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  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    Newspapers Dead Within Five Years, USC Predicts

    Cristian Hernandez​As 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

    October 20, 2011

    Siri, New iPhone Virtual Assistant, Works With Your Girlfriend to Bust Your Cheating Ass

    AppleA girl's best friend?​Ashton Kutcher, you definitely don't want to get the new iPhone. Reports indicate that the iPhone 4S' voice-activated assistant, Siri, can still take commands when your phone is otherwise passcode locked. Meaning that your wife -- Demi Moore, for example -- can ask ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    AFJ 2011 Winners Announced

    The AFJ -- which would be the Association of Food Journalists and not the Alliance for Justice or the Armed Forces Journal -- announced their 2011 winners over the weekend. The AFJ, which was formed in 1974 as the Newspaper Food Editors and Writers Association, Inc., has been handing out awards sinc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2011

    Operation Cupcake: MI6 Secretly Replaced Al Qaeda's Bombs with Cupcakes

    Turning swords into plowshares is all well and good, but MI6 has a better idea: turning bombs into delicious cupcakes. In a sweet bit of counter-terrorism that also reads like the plot of a Kate Hudson rom-com,* the British spy agency got hold of Al Qaeda's first English language publication, Insp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2011

    Is the NPR Music Blog Trying to Be More "Low-Brow" Than Us? How Dare They?

    ​We thank commenter Toby (on today's Strokes post) for pointing us in the direction of NPR's music blog The Record, which apparently called us out for, are you ready? "Going low-brow" while discussing the demise of revered alt-legends The White Stripes. This would be amusing enough--after all ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Los Angeles Battles Bay Area for Right to Host USS Iowa Battleship

    Will the USS Iowa rest in the City of Angels?​The age-old battle between L.A. and "the Bay" might be getting a little more tense this year as the two metropolitan areas duke it out over the retired battleship USS Iowa, a.k.a. "the Big Stick." The Historic Ships Memorial at Pacific Square in t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    Israeli Scientists Harvest Girl Tears, Force Boys To Sniff Them

    Tears still work on judges, Lindsay finds​We're not sure what made a group of Israeli scientists want so ravenously to find out if the smell of human tears could affect the angle of a dude's boner, but now we have the answer -- thanks to a core group of six women who could pump out a full mill ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

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

    -- Le Van Ba, Founder of Lee's Sandwiches, Dies At 79. [Stick A Fork In It] -- Pet Pantry: a food bank for the four-footed. [Los Angeles Times] -- The new front in the culture wars: food. [The Washington Post] -- A French farmer is fined for feeding his ducks pot. No, he wasn't force-feeding them ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Mystery Missile Was Actually A U.S. Airways Flight From Hawaii To Phoenix

    CBS8 San DiegoNothing to see here​Remember that mysterious missile-trail that had everyone scratching their heads yesterday? Turns out to have a very, very boring explanation.It was a U.S. Airways flight from Honolulu to Phoenix.Liem Bahneman, a software engineer and amateur photographer from Seat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

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

    -- Silver Lake's wild yeast man, breadmaker Mark Stambler. [Eating L.A.] -- So much for David Beckham and Gordon Ramsay opening a pub in L.A. Hey, what's Diego Maradona up to these days? [Grub Street] -- Mooi in Echo Park to host Community Supported Agriculture on Tuesdays. [Daily Dish] -- Are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Meatless Mondays: Be a Vegetarian, Just for One Day

    Santa Monica Farmers Market​ It's Monday, the grudging beginning of another work week, and the end of a weekend perhaps spent barbecuing or, if you were anywhere in the vicinity of Koreatown, consuming plenty of what others threw on the grill at the Korean BBQ Cook-Off, called, appropriately e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    FDA Plans to Legally Limit Your Salt Intake

    Morton Salt​ According to today's report in The Washington Post, the FDA is planning an "unprecedented" effort to limit the salt consumption of Americans. The idea is that putting legal limits on the amount of salt allowed in food would significantly lower the number of deaths from heart dise ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Top Chef Heads to D.C. With Kate Winslet Possible Judge: Why Not Rahm Emanuel??

    Greg KadelPadma Lakshmi​ Top Chef is on the move again, trading in the red chips of Vegas for the red tape of Washington, D.C. And in typical political fashion, the show's shooting schedule has been held up - this time due to Emmy-nominated host Padma Lakshmi's pregnancy. "We were supposed to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

    SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What'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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    The State of Music Journalism in 2009 (and puppies)

    The State of Music Journalism in 2009 (and puppies)

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

    SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What'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

    January 20, 2010

    The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

    SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What'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

    January 18, 2010

    Holy Smokes: America Says Legalize Medical Marijuana

    Eight in 10 Americans believe medical marijuana should be legal, a jump from just more than half of Americans in 1997, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. The wave of support comes as the East Coast starts to catch up with California and other Western states in approving medical marijuana. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

    SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What'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

    January 6, 2010

    Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

    SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What'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

    December 30, 2009

    The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

    SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What'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

    November 24, 2009

    Another One Bites The Dust: Washington Post Closes L.A. Office

    ​In yet another sign of the print media meltdown the venerable Washington Post newspaper on Tuesday announce it's closing its Los Angeles bureau along with its outposts in Chicago and New York. Some of the Posts top journalists (John Pomfret being one) made career stops at the L.A. bureau, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

    SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What'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

    October 28, 2009

    The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

    SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What'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

    October 14, 2009

    The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

    SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What'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

    September 3, 2009

    Man Bites Off Protester's Finger at Health Care Rally

    KTLAAftermath: Blood on a sidewalk​Call it a case of bite and run, but a 65-year-old man opposed to health care reform struck another man who was trying to reach a MoveOn.org-backed pro-reform rally of 100 participants -- and had half his pinky finger bitten off in return. And, in a dramatic tour ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

    SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What'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 25, 2009

    New World Order Dinner Etiquette: Tweet or Eat?

    Caro's Lines'Before the iPhone​In yesterday's Dear Prudence column in Slate, the online advice columnist is asked a dining question. "How do you have a group dinner, with conversation, when some still have their phones on and are checking texts and e-mails?" Prudence, or rather Emily Yoffe, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

    SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What'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 12, 2009

    The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

    SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What'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

    July 7, 2009

    BBQ Redux: What You Could Have Grilled Over the Holiday Weekend

    If you're working at home today, telecommuting from your lawn chair in order to avoid the motorcades and grieving masses, the stalled traffic and barricades around Staples Center, then you might want to consider barbecuing for dinner.

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    Max Taves Wins DeBakey Journalism Award

    Max Taves, whose 2008 feature about UCLA's science researchers' battle with animal-rights extremists, appeared in the L.A. Weekly, has won this year's Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award in the Print (Large Market) category. Taves' L.A. Weekly feature beat out entries that had appeared in the New Yo ... More >>

  • News

    April 27, 2006

    Good Night and Good Luck

    A baker’s dozen of highlights from a year of meta-media madness

  • News

    April 13, 2006

    Quaking Politicians

    They ignore and delay the inevitable on immigrants’ rights at their own peril

  • News

    November 3, 2005

    Tomgram: Bush's War, and Presidential Fraud?

    A former federal prosecutor's take on Fitzmas and the White House Criminal Conspiracy

  • News

    February 17, 2005

    Misspeak No Evil

    A former federal prosecutor's take on Fitzmas and the White House Criminal Conspiracy

  • News

    September 23, 2004

    Angel on the Bus

    Drew Barrymore on popping her political cherry

  • News

    April 22, 2004

    Swallow This, Deep Throat

    A case for silencing anonymous sources

  • News

    October 30, 2003

    The Queens of Hollywood

    Behind the Times’ new bylines

  • News

    October 23, 2003

    New York Times Names New Queen of Hollywood

    Web Exclusive

  • News

    October 2, 2003

    The Book on Arnold

    Making up for the failings of the mainstream

  • News

    May 29, 2003

    The Back Story

    I don't care what the facts are

  • News

    March 6, 2003

    The Back Story

    I don't care what the facts are

  • News

    February 13, 2003

    The Back Story

    Judith Lewis

  • News

    November 1, 2001

    The Back Story

    A Week 6 reading list

  • News

    November 1, 2001

    Enduring Insults

    the painful examination of foreign-policy mistakes

  • Columns

    September 20, 2001

    Brazil 911

    the painful examination of foreign-policy mistakes

  • News

    January 25, 2001

    Rail Against the Thief

    A protester’s guide to Inauguration Day

  • News

    September 10, 1998

    Vicissitudes of the Victor

    Honor, history at stake as Filipino veterans press for recognition

  • News

    April 9, 1998

    Net Edibles

    Chew on these fast facts and estimates

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