    Buy This Book and Be a Better Person

    From to a 70-year-old woman teaching others how to use medical marijuana to a man dedicated to saving the sea lions, these Angelenos prove that do-goodery can be vastly more interesting, creative, and fulfilling than writing a monthly charity check or two. Check out our entire People 2012 issue her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    Maker Studios Is Flush With YouTube Cash

    In 1981, MTV pushed music videos to the forefront of pop culture. In 1999, Napster made mp3s more popular than porn. Now, in 2012, L.A.-based Maker Studios is revolutionizing YouTube. Created by viral video sensation Danny Zappin, Lisa Donovan and her brother Ben, the crew was frustrated with the H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    Corporations v. Egg Producers: An Egg on All Your Faces

    kjetil_r/flickrEggs, frying​Ever since Aristotle wandered the supermarkets, philosophers and scientists have been wondering which came first: the chicken or the egg. Aristotle went with both, saying neither could have preceded the other. Around 2000 years later, Stephen Hawking favored the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    The Trip: Funniest Food Movie... Ever?

    Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon in the Michael Winterbottom movie The Trip.​It's hard to know where reality ends and fiction begins with Michael Winterbottom, the prolific British filmmaker who veers between fiction and documentary, sometimes in the same movie. The Trip, his latest work to hit the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    Emo Juan Uribe: Dodgers' Utility Infielder Gets His Own Meme

    ​All it takes is one sad-sack photo (and a career of middling output) to create an online meme, and Emo Juan Uribe is the latest to step to the plate. The Dodgers' utility infielder huddles against the wall, staring a thousand yards into the sad distance. For the online world, that picture i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    The Simpsons Writers Do an Evening of Beer and Doh!-nuts: Best. Panel Discussion. Ever.

    ​All it takes is one sad-sack photo (and a career of middling output) to create an online meme, and Emo Juan Uribe is the latest to step to the plate. The Dodgers' utility infielder huddles against the wall, staring a thousand yards into the sad distance. For the online world, that picture i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2011

    Who's Going to Buy the Forthcoming Modernist Cuisine Cookbook?

    ​One of the perks of writing about food is that you get your mitts on review copies of cookbooks (as well as food-focused cultural anthropology texts and so forth). More often than not, publishers are delighted to send along a book you plan on reading and reviewing. Sometimes, however, one p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Billy Cottrell's SUV-Arson Conviction May Be Vacated

    Billy Cottrell in 2003​The L.A. Times is reporting that the U.S. Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an opinion, still unpublished, that may vacate the 2005 conviction of Billy Cottrell, the brilliant Caltech math instructor convicted of vandalism and arson charges in the 2003 attacks ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 15, 2008

    Hillary Agonistes

    Billy Cottrell in 2003​The L.A. Times is reporting that the U.S. Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an opinion, still unpublished, that may vacate the 2005 conviction of Billy Cottrell, the brilliant Caltech math instructor convicted of vandalism and arson charges in the 2003 attacks ... More >>

  • Stage

    May 15, 2008
  • Film+TV

    October 18, 2007

    In Control

    Anton Corbijn masters the moving image

  • Film+TV

    August 16, 2007

    Countdown to Extinction

    The 11th Hour says we’re all gonna die — but maybe not

  • Stage

    August 16, 2007

    Lisa Lampanelli

    The 11th Hour says we’re all gonna die — but maybe not

  • Film+TV

    August 9, 2007

    Masters of Science Fiction

    Saturday night exiles

  • News

    March 1, 2007

    A Terrible Thing to Waste

    Convicted as an ecoterrorist, a brilliant young scholar nose-dives in prison Also, excerpts of Billy Cottrell's letters from prison

  • Columns

    March 30, 2006

    Project Yard Sale

    Convicted as an ecoterrorist, a brilliant young scholar nose-dives in prison Also, excerpts of Billy Cottrell's letters from prison

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2006

    Waiting For Bowiedot

      Waiting for Bowiedot Act I Caroline: Let's go! Linda: We can't Caroline: Why not? Linda: We're waiting for Bowiedot ok, that's my interpretation of the Beckett-like evening we had last night at the Cult of 8 Book Club. The Club claims to be "bringi ... More >>

  • Columns

    April 7, 2005

    The Greatest Story Never Read

    An Oxford don’s rather thorough guide to the universe

  • Columns

    September 23, 2004

    Einstein’s Sky

    Of saints and scientists

  • News

    September 9, 2004

    Message From Beyond

    Another look at the Republican convention

  • Columns

    June 10, 2004

    Quantum Mysticism

    The fuzzy embrace of science and religion

  • Columns

    November 13, 2003

    Brain Worlds

    Hawking, Derrida and living with the other

  • Film+TV

    November 1, 2001

    Childhood’s End

    What’s eating Donnie Darko

  • Art+Books

    October 14, 1999

    Black Hole Sonsabitches

    The world is about to end with a giant sucking sound

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