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Fun during Earth Hour 2008
Did you turn out your lights for Earth Hour? Lots of people let their homes go dark between 8 and 9 pm tonight, both to save energy and to join in an enviro act of solidarity. How did you celebrate this lights-out time? I hung out with a couple friends eating girl scout cookies, drinking [...]
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Cat Politics
“– and then you came over here and harrassed my cat!” “I did what? Harrassed your cat? Walter, how is it possible to harrass a cat?”
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Did Brad and Angie Married Yesterday?!?
How awesome would it be if this is true? Pretty awesome, that’s the answer BTW… Star tab rag is reporting that the world’s most famous and gorgeous couple made it official in New Orleans on Saturday. Why would they go and do this all the sudden? What happened to not getting…
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LA Weekly archives "in the parking lot"
An email going around from an LA Weekly staffer says someone at the paper has decided to throw out most of the printed copies of...
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Sources: AFTRA Now Refusing To Jointly Negotiate With SAG For Contract
I just received the news that AFTRA president Roberta Reardon and national officers including Susan Boyd Joyce, Denny Delk, Bob Edwards, Matt Kimbrough and Shelby Scott as well as others held their national meeting. And after it ended, they went to SAG's national board meeting and declared…
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Fin Fish Cooking Class With Michael Cimarusti
Providence, Michael Cimarusti's culinary temple celebrating the wonders of seafood, has quickly become a byword for exquisite dining in Los Angeles. One can hardly fathom the pleasures of eating wildly creative and delicately presented dishes like razor-clam risotto or sea urchin scrambled…
El Cid
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Akbar
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Living Green in Los Angeles Just Got Easier
Tired of searching for that Farmer's Market that you thought for sure was open on Saturdays but you always miss it? Trying to "live green" but can't find enough green businesses for all the services you need so you just give up? Want to be eco-friendly but you don't know where to start?…
LAist Interview: Robert Scoble at Community Next in Hollywood
Rafat Ali (left), founder of PaidContent with Robert Scoble (right) and his Nokia N95 We ran into former Microsoftee and current FastCompany.tv man and ubiquitous Web 2.0 presence Robert Scoble at Hollywood & Highland today, in front of Level 3 Nightclub, where Community Next: The Next…
“Creosote”: Notes From A Novel Never Written
While installing a new desk in my home office this afternoon, and transferring the contents of the old desk to the new, I came across an eight-year-old notebook. The 7×5 inch plain paper book was crammed full of handwritten notes for a novel I was once sketching out, a distant memory now but…
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April Smear and the No Bone Zone
Oh, boy. Where do I start? Remember Jack Spade? Dating and even hooking up with him was great until he abruptly stopped hanging out with me. HE SAYS it’s because of his hectic and demanding work schedule. I SAY it’s because of his premature ejaculation problem. For our first…
Pencil This In: Saturday
Photo by BinaryLA via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr FILM LACMA hosts the Seventh Annual Young Directors Night featuring eight short films competing to win the Art of Film award. It's a very important night for these eight new filmmakers hoping to get their name out there and…
Tonight in Rock: Zach Hexum, Led Zepagain, Los Pinguos
Photo by tristanband via Flickr Roy Ayers, Najite & Tony Allen, J. Rocc @ Crash Mansion David Ryan Harris, Zack Hexum, Shane Alexander, Angel Taylor, Nick Africano @ The Hotel Cafe Led Zepagain, Caustic Felon, Out of Grey, The Outliers, Mavick, Vantage @ Whisky A Gogo Los Pinguos,…
Cash Only Sample Sale at the Beauty Bar
Flickr Shot by Zabowski Ever see a bar in the light of day? Not a pretty sight. But it sure can be if there are lots of fashionable goodies for sale. The Beauty Bar in Hollywood will be hosting a cash only sample sale pre-drinking hours where you can get deals off the likes of [...]
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Departing LAT reporter zings Zell
Friday was clean out their desk day for the editors, writers and other staffers who left the Los Angeles Times in the lastest wave of...
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CD Review: Baby Dee's "Safe Inside the Day"
Artist: Baby Dee Album: Safe Inside the Day Label: Drag City Release Date: February 12, 2008 Listen to "The Only Bones That Show": If you missed Baby Dee at the Echo last month like I did you have reason to be disappointed in not making it to the show. From the first word sung on the first…
Back to the Coliseum
I won't be joining the mass baseball party this afternoon at the Coliseum — here's why, from my KCRW commentary yesterday — but those who...
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New Marijuana Decriminalization Bill Set To Hit Congress
We've already got medical marijuana vending machines; now a politician is aiming to end prosecution of minor marijuana offenses, in a bill that could have a major impact on the medical marijuana movement in this country. Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank (D) announced on "Real Time With…
SAG Gears Up for Contract Talks
George Clooney & friends don't want this guy's job, as seen in January '08 | Photo © Copyright 2008 by Jonathan Alcorn (aka Sundogg) via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr If there's one scene Hollywood actors aren't eager to rehearse, it's the one where they march back and forth…
Fire and Ice (Cream): Fundraiser to Honor Firefighter
This week's Sepulveda Blvd explosion took the life of firefighter Brent A. Lovrien, and as the LAFD mourns the loss along with Lovrien's friends and family and the city at large, the sacrifice so often made by our firefighters is on many minds. Prior to this week's tragedy, a fundraising…
White people express more like for ‘Stuff White People Like’
White people really really like “Stuff White People Like,” even as they keep dissing it and themselves in a site-flattering, self-flattering manner, as Adam Sternbergh’s pointed out in “Why White People Like ‘Stuff White People Like.’” But white people…
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Dolly Parton Rocks the House for 9 to 5: The Musical LA Launch Party
Dolly Parton rocked the House of Blues Friday at a “sneak peek” press and group sales event in Los Angeles for 9 to 5: The Musical , a new musical comedy based on the 1980 hit movie that starred Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin opening September 20 at the Center Theatre Group’s…
'21' Holds Winning Hand At Box Office; 'Superhero' Is Superflop; 'Stop-Loss' DOA
FRIDAY AM: Friday's numbers showed that Hollywood can't boost the domestic box office this weekend even though 30% of students are out of school. No. 1 is Sony Pictures's based-on-a-true-story 21 which opened to about $8 million Friday from 2,648 theaters. That puts the inexpensive pic…
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links for 2008-03-29
Cupcake Art Cars My sister-in-law and her husband are featured along with their art cars (Keith and Merrilee) (tags: art.cars family muffins) LOLCat of the Day Victim Befriends Mugger This is a touching story. (tags: npr mugging)