When I pull up in front of Pio Pico State Historic Park — the eponymous home of the famed Californio and two-time governor of Mexican California — a tan, wood
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The video for the Raveonettes' infectious, fuzzy-sweet new single “Candy” features a montage of the Danish duo in the studio, containing footage wit
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Grupo Fantasma
Echoplex, Feb. 14
A musical question — when was the last time you saw dueling trombones? Personally, I've seen dueling pianos in Memphis,
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In honor of poor Teddy Riley.
Nothing says “epic video” more than a hourglass filled with shifted sands. Nothing.
I'm fairly certain that &#
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Dear Mr. Gold:
How could you mention the new book on Syrian Jewish cooking in your column and not name the author?
—Jonathan Roberts, Hollywood
Dear Mr. Roberts:
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Think you already know the epic tale? Not this version, you don’t. Having apparently decided that the Christian monks who transcribed the oldest known version of B
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Dear Mr. Gold:
I heard somewhere that you visit four or five restaurants for every one that ends up in a column. I realize that most of the rejected places are proba
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Ever since Sunday’s Felt Club craft fair at the Ukrainian Culture Center, I’ve been dreaming of pin cushions. Lots and lots of pin cushions. Plump material-cove
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{mosimage}For Gabriel Goillen, night manager of Mel’s Drive-in on Highland Avenue in Hollywood, the events of May 13 still don’t register. Goillen was wo
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AS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER, Erik Cheeseburger was offered a considerable sum of money to appear in a feature film. But then the production company could only raise eno
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No nipples and no pink,” said Tiffany over the phone, explaining how even the boundary-bending Vixen Kabarett created by students at the normally staid Chapman Uni
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It was late in the afternoon at Department 106, the time that jurors’ eyelids droop and the courtroom’s elderly spectators check their bus schedules, whe
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