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Thursday, March 11, 2010
This Weekend: Mmmacallan, Comp Cocktails, Free Grooming
Sure, there’s that nerdy-awesome Star Warz Burlesque show on Saturday and Morton’s Steakhouse’s even nerdier celebration of Pi Day on Sunday with $3.14 slices of key lime pie but if you were looking for non-nerd things to fill out your weekend (not that there’s anything…
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Seven Questions: Jessica Drake, Adult Film Actress/Sexpert
Photo by Koga/LAist LA has a diverse cast of characters. Whether it's the characters with stirring stories or interesting occupations or the people who are just simply characters, this town has them all. In an effort to get to know some of those characters a little better, we've created "Seven…
SaMo Restaurant & Sushi Chef Charged in Selling Whale Meat
The investigation of Oscar-winning documentarians and federal officials has prompted the U.S. Attorney's Office to charge Typhoon Restaurant, Inc.--the parent company of The Hump restaurant--and Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, a 45-year-old chef who resides in Culver City, for the illegal sale of a marine…
Early Habits
Children age 2 and younger spend two hours per day watching the tube. The average age at which infants begin watching programming designed for their age group (like Baby Einstein) is five months. Those who create and sell those DVDs often claim that they can encourage, or even jump-start,…
Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Los Angeles – Experience Los Angeles
Experience Los Angeles at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Los Angeles
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Shameless Afternoon Self-Promotion
San Diego CityBeat's annual Local Music Issue came out this week and yours truly has a feature up front -- a profile of the San Diego neo-new-wave Lights On. The band has started making some national noise after their song "Wild at Heart" was featured on the HBO show "Hung" last year. Have…
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Historic Fairfax Theatre Could Become Condo Complex
With roof damage caused by rain, the Fairfax Theatre on Beverly Boulevard was shut down by city building inspectors in January. Now owner Alex Gorby has proposed developing a 71-unit condominium complex with street-level retail space and subterranean parking. Although he had 30 days to comply, the…
Variety Thinks 'No One Takes [Its] Reviews Seriously,' Which Is Probably Why It Fired Its Critics
According to director Joshua Newton's lawsuit against Variety for breach of contract—he's mad that Variety trashed his movie after selling him on a $400,000 Oscar campaign—the paper doesn't think its own reviews matter. Newton filed the complaint on behalf of Calibra Pictures, his…
720 Stop Added to Serve Skid Row
A 720 bus crosses 6th and Spring in early 2009. Photo by Eric Richardson. Ask and you shall receive. That's the message out of Skid Row this week, where Metro has added a 5th and San Pedro stop to the 720 Rapid Line in response to a request from community activist "General" Jeff Page.…
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Won't Someone Think Of The Children? Prude Americans Offended By Beyoncé, Pink & Gaga At Grammys
Grammy night, many female artists wore very… revealing ensembles. Fun for us, maybe, but some viewers with delicate sensibilities found it necessary to complain to the FCC. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, some emails are online. What's funny is that reading these detailed…
Adam Nagourney to Head NYT's LA Bureau
The New York Times' chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney is going west to head the paper's LA bureau. Huffpo has the story: Nagourney came to the paper after covering Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign for USA Today and was assigned to cover Bob Dole's White House run in…
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7-Step program for the caffeine addicted: Coffee for environmentalists
This post was originally written July 20, 2007 and last updated March 11, 2010. Calm your caffeinated panic attack — We’re not talking about quitting coffee. This is a 7-step program for drinking better coffee — for the environment, society, and you and your java addiction. If all the…
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Pencil This In: DTLA Art Walk, Hanoch Piven Lecture at the Skirball and Latina Drag Queens
Art Walk takes over Downtown LA tonight. | Photo by nomsnotbombs via LAist's flickr pool. ART DISCUSSION LACMA continues its Conversations with Artists series tonight at 7 pm. LACMA curator Leslie Jones will interview artist Robin Rhode, whose exhibit Contemporary Projects 12: Robin Rhode is…
Wyatt Monkeying With Fox Prequel?
Rupert Wyatt has moved into poll position on 20th Century Fox's Planet of the Apes prequel. No start date, but Wyatt's come aboard to develop to direct. Script's by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. Wyatt last directed The Escapist.
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Student Group to Rally for Marijuana Legalization, Say University Police Make Arrests for Medicinal Use
Photo by katherine_hitt via Flickr As efforts to legalize marijuana for recreational use are underway in Sacramento and possibly on the ballot, a large gathering of student activists from across the country will convene in San Francisco this weekend. This Is Your Brain On Drug Policy, a…
Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive Drunk This Saint Patrick’s Day
Don’t Depend on Dumb Luck—Designate a Sober Driver Before the Party Begins Los Angeles: Saint Patrick’s Day has become a popular occasion to celebrate with friends and family. Unfortunately, Saint Patrick’s Day has become very dangerous due to the large...
"Mad Men" Barbies Kick Female Empowerment to the Curb
No character on "Mad Men" so embodies the Barbie mantra "We girls can do anything" like Peggy Olson. So why was a trophy wife and an oversexed secretary* the only female characters deemed worthy by Mattel of becoming Barbies? *No offense, Joan. We continue to worship you as the patron…
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The Malibu bluffs
Veronique de Turenne: One of the loveliest spots on the planet.
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Lawsuit Filed Against Train to Santa Monica
It "seems broad-brush and unsubstantiated," says Friends4ExpoTransit about the lawsuit (.pdf), which has been expected since last month, filed by Neighbors for Smart Rail (NFSR), a group that doesn't want the a light rail train cutting through their neighborhood at street level. The second…
Live Tonight–Thurs 3/11: BRMC @ Echoplex, Watson Twins @ Largo, Dawes @ Troubadour, Toad (The Wet Sprocket) @ Brixton
Photo by Sung. Robert Levon of BRMC @ Pablove Benefit, Avalon Hollywood, November 21, 2009. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ Echoplex Cave Singers @ The Echo Dawes @ Troubadour La Mala Influencia @ El Cid (Club London) New Mastersounds & Trombone Shorty @ El Rey On Blast w/ Jail Weddings,…
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Adam Nagourney to be NYT chief in L.A.
Kevin Roderick: Adam Nagourney, the chief national political correspondent for the New York Times, is leaving Washington to be the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief.
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Tribune Company CEO's Forbidden Language
If CEO Randy Michaels was looking for a way to make his employees loathe him even more, then he's done a marvelous job. He recently compiled a list of 119 banned words and phrases for the anchors and reporters at the Tribune Co. radio station WGN-AM. Now employees are to be reprimanded for saying…
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Reynolds, Bateman Make U Turn
Universal Pictures has set Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman to star in The Change Up, the David Dobkin-directed body switching comedy.
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17 Directors Walk Into A Bar...
EXCLUSIVE: How many directors does it take to make a comedy? Try 17. Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media has signed on to co-finance an untitled comedy. Each of those directors are shooting segments for a film styled in the vein of `70s sketch comedies Kentucky Fried Movie and Groove Tube. Like…
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Mapping Car vs Bike collisions
Have you wished you knew how safe each street is for cycling? Thanks to Deputy Chief David Doan, Mihai Peteu, Sergeant David Krumer, Paul Bringetto, Tait McCarthy, and Lyke Thompson … we have displayed all the collision data from 2008 recorded by LAPD (involving cyclists.) A single red…
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The Return of UCLA's Undie Run?
Spring Quarter, '08: This was probably the biggest we've ever seen. It took 10 minutes for the thousands of students to make it through the Strathmore Ave. tunnel. (Photo: Ryan D. Night) Despite a ban on the final's week celebration that is UCLA's Undie Run, over 1,500 students are already…
Merlin Olsen, ex-Rams star and actor was 69
Kevin Roderick: When the Rams were a big deal in Los Angeles, Olsen anchored their Fearsome Foursome defensive line. He went on to be longtime color commentator for NBC’s pro football and Rose Bowl telecasts, and a television actor on “Little House on the Prairie” and in his own series,…
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Very cool hotel... and you can get tattooed whilst you stay! - Review of Hotel Erwin, a Joie de Vivre hotel, Los Angeles, CA - TripAdvisor
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Big bump at port
Mark Lacter: February container traffic jumped almost 30 percent at the Long Beach, with inbound cargo especially strong.
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'Pizza Here is as Bad as the Mexican Food in NYC...' Or Maybe Not?
The Burrata Pizza from Pitfire Pizza (more photos here) | Photo by Lindsay William-Ross/LAist New York City recently lost one of its most popular food bloggers to Los Angeles. Zach Brooks of Midtown Lunch, which searches the city for "inexpensive (under $10), authentic, unique and…