The Atlantic has just published a really interesting article by Joshua Green about the opening of the Grateful Dead archives at UC Santa Cruz. But it's the intri
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The J. Paul Getty Trust stated Thursday it will appeal an Italian court's order to return the 2,000-year-old bronze Statue of the Victorious Youth. The ancient
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Yesterday morning, after slurping up their morning coffee buzz, a number of Gmail users got their Google Buzz on, or they at least took a shot. Google's new soc
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If you thought Eddie Vedder invented throat-singing–well, think again. Traditional throat singers Huun Huur Tu “come from the former Soviet Autonomous Re
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Are whoopie pies the next big dessert trend of 2010? Roxy Rubell of the newly-launched online bakeshop Baking Whoopie is betting on it. “I think they're th
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There's marketing, there's selling out, and then there's the McItaly, the new McDonald's hamburger that comes wrapped in the Italian flag, both liter
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Strange. The same mayor who last week ordered 1,000 city layoffs, and who said he had the authority to make the cuts, on Tuesday urged the City Council to do the dee
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Phoenix's frontman Thomas Mars is domestic-partnered to OG hipster director Sofia Coppola. Sofia is about to release a new movie, Somewhere, where she most certa
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Saveur Magazine's new issue, #127, is now online. Thanks for sharing, right? Well, you might want to check this one out, as it's the Los Angeles issue, fille
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As the Super Bowl approaches, with its marquee quarterback matchup, its ridiculous halftime show, and its million dollar commercials, we thought we'd look back a
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Waiting for Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jan Perry to show up last week was like waiting for the glitzy Grand Avenue hotel-shop-condos project to finally launch: No
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