Derek Thomas

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What Does Hipster Taste Like?

Organic tacos, vegan meatballs, sustainable noodles, hipster beer — it's all here at Taste of the Eastside, a picnic in the park catered by the culina...
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Nightmare on Century Boulevard

Surely the real weekend of horrors was the recent one with nonstop coverage of the Royal Wedding (the hats! the fascinators!), but Creation Entertainment is pro...
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Free Zap! Pow! and Blam!

Who doesn't like free stuff? And comic books? Free Comic Book Day is upon us once again, so get yourself down to Golden Apple Comics, Melrose Avenue's v...
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Pileup on the 101 Freeway!

Call it Cirque du Soleil Lite, nestled beside the Hollywood Freeway. Circus Vargas harkens back to the early days of the traveling circus, a family-friendly spe...
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The Real Meaning of Tricky Dick

According to One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History by Larry Flynt and ...
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Who’s Your Superhero?

Superheroes have come a long way, baby. From comic books and radio serials to cheesy TV and blockbuster movies, those costumed do-gooders have defended us from ...
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Have a Deadpan Easter!

Flip the switch on that time machine and let's go back to the 1920s, when Calvin Coolidge was president, ice cream cones cost a nickel and a hapless man in ...
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The Hills Have Fonts

You can't think about Hollywood without thinking of the Hollywood sign, those iconic hillside letters overlooking L.A. like a sentinel of cinema, and film h...