I met Audrey back in the nascent days of the Internet, when we were both on AOL, regular contributors to a message board devoted to screenwriting. I was just startin
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IT WAS ONE OF THOSE strange, somewhat sleazy situations that seem to plague the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Two weeks ago, 11 of the 13
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A little Nirvana before you go? If Nirvana exists in Los Angeles, it’s here. In 1950, Paramahansa Yogananda, author of the seminal memoir Autobiography of a Yogi,
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Your skin is really dry,” Elisha says as she prepares to roll a tube of hot honey wax across my furry calf.
I know,” I admit. I usually put Aveeno on my legs but
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When I contemplate the possibility of a nuclear strike on Los Angeles, which I find myself doing more and more these days — thank you, Ahmadinejad — I think abou
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Considering that long-term scent memory is nearly unassailable, when you’re blasted to atoms, conceivably some of those minuscule particles will carry olfactory ex
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The hookers downtown don’t look anything like they do in movies. No fishnets or pushup bras. They are in their 50s and 60s and look like little grandmas — which
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Buckle up your hazmat suits and adjust your air mask, as we’re going to take a late summer plunge into the bubbling cesspool of our local people-powered” radio s
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Lou Ferrigno is a fucking asshole, that’s what I’m taking home with me from the 2007 Comic-Con, a fucking asshole!”
The speaker was a 40-something-year-old man
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The recently shuttered Old Spaghetti Factory on Sunset east of Vine didn't take long to get a new paint job. These pieces went up within the past week.
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The only plan was to make sure to be at the lake by nightfall, for the fireworks. This was the consensus at a pool party on the Fourth of July in Echo Park. Were you
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{mosimage} In the span of three small blocks there are nearly a dozen similar storefronts, filled with slutty mannequins in fishnets and clear-heeled platform shoes,
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