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LA Language World: Se Habla Angelino
Are there native speakers of Los Angeles Spanish? Oh, yes. Everybody who lives in this community will speak that Spanish, even if their parents don't. It's also used in some businesses. A Chilean constructor told me that he learned to speak Mexican Spanis
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Photos: Pillow Fight Los Angeles @ Pershing Square, 3/22/08
In celebration of World Pillow Fight Day, hundreds of spring-fevered revelers duked it out in Pershing Square 'til they were "ankle-deep in feathers." All photos by Dan Tentler for LAist
Extra, Extra: Bombs, Away!
Music Center fountain, by ellwoodite via LAist Featured Photos Pool on Flickr A bomb scare closed the short-term parking structure at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank this morning after a small suitcase was found without its owner, according to officials at the airport. The suitcase was detonated…
Restaurante Guelaguetza - Auténtica Comida Oaxaqueña - Los Angeles, CA
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Someone Doesn't Like Hillary
I was at Melrose today and found these anti-Hillary stencils.
Vroman's Voted #1 Bookstore in Nation
Photo by Clinton Steeds via Flickr While many mourn the loss of stalwart indie bookshops like Dutton's, many may want to celebrate the fact that LA (County, at least) is home to the nation's best bookstore, as deemed by Publisher's Weekly. Pasadena's 114-year-old Vroman's has been given the…
Found In LA: Crappy Apartments
Palms is lousy with apartments, though I've never thought of them as particularly crappy. Both the buildings have recently had a bunch of work done, new paint, new fencing, and as a finishing touch, new signage. See the other building after the jump. Definitely a hilarious comment…
Two Cases, Two Kinds of Justice: PART 2
The LAPPL—LA’s police union—is not at all in a good mood about Sara Jane Olson’s release, and just sent out a new press release to that effect about an hour ago. The statement from union prez Tim Sands reads in part: “Justice is not served if convicted murderer…
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reason number 347 I'm a total nerd
the other day, I sent an email to james howard kunstler asking him to judge Curbed LA's ugliest building in LA contest and possibly contribute some eyesores to LA. while his schedule doesn't really allow him to judge the contest (although he might contribute some eyesores of his own), he sent me a…
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When Famous Movie Monsters Lie
They were savage and bitter, especially the middle-aged and the old, and had been made so by boredom and disappointment. All their lives they had slaved at some kind of dull, heavy labor, behind desks and counters, in the fields and at tedious machines of all sorts, saving their pennies and…
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Slaughterhouse Worker Faces Jail Time, Deportation
In the aftermath of the Chino slaughterhouse scandal and beef recall, one former employee has pleaded guilty to criminal charges and faces jail time and likely deportation. Charges were brought against Rafael Sanchez Herrera for his usage of a forklift to move cows too sick to stand in order…
twice as nice
VO announcer: Hey Shannon, you and your team, the Downtown Dwellers just won the City Race Urban Adventure again, what are you gonna do now? Shannon: I'm going to Disneyland! Recap of the day to come later, much later...off to...
Pencil This In: Saturday
Photo by kpe II via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr MUSEUM/LECTURE/RECEPTION Variations on a Caribou features Dr. Mark Sherman, Director of the International String Figure Association, addressing the lore associated with string figures (think Cat's Cradle)--we're talking chants,…
Here's Chertoff Patting Himself on the Back
Because our allies are terrorist targets. Salut -- to friendship!
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LAist's NCAA Tournament First Round Notes
So the first round of the NCAA Tournament has finished, and boy was yesterday’s action quite exciting. Here are some things of note. 1. There have never been upsets for all four games at one location. Yesterday in Tampa, the two #12 seeds and two #13 seeds beat their respective #5 and…
Hambone is Home!
Hambone is home! | Photo courtesy Eric Leemon Amazing, right? The little dog that became our Hambone was found - safe and sound. Here's the email that went out to Hambone followers last night. Read on: Dear Friends, At 9:50pm this evening I received a call from someone who saw…
Lockdown in Palmdale Leads to Wanted Man's Arrest
It was a tense Good Friday for those in the vicinity of the 4300 block of Club Vista Drive yesterday in Palmdale when the attempt to serve an arrest warrant on a man wanted for a 2004 North Hollywood murder barricaded himself inside a home for several hours and the neighborhood went into…
Gold Line Extention Campaign Goes World Wide...Web
Students these days are so lazy...Instead of taking it to the streets like their parents' generation and brandishing signs and making noise they're opting to stay inside, chained to their computers. Except sometimes they discover that the medium is what makes the message, and in the SGV right…
Want to Buy a Home? The City Doesn't Want to Help.
Unaffordable housing by Ray Calnan/LAist With all the recent hype about problems affording homes in Los Angeles and several of the Council members endorsing a plan to keep housing affordable, it appears that the City supports home ownership. However, in an email sent to mortgage brokers,…
Emerald City: EcoTuesday, East side farmers’ market deliveries, etc.
Latest from Emerald City, my enviro-blog at LAtimes.com >> EcoTuesday: A new green business networking event. The green social calendar’s getting more and more crowded! The latest addition to the list is EcoTuesday, a “Sustainable Business Leaders Networking Forum” that’s…
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Flat Stanley Does Mardi Gras
After Flat Stanley saw the tourist sights in Hollywood, and hit the beach, we got lucky because Mardi Gras fell on that Tuesday! Time for Flat Stanley to party! Sure, we couldn't make it to New Orleans. But there was no better party in town than Mr. T's Bowl! After Mr. T's we…
US TV show to bend over for Heather Mills
Now that she’s fleeced poor old Paul McCartney, one-legged former porn model and alleged one-time call girl Heather Mills is working to once again to use the compliant American media to rake in more millions while legitimizing her deceptions and fantasies to an unwary public. Days after…
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www.mastersource.com
Welcome to MasterSource Music Catalog, the industry's leading provider of contemporary source music for film, TV, advertising, post-production, and multi-media.
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