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The Top 10 Dumbest Kitchen Gadgets

L.J. Williamson
Christmas is known as the season of excess -- and excess counter space, and judging by the proliferation of silly, useless and just plain dumb kitchen appliances that seem, like egg nog, only to appear on store shelves during the spendiest time of the year. Aunt Ethel might be a......
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10 Best Classic Mid-Century Restaurants in L.A.: Pretend You're in Mad Men

L.J. Williamson
"Go to these places now. Don't wait. This may be your last chance to immerse yourself in a vanishing world." So says Peter Moruzzi, author of the just-published book Classic Dining: Discovering America's Finest Mid-Century Restaurants, a glossy, full-color, coast-to-coast tour of the restaurants your parents or grandparents went to......
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10 Awesome Cars Of Wasteland Weekend

L.J. Williamson
See also: *Wasteland Weekend: It's My Apocalypse, And I'll Party If I Want To *9 Alternatives For Burning Man Lottery Losers At most car shows, guys hover over their beloved vehicles, circling and swabbing them lovingly with a ShamWow. But at Wasteland Weekend, dust is an asset -- in fact,......
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The Men of Monster Truck Madness

L.J. Williamson
Mile-high tires kicked up the dust, engines shouted BRRRRRAAAAATTT so loudly we stuck our fingers in our ears, and comically proportioned trucks launched themselves into midair as a string of plastic American flags flapped in the summer night breeze. In the grandstand, crowds did the wave and cheered for the......
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Ukulele Players: An Anthropological Study

L.J. Williamson
Size matters, and although a ukulele is basically just a downsized guitar, playing "lead ukulele" just doesn't have the same authoritative ring. And that can be a good thing. Ukulele players rarely have the self-seriousness of guitarists, and if you get a bunch of them in a room together, you'll......