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Emerald City: Eco-fashion and a post-Earth Day roundup
Latest from Emerald City, my enviro-blog at LAtimes.com >> Scenes from Wilshire Center Earth Day — car-free day. Before Michael Franti came on stage, a woman led people in a yoga-like activity. “Turn your palms up to the ceiling and say ‘to serve’!” she shouted.…
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Eat Drink & Be Merry: Father's Office II, Culver City - The Sang Yoon Bleu Cheese Burger Legacy Continues
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As Main Loses Benches, Spring Adds Them
Typically when something shows up on the street while a crew is nearby, it's just a prop. This bench in front of L.A. Cafe on Spring is for real. Photo by Eric Richardson. One would be excused for thinking that the two benches that showed up on Spring street today were part of the set for…
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Jackie Chan Leaves CAA For Morris, And Paul Thomas Anderson Lands There, Too
I'm told Jackie Chan fired CAA on the day his new movie The Forbidden Kingdom opened #1 last Friday. Today he landed with the William Morris Agency's Phillip Button. As for the There Will Be Blood director, Paul Thomas Anderson left Endeavor yesterday and landed tonight at WMA with Mike…
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Extra, Extra
It's almost the weekend... | Photo by Kim Shattuck via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr See, I prefer the silent treatment to the stabby treatment: "A woman was in custody today for allegedly fatally stabbing her boyfriend during an argument at their South Los Angeles home." Watch…
Video of the Day: Lykke Li, "Little Bit"
Do you love adorable chick singers from Scandinavian countries who look like a puffin? I sure do (thanks to LAist staffer Osmany Rodriguez for turning me on and tuning me in). Check out this gorgeous and dead-sexy tune called "Little Bit" from Lykke Li (real name Li Lykke Timotej…
The Freeway Ride - On Bicycles
10 Los Angeles cyclists take the 405 and the 10. If LA is made for cars. Why are bicycles getting places faster?
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Brad Pitt Getting Blown [Short Ends]
newVideoPlayer("netmach_defamer.flv", 463, 267,""); · By the WIND, people. Get your minds out of the gutter! Bonus besteverness? Directed by David Fincher. [Creativity Magazine] · Nerds rejoice! Guillermo del Toro has finally signed on to direct the long gestating LOTR prequel, The…
Bush remembers 'mass killings,' not genocide
President Bush has done it again -- commemorate the genocide of around 1.5 million Armenians nearly a century ago without offending the Turkish government by avoiding the word "genocide." Click here to read Bush's complete statement; here's an excerpt: On...
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Who's afraid of Lilly Ledbetter?
Not Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Both came out in favor of a congressional bill that would make it easier for victims of pay disparity to charge discrimination in court. That's what Lilly Ledbetter tried to do, but the Supreme...
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'Done Deal': Jimmy Fallon To Replace Conan O'Brien In '09 [Pinch Hitters]
Rumors that notorious SNL line-flubber Jimmy Fallon might replace Conan O'Brien following his move to The Tonight Show have been floating around for over a year now. But today, Fox News adds some real substance to all the chatter by boldly reporting that "it's a done deal." Debates will inevitably…
I Met Alice Cooper! Plus There was some NME Awards Thing Too
Last night the El Rey Theater was host to British music magazine NME's first US awards. You can find the list of award winners at Twisted Ear, since it seems like the sudden attention has crashed NME's website. For a recap of the awards show, check out MOG. I was all about the red carpet!…
Justine Bateman, 'Drunk College Students' Team Up to Save the Internet
This week's Senate Committee Hearing on the Future of the Internet featured notable speakers on both sides of the net neutrality debate including Stanford Prof. Lawrence Lessig, FCC Commissioner Kevin J. Martin, Patric Verrone, President of the WGA-West, and Michele Combs of the Christian…
29-Day Giving Challenge: Day 11 — $3.24 to Heal the Bay via Nau
[Part of my challenge to give something away every day for 29 days] My second indirect donation to Heal the Bay this month! I bought a sustainably-harvested merino shirt at the newly-opened Nau store at the Beverly Center. And because Nau donates 5% of all sales to progressive nonprofits, I…
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NoHo Arts District gets its Vegan Restaurant Too
The block on Cahuenga between Ostego and Hesby is turning into a nice eclectic group of storefronts, even if there are only three. Starting to the north, there is a random Pirate store. Next to that, a fairly new hookah lounge. And then there is Lotus Vegan, which opened last week with a chef…
BREAKING: Wesley Snipes Has Three Years In Prison to Prepare For Next Role [Uncle Sam Hits Back]
Word just over the transom at Defamer HQ notes that Wesley Snipes's tax-evasion hobby will cost him dearly — as in three years in federal prison. Not even character-boosting letters from Denzel Washington and Woody Harrelson were enough in the end to save Snipes from his fate, which was…
Unicycle Man, I Salute You
Walking back to my apartment just now I was passed by this man on a unicycle. He headed west on 6th before turning north at Spring. I've never stopped to consider the unicycle's place in Downtown's mobility picture. I consider that a grave oversight.
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Los Angeles - $765
This is just south of I-10, looks like, but really close to USC.
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URGENT NEWS ABOUT SAG-AMPTP TALKS!
EXCLUSIVE... COMING... WRITING IT NOW... Keep refreshing for latest...
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TV Junkie: Thursday - "Lost" Returns
"Lost" is back! Thursday night is truly the best night on TV, hands down. If you saw yesterday's TV Junkie you might have read that post about Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. taking over NYC media - today there's a story in the New York Times about News Corp. hiring a hacker to break into the…
Variety today predicted that next month could ... [Box Office]
Variety today predicted that next month could be Hollywood's biggest May ever, with four consecutive weeks of big titles — Iron Man, Speed Racer, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and Indiana Jones 4 — leading the way into the more conventional blockbuster season of June and…
Abrams' rock and roll speech
Sam Zell's new innovation guru, Lee Abrams, uses a video on the company site to explain his vision of how the 1950s growth of rock...
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Mike Darnell Attempts To Make Amends For 'Moment' By Busting Deadbeat Dads [Family Values]
Just when we thought reality TV couldn't sink any lower, Fox has officially scraped the bottom of the cringeworthy barrel by ordering a JD Roth-produced pilot called Bad Dads. The series, originally titled Deadbeat Dads until Mike Darnell christened it with its new name, depicts divorced fathers…
WeHo $740
This would be awesome (available June 1st, even, perfect timing), but it's already furnished.
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Origins of the Broad Contemporary
The Center for Land Use Interpretation, as is their style, interprets the new BCAM as "more than an immediate housing for cultural artifacts...[but] engaged in...
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$7 Gas Coming: Tipping Point for Public Transit, Bicycles & Alternative Cars?
Now the predictions are really getting people's attention: "Surging crude prices, which could surpass $200 a barrel in four years on tight supplies, could push gasoline prices to as high as $7 a gallon, CIBC World Markets analysts said Thursday," MarketWatch said early this afternoon. …
Amoeba Music > Live Shows > Performances > Flight of the Conchords
i think i'll go with the baby
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Jason Segel's Penis Revealed Just In Time For Debate at 'Vanity Fair' [NSFW] [Now You See It]
Wednesday marked the first time in four days that Jason Segel didn't publicly recount his bestselling short story Getting Dumped While Naked, but that didn't keep his bare ween off the minds of close observers from Videogum to Vanity Fair. While one went the think-y route in exploring the Segel's…
Billionaire to Launch Magazine Called Snob--Despute Over Semantics Ensue
Forbe's 24th Richest Person in the World, Russia's Mikhail Prokhorov, plans to sink $150 million of his $22 billion into a magazine titled Snob. From Reuters: According to the Oxford English Dictionary's online edition, www.askoxford.com, a snob is: "A person who has an exaggerated respect…
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