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May 10, 2012
Murder on Montana Ave.
Was LAUSD teacher Sasha Merman slain to hide Daniel Becerril's greed?
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April 12, 2012
Barbarians Destroy Broadway
Was LAUSD teacher Sasha Merman slain to hide Daniel Becerril's greed?
Blogs
April 5, 2012
Ashley Huizenga on Sex, Starvation, and Art
Our music feature this week focuses on Ashley Huizenga, an L.A. musician and performance artist known for her academic-minded -- and also quite flithy -- shows under the guise of her alter ego Actually Huizenga. Trained as a classical pianist, she creates epic '80s inspired dance scores that featur ... More >>
Film+TV
April 5, 2012
Attenberg Review
Our music feature this week focuses on Ashley Huizenga, an L.A. musician and performance artist known for her academic-minded -- and also quite flithy -- shows under the guise of her alter ego Actually Huizenga. Trained as a classical pianist, she creates epic '80s inspired dance scores that featur ... More >>
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April 5, 2012
L.A. Weekly Theater Awards 2012: Greece is the Word
Blending droll wit and broad farce, sketch-comedy troupe Lost Moon Radio hosted the 33rd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night in a taut show at Avalon in Hollywood, handing out more than 30 awards in less than two hours. The "Lawees" honor the best stage work in theaters of 99 seats or le ... More >>
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March 29, 2012
33rd Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards
Blending droll wit and broad farce, sketch-comedy troupe Lost Moon Radio hosted the 33rd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night in a taut show at Avalon in Hollywood, handing out more than 30 awards in less than two hours. The "Lawees" honor the best stage work in theaters of 99 seats or le ... More >>
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March 23, 2012
L.A. Members of Congress Paid Hundreds of Thousands in Campaign Cash to Themselves, Relatives
You contributed cash to your favorite U.S. representative's campaign, hoping he'd use the money to fight the good fight and knockout his foe. But in many cases a lot of that money is going to "babysitters, five-star hotels in Athens, six-figure salaries for candidates' family members and thousands ... More >>
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March 23, 2012
Food News Roundup: Greece's "Potato Movement," 60 Cool People Homemade Booze
The Guardian: In Greece, consumers save money by buying straight from farmers. It's called the "potato movement." The Daily Meal: The 60 "coolest" chefs, restaurateurs, bartenders, farmers and food writers. Plus a food performance artist (think cheese block sculptures; a room stuffed with cotton c ... More >>
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March 20, 2012
Kevin Barnes: Of Montreal's Front Man Is Depressed
It's no secret that some of the most creative and talented artists have also harbored intense feelings of anxiety and depression. (See Whitney Houston.) Kevin Barnes, lead singer of Athens-based indie rock group Of Montreal, has managed to channel his depression in to spontaneous whirlwhinds of cr ... More >>
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March 15, 2012
The Great Greek
It's no secret that some of the most creative and talented artists have also harbored intense feelings of anxiety and depression. (See Whitney Houston.) Kevin Barnes, lead singer of Athens-based indie rock group Of Montreal, has managed to channel his depression in to spontaneous whirlwhinds of cr ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
Aliki's Greek Taverna: Lemon Potatoes
When we visited Greece at the age of 20, we ate well without spending much. There were nests of fried smelts piled around puddles of skordalia. There was blistered octopus served next to the foil-wrapped brick that once smashed it against the grill's grate. There were yellow loaves of dense-crumb ... More >>
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September 9, 2011
Top 5 Weekend Food Events: LA BBQ Festival, Cevapcici Festival, Dinner in the Exploding City, Trevor Project Benefit, Vietti Wine Dinner
Guzzle & NoshA pile of sausages at the 2009 LA BBQ Festival.3rd Annual LA BBQ Festival Admission covers all you can eat from nine of the nation's top pitmasters including LC's (Kansas City), Bourbon Q (Kentucky), Hitching Post (Santa Maria) and Memphis Championship Barbecue (Las Vegas). 24 be ... More >>
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August 4, 2011
The Whistleblower Review
Guzzle & NoshA pile of sausages at the 2009 LA BBQ Festival.3rd Annual LA BBQ Festival Admission covers all you can eat from nine of the nation's top pitmasters including LC's (Kansas City), Bourbon Q (Kentucky), Hitching Post (Santa Maria) and Memphis Championship Barbecue (Las Vegas). 24 be ... More >>
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July 1, 2011
Cookbook Review: Saveur's Got The New Comfort Food Down
Yes, we know we are supposed to be at the farmers market cooing over those Blenheim apricots meant to be slowly savored and imagining the simple tomato-basil salads that will satisfy us after just a few bites with their intense summer flavors. But even this time of year, some nights all we re ... More >>
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May 31, 2011
Here Comes the Sun (and the First Course): The Solar Kitchen
First Day in Milan from LapinKultaSolarKitchenRestaurant on Vimeo. What does a solar kitchen have in common with the pop-up restaurant, the foraging party, and the neighborhood butcher shop? They're all artistic statements, necessities and practicalities born of economic and environmental circumsta ... More >>
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April 25, 2011
EXCLUSIVE: Metallica's Lars Ulrich On Surviving the Big 4 and the Roots of Thrash
Warner Bros.Metallica's Lars UlrichMonths of anticipation came to an explosive finish in the California desert on Saturday night, as Metallica closed their "Big 4" thrash-fest with a thundering "Seek & Destroy" for 50,000 weary headbangers spread across Empire Polo Field in Indio. By acknowle ... More >>
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April 22, 2011
EXCLUSIVE: Megadeth's Dave Mustaine On Embracing the Big 4 and Finally Getting Over Metallica
Stephanie CabralFlame-haired shredder Dave Mustaine and Megadeth Of all the musicians onstage at Saturday's epic Big 4 Festival of thrash, Dave Mustaine arrives with the most complicated history. He is an essential figure within this loud-fast genre of metal, and the originator of a certain ... More >>
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April 21, 2011
EXCLUSIVE: Slayer's Tom Araya Talks Moshpits, Spider-bites and the Big 4
Steve ApplefordSlayer's Tom Araya For Slayer's singer-bassist Tom Araya, thrash-metal has been a 30-year mission. On Saturday, his band joins Metallica, Anthrax and Megadeth in Indio, California, for the Big 4 Fest - invading the site of Coachella while continuing a collaboration that began ... More >>
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March 17, 2011
Geeky on the Radio
Steve ApplefordSlayer's Tom Araya For Slayer's singer-bassist Tom Araya, thrash-metal has been a 30-year mission. On Saturday, his band joins Metallica, Anthrax and Megadeth in Indio, California, for the Big 4 Fest - invading the site of Coachella while continuing a collaboration that began ... More >>
Music
March 3, 2011
Music Picks: Julieta Venegas, Deicide, Yefim Bronfman, Chick Corea and Gary Burton
Also Conspiracy of Beards, Lykke Li, Khaira Arby and others
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December 20, 2010
Do You Know What 'Austerity' Means? 250,000 People Searching Merriam-Webster.Com In 2010 Sure Didn't
How does a musty old dictionary business stay relevant in the age of Spell Check, auto-correct and the all-important educated guess? Zimbio"Austerity" in Greek? Why don't you go search it or somethingIn the case of Merriam-Webster this year, the answer was to track all online free-dictionary ... More >>
Film+TV
December 16, 2010
Sofia Coppola: Lost at the Chateau Marmont
From party girl to Oscar winner, a journey to the stripped-down Somewhere
Blogs
December 10, 2010
Maui & Sons Bar to Open in Egyptian Theatre Courtyard
The long-dormant space in the courtyard of Hollywood's Egyptian Theatre is finally seeing some life. The space that several years ago housed the short-lived but fantastic frozen custard shop Lickity Split, will re-open as the beach-themed Maui & Sons bar on January 8th. Think grass-hut decor, wai ... More >>
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November 5, 2010
Grouplove Relocates to Los Angeles, Releases Free MP3
A Little Grouplove Feels So Good [MP3]
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October 25, 2010
Gladys Bloodworth, Jeremy Bloodworth, L.A. Homicides No. 209, No. 210: Mother And Son Shot To Death At Home In South L.A.
Google MapsA black woman and her son, who were fatally shot on Thursday, Oct. 21, have been identified as 64-year-old Gladys Bloodworth and 25-year-old Jeremy Bloodworth. The shooting took place at about 2:30 a.m. in their single-story home at 12613 South Harvard Boulevard in unincorporated A ... More >>
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July 27, 2010
Tonight: Phosphorescent, Villagers, Jesca Hoop, Midnight Juggernauts, Polls, Twin Sister
Sebastian MlynarskiPhosphorescentGood things some to those who ... make good music? Ah, it'd warm our blog band-besotted cackles if it were always so. But there is a happy story to tell about Phosphorescent, the Brooklyn-based, Athens, Ga.-born alt-country band who this spring released the t ... More >>
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July 26, 2010
You Wear Eyes On Your Ears: Cracked Eye Earrings
This week's Etsy Weirdness of the Week: cracked eye earrings. Lots of people wear those "evil eye" amulets to ward off evil, but this particular execution seems especially disconcerting. Why are they eyes? Why are they cracked? Did the person cry too much, thus resulting in dried out eyelids? ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2010
The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories
SapphireBlue22stack of newspapersWhat's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>
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July 8, 2010
Is Your Olive Oil Really Extra Virgin? U.S. Called a "Dumping Ground for Cheap Olive Oil"
Flickr/Kevan"Extra virgin" olive oil may contain safflower, canola or peanut oil--and there's nothing you can do about it.BP isn't the only disreputable oil company in the United States. Apparently there are no rules regulating olive oil here. Which means that purveyors can sell consumers any ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2010
Momed Explores the Eastern Mediterranean
Momed, the new Mediterranean restaurant in Beverly Hills, was lucky. It inherited a wood burning oven from the previous occupant, the Italian restaurant Rosti. And so you can have Turkish flatbreads straight from that oven with such toppings as oven-roasted wild mushrooms, akawi cheese and broccoli ... More >>
Film+TV
June 24, 2010
Restrepo: Film Is a Battlefield
Journalist-filmmakers go to war
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June 24, 2010
Yellow
Journalist-filmmakers go to war
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 >>
Blogs
May 14, 2010
L.A. Council Once Again Puts Off Tough Choices
Surprise, surprise. The Los Angeles City Council on Friday put off a vote on the city's budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1, opting instead to issue dire warnings while threatening to finally make a move on Monday that could result in hundreds of job cuts. City Hall is facing $585 ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2010
George F. Will Compares City Of L.A.'s Economic Situation To That Of Greece
NewsweekFiscal conservative and widely read author George F. Will is comparing the city of Los Angeles' economic situation to that of Greece, the debt-ridden European Union nation that many believed touched off last week's roller-coaster stock-market ride. Will makes his comments in a piece f ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2010
Plate Spinnings: Listings From the Past Week
Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: --Portrait of the Food Trucker as a Young Man. [Time] --I'll have a slice of cheese with pigs-in-a-blanket crust, please. Ketchup and maple on the side. [This is Freaking Ridiculous] --Hesperia's Banan ... More >>
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February 9, 2010
Phoenix Frontman Scores Sweetie Sofia Coppola's New 'Ferraris and Los Angeles' Flick
The Freewheelin' Thomas & SofiaPhoenix's frontman Thomas Mars is domestic-partnered to OG hipster director Sofia Coppola. Sofia is about to release a new movie, Somewhere, where she most certainly downscaled the period-piece ambitions of Marie Antoinette. Mars, riding high on a wave of critic ... More >>
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February 3, 2010
Pregnancy-Related Deaths Have Tripled In California
The number of women who have died from complications related to their pregnancies has tripled from 1996 to 2006, California Watch is reporting. Two possible reasons: An increase in cesarean sections and a growing number of overweight moms-to-be. Just as intriguing: The state Department of He ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2010
The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories
SapphireBlue22stack of newspapersWhat's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is ... More >>
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September 10, 2009
WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER GYRO
SapphireBlue22stack of newspapersWhat's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is ... More >>
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July 9, 2009
HACKNEYED AND ACNED
SapphireBlue22stack of newspapersWhat's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is ... More >>
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February 13, 2009
Rated "G" For Globalization
As earlier noted, the 2009 Berlin Film Festival opened with a Hollywood movie (The International), directed by Germany's own Tom Tykwer and filmed in a half-dozen countries around the world, then continued with a French movie (In the Electric Mist) made in the U.S.A. with dialogue spoken in regional ... More >>
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February 13, 2009
Berlin Film Festival: Rated "G" For Globalization
As earlier noted, the 2009 Berlin Film Festival opened with a Hollywood movie (The International), directed by Germany's own Tom Tykwer and filmed in a half-dozen countries around the world, then continued with a French movie (In the Electric Mist) made in the U.S.A. with dialogue spoken in regional ... More >>
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February 12, 2009
JOURNALISM'S DEAD-- LET'S LEAVE TOWN!
As earlier noted, the 2009 Berlin Film Festival opened with a Hollywood movie (The International), directed by Germany's own Tom Tykwer and filmed in a half-dozen countries around the world, then continued with a French movie (In the Electric Mist) made in the U.S.A. with dialogue spoken in regional ... More >>
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February 5, 2009
It Must Be Belly, ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‹Å“Cuz Jam Don't Shake Like That
As earlier noted, the 2009 Berlin Film Festival opened with a Hollywood movie (The International), directed by Germany's own Tom Tykwer and filmed in a half-dozen countries around the world, then continued with a French movie (In the Electric Mist) made in the U.S.A. with dialogue spoken in regional ... More >>
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August 28, 2008
Sissystrata
As earlier noted, the 2009 Berlin Film Festival opened with a Hollywood movie (The International), directed by Germany's own Tom Tykwer and filmed in a half-dozen countries around the world, then continued with a French movie (In the Electric Mist) made in the U.S.A. with dialogue spoken in regional ... More >>
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January 10, 2008
Top gymnasts show their stuff
As earlier noted, the 2009 Berlin Film Festival opened with a Hollywood movie (The International), directed by Germany's own Tom Tykwer and filmed in a half-dozen countries around the world, then continued with a French movie (In the Electric Mist) made in the U.S.A. with dialogue spoken in regional ... More >>
Eat+Drink
May 19, 2005
Bosnia’s Big Mac
As earlier noted, the 2009 Berlin Film Festival opened with a Hollywood movie (The International), directed by Germany's own Tom Tykwer and filmed in a half-dozen countries around the world, then continued with a French movie (In the Electric Mist) made in the U.S.A. with dialogue spoken in regional ... More >>
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May 13, 1999
Kosovo Conundrum
The Collective Confusion of American Progressives
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