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Kaye does sound like a pol
From ex-editor Ron Kaye's new blog: In my mind, it's time for people to make a stand for what they believe in, to act like...
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My To-Do List: Places To Check Out for Cocktails
I’m sooo behind. Blame it on age, my incurable laziness, or the sprawl — so many bars I have yet to check out and I’m not only talking about the new ones. Yeah, slacker. Anyway, here’s my new list. If you’ve got some suggestions of your own, shout ‘em out…
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CAA Sports Mired In Conflicts Of Interest?
That's what the prominent sports blog ProFootballTalk.com is reporting. And I think they make an excellent case for it. Especially when only 15 to 20 agents represent 700-plus players under contract with NFL teams. Depending on how many of those players make the final rosters in September, that…
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Programs Teachers & Schools [LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art]
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Meet me at Green Drinks Saturday
To the kind readers who emailed to say you’re looking forward to hearing me speak at Green Drinks on Saturday: You are v. kind, but I will not be speaking. To Hannah and other people who thought I’d be standing at a podium doing a Q&A for an hour: No, I will not be forcing…
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29-Day Giving Challenge: Day 4 — Natural Onyx Tanning Oil to Summer
[Part of my challenge to give something away every day for 29 days] So I’ve been on the search for a good sunscreen for a while, and recently, a company called Caribbean Solutions wrote to say their stuff’s biodegradable, petrochemical-free, and non-greasy. Send it! I said, and they…
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The First Bacon Wrapped Hot Dog
Note: Please welcome Georgia into the fold. Georgia, our latest food guinea pig critic, embodies the precise elements we yearn for in a writer here at Losanjealous: namely, questionable gastronomic sensibilities and a longing for adventure. Enough chatter, on with the goods -ed You don’t plan…
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First Glimpses from the Portland Streetcar Trip
The Downtown delegation waits to enter the Portland Streetcar maintenance facility and listen to Executive Director Rick Gustafson. Photo by Eric Richardson. It was a full day for the more than two dozen members of the Downtown group up in Portland to ride streetcars and hear about how…
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Bitterfruit Stairs
A city scene. A cracked asphalt staircase with no hand railing hugs the western portion of a paved urban hillside, a stretch of road that leads to a tree-lined street above. What is supporting the staircase, with brown and green weeds flourishing in its cracks and fissures, is uncertain…
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Silver Lake restaurant rumblings: Yes, please to BreadBar
bring back the Autobar window! EaterLA received several emails about Silver Lake restaurants after picking up an LAMetblogs post about shuttered stores and eateries. There's updates and speculation on everything from Flor Morena (we hear…
Extra Extra: The Outlook is Bleak, Bleak, Bleak
Photo by hinducow via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Over 300,000 troops returning from campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering from some sort of mental illness, including PTSD. Over half admit they are not seeking medical treatment. "Trainwreck"? More like "how many…
Day 3: Too Early For SAG-AMPTP Progress
Both sides are just now beginning to feel the other out. Here's today's joint statement: Screen Actors Guild and The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers met in a third straight day of talks on Thursday. The parties have adjourned for the day and will reconvene in separate…
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To LA, or not to LA; That's the NFL Question
It started as SB 1771, a bill that would implement a program teaching homeowners how to navigate through the current mortgage crisis. Then, all of the sudden, it was about the NFL in the City of Industry. It may seem tricky, but that's the game when it comes to "spot bills," or placeholders…
Hey! Check out this parody of The Office!
Very funny, in an office party gag reel kind of way. Even so, we'd say it's worthy of a local Emmy in Boston...
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Pinkberry is now officially frozen yogurt
Seal of approval from, yes, the National Yogurt Association comes through. Lesley Balla at Eater LA dishes it up....
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Conserve the Amount of Water a Small City Uses
The Metropolitan Water District is asking residents to conserve water by watering their lawns one day less a week, according to KNBC. If that happens, the water saved could equal "as much water as the cities of Anaheim, Burbank, Long Beach and Pasadena use in one year." A 13-week…
The Empire Swedes Back [Short Ends]
newVideoPlayer("swslash_defamer.flv", 463, 387,"");· Quick—take shelter inside this cardboard Tauntaun! It's the Sweded version of The Empire Strikes Back! [YouTube via /Film] · Videogum wonders where The Strangers, aka The Blair Floppy/Creepy Mask Project, really takes place.…
Nick Stoller, Jason Segel, Bent Festival [To Do]
· See his naughty bits, then see him in the flesh. The Forgetting Sarah Marshall screening at the Arclight tonight includes a Q&A with director Nick Stoller and star Jason Segel. · We don't know where to begin describing the Bent Festival at the California Plaza, so we'll just let…
Darn, no Bert Fields
Looks like Hollywood fix-it lawyer Bert Fields won't be testifying in the Pellicano trial after all. Huffington Post...
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After having a Bert Fields-shaped carrot ... [Pellicano Notebook]
After having a Bert Fields-shaped carrot dangled before them, Pellicano trial-watchers will be disappointed to learn the famed Scary Hollywood Lawyer will not be testifying. Reports THR, Esquire: "Co-defendant Mark Arneson, a former LAPD sergeant, planned to call Fields, and the veteran…
Bert Fields Won't Have To Testify?
There's a report that Pellicano trial co-defendant LAPD Sgt Mark Arneson has decided not to put entertainment uber-litigator Bert Fields on the witness stand. Makes sense, since the federal prosecutors had vowed to grill Fields for a minimum four hours during cross-examination.
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Ashlee Simpson Exclusives Not Worth The Pretty Penny Papa Joe Was Hoping For [Con Artists]
We were admittedly underwhelmed upon hearing that lip sync princess Ashlee Simpson and her guyliner-sporting beau Pete Wentz were planning on tying the knot, but we are somewhat pleased to hear about all the trouble it's causing Papa Joe Simpson. Unsurprisingly, the engagement seems to be the…
Your Coachella Tips, Part 2: Keep 'Em Coming
Photo of the Do LaB courtesy of The Do LaB Here is another sampling of tips from readers about Coachella. The contest to see Portishead's private rehearsal ends tonight. Good luck and we hope you learn and get some ideas from the suggestions below! "No matter how tempted, or drunk, you…
Miwa Gemini @ Hotel Cafe, 4/13/08
Miwa Gemini at the Hotel Cafe | Photo by Lindsay William-Ross/LAist When the opportunity to check out New York-based singer-songwriter Miwa Gemini live at the Hotel Cafe came up recently I jumped at the chance based on one line in the PR materials: "Think Nina Simone meets Sparklehorse…
Defamer Visits The Dark Underbelly Of The Marilyn Monroe Collectibles Circuit [Bad Blood]
So! Remember the Marilyn Monroe article we published on Tuesday, which poked some holes in Keya Morgan's (pictured, left) claims that he brokered the sale of an alleged sex tape to a wealthy (and still anonymous) businessman in New York for $1.5 million? Well, it turns out that Keya Morgan's…
I hope you die on opening night, and die through opening weekend, and get negative word of mouth, and never make it up on back end sales, and lose every penny of your investment, Sarah Marshall
Armchair shrinks, movie fans, L.A. billboard zealots and personal detractors, what does the following say about me? The summer movie season is coming, and the neighborhoods are full of ads. I see them everywhere, sometimes for stuff I should theoretically...
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At heart, the Valley is still the Valley
This is a pretty good animal story, told in today's Daily News by columnist Dennis McCarthy. On Tuesday morning, John Caruso spotted a sheep and...
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TV Junkie: Thursday
So while TV is still recovering from the writers' strike another strike looms on the horizon. According to Variety, the Screen Actors' Guild signed a pact with producers of indie films that will ensure that an indie film in production will be completed in the event that SAG goes on strike.…
Are Gary Dourdan And Diane Neal Departing Their Hit Series For Mutually Disagreed-Upon, Shitcanning Reasons? [In Axings]
Noting that two cast members from TV's highest-rated procedurals—CSI's Gary Dourdan and Law & Order: SVU's Diane Neal—would be leaving their series at the end of their contracts, TVGuide.com's Michael Aussiello has reexamined the evidence, and concludes that these seemingly…