Suspense makes for better Halloween film


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Halloween is right around the corner — the corner in this case being Sunday — and if you are anything like me, the holiday is a great excuse to combine two of my favorite things in the world: hanging out with good friends and watching horror movies. We’ve all seen the old horror classics: The […]

Lawsuits won’t stop new path to music


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LimeWire is dead. Well, at least from here on out. The classic file-sharing software, known for enabling users in illegal music downloading, was disabled Tuesday after U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood issued a permanent injunction against it. Earlier this year, the judge had granted summary judgment in favor of the music industry’s complaints about […]

Los Angeles’ bicycle scene hits adolescence


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Braving potholes, uninformed drivers and all-around inhospitable city streets, Los Angeles cyclists are forced to fend for themselves. And that is exactly what they’ve done. In the last few years, Los Angeles’ urban cycling community has put its DIY ethics in action, propelling the scene forward by creating specialized group rides, opening bike shops and […]

Magazine founder shines light on others


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Kevin Jones, a senior and budding venture capitalist, is the kind of boss everyone dreams of having. He is confident, cool and not in it for the money. He believes in the power of the media, but not in the misuse thereof, and is the facilitator of community-driven work. Jones is the founder of the […]

An L.A. way to feast on pumpkin


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Fall can be a morose season for college students, especially as Halloween draws near. It’s the time of the year when students are reminded once again that they are now grown-ups. Instead of romping through mounds of leaves and asking for candied apples, they are the ones raking in the leaves and paying for their […]

Halloween turns L.A. suburbs into haunts


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Living in Los Angeles has its perks come Halloween, especially on the city’s outer edges where some of the entertainment industry’s best makeup and special effects artists live amid eerily disconnected suburban sprawl. Localized haunted attractions have always been a seasonal offering in L.A.’s family-oriented neighborhoods, but the success of specialized theme parks such as […]

Food blogs aren’t just for critics


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You’ve probably never noticed food bloggers before. But if you look around, they are everywhere — from fancy bistros, cafes and celebrity chef-owned restaurants to food festivals, food trucks and the latest hole-in-the-wall hot spots. They lug their fancy DSLR cameras or whip out surreptitious iPhones, snapping away at anything and everything edible, from sloppy […]

Simpsons’ opening a suddenly dark turn


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You might have thought that the seminal animated series The Simpsons ran out of good bits for its “couch gag” introduction by now. After all, the show is in its 22nd season — that’s 467 episodes — which is a long, long time to keep coming up with ideas. And, for the most part, audiences […]

Exhibit a look into L.A. poet’s life


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Los Angeles might be well known for sun, surf and celebrities, but its literary history has a reputation for being dark, depressing and — in the case of Charles Bukowski — drunk. Like other 20th century L.A.-based writers such as John Fante, Raymond Chandler and Joan Didion, Bukowski made his career writing tales of the […]

Cycling event gets Angelenos out of cars


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After serving as the epicenter of California car culture for more than half a century, it’s no wonder Los Angeles residents only take to the streets for Lakers championships and riots. Sunday, however, will hopefully change all that as a seven-and-a-half-mile stretch of Los Angeles asphalt gets closed off to cars and opened up to […]