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When You Go, Go Hard: Our Rockin' Rapture Playlist

L.J. Williamson
Music nerds know that a special occasion isn't really special until you've created a custom-targeted mix to accompany it, and if ever there were an occasion momentous enough to merit the creation of a mix, the coming of the lord is certainly it. If you're about to face the Rapture,......
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Kasey McMahon: Connection Succeeded

L.J. Williamson
A metallic candle has melted on the coffee table in Kasey McMahon's downtown loft, leaving a fascinating layered pattern of shiny blobs. "Isn't it beautiful?" she says of the accidental tableau of glittery wax lying between decoupaged newspaper birds and a pair of clear Lucite human arms.   McMahon's ability to......
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Devon Rios: Tiger Trainer

L.J. Williamson
Being a parent can be tough, but imagine how much tougher it is when your child has a disability. Then imagine you have to work two jobs to make ends meet, that you can't communicate with your child's educators and you've got other kids to take care of. That's the......
What can I get you to drink?; Credit: Shannon Cottrell

10 Best Things to Do in L.A. the Day Before the Apocalypse

L.J. Williamson
On May 21, 2011, flying zombies and flying nuns will darken the skies above Los Angeles, in a scene far more dire than anything Alfred Hitchcock could have dreamed up. To make matters worse, according to Harold Camping, it's 100% true. Fortunately, May 20, your last chance to party before......
Grind-ING!; Credit: Derek Paulin

Live Review: Evolution Control Committee at Echoplex

L.J. Williamson
WHO: Evolution Control Committee WHERE: Echoplex WHEN: 5/13/11 If there was any justice in this world, evolution would never be dismissed by a large portion of the population as "just a theory," and Evolution Control Committee would be more popular than god. At their gig opening for The Mutaytor, however,......
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Rapturous Certainty

L.J. Williamson
Allison Warden of WeCanKnow.com has no room for doubt, and no time for baking. Warden is a prime mover behind the ominous yet chipper "Save the Date: Return of Christ, May 21, 2011" billboards erected in L.A. and around the country. As such, she has devoted so much of her......

Post-Rapture Pet Care

L.J. Williamson
In case of Rapture, what happens to your pets? Allison Warden feels compassion for the pets she'll leave behind on May 21, but she says she finds comfort in the Scripture and is certain that God provides for pets as He does for wild animals. But if you're not so......
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Richard Simmons' Fabulous Poker Face

L.J. Williamson
A mirrored disco ball shimmers on the ceiling, and the room is loud, packed and sweaty.  Elbows and feet often make contact, but nobody is leaving, no way. Lady Gaga blasts out of the sound system, then Madonna, then Lady Gaga, and everyone kicks with the pulse and sings along,......
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Romance Novels Are Alive. Reality TV? Not So Much

L.J. Williamson
Inside the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, a line snakes around the third-floor balcony from the atrium all the way to the California Ballroom. A cross-section of women — young, old, hip, frumpy, black, white — chatter with companions as they wait, happy to be inching closer to the doorway, excited to......