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California Does Well In Gallup Happy Poll

Earlier this month we told you how a study looking at geolocation data and key words on Twitter found that California has some of the happiest towns in America, including a few in Southern California. The latest Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index seems to confirm that, although the Golden State did ... More >>

Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson

Proposition 33 Auto Insurance Changes: George Joseph Tries Again

What could you buy with $16.9 million? George Joseph, the billionaire auto-insurance magnate, hopes it will be enough to score votes from a plurality of Californians -- that's how much of his personal fortune he'd spent, as of Nov. 3, to push Proposition 33. (For the latest, check out the nonpartis ... More >>

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Bath Salts in SoCal? Five Recent Freak-Outs That Signal a Zombie Apocalypse

Cops can never say for sure whether their suspect has been taking bath salts. Like "spice" (imitation marijuana), the synthetic drug is so popular because it can't be detected in urine tests. But unlike spice, which is banned across the country, only two of the 17 chemicals used to make bath salts ... More >>

Michael Voltaggio's ink. Succeeds at the Intersection of Ego and Location

The 7th Annual Los Angeles Old Time Social

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

Fellowship!: the musical parody of Lord of the Rings Returns to the Steve Allen Theater, Plus the Latest New Theater Reviews

Bryan Harnetiaux's new play, Holding On -- Letting Go is difficult to watch for the way it captures the realistic agonies of a wife slowly losing her husband to liver cancer. It is nonetheless a tender drama, well rendered under James Reynold's direction at the Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasade ... 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 >>

Q & A with Mary Jo Pehl, Author of Man Saved By Condiments!: The Relative Joy of Arby's Horsey Sauce, Butter Conduits Being Haunted by Ketchup

In 2003, a security guard from Kermit, West Virginia, named Robert Ward was driving to work when he lost control of his 1985 Ford, plunged 150 feet into a snowy gulch and broke his hip. For the next six and a half days, he kept himself alive by eating snow as well as by some clever car foraging; for ... More >>

Fab Hot Dogs: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Jamie Oliver Films Tourism Video for Great Britain

​ It's hard to be tough on a guy who means so well. After crying his way to school lunch reform in West Virginia and Los Angeles, Jamie Oliver now invites us to Great Britain as part of the country's new "You're invited" tourism campaign . In the wake of newspaper scandals and city-wide riotin ... More >>

Five Bands You Should Check Out If You Like Metal, But Hate Vocals

​You head over to a band's YouTube or Bandcamp page because your computer will never physically (or emotionally) recover MySpace giving it herpes, and Justin Timberlake be damned, you're never going back to THAT place. Very interesting things are happening with the guitars, drums, and bass, ... More >>

'The Last Mountain': Filmmaker Bill Haney Talks About Big Coal, Fighting Back, and American Character

Coal protesters in the film The Last Mountain​ Update: L.A. Opening Night information after the jump. Flying into town from Boston, documentary filmmaker Bill Haney talked with L.A. Weekly about his new film, The Last Mountain -- a searing indictment of Big Coal companies that ruin the enviro ... More >>

Andy Dick Arrested. Guess Where.

Andy Dick's most recent mugshot.​Andy Dick's been arrested, again. Not at some Hollywood hot spot thick with desperation and aspiring starlets. At Marie Callender's. In Temecula. Riverside County Sheriff's deputies were called to the Marie Callender's restaurant on Rancho California Road, r ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Jamie's Food Revolution, Take Two

Carrots For One And All!​As Jamie Oliver launches his Food Revolution Truck, his publisher is re-issuing Oliver's ninth cookbook in paperback form. Wait, which one was the ninth? Jamie's Food Revolution, of course. Even good causes need a constant flow of publicity fuel. And so, Oliver has ... More >>

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution: Jamie's Kitchen Opens, The Revolt Begins Fighting with the LAUSD

A. ScattergoodJamie Oliver at the LA Food Revolution headquarters​ Jamie Oliver was in pre-revolt mode yesterday morning, as he gave the press a tour of Jamie's Kitchen, the new Westwood headquarters of his Food Revolution, the former retail space that will be his kitchen classroom and product ... More >>

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Men in the Flying Saucers Identified & much more weirdness from Venice's most overstuffed thrift stores

​Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. Men in the Flying Saucers Identified Author: W.V. Grant Date: 1950 Publisher: W.V. Grant, Dallas, Texas Disco ... More >>

Climate of Film

Tribeca Film's two-week L.A. stand continues with a romcom and eco consciousness

THERE'S DRUGS IN THEM HILLS

The Tribeca Film Festival's Westward Expansion

I love New York in June, in L.A.

Movie Reviews: The A-Team, Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky, The Karate Kid and Killers

Also, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, Whiz Kids and Winter's Bone

Cookbook Review: Cider Beans, Wild Greens, and Dandelion Jelly (And Wine)

​Reading the introduction to the just-released Cider Beans, Wild Greens, and Dandelion Jelly, you might think this is going to be one of those spiral-bound potluck affairs with Xeroxed photos and hundreds of recipe contributors. And that author Joan E. Aller is surely a culinary historian or l ... More >>

Man Sets House on Fire Because Wife Didn't Have Dinner Ready

Carolhawkins.com/Christie Bishop​ Ladies, here's a question for you. Say you've had a long day at work -- or home -- and you're running late making dinner. Your husband gets home and there's no dinner on the table. What's his reaction? A) He says no big deal; you usually cook together anyway; ... More >>

Coming soon to L.A: Ignition-locking breathalyzers for cars

Arnold Schwarzenegger spent the weekend madly signing scores of laws that will go into effect in 2010. The screw-ups who comprise our California state legislature had piled a heap of about 700 mostly unneeded, mostly special-interest-ghostwritten new laws on his desk, many of them just  in the ... More >>

The 10 Best Dishes of 2008

Hot dogs and hominy, blowfish and a fine cup of joe

How Cissy Grew

Best B-Star Fest: Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show

Best Hot Dog: L.A. Street Dog at Fab's

Take Him as He Is

HIllary Clinton, Working Class Heroine

By Marc Cooper It was far too beautiful a day in Southern California to have spent much time following the West Virginia primary. Taking a late afternoon bike ride is when I finally tuned into the results -- just in time to hear Hillary's victory crow. What a humdinger! She more or less lifted Jes ... More >>

The Life and Death of JT LeRoy

Lies and follies of Laura Albert

Record Reviews: Burial, Wu-Tang Clan and Kenna

Burial, Wu-Tang Clan and Kenna

Palace of the End

Theater Reviews

The Boomerang Kid, It's Just Sex, and this week's pick, Palace of the End

Film Reviews

Including this week's pick, Rocky Balboa

Theater Reviews

Child Care

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things exploits; Duck Season extols

Dopest Throwback Jerseys Spotted

More Than a Food Fight

The deeper meaning of the grocery strike

A Baghdad Diary

Journey into the abyss

10 Reasons A Beautiful Mind Is a Terrible Thing To Waste $8 On

Think Piece: 10 Reasons A Beautiful Mind Is a Terrible Thing To Waste $8 On

Mum’s the Word

Who Crowned George?

On the centrality of cows to W.’s plurality and the GOP’s prospects

Two Trains Running

Riding the rails in Fillmore

The Uncle of Us All

The Empire of the Air

You have been colonized