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Top 10 Food-Centric YouTube Clips

The way to a music video audience's heart, it seems, is through its stomach -- or at least that's the route these videos take, with varying degrees of deliciousness. From rank amateurs trying to grab a little YouTube stardom to established rock stars, food is a good way to establish a connection w ... More >>

River Phoenix's Dark Blood: Not the Epitaph He Deserves

Butch Cassidy's Famous 'Amnesty Colt' Handgun Gets Auctioned This Sunday

By Jenny Lower Back in October 1899, things were looking a little thin for Robert LeRoy Parker, a.k.a. Butch Cassidy. It was only a few months before a brand-new century. After years of cattle rustling, horse thieving, train hijacking, and bank robbing with his gang, the Wild Bunch, the bandit life ... More >>

What Land Art Would You Create If Money Were No Object? Three Artists' Proposals

In 1966, Robert Smithson, famous for piling up mud and black basalt in Utah's Great Salt Lake and sculpting it into a 1,500-foot coil called Spiral Jetty, went rock hunting with sculptor Donald Judd. They went in New Jersey, where Smithson was from, and spent an hour chopping away at a lump of lava ... More >>

John Anthony Borell III, 'Anonymous' Hacker Charged With Police Leaks in Utah, Also Suspected of Posting L.A. Cops' Info, Nude Pics

Some young hacktivist in Ohio apparently gives a damn about police accountability in far-off Los Angeles County. According to the Los Angeles Times, the FBI suspects 21-year-old Ohio resident John Anthony Borell III -- who's already facing 10 years in prison and a quarter-million-dollar fine for al ... More >>

Cookbook Review: What Exactly Is A Mormon Cookbook? We're Still Not Sure

What exactly is a Mormon cookbook? Yeah, we wondered, too. And so we requested a copy of The Essential Mormon Cookbook by Julie Badger Jensen from the Deseret Book Company, a publisher in Salt Lake City (the book was originally published in 2004; the Kindle edition was just released earlier this yea ... More >>

Ben Flajnik: Winemaker First, TV's The Bachelor Second

Sonoma MagazineIn the vineyard with The Bachelor and partners​Most people dream of quitting their day job to be on TV. ABC's The Bachelor Ben Flajnik says his reality star turn is a means to an end: His heart is in winemaking. (He auditioned for The Bachelorette originally as a way to pursue ... More >>

Tracy Morgan Hospitalized After Becoming Unconscious During Reportedly 'Intoxicated' Appearance at Sundance Event

Updated at the bottom with Morgan saying that he's fine. First posted at 11:42 p.m. Sunday. Tracy Morgan, the comedian who has fostered an image of himself as being on the edge of crazy, became unconscious during an awards ceremony during the Sundance Film Festival weekend in Park City, Utah and wa ... More >>

Margarita Cabrera at Walter Maciel Gallery: Trying to Bridge the U.S.-Mexican Border

Courtesy of Walter Maciel GalleryCabrera's butterflies are each stamped with an impression of the U.S. penny​Farm implements and tools made of clay and decorated with ceramic birds, flowers and butterflies greet viewers entering the Walter Maciel Gallery, works from the Arbol de la Vida (Tree ... More >>

L.A. Rising - Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - 7/30/11

Torry PendergrassThis is for the people of the sun​L.A. Rising feat. Rage Against The Machine, Muse, Rise Against, Lauryn Hill Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 7/30/11 Better than...spending a Saturday at the beach. "Apathetic music with apathetic fans." "Do the fans even get it?" "Rage Agai ... More >>

Creminelli's "Full Muscle" Meats: Picnic, Sandwich Sure, Muscle Beach-Worthy

JgarbeeCreminelli's Latest Assortment​This time of year, those Farmers Market Santa Rosas and lemon cucumbers get all of the attention. Well deserved, but some of us also have the same veneration for really great picnic meats. Not your average deli-counter glazed ham affairs, but fresh, authen ... More >>

Marijuana From California Increasingly Ending up in Middle America

Shreyans BhansaliWe wish they call could be California girls.​How epic is California's medical marijuana scene? Well, pot here is a little like water -- as it floods it spreads. So much so that some authorities think that purveyors of find Golden State cannabis -- said by some to be the sta ... More >>

The Spudnuts Saga: A Bite of Donut History

Jim Thurman​What was the first nationwide donut chain to reach Los Angeles? Krispy Kreme? You're not even trying. Dunkin' Donuts? Not from around here, are you? Winchell's?, Yum Yum? Getting closer, but no. The answer: Spudnuts. Brothers Al and Bob Pelton were working as an appliance salesman ... More >>

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Google Sued By Pasadena Techies For Copycatting Their Version Of Street View

Google MapsBeautiful Pasadena, in stolen street view​Google wasn't the first to play god on street-level. At least, according to Pasadena company Veredi LLC, who is suing the Internet giant for infringing on five of its patents, which created a system for "creating, storing and utilizing image ... More >>

10 Terrified States Want Gay Marriage Ban to Stand in California

Wyoming Attorney General Bruce Salzburg​10 states not known for their gay-friendliness are mightily nervous about last month's federal court ruling that deemed California's Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional. Why? If the Proposition 8 decision stands as it goes through the federal appeals ... More >>

Medea, A Wolf Inside the Fence, Topdog/Underdog

Also, Becoming Norman, Speak of Me As I Am and more

'Mormon Proposition' Director Reed Cowan Addresses Rash of Gay Mormon Suicides

Todd Ransom​A 28-year-old gay Mormon took his own life in Utah on July 19, which outrages documentary filmmaker Reed Cowan, who made 8: The Mormon Proposition. On the blogosphere, it's been reported that the young man, Todd Ransom, was interviewed for the film, but Cowan says Ransom signed up ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Here and There, The Philosopher Kings, The Oath

Also, The Living Wake, Holy Rollers, Shrek Forever After

Fresno-based Beef Packers, Inc. Issues Beef Recall Due to Salmonella Outbreak

Photo credit: KSEE24Beef Packers, Inc.​Beef Packers, Inc., a Fresno meat-packing plant, is recalling almost 900,000 pounds of ground beef products due possible salmonella contamination. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced the recall today. ... More >>

Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment

Juicy Tidbits of a '60s Cult

The People's Porn Star: Erotica LA Preview with Belladonna

Belladonna: The People's Porn StarDespite seminars like "Expanding Your Orgasm: Backdoor Basics and Beyond With Amy Sung," and shopping for naughty gifts like RealTouch's laptop compatible interactive media massager, according to Erotica LA there is only one reason to attend the convention this year ... More >>

The Gayest Oscars Ever

Singing, dancing, politicizing — and still the ratings rose

Lawless Girl-on-Girl Action at the Xena Warrior Princess Convention

Among the fans who turn out to see Lucy Lawless — lesbians, mythology buffs, amateur historians and those who don't much care which way the sword cuts

The Ex-Mormon Factor

Stage Raw: The Sarah Palin Dictionary

Movie Reviews: The Midnight Meat Train, Mirrors, Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Also, Henry Poole Is Here, Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer and more

Pucker Up: Best and Worst of Sex 2007

Tristan's annual roundup of toothbrush vibrators, anti-porn ribbons, and a kinky kingdom

Rags to Riches

Gen Art turns 10 and BOXeight Random Notes

The Black Rock Diaries

Reports from Burning Man

L.A. Fashion Week Smackdown

Jared Gold’s runway spectacle competes with Smashbox shows as Bobby Trendy says he never took money for interviews about Anna Nicole Smith and disses Howard.

Jared Gold's Not-So-Quiet Army

It was billed as "the wildest front row in all of Fashion Week." You sometimes get a tranny or two in the audience at Smashbox Studios, site of L.A.'s official Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, but never in the numbers or caliber of the sparkling array of gorgeous cross-dressers in falsies and heels that ... More >>

Here and There and Back Again

With The World’s Fastest Indian, Roger Donaldson comes full circle

All Families Created Equal

The responsibilities of gay parents

Terminator Genes

Repetition in politics, news, big business and human suffering

Head Trip

Thinking about Deep Throat

O Brother, Where Art Thou Screening?

Letters

Letters

It’s About More Than Sodomy

Supreme Court sends gay sex and gay rights out of the closet

Judgment Day

Piercing the Gloom

Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth, 1932 - 2001

Less Than or Equal To Another Vacation

Two Men and a Baby

Christopher McQuarrie’s cactus noir

The Big Nowhere

Out on the Nellis Range with the Center for Land Use Interpretation

Let's Say It's Hot

Rotterdam, the necessary festival