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Come fall, pumpkin-spiced lattes are as ubiquitous as Miley Cyrus Halloween costumes and Angelenos shivering in their uggs and shorts. To celebrate the season, we rounded up a few drinks with a different spin on sugar and spice.

So you've tackled dim sum and slurped up more than enough bowls of noodle soup in the San Gabriel Valley, but have you had a pineapple bun?

A holiday dedicated to the quest for candy is a welcome reprieve in health-conscious Los Angeles, especially for grown-ups. To celebrate Halloween, we round up seven adult-friendly candy shops for a more mature sugar rush, no costume required.

Ever since it won the prestigious Palme d’or at Cannes, the controversy that has been following around Blue is the Warmest Color has made the whole affair much larger than the actual scope of the film itself. I suppose it comes with the territory of earning an NC-17 rating for its graphic depiction of lesbian sex.

I've lived here for seven years, and I love it! The weather is great and there are so many fun and creative people. But some of my friends are always complaining, and saying that New York is so much better. Are they right? What should I tell them?

It's no secret that the San Gabriel Valley is host to some of the most diverse and authentic Asian food in the world, but it also has some of the cutest. Pop culture, furry creatures (and Hello Kitty, of course) inspire some of the most adorable designs this side of the Pacific.

A Touch of Sin focuses on four intertwined tales that show the toll of capitalism and globalization at the personal level in contemporary China. Unlike previous efforts from Jia, these four tales all conclude with graphic, Tarantino-like violence.

After Tiller inserts itself into the debate by giving a voice to those that are among the most marginalized: the last four remaining doctors that provide late-term abortions and their patients that choose to undergo this controversial procedure.

Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity has been favorably compared to the Kubrick and Clarke's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey since its premiere at the Venice International Film Festival. But the two are starkly different films for a variety of reasons—you may as well compare Star Trek Into Darkness to Solaris—the greatest difference between the two is that 2001 transcends its genre trappings while Gravity becomes bogged down by convention and a hackneyed script.

Downtown L.A.'s crowded skyline, maze of freeways and general sense of impending cool made it the perfect location for the 2013 Mad Decent Block Party.