Within the fandom annals, before Gleeks and Trekkies roamed convention halls, there were — and still are — Lucy fans; a fervent bunch that communes freq
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It's common sense that when a law enforcement officer gets arrested, the jail needs to place him in a segregated cell and not in with the general population, whe
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How to describe Centrum Sunset, the 51,000-square-foot project proposed for the mostly vacant, borderline-blighted lot at 8801 Sunset Boulevard, former site of the h
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The mechanism that “turns on” taste cells (i.e. the lightning quick chain of events in which our brains process and respond to the foods we put on our
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The stereotype of the TV news journalist as a prima donna with a massive fragrance collection, thanks in part to Anchorman, persists.
But the ones we've come to
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If you meet David Cohn, he won't tell you he's a rapper. Should you ask him what he does for a living, he'll answer that he's unemployed. He used to
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Los Angeles has seen a spate of German-themed bars and restaurants open in the past few years (Wurstkuche, Biergarten, Steingarten, the upcoming Currywurst), but v
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If there's such a thing as a seasonal protein, during summer, seafood is it. After all, it's during summer that we are most aware that we live in a coasta
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It wasn't that long ago that the only place you could get good, freshly harvested bitter melon was as the local Asian grocer, or someone's backyard. Bitter
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So Carmageddon didn't attract the world-ending traffic jam that we feared it would. But the historic weekend closure of the 405 freeway did produce some interest
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Update: Fox spokeswoman Claudia Russo says she “can confirm that John's contract has not been renewed,” and that “an extensive search for his r
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On Wednesday night The Airliner club replaced its security guards at the popular Low End Theory party, following widespread reports of bribery.
The uber-popular bea
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