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1 treeVerb 165

Actually, Real Estate scam artists are responsible for much of the current California meltdown. Overpriced properties combined with predatory "junk-mortgages" all evaporated into thin air and took the...

On July 3, 2009 7:08 PM in Cow Tails or a State Budget Solution?
2 msmerymac 121

I'm not saying NY doesn't have great food and that LA imitations are no where near as good. Just that maybe we should be aware that they are LA imitations and accept it. ;-)...

3 Zach Behrens 73

You definitely can!...

On July 3, 2009 5:18 PM in New Orleans Sno-Ball Shop Chills the Valley
4 jrb 57

"What else have we not been told by the Governor?" How 'bout that we're one of the few states that doesn't throw an extraction tax at oil companies for any oil they pump out from underneath our state...

5 Caleb Bacon 57

He did the crime, and paid the 50 game time -- which cost him $7.7 million. Next....

On July 4, 2009 11:25 PM in He's Baaaaaack
6 field 28

their cheesecake bites are to die for....

7 Ross A. Lincoln 25

And this is, once again, where I call busll shit. 2030? That's a fucking joke. Don't even bother if you can't get it completed in a small enough amount of time to actually matter....

8 texas nexas! 24

what do you expect miss/mr. pubic defender. have you seen the crime scene photos? have you lost a loved one in a blood bath? those of us who have read every bit of literature on this, and those of us ...

On June 10, 2009 2:48 PM in Susan Atkins Parole Hearing Postponed
9 Deepfry 23

"With the Mayor out of town for the big event.." You mean he's actually in town sometimes??...

10 brainylagirl 23

That's spoken like a person who's taught his fair share of freshman comp classes at one of our nation's fine institutions of higher learning outside of the the Top 25 or, possibly, a tour or two "in t...

11 Josh Tate 23

Please, let it never be said that I don't love a well-made blockbuster. Star Trek blows the doors off of Transformers in terms of genuine thrills and tension. Hell, even Wolverine and Terminator 4 h...

12 Lindsay William-Ross 22

Wait, so if I said "McDonald's serves refreshing sodas" then you would assume it was an "endorsement to patronize" McDonald's, and not a statement of fact colored by a single positive adjective (in my...

13 db 21

I hope it gets a flat tire every time it pulls out of the driveway....

On July 3, 2009 7:50 PM in The Next Mobile Food Truck: Johnny Rockets
14 quarrygirl 20

i really enjoy the LAistory series. this makes me sad though, that they would just demolish a place that meant so much to this city for a damn school. do we preserve NOTHING around here? :(...

On July 4, 2009 10:52 AM in LAistory: The Cocoanut Grove
15 Ghostly1 19

Give me a break. The parade didn't do any uniting. The people who were enthused about the Laker win already agreed. Nothing changed, not even for that one day. I'll tell you what definitely did happe...

On June 19, 2009 1:51 PM in Lakers Celebration Was Necessary
16 Jimmy Bramlett 19

You're spot on. I would like to say that their recent offensive slump is surprising, but we all knew it would happen at some point. ...

On July 1, 2009 11:16 AM in LAst Night's Action: Dodgers Marquis Loss
17 Spokker 19

This is really getting out of control. ...

18 Farley Elliott 18

This is a great thing you've done....

On July 5, 2009 10:43 AM in MIXist: 4th of July
19 G Pro 17

The letter is eloquent but I shudder to think of the lunacy which may surround this memorial....

20 Johnny 17

Sorry not only in the wrong box but posted twice. ...

21 bicigirl79 16

awww RIP!...

On July 1, 2009 1:20 PM in Oscar Winning Actor Karl Malden Dies
22 GarySe7en 15

Last year my girlfriend made bank selling homemade vegan cookies at Midnight Ridazz events and getting friends to help sell them at workplaces. It's tough, and I agree tougher than the training aspect...

23 torrmoz 15

A lot of the positions won't be re-filled as AA's production levels are now lower. Also, Reuters had the best headline: Probe fingers 1,800 American Apparel workers http://www.reuters.com/article/d...

24 samkim 15

Link works fine for me. Farmertomato, if you ever encounter another problem on the computer, just throw it away. Then you can't complain about it and I don't have to read about it....

25 christina 15

apology(ies) accepted. :) ok. i absolutely agree that we should be able to criticize suckiness. i never disagreed with that. and i think the irony is/will be that i'll come back on here after i'v...

26 Decoy_O 14

The link given in the first story has expired....

On July 4, 2009 3:02 PM in Extra, Extra
27 photo_la 14

It's the biggest non-surprise of the year! Not because it's American Apparel, just because there are so many undocumented workers here and the clothing industry is a popular destination for many....

28 Solomon 14

The statement, "you've already got big troubles with your veganism" reads as a swipe at vegans who are out of sync with your labor and environmental views. Do I read wrong?...

29 Elise Thompson 14

Can you get it with condensed milk?...

On July 3, 2009 4:55 PM in New Orleans Sno-Ball Shop Chills the Valley
30 hallmonitor 13

What you guys fail to realize is that cow tails are the solution to the state budget. ...

On July 2, 2009 9:16 AM in Cow Tails or a State Budget Solution?
31 Tom Lewis 13

hey kzap - Bill Maher is a rerun...

32 caliking01 13

Ive been forced to eat these sandwhiches many times by way of office lunch orders, I am never impressed. Thats all....

33 spoon 12

Which is why people pay so much to live near the water, where there is air....

34 DaveGardena 11

yup... now we know why we could not get a decent budget....

On July 2, 2009 9:08 AM in Cow Tails or a State Budget Solution?
35 sucatrapsorter 11

park in the Vons across the street -- why bother with the Bay Cities clusterfuck parking lot?...

36 Manny 11

Link has been updated... Thanks for the heads up!...

On July 4, 2009 3:08 PM in Extra, Extra
37 rdm24 11

Before people start complaining about this (and with good reason), I'd like to point out that the masses of people that will come down to LA will probably spend several times more that on food and sou...

38 skd 10

Rejecting the MagLev technology is like telling the Nazi Rocket scientists 65 years ago, who brought their technology to the US government, "sorry, this stuff is too expensive to build and is unreliab...

39 pinoy 10

I prefer halo halo or piragua over this....

40 Los Angeles 10

Emily, this was great. I know the fundraising part is harder than the training part. I believe $3,000 is the minimum to participate. Can you tell us some of the more creative fundraising tactics you o...

41 Julie Wolfson 9

I love Bay Cities. I have been going there forever. We have ordered the super long sandwiches for parties too. I also buy farro and other ingredients there to make some of my favorite Italian recipes....

42 polaroidgirl 8

That's so awesome that he doesn't care. Great news. Ugh....

43 Will Campbell 8

I'm no Mark Lisanti, but I spotted the mural a month ago and made a pano-pic of the thing here....

On June 30, 2009 4:37 PM in Silver Lake Walking Man Mural Spotted
44 booboo 8

Mrs. Field Hockeypuck???...

On June 9, 2009 9:28 PM in Wildfire Arsonist Sentenced to Death
45 Angel MagaƱa 8

Funny you should mention that, especially in this context, as I always thought it was illegal to ride on LA sidewalks. I've actually been pulled over before for riding on the sidewalk. The whole pre...

46 Emoney 8

Excellent. Let's replace the police paychecks with IOU slips written in crayon....

47 kifbox 8

meh... His opening for the most recent "Web Soup" (where the normal Soup was pre-empted - last Friday)...the one about his carpal tunnel hands...was weak so I switched it off. The Soup spinoffs (Chi...

On June 30, 2009 3:25 PM in Chris Hardwick: Nerdism For Fun and Profit
48 RamonDestroys 8

All great points. I had no clue this was possibly connecting to Palmdale. Since I live in Palmdale, I'd have no problem driving to Victorville to catch a train to Vegas. It'd save me tons of mileage ...

49 BevY 7

wow, dope shirts! can i haz?!...

50 lucindamichele 7

As of 11:10am, there are four "likes" on this story. This seems weird to me. Does that mean people like that she died? They like that you've written this up? Or they liked Farrah? Quite a mystery....

On June 25, 2009 11:11 AM in Farrah Fawcett has Died

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