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Extra, Extra: Everybody Keep Cool

Surfing on the Wall, by Carlito_Brigante via LAist Featured Photos Pool on Flickr. In the wee hours of the morning, a cop driving west on Victory Boulevard in Van Nuys crashed his patrol car into a tree in order to avoid a collision with another driver who was believed to have been under the…

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Dr. Ruehl's requiem for a screamer

It was announced last week that Hazel Court, an English beauty who co-starred with the likes of Boris Karloff and Vincent Price in popular horror movies in the 1950s and '60s, died at 82. Hazel was a screamer. She was in fact, the “scream queen.” Best known for her work in Roger…

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CAA's Top 3 NFL Draftees Go #1, #3, #6

After 2 straight years of lousy drafts for its NFL-headed clients, CAA Sports finally found that the 3rd time was the charm. Its clients were all top draftees: Justin Long went No. 1, Matt Ryan No. 3 and Vernon Gholston No. 6. 2008 NFL Draft story here.

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Got Art & 'Net Skills? Work for Nine Inch Nails!

A job listing popped on Craigslist yesterday that might be music to the right web and graphics dork's ears. It seems Nine Inch Nails is on the prowl for "an internet-savvy web and graphics assistant who will work with an art director on a wide variety of tasks relating to web development,…

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Heavy vog on Oahu | billso.com

three pictures of this weekend's voggy weather. The North Shore looks like Los Angeles...

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Play Nice or I Swear to God I am Going to Steal a Tank and Mow You Down One by One

I hardly ever drive, and it amazes me that in the short time since I last traversed our city's freeways, lane merging is no longer standard practice. In fact, it is not even allowed. Our city's drivers have decided en masse to never let anyone merge. Ever again. Remember merging from…

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Klub @ The Actors' Gang

The cast of Klub | Photo by Jean Louis Darville If you are in the mood for a wild evening in the theatre, head over to the Actors' Gang to experience the existential world of Klub. Bloody, desperate starlets: Check. Wacky, colorful wigs: Check. Hilarious songs about "Annie": You are in…

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Super Clasico: the Chivas Version

Article written by reader Alex Gutierrez Nothing can excite a city like a Derby. A sense of pride, a feeling of place and plenty of passion. The Honda SuperClasico is a feud that has been four years in the making and has become one of the most exciting games to watch in MLS. All the…

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LAist Interview: 'Regretrosexual' Explores What Happens When Your Boyfriend Tells You He WAS Gay

So yesterday LAist heard from actor-comic Dan Rothenberg, who created the autobiographical play Regretrosexual -- A Love Story -- about telling his girlfriend Colleen Crabtree that he went through a two-year gay period in San Francisco. Today we hear her side of the story. So, your…

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Morris doco reopens a 20-year-old can of worms

It’s amusing that the hand-wringing continues twenty years later over the use of reenactments and payments to interview subjects in documentaries, and funnier still that the latest uproar is centered on Errol Morris, because the quirky documentarian's breakthrough doco, The Thin Blue Line, was…

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Pencil This In: Saturday

Photo by Sundogg via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr FESTIVAL Stop by the Santa Monica Pier for a Celebration for the Arts pier party today and tomorrow. There will be a lot of stuff to do and see including live silkscreening by Alternative Apparel, Guitar Hero contests, Improv,…

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SAG's 2008 Contract Report On Residuals

This is the third in the Screen Actors Guild's 2008 contract reports about issues. Report #1 discusses middle-income actors and #2 talks about New Media (at end of post), and now #3 explores residuals below: SAG CONTRACT 2008 REPORT Number 3 – Residuals April 25, 2008 The following update…

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Richie Hass Memorial Benefit Tomorrow

To celebrate the life and music of Richie Hass, a local musician who passed away in March from Myeloma, his friends have organized a marathon benefit concert tomorrow at the Echoplex. Many of the bands Richie once played with will be performing, and include some of the best punk, jazz, and…

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Sticker Combo ~ Hollywood

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Tonight in Rock: Alternatives to Indio

If you're reading this, you're probably not at Coachella. Here are some choices for tonight. Some are sold-out, but if you're hardcore, you may want to try to get in anyway. Regarding the House of Blues shows, they are separate shows with separate ticket prices, check with House of Blues for…

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Old school Korean: Dong Il Jang

Dong Il Jang is highly ranked on Yelp and is one of the oldest Korean restaurants in Los Angeles. It also happens to be one of the higher-end Korean places in K-town. It is a little pricier than the usual cheap Korean places I go to, but you see it reflected both in the atmosphere and the…

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Coachella: Hot Saturday Afternoon

Here's a link to some of the shots I took today on Wired.com's Listening Post: Screengrab hosted by flickr.

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Clicklist: Strange shelters

>> A case for more barefooted walking. “North Americans have the most advanced shoes in the world, yet 90 percent of us still develop problems? We’ve long assumed this means we need better shoes. Maybe it means we don’t need shoes at all.” In addition to simulating barefootedness,…

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Ice Melts Across the Southland

Yesterday at four different locations around the Los Angeles area, teams built ice structures, a re-creation of performance and installation artist Allan Kaprow's "Fluids." Yesterday, Kaprow's son helped build one of the structures in Pasadena's Memorial Park. LAist Featured Photos…

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TreePeople's Andy Lipkis: "We are the change."

Last weekend, the homeowners, docents, and designers who are taking part in today's Green Gardens Tour gathered in the beautiful Santa Monica library to talk with each other and to be honored by the tour organizers at a thank you breakfast. The event was highlighted by brief talks from…

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LA Times Book Prize Winners

It was a lovely evening of bookish folks gathered about to celebrate books and to kick-off the LA Times Festival of Books which begins today and runs through tomorrow afternoon. The awards ceremony for the Book Prizes was short and sweet, the acceptance speeches were both funny and poignant…

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Morris doco reopens a 20 year-old can of worms

It’s amusing that the hand-wringing continues twenty years later over the use of reenactments and payments to interview subjects in documentaries, and funnier still that the latest uproar is centered on Errol Morris, because the quirky documentarian's breakthrough doco, The Thin Blue Line, was…

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Smoking in Burbank: Ignorance of the Law IS an Excuse

Burbank's ban on smoking on downtown sidewalks has caused quite a stir. But never fear, it turns out ignorance of the law is an excuse, at least if you are an up-and-coming celebrity. Shia LaBeouf's misdemeanor charge of unlawful smoking was dismissed Thursday on the basis of the "That's…

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"Honey, I Bought Us a Ferris Wheel!"

Santa Monica's Pacific Park ferris wheel has a new owner, thanks to an eBay auction that ended at noon yesterday. The winner is Grant Humphreys of Oklahoma City, who came in as the highest bidder with $132,400 for the solar powered heavyweight carnival ride that arrived on the Pier in 1996. …

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Prison-like Schools in South LA Make Kids Depressed

Photo by Steven Fernandez via Flickr The results of a recent survey administered in seven public schools in South Los Angeles are downright depressing. Students feel scared, unmotivated, unsupported, and ignored, and it's causing many to experience the symptoms of clinical depression. …

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It will be sad when Amy Winehouse dies

Obituary information: Amy Jade Winehouse (born 14 September 1983) is an English singer-songwriter, known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including soul, jazz and R&B. Winehouse's 2003 debut album Frank did well, both commercially and critically, in her native Britain. It was…

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Outdoor Living Rooms' Bring Touches of Cheer to Central Los Angeles

l.a.'s bus stops are a perfect example of how America is stupid about public transit. no route maps, no bus schedules, often not even a bench.

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Coachella: Friday Wrap-up

As I mentioned yesterday, I'm covering Coachella for Wired.com. I just posted a selection of the photos I shot yesterday over on Wired.com's Listening Post. I got a lift up in a cherry picker over the main stage and got some photos of the whole grounds at night: Screengrab hosted by flickr. …

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LAst Night's Action: Martin Sacrifices for the Win

LA Dodgers (10-13) defeats Colorado Rockies (10-13) 8-7 (13). Third baseman Russell Martin seems to have come out of his early season slump. He went 4-4 with three singles, a double, two walks and that crucial game-winning sacrifice fly in the 13th with the bases loaded. And you read right.…

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Dutton's feted at Book Prizes

Before the first author was honored at Friday night's Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, Times critic Kenneth Turan delivered a tribute to Dutton's Brentwood Books,...

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