Hollywood‘s love-hate relationship with its bad self is at the heart of, in back of and all over the bright new Fox sitcom Action, much in the news, even befor
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“In Europe a film crew works together for six weeks and becomes a family, but here people are always appearing and leaving, faces come and go — how can y
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Agung
Agung, near downtown, has become the one place to go when you want avocado in your coffee. Iced coffee and the creamy fruit go pretty well together, especially
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Antojitos Denise's
In Los Angeles, good carnitas are common, great carnitas rare. Denise's is a small, sweet taco stand whose customer base consists largely
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Photo by Valeria GuglielmiLIKE HIS MENTOR JOHN BERGER, GEOFF DYER IS AN ODD HYBRID of novelist, critic, memoirist, historian and prose poet. Of the seven books he ha
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SO THIS YEAR, THE RATS (REGIONAL ALTERNATIVE Theaters) are scuttling to L.A. from all corners of the country for a conference that will no doubt come together, someh
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Photo by Debra DiPaolo
Right about now, construction of the Belmont Learning Complex was supposed to be winding down. But instead of approving the finishing touches
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The moment you enter the heavy, padded leather doors, you’re engulfed in a cozy darkness that’s dramatically punctuated by horseshoe-shaped lacquer-red booths, a
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Golden Triangle
The national dish of Burma is a garbanzo-flour-thickened fish chowder called moh hin gha, shot through with noodles, and Golden Triangle does a fanta
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LOS SUPER ELEGANTES MADE THEIR musical debut in Los Angeles in September 1998 in a theatrically vibrant blur of thrash-mariachi, psychedelic distortion, histrionic v
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Let's face it, most Americans would have been mortified to learn that their president had had a bowel movement in the White House, let alone extramarital sex the
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Dim sum can be grand. Northern breakfast breads are delicious. But congee – porridge – may be as close as there is to a universal Chinese breakfast dish,
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