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Promised Land Review: Gus Van Sant Directs a Screenplay by Matt Damon and John Krasinski

It's A Wrap: TerraCycle and Mars Co-Produce Plan to Stop Flow of Candy Packaging Into Landfills

Some of us are feeling a tad guilty about eating the kids' Halloween treats. Well, here's a way to atone -- we can recycle all those candy wrappers through an ongoing partnership between Mars candy and the eco-friendly company TerraCycle. "It's a free collection program for all kinds of candy wrap ... More >>

Rapper Big Chan Lost All Her Money and Was Sleeping in an Attic. Then She Discovered a Sewing Machine...

The rapper formerly known as both Big Chan and Ghetto Cyndarella is sitting at a Hollywood Boulevard diner, contemplating fashion. We must, Chan Gaines believes, move away from the stripper look on the red carpet. Though she has learned not to judge. She is a seamstress and clothing designer now, ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Cloned Plastic Rabbits

This week, there's a pithy, pink Ron English billboard on Temple, a tongue-in-cheek guide to L.A.'s Chinatown and human-scale dioramas being made on-site in Hollywood. 5. Fundraising for friends For her 1999 video We Got Moves You Ain't Even Heard of, Erica Cho gave herself a black eye so that she ... More >>

Erica Loberg's L.A. County Mental Ward Tell-All

Sheriff's Department Seeking Information About Body Found Behind Walmart in Lancaster

An intact skeleton was discovered in bushes by a loading dock back behind a shuttered Wal-Mart in Lancaster on July 5 of last year. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, seeking information about the mysterious remains, released this forensic reconstruction today.

Jeffrey Wisniewski's Battle of the Buddha: Is Motion Capture the Next New Thing in Video Art?

Jeffrey WisniewskiWisniewski's battling Buddhas: Hollywood high tech with art world cred​ Sculptor Jeffrey Wisniewski, known for dismantling an American colonial home and feeding it into a woodchipper, piece by piece, somewhat in the spirit of celebrated house-cutting artist Gordon Matta-Clar ... More >>

McDonald's, Target Drop Egg Supplier Over Cruelty Concerns

Flickr/Calgary ReviewsMcDonald's will find a new egg source for its McMuffins.​ McDonald's and Target dropped one of the nation's largest egg suppliers after an animal rights group released an undercover video last Friday of the egg producer's farms in three states, according to the Associated ... More >>

Tomato Recall Alert: Grape Tomatoes in California Packaged Salads

Flickr/smcgeegrape tomatoes​ Your food recall alert of the day. (Getting tired of these yet? Right.) A specific lot of grape tomatoes grown by a Florida grower has been recalled by the FDA for possible salmonella contamination, prompting a larger recall of packaged salads. Six L's of Immokale ... More >>

L.A. County Sheriff's Car: Coming to a Wal-Mart (and Chinese Sweatshop) Near You

Zev's BlogCharge this, China.​The kids were apparently getting tired of pushing around those frumpy old Ford Crown Victorias that used to epitomize the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. A few lucky deputies have since upgraded to the menacing, pitbullish Dodge Charger -- and so upgrade ... More >>

'Saxophone Superstar' Sergio Flores Terrorizes Mall Cops Across L.A. With Rendition of George Michael's 'Careless Whisper'

YouTube'He is above the law:' Sergio Flores.​This guy was begging to be arrested, but he wasn't. Our Annoying Prank of the Week Award goes to sax man Sergio Flores for exposing the impotence of the L.A. mall cop. Because if anyone needs to be exploited and looked down upon, it's the our $10-a ... More >>

Top 5 Worst Publicity Stunts of 2010: Nudie Pics, Secret Shows, Kitty Videos and Viral Everything Else

Top 5 Worst Publicity Stunts Including Nudie Pics and Kitty Vids

Art of the Sneeze

BEST PICKLED MEMORY

"What does it feel like to have Kurt's blood pumping through your veins?": The Incredibly Strange World of Grampa Cobain's Fan Mail

Peter MumfordSmells like senior spirit: Grampa Cobain​ Meet Leland Cobain. Our sister publication the Seattle Weekly has an amazing feature by Connor Christofferson on the incredibly strange world of the obsessive fan mail sent to this day to Kurt's grandfather, who lives in a trailer decorat ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Recap: Cheese, Crying and Marcus Samuelsson

Bravo TVEpisode 2 of Top Chef Masters​ Episode 2 of Top Chef Masters kicked off last night, and while there were no L.A. chefs represented in this episode, the show does take place in L.A., so we got to enjoy a lot of B-roll shots of Union Station. This week's chefs were Marcus Samuelsson (R ... More >>

Plate Spinnings: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- An interview with Shut Up, Foodies, a new satirical food blog. (More on this one later.) [Eat Me Daily] -- Walmart's exclusive Ben & Jerry's flavor: flourless chocolate cake ice cream. [Serious Eats] ... More >>

A&R Star Makers: The Vanishing Gatekeepers

The once-powerful executives have become an endangered species

Getting Stuffed at Arturo's Puffy Taco

The air in there

They Blinded Us With Scions: L.A. Riots Among Bands Entering Corporate Marriages

A car company recruits rising stars of the L.A. music scene to help sell autos. Who's buying?

RFID: Tag, We're It!

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

Movie Reviews: Enchanted, August Rush, Hitman, Holly

Also This Christmas, What Would Jesus Buy? and more

Mayor for Life?

In Inglewood, even a runoff might not defrock Dorn

Microsoft Wants to Kill Your iPod, Summer Goes Pop!

Revolutionary Fetishist?

Rick Castro explores ?the depths of the erotic soul

Satan Loves You

Cuddly moments in new-millennium metal

Dubai Bares All

So much for Arab-American assimilation in the U.S.

Pacoima’s Lot

A deindustrialized L.A. imports its smog

Poor, Black and Left Behind

Before Killer Katrina, there was Ivan the Terrible

Meet Me in the L.A. Surf: Bring Your Rod

Beggars’ Banquets

One labor struggle ends, another begins

Stiffed and Miffed

L.A.’s lowest-paid call time-out

Your City Council (Not) at Work

What keeps L.A.’s politicians from delivering on their progressive dreams

Hahn Solo

Jimmy doesn’t like to be called dull. In fact, he defends his style with, uh, passion

Making Those Red States Blue

Unions look to battleground states — and the South

Everything’s Not Zen

As yoga’s popularity explodes, a battle rages for its heart and soul

Give Us Back Our Damn Flag

The leftist case for patriotism

Jack Black Goes to Hollywood High

The 25th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

Sweet Revenge

The reincarnation of Bernard Parks

Starsky Struck

Brave Newsom World

Gay Marriage Mania

Our Big Fat Gay Year

Radical Mamas

Battling Segregation

L.A. opens debate on affordable housing

Penis Dentatus

Dreamcatcher is for the boys

Shock and Awe

Pro-war propaganda

Monumental Theater

How you say — “horns of dilemma”?

Game Over

An interminable time-out at Santa Barbara Plaza