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Los Angeles Winter Storms Intensified By ... Farm Irrigation?

The Central Valley is America's salad bowl. But providing the world with all that food -- $37.5 billion worth in 2010, making California the nation's top agricultural state -- takes a lot of water. And that has strange consequences, according to a new UC Irvine study. Turns out that some of that i ... More >>

Marijuana Withdrawal Can Be As Bad As Quitting Cigarettes

Here in California, marijuana is medicine. Yes. And we know it might be good for what ails you. A new study out of UC Irvine even suggests that marijuana-like chemicals could help behavioral issues related to autism. Wow. Even so, good old Mary Jane, she's not without her demons. A recent study fr ... More >>

Marijuana as Autism Cure? UC Irvine's Daniele Piomelli Makes Smoking Hot Connection

There has been a lot of craziness swirling around the science of child autism, not to mention Jenny McCarthy. If the debunked idea that childhood vaccines can cause the disorder was always far out to you, then read on. Welcome, reasonable person, to world of real science. UC Irvine endocannabinoid ... More >>

UCLA Ties USC in Annual U.S. News & World Report College Rankings

UCLA is, frankly, the nerdier, more scholastic of the two crosstown rivals in Los Angeles (just look at USC's recent accolade of a top hipster college). But in recent years USC has outranked the Westwood school in U.S. News & World Report's annual battle of American academia, called "Best Colleges ... More >>

Art Students Blow Up the Blue Whale

UCLA is, frankly, the nerdier, more scholastic of the two crosstown rivals in Los Angeles (just look at USC's recent accolade of a top hipster college). But in recent years USC has outranked the Westwood school in U.S. News & World Report's annual battle of American academia, called "Best Colleges ... More >>

Gang Map Study Shows Crime Happens Along Borders Between Sets in L.A.

If you don't like being shot here in the city of L.A., the gang capital of the nation, the places to avoid are the boundaries between gangs (we have a map of some of the crimes after the jump). That seems to be one of the takeaways of a UCLA-led study published online this week in the journal Crimi ... More >>

Matthew See: 'Spice' Marijuana Causes Man to Flip Out, Attack Elderly Couple

With the wide availability of medical marijuana in Southern California, we have wondered aloud what the appeal of synthetic, "Spice" pot was. Perhaps it's that it seems to make you completely, utterly insane. The DEA had already essentially outlawed what was once an over-the-counter drug. Cops in ... More >>

Immigration Increases Home Values, Reduces Crime in SoCal?

Some of our favorite commenters at LA Weekly compare Los Angeles to Tijuana and say our fair town is turning into a Third World slum. We beg to differ, of course. Not only because immigrants have invigorated an inner city devastated by the L.A. riots, but because more billionaires live in Californi ... More >>

New Stack-able Wines: The Summer Picnic Rock Aquarium Fun

Last summer it was wine in pouches, this year a couple of former UC Irvine business students are betting their Stacked Wines will soon be stashed in your picnic basket. Matt Zimmer is the idea guy behind the concept of stacking four individual stemless, Riedel-like interlocking plastic wine glasse ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Chefs for Hire, Spice Table Recipes Passion for Cilantro

Technology: Why cook when you can hire professional chefs to make dinner via Kitchit. In L.A., choose among Neal Fraser (BLD, Grace), Mark Gold (Eva), Nyesha Arrington (Wilshire), and others. Food & Wine: Three Spice Table recipes (simplified!) from Bryant Ng, with photos by Anne Fishbein. Gilt Ta ... More >>

Five Must-See L.A. Bands at SXSW

Initially a place where music executives could check out a bunch of emerging bands in the span of a few days, SXSW has become the spring break of the music biz. Bands from all over the globe descend on Austin hoping to convince the masses they're the next big thing. While megastars like Bruce Spring ... More >>

Marijuana-Like Compound in Your Brain Could be Magic Pill For Weight Loss: But Don't Reach For The Doritos Just Yet

Oh boy. You stoners are going to love this one. Turns out the key to weight loss might be a marijuana-like chemical that already exists in your brain. While there are skinny weed advocates out there like Seth Rogen (after) and James Franco, consider all the Taco Bell you ate in the name of bud or t ... More >>

Diversity Programs at UC, Cal State Universities Blasted by Critics Who Say Budget Cuts Should Affect All

Chicano Studies Reader​A small group of educators is pissed that California's epic cuts to its higher education system don't seem to be affecting diversity programs as much as the rest. This amid reports that UC students could see $22,000-year tuition within four years. Of course, that kind o ... More >>

UC Irvine Study: Fatty Foods Trigger "Marijuana-Like Chemicals"

Flickr/Kitchen Wenchmac-n-cheese​ Any smoker who has woken up on the couch clinging to a crusty fork and a mixing bowl that once contained a Paul Bunyan-sized portion of macaroni-and-cheese knows that marijuana makes you hungry. Led by Dr. Daniele Piomelli, UC Irvine researchers have discover ... More >>

Juan 'R2D2' Martinez, Anaheim 12-Year-Old, Dies in Parking-Lot Stabbing

Facebook12-year-old Juan Martinez​Updated after the jump with Facebook banter between Martinez and Ocampo's friends and tagging crews. [Update, 11:30 a.m.: 18-year-old Bryan Ocampo was arrested at 9:15 p.m. yesterday, on suspicion of stabbing Martinez on his way home from school -- perhaps af ... More >>

Your Counter Intelligence Preview: In Which Mr. Gold Visits Noodle Guy

Anne FishbeinPhở at Noodle Guy​ As some of us have mentioned before, you can never have too many noodle palaces in the San Gabriel Valley, nor can you read too many reviews of them. And thus to this week's Counter Intelligence and Jonathan Gold's review of Noodle Guy, which is worth reading ... More >>

UCLA's Millionaire Doctor David Feinberg

How Feinberg got $1.3 million amid tuition hikes, budget cuts and a recession

Two Dead After Head-On Collision With Mercedes-Benz Speeding Wrong Way in 91 East Carpool Lane

eurotuner.comA 1996 Mercedes C220 like the one that plowed into oncoming traffic last night​Updated after the jump: The victims were 24-year-old Vanessa Cease of Long Beach and 26-year-old Alan Reyes of Diamond Bar. Friends say they were a couple. The driver who sped into oncoming traffic was ... More >>

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Your Weekly L.A. music digest

Kiplinger's best value colleges: UCLA makes the list

​Several University of California schools are among the nation's best deals and offer the most bang for the buck. According to Kiplinger's annual list of the 100 best bargains among the country's public colleges, no UC school makes the top ten, but several do make the cut. Which ones, you ask?

UC Irvine Recommends One-Year Suspension For Campus Muslim Group

​UC Irvine officials on Monday confirmed that they've moved to suspend the Muslim Student Union for one year for disrupting an on-campus speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren Feb. 8 despite warnings from the school that such misbehavior would lead to sanctions. An attorney for the group ca ... More >>

Adam Cooper: The Mayor's Twitterer

​UC Irvine officials on Monday confirmed that they've moved to suspend the Muslim Student Union for one year for disrupting an on-campus speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren Feb. 8 despite warnings from the school that such misbehavior would lead to sanctions. An attorney for the group ca ... More >>

A Beautiful Mind: Anne Friedberg, 1952-2009

​UC Irvine officials on Monday confirmed that they've moved to suspend the Muslim Student Union for one year for disrupting an on-campus speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren Feb. 8 despite warnings from the school that such misbehavior would lead to sanctions. An attorney for the group ca ... More >>

Woodbury University's Safety Zone

Woodbury University​Here's a sign of the times. The day following a fatal campus shooting at UC Irvine, and moments after a report on declining crime rates, KNX radio carried an ad for 125-year-old Woodbury University. A young woman's soothing voice came on the air, presumably belonging to a stude ... More >>

Stage Raw: Angels in Poland

The latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded in this coming week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; Also, see this week's  THEATER FEATURE on Oleanna at the TaperANGELS IN POLANDMadonna and child in Wroclaw, Poland, where L.A.'s theater directors are making a strong showing as "core participan ... More >>

Election '08: The Pros and Cons of California's Ballot Measures

By Daniel Heimpel, Max Taves and Jill Stewart Statewide Measures Proposition 1A $10 billion bond. High Speed Passenger Train Bond Act. Total price tag with interest: About $19 million. Proposition 1 would give the state the right to sell $10 billion in bonds to build an 800-mile high-speed tr ... More >>

Proposition 6: The Most Implosive

A tiny, unnoticed clause could allow the use of much looser hearsay in trials

Ian MacKaye to Visit Hollywood High for "Public Interview" with Students on Eve of Election

Few community activists have transformed thought and ideal into action and results like Ian MacKaye, founder of Washington, D.C.'s punk label Dischord Records and lead singer of (chronologically) Minor Threat, Embrace, Fugazi, and The Evens. The thoughtful, outspoken screamer will be in Southern C ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican!: Special Recap Edition

The meaning of "wab"; the Guatemalan question

Not As Seen on TV

Hispanics and high-speed chases — bad boys, bad boys, or just a bad rap?

The mysterious case of the Microphones who climbed away to Mt. Eerie

Our newest musical voices who, a decade a ago, might have been tempted to call themselves Moon Flower or Dog Park proudly go by their given names: Sufjan Stevens, Joanna Newsom, Neko Case, Devendra Banhart. Not so with the mysterious Mr. Phil Elverum...

¡Ask a Mexican! Spanish as a First Language

"What is it with Mexican gardeners? They lop off trees into coat racks, and shear off irises and lilies. It’s all slash and mow and blow."

Luck Be a Lady

The Suit Closet opens by chance

¡Ask a Mexican! a Degree of Success

"My question is in what field of work would someone with a bachelor’s in Chicano studies land? Here are a few jobs I came up with: working at a lowrider or tattoo shop, designing Virgin de Guadalupe T-shirts..."

Must See Art

Bas Jan Ader and Mari Eastman

¡Ask a Mexican! Huddled Messes

Bas Jan Ader and Mari Eastman

Rock Picks

For the week of Nov. 30 – Dec. 7

Terror Logic

For the week of Nov. 30 – Dec. 7

Stuck in a Winter Wonderland Traffic Jam

For the week of Nov. 30 – Dec. 7

Byrne, Baby, Byrne!

For the week of Nov. 30 – Dec. 7

Memory and Manipulation

The trials of Elizabeth Loftus, defender of the wrongly accused

The Thin White Line

The trials of Elizabeth Loftus, defender of the wrongly accused

Flying the Flag

The debate over the latest gang crackdown

The Political Canvas

Daniel Martinez, God Bless Americana Part 2, the Barricades of the Federal District

12 Art Moments

Daniel Martinez, God Bless Americana Part 2, the Barricades of the Federal District

Fighting Words

The rude, obnoxious and inaccurate coverage of a childcare report

The Short List

The rude, obnoxious and inaccurate coverage of a childcare report

Drunken Santas

The rude, obnoxious and inaccurate coverage of a childcare report

Literary L.A.

The rude, obnoxious and inaccurate coverage of a childcare report