World on Wheels, the Mid-City roller rink that opened in a Venice Boulevard strip mall in 1981 and has long been a community institution, is set to close permanently
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We in the food media tend to get excited over the news of change and newness — it gives us something to write about, if nothing else. But change, especially in
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The 1962 New York Mets — losers of 120 games and a team the locals are resembling more and more each day — were led by a first baseman known fondly as M
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Ask for a Picon Punch in Bakersfield and the locals will know you are an out-of-towner. Here in Bako, it's just a Picon, thank you very much. Outside of the Ba
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Black Sabbath
Harmony Gold Music
6/6/13
Forty-three years after singlehandedly inventing heavy metal, Black Sabbath are set to release 13, next week, their 19th stud
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Poet and publisher Chiwan Choi had just finished a reading in Highland Park and was riding the bus back to his downtown L.A. apartment when something changed.
It wa
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Recently we spoke with Alice Cooper. That same day British newspaper The Guardian posted an archived article from 40 years ago highlighting efforts of high-ranking g
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If you haven't already heard, Empress Pavilion locked its doors for the final time this past Sunday, evicted after operating in Chinatown for 24 years. For insid
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On Big Family Sunday at the Museum of Contemporary Art, kids and family members got to take part in a numbe
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Who says police still profile minorities? The ACLU, that's who.
It's latest research says that black Americans are nearly four times as likely to be arrested
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L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel
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With her 2011 LP, Biophilia, Icelandic singer and performance art icon Björk turned her avant-garde eye on the natural world, using touch-screen technology to pres
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