Marry me a little Love me just enough Cry but not too often Play but not too rough Keep a tender distance So we’ll both be free That’s the way it ought t
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The night before the Academy Awards, I dreamed Imelda Staunton was making the rounds of the Kodak Theater in Vera Drake drabs and hairnet, discreetly proffering wake
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This is a partial transcript of Bob Hertzberg’s interview with the L.A. Weekly’s editorial board. As with all of the candidate interviews, it has been on
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“Can you see anyone?” asks 33-year-old Elson Trinidad, slowly sliding his silver ’92 Saturn to the curb near Cypress Recreation Center in Cypress P
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The morning after George W. Bush's re-election, I became a secessionist. It's a matter of instantaneous revelation, like looking at the face of God. All of a
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1.Operation Hero Miles.When our troops in Iraq come home
on special leave, the military services pay only for the flight back to one
permanent-duty station. So while
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Photos by Anne Fishbein
Hanger steak with wasabi relish. Many crimes have been
committed in the name of “fusion’’ cuisine, and not a few of them in
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5. Created In Darkness By Troubled Americans: The Best of
McSweeney’s Humor Category, edited by Dave Eggers, Kevin Shay,
Lee Epstein, John Warner and Suzanne K
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1. Breathe. If you are unlucky, you will inhale some spores
of Coddidioides immitis. It is endemic in our soil. An ordinary case
of resulting Valley Fever is not muc
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I can’t remember the last time I so thoroughly enjoyed
reading a series of articles in the L.A. Times as this week’s Pulitzer-class
five-parter on the ho
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A CORONER’S REPORT CONCLUDED that the 24-year-old son of renowned defense attorney Robert Shapiro died last month from an accidental overdose of Ecstasy two days a
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I moved to West Hollywood in 1999, after three years of
sharing a Craftsman 12 blocks from the beach in Santa Monica. The change of
scenery was unexciting, but the
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