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This is your chance to join an official DARPA Challenge Team and all you have to do is look to the sky this Friday, December 5 and report back if you spy a red balloon!
To sign up, go to ispyaredballoon.com and you will be part of a team effort to win $40K that will be donated to charity, ...
News
Mazda 2 under its silk wrap
Attending the LA Auto Show on a press pass is treat in itself. The show is edited down to the most important cars being showcased during the press days. With its designation by the “Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d’Automoblies” we are treated to ...
News
Arianna Huffington – you love her or you hate her or you forgot all about her; whatever your feelings, check out this fascinating profile that The New Yorker did on her last year – welcomes Los Angeles to her digital rag, The Huffington Post . Not sure why this took so long ...
Sports
Yep, we’re got tickets to this sold-out show by the band I totally, like, LOVED when I was in high school and my first boyfriend EVAR broke up with me and then my family went on this family vacation and I went along but I don’t remember where we went because the whole time I had ...
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Hello out there!
All of my life I have lived on the Left Side. From Vancouver to Seattle to San Francisco (where I started writing for Metblogs ), the Left Coast has always been my home. When I moved to Los Angeles I made no exception and chose to make the Left Side my home. I live right on ...
A&E
Dominic West
Venice
I waited as long as I could for the owner to return, but alas I was not so lucky today. I was dying to learn the history of this particular 1960 El Camino of which is the rarest of that body style with barely 14K made. The license plate tells us all what the owner thinks of this gem “A ...
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Image via Wikipedia
In just a few short days, the annual LADWP Festival of Lights will kick off. with Bike Night. On December 3rd from 5 – 10pm, bike riders will have the streets to themselves.
New this year will be walking only nights. With the stated purpose of ‘going ...
News
This post is a bit tardy, but I’ve been in detention like all year.
One of my favorite local DIY mavens recently opened Home Ec. , an adorable new retail space located in the heart of Sunset Junction in Silver Lake.
Just standing on the sidewalk, peering in Home Ec.’s warm, ...
Sports
Silver Lake
Espresso Profeta foam.
Since leaving my job at The Firm, I have discovered two things: 1) freedom; and 2) my apartment is a poor substitute for an office. While I hammer out my future self, psyche and all, I have forced myself to find workspaces in various coffee shops throughout the ...
Food
Remember the bad ass two night benefit show I mentioned a couple weeks ago , headlined by members of the Pixies, Michael Penn, Flea, Tim & Eric, and more?
Well, it just got a whole lot badder asser.
Now added to Tuesday, December 8th rock lineup: Tenacious D, members of OK GO, and The ...
A&E
Flea
Faizon Love
Violet
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Simply show up at the Palladium 8PM and give the secret code word “Hank Ford -Metblog List” and you are in.
A caveat. Ford ...
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Now, full disclosure: I loves me some Bert Green, downtown gallerist & founder of the LA Art Walk. [waves] And I loves me some Gallery Row Organization (some stories I assigned & edited for the LA Alternative Press back in 05 & 06 brought me into repeated contact with the original ...
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A friend of mine was all psyched a couple of weeks ago when she signed a contract for a condo in the Culver City area. She had been shopping at or near the “low end” of the Los Angeles area housing market — $300k or less. I have heard from more than one prospective buyer ...
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I’m a big history geek. I even got a national merit scholarship award in high school for the subject of history. Needless to say, this did not make me any cooler back then, but nowadays I have no shame about being totally gay for history (is that offensive? If so let me know).
So ...
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I would like to avoid getting swine flu. Or any flu for that matter. Or a cold. And I suspect, just by living in LA, it may be a losing battle. Everywhere I go, people are coughing, sniffling and just plain breathing on me with their damn germs. I know, I know… I could just stay home ...
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I was shocked to see a nearly vacant Melrose shopping district today. Around noon today I took my shoes to the Fleuvog store to be repaired, expecting to deal with the post-Thanksgiving shopping masses, but parking was easy, the sidewalks were free and the stores I walked by were virtually ...
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Forget the little old lady from Pasadena, check out this original owner “retirement car” for an elderly couple in Arcadia. The gussied up “ K-car ” with a 2.2L turbo under the hood and re-badged as the flagship “New Yorker ” for the Chrysler line up. The ...
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Sometimes this city’s cement river boundaries can be horrifically isolating. So, when you see signs like these during times like those, it’s like the universe is saying, “Yeah, I know. Sorry.”
(Caveat: I know Free People is a line of clothing. I know it is. ...
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"Burn Joe, Burn!"
The Bruins of UCLA and the Trojans of USC will be competing on the football field tomorrow night. The Los Angeles Universities have a long-standing rivalry that is important to a lot of the city’s residents. Personally, I’m not really interested in the ...
Sports
Trojans
photo by Stephen Coleman
As an alternative to the “Black Friday” frenetic activity Monrovia Association of Fine Art and the Monrovia Old Town Merchants paired up and are putting together a festive party atmosphere in Old Town Saturday 11/28. Two of the art galleries in town ...
