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that dinner was nearly the death of me
I just stood there dumbly wondering how I could get a lid out of a bottom cabinet to cut off oxygen to the fire without setting anything else on fire. Did I mention my pot of potatoes was also boiling over at this point? It was. And the smoke detect...
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LA media artist Natalie Bookchin likens video blogging to the ancient Greek chorus, reflecting on the turmoil of the gods...
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Short Stack is a screening of shorts made by designers in LA set for Wednesday, November 10, 2010 @ 7:00 p.m.
cheddar AND apples? yes
We once took a stroll through the Ferry Building while I was visiting him in San Francisco. Every time I turned around he was chewing something different, culminating with a giant baguette he had tucked under his arm, but within biting distance.
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As control of state government switches hands, some old problems continue to haunt: for one, a likely $16 billion in debt to the federal government by 2012, from whom California is borrowing to make unemployment benefit payouts.
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This week in Southern California Media Arts, the old and the new collide as old films are projected on antique projectors while across town, artists present generative, sensor-enhanced live cinema performances.
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California is still the same place, if unseasonably hot; but pot is still illegal for non-patients, our greenhouse gas legislation is still in place, Barbara Boxer is still our senator, and Jerry Brown is still our governor (after that nearly 20 year g...
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A city is not just height and breadth, sight and smell, it is also sound.
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Scholars Trebor Scholz and Laura Y. Liu discuss labor, exploitation, social networks and urban space in a new, free pamphlet published by the Architectural League of New York.
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Californians bring a blessed end to this year's election season today, and voters get a chance to surprise in what the Los Angeles Times calls "the closest California campaigns in decades."
Pan de Muerto
With my dead bread finally on cooling racks, I wanted a change of scene and went for a walk through the closest neighborhood-y looking neighborhood. Seeing carved pumpkins on stoops and tiny dinosaurs roaming the streets reminded me of my own childhoo...
100,000 Rileys
They were farm boys, according to the credit manager of a department store on Pico. They were from "Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Arkansas," he said.
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