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Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, From a Toilet Seat Swing Set to a Granite Gorilla

This week, a gorilla guards an oversized balloon sculpture, LACMA screens work by a pioneer in animation, and the swing set takes on new, psychological dimensions. 5. Power to destroy Sculptor Sterling Ruby's ceramic basins look like miniature wastelands, full of destroyed, melted artifacts and bur ... More >>

Packaged Spinach Recalled Due to Salmonella

Can we all finally agree that bagged spinach (and lettuce) is a bad idea? Salinas-based Fresh Express is conducting a voluntary recall of 9-ounce packages of its spinach due to possible contamination with Salmonella, according to a company press release. The affected batch has a use-by date of Nov. ... More >>

Heat Wave Comes to Southern California: 126 Degrees Expected in Death Valley

Updated at the bottom with Southern California Edison urging us to conserve energy. First posted at 7 a.m. The June gloom sticking to our coastline well into August had you down, and you were waiting for summer to finally arrive? Better late than never: The National Weather Service this week issu ... More >>

Gay Republican Fred Karger Wants Your Vote, Calls Mitt Romney 'Mechanical'

Gay Republican Fred Karger, who's based in Southern California, has been stirring things up on the campaign trail this year, seeking the Republican nomination for president. The uber-underdog Karger is not going to get it -- candidate Mitt Romney will get the nod. But he's still on the ballot for Ca ... More >>

Alfonso Ribeiro's 'Carlton Dance' Flash Mob Attempts Record (For Dorkiest Moves): VIDEO

Updated at the bottom with crowd estimates. First posted at 5:30 a.m. Alfonso Ribeiro of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air might do the nerdiest, preppiest dance of all time. But that didn't stop hundreds if not thousands of followers from joining him yesterday at Universal CityWalk and other locales in ... More >>

The Barista Who Compared a Coffee to Her Ex-Boyfriends Other Winners at the South West Regional Barista Competition

While some of us were reaching for copious amounts of coffee yesterday to cope with the loss of the hour, the city of Santa Cruz had its fill of caffeine. Over the weekend, more than 40 baristas from California, Hawaii, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado converged onto the beachside tow ... More >>

California is America's Most-Hated State, According to Public Policy Polling

Don't hate us because we're beautiful. Or do. It turns out the left-most state is also America's most-hated, according to a recent survey by Public Policy Polling. And California's left-leaning politics seem to have a lot to do with it. The Golden State is the most-disliked in the union, and Hawai ... More >>

Lee Anne Schmitt's Last Buffalo Hunt at REDCAT

Los Angeles Has Highest Gas Prices in America Right Now

What a fine way to kick off 2012: with some apocalyptic gas prices to sucker-punch an already battered economy. Over the last three weeks, California company Lundberg Survey Inc. finds that gas prices have risen just over 12 cents across the nation. And Lundberg's president tells Bloomberg Business ... More >>

VIDEO: Fox Sports Makes Fun of USC Asian Students for Their Accents in 'Pac 12' Interview

Fox grills an unsuspecting Asian.​We're not really sure how comedian Bob Oschack, reporting for Fox Sports, managed to track down so many hard-of-English Asian students at USC. (The video, which welcomes Colorado and Utah to the Pac 12 by interviewing the SoCal students, can be viewed below.) ... More >>

FBI Agents Encouraged to Search Your Trash, Public Databases Just to Sniff Around For Crime

Malingering​What the hell happened to America after 9/11? Have we lost sight of our founding principles? The FBI plans to issue new rules for its agents saying, essentially, that they can and should dig through our trash and search databases (Facebook, Twitter?) if people who aren't suspects ... More >>

High West: The Spirit Of The Rye, Rye West Their Newest Double Rye Release

J. GarbeeThe Regional Whiskey Face Off Continues ​If you follow the spirits circuit, specifically those of the barrel-aged corn and rye persuasion, High West Distillery in Park City, Utah, has probably been on your radar for a while. If not, you'll hear about this young craft distillery soon i ... More >>

Mormons, Incest and Weird Car Crashes: The Sordid Saga of The 5 Browns, Utah's Version of the Von Trapp Family

The 5 Browns: A sordid saga​Today's incredibly strange music story comes courtesy of the great fellow Western state of Utah. There once (back in the '90s) was a quintet of classical piano-playing siblings--the Mormon version of the Von Trapp family from Sound of Music, if you will. Three adora ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival: Duh, Hot Girls Make Difficult Films More Marketable

An alternate universe with an uncertain future

Proposition 8: Thirteen Out-of-State Attorney Generals Don't Want California Gays to Get Married, Join George Wallace in History Books

Prop. 8 supporter and Alabama Attorney General Troy King​With the appeal hearing for the Proposition 8 lawsuit set for Monday, December 6, we thought it would be a good time to look into the out-of-state attorney generals who stuck their noses into California's business and filed a friendly b ... More >>

Stage Raw: A Wolf Inside the Fence

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on [title of show] and Dani GirlNEW REVIEW GO A WOLF INSIDE THE FENCE ​Photo courtesy of Open Fist Theatre Company "You can't lose your way in a history class. You can only go backwards," says Linus McBride (Arthur Hanket), a history teacher who seems to be losin ... More >>

L.A. Troubadour Sea Wolf Sets Out on First Ever Solo Tour

L.A. Troubadour Sea Wolf Sets Out on First Ever Solo Tour

Respite From Continuous Stream Of Bad News: 40 States Fatter Than California

Mississippi on the left; we're on the right.​ A new report from from the Trust for America's Health confirms it: We're not as unhealthy as the rest of really unhealthy America. Sure, we're pretty unhealthy, but for now let's take in the good news and celebrate with a Double Down. California ... More >>

If It's Lakers vs. 'Los Suns,' Does L.A. Boycott?

​If the they beat Utah Monday night, the Los Angeles Lakers could complete a rare postseason sweep for the squad, matching the purple and gold against ... Arizona's pro team in the Western Conference finals. That's the state that enacted a controversial law empowering police to ask people they ... More >>

It's a Beautiful World

Over the Weekend: Flight of the Conchords, Gary Busey at Point Break Live!, Dazed and Confused at Hollywood Forever Cemetery and more

There's nothing more depressing than the end of a long holiday weekend (except the hangover, of course, which is why you should try this remedy). In addition to the WTFBBQs and beach parties, we caught Flight of the Conchords at the Greek, hung out with Gary Busey at Point Break Live!, and inhaled s ... More >>

Can America Stop the Reconquista?

Special April Fool’s Day edition

Kosha Dillz Freestyles at Sundance, Unveils Tour Video

Back in September, L.A. Weekly met up with New Jersey-based Jewish rapper Kosha Dillz (real name Rami Even Esh) at the Aesop Rock/Rob Sonic/DJ Big Wiz show at the Troubadour. That night Dillz killed it on stage with Yak Ballz and, well, now he's freezing his ass off in Park City, Utah. All for goo ... More >>

Prop 8: Blacks and Gay Marriage — The Wrong Kind of Unity

A messy new alliance — tag team for intolerance

Behind the Scenes at the Sundance Labs

Building a better screenwriter

Stanton Kaye: Father of Reinvention

Could tracking technology save the Hollywood dreams of a former golden boy?

Bored of the Dance

Book signings gone wild; Spindrift, BRMC at Safari Sam's; Sundance from afar

Point Break Live

Film Reviews: Chalk, The Ex, 28 Weeks Later and Delta Farce

A Race for Life

Adventure racer Louise Cooper

Who's Your Daddy, America?

Big Love and Sons & Daughters — dysfunction in two new models

New Theater Reviews

Reviews of Neil LaBute's Bash, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Terry Johnson's Hitchcock Blonde

And the Winners Are...

As I write this, a fresh blanket of snow has turned Park City, Utah into a veritable winter wonderland and, in an unprecedented occurrence, the jury and audience members of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival have proved unanimous in their assessment of the best of the fest. In the dramatic competition, ... More >>

Funeral for a Friend

How the Arcade Fire died and went to heaven

Letters

The Path of a Flower

Waiting for the End of the World

Hustle & Toboggan

In the 2005 summer movie season, slow but steady wins the race

Boycotts and Blacklists

Bone Deep

Patriotism demands marrow to thrive

Hollywood Rap

Tired of movie roles going to rappers, the Fronterz crew made a movie about it

Upsetting the Record Straight

Hi Hi, Birdies

A Killer Job

How a lousy lawyer landed Stephen Wayne Anderson on Death Row

Blind Vengeance

The Day the Sky Fell

This time, it was impersonal

Double Helix

Over the river and through the woods . . .

Smart Man, Crazy Man: Ten Thousand Dollars

Nature Boy

Adam Werbach’s audacious plan for the Sierra Club