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Best of LA  2008Best of LA  2008

Best of LA  2008

An online sneak peek at 152 of our favorite things!

Unfurl the red carpet: The picks are in! This year a Xeriscaper, a car detailer, and a bargain hairstylist strut their way into the pantheon. Get a look at some of our top picks, and snatch up the August issue of 'Los Angeles' magazine on newsstands now to see the full list. Go to Article
Kal Penn, Jon, Michelle Rodriguez, Zuleyka Rivera, Sanjana Jon

Designer Sex: The Anand Jon Case Designer Sex: The Anand Jon Case 

Designer Sex: The Anand Jon Case 

In a case roiling the runways, 28 models have accused fashionista Anand Jon of assaulting them. Read an article excerpt, online-exclusive grand jury testimony, and Jon's letter from jail

Anand Jon is on the line. He stands at a hallway pay phone inside the Men’s Central Jail, where he has been locked up for a year awaiting trial. In the damp, stale air, his caramel-colored skin has taken on a sickly pallor…  Go to Article
By Sharon Waxman
Illustration by Peter Hoey

The 64 Greatest Things About LAThe 64 Greatest Things About LA

The 64 Greatest Things About LA

We have a winner! It was a hard-fought tournament, but only one contender can be champion

Amoeba fans catapulted the music store to the top spot Go to Article
Table of Contents
Features
August 2008
August 2008 Read

Buzz
Brendan Fraser gets buried
alive, and a recent arrival in L.A. finds her bearings Plus: All
the parties fit to crash, a forgotten amusement park, and
real estate for sale around the
Hollywood sign

At Your Service
Advice for tackling the greatest secondhand bazaar on Earth—the Rose Bowl Flea Market
Plus: Your guide to eating, drinking, and buying on 4th Street in Long Beach

Style 
A whippersnapper makes over the California Market Center Plus: Store openings and marketing director Dean Porter

[ THE ARTS ]

Architecture
An exhibition at the Hammer
rehabilitates the rep of architect John Lautner By Greg Goldin

Books
Robert Scheer’s latest polemic whips up liberal outrage, but
the ultimate effect will be complacency By Tom Carson
Plus: Robert Ito on a bio of failed wunderkind Peter Ivers, and more

[ COLUMNS ]

Crime
Fashion, sex, and semicelebrity: the impending trial of designer and accused serial rapist Anand Jon By Sharon Waxman

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From the Editor
When historians get around to 2008, it’s likely they will say it was the year the Los Angeles Times died. No, I don’t think the paper will fold between now and December. But I do fear the paper will be so diminished, so crippled, that the chance of saving it will have slipped away. I’m aware that there are residents in L.A. who are cheering this prospect. Continue


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