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March 21, 2012
13 Ways of Looking at a Sandwich and Other Regionalisms in the Dictionary of American Regional English
Depending on where you live in this great big country, a submarine sandwich might be known as a dagwood (Colorado), a wedge (parts of New York) or a poor boy (in the Gulf States, where, we once discovered, a banh mi sandwich is known as a "Vietnamese poor boy"). This is but one of the fascinating e ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2012
Coors to Launch Iced Tea-flavored Beer
Flavored iced tea has been all the rage for a while now (passionfruit-acai-goji berry comes to mind). So the brilliant minds at Coors thought: Why not iced tea-flavored BEER? Last week, Golden, Colo.-based Molson Coors Brewing Co. announced it will launch Coors Light Iced T in Canada next month ahea ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2012
Academy Awards at Theater With No Name? Kodak, Seeking Bankruptcy Protection, Wants Out
Rajiv PatelThis year's Academy Awards are loaded with controversy, and they haven't even been handed out yet. Brett Ratner pulled out of producing the show after uttering anti-gay slur. Then onetime friend-of-the-tranny Eddie Murphy followed him out the door (irony?). Now it looks like The H ... More >>
Blogs
January 30, 2012
Bison Grass-Flavored Vodka: The John Deere Cocktail Fun The Illegal (Pot) Side Effects
Ah, the fun things you spot in the liquor aisle on otherwise rather dry (martini) weekly grocery store runs. Spirits like Żubrówka (pronounced zhu-BROOF-ka), a Polish addition to the U.S. market that Remy Cointreau now imports. According to the label, it is "the original bison grass-flavored vodka ... More >>
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December 14, 2011
Newspapers Dead Within Five Years, USC Predicts
Cristian HernandezAs if the ink-stained wretches of the newspaper world need anymore bad news, the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future says the print product some of you like to pick up of your driveway every morning will go the way of the dinosaur within five years. A Digital Future ... More >>
Blogs
December 2, 2011
362 Pizza Slices in 912 Days
Guzzle & NoshThe Specialty Pizza from Petrillo's in San Gabriel.We thought we had intestinal fortitude with our 30 Burgers/30Scoops/30 Sandwiches series, but we're more impressed by Colin Hagendorf, who set out to try every pizza sold by the slice in Manhattan. The 28-year-old Brooklyn reside ... More >>
Blogs
September 6, 2011
Echo Park Lake Is About to Get Drained Into an Empty, Stinking Mud Flat
The Eastsider via PicasaThe lake was last drained in 1984. Yes, it was awful.For the new wave of borderline-eastside gentry who weren't around to see Echo Park Lake in a surly state of "stinking mud flat" in 1984 (or 1902, 1906, 1919, 1922, 1932 or 1946): We hate to be the bearers of bad ne ... More >>
Blogs
September 6, 2011
Post Vacation Syndrome: Scientists Explain Why Labor Day Leaves You Feeling Like Crap
Hot-dog hangover doesn't help any.One would think, after one whole extra day of not doing whatever it is you've signed up for, life-wise -- work, school, saving celebrity geese from massive drainings of Echo Park Lake, etc. -- that one would feel rejuvenated; autumn-crisp; ready to face the s ... More >>
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September 2, 2011
Raving For The Rich: Burning Man Can be Done in Relative Comfort if You're Elon Musk
avramcYou can almost smell this photo.We've never been tempted to feel the burn, frankly, because Burning Man is such a hippy affair, what with the pungent, sobriety challenged people and unpaved conditions. Not our idea of fun. However, it turns out that the annual Black Rock psychedelic sh ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
National Crackdown on Graffiti Art Reported in the Midst of L.A.'s Own 'Art in the Streets' Renaissance
Gregory BojorquezRevok.In the wake of MOCA's groundbreaking "Art in the Streets" exhibit, is there a national crackdown on graffiti? The Wall Street Journal, following up on the recent arrest of "Art in the Streets" star Revok, says yes. While we reported that officials say it's simply a co ... More >>
News
May 12, 2011
Good Riddance, Ray Irani
Chief of Occidental Oil, stepping down, seen by many as greediest of all
Blogs
May 10, 2011
Food News Roundup: Sriracha Chicken, Movie Sandwiches More Fun Listening to Bourdain Talk
-- Saveur #127, the Los Angeles Edition. (Congrats, Javier! Street food! And yes, James Oseland used to be a proofreader at LA Weekly.) [Saveur] -- Allergies explained using cookies and candy. [Boing Boing] -- 5 Questions for Walter Manzke, or the joy of immersion circulators. [Daily Dish] -- ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2011
Mayor Villaraigosa Ribbed by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, 'Glee' Producer
FoxMayor V. vs. 'Glee.'Wow. You know you're in low-approval-rating territory when the mayor of New York gets more love than you even when it comes to art-and-culture in your own city. That was the rap for L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa this week. After a 60 Minutes profile of local billiona ... More >>
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April 15, 2011
Food Memoir(s) Review: A Tiger In The Kitchen And The Problematic Food Memoir Genre
Memoirs have never been easy to pull off. For starters, no matter how interesting we may personally find our own Pinot Noir-enlivened nights, publishers have long gravitated to those authors who are famous enough to keep those Williams-Sonoma book signing lines out the front door. Even if tho ... More >>
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April 11, 2011
Food News Roundup: Street Food, Is Donald Trump Drinking Too Much Willy Wonka, Molecular Gastronomist
-- Time to Boycott French Toast, French Fries Again. (See: burqa laws.) [The Awl] -- Gordon Ramsay moves to Bel Air ("12 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, a summerhouse"). [Digital Spy, via Eater] -- New Farmworker Report Paints a Big, Grim Picture. [Civil Eats via @SlowFoodUSA] -- The wonderful world o ... More >>
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March 14, 2011
Food News Roundup: Spherical Pies, Chefs go Animal House Marco Pierre White Disses Jamie Oliver
-- Celebrate Pi Day (3/14) with a spherical pie. [Boing Boing] -- Dude, Those Candied Walnuts Go Great at a Kegger, or the movement of trained chefs to frat houses. [The Wall Street Journal] -- Suzanne Goin Hosts New York Chef Gabrielle Hamilton For Book-Signing Dinner, or more reasons to go to ... More >>
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January 10, 2011
Homicides Plummet, But L.A. Suicides Are Up Since Recession Started
For the second year in a row, a resident of L.A. County is more likely to die by their own hand than be killed by someone else. In 2010, suicides were essentially unchanged -- down 1% -- from 2009, and they remained above pre-recession levels, according to statistics from the L.A. County coroner. ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
'Law & Order: Los Angeles' Crew Member Finds Real Gun In Ballona Creek
NBCA shot from 'Ballona Creek.'A crew member on the set of Law & Order: Los Angeles -- filming on-location in Ballona Creek -- found a gun as he waded through some water. Big deal. Indeed, he thought it was a prop. Nope. Real-deal, semiautomatic weapon, according to the Wall Street Journal. ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
Barry Minkow 2.0
L.A.'s fraud king is back — and taking the media for another ride
Blogs
September 9, 2010
Lakers' Ron Artest Stopped By CHP While Driving What Appears To Be Full-On Race Car
Wall Street JournalThe big news in Lakers-land was the arrest of Matt Barnes on suspicion of domestic violence in Sacramento. But we couldn't resist the story of Ron Artest, who was stopped by the California Highway Patrol as he was driving what appeared to be a full-on, Indy-style race car o ... More >>
Film+TV
August 26, 2010
We Are All Hoarders
Worst movie year ever? Or is Hollywood just feeding our addiction to garbage?
Blogs
August 23, 2010
Egg Watch Continues: More Recalls, New Safety Rules
Flickr user Muy YumPoached egg from Bottega Louie Our egg problem is still going strong. MSNBC is reporting that over a half-billion eggs have been recalled, and even more could be on the horizon. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that new egg safety rules were only recently pu ... More >>
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June 23, 2010
Food and Drug News: When Olive Oil and Your Medicine Cabinet Don't Mix
If this week's Wall Street Journal Health and Wellness section feature, When Food and Pills Clash, is any indication, those really annoying drug commercials are about to add a dozen foods to their even more annoying "You should not take if" lists. According to the article, grapefruit juice has been ... More >>
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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 12, 2010
Is The L.A. City Council In Denial Over Budget Mess?
We've been snickering about it for quite sometime, but the Los Angeles City Council's feet-dragging distaste for all things budgetary (the city is now looking to pare down a $585 million deficit) seems to be inspiring more-and-more late-night-style quips. The latest (and perhaps greatest) co ... More >>
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May 11, 2010
Number Of Pot Shops In L.A: 583
Houston, we have a number: After ad nauseam reports about Los Angeles' 1,000-plus pot shops, which some news organizations stated was a number greater than a count of the city's Starbucks outlets, we finally have a number, and it's 583, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Hyperbol ... More >>
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March 22, 2010
Health Care Legislation Could Be A Mixed Blessing For L.A.
Passage of President Obama's health care package over the weekend could mean health insurance coverage for 32 million uninsured Americans, but it might not mean much for L.A.'s big, public hospitals. An official at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, which runs County-USC M ... More >>
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February 10, 2010
Plate Spinnings: Listings From the Past Week
Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Would you pay $250 million for Hooters? Don't answer that. [New York Post] -- Seven examples of very strange international food. [Independent Traveler] -- 5 favorite cookbooks from Alton Brown. [Wall ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2009
Gangs Cooperating With Each Other For Better Business, Report States
As we told you last summer ("Gangs Lay Low, Rake in Dough") some neighborhoods that used to represent bloody fault lines in decades-old gang grudges have been eerily quiet, with some experts theorizing that the sets are working together to comprise a more-efficient money-making machine on the ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2009
L.A. Weekly Counts 545 Pot Shops in Los Angeles
From the Wall Street Journal to the Daily News to members of the Los Angeles City Council, a lot of people seem to think there are up to 1,000 medical weed stores in this city. Guess they still haven't looked at L.A. Weekly's PDF linked in our November cover story: "L.A.'s Medical-Weed Wars."Gregory ... More >>
Blogs
December 2, 2009
Google, Bloggers Involved In Theft Says Rupert Murdoch
RupertFoxRupert Murdoch has been on a tear against Google, vowing to close off content he controls to the search giant and saying the web king, news aggregators and bloggers are all involved in "theft" of content created by journalism organizations like the ones he owns. His comments were ma ... More >>
Blogs
December 2, 2009
Prevent Bagel Related Injuries: Make Your Own Kitchen Guillotine
www.guillotine.dk/a real guillotineWho knew bagels were so dangerous? The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Bagel Related Injuries (that's BRI to you) are extremely common, so common that inventors are busy, as we speak, trying to invent a new bagel slicer. Last year, according t ... More >>
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October 15, 2009
CALPERS corruption: A plan to make New Yorkers homeless, and $50M to blowhard Al Villalobos
California taxpayers unknowingly handed a cool $50 million to braggart Al Villalobos, and now the inept leaders of the California Public Employee Retirement System are arguing that they encouraged this possible pay-to-play debacle because they needed Al Villalobos to suggest places for Calpers to ... More >>
Blogs
September 16, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
August 20, 2009
How to Open a Restaurant With No Money: The Wall Street Journal Gives Some Advice
If you spend your days watching Top Chef or playing Restaurant City online or even actually attending culinary school, you might be thinking about opening your own restaurant. So what do you do if you're young and broke and still think this is a good idea and not, say, getting a degree in urban plan ... More >>
Blogs
August 19, 2009
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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August 12, 2009
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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August 11, 2009
Rob Maguire Defaults Expected on Skyscrapers and Towers in L.A. and The OC
Poor, poor Rob Maguire -- at least as reported yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, just a few months after this pretty-near fawning story about him and his supposed savior, Nelson Rising, in the Los Angeles Times. The WSJ story shows the "disastrous" decisions he made, especially in Orange County. ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2009
Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup
LAUSD Approves Teacher Ax Rule Changes School board members narrowly approved recommendations that would make it easier to dismiss teachers facing serious job charges. L.A. TimesNet Coach Exits USC's head basketball coach, Tim Floyd, has resigned, reportedly worn down by charges of professional impr ... More >>
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January 22, 2009
WSJ: Cubs Win Freedom As Zell Sells
A late Wall Street Journal report claims that Sam Zell, the CEO of Tribune Company, which owns the Los Angeles Times, plans to sell the Chicago Cubs baseball team to the Ricketts family, whose "bid, led by Chicago financier Tom Ricketts, son of J. Joe Ricketts, the founder of TD Ameritrade Holding C ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2008
Is Google Joining AT&T to Shut Up the Little Guy?
We're fascinated to see a Variety journalist pick up on our last week's cover story, "Shutting Up the Little Guy," as a cautionary tale about not just what AT&T, Fabian Nunez and the Los Angeles City Council are doing to decimate local public access TV, but what might happen if net neutrality -- ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2008
Newsflash: Iceland is not as unbearably cool as one imagines
Icelandic innovation includes the "bumper dumper," a flip-down toilet seat on trucks' rear end for use in the wild.
News
October 27, 2005
The Wacko Phenomenon
Billy Shire and La Luz de Jesus
News
May 6, 2004
Get Carter?
L.A. Times, N.Y. Times, Wall Street Journal investigating Vanity Fair�s Graydon Carter; LAT probing whether Carter made deals with Hollywood moguls & companies
News
April 24, 2003
King of Hollywood
The New York Times’ pursuit of an entertainment writer
Columns
July 4, 2002
Crime Wave
The New York Times’ pursuit of an entertainment writer
Columns
April 25, 2002
Kama Sutra Journalism
The New York Times’ pursuit of an entertainment writer
Columns
December 6, 2001
Desert Foxes
The New York Times’ pursuit of an entertainment writer
News
November 8, 2001
The Back Story
Reading List: Week 7
News
November 1, 2001
The Back Story
A Week 6 reading list
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