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Small Amount of Sugar Could Have Toxic Effects

The equivalent of the amount of sugar found in three cans of soda a day added to a healthy diet could have major toxic effects on the body, according to a new study. While previous studies have found sugar to have detrimental effects on health, they generally used amounts much higher than most peop ... More >>

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How Undercover Animal Rights Activists Are Winning the Ag-Gag War

[Updated] Whole Foods Recalls Smoked Salmon

Updated: 1/30 1:54 p.m. Whole Foods is recalling an additional lot code (for a total of two lot codes) of Whole Catch Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon (4 oz.), UPC code 0 99482 40880 0, cold smoked and sliced, because it may contain listeria. The second lot code is 7425A2297A. The recall has also expande ... More >>

December Restaurant Openings & Closings The Last Matzo Ball at Junior's

It's Saturday afternoon and there's a line forming out the door of Junior's Deli on Westwood Boulevard. Toddlers fumble around the deli case, seniors clutch their canes while patiently waiting for a table. New York accents float through the air. The scene would make any restaurant owner proud. But i ... More >>

Mammoth Brewing Company: To the Ends of the Earth for a Microbrew

It never ceases to amaze me where microbreweries turn up. You can be in a shithole town in Texas, in the shadow of Miller Brewery's hulking complex in Milwaukee, you can be in Utah, so far off the beaten path that you're wondering if you can even buy beer in the county you're in and wham, turn the c ... More >>

Happy Repeal Day! Are You Drunk Yet?

Happy Repeal Day!! Are you celebrating wildly? Are you drunk yet? On this day in 1933, Utah was the final state to overturn statewide restrictions on alcohol, thus ratifying the 21st Amendment, ending Prohibition in America. Woot! All across the country, Americans legally celebrated Repeal by drink ... More >>

Music Picks: No Doubt, Nikki Hill, Alice Cooper

Old Railcars at Union Station Are Ready for You to Charter for $5,000 a Day

Los Angeles Union Station isn't just a mass-transport hub. It's also a semi-retirement home for a cluster of vintage railroad cars that occupy the station's annex, also known as "the garden." Most of the trains won't move. A few get lucky and land the occasional film permit, scoring a cameo in a sce ... More >>

Latter-Day Sodas: Mormon Church Approves Pepsi Coke

Well, it's official -- after an announcement by the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Wednesday, one mystery surrounding the Mormon faith has been dispelled for good: Caffeinated sodas are now fair game for thirsty church members. A statement on the LDS website states that ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 7/9 - 7/13

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Surely at some point the law of entropy will prevail and L.A. will see more phở joints that focus less on bad puns and pale broths and more on simple, strong bowls of phở." 10 Best Pho Restaurants in Los Angeles. "Usuall ... More >>

Drinking in Utah: A Road Trip

Last week my wife and I rented an absurdly large all-wheel-drive vehicle, and hit the backroads of southern Utah, a trip we make every year or two when the grim tug of professional life starts to feel like a pit we can't crawl out of. Instead, we crawl into pits and gullies, slot and box canyons, i ... More >>

This Land Art Is Our Land Art

Ooh, Ooh That Smell

Brother, Can You Spare a Book Deal?

Mormons: A Shallow Yet Helpful Guide to See If You Should Hate Them or Not

Music Picks: Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley, Tinariwen, Mastodon

Also: Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers, Danzig and others

Brenda Barnette's Animal Services Mishaps

Do unproven groups and extremist Pamelyn Ferdin have City Hall's ear?

Sex At Work: LA and Other California Cities Lead Nation in Gender Equality

​Sure, California may be a terrible place to find work these days, with the third worst job market in the nation. But for women looking to be treated equally in the workplace, there's apparently no place like the Golden State. U.S. News & World Report recently compiled a list of places with ... More >>

Creminelli Salumi: A Hollywood Casalingo Lesson By Way of Italy (And Utah)

J. GarbeeCristiano Creminelli Requests You Read Before Eating​Some foods simply don't translate well between continents. Italians are often quick to voice their distrust hatred of the oddity called peanut butter (Alice Waters to the cookie rescue), while Americans are not always sure what to d ... More >>

Bellflower Dad Who Threatened, Kidnapped Two Daughters Turns Up in Utah

Los Angeles County Sheriff's DepartmentKatelyn Litwin (left) and Natalya Litwin (right)​The was an Amber Alert out this morning for 34-year-old Bellflower man Stephen Andrew Litwin, who was believed by L.A. County sheriff's deputies to have kidnapped his two young daughters Sunday at about 10: ... More >>

Ban on Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverages (Like Four Loko -- Last Year) Proposed by Valley State Sen. Alex Padilla

La vida Loko.​Long after the FDA pressured the makers of Four Loko to make the alcoholic beverage a little less loco, San Fernando Valley state Sen. Alex Padilla is attempting to put the brakes on similar drinks in the Golden State. As part of a flurry of last-minute bills in Sacramento this ... More >>

A Recipe From The Cheesemaker (And Farmer): Fried Squash Blossoms Stuffed With Nasturtiums And Jackrabbit Chevre

Flickr user kelsoAwaiting Their Jackrabbit​In our two-part interview with D.J. Mitchell, the self-taught cheesemaker was telling us why he and his wife, Suellen, started making cheese. ("We bought 20 acres in the middle of nowhere... after that that first winter, when the snow melted, we found ... More >>

Q & A With Jackrabbit Cheesemaker D.J. Mitchell: From L.A. To Utah And Back Again

J. GarbeeMitchell Getting Down To Important Pre-SuperBowl Business​Living in a mega-tropolis means those moments of food disassociation are daily occurrences (do you know the name of your coffee bean farmer?), other than perhaps Farmers Market days when you can actually get to know the man beh ... More >>

Q & A With Jackrabbit Cheesemaker D.J. Mitchell, Part 2: Secret Stash Not Included

J. GarbeeHandmade Jackrabbit Feta (Cow's Milk)​When we left off with our characteristically buttoned-up cheesemaker D.J. Mitchell, owner of Jackrabbit Ranch Cheese in Southern Utah, he was opening up after his regular 450 mile drive to L.A. (he works as a freelance accountant here) about why ... More >>

In Filing Pro-Prop. 8 Brief, 10 States Solidify Their Ass-Backwardsness

​Yesterday, we mentioned how 10 terrified states -- Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming -- recently filed an amicus brief that supported Proposition 8, California's gay marriage ban that's been deemed unconstitutional in federal co ... More >>

Small Town Bans Chain Restaurants -- Gets Sued

Flickr/Simon ShekShould this sandwich be illegal?​ Some towns, to maintain their unique personality, have an ordinance in place banning "formula restaurants" like McDonald's and Applebee's from opening up within their borders. One of those towns -- Springdale, Utah -- has been doing it since ... More >>

Woman Sues Google For Bad Directions

​Northridge resident Lauren Rosenberg is suing Google over bad directions she received from the site, according to various reports. Rosenberg was struck by a driver and injured in Park City, Utah on Jan. 19, 2009 as she walked on a highway route obtained by searching Google Maps on her Blackb ... More >>

Actor Gary Coleman Dies Following Brain Injury

​Actor Gary Coleman died at a Provo, Utah hospital of a brain hemorrhage Friday, possibly after family members decided to take him off life support, according to various reports. He reportedly fell inside his home and hit his head Wednesday before being rushed to a hospital, where he remained. ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The positive growth in summer employment is one indicator of the likely beginning of economic recovery for the restaurant industry." National Restaurant Association Releases Industry Employment Outlook for Summer of 2009. ... More >>

Sundance, R.I.P.?

"Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

Foundas on Film: Sundance, R.I.P.?

"Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

After the Script: Sundance Screenwriters' Lab Fellows Start Making Their Deals

From paper to screen, with help from Redford's people

What I Ate on My Summer Vacation

Bobcat Bites to Morning Glory

In Living Color

Messiaen's Canyons,

Leaving Home

In defense of secession

Vacation From Reality

The Closing of the American Mouth

Hunter S. Thompson’s last laugh

Leaving Home

In defense of secession

6 Reasons Why November 2 Wasn't a Total Gay Political Nightmare

The Loneliest Road In America

Heartbreak and redemption on Route 50

Ask Mr. Gold

Mind the Bollocks

In Hollywood studios and London restaurants, balls are bigger than ever

Crush and Cuddle

The sheer heart failure of Ozzfest 2002

Desert Saints and Sinners

The ghosts of Utah’s Mountain Meadows Massacre

Another Side of Sundance

Working Films’ “meaningful marketing”

Neighborhood Watch

Life in the target area

Neighborhood Watch

Life in the target area

Neighborhood Watch

Life in the target area

Gary Gilmore, Meet Harry Houdini

Matthew Barney on his film Cremaster 2