“Like a lot of other stuff in my life, I sort of fell backwards into it,” screenwriter Will Beall says of his unexpected perch atop Hollywood's A-lis
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And so the month of dieting, and best-selling diet books, begins. Judging by the stacks on our desk, this year's back cover theme is the anti-diet, with books li
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“No animals were harmed in the making of this motion picture,” the famous disclaimer goes. None, it ought to say, unless you count the ones that were dea
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Just north of the intersection of Sawtelle and Olympic, in the neighborhood known as Little Osaka, there's a quadrant of Los Angeles with so much outstanding foo
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[Editor's note: Soon-to-be-award-winning gonzo music journalist Danielle Bacher prowls the late late night scene for West Coast Sound. For this installment, she
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An adaptation of George V. Higgins' 1974 novel Cogan's Trade, Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly anatomizes a self-policing underground economy of junk
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Afrojack brought his Jacked tour to The Palladium on Friday night for a sold out show. R3HAB, Quintino and Shermanology opened the night. Did we mention Insomniac in
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On a recent rainy Monday morning Squid Ink traveled to the Marriott Burbank, to learn more about the journey to becoming The Next Food Network Star — and what
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Let's all give thanks we have bountiful great comedy in this town.
5. 17th Nerdmelt Horrible Movie Night
Hosts John Mathot and Susan Wright, along with the awes
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A few weeks ago, we discussed the five worst kinds of cockblocks. These interfering types include those people who physically get in the way of your sexual encounte
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8:55 PM: I arrive at Corner Bakery Cafe in Westwood to pick up 43-year-old rapper/producer/MC Michael Troy (aka Myka 9) and his Canadian producer Factor. For some ba
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Five months ago, Brendan Angelides spent ten days in silence. There was no talking, no Internet and no music, which was a decided change of pace for the DJ-producer,
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