(Or, how I’ve now met everyone I’ve ever needed to know)

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
I read somewhere that, in the grand artistic scheme of things, being a porn film fluffer is akin to being the guy that walks Ashton Kutcher’s dog. Actually, it’s more like sitting on a crowded LA bus the week before Christmas, waiting [...]

Or, how to make sure your vote counts
There’s still about three hours left before the polls shut down, but if you’re registered as Decline to State, you may want to take all the time you have.

Sick people can go to hell, but they should stop by the welfare office first
In 1996 Californians voted to enact the Compassionate Use Act, permitting the cultivation and use of marijuana for medical reasons. Not wanting to look too flaky, seven years later the state followed up with SB 420, which implemented an ID [...]

Do you want it? Or need it? Depends.
Didn’t get a chance to sneak away for the holidays? Want to escape Long Beach for the day? Consider a trip on the Metro Blue Line. Long Beach’s light rail lands you squarely in the heart of downtown LA (Seventh Street/Metro Center) in about 45 minutes.
Wherever you go [...]

MF Doom hardly come sloppy

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
At one time—probably around the release of the landmark Madlib collaboration Madvillain—MF Doom was probably the most cult-followed MC in America: a ’90s comer (part of K.M.D.) whose career was truncated by tragedy (brother killed in car accident) and corporate truculence (album Black Bastards too scary a cover [...]

Documents reveal he raped at least one victim in an Ocean Boulevard condo

One of the most notorious priests in the Los Angeles Archdiocese accepted a 10-year prison term in exchange for his guilty plea today in the molestation of two boys, one of whom, The District has learned, he raped in Long Beach in the [...]

Self magazine (“You At Your Best”) runs an annual Healthiest Cities list and, in the latest, the megalopolis of Los Angeles/Long Beach placed dead last in what’s arguably the only category that matters: happiness.
Gary, Indiana, is the unhealthiest. The worst eaters live in West Virginia and Ashland, Kentucky. The least sexually healthy women are in [...]

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A skin-deep survey
Ever feel like an ugly duckling among the beautiful (and possibly surgically-enhanced) swans of Southern California?  Forget cosmetic surgery– to feel better about your appearance, all you need to do is visit Philadelphia.

One good thing about the start of another interminable NBA season–have you got your tickets for the league finals? In June?–is that we get to read the LA Times Mark Heisler write on basketball. Heisler is simply one of the best, and he is always great when giving advice to hapless NBA franchises. Until recently, [...]