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World Fair Trade Day and Fair Trade Fortnight
Put it in your calendars: May 10, 2008 is World Fair Trade Day! Actually, put May 3 - 18 in your calendar, because this year, fair trade gets a 2-week celebration, aka the U.S. Fair Trade Fortnight. This year, World Fair Trade Day ties fair trade with environmentalism with its theme:…
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Never Drive A Car When You’re Dead
He couldn’t put it off any longer. Esteban finally settled on the Lankershim exit off the northbound Hollywood Freeway. Gliding down the ramp at 85 MPH. Such a serene and placid feeling. Orange, smog-filtered June moonlight stabbing through the tinted windshield. He smiled. For the…
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Dude, there's my car
I've had my share of gut-wrenching nightmares about finding an empty parking space where my car's supposed to be. But imagine how a Saugus woman felt tonight when, while she was on her way home from reporting her 1996 Acura... I've had my share of gut-wrenching nightmares about finding an empty…
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Bus Riders Union Rocks the Anti-War March
On Schrader Ave. in Hollywood | Filmed by Zach Behrens/LAist The Bus Riders Union may have its fair share of lovers and haters, but when it comes to getting together and organizing protest music and song, this just felt great while marching at today's Anti-War March. We had to share. …
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Photo Essay: March 15 Hollywood Anonymous Scientology Protest
"Happy Birthday L. Ron Hubbard" | All Photos by Zach Behrens Today was the second worldwide Anonymous protest organized via March15.org, the Anonymous website dedicated to the founder's birthday, two days prior. A few hundred protestors hit Hollywood Blvd. at L. Ron Hubbard Way in the East…
LAPD's Perspective on March 15 Anonymous Scientology Protest
Taken around 12:00 p.m. PST, March 15th, 2008 Today at the Anonymous protest in Hollywood, the LAPD arrived to let the protestors to just be careful of themselves and not get hit by cars. Other LAPD on the scene seemed to be retired officers there for an on-location film shoot the…
Extra, Extra: Fun with Guns
"11.1.07," by edenjet via LAist Featured Photos Pool on Flickr There is more information about the Wilmington shooting Thursday night that left one suspect dead and another in critical condition. "He just came out and decided, 'This is what I'm going to do today,'" one of the officers said. I…
Clicklist: The anti anti-religion movement
>> Chris Hedges talks about his new book, “I Don’t Believe in Atheists.” Says he about people like Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris: “Unfortunately, what they’ve done is offer a Utopian belief system that is as self-delusional as that offered by Christian…
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"They're Already Celebrating St. Paddy's Day?"
Went to Finn McCool's in Santa Monica this afternoon for a "business meeting" and suddenly found myself surrounded by people dressed in green and drinking green beer and slamming Irish car bombs. I guess everyone's getting in their St. Patrick's Day celebration early to avoid the crazy bar…
Quick Tribute to Flyer-Hubs & Poster Putter-Uppers
One thing I love about L.A. are all the little shops and cafes that let us poor starving artists leave flyers or put up posters for our many different events. Here is a list of just a few such kind souls, to help my fellow independents, and also just to say a heartfelt thanks! (I hope you…
Children of the Night - Rescuing America's Children from Prostitution
Children Of The Night is a privately funded non profit organization established in 1979 for the rescue of children from child prostitution.
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The Girl of the Caramel
It'sNational Chocolate Week. It's always chocolate week for me, because I eat it daily. I take offense with the term "chocoholic" because it sounds like a problem. Chocolate is good for you! It's not an obsession that needs to be cured. Well, obsession - yes. Cure? No. Case in point: …
Rutlemania!
Thirty years on, Rutlemania is real. We got to sit in last night on a well-attended dress rehearsal of the multimedia concert/stage show that takes the audience through the story of the Prefab Four, as written and directed by comedy and Monty Python legend Eric Idle, set to a truly timeless…
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LAist at SXSW: Day Parties, Raveonettes, Johnathan Rice Caught Live
Dave Koenig of LA-based Spindrift, Little Radio Day Party, Red Eyed Fly, SXSW 2008, Austin, TX We made it through another South by Southwest Interactive, Film, and Music Conference and Festival in Austin, TX. After writing out that sentence, we need a nap but stay tuned for more interviews and…
Come On, Come On, Get Crafty Tonight @ 5pm
Mark Montano is a man of many talents. He is the host of TLC's 10 Years Younger, part of the design team for While You Were Out, the co-host of the Style Network's My Celebrity Home and the co-host of She's Moving In. As if that were not enough, he'll be signing The Big-Ass Book of Crafts today at…
MOCA | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
I consider this my museum, this is the first choice for my retrospective.
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Pencil This In: Saturday
Photo by Bonnie BonBon via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr PHOTOGRAPHY/OPENING RECEPTION A Narrative History of the Lightbulb is Catherine Wagner's show, inspired by the Baltimore Museum of Industry's collection of lightbulbs. Wagner chronicle's the evolution of the household object…
Newsroom Feud Video
glumbert - Anchor vs Reporter From Glumbert. We love this video! It's everything we feel should be on local news but isn't. Note: the good stuff happens at a minute in....
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"Presidential Prerogative"
In case you missed it - Dana Perino was on the Daily Show on Thursday. Confirming that the Iraq War is going so well that the White House Press Corps stopped asking about it and her president can fly....
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A Taste of Dance at the Music Center
Bring your twinkle toes down to the Music Center Plaza Saturday, March 29th, for A Taste of Dance, presented by Active Arts at the Music Center. From 11 a.m....
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Tonight in Rock: Firebug, Ollin, Ramp
Firebug plays at Spaceland tonight for their record release party | Photo via their MySpace page Amadans with Ollin performing the Pogues Rum, Sodomy and the Lash @ Alex's Bar (Long Beach) I Make This Sound, Vaudeville, Drew Danburry, Future of the Ghost @ pehrspace Sierra Swan, Firebug Alice…
Nature's Wrath Comes Down on CNN
And can you blame her? A tornado hit Atlanta, Georgia on Friday night. But the real story, according to their coverage, is that a tornado hit CNN. From CNN.com: Police closed several streets in the vicinity of CNN Center...
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Splurge! Mastro's Steakhouse
I'm sure everyone here has some opinion on what's the best steakhouse in Los Angeles. There's Morton's, Cut, a number of Ruth's Chris's, Mastro's, and probably a ton of others that I can't think of right now. It was the g/f's birthday and we got to splurge at Mastro's a bit, so here are the…
Opinions. We All Got ‘Em …
Over at the New York Times’ Paper Cuts: A Blog About Books, David Kelly muses on overrated literature: Of course, some famous writers have offered their own unofficial nominations. Vladimir Nabokov declared that “Don Quixote” was “cruel and crude” and that “Death in Venice” was…
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Lahmajune dynasty continues: a heartwarming and tasty story
(photo from the L.A. Times) The L.A. Times reports in "Quality Armenian bakers...from Mexico?" about the 60-year old A. Partamian Armenian Bakery on West Adams, which was in danger of closing when owner Leon Partamian died. But fortunately he had decided that two faithful employees, Francisco…
LAist In the Kitchen: Vietnamese Spring Rolls
One of my all-time favorite things to order from my neighborhood Thai delivery joint is what they call Salad rolls. They're cold appetizer wraps stuffed with fresh produce and the hallmark flavorful bite of Thai and Vietnamese cooking, thanks to the palate-pleasing mix of pungent Thai basil,…
Metafilter: I wanna live in Los Angeles but not the one in Los Angeles
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A Hero's Homecoming
Who knew that today is the 35th anniversary of the day John McCain was released by his captors as a POW in Vietnam? Probably not many people. It’s easy to imagine some of the gimmicks campaign consultants were probably tossing around to commemorate the day: McCain sits behind the controls of a…
Not to Burst Your Bubble, But...
...there will be no bubble after all. The bubble in question was to be a giant bubble encasing show-elephant Tai as part of Santa Ana's Discovery Science Center's upcoming "Bubblefest" event. Due to overwhelming public objection, artist Fan Yang will not get the chance to set a world record for…
Families Flock To 'Horton'; 'Doomedsday'
SATURDAY AM: This weekend's newcomers: Fox's Horton Hears A Who! $13.3 million from 3,954 theaters for Friday, Summit's Never Back Down $3.3 million from 2,729 venues, Universal's Doomsday $1.6 million from 1,936 dates. (Story coming... See my previous, Weekend Prediction: Huge 'Horton Who!')
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«Untitled»
Rate-A-Restaurant, #147 in a seriesRestaurant: Millie'sLocation: 3524 W Sunset Blvd (Silver Lake)Type of restaurant: BrunchThey stipulated: Leave your cell phone at home or in the car -- yakking on one is forbidden. Also, Millie's closes at 4 -- but as commenters around the web note, that's a…
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Times Takes a Familiar Look at Downtown Churches
By Eric Richardson The Times today runs a piece on new churches opening Downtown to serve a growing population. That would be an interesting story, were it not eerily similar to the one that ran in the Downtown News back in December. Oddly, both pieces neglect to mention Mosaic, which holds…
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