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Why Online Comedy Fests Can't Beat Live Laughs

See also: *JASH: Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera and Friends Create a New YouTube Channel *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles "The internet is like the wild west! It's totally unregulated so we thought it would be cool to see how far we can go without any consequences." Those were Sarah S ... More >>

5 Offbeat Things To Do in L.A. This Week

See also: *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles Tired of frequenting the same routine haunts for entertainment? Suffer no longer with these fantastically quirky events, from Kathy Griffin ... More >>

(No) Fear of a Shane Black Planet: The Iron Man 3 Auteur's Career, Reconsidered

All Cinco's Eve

Q & A With Southland's Mike Haro: Adobo Scouting, Where Cops Really Eat Manuel's Special Burrito

When it comes to knowing Los Angeles' food mainstays, those who are visiting for the first time could do themselves a big favor by studying episodes of TNT's Southland (which also happens to be the best cop show on television). There are a handful of main characters on this Peabody-award winning ens ... More >>

Lil Poopy Is the Next Mozart

We seem to be awfully excessively protective of 9-year-olds recently. The Onion ate a shit ton of crow. And barely hours later another brilliant 9-year-old became the center of an unnecessary moral panic. We are, of course, talking about hip-hop phenomenon Lil Poopy. The pint-sized rapper Luie Riv ... More >>

The Onion's Quvenzhané Wallis Tweet Sets Off Firestorm On Oscars, Race & Misogyny

Updated at the bottom. The Onion apologizes. First posted at 7:05 a.m. The Onion, a satirical news source, has had its moments, including a recent story headlined, "Los Angeles On High Alert As LAPD Back On Regular Duty," following the rampage attributed to ex-cop Christopher Dorner. That was clas ... More >>

James Ellroy Gives Us a Tour Through the LAPD History 
Museum

See also:*Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *5 Freaky L.A. Crime Sites from James Ellroy's City of Demons Dressed in a Hawaiian shirt, novelist James Ellroy breezes into the Los Angeles Police Historical Society Museum, collapses into a chair, puts a foot up on the table and wonders aloud where ... More >>

7-Eleven Coffee Drinkers May Predict Presidential Race Outcome

Predicting the outcome of an event can be done in one of several ways. Possible results can be gauged using statistics, polls, qualitative analysis -- or maybe psychic octopus. For the presidential election, the convenience store 7-Eleven partnered with The Onion and drew in voters with the simply- ... More >>

Political Prankster Steve Lambert Brings His Interactive Signs to Charlie James Gallery

The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: The Complete List

The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: 10-1 Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time Who are these hipsters we see each day in the streets, on our Tumblr feeds, and on the local news? And why are so many in bands? It's not the mere existen ... More >>

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The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: 20-11

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time Who are these hipsters we see each day in the streets, on our Tumblr feeds, and on the local news? And why are so many in bands? It's not the mere existence of hipster groups that distress ... More >>

Victoria Jackson's Excellent Tea Party Adventure

Q & A with Emily Ansara Baines: The Unofficial Hunger Game Cookbook, T.C. Boyle and Foraging Skills, Sourcing Squirrel in L.A. What Muskrat Tastes Like

​If you live in any proximity to a middle school or teenage girl, you probably know all about The Hunger Games, the young adult dystopian trilogy by Suzanne Collins. You will also know that the movie comes out in March. What you might not know is that there is also a cookbook about the trilogy ... More >>

Celebrity Chef Ted Allen Cooks His Favorite Pretentious Foodie Bullshit Meal

Occupy L.A.'s Dilemma

Protesters share enthusiasm and disenchantment, but need unity to survive

Food News Roundup: The End of Butter, Lucky Charms Bake Sale Racial Profiling

A. Scattergoodapple crates at Riley's Farm​ Los Angeles Times: UC Berkeley Republican club draws nationwide protests and support with a bake sale in which items are priced according to a buyer's race, ethnicity and gender. Gourmet Live: The history of teachers and apples. Or, what to read onl ... More >>

The Funniest Man in Highland Park

And Now, A Brief Message From The Onion

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And Now, Another Brief Message From The Onion

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The Inspirational Effects of Coffee, or: What to Drink at a TED Talk

R.E.~/FlickrA cup of inspiration​ In what is both fodder for a future article in The Onion and an actual survey, leading "coffee retail brand" Don Francisco asked some 1,000 Americans to quantify their level of inspiration on a scale of 0 ("not at all inspired") to 100 ("extremely inspired), t ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Breakfast With Stalin, Safe Sushi Eating Locally (With 100 Miles of Rope)

-- L.A. Winemaker Finds Identity In Graffiti Art. [Neon Tommy] -- Ways you can do more to eat locally. (Our favorite: "Tie one end of a 100-mile rope to your house and the other end to your waist to ensure that you only eat within that radius.") [The Onion] -- 9 Foods to Help You Sleep. [The Da ... More >>

Hey, You With the Funny Shorts

Time's 140 Best Twitter Feeds: Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Harry Reid Lord Voldemort

If you only have 140 characters, they should be worth reading, no? Depends on whose Twitter feed you read. Time Magazine has just published a list (of course they did) of the top 140 Twitter feeds around the country. No, sorry, neither Charlie Sheen nor Kim Kardashian made it -- Neil Gaiman is #1, S ... More >>

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From The Dept. of Big Surprises: Food Marketed as Healthful When it's Not

We'd like to file this under stories The Onion might as well have written. As the San Francisco Chronicle reported Sunday, a group of nutrition policy advocates called The Strategic Alliance released a report last week claiming that 84% of labels on packaged foods aimed at the mouths of children ... More >>