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The Five Greatest Showmen in EDM

This week's cover story on Steve Aoki attributes much of his rise to the EDM shift from wallflower DJs to over-the-top showmen. World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five Aoki is not the only DJ to elevate the dance floor from the collective trance of rave's past to the kind of fist-pumping festivals rep ... More >>

Top 10 Reasons to Love Los Angeles and Never, Ever Leave

It's February. It'll be 24 degrees and might snow tonight in New York City as frigid Canadian wind sweeps the East. It's 30 degrees in Boston, Chicago is dropping soon to 14 degrees (sweet Jesus), and even in San Francisco it's 50 degrees and oppressively gray -- naturally. In Los Angeles, it's 73 ... More >>

A Look Inside Blackout, L.A.'s Most Extreme Haunted House

Imagine (1) somehow finding yourself among a group of apprehensive "fresh fish" being badgered and browbeaten by a brutal prison guard as he processes you through a penitentiary populated by Hannibal Lecter-esque psychotics and the lobotomized victims of grizzly, Mengele-like inmate experiments. Or ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Ken Frank on Foie Gras, PETA Protest in Echo Park No Food Aid to North Korea

Daily Dish: Chef Ken Frank of Le Toque in Napa Valley argues that the upcoming foie gras ban will "will create the biggest black market since Prohibition." He recommends replacing it with "the world's highest standards for humane foie gras." Reuters: In the wake of North Korea's failed missile lau ... More >>

USC Murder: Chinese Graduate Students May Have Been Shot, Killed for Their BMW

Update: The Chinese grad students were reportedly studying electrical engineering. More police details and student reactions after the jump. A man and a woman murdered in their BMW near the USC campus this morning were graduate students from China, according to the LAPD. They are both thought to ha ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Food Newspaper Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

Los Angeles Times to Charge You For Online Content: Bad News, if You Ask Us

​I said maybe / You're gonna be the one that saves me / And after all / You're my ... paywall. Yes, your beloved Los Angeles Times is jumping into the paywall game -- charging readers for online access to its content beginning March 5. You'll be able to read 15 stories on a device, but, af ... More >>

Dodgers Suitor Steven Cohen Has Been Through His Own Bitter Divorce

​Hedge fund billionaire Steven Cohen, who is bidding for the L.A. Dodgers, has at least one thing in common with Frank McCourt: Both have been through an ugly divorce.Cohen divorced his first wife, Patricia, more than 20 years ago. But the two have been locked in a bitter struggle ever since, acco ... More >>

Congress Insider Trading: L.A. County Senators, Representatives Respond (or Don't)

NorCal's Nancy Pelosi finds nothing shady about her convenient investment in Visa.​As we learned on "60 Minutes" last night, many of the politicians we've elected to U.S. Congress have clearly been using their backdoor V.I.P. passes to gather exclusive intel on when to buy and sell stocks, bon ... More >>

Pacific Standard Time Is 'Overcompensation' for L.A.'s Cultural Inferiority Complex, Says New York Times

From Ed Ruscha's "Standard Editions."​Dude. New York can't stand to see us happy! Here we were, totally lit on our 1960s selves, museum-hopping in our California sundresses whilst trying to forget the "hopping" part took 30 minutes in traffic, and the East Coast's Times of record has to jump i ... More >>

Apples Found to Contain the Most Pesticide Residue

Flickr/ollesvensson​ A U.S. Department of Agriculture study of pesticide residue on produce has led a consumer-advocacy group to place apples at the top of their latest Dirty Dozen list, according to a June 12 report in the Wall Street Journal. In its annual screening, the USDA's testing fou ... More >>

New York Times' Arthur Brisbane Questions Paper's Past Criticism of Los Angeles Times in Wake of L.A. Paper's Pulitzer Wins

robertjlopez / YouTubeRuben Vives celebrates his L.A. Times Pulitzer co-win.​Updated after the jump: Slate media critic Jack Shafer weighs in, saying it's possible for the L.A. Times to both win Pulitzers and be "in steep decline." Earlier this year we noted how the Los Angeles Times was "bec ... More >>

Muslim Journalist Asra Nomani To TSA: Racially Profile Me; Profile My Family

Georgetown UniversityIs Asra Nomani's journalistic reputation at stake?​If you're a non-Muslim male, we recommend you don't spew offensive stereotypes about Muslims on national television. That is, if you're keen on keeping your job as a left-wing journalist. If you're a Muslim woman, though ... More >>

Web Surfing: A Roundup of Posts from L.A. Food Blogs & Beyond

-- Want marital bliss? Take up wine-making. [The Wall Street Journal] -- The Patriots give out free candy, or How to Ruin Halloween. ("Absent the helmet, my kid's Viking costume now resembles wardrobe from Riverdance. And that may be the greatest indignity of all.") [The Awl] -- Get-out-the-vote l ... More >>

LETTERS: MINKOW STINKOW

Could Potheads Excited By Marijuana Legalization Initiative Boost Democratic Slate In California Election?

​We usually don't put "motivation" and "pot smoker" in the same sentence. But a Wall Street Journal story wonders aloud if pot-enthusiasts', er, buzz over the initiative that would legalize marijuana in California will bring more free thinkers (e.g. liberals) out to the polls in November. If ... More >>

Steven Slater: The JetBlue Flight Attendant Goes From Hero To Possible Zero In 24 Hours

Hero or zero?​Only Thursday we were marveling at the speed at which a Thousand Oaks flight attendant named Steven Slater became a national hero for giving the verbal finger to an allegedly abusive passenger aboard a JetBlue flight. Just as fast, however, his story of take-this-job-and-shove-it ... More >>

Conservative Ted Olson Stands Up for Gays at Proposition 8 Trial

Attorney Ted Olson​When closing arguments get underway for the Proposition 8 federal trial on Wednesday in San Francisco, a world-famous liberal won't be standing before U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker and making the case to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban. Instead, that attor ... More >>

Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Miles Davis gets a beer named after him. [Huffington Post Food] -- Forage restaurant in Silver Lake resumes foraging. [Eater LA] -- Sotheby's hosts a Vegetable Auction. [The Art of Farming] - ... More >>

Where's Antonio? Replacing Parking Meters, Flying to Las Vegas

During a week when former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan co-wrote a bombshell of an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, stating that L.A. would likely face bankruptcy sometime before 2014, current L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa headed out of town for a public relations event in Las Vegas a ... More >>

Plate Spinnings: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Michael Ruhlman tells us Why Sandra Lee Is Not Evil Incarnate. [HuffPost Food] -- Gael Greene gets a racy TV show (maybe). [Variety] -- The James Beard Foundation's list of 13 Essential Baking Books. ... More >>

Jason Shiga's Meanwhile Lets You Choose Your Own Adventure

Tonight at 6 p.m., cartoonist Jason Shiga will be signing his latest book, Meanwhile, at GR2. Written as a "choose your own adventure" story, there are 3,856 different possibilities within the graphic novel. Check out this matrix Shiga built for the story. ​ An award winning cartoonist, Shig ... More >>

Plate Spinnings: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- An interview with Shut Up, Foodies, a new satirical food blog. (More on this one later.) [Eat Me Daily] -- Walmart's exclusive Ben & Jerry's flavor: flourless chocolate cake ice cream. [Serious Eats] ... More >>

Wall Street Journal Eying L.A. Times' Turf

The Wall Street Journal is reported to be pondering a Los Angeles edition as part of its expansion into cities that could be perceived to have weak local news dailies. Last week the paper moved into the Bay Area with a weekly edition following the threatened closure of the San Francisco Chronicle. T ... More >>

Shift Happens: Hollywood and Silicon Valley Bring It OnHollywood

With no relief from the recession coming anytime soon, plus Monday's news that L.A.'s own Tsavo Media founder Mike Jones will now take over as COO of MySpace, it's high time Los Angeles and Silicon Valley broke out the peace pipe. The opportunity presented itself at this week's AlwaysOn OnHollywood ... More >>

Uh oh, Obama asks Antonio Villaraigosa for Economic Advice

By Tibby Rothman Many Southern Californians were mystified by this news from the Wall Street Journal and NBC's Firstread blog: The often stumbling Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, whose city budget deficit has hit a historic high and who has based his economic plan in Los Angeles almost entirely on a s ... More >>

The Nanny Diaries: Child-care Crisis

Who’ll suffer the children?

War of the Words

Cruise And Redstone do battle – prepare for a true epic.

A Goldwater Moment

It's 1964 all over again, but this time for the Democrats

Home Is Where the Concierge Is

The return of the residential hotel

Patriots Scorned

True heroes we should be honoring

L.A. Times and N.Y. Times investigating Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter

The Queens of Hollywood

Behind the Times’ new bylines

New York Times Names New Queen of Hollywood

Web Exclusive

Shock and Awe

Pro-war propaganda

A Moment Like This

Salesmanship or Snake Oil?

Punitive dreaming, post-Enron

It Ain’t Cool

Letters

Horsefeathers II

Hollywood ponders the profits of patriotism and war

Establishment Boys

Bush, Gore and the limits of orthodoxy

Dialogue of Slurs

Ethnic insults have no place in school district’s power struggle

Justice

Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, Dorothy Dandridge and lawman Bill Tilghman

The Wreck of the Business Tax

The Riordan Express went off the rails. Does it matter?

Seeking the Heterosexual Within

many ex-gays find themselves back in the closet

Is This Any Way To Run a Country?

Loony prosecutors! Rabid media! Oval Office obsessions!