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Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Tween Romance

See also: *Getty's Pacific Standard Time Series on L.A. Architecture: A Preview *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, the painter who pushed for a "superflat" aesthetic brings his formerly 2-D monsters to the big screen, three artists clean an alt space from fl ... More >>

A Sperm Mug, a Giant Tube Sculpture and More at Night Gallery

See also: *Night Gallery Opens a New Space Downtown *This Art Event Included Pornographic Balloons, Half-Naked Bartenders and a Bouncy Castle *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying As far as alternative art spaces go, Night Gallery pretty much could sit right next to the word in a dictionary. Th ... More >>

Jamie Lynne Grumet, TIME's Breastfeeding Covergirl, Can't Stop Posing for Creepy Magazine Covers

We love breastfeeding. We especially loved breastfeeding when we were small, bald and toothless. It's a beautiful thing, and no woman should ever be told when or where she can or can't breastfeed. Because when baby hunger strikes, Mother Nature abides, mmk? But what we can't figure out is why Jamie ... More >>

Boobie-Palooza Comes to L.A. Sunday to Celebrate World Breastfeeding Week

A full-frontal assault is headed toward L.A. this weekend. That's when Boobie-Palooza takes place. It's a celebration of World Breastfeeding Week (yes, there is such a week) and will feature the likes of Ricki Lake, Dr. Yvonne Bohn of Discovery Health's Deliver Me and, of course, Katie Hamilton, th ... More >>

Trayvon Martin Gets the Shepard Fairey Treatment in Ebony Magazine

It was only a matter of time before L.A. street artist (turned international graphic-design star and Obama portraiteer) Shepard Fairey took on Trayvon. We're actually surprised it didn't happen sooner. Though there remains the sporadic rally cry for the young black Florida teen's murderer to be bro ... More >>

Jamie Lynne Grumet, L.A. MILF Breastfeeding on Cover of TIME, Sees Her Blog Crash Amid Controversy

So of course you've peeped the new cover of TIME Magazine. The story's about attachment parenting, and its cover star is (unavoidably young, hot) L.A. mommy blogger Jamie Lynne Grumet. Annnd she happens to have a three-(going on four)-year-old attached to her left nipple. Grumet is part of a new wa ... More >>

Dogs, Cats Less Likely to Be Adopted From L.A. Shelters if They're Black

Hipster racism we can handle. But cuddly kitten racism? There is no god! L.A. animal shelters went public with this disturbing trend (sometimes called Black Dog Syndrome) last year, revealing to Time Magazine that black shelter pets "are often the last to be adopted and the first to be euthanized." ... More >>

Time Magazine Picks 100 Most Influential People in the World: Including Two Chefs

Yesterday Time Magazine named it's 100 Most Influential People in the World, proving yet again that lists are more important than real news. Among the hundred super important people are two chefs, both of whom unquestionably deserve to be at the top of any list that includes foodists. (One could not ... More >>

Alex Weinschenker, Occupy L.A. Protester Behind 99% Bandana on Cover of TIME, Dies in Alleged Overdose

Though Occupy L.A. has always been firm about its status as a collective, not a group of individuals, some protesters have inevitably achieved more celebrity than the rest. The first and foremost being Sarah Mason, whose portrait at a Bank of America occupation ended up on the cover of TIME's "Prot ... More >>

Occupy, the Art Show: Ted Soqui, Our Photographer Who Did Time Cover With Shepard Fairey, Gets an Exhibit

Ted Soqui​See our previous post, "Occupy L.A. Photos by Ted Soqui, Photog Behind Shepard Fairey's TIME Art, to Show at Gallery Where Cover Protester Sarah Mason Works" Six weeks after LAPD riot cops cut short the revolution and forcibly cleared Occupy L.A. from its home on the City Hall lawn, ... More >>

President Clinton Stamps His Vegan Seal Of Approval On Three Books

Former President Bill Clinton, one of our featured famous vegans, is making quite a name for himself in world of diet books. According to Time magazine, he's attached his name to three diet-related books since losing 24 pounds on a vegan plan he adopted before Chelsea Clinton's wedding in 2010. Thou ... More >>

50 Craziest Occupy Movements of 2011

Twenty Eleven has been a year of occupies. Occupations. Occupitudes. You get the idea. Sure, the Occupy Wall Street movement has only been around since September, but since then we've been occupying all manner of whatnot like there's no tomorrow (thanks to the Mayans, there actually might not be on ... More >>

Occupy L.A. Photos by Ted Soqui, Photog Behind Shepard Fairey's TIME Art, to Show at Gallery Where Cover Protester Sarah Mason Works

The Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica saw the show of the century fall into its lap this winter. Sarah Mason, who works at the gallery, was catapulted into accidental fame when a photo of her at an Occupy L.A. protest -- snapped by LA Weekly photographer Ted Soqui -- was reworked by graphic art ... More >>

Sarah Mason, TIME's Protester of the Year: More Photos, Details Behind Occupy L.A. Cover

UPISarah Mason, TIME covergirl sans beanie and bandana, far left.​Updated on second page with even more up-close shots of Mason -- these ones taken by Ted Soqui, the LA Weekly photographer behind the TIME cover. Originally posted December 15 at 4:40 p.m. Ah, the elusive Sarah Mason -- she of ... More >>

Shepard Fairey Based TIME's 'Person of the Year' Cover on Occupy L.A. Image by Ted Soqui, LA Weekly Photographer

TIME Magazine​Update: The covergirl's name is Sarah Mason. Details below. It's ironic enough that TIME Magazine chose L.A. street artist Shepard Fairey to design today's "Person of the Year" cover, which depicts an anonymous protester peering from between her beanie and bandana. Fairey is the ... More >>

Marijuana-Using Drivers Are Better Drivers, Research Suggests: Anti-Drug Activists Harsh That Mellow With Retort

​Seeing as L.A. is the marijuana dispensary capital of the world, it also must be the stoned-driving (DWS) epicenter of America as well. Right? Well, it's that kind of thinking that got a widely publicized paper on smoking weed and getting behind the wheel in trouble. The research sort of sug ... More >>

NYC Thinks L.A. Wants to Be 'Manhattanized'

NYC wannabe?​Well! This is insulting. And so very in line with New York media's ridiculous attempts to pin down Los Angeles after spending one night in a downtown hotel with a notepad and a smog mask. TIME Magazine runs a big out-of-touch feature today on the alleged "Manhattanization" of dow ... More >>

Penis Photos: Why Women Don't Want to See Them

​Men are strange creatures. We create something long and hard -- like, say, The King's Speech -- and we want everyone to see it. This applies to photos of one's penis, of course. And the joke is that women would much rather see a picture of your bank account. But seriously, men are so clueles ... More >>

Susan Boyle Is Far More Influential Than Julian Assange in Time's Popularity Contest

​ Yes, folks, it's about that time. What time, you ask? Time for Time's 2011 Top 100 Poll, wherein readers like you vote for the most influential leaders, artists, innovators, icons and heroes in the world. With voting closing on Thursday, we took a look to see who is in the running. Sadly, K ... More >>

Exercise Can Cut Daily Marijuana Use in Half, According to Study That Doesn't Seem to Apply to SoCal Surfers

Don't tell Spicoli an active beach lifestyle can cut weed use.​Here in the pot-shop capital of the nation, it's a little politically incorrect to suggest that you, uh, medicinal patients tend to leave permanent ass marks in your well-worn couches. But a new study suggests that getting off you ... More >>

Sex Addiction: The New Obsession in Los Angeles

Is Charlie Sheen a sex addict?​Botox? Hair replacement? Christian Louboutin? No. The latest obsession in the City of Angels, it seems, is self-reflection about one's sexual urges. Yeah, sex addiction and treatment of such has become big business, thanks to publicity given to Tiger Woods and m ... More >>

Governor Jerry Brown: He's Just Like Us! Or, the Southwest Flight That Wooed a People

Byte-sized fares make for better budgets​At a time when ex-Prez of Egypt Hosni Mubarak is private-jetting off to his sprawling estate in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikha, where a charmed life awaits the loathed 30-year dictator (free of angry mobs and full of luxury frond-fan type shit - ... 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 >>

Bath Salt is the New Cocaine: Listen Up, Charlie, Lindsay, Paris ...

Bath salt can be 'done' off mirrors too.​Charlie Sheen can put this in his briefcase and not even have to worry about authorities: Bath salt. That's right, bath salt is the new cocaine and offers intense highs, hallucination and energy and feelings of anger. Yay! What's not to like? The bath ... More >>

The 2010 Village Voice/L.A. Weekly Film Poll

From best to worst, the results are in

U.S. Study: High-School Seniors Smoked More Weed In 2010

Fast times in 2010​Updated after the jump: Both tobacco and marijuana use are on the rise. So why is weed getting all the flack after today's report? The experts weigh in. Don't you just love watching statisticians get all tussled about the numeric rebellions of today's youth? According to a ... More >>

Is the Earth Running Out of Food?

Is the earth running out of food? You might think so if you've been stuck waiting in line behind your favorite neo-taco truck for hours lately, only to learn that they've run out of kimchi tacos. Okay, no. Time Magazine considers the very real possibility that the earth will actually run out of food ... More >>

Meg Whitman Has Plenty Of Company In Hiring Undocumented Help (Guinier, Baird, Feinstein): Here's Our Look At Foreign Domestics Throughout Modern Political History

​Revelations Wednesday that California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman employed an illegal immigrant as a maid (a multimillionaire in California with an undocumented housekeeper -- shocking!) had us thinking: Not all politicos have been derailed for hiring foreign domestics (Dianne Feinst ... More >>

ElBulli Update: Adrià not Closing his Restaurant Exactly, Just Reinventing It

Ferran Adrià knows how to control a news cycle like an immersion circulator, although he'd probably rather not be at the center of this one. Last week The New York Times broke the story that Adria's famed restaurant elBulli was closing permanently, only to have Adria refute the story in a Spanish n ... More >>

Good or Evil, Corporate Biofuel Gets $5 Mil of Your Money

The U.S. Department of Energy today announced that 37 research projects, including one launched locally, are in line for $151 million in federal funding that aims to "develop nimble, creative and inventive approaches to transform the global energy landscape," according to a department statement.Cere ... More >>

Time Magazine Says Viva California

Dubai might have its man-made islands and Shaghai residents might squint under the glare of all the new skyscrapers there, but California is still where the economic action is. That's according to the latest issue of Time magazine, which states that, despite the budget mess in Sacramento, struggling ... More >>

Time Magazine: The Food Crisis in America

Time magazine's new issue covers the food crisis in America: Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food. "Unless Americans radically rethink the way they grow and consume food," writes Bryan Walsh, "they face a future of eroded farmland, hollowed-out countryside, scarier germs, higher health co ... More >>

Love's Old Sweet Song

Vote Finke in '08!

Time magazine has just published their list of finalists for "The 2008 Time 100." What's that you ask? It's the magazine's list of the world's most influential leaders, artists, entrepreneurs and thinkers. And never-sleeping entertainment industry reporters. Ensconced among fellow nominees Mike H ... More >>

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Gay old time

Star Power

Ahn Trio shines under the night sky

Silent Spielberg, Holy Protest: Will Oscar have the Balls for Munich?

Updated Nov. 30

They Hate Me, They Really Hate Me

On winning "The Eisner" at the Disney trial

Failing Upward, a True Hollywood Story

Kinsley hires serial loser Joel Stein, despite conflicts of interest

The Eyes of Perpetual War

James Nachtwey has spent a lifetime on the frontlines of the world’s worst calamities. Here, the photojournalist talks about the burden of documenting war, famine, poverty and human-rights abuses.

Killer Bob

Why is everyone feeling sorry for this high-flying wretch?

Desert Island Bisque

In Survivor, the Real World meets Outward Bound meets Lord of the Flies meets Esalen meets Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. Plus, Alec Baldwin in Nuremberg and a goodbye to The Sopranos’ Nancy Marchand

Too Good and Weird

The Happy Life and Inevitable Death of Freaks and Geeks

Was It Good for You Too?

Who got screwed when Time-Warner jumped into bedwith AOL?

Why Did He Cut Off That Man's Leg?

The Peculiar Practice of Dr. John Ronald Brown

Victorian Cyberpunk

Neal Stephenson wants to teach you how to think

Hearts and Minds

Notes on the man-woman/man-man/woman-woman thing

Gassed at CNN

Denounced and deserted, Tailwind producer is not dispirited

Anglo Pop

Helen Fielding's Single Woman