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Koch Brothers Don't Want The Los Angeles Times

The conservative Kansas brothers who sunk billions into the effort to defeat President Barack Obama's reelection run have apparently pulled out of the running to own the Los Angeles Times. For many in ultra-liberal L.A., ownership of the paper by Charles and David Koch would have been a fate worse ... More >>

R.I.P. Diner's Journal, The New York Times Restaurant Blog

Today The New York Times announced in a post titled "A Note to Readers," that it would be shutting down its dining blog Diner's Journal. This comes a little more than six months after The Washington Post did the same, shutting down its blog All We Can Eat. The New York Times was far less forthcomin ... More >>

Ex-L.A. Times Writer Apologizes for "Tawdry" Attacks

Jesse Katz admits that attacking journalist Gary Webb's CIA-cocaine expose ruined Webb's life

3 Kentucky Products That Should be Smuggled Instead of KFC

As recently reported in The Washington Post, al-Yamama, a Palestinian delivery company, has been sneaking Kentucky Fried Chicken into the Gaza Strip from Egypt: a three-hour journey and an extra $20-30 for cold chicken, which admittedly can be good. Of course, if Colonel Sanders knew that the red-a ... More >>

San Diego-Tijuana Olympics Bid Nixed

San Diego and Tijuana holding hands like ebony and ivory, together in perfect harmony, side-by-side, hosting the Olympics? Not going to happen. Yes, the dream of brownfolk and surfer dudes working in tandem to host the 2024 Summer Games was a pipe dream:

Trader Joe's Mexican Chocolate How to Make Mexican Hot Chocolate

Trader Joe's is known for traveling the globe to find a wide and ever-changing variety of foods. They recently went next door to bring back Organic Stone-Ground Mexican-Style Dark Chocolate, which has the shape, taste and paper packaging of traditional south-of-the-border chocolates. There are two ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Existential Food Questions, Bacon Rillettes A Novice's Guide to Craft Beer

Michael Ruhlman: The single biggest problem in home kitchens? Dull knives. Smithsonian Magazine: The Novice's Guide to Venturing Into the World of Craft Beer. Food Republic: Existential Food Questions, Part 1. James Beard Foundation blog: How to make bacon rillettes. Eatocracy: My 8 most stained ... More >>

Nora Ephron, Writer of 'Sleepless in Seattle,' Dead at 71

Hollywood filmmaker Nora Ephron, who wrote When Harry Met Sally and You've Got Mail, died today at the age of 71, the Washington Post and New York Times report. After a day of rumors about her health that included denials from her agent and publisher, the two outlets said late this afternoon that t ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

Tomgram: Bush's War, and Presidential Fraud?

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

Misspeak No Evil

Angel on the Bus

Drew Barrymore on popping her political cherry

Swallow This, Deep Throat

A case for silencing anonymous sources

The Queens of Hollywood

Behind the Times’ new bylines

New York Times Names New Queen of Hollywood

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The Book on Arnold

Making up for the failings of the mainstream

The Back Story

I don't care what the facts are

The Back Story

Judith Lewis

The Back Story

A Week 6 reading list

Enduring Insults

the painful examination of foreign-policy mistakes

Rail Against the Thief

A protester’s guide to Inauguration Day

Vicissitudes of the Victor

Honor, history at stake as Filipino veterans press for recognition