If you haven't done your kegel exercise lately, don't bother. "They don't work," says Veronica Matlock, one of the stars of TLC's Plastic Wives, a special (not yet a series) airing Sunday January 27 at 10 p.m. As you may have already guessed, Plastic Wives is not a new Tupperware club. Veronica alo ... More >>
See more from L.A. Weekly's Sex Issue: "Condoms Suck," "The Swingers' Story: How Two Married People Found True Love While Swapping Partners," "10 Condom Reviews for the Well-Endowed Man," "Twelve Tales of Sexual Mortification," and "UCLA vs. USC Sex Survey 2012: Who's Sluttier?" As told to L.J. Wil ... More >>
Somewhere in a back alley outside of Paris, $30,000 worth of black European truffles is changing hands. Asking the seller about the truffles' origins could send them packing to another less inquisitive buyer, so the buyer ponies up quietly and hauls off the heavily perfumed, cloth-lined crate while ... More >>
-- Quinn and Karen Hatfield to open a breakfast spot on La Brea. [Daily Dish] -- Unsettling desserts made out of meat. Unsettling is an understatement. [Flavorpill] -- Saturated Fat Helps People Deal With Negative Emotions, Study Says. (Which is why we're all eating pork belly while we read this ... More >>
How McKinley in Compton became the first school taken over by parents under a radical new law
ABC/Christie Bishop If you're a fan of ABC's reality dancing competition Dancing With The Stars, most likely you're accustomed to its blinding bedazzled outfits, bantering between the judges and contestants' complaints about blisters, sore muscles and bruised egos. But one thing that seeming ... More >>
Sure, those San Diego beer tasting trips are fun, and you have the pick of more than two dozen brewery tasting haunts, many of which these days have abandoned their more humble basement homebrew roots for swanky wine-like tasting rooms. At the 6-month-old Eagle Rock Brewery, the experience is, to pu ... More >>
To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia needed a big Heart. But not this big
N. GalutenFree snacks at the White Horse Inn Cocktail Lounge The Place: White Horse Inn Cocktail Lounge: 1532 N. Western Ave., Los Feliz; (323) 462-8088. The Hours: Every day from 6pm to 2am. ​The Digs: It is red inside. Very, very red. The ceiling is checkerboard, the walls are obscure ... More >>
Tuesday seems like a fine day to release a new miniseries, so Squid Ink is offering up the first in its limited run "Don't Look, Just Eat (or Drink)" series. This dramedy's main characters are those edibles that taste so much better than they look (yes, heaping bowl of stewed tripe, we're talking ab ... More >>
The dating game, L.A.-Style
Since it took you all of two minutes to guess last week's edition of Name That Pastry Chef (that shot of the bar behind Amy Brown's work station was a little too obvious, huh?), you're only getting a few prepped ingredients this week. Plus a few of the best bar snacks in town. But don't fret -- it s ... More >>
King Arthur FlourChewy or Crunchy?If managing your blog, Facebook and Twitter accounts and trying to find time to cook has left you stressed at all the multi-tasking, perhaps it's time consider a little advice from Stanley Mason. The prolific inventor was adept at coming up with an idea and a ... More >>
Judging by the soiree Brooke Shields hosted at her friend's Malibu home Wednesday evening, celebrities have a slightly different vision of Tupperware parties than most of us. Jenn GarbeeOceanside Tupperware Party The last Tupperware party I attended was hosted by my German neighbor (her balcony is ... More >>
Inside the home of Chris McKenry of Get It Together LA! and talking shop at the National Association of Professional Organizers' "Organizing Expo"
Plus, A Grand Guignol Children's Show, A Chicago Christmas Carol and more
Hitch Couture drives fashion home
Wahine Beads entices would-be jewelers
Including Strangers on a Train, 13 and this week's pick, Inside Private Lives
Best naked escape
Festival’s documentaries offer a survey of global disorder
A writer’s encounters with L.A.
A fatal tango and a retrosexual ballet
Gloria Ohland on the dog days of fashion
A shocking and awful week winds down
Edited by Kateri Butler
How the all-American Jewish lesbian folksinger became a big-time Tupperware lady
Home is where the heart of Maryam is
Barbara Ehrenreich talks about clerking at Wal-Mart, living on the minimum wage, and her new book, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Two mothers on the loose in Ojai
Dan Bernier, Kori Newkirk, Alice Könitz, Colin Cook, Alexis Smith, more
Getting the county out of the arms trade
eight tips for bursting your bubble
