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November 16, 2008
Photo by Leanne Maxwell, SFist SFist saw Prop 8 protests continue since election day, including a disturbing anti-LDS one involving a home emblazoned with a "F--- Mormons" banner.Phillyist and its readers debated the merits of keeping Eagles coach Andy Reid around.Torontoist took a look at the newly-renovated Art Gallery of Ontario, designed by hometown hero Frank Gehry.Chicagoist hit up the Prop 8 Protest Rally, looked back at a previous Illinois-centric Presidential inauguration as they...
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Environmental reporter Ilsa Setziol is passionate advocate for native plants. For seven years, she reported for NPR-affiliate KPCC, 89.3. Her work has also been heard on PRI's Living On Earth and KQED's The California Report. Recently when Ilsa became a mom, she stared a new blog, Rambling LA, to cover stories about nature, the environment, and outdoor adventures with her son. LAist asked Ilsa to give us an introduction to native plants. She offers...
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When you read something you like on LAist, we love it when you hit the "recommend" button, and we love it even more if you put your two cents' worth in the comments. Getting a dialog going with our readers and making sure we're giving you content you can use are top priorities for us. Photo by Tom Andrews/LAist So here are this week's top posts, as endorsed by you via the recommend feature, or...
Continue Reading "This Week's Most Commented & Recommended"November 14, 2008
We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist. Slumdog Millionaire, from Director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later). In select theaters now. Cabana Cachaça, a double-distilled cachaça with the same versatility as vodka, but more taste. Club Nokia, with tickets going on sale for select shows right now. Ellis Marsalis Quintet, playing November 16th at The Greek Theater. If you're interested in advertising on LAist or any other site...
Continue Reading "Thanks to This Week's Advertisers"November 12, 2008
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A penniless, eighteen year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, Jamal Malik is one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's ‘‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” But when the show breaks for the night, suddenly, he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. After all, how could an uneducated street kid possibly know so much? Determined to get to the bottom of Jamal’s story, the jaded Police Inspector spends the night probing Jamal’s incredible past, from his riveting tales of the slums where he and his brother Salim survived by their wits to his hair-raising encounters with local gangs to his heartbreak over Latika, the unforgettable girl he loved and lost.
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November 10, 2008
Lisa Fredrickson & Edi Patterson from ImproTheatre's Shakespeare Unscripted show this summer| Photo by Puck90 via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Listen up, shutterbugs! LAist has recently launched a new weekly feature that we hope will keep you in stitches. It's our LAst Laugh comedy picks, but there's one kind of "pic" that seems to be missing... Photos of funny! That's where you, our fearless in-the-field camera fiends, come in. Help us out...
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Forrest "Forrey" Ackerman, the nearly 92 year old coiner of the term "sci-fi" and honorary lesbian (for his work as "Laurajean Ermayne") is said to be ailing. "He wasn't sounding very strong," Harry Knowles said in an entry on Ain't It Cool News, "It hurt to hear his voice." Ackerman helped to bolster the burgeoning sci-fi community by publishing the inspirational journal, Famous Monsters of Filmland. He is a publisher, author and literary agent (to...
Continue Reading "Ailing Ackerman"Photos taken around town by our LAist Featured Photos contributors on Flickr....
Continue Reading "Around Town"November 9, 2008
Photograph of a waiting-to-vote line outside P.S. 87 in NYC by swruler0284 on Flickr Gothamist greeted Election Day with excitement--and some really, really long lines. Even Tim Robbins had a meltdown at his polling site!Bostonist discovered that it's hard out there for a singer when we met The Opera Guy, a classically trained busker, and Jess Tardy, an independent singer-songwriter whose work has appeared on television.Seattlest thought that this video of Capitol Hill hipsters...
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The windows at 22 Bond St. on La Brea announce their sale info and political views loud and proud. Photo by Julie Wolfson/ LAist...
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When you read something you like on LAist, we love it when you hit the "recommend" button, and we love it even more if you put your two cents' worth in the comments. Getting a dialog going with our readers and making sure we're giving you content you can use are top priorities for us. Photo by Tom Andrews/LAist | Check out more protest pics So here are this week's top posts, as endorsed by...
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A man and his message to the Mormon Church at Thursday's Prop 8 protest | Photo by Malingering No, not Peter Griffin, although I have to give it up to him for spouting the phrase that has run through my head more and more in recent months, “If gays want to get married and be miserable like the rest of us, I say we should let them.” Actually, I was referring to me, this...
Continue Reading "A Family Guy’s Perspective on Prop 8"November 8, 2008
Just like there was an original "It" Girl, there was also an original "platinum blonde." Jean Harlow was born Harlean Harlow Carpenter on March 3, 1911 in Kansas City Missouri. Her father was a dentist from a blue collar background, while her mother was from a rich family. These were only the beginnings of their differences and her mother grew very unhappy in the marriage, eventually turning most of her attention to her daughter. Harlean...
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This curious bit of info came to us via our tipline, and may merit the curious (or the foolish) to check it out: "Volkswagen made a car so bad, that Jennifer Boswell wants to take it out to a field and charge a dollar swing. Fortunately, NPR's famous Car Talk radio Tapert* [sic] brothers convinced Jennifer on air not to kill her car, but instead give away her green 2001 beetle to the most deserving...
Continue Reading "When an '01 VW Bug Bugs, Give it Away"November 7, 2008
We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist. Cabana Cachaça, a double-distilled cachaça with the same versatility as vodka, but more taste. Ellis Marsalis Quintet, playing November 16th at The Greek Theater. If you're interested in advertising on LAist or any other site in our network, check out our online mediakit....
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November 6, 2008
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Just 130 miles north of Los Angeles lies some spectacular desert scenery. Red Rock Canyon State Park, in Kern County bears the mark of prehistoric lakes, rivers and glaciers in the colorful striations on the cliffs and the rock formations that rise out from the forest of Joshua trees During the Gold Rush, prospectors passed through Red Rock Canyon, but didn't find any gold there, so continued on to the settlement of Los Angeles. During...
Continue Reading "LAist Road Trip: Red Rock Canyon State Park"November 5, 2008
photo by Peggy Archer/LAist Flowers placed outside the "No on 8" office in West Hollywood...
Continue Reading "Photo of the Day: Sympathy Bouquet"Free donuts and coffee, long lines at the polls, the "I Voted" sticker, parties, ballots, and headlines... Election Day and Night in Los Angeles as seen through the eyes of the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr....
Continue Reading "Images from the Election, Los Angeles Style"November 3, 2008
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Continue Reading "Around Town"November 2, 2008
Gothamist was mesmerized by the trailer for Empire, a movie about biking in NYC with a flagrant disregard for traffic laws, safety and basic common sense.Phillyist couldn't really talk about anything but their World Series-winning Phillies. The curse has been reversed!LAist got annoyed at the Sarah Palin effigy in West Hollywood. It was eventually taken down, but then a Barack Obama one was put up in Redondo Beach.Chicagoist spent the week preparing for Barack...
Continue Reading "Week Around the Ists"This weekend there have been several events open to the public for celebrating Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), which honors those who have passed away through the creation of colorful altars and costumed processionals. Two major celebrations were at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Saturday night, and on Olvera Street from the 25th through tonight. Our LAist Featured Photos pool contributors shared with us via Flickr some amazing images from the festivities....
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