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6 Tasty Cold-Cut Subs Under $5 (Take That Subway!)

When I was growing up, there was a little mom-and-pop supermarket in my town called Rainbow Market (over Thanksgiving I learned it had been recently replaced by a Wal-Mart, so it goes). As the main grocery in a small suburban town, it was the hub of most food shopping, and before any dedicated sandw ... More >>

U.S. Prosecutors Probe Deadly Cantaloupe Outbreak

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Colorado is looking into dropping the hammer on Jensen Farms, the cantaloupe processor linked to a Listeria outbreak last year that killed at least 30 people. The company is now the subject of a criminal investigation by the federal government, Businessweek reports. B ... More >>

High hipsters at Hop Louie

Sweatshops Are Fashion's Dirty Little Secret. But They Don't Exist in L.A. -- Do They?

Top 5 Iced Teas to Make at Home

Food and drinks become associated with many things, one of which can be the sensation of sun hitting bare skin -- and the accompanying urge to grab a jug and a couple of tea bags. Which is maybe the reason why June has been designated as National Iced Tea Month. Why not. While really good iced c ... More >>

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #10-6

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #15-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #5-1 10. Pussycat Dolls The Pussycat Dolls may seem like an easy target, but they're actually a quite difficult one, considering they're less band than brand. There's their rea ... More >>

Maker of Twinkies to File for Chapter 11: More Food News for Hoarders

​If you've been stockpiling Twinkies since childhood, it's time to load up even more. And no, not because they're having a Hoarders casting call. The Wall Street Journal reports today that Hostess Brands Inc., the maker of Twinkies (and Wonder Bread, if you fetishize that too) is preparing to ... More >>

Top 10 Food-Related Lawsuits of 2011

Taco BellTaco Bell gives thanks for being sued over the contents of its meat​A look at this year through the lens of the food-related lawsuits is like watching the first season of The Killing: an exercise in frustration, bewilderment, and, occasionally, excitement. From the mother who sued N ... More >>

Why This Song Sucks: Katy Perry's "The One That Got Away"

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] See also: Our review of Katy Perry at Staples Center last night Song: Katy Perry's "The One That Got Away" History: "The One That Got Away" is the sixth sing ... More >>

The 10 Most Controversial Laws That California Governor Jerry Brown Just Signed or Vetoed

Like a good procrastinating California politician, Governor Jerry Brown waited until the last possible second to sign over 100 bills still waiting on his desk this weekend. So, as of Columbus Day morning, we have a whole controversy-load of new laws to make sense of. And being the stragglers of the ... More >>

Arrow Advertising: The Wal-Mart of Sidewalk Sign Spinners

Anne FishbeinThe spin masters​ If you've driven Lincoln Boulevard in Marina del Rey recently, you've probably seen Tom Tucker. He's the guy not wearing a chicken suit, not draped by a sandwich board, not dressed like a gorilla. Tucker is the guy standing on the corner dancing, smiling, flippi ... More >>

'Parent Trigger' Plan B: Charter School to Open 2 Blocks From McKinley Elementary, Draining Students and Forcing Back-Door Takeover

Google MapsChurch of the Redeemer in Compton: It's no Hogwarts, but it'll do for now.​You'd be hard-pressed to find a school district as opposed to the new-age charter-school movement as Compton Unified. Not once have district officials accepted an application from a charter hopeful, despite t ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Crucible, Goodbye, Louie ... Hello

Also, Tartuffe, Silent Sky, The Bluest Eye and more

Benedict Canyon Palace 'Size of Hearst Castle' Proposed, Will Make Playboy Mansion Look Like a Bungalow

Save the regular-size mansions, man!​A rich guy trying to build a mega-mansion in a neighborhood of just-regular mansions? How dare he! What sucks about having a Hearst Castle-sized home go up next to your Playboy Mansion-sized home in Benedict Canyon is the relative size. Must be like thinki ... More >>

Jews and Latinos Band Together for Ultimate L.A. Domination

4urpets.comThis is not a joke: Jonesy the Mexican Rabbi​Wow. This is epic. This is like the U.S. of China. Or Alien plus Predator... or the merging of Home Depot and Wal-Mart. Or the lovey part of "Westside Story," if Tony was Jewish, or whatever. In today's issue of the Jewish Journal, Jonah Lo ... More >>

Most Plastics Leak Harmful Chemicals Into Food, Study Finds

Flickr/adactio​ Most plastic items leach chemicals that act like the sex hormone estrogen into food products, even if they don't contain BPA, according to a study in Environmental Health Perspectives, reports NPR. That includes everything from food wraps to water bottles to bento boxes. Much ... More >>

You are the punk-rock lion Christ of Human Resources: 3 motivational business books based on deeply stupid metaphors

​Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. For years the most popular method of getting through the workday for America's busines ... More >>

Steerage: Smoke City Market

New Sherman Oaks barbecue joint gets the important things right, Texas-style

Gang Homicide In Echo Park: 18-Year-Old Cesar Guerrero 'Could Have Just Stayed Home For Christmas'

LA CurbedEcho Park hosted a gang shoot-out on Christmas Day​Updated after the jump: Is Echo Park the new Venice -- where art meets crime? The Weekly asks the gentrification question; police officers and a bar manager weigh in. Originally posted at 11:58 a.m. Here's one thing AOL Patch could ... More >>

Day In Shockers: UC Berkeley Makes You Liberal, Fox News Makes You Dumb

College OTRWatchin' some C-Span from our Berkeley-ass van​Great. Now liberals at UC Berkeley have sta-thith-tics to drop into their rants on the intolerable ignorance of middle-Americans who shop at Wal-Mart and jerk off to Sarah Palin, like they aren't guilty of the same: A new study proves ... More >>

TRIGGER ISSUE

Over the Weekend: Boris at El Rey

Gustavo TurnerSaluting Boris @ El Rey​Thanks to the El Rey having one of the best sound systems in Los Angeles we finally got to see and truly hear Boris. With their hodge-podge of gear that could only end up together as the result of a tone junkie searching the ends of the earth for the perfe ... More >>

'Booster' Crews Under 'Hernandez Organization' Shoplifted $6 Million Worth Of Goods In Recent Months, Says LAPD

​Los Angeles police this week said a theft ring that commanded several "booster" crews of shoplifters took more than $6 million worth of loot from the likes of Wal-Mart, Target, Ralphs, Vons and other stores. Despite a several-months-long investigation and arrest and search warrants arrest fo ... More >>

Best Bargain Extra Virgin Olive Oil: Costco Kirkland Organic

J. GarbeeKitchen Window Essential​If you've been following our reports on the imported Italian olive oils that a recent U.C. Davis report claims are falsely advertised as extra virgin (in a nutshell, pretty much all staple supermarket brands, though there is still much debate), you're likely a ... More >>

Trader Joe's Switching Over To Sustainable Seafood in 2012

Word is in, via the Mother Nature Network that Trader Joe's has changed their tune, and plan to sell only sustainable seafood by the end of 2012. Within the last year, Trader Joe's has been under fire from Greenpeace, who did not look kindly on their practices in aquatic protein sales. When Greenpe ... More >>

Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were dem ... More >>

Scenes at the Mall: Angry Black Friday

America did its patriotic duty to stimulate the national economy at the malls this past Thanksgiving weekend. Black Friday sales, you may have heard, were up 3 percent from last year, topping out at $10.6 billion. Shoppers spent $372 over the Black Friday weekend. Nevermind that nasty little busine ... More >>

Selling Out With the Foo Fighters and Smashing Pumpkins for Corporate Cash

Those Skinny Britches: Grabbing L.A.'s Thinnest Jeans ...

... before the wide-bottoms take over

RFID: Tag, We're It!

As the technology spreads, who will protect our freedom from information

Radiohead Has Cake, Eats it Too, Thinks About Seconds...

There are quite a few twists to the story of the new Radiohead album that broke on the band's website last night . One that is getting very little attention is the terrible name of the album: In Rainbows. But here are a couple others: 1. Journalists won't get advance copies or early access. The ... More >>

Where Are You Hollywood?

Last season we had Charlize. Jack Nicholson. Lara Flynn Boyle. Courtney Love. Tommy Lee. Gina Gershon. Anthony Keidis. Mena Suvari. Mike Tyson. Er...Sporty Spice. And of course there was Paris. Aahhh, we'll always have Paris...or so LA Fashion Week thought. But so far this season, and with only ... More >>

the 9/11 Hypocrite

Bush should prepare us for a disaster — not the next election

Microsoft Wants to Kill Your iPod, Summer Goes Pop!

Certifiable

Big organic versus the little guys

Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer-Trash Housewife

The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife

And weekend theater reviews

Blight Fighter

Cecilia Estolano

What a Fool Believes

Making Those Red States Blue

Unions look to battleground states — and the South

East of Western, North of Hollywood

Finding community in a Starbucks

The Short List

This Time, It’s Not Personal . . . or Is It?

Bernard Parks says he’s not in the mayoral race for exercise or to rain on Hahn’s parade

Letters

Boys/Men of the World

Giving Conservatives Moore Nightmares

Robert Greenwald talks about his journey from TV nice guy to nemesis of the right-wing

Welcome to the Concrete Jungle

John Powers in the land of no culture, surreal Cancún

Port in a Storm

Dealing with the polluting ways of world trade

25 Reasons I Returned to L.A. from Sweden, Las Vegas, and Texas

Notes From the Front

The Wall defines two Americas in Quebec