Check out photos from Anime Expo 2009 in Shannon Cottrell's slideshow “Anime Madness: Cosplay Characters at Anime Expo '09.”
This Thursday, tens
Read full Post
On Thursday, “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” premiered downtown at Nokia Theatre. Fans, who had been camped out for much of the week, waited on the sideline
Read full Post
Karen Bass may never have been further from her nonprofit activist roots than when she returned home from Sacramento and her powerful job as California Assembly spea
Read full Post
The erotic, popular models of alternative pin-up website SuicideGirls.com have been supposedly banned from participating in this year's San Diego Comic-Con, acco
Read full Post
The love for the West Coast's seaside benefits continues with this video clip courtesy of Stones Throw Records.
In it, “Let's Hit Beach” —
Read full Post
Every big city in California is going through some sort of fiscal nightmare, but things seem to be going particularly badly up in Oakland.
Mayor Ron Dellums has bee
Read full Post
Board members of the Los Angeles Unified School District agreed to hire John Deasy as deputy superintendent yesterday, which will make him a major player in the oper
Read full Post
In the good old U.S.A, we hold our cakes to higher standards than cookies. A cookie can be dry and crumbly (that's what coffee is for). A cake must be both beaut
Read full Post
As farmers market-savvy populations go, we're pretty spoiled in the tomato realm. These are a year round harvest for us, sometimes coming from the vine fields
Read full Post
For such a tiny, bitter thing, cocoa has done remarkably well. It has been cultivated in the Americas for thousands of years, and today exists, in some form, on just
Read full Post
If you can get past Karen Elson's flaming red hair, if you can get past her unblemished skin, if you can get past her supermodel comportment, if you can get past
Read full Post
The Front Page Online reports that Albert Vera, former Culver City mayor and owner of Sorrento Italian Market died Monday morning of a heart attack. Vera was beloved
Read full Post
