Breaking the SEC color barrier


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History lessons have a way of awakening the details that get lost in the depths of sports fans’ memories. For instance, if you watched Alabama’s 21-0 drubbing of rival LSU in last week’s BCS National Championship Game, you should have felt a connection to the cardinal and gold. No, junior quarterback Matt Barkley wasn’t slinging […]

Cooking at home reclaims its appeal


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For years, the restaurant industry has trended toward wholesome dining: locally sourced foods with rustic presentations. The effect is meant to comfort the diner through “organic” eating, a reminder of a simpler era of literal farm-to-table meals that most diners have probably not experienced. And nothing gets much more wholesome, or comforting, than a true […]

Occupy L.A. grounds have growth potential


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With the main Occupy L.A. encampment having come to an end, there are many questions regarding what it all meant — what it meant for the community and what it meant for similar movements striving for social change. The meaning and effects will take a long time to be clear. Events like these need the […]

Four good reasons to go vinyl


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A cynic might reject the recent explosion in American vinyl sales as a transient fad, as a short-lived parade of spendthrift hipsters getting their anachronistic rocks off. More than that, in this blessed age of sexy tech innovations like iPods and Spotify and Rock Band, to get one’s music from a clumsy crackly unwieldy turntable seems […]