Yale University

Alexander Woo, a Playwright Who Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the 'Idiot Box'

UCLA A Top 8 University, According To Times Higher Education World Ranking

UCLA is the eighth best university in the world, according to the latest Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings. That's even better than last year's 13th place for the publication's World University Rankings, in which Caltech came in at No. 1. The latest showing for the Westwood campus .. ... More >>

Cocktail Nerdom: It's National Hot Toddy Day!

There aren't many days in Los Angeles that warrant the drinking of hot booze, but today is one of those days. Which is apropos, because today is National Hot Toddy day, a cocktail that predates the word "cocktail." No one really knows when and where the hot toddy was invented, although it's known t ... More >>

Certain Sugars Stimulate Appetite, Study Finds

Different kinds of sugar affect the brain differently, specifically the feeling of satiety, according to a new Yale University study. According to the researchers, "increases in fructose consumption have paralleled the increasing prevalence of obesity, and high-fructose diets are thought to promote ... More >>

L.A. Author Da Chen Discusses His Acclaimed Novel My Last Empress

See also: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. L.A. author Da Chen, who is appearing at Book Soup tomorrow, answered some questions on his new novel My Last Empress for our Ask the Author column.

More Than a Feeling

See also: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. L.A. author Da Chen, who is appearing at Book Soup tomorrow, answered some questions on his new novel My Last Empress for our Ask the Author column.

Eric Yee, Yale Dropout, Allegedly Threatened to Shoot Valencia Schoolkids, Aurora Style, in ESPN Chat Room

Updated at the bottom with personal details on Eric Yee, and the comments that may have triggered his arrest. (Headline has been changed to reflect the suspect's identity.) Originally posted at 9:30 a.m. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department is refusing to release the name of a young Asian man in h ... More >>

Red, The Return to Morality, and the Artist as Subject

John Logan and Jamie Pachino's plays examine the concept of true self for artists with false names

Q & A with Adam Richman: Heartbreak, His Food Journal L.A. Food Profundity

Adam Richman spends the first several minutes of our interview discussing the best way to get places in L.A., as most Angelenos do. He can't count himself one anymore, but he used to live here, coincidentally, one block from this writer's current residence. Now, however, Richman is a citizen of the ... More >>

Biking May Lead to Sexual Dysfunction for Women, Study Finds

By Andra Lim What arouses a woman's libi-don't? Riding a bike, especially one with low-set handlebars, according to a new study from Yale University.

1 Out of 2 Tobacco Fans Use Weed: Doubling Down on Smoking is Addictive

You know that daily pot smoker who also lights a cigarette every chance he gets. Yeah, that guy. There might be something to his habits. Yale researches have found that teenagers who smoke tobacco regularly are more likely to get hooked on cannabis, L.A.'s favorite quasi-legal drug, than those who ... More >>

Who Says All New Yorkers Are Arrogant Pricks?

You know that daily pot smoker who also lights a cigarette every chance he gets. Yeah, that guy. There might be something to his habits. Yale researches have found that teenagers who smoke tobacco regularly are more likely to get hooked on cannabis, L.A.'s favorite quasi-legal drug, than those who ... More >>

Marathon Man

You know that daily pot smoker who also lights a cigarette every chance he gets. Yeah, that guy. There might be something to his habits. Yale researches have found that teenagers who smoke tobacco regularly are more likely to get hooked on cannabis, L.A.'s favorite quasi-legal drug, than those who ... More >>

Golden Road Brewing: L.A.'s Newest Craft Brewery (Part 1)

Guzzle & NoshCo-owner Meg and master brewer Jon Carpenter of Golden Road Brewing.​ They undersell their plans, but make no mistake, the size and scope of what Meg Gill, 26, and Jon Carpenter, 29, envision for Golden Road Brewing would transform it into the largest craft brewery in Los Angeles ... More >>

Rajiv Joseph's The Monster at the Door

Guzzle & NoshCo-owner Meg and master brewer Jon Carpenter of Golden Road Brewing.​ They undersell their plans, but make no mistake, the size and scope of what Meg Gill, 26, and Jon Carpenter, 29, envision for Golden Road Brewing would transform it into the largest craft brewery in Los Angeles ... More >>

The Hills Have Fonts

Guzzle & NoshCo-owner Meg and master brewer Jon Carpenter of Golden Road Brewing.​ They undersell their plans, but make no mistake, the size and scope of what Meg Gill, 26, and Jon Carpenter, 29, envision for Golden Road Brewing would transform it into the largest craft brewery in Los Angeles ... More >>

FINGER PICKIN' GOOD

Guzzle & NoshCo-owner Meg and master brewer Jon Carpenter of Golden Road Brewing.​ They undersell their plans, but make no mistake, the size and scope of what Meg Gill, 26, and Jon Carpenter, 29, envision for Golden Road Brewing would transform it into the largest craft brewery in Los Angeles ... More >>

Countdown To The End, Day Four: 'Yale Health Chief' Sends Students FDA-Approved Loko E-Mail

YaleHe kind of does look like a Chief Loko, doesn't he?​It's an especially crazy day in the countdown to the end of the Four Loko era: It's Day Four, which calls for something really special. How about this awesome prank e-mail sent out a couple days ago by an anonymous Zuckerberg type who so ... More >>

Q & A With Ming Tsai, Part 2: "Confusion" Cuisine, The Importance of Cookbook Pictures Why We Need To Go To Grandmother's House

A. ScattergoodMing Tsai poolside at The Standard in Hollywood​ In the first part of our interview with cookbook author and longtime television cooking show host Ming Tsai -- yes, he has a restaurant too, if you're anywhere near Wellesley, Mass. -- the chef talked about the evolution of food T ... More >>

[Map] Drunk Drivers Beware: DUI Checkpoint Near Abbott Kinney In Venice On Friday Night

Venice EntrepreneurNot so glamorous once they pull the breathalyzer out​Don't let your tax dollars go toward your own arrest this weekend. If you happen to find yourself driving down Washington Boulevard between Abbot Kinney Boulevard and Yale Avenue between 8 p.m. and 2 a.m. on Friday night ... More >>

2Pac and Walt Whitman

Two professors anthologize the best rap lyrics

Meg Whitman Has Plenty Of Company In Hiring Undocumented Help (Guinier, Baird, Feinstein): Here's Our Look At Foreign Domestics Throughout Modern Political History

​Revelations Wednesday that California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman employed an illegal immigrant as a maid (a multimillionaire in California with an undocumented housekeeper -- shocking!) had us thinking: Not all politicos have been derailed for hiring foreign domestics (Dianne Feinst ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Jewtopia, Last Fare, Titus Redux

Also, A Life of Ease, Eat the Runt

Stage Raw: Titus Redux

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCover Story on LATE's The War CycleNEW REVIEW GO TITUS REDUX ​Photo courtesy of Circus Theatricals Military hero Titus (Jack Stehlin) radiantly returns to Washington DC from the Middle East wars to a grand welcome by the public and his family, but ... More >>

New Yale Study: Kids Like Junk Food With Cartoon Packaging

An unhealthy Scooby Snack​On one hand, the new Yale study that was released yesterday, proving that children think junk food tastes best coming from cartoon-friendly packaging, seems a bit obvious and unnecessary. But on the other hand, just about every news outlet in the country seemed to run ... More >>

Getty's Foundation: Dirty Projectors Play Disney Hall

Show features L.A. Philharmonic and Alarm Will Sound

GEEKY OUEVRE INVADES L.A.

Show features L.A. Philharmonic and Alarm Will Sound

Prop. 8 Trial: Yale Professor Details Over 100 Years of Homophobia

We're not big fans of victimhood politics, but the testimony of Yale professor George Chauncey at yesterday's Proposition 8 trial in San Francisco showed exactly why a courthouse video feed is so important -- ordinary Americans would have watched Chauncey detail over 100 years of homophobia in Ameri ... More >>

Cars Are Being Torched In Santa Monica

Santa Monica Fire DepartmentFile photo.​The Santa Monica Arson Task Force is investigating a series of arson-related car and trashcan fires, including six in December, police said. Three fires happened on Dec. 20th alone. The series of fires started in late June and subsided September only t ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Walworth Farce

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Charles Duncombe's The Trojan Women and Julie Hebert's TreeNEW REVIEW GO THE WALWORTH FARCE​Photo by Pavel AntonovModern Irish theater is filled with three things: people holding other people hostage, people making up crap, and play ... More >>

Dodgers/Phillies Game 5 Preview: A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That

​It'll be Vicente Padilla going for the Dodgers in Game 5 in Philly on Wednesday. Padilla has been solid since coming over late in the season, and he's been even better in the playoffs. He didn't get the Game 2 victory, but his effort made it possible for the Dodgers to pick up the win.It's actual ... More >>

The Hector Is In

​It'll be Vicente Padilla going for the Dodgers in Game 5 in Philly on Wednesday. Padilla has been solid since coming over late in the season, and he's been even better in the playoffs. He didn't get the Game 2 victory, but his effort made it possible for the Dodgers to pick up the win.It's actual ... More >>

The Jung Trio

​It'll be Vicente Padilla going for the Dodgers in Game 5 in Philly on Wednesday. Padilla has been solid since coming over late in the season, and he's been even better in the playoffs. He didn't get the Game 2 victory, but his effort made it possible for the Dodgers to pick up the win.It's actual ... More >>

Lia Halloran

Sk8ter grrl

Getty Curator Glenn Phillips on the "California Video" Show

Playing with the camera

The Wire's Lance Reddick: He Might Have Been Bubbles

Lieutenant Cedric Daniels meets his fans

Theater Reviews

Including The Heiress, The Berlin Blues, and this week's pick, 1 to 10?

Stone, Warm, Sober

From laughing gas to nonalcoholic beer: Robert Stone in the ’60s and today

Big and Bigger

Cool toppers for the coffee table

Mo., Not U.K.

Cool toppers for the coffee table

Heady Metal, Britain's Favorite DJ, and a Defense of Americana's Best Killers

Cool toppers for the coffee table

Weekend Theater Reviews

Reviews of What to Wear, Tonight at 11! and Sides: The Fear is Real

A Full Life

Claire Messud on marriage to a critic, diapers and The Emperor’s Children

After the Fall

Oliver Stone at ground zero

Anonyme

Yale & the Hammer hit a Modernist jackpot

Betty Boop, Bowling for Dollars, Brazilian Pop... and a Duck

Yale & the Hammer hit a Modernist jackpot

Willful Perversity

Matthew Barney and “The Cremaster Cycle”

Martha Demson, Feeling Game

Matthew Barney and “The Cremaster Cycle”

Circles/Cycles

Matthew Barney and “The Cremaster Cycle”

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