Like a cleft apricot, the logo of Fred 62 diner sits above a stretch of Vermont Avenue pavement in Los Feliz, where the smoking, chattering masses talk too much and
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Last year, Grand Avenue Festival visitors made downtown L.A. seem almost citylike for a day. And it's happening all over again this year — music, dance, t
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Lyricist John Strand and composer Dennis McCarthy's new musical opens with the cast singing “God save your hat!” — an ode to an outmoded access
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Not to be glum about it, but it made sense that the flags stood at half-mast for the duration of the deep, angry, at times desperate show at the Hollywood Bowl last
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On Saturday September 13, hundreds of Pee-wee fans from across Los Angeles gathered over picnic baskets and bottles of wine on the lawn of Hollywood Forever Cemetery
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Still a little stunned by this one. I suppose we can chalk this up as some minor triumph to the power of the media, at a time when the Fourth Estate isn't exact
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Yosi Sergant is not the type of publicist one sees on TV. The 32-year-old environmentalist rides his bike everywhere — he gave up his Mitsubishi clunker a few year
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Dear Readers: The Mexican’s new book, Orange County: A Personal History, is in your local bookstore on September 16 — by pure coincidence, Mexican Independence D
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British television personality Vivienne Vyle is a scalpel-tongued ice queen of a talk-show host who regularly baits her wretched, working-class guests — their live
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By most measures, the films of Azazel Jacobs are on the offbeat end of the cinema spectrum. From his award-winning short Kirk and Kerry and the melancholic cult feat
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I like “Swagger Like Us.” Sort of. Its goals are minimal: Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, T.I. and Kanye trade bars about their mutual awesomeness over a sampled ho
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