March 25, 2010
Adam Carolla’s Pilot Fish
Adam Carolla’s warehouse looks no different from the others that line this industrial block of Glendale. Most of the 5,000-square-foot garage is dedicated to mechanics and woodworking. Its focus is exotic automobiles, each in ...
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March 25, 2010
THERE’S A SKIPPER BORN EVERY MINUTE
Unlike New York and other actual cities, L.A. has never been know for its parades — or any other kind of civic-pride gathering. The organizers of the First Annual April Fool’s Sunset Strip Skip ...
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March 25, 2010
MR. SHRED
Who doesn’t love a thrilling, sky-high guitar solo? Guitarist John 5, who’s worked with tons of rock acts, most notably Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson, has won the admiration of shredding greats Yngwie Malmsteen, ...
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March 25, 2010
DID JEW KNOW IT’S A SMALL WORLD, AFTER ALL?
As comedian Gilda Radner would say, “If it’s not one thing, it’s another.” If you’re not stuffing your face with Rite-Aid Easter eggs, you’re doing battle with rock-hard matzo balls; if you’re not feigning ...
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March 25, 2010
PASSIONATE BACH
When Johann Sebastian Bach applied for the position of music director at St. Thomas and St. Nicholas churches in Leipzig, he was far from being the front-runner for the position. The deliberating council really ...
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March 18, 2010
The Runaways: Wild Thing
On a summer day in 1975, a 16-year-old girl carrying a Silvertone guitar took four public buses from Canoga Park to a two-story house in Huntington Beach. At the door, she was greeted by ...
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March 18, 2010
The Mad Men of Los Angeles
Supergraphic multimillionaire Barry Rush couldn't have been pleased to hear a few weeks ago that Escorts in Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich had taken the audacious step of jailing a compatriot in arms, ...
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March 18, 2010
Greenberg: Los Angeles Plays Itself
Sad, funny and acutely self-conscious, Noah Baumbach's new movie is the sort of mordant character study that people imagine was common in the '70s. Greenberg is unafraid to project a downbeat worldview or feature ...
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March 18, 2010
The Big Canvas
Click here for the Bringing Art to Rush Hour Drivers slide show.Escorts in Los Angeles is not a city with time on its hands, and, as the food-service industry has discovered with the ...
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March 18, 2010
Top Pesto Chef!
Like most people who cook pasta a couple of times a week, I have always been slightly too proud of my ability to make pesto, the raw basil slurry that is a specialty of ...
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