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    May 14, 2012

    [Updated:] Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive: This Saturday

    Update: 5/14 3:52 p.m. Did opportunistic thieves help themselves to some of the Stamp Out Hunger donations in Los Angeles? Unfortunately, yes. There were isolated reports on Saturday of unofficial vehicles driving down streets and taking off with the food bags, which were intended to be donations fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    Paul Rogers' Name That Movie, a Hipster Hollywood Puzzle Book

    Paul Rogers is a Pasadena-based illustrator and graphic designer who has worked on everything from USPS stamp lines to posters for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He's also illustrated children's books such as Bob Dylan's Forever Young. His new book, Name That Movie, features 100 sets of six drawings. Eac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    California Strawberry "Berry Blast Off" Contest Wants Your Recipes

    Do you have a good idea for a terrific strawberry dish that doesn't involve turning on the oven? We're gonna assume the answer's yes. Lucky you, because the 2012 California Strawberry "Berry Blast Off" recipe contest is now up and running. The competition is open to anyone who has a strawberry recip ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    February 9, 2012

    Twelve Tales of Sexual Mortification

    Angelenos cough up their most embarrassing sexual moments, and a whole lot of blood, puke and piss

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2011

    Sandra Bernhard at REDCAT

    Steven GuntherSandra Bernhard: I Love Being Me, Don't You?​Sandra Bernhard performs I Love Being Me, Don't You? this weekend, and through August 21. Check out Amy Lyons' review on Tuesday.(Here are the latest capsule NEW THEATER REVIEWS and this week's  Theater feature on Melissa James Gi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Lance Armstrong Federal Doping Inquiry Gaining Momentum, According to Report: His Lawyer Says B.S.

    lancearmstrong.comLance.​Looks like U.S. authorities are building a doping case against champion cyclist Lance Armstrong, and the whole thing could come to a head right here in L.A. That is, at least, according to a report today. The Associated Press reports today that U.S. investigators have ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Statue of Liberty on U.S. Postage Stamp Is Actually Newer, Hotter Vegas Version From 'New York-New York'

    ​​Everything's sexier in Vegas! Even New York's world-famous Statue of Liberty, apparently. Her likeness stands over the Las Vegas strip, torch raised...

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    Cookbook Review: Maida Heatter's Cookies Ladybird Johnson's Moonrocks Recipe

    ​Though some may call Maida Heatter "The Queen of Cake,"and her revamped Maida Heatter's Cakes is certainly at the top of our weekend baking list, after flipping through her companion cookbook, Maida Heatter's Cookies, we would argue that royal title is best bestowed on the octogenarian (or ol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    Former Marines Alleged To Have Sold Assault Weapons To 'Florencia 13' Gangsters In The San Fernando Valley

    Guns like this, sold to gangsters -- allegedly.​Three former marines suspected of selling assault weapons to members of L.A.'s notorious Florencia 13 gang have been arrested in Southern California, federal officials announced Tuesday. The arrests by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firear ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2010

    L.A. County Supervisor Gloria Molina Wants To Know Why Sheriff Won't Release Ruben Salazar Documents

    Ruben Salazar.​Updated with Sheriff Lee Baca saying he'll go through the documents and determine which ones can be released. Originally posted at 3:29 p.m. After Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina on Tuesday asked for a report on why the sheriff's department won't release eight boxes ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    April 22, 2010

    Representing Mother******s

    Keeping it realist at the old boys club

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    World's Smallest Postal Service: How Small Can You Write?

    ​ Lea Redmond of Leafcutter Designs runs the World's Smallest Postal Service. She turns your regular-sized sentiments into very tiny letters. She says she has no plans yet to come to Los Angeles, but would certainly love to. If you'd like to see her here, send her an email. Or write her a lett ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Airport Police Union TSA Pronouncement

    ​The organization representing Los Angeles airport police says the attempted attack on an airliner over Detroit Christmas day highlights the need for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration to get a new permanent leader. Marshall McClain, president of the Los Angeles Airport Peace Off ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    Are 19 L.A. communities losing their U.S. Post Offices?

    By Donna BarstowThe U.S. Postal Service, hammered just like government postal services throughout Europe and North America by a massive drop-off in snail mail caused by the Internet and email, is deciding the future of 19 Post Office branches in Los Angeles. No word which ones will get shuttered. Bu ... More >>

  • LA Life

    May 14, 2009

    GO LA: The Man Who Sold the Brangelina Air

    Plus lots more to do, see and inhale in L.A., May 15-21

  • Calendar

    May 14, 2009

    MR. WILSON AND HIS PROFANE COPS

    Plus lots more to do, see and inhale in L.A., May 15-21

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2008

    Queer Town: The Life and Spirit of Genevieve Florence Range

    On Monday morning, a day after her oldest daughter celebrated her seventieth birthday, Genevieve Florence Range passed away at the age of 95 in New Jersey. She was my grandmother, friend, and one of the major influences in my life. Grandma, as her eight grandkids called her, was everything you want ... More >>

  • News

    June 28, 2007

    Hoisted by His Own Petard

    Stephen Yagman’s outsize arrogance, not his politics, done him in

  • News

    July 6, 2006

    Chief Greedovich

    One of the most powerful Indians gets his way — again

  • News

    June 29, 2006

    Compton's Crash Course

    Connecting the doubts about the failure of a community college

  • LA Life

    March 23, 2006

    Rockie Horoscope

    Connecting the doubts about the failure of a community college

  • News

    May 30, 2002

    Andy’s Band

    Former Factory-ite Susan Pile on the people who made Warhol

  • News

    May 23, 2002

    Wheels of Steal

    Former Factory-ite Susan Pile on the people who made Warhol

  • News

    February 28, 2002

    Pet Shop Murder

    It looked like a simple shooting, but the Pets R Us killing exposed an organized-crime network running credit-card and recycling fraud. And one of its leaders, Sarkis Antonyan, a.k.a. Little Al Capone, had two bullets in his head.

  • News

    January 25, 2001

    Bush Web Intrigue

    It looked like a simple shooting, but the Pets R Us killing exposed an organized-crime network running credit-card and recycling fraud. And one of its leaders, Sarkis Antonyan, a.k.a. Little Al Capone, had two bullets in his head.

  • Art+Books

    January 25, 2001

    Art & Commerce

    At an intersection near you

  • News

    September 21, 2000

    Loving and Leaving the Phonograph

    Why Napster, extraterrestrials, Southern hillbillies and Dick Clark mean more to the future of music than copyright and the Recording Industry Association of America

  • Art+Books

    March 9, 2000

    Stamps.com

    Is there an easier way to send snail mail -- online?

  • Art+Books

    January 20, 2000

    Quack-in-the-Box

    How did the U.S.'s biggest mail-order health-remedy peddler find my mailbox?

  • Art+Books

    October 28, 1999

    Y2K: Now, With Fewer Cranky Christians!

    Bible-thumpers scale back doomsday predictions

  • News

    August 26, 1999

    Loose Cannon

    Buford Furrow stops, shops

  • News

    July 8, 1999

    Box Busters

    Post office puts squeeze on private mail service

  • Film+TV

    July 23, 1998

    Doggin' It

    The life and legend of Bill Pickett

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