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10 Restaurant Meals That Will Make You the Fattest

On Tuesday we reported on two university studies that found that restaurant meals are really, really fattening. One meal, on average -- whether breakfast, lunch or dinner -- contains over half of the FDA's recommended daily calories for a healthy adult, as well as whopping amounts of salt and satura ... More >>

Restaurant Dishes: More Calories Than Fast Food?

The average meal at an average sit-down restaurant chain contains a belt-busting 1,128 calories -- more than half of the Food and Drug Administration's recommended 2,000 calories a day for a healthy adult, according to a study by University of Toronto researchers. In contrast, the average fast food ... More >>

Yogurt Linked to Lower Blood Pressure

People who ate yogurt once every three days had significantly lower blood pressure than those who didn't eat yogurt, according to a new study reported in MedPage Today. In fact, they were 31% less likely to develop high blood pressure than those who ate no yogurt at all, Huifen Wang, Ph.D., of Tuft ... More >>

10 People Making L.A. a Better Place

From to a 70-year-old woman teaching others how to use medical marijuana to a man dedicated to saving the sea lions, these Angelenos prove that do-goodery can be vastly more interesting, creative, and fulfilling than writing a monthly charity check or two. Check out our entire People 2012 issue her ... More >>

Varun Soni: The Real Spirit of Troy

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. When he was named dean of religious life at USC, Varun Soni became the first Hindu in American history to serve such a role. Even today, four years later, he's the only non-Chr ... More >>

Now Open: Bricks and Scones (and Coffee and Tea) on Larchmont

Bricks and Scones is the perfect name for Larchmont's newest café. Not because it's housed in a brick building and serves scones--though I suppose it's fitting for that reason too--but because this evocation of a schoolyard rhyme captures the lovable quality of the place. The red brick walls are de ... More >>

Lord of the Fireflies: Inventor Gives Life to Circuit-Board Insects

9 Lives and Counting

When does an animal rescuer need to be saved?

Neat and Messy

Two guys who will police the police

Another Side of Sundance

Working Films’ “meaningful marketing”

My Life as an Underdog

The Green-Republican front against DiF

Black Film Now

Out of the Woods

Loren Mazzacane Connors, ax hero

The Gap

Richard Dawkins attempts to straddle art and science