What's in that delicious chicken wing you're gnawing? Chicken, you say? Yes, but among the herbs and spices might also be arsenic, Prozac, caffeine, Tylenol, Benadryl and banned antibiotics like Cipro, according to Mother Nature Network. Two new studies conducted by scientists at Johns Hopkins' Bl ... More >>
TumblrBenny done growed up.It's hard to hate a man in uniform. Especially when he gets caught by news cameras casually saving a kitten from smoke inhalation, emerging from a car explosion unscathed, etc. Add a starring role in the cult childhood flick of a generation, and you've got Internet ... More >>
Try to pin down the original purpose of this building -- was it a Black Angus Steakhouse? Dancehall? Place of worship? All three simultaneously? 205 Imperial Highway in La Puente is the kind of building-as-sausage that occurs when a property is re-purposed over and over, added to, covered-up or sla ... More >>
MarcoVGL/flickrHabanero carnitas pizza California Pizza Kitchen used to be a place where tourists and exhausted mall shoppers would scarf pizza -- that pizza, of course, being the sort no tradition-minded Neapolitan could stomach. C.P.K., as it is usually abbreviated, bastardizes the form wi ... More >>
Shannon CottrellOnch"Hello Kitty is still cute. Barbie is still flawless and gorgeous," says jewelry designer Onch, "but, I think that OnchMovement should be the next cute thing. Hopefully, OnchMovement is the cute now." Onch, a former contestant on Paris Hilton's My New BFF (and Hilton's "l ... More >>
The FDA doesn't feel Heidi Montag's painFirst Four Loko, now the very pills we were using to numb the pain? This is an outrage of the highest order. The FDA's newest beef is with acetaminophen, or paracetamol, that delightful ingredient most famously found in Vicodin. Apparently the feds don ... More >>
This Kid's a Total Freak
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MLK-Harbors got a new name, the nightmare sounds the same
Seven nights at the Whisky, where dreams still die hard
Frances and Luis Aguilar fight to get their children back. But it takes more than that to keep the family together. Tensions reach a boiling point.
Luis and Frances get a big break, and begin the rebuilding. Then things fall apart
Amaryllis Kornfeld meets the Westside kids
A prison diary
The really bad news Griffith Park Pirates
Damien Hirst’s London restaurant
Pot’s okay — you just can’t have any
Convicted murderer Horace Kelly is scheduled to be put to death in less than two weeks despite a Supreme Court ban on executing the insane. Why? His lawyers failed to file his federal appeal.
