Tag: July 2012
August 2012
Best of LA
There’s so much graffiti in L.A.—isn’t there a protective treatment that could be applied to city walls?
Photograph courtesy jasonrubacky.com
This may color your outlook: There is.
USC, the Natural History Museum, and much of L.A.’s public housing have been treated with a spray paint-resistant coating. Mural...
Video Village With Ask Chris: Captain Kirk, Mars and You
Built in Pasadena and headed for Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Rover has almost reached the red planet. On Sunday night, space nerds and hopeful humans everywhere will be glued to...
Tony and Team USA Boil the Romanians
After downing his espresso (and tweeting about it), U.S. men's water polo team captain Tony Azevedo (who we profiled in our July issue) led his squad to a 10-8...
Yes, People Do Win Our Contests
With all of the excitement surrounding the Olympics, it's easy to forget that we here at Los Angeles host our very own (if drastically less competitive) contests. This past month we...
The Tuesday Afternoon Cram, 7/31/12
Everything you need to know from today's front pages
Garcetti, Greuel In Fund-Raising Tie If campaign money is any indication, it’s going to be a very close mayoral race.
L.A. Housing...
Iconic Name Changes—Or, How The Centuries Old Tradition Of People Not Naming Themselves Still Works Best
What’s in a name? For most of us, not much. For the world’s entertainers, considerably more. After all, making a household name for yourself is a lot tougher when...
Tips to Surviving Tales of the Cocktail 2012
If your liver isn’t bemoaning the misfortune of being anchored to your body… If you can remember with clarity the concoctions you drank… If you’re not even a little...
Video: Real Actors Read Yelp Reviews
This one really needs no introduction, other than to say that we hope to see many, many more of these.
Oh, and a few other suggestions:
Dramatic readings of “best ramen”...
Video Village With Ask Chris: The Mermaid Swims Away
The Mermaid is gone. After (what I’m interpreting as) a 97-year-run, Thelen’s Mermaid, at the heart of the Hermosa Beach Strand, served their last scotch and steak this morning...
