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- So many horror movies, so little time. Or is it that the 42 horror films this year are not as killer as the past has shown.
- Whole Foods anticipated buyout of Wild Oats is not going come and go without a fight. While the two largest organic supermarkets talk, the USDA is considering relaxing some organic food standards.
- Grocery Strike Watch: "We've been negotiating for six months," said Rick Icaza, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770. "That's long enough."
- “It’s a six-day job interview.” How would you like to be a summer guide on the Kern River?
- Michael Walker of Laurel Canyon writes an Op-Ed in the New York Times: "San Francisco’s Summer of Love can’t hold a stick of incense to the rafter-shaking sounds coming out that same year from a Los Angeles neighborhood 370 miles south, above the Sunset Strip. If we measure ’60s pop-cultural landmarks by the epoch-producing music they generate — and, from Liverpool to Woodstock, we do — then Laurel Canyon was the more evolved and influential destination that summer."