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L.A. Weekly Has a New, Improved, User-Friendly Website

Ali Trachta
We have news. Big, beautiful news: L.A. Weekly has a brand new beta website, and not only is it easy on the eyes, but it's specifically designed for you, the reader. Your experience on the site is important to us, so we didn't rest until we had created a website......
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L.A. Weekly Has a New, Improved, User-Friendly Website

Ali Trachta
We have news. Big, beautiful news: L.A. Weekly has a brand new beta website, and not only is it easy on the eyes, but it's specifically designed for you, the reader. Your experience on the site is important to us, so we didn't rest until we had created a website......
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L.A. Weekly Has a New, Improved, User-Friendly Website

Ali Trachta
We have news. Big, beautiful news: L.A. Weekly has a brand new beta website, and not only is it easy on the eyes, but it's specifically designed for you, the reader. Your experience on the site is important to us, so we didn't rest until we had created a website......
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L.A. Weekly Has a New, Improved, User-Friendly Website

Ali Trachta
We have news. Big, beautiful news: L.A. Weekly has a brand new beta website, and not only is it easy on the eyes, but it's specifically designed for you, the reader. Your experience on the site is important to us, so we didn't rest until we had created a website......
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It's Time to End L.A.'s Sick Game of Refrigerator Musical Chairs

Ali Trachta
At first I laughed, assuming the online apartment listing I was eyeing was just being overly specific. "This one actually lists that the apartment has a refrigerator," I snickered to my now-husband as we searched for our first apartment in L.A. "Thanks. Does it have a toilet, too?" "No, that's......
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We Wish We All Could Be Caprice's Kind of California Girl

Ali Trachta
“This is myself with my best friend at the time, frying my skin," says the across-the-pond celebrity Caprice Bourret while looking at old photos, nibbling a scone at high tea at the Culver Hotel. "I used to be such a California girl. I used to fry. Hawaiian Tropic, no sunscreen at all."......
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Juan Pablo Is the Sarah Palin of The Bachelor

Ali Trachta
Contrary to what casual viewers might assume, The Bachelor need not be the perfect man. As Prince Charming-like as most Bachelors aspire to be, they're never everyone's type. The reality show has featured boring guys, cheeseballs, a D-list actor, a hippie type, single fathers, divorced guys and recently, a Christian......
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This "Judgmental Map" is Judging You, L.A.

Ali Trachta
Who needs neighborhoods really? Pretty names like Holmby Hills and Van Nuys (OK, some are prettier than others) don't tell us anything about the kind of people who actually live there. So if you're a hypercritical, condescending, snarky, slightly racist Angeleno, you really need this map. The kind folks over......
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Truth Time: L.A. Weather's Not All It's Cracked Up to Be

Ali Trachta
It's the truism we always fall back on: You can't beat L.A. weather! No matter what kind of terrible day you're having or how off-base the East Coaster insulting our city, that's our trump card. With more pleasant days than anywhere else in the country, it's a simple fact that our weather is better......