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USC Tragedy Demands Unity, Not Division

The Daily Trojan | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: RenRen.Com, Daily Trojan, LA Weekly, Neon Tommy, Ying Wu, Usc, International Students, Ming Qu, Usc Students Shot, Usc Shooting, College News

As we cope with the aftermath, we can't lose sight of the fact that the shooting isn't just a tragedy for the international student community: It's a tragedy for the entire Trojan Family.

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Newspaper Classifieds: The Good, the Bad and the Hilarious

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Chicago Reader, Michael Ventura, Harlan Ellison, 60 Minutes, LA Weekly, Classified Advertising, New Age, Mikal Gilmore, Village Voice, Lola Lane, Rockie Gardner, Alternative Weekly Newspapers, Classified Ads, Newspaper Classifieds, Video, Media News

The sad state of newspaper classifieds makes me feel lucky that I worked at LA Weekly during the early '80s, when the classifieds did more than drive revenue: they said as much about the city's culture as the cover stories.

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How To Be A Professional Laugher

blogs.laweekly.com | Posted 03.03.2012

Read More: LA Weekly, Paid to Laugh, Professional Laugher, How to Be a Professional Laugher, Comedy News

It's 7 a.m., I'm struggling with jetlag from the red eye I took into LAX the night before and I'm in the wilds of the Valley, about to audition for th...

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5 Cheese Questions For A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Food Critic

culture magazine | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Cheese, LA Restaurants, Jonathan Gold, LA Weekly, Artisan Cheese, Mozzarella, Cheese Questions From a Critic, Cheese Answers From Food Critic, Food Critic on Cheese, Food News

When I lived in New York, I tended to spend about twice as much at Murray's each year as I did at every supermarket combined.

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Playboy Fights Off A Lawsuit Claiming Discrimination Against Men

Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Hugh Hefner, Annual White Party, LA Weekly, Dask Productions, David Long Jr vs Playboy, Gender Biased Pricing, Playboy Lawsuit, Playboy Mansion West, Los Angeles News

It's practically an unwritten law in clubs across the nation: guys pay a steep cover charge, but the ladies get in for free. But one man decided that ...

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PAVEMENT Occupies Los Angeles

Sam Slovick | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Oakland, Protest, Occupy La, LA Weekly, Pavement, Lapd, Los Angeles, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Los Angeles, Los Angeles News

After watching the media coverage of the Occupy LA movement I was disheartened. It was decidedly glib. I moved my tent to City Hall the morning of October 28th and set an intention to stay for the duration.

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Hotel From Hell

Sam Slovick | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Los Angeles, Poverty, Homelessness, Skid Row, Pavement, La Impact, Ford Apartments, Ford Hotel, LA Weekly, Low-Income Housing, Los Angeles News

I took a walk through the construction site at the nefarious Ford Hotel with two former residents, Abraham and Travelle. They spent their childhood in the well-documented hellhole, witnessing life at the bottom rung of capitalism.

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Owners Say the Darndest Things

Michael Sigman | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Leonard Stern, Randy Newman, News Corp, LA Weekly, Workplace Advice, Mudoch Village Voice, Horrible Bosses, Murdoch Newspapers, Horrible Bosses Trailer, Newspaper Owners, Comedy News

In an economy where job security is nonexistent and it's riskier than ever to stand up to horrible bosses, there's usually nothing funny about their carelessly erratic and sometimes cruel behavior. But one finds humor where one can.

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Voice Labor Settlement: High Drama or Foregone Conclusion?

Michael Sigman | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Union Negotiations, LA Weekly, Village Voice Media, Media Coverage, Village Voice, Village Voice Union Negotiations, Village Voice Media Strike, Village Voice Strike, Labor Rights, Labor Laws, Village Voice Labor Rights, Media News

To state as a fact that a strike was "narrowly averted" has little more meaning than if I told you I narrowly averted missing dinner by consuming a sandwich just two hours before bedtime.

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Heal the Bay Food Benefit Is Gold's Best Ever

Jay Weston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cut, Jitlada, Jonathan Gold, LA Weekly, Mozza, Heal the Bay, Los Angeles News

It is the unexpected gems which make an event like this such a treat... the discovery of flavorful bombs which blow your mind and stimulate your imagination.

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Girls Gone Graphic: Poseurs Parses LA Nightlife

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LA Times, Waiting for Guffman, Vanity Fair, Graphic Novel, Donald Rumsfeld, Derek Kirk Kim, Urban Dictionary, Cecil Castellucci, Minx, Hollywood No, Youth-Slang, Mike Carey, DC Comics, Deborah Vankin, Publishers Weekly, Jim Rugg, Shelly Bond, LA Weekly, Image, Rick Mays, Andi Watson, Kabuki, Mark Hempel, Jesse Hamm, Josh Howard, Sonny Liew, Metromix LA, Los Angeles News

Poseurs, Deborah Vankin's funny, touching graphic novel about the adventures of young adults immersed in L.A. party culture, reminds me of how I learned to decode the notorious "Hollywood No."

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One More Thing About Keith

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ed Schultz, Msnbc, Social Security, Arizona Shootings, Liberal, Keith Olbermann, Ben Affleck, Chris Matthews, Stephen Colbert, Steve Benen, Progressive, Lawrence O'Donnell, Rachel Maddow, LA Weekly, Saturday Night Live, Comcast, Washington Monthly, Media News

Watching Keith's apparently unmoored anger has often been confusing, but given what's now been widely reported, it makes more sense. The end was near, and he knew it.

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Rain, Snow and the Prospects for 30/10 in 2011

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LA Times, San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley, Torrance, Washington, 30/10, Wilshire Subway, Snow, Congress, Los Angeles, Orlando, The Source, Los Angeles News, California High-Speed Rail Authority, Crenshaw, Curbed La, New Jersey, Westside, New Year?S Eve, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, LA Weekly, Metro, Governor Christie, Ciclavia, Anaheim, Disney, Lax, Rain, Public Transportation, Los Angeles Streetsblog, ARC Tunnel, Los Angeles News

The end-of-year deluge is not getting me down. Instead, I see the storms, which have blanketed the East in snow and LA in rain, as more evidence of our need to build the subway.

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A Collage of Artists: Presenting the Lou Beaches

Lisa Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alpha Lubicz, Lou Beach, Cooper Union, Issa Sharp, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 420 Characters, Contemporary Art, Pasadena Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, Alison Saar, Surrealism, John Heartfield, Nickelodeon Animation Studios, Betye Saar, Los Angeles, Collage Art, Works on Paper, Gene Pool, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sam Lubicz, LA Weekly, Weather Report, Pasadena, Burbank, Tandanori Yokoo, Matt Groening, Nickelodeon, Max Ernst, Lezley Saar, Arts News

There is definitely an argument for working in close proximity to other artists -- that's why they invented art colonies. The Lou Beaches demonstrate that the family that glues together sticks together.

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The 10 Most Battered Cookbooks In Food Writer Jonathan Gold's Kitchen

Squid Ink | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jonathan Gold, Books, Cooking, LA Weekly, Cookbooks, Jonathan Gold Cookbooks, Food News

Dear Mr. Gold: Do you always eat out? Do you ever eat at home? Do you have any cookbooks that you use a great deal? Just curious. −Maggs, Mar Vista...

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LA Weekly's Racist Scaremongering About Latinos and Prop 19

Russ Belville | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexican Drug War, Cheech Marin, Prop 19, LA Weekly, Dennis Romero, Mexico, Cheech and Chong, California, Los Angeles News

Despite what Cheech Marin's comedy routines lead LA Weekly to believe, Latinos are almost the least likely among racial and ethnic groups to have smoked marijuana.

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LA Metro's Misguided Critics: The Local Party of No

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

No self-respecting American of any political persuasion can look at China's success with high-speed rail and rail travel generally without crying over how far we are from what the Chinese have achieved.

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It's Time To Remember Tom Bradley

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tom Bradley, Antonio Villaraigosa, Lyn Goldfarb, Kerman Maddox, LA Weekly, President Obama, LA Alternative, Tom Bradley Legacy Foundation, Marc Haefele, Howard Blume, Sam Yorty, Alison Sotomayor, Anton Dvorak, Maury Weiner, Gary Horowitz, Raphael Sonenshein, Los Angeles News

The late Tom Bradley (1917-98), one of L.A.'s best mayors -- he served a record-breaking five terms from 1973-93 -- has been all but ignored as years, decades and anniversaries roll by.

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PHOTOS: The Spiciest Food In Los Angeles

Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LA Restaurants, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Spicy Food, Jitlada, Slidepollajax, Jonathan Gold, Spicy Food, Los Angeles News

Today is Hot and Spicy Food Day, and for those of us that can't get enough of the tear-inducing, tongue-numbing good stuff, here's a list of the Top 1...

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Jonathan Gold: Food Critic

LA Times Magazine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Critics, Food, Jonathan Gold, LA Weekly, Pulitzer Prize, Food News

Sitting at a barside table in Cole's downtown, one of his favorite cocktail spots, Jonathan Gold swirls a rye old-fashioned, pontificating on all thin...

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No Goldman at the End of the Rainbow?

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Bill Clinton, Creative Destruction, Sec, Creative Loafing, Marxism, Jim Hightower, LA Weekly, Village Voice Media, Warren Buffett, Socialism, Greece, Business News

We now know that Goldman and other huge banks made multiple billions by financing financing -- as opposed to financing companies.

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Can Slake Quench LA's Media Thirst?

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LA Times, Google, South America, Slake, John Powers, Daniel Hernandez, California, Joe Donnelly, Harold Meyerson, Pacific Rim, Europane Bakery, Jonathan Gold, David Zahniser, Bikini, Laurie Ochoa, Phoenix, LA Weekly, Gourmet, Hammer Museum, Gregory Rodriguez, Scott Foundas, Marc Cooper, Matthew Fleischer, Deborah Vankin, Dani Katz, Nicholas Carr, Slake Los Angeles, Los Angeles News

The LA media landscape just got richer. Joe Donnelly and Laurie Ochoa have joined forces to produce the debut issue of the quarterly Slake Los Angeles.

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Banksy Film Predictably Divides the Art World

Joshua Glazer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roger Gastman, Banksy, Mr. Brainwash, Exit Through the Gift Shop, LA Weekly, Life Is Beautiful, Obey, Los Angeles, Andre the Giant, Shepard Fairey, Street Art, Invader, Buffmonster, Arts News

My gut reaction tells me that Banksy is laughing yet again, having dropped a serious credibility bomb on the street art world.

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Exec Bonuses/Newsroom Outsourcing a Virtueless Circle

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Outsourcing, Alfred Hitchcock, Congress, LA Weekly, Health Care Reform, Rupert Murdoch, Media News, Wall Street Journal, Gannett, Financial Regulation, Media News

Media companies have to make cuts to stay in business, and some outsourcing is inevitable. But rewarding execs with big bonuses for, in effect, taking away workers' health insurance is unconscionable.

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Los Angeles Natural Wine Week Kicks Off

Huffington Post | Jane Helpern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bistro Lq, Los Angeles Cultural Events, LA Weekly, Amy Atwood, Foodie, Wine, Los Angeles Natural Wine Week, Los-Angeles-Events, Foodies, Jonathan Gold, Los Angeles News

Beer connoisseurs and turophiles had their day in the sun between last month's Beer Fest and the Grilled Cheese Invitational. Now the time has come f...

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