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Jen Sincero is a musician, sexpert, and the author of the bestselling book, The Straight Girl’s Guide To Sleeping With Chicks and the semi-autobiographical novel, Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer. She currently hosts a weekly sex talk radio show called Dr. Happypants on killradio.org. Living in Sin is her weekly advice column for LA's sexually curious, confused and constipated. Got a question for Jen? Ask her. We promise to be discreet (all questions will...

As World Changing looks at the most pressing concerns in the aftermath of Katrina, The San Jose Mercury News (reg. required) is helping LAist by reminding us, once again, of the kindness of strangers. Locally, corporations like Disney and Occidental Petroleum had donated over $3.5 million to the cause while the Dodger Stadium Red Cross center had collected over $350,000 in individual contributions by early evening yesterday. And that's not to mention the people...

In the aftermath of tragedies, people say and do some pretty stupid things. Like Reverend Lewis Logan of Bethel AME, who says that Katrina is a Black woman seeking retribution on the South for its history of racism (Matt Szabo). LAist might be a little color blind but the faces we see on TV dealing with this storm seem decidedly black and impoverished. And, regardless, what the hell kind of abuse of religious faith...

Travel blog, Gridskipper, added an LA correspondent this week. BoHan explains himself and his cohorts thusly:Our qualifications for this job? Absolutely nothing, other than we live in the area, and we really, really love LA, the most misunderstood metropolis in America. We are not aspiring screenwriters, travel writers, or entertainment executives. We are nothing. We drink too much, we're queer, we live in a bad neighborhood, we see a shrink, we take Prozac, we're...

LAist never expected the Intelligent Design to make its way here but last week while we (ed. note: well, me, mostly) were on the East coast, the Association of Christian Schools International filed a civil rights suit against the UC system for refusing to certify high school science courses that use text challenging the theory of evolution and Darwinism. The Daily Bruin editorializes that the UC policy is effectively saying that students who are...

LAist spent some time in New York this past weekend and took just one picture the whole trip. Gothamist liked it so much they wrote about it. Go there to get appropriately amused and/or grossed out. Other notes from NYC? We really liked staying at the Affinia Dumont; Virgil's BBQ is still the only place we absolutely must eat at when we get to town (and the only place we will eat at in...

The founder of Homeboy Industries tells a Trenton-New Jersey paper that LA's war on gangs has been exactly the wrong way to deal with the problem. The Trenton Times writes about how their mayor is approaching their local gang situation (which features less than a thousand active gang members) in comparison to other cities across the nation. While, according to Father Boyle, LA continues to throw police and muscle at our thousands and thousands...

LAist has spent most of the day battling trackback spam and other evil creatures so we haven't really had time to comment on the stories of interest to us today like the arrival of Democrats in Santa Monica, the life of a job almost exclusive to the San Fernando Valley - The Suitcase Pimp or the grounding of a 'banner' airline but we were annoyed enough by a commentary in The Cornell Daily Sun...

LAist caught a brief snippet of last night's packed Crenshaw High meeting on Good Day LA this morning -- they featured a soundbite of a father requesting Superintendent Roy Romer's resignation -- but had no idea how this all came about. As a parent of a Crenshaw High student explains in the comments of our earlier post, it wasn't the LAUSD who called the meeting but the Crenshaw Cougars Coalition The reason that Crenshaw...

That seems to be the question of the day with an area high school losing its accreditation for the first time in 30 years. Martini Republic's LA blog and Mayor Sam's Sister City both want to know how Crenshaw High School has been allowed to get so bad. Crenshaw High's website doesn't have any information about what the school is doing to regain accreditation and LAUSD's Budget Board Meeting tomorrow doesn't appear to have...