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Midnight Movie - Santana Shreds!

In honor of April Fools Day, here is brilliant footage of "Santana" Shredding! I strongly encourage you to watch any of the related videos. They have to be way more entertaining than watching Yngvie Malmsteen or Steve Vai rock out for real.

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Writing Guantanamo

In the upcoming April 17 issue of the New York Review of Books, veteran investigative reporter Raymond Bonner reviews four books that cover aspects of Guantanamo. But as is often the case for the best NY Review of Books stories, Bonner’s piece is less review than it is a comprehensive…

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Heads Up: Seychelles Shoes Warehouse Sale

Because SOMEONE complains that I don’t give ‘em enough a heads up for weekend sales (Shelley!), I’m telling you now: Seychelles is having a warehouse sale this Friday and Saturday in their 10,000-square-foot space. No, this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. Fer real, get…

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Roy Ayers, Najite, Tony Allen @ Crash Mansion

LIVE ART BY KOFIE The album cover to the right (Roy Ayers Ubiquity; Polydor, 1971) hangs in what should be my dining room — above a computer desk and just to the left of a solid state guitar amp which has been collecting dust for some three years without pause. Still, it is a prominent wall…

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Karabagh Meat Market | Google Maps

13747 Victory Blvd Van Nuys, CA 91401 (818) 781-4411 They are supposed to have excellent lamb.

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The James Q Wilson Factor - Part Deux

It turns out I was not the only person annoyed by Sunday’s Wilson Op Ed. Texas smart guy, Scott Henson, the public policy wonk who runs the blog Grits for Breakfast, fulminated mightily over James Q. Wilson’s one-sided natterings. Here’s some of what Henson posted on the…

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Bukowski in Pamplona

The total distance of the course, one of the other runners told Bukowski, is just short of 900 meters, about 1,000 yards. A small niche had been built into the wall at the starting line, a statue of St. Fermin. The runners, bunched together like cattle, chanted to the saint in Spanish: “We…

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Green Chic: Saving the Earth in Style

Need a girly guide to going green? A new book, Green Chic: Saving the Earth in Style, is a chatty, crunch-free book that can put you on your green path. It’s kind of like green LA girl — except a lighter green and in print. Green Chic’s written by one Christie Matheson, and is…

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Dodgers Beat the Giants on Opening Day: A Photo Gallery

I've been to Opening Day every year since 2002 and it was starting to feel like the Dodgers simply couldn't win on their first day back to Chavez Ravine. Thank Vin we were playing the crappiest Giants team ever (with embarrassing little league defense to boot) and managed to win 5-0.…

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Layoffs at KCBS

Bunch of people let go today. If I get details I'll pass them on....

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Only thing missing was the cornfield

Hats off to the new Dodgers show producer, Charles Steinberg. The ceremony before today's opener evoked "Field of Dreams." While a dramatic beat played across...

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Extra, Extra: Bird On a Wire

Photo by Try Hank via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The "severely decomposed" body of an infant has been found in Santa Ana. An area resident saw a dog playing with something unusual, which turned out to be the baby, whose body has been taken to the Orange County coroner's office…

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Dodgers: First Game, First Win

After this weekend's exposition games against the Boston Red Sox (the highlight being Saturday's Coliseum game), today was the first season game of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Playing against the San Francisco Giants, the Dodgers took it home at 5-0. Today was Joe Torre's debut game as…

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One cheer for the global economy

I never expect to hear much about the benefits of the free market in the New York Review of Books. And when it's John Maynard Kenynes biographer Robert Sidelsky reviewing frequent Times contributor Joseph E. Stiglitz' book Making Globalization Work...

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The Kathie Lee Gifford Comeback No One Wanted Is Almost Here! [Short Ends]

newVideoPlayer("kathietoday_defamer.flv", 463, 387,"");· They announced Kathy Lee Gifford's addition to The Today Show family this morning, apparently the final clause of her Eternal Betrothal to Satan back in the early '80s. (Fun Fact: Née Kathy Lee Epstein, Gifford "grew up in a…

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A Kitchen Nightmare That Was: Gordon Ramsay Fixes Sante La Brea

Eating L.A. caught a Craigslist post touting that Sante La Brea did up a new menu, compliments of Chef Gordon Ramsay. In a phone conversation with the health conscious restaurant, who LAist visited last May to try vegan pizza, they said an episode of Kitchen Nightmares will feature them around…

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: Welcome :: California Safe Schools : Home Page :

Robina Suwol – California Safe Schools

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London, you're making L.A. look mighty nice

Take this as the second installment of my open-ended Opinion L.A. series to instill pride in our hometown international airport by shaming facilities in other big cities. Today's dubious honor of making Los Angeles International Airport look cutting-edge belongs to...

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As He Was: Remembering The Jeremy Piven Of Yesteryear [Changes]

newVideoPlayer("chihope_defamer.flv", 463, 387,""); We've spent a long time now with the freewheeling, Emmy-winning Jeremy Piven of Today: Oozing confidence from every pore of his shredded, hairless body (save for his scalp), that Piven is an Arian super-man. It's enough to make you forget about…

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One more boom for the Boom Boom Room

Fred Karger still sees hope for the Boom Boom Room, the legendary gay bar in Laguna Beach that closed last year after a 61-year run. He's rallying supporters tomorrow at the Century City headquarters of American International Group, the building's...

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Certified list trumps the "pre-election"

You can still vote for Ricardo Lara or Arturo Chavez on June 3, but it won't do you much good. Both will be on the ballot for legislative seats, as confirmed by the Secretary of State's certified list of candidates....

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2 East LA Shootings Leave 4 Dead

View Larger Map Reports are coming in that two separate shootings that occurred both within 20 minutes and a few blocks of each other in unincorporated East LA have left two dead at each scene. Los Angeles Sheriff's cannot confirm that they are related yet, but all victims are Latino men. …

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Katherine Heigl continues to ever so subtly ... [The Emasculation Of Joshua]

Katherine Heigl continues to ever so subtly remind her husband Josh "Call Me Joshua" Kelley that she does, and always will, wear the pants in their frightening relationship. This time, domestic issues are going beyond proving her social dominance or explaining on national television that their…

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ROOM 5 Lounge: Take the stairs up to Room 5

a music venue in at beverly & la brea with songrwriters playing on monday nights.

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Manpower Enters L.A. with a 6th Street Storefront

By Eric Richardson Manpower's newly opened storefront in the Pacific Center on 6th street. Global recruiting company Manpower today put out a press release saying that it had acquired CRI Inc., thereby entering the L.A. market. An interested Downtowner could have known that some sort of move…

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Ticketing Pedestrians & Cars, It Goes Both Ways

Photo by striatic via Flickr Unfortunately, in a city (and country) where the motto should be "pedestrians first," things are just the opposite of that. The law states that vehicles must yield to pedestrians at marked and unmarked crossings throughout the state. But the culture is not that…

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Kate Walsh Intends To Make An Important Point [A Call To The Bullpen]

boomp3.com Before beginning a speech that was to be about how the American public school system needs to improve the quality of sex education classes, Kate Walsh said, "I should know a thing or two about medicine since I've played a doctor on two consecutive hit TV shows, and I also attended…

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LEGEND PHOTO - LA

Peter Gehrke (fashion, good w men, also sweden) Rasmus Mogensen (fashion)

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What Bob Saget and an Ensemble of Trained Animals Can Teach Us About Spoof Movies [Genre Fixing]

Predictable as it was by America's right-wing box-office seers, Stop-Loss' flat opening wasn't the only high-visibility stumble out of the gate last weekend. The Weinsteins' Superhero Movie barely cracked $10 million, a fraction of the early takes for previous installments of the lucrative spoof…

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