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The second best decision was sticking around for the Electrical Parade.; Credit: Paul Hiffmeyer

How to Go to Disneyland as an Adult and Not Want to Die

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I imagine it’s gratifying to bring your offspring to Disneyland — seeing the joy on your child’s face as he soars through the air on Dumbo’s back for the very first time; snapping a photo as he rapturously embraces an adult stranger in a Mickey Mouse costume; watching the tantrum......
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How to Have a Bitchin' Fourth of July Weekend

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Independence Day traditionally means backyard barbecues, fireworks and their attendant sulfur fumes, and enough day-drinking to make waking up on July 5 feel like a huge mistake. But, ultimately, there's nothing more American than exercising your independence and spending July 4 however you damn well please. From big, traditional patriotic......
Angelyne and her Corvette

Angelyne Is Selling Her Pink Corvette — but Don't Worry

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Spotting local legend Angelyne cruising Sunset in her pink Corvette is an L.A. rite of passage — it's common, but anytime it happens, it still feels like a stroke of good luck. (Or, you know, you could be lucky enough to be gifted a solo ride-along with the billboard queen......
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An L.A. Artist Created a 600-Square-Foot Gay Pride Flag

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On Monday, June 13, in the wake of the horrific mass shooting in an Orlando gay bar, more than 2,000 Angelenos gathered at City Hall to mourn and pay their respects to the victims. That morning, performance artist Mirabelle Jones sat down at her sewing machine and got to work......
A screenshot of Mitchell's offending article

A Victim-Blaming Screed Lands a Local Theater Writer in Hot Water

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The tagline of L.A. theater website Bitter Lemons is "Bringing Los Angeles theater together. Whether it likes it or not." But on Friday, editor-in-chief Colin Mitchell authored a decidedly divisive screed regarding abuse in the theater community, and was subsequently removed from his position as a result. Mitchell's rant, which......
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5 Reasons to See Cindy Sherman's Show at the Broad

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To be clear, there are approximately 120 reasons to see "Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life," the massive retrospective of the prolific self-portrait photographer's work that opens at the Broad on Saturday. From the two floor-to-ceiling murals she created especially for the show — both reproductions of images from her "Rear......
A relic from the Museum of Broken Relationships; Credit: Gwynedd Stuart

Look Inside the Museum of Broken Relationships, Now Open in Hollywood

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Situated on a somewhat unpleasant stretch of Hollywood Boulevard, two doors down from a wax museum and across the street from the Guinness World of Records Museum, the Museum of Broken Relationships is a welcome anomaly. Instead of oddities or creepy lifelike sculptures of celebrities, the large, immaculate space is......
Looks like Freddy Krueger's gotten to someone's hearing aid. This is Carlos

Chronicling the Weirdest Horror Movie Deaths of All Time

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During a recent phone conversation with Jeff Kirschner, Canadian movie blogger, podcaster and co-author of the new book Death by Umbrella: The 100 Weirdest Horror Movie Weapons, I had an epiphany: horror fans are smarter than everyone else. OK, maybe not smarter, but more emotionally and psychologically sophisticated. Rather than......