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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/11/02/cd-reviews-37/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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Animal Collective and Lithops
By Bernardo Rondeau

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
Hollinndagain 
(Paw Tracks)
4 out of 5

Issued back in 2002 on a limited run of 300 hand-painted LPs, Hollinndagain is a patchwork document of live actions from the Animal Collective before the group even used that name. After releasing a pair of albums bursting with trebly weirdness â€“ 2000â€™s Spirit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silver Lake Horror Music and Picture Show</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/31/silver-lake-horror-music-and-picture-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Silver Lake Film Festival is adding some new elements to its roster of fundraising: Horror Music!Â  This yearâ€™s Halloween night is the debut of the Silver Lake Horror Music and Picture Show, a live concert to raise money for the non-profit Silver Lake Film Festival where you should come dressed as your favorite film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Hollywood Halloween</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/31/west-hollywood-halloween/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to do Halloween right, you have to go to West Hollywood for OBVIOUS reasons, labeled the largest Halloween street party in the world (meaning in the U.S. cause no one else celebrates Halloween outside of here).Â  Santa Monica Blvd between La Cienega and Doheny closes down and fills up with the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electronic Renaissance</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/31/electronic-renaissance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electro as we knew it from the days of Club 82 and fauxhawks is dead, deal with it jerks.Â  Techno is making a serious comeback, its forerunners joining forces this Halloween at Safari Samâ€™s to blow your fucking minds.Â  Although I hate to use the words â€œDaft Punkâ€ I canâ€™t help but feel some correlation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robin Williams on Fire at Il Corral</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/30/robin-williams-on-fire-at-il-corral/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/30/robin-williams-on-fire-at-il-corral/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you hadn&#8217;t already heard, only sell-outs learn how to play music. The best bands are experiences. While we&#8217;re not quite ready to sign off on that statement, we&#8217;ll pay the 5 bucks to swill forties at Il Corral with these crazy fucks and help them continue touring the country making fucked up sounds that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modelween at Cinespace</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/30/modelween-at-cinespace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online model networking site One Model Place is holding an affair at Cinespace where all the wannabe models come out with their amazingly original â€œslutty (fill in blank)â€ costumes.  In honor of all those networking sites, you can even see exactly who is planning to attend via the One Model Place site, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday the 13th/Fright Night Double Feature</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/30/friday-the-13thfright-night-double-feature/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/30/friday-the-13thfright-night-double-feature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow I find Suburbia 10 times more frightening than anything any urban environment could possibly conjure up. Here you might get mugged or shot or any other number of unfortunate but ultimately mundane happenings. But something about that bedroom community night-silence brings out something else entirely, where you know that behind every well-manicured shrub could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Monday Wine Tasting at Silverlake Wine</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/30/blue-monday-wine-tasting-at-silverlake-wine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/30/blue-monday-wine-tasting-at-silverlake-wine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, with this barrage of Halloween-related events, hereâ€™s an opportunity to take a day off, put your chair back and your pinkies up.Â  Silverlake Wine offers some low key relaxation while serving three distinctly different wines plus cheese from the Cheese Store of Silverlake at Sunset Junction.Â  There are no reservations, come and go as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Los Angeles Young Adult Authors at Mt. Hollywood Underground</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/29/los-angeles-young-adult-authors-at-mt-hollywood-underground/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/29/los-angeles-young-adult-authors-at-mt-hollywood-underground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teen Angst. Sure, you remember itâ€¦the tryouts for the cheerleading squad, that horrible pimple you had on your nose for the spring fling, the reject table in the lunchroom, the SAT, that black lipstick you scrawled on the womenâ€™s room mirror withâ€”wait, you didnâ€™t do that? Fuck. Well, LA YA  (Los Angeles Young Adult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carrie Screening and Benefit</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/29/carrie-screening-and-benefit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/29/carrie-screening-and-benefit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t confuse her with the other Mommy Dearest, not that you could once the blood starts streaming down her chest, but Carrie is coming to The Echo.
That&#8217;s right, Carrie the film turns 30 this year and to celebrate there&#8217;s an interactive screening. Proceeds go to Halsa Inc., an HIV and AIDS legal services alliance. Come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rolling Blackouts All Fucking Ages Warehouse Party</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/28/rolling-blackouts-all-fucking-ages-warehouse-party/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/28/rolling-blackouts-all-fucking-ages-warehouse-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We shit you not. Keep this one on the D.L. even lower than the Betalevel thing, kids. You read that correctly: itâ€™s ALL AGES. It&#8217;s only $5. It&#8217;s B.Y.O.B! Ha! Ahahaha!!! And there will be music being spun all night, but the bands are up-and-comers Sonadora at 9pm (members of Dios and the Blackouts!), Peach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Totally Knew About This A Year Ago But Never Told Many People Because We Were Afraid Theyâ€™d Get Shut Down. So There. (MP3 Swap at Betalevel)</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/28/we-totally-knew-about-this-a-year-ago-but-never-told-many-people-because-we-were-afraid-theyd-get-shut-down-so-there-mp3-swap-at-betalevel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/28/we-totally-knew-about-this-a-year-ago-but-never-told-many-people-because-we-were-afraid-theyd-get-shut-down-so-there-mp3-swap-at-betalevel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betalevel was recently described in the LA Weekly as &#8220;Best Sunken Lair For Techno-Geeks.&#8221;  Which means that this month, someone might show up (who knows how) to network your Windows laptop.  And when that person does show up, you will make fun of them (&#8221;windoze! wtf! lol!&#8221;).  You will do this, because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muse Costume Ball at LACMA</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/28/muse-costume-ball-at-lacma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/28/muse-costume-ball-at-lacma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I donâ€™t know what it is about museums, but when a party is in a museum the party becomes ten times more awesome.Â  Maybe it has something to do with the uncontrollable urge to misbehave in a museum because you canâ€™t touch ANYTHING or run around or do anything but walk slowly and make frou [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blue Mask</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/28/the-blue-mask/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/28/the-blue-mask/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chupacabra, The Chairs of Perception, Donovan&#8217;s Fairies, Backbiter, Motorcycle Black Madonnas, and Upstart combine for a very disturbing, yet brilliantly only-in-L.A. show at one of those only-in-L.A. venues: Mr. Tâ€™s Bowl. If you ainâ€™t been before, this is the night to come. Expect sounds in the vein of 60&#8217;s Punk, Ramones, Dictators, Dylan, Sonics, Sonic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tiffanyâ€™s of Chocolate</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/27/the-tiffanys-of-chocolate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

Chocolatebox Cafe in La Canada brings two lifelong friends together for what may be L.A.&#8217;s best. Chocolate. Ever.
by Lucinda Michele Knapp
Life is not a box of chocolates.
It is not always pleasantly surprising. It is not always engrossing. And it is not always sweet.
But life is made sweeter by some things, one of them being abiding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L.A.â€™s New Punks at The Scene</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/27/la%e2%80%99s-new-punks-at-the-scene/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/27/la%e2%80%99s-new-punks-at-the-scene/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, itâ€™s in Glendale. But when you walk in you know youâ€™ve found your new low-key, kick-back watering hole. Except itâ€™s, uh, probably not walking distance. But thatâ€™s ok! Because youâ€™ve brought some poor sap as a DD! And tonight, Swami artists, The Heartaches, then their labelmates, Demolition Doll Rods, and The Stitches headline to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frankenstein: Mortal Toys at the Velaslavasay Theatre</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/27/frankenstein-mortal-toys-at-the-velaslavasay-theatre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/27/frankenstein-mortal-toys-at-the-velaslavasay-theatre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Puppets are super creepy. Frankenstein is also kinda creepy, although significantly less so, mostly due to Mel Brooks, but also to Peter Boyle, not only for his portrayal of the Monster in Brookâ€™s 1974 farce, but also for his participation in that abomination of syndicated television known as Everybody Loves Raymond. They play that shit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brilliant Comics Rock at SH</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/27/brilliant-comics-rock-at-sh-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/27/brilliant-comics-rock-at-sh-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winner of oodles of design and comic awards, Jordan Crane first emerged in the comic world in 1996 with the anthology, Non. Crane edited, contributed to, and published Non, which became that eraâ€™s showcase for the most explosive young experimental cartoonists. The short-lived series has been compared to Spiegelman and Moulyâ€™s Raw. Now, Craneâ€™s most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brilliant Comics Rock at SH</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/27/brilliant-comics-rock-at-sh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/27/brilliant-comics-rock-at-sh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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Winner of oodles of design and comic awards, Jordan Crane first emerged in the comic world in 1996 with the anthology, Non. Crane edited, contributed to, and published Non, which became that eraâ€™s showcase for the most explosive young experimental cartoonists. The short-lived series has been compared to Spiegelman and Moulyâ€™s Raw. Now, Craneâ€™s most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Young Throbbing Love Poetry</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/27/hot-young-throbbing-love-poetry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[To Do Today]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A wit sharp as Sedaris, a sensibility poignant as Sexton, Derrick Brown manages to blur the lines between slam poet and cult writer with remarkable ease and grace,&#8221; says Anthem. We say, fuck all that. Ladies, he&#8217;s easy on the eyes. And a brilliantly funny, poignant (there&#8217;s that word again) poet. Who doesn&#8217;t love that? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week of October 26</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/26/week-of-october-26/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/26/week-of-october-26/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Will Astrology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
by Rob Brezny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Nineteenth-century English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote a series of sensual sonnets inspired by his relationship with his wife Elizabeth. Before he could publish them, Elizabeth died. He was so distraught he placed the only copy of his manuscript in the grave with her. Years later, though, he decided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Your Gourd On</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/26/get-your-gourd-on-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/26/get-your-gourd-on-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Newsletter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
In exploring this new medium of the In-ter-net, we at the LA Alternative decided to exploit our new interactive abilities by supplying a DIY project for all you pumpkin-happy people.
We&#8217;ve posted five LAA-original stencils (a place setting, a cat, a handgun, Zero and of course, a skull)  to help make your lantern a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enronâ€™s Enablers Go Unpunished</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/26/enrons-enablers-go-unpunished/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/26/enrons-enablers-go-unpunished/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Thanks to presidential sponsors, the biggest corporate swindle in U.S. history was allowed to unfold. 
By Robert Scheer

No, I&#8217;m not thrilled over Jeffrey Skilling getting 24 years in prison for his role in the Enron scandal. While he and fellow Enron honcho Kenneth Lay were clearly guilty as charged, the handling of this case by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get your Gourd On</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/26/get-your-gourd-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/26/get-your-gourd-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cover]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

Five striking stencils to help pimp out your pumpkin.
In exploring this new medium of the In-ter-net, we at the LA Alternative decided to exploit
our new interactive abilities by supplying a DIY project for all you pumpkin-happy people.
Here are five LAA-original stencils to help make your lantern a bit less jack-o and a lot
more wack-o.
Click, print, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween Bash at La Cita</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/26/halloween-bash-at-la-cita/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/26/halloween-bash-at-la-cita/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[To Do Today]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Wilshire-corridor Arbiters of Cool, Subliminal Projects (brainchild of one Shep Fairey), have taken Downtownâ€™s La Cita and transformed it into the hipster haven you know it was just meant to be thirty, um, years ago. And this one should blast the doors off. DJâ€™s from the Short Stop, Bar 107, Le Disko, Memphis and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art of Bleeding at the Steve Allen Theatre</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/26/art-of-bleeding-at-the-steve-allen-theatre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/26/art-of-bleeding-at-the-steve-allen-theatre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[To Do Today]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ L.A. Alternative&#8217;s final cover darlings and super-sexy sirens of sutures will return to the kickass Steve Allen Theatre for the Art of Bleeding&#8217;s Halloween installment: The Magic Ambulance Theatre &#038; Halloween Highway: A Cautionary Tableau of Automotive Carnage. Sounds tasty, if the fake blood we ingested on that zombie walk two weeks ago is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Do 10.25 &#8211; 10.31</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/25/to-do-1025-1031/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/25/to-do-1025-1031/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Things To Do]]></category>

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Wednesday 10.25
Architectural Tour of the Venice Canals
Yep, it turns out there was an actual reason (beyond a heavy dosage of Nag Champa and weed, of course) that led to calling one of L.A.&#8217;s most beautiful coastal regions Venice. Hidden behind the alley streets, souvenir shops and rooftop decks are a series of gorgeous historic canals. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/25/disc-junkie-23/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/25/disc-junkie-23/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Add these to your weekly list: Oct 27-Nov 2.
By Paul Gaita

Since Halloween is essentially the national holiday for the Grindhouse Nation, please allow me to flip the script this week and present that section first â€“ all the better to showcase the wealth of horror and cult titles that street this week to coincide with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architectural Tour of the Venice Canals</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/25/architectural-tour-of-the-venice-canals-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/25/architectural-tour-of-the-venice-canals-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[To Do Today]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Yep, it turns out there was an actual reason (beyond a heavy dosage of Nag Champa and weed, of course) that led to calling one of L.A.â€™s most beautiful coastal regions Venice. Hidden behind the alley streets, souvenir shops and rooftop decks are a series of gorgeous historic canals. The canals were ordered and built [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tijuana Go Back to My Place?</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/25/tijuana-go-back-to-my-place/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/25/tijuana-go-back-to-my-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diarrhea of a Madman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Down and striking out in Mexicoâ€™s mecca of class.
By Dan Gillis, III

Tijuana is the place that good souls go to die or go crazy. Itâ€™s the other half of the North American dynasty, a city thatâ€™s really just San Diego cut into two separate but unequal parts.  For TJ, the city throbs with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rockâ€™Nâ€™Roll Bingo at the Roxy (Yes, the Roxy)</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/25/rock%e2%80%99n%e2%80%99roll-bingo-at-the-roxy-yes-the-roxy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/25/rock%e2%80%99n%e2%80%99roll-bingo-at-the-roxy-yes-the-roxy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[To Do Today]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I donâ€™t know how I feel about Bingo. On the one hand, itâ€™s a pretty simple, not too taxing game that requires little to no skill or power of concentration; on the other, it kind of reminds me of high school German class and old people. I imagine if purgatory was a country, Bingo would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Twilight Singers at HOB</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/25/the-twilight-singers-at-hob/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/25/the-twilight-singers-at-hob/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[To Do Today]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Drugs are bad, mmmmkay? Just ask the Silver Jews. Or that Cobain guy. Or
Crosby, Stills, Nash or Young. Or you could ask Greg Dulli. Rock&#8217;n'roll may be one of the only red-blooded American lifestyles that even remotely publicly embraces drug use as an acceptable behavior, but a few individuals took it to great heights â€” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show Calendar 10/25-10/31</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/25/show-calendar-1025-1031/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/25/show-calendar-1025-1031/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Concerts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday 10.25
Nomeansno, The Mass, Anavan, DJ Paula Poundstone at the Knitting Factory Main Stage. 8p.m. $10.
Bonnie Prince Billy, Dark Hand, Lamplight at Malibu Performing Arts Center. 8:30p.m. $10-$25.
Club Party Monster: Kelly (of Youtube.com &#8220;Shoes&#8221; Fame), Geoffrey Paris, Protection at the Henry Fonda Theater. 9p.m. $25 Adv, $40 VIP. 18+.
Die Rockers Die!, Baxter House, Seasons, The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA ALTERNATIVE&#8217;S WEEKLY CHECKLIST</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/25/oct25/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/25/oct25/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ariel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Newsletter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You all know what you should be doing Tuesday night, right?
To stem the unfortunate tide of American disinterest in the richest of social traditions-Halloween-you should either be walking your child around participating in the time-tested art of the Trick or Treat, or else you should be at home glued to your bowl of candy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/24/cd-reviews-36/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/24/cd-reviews-36/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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sunnO)))/Boris and To Live and Shave in LA
by Bernardo Rondeau

sunnO)))/Boris
Altar
(Southern Lord)
4 out of 5
In the union of New Yorkâ€™s black-robed minimalists sunnO))) and Tokyoâ€™s fuzz-drenched maximalists Boris, a new horned-beast is born. Though signature elements of each bandâ€™s sound do surface throughout Altar â€“ sunnO)))â€™s thick drool of distorted sludge, Borisâ€™s trebly galaxy of crashed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All new &#8220;Universe&#8221; on food</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/24/all-new-universe-on-food/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/24/all-new-universe-on-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hungry for facts?
chow time nerds!Â 
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		<title>Food Science</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/24/food-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/24/food-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Universe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Forgive me if you havenâ€™t eaten, itâ€™s time for a meal-time thought experiment. 
By Claire L. Evans
Imagine, please, that you have just finished a complicated, surprising, and resoundingly flavorful meal, one with multiple courses and interludes, petit fours and consommÃ©s. The soft-boiled eggs were perfectly cooked, the wine excellent, and each course fed into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City of Ghosts</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/23/city-of-ghosts-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/23/city-of-ghosts-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Newsletter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Sometimes it&#8217;s just an odd chill to the air, or a flash of shadow in the corner of an eye. Other times it&#8217;s a light, a footstep, a slammed door or an unexplained gust. Many times, it&#8217;s just&#8230;a feeling.
Everyone has experienced the uneasy sensation of otherworldliness, especially in a city as rich in violent scandal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City of Ghosts</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/23/city-of-ghosts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/23/city-of-ghosts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

Real, first-person tales of the ghoulish and ghastly from L.A.â€™s most supernatural spaces.  

Sometimes it&#8217;s just an odd chill to the air, or a flash of shadow in the corner of an eye. Other times it&#8217;s a light, a footstep, a slammed door, or an unexplained gust. Many times, it&#8217;s just a&#8230;feeling. Suddenly, breathing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/23/geeked-19/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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Video game reviews: NHL &#8216;07
By Adam Diamond

PUBLISHER &#124; EA SPORTS
DEVELOPER &#124; EA CANADA
PLATFORM &#124; PS2, XBOX, 360, PSP, PC
PRICE &#124; $29.99, $39.99 PSP, $59.99 360
ESRB RATING &#124; E 10+ (EVERYONE 10 AND OVER)
WHATâ€™S COOL:  Good stick handling, much improved shooting and an expanded Dynasty mode; a truly amazing game if you love hockeyâ€¦
WHATâ€™S UNCOOL: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living In Sin</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/23/living-in-sin-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/23/living-in-sin-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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One Flirty FiancÃ© and a Lazy Lesbian
By Jen Sincero

email questions to advice@jensincero.com
Dear Jen,
My best friend&#8217;s fiancÃ© flirts with me all the time.  I hang out with them a lot, but every time she&#8217;s not around, he crosses the line.  He&#8217;ll do things like tell me how pretty I look, or say things like, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tofu Stack Diane</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/21/tofu-stack-diane/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/21/tofu-stack-diane/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Hearty recipes for heady homies.
by Evan George and Alex Brown 

Its getting cold, well, cold for Los Angeles. And this week all we could think about was seared tofu drenched in a thick sauce. Traditionally, Steak Diane is made with butter, Wooster sauce andâ€¦beef.  For this recipe, we subbed Wooster for a maple mustard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Me Pegues!</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/20/no-me-gusta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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Yo La Tengo beat the shit out of everybody.
By Evan George
My recent fears that journalists will become obsolete, replaced by web technology and online communities of blog-happy commentators, were thankfully dashed this week, when I came across Wikipedia&#8217;s entry on indie-rock stalwarts Yo La Tengo.
Yo La Tengo is an American rock band, based in Hoboken, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mao Tse Tongue</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/20/mao-tse-tongue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/20/mao-tse-tongue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
The Red Pearl Kitchenâ€™s take on dim sum tastes like capitalism at itâ€™s best.
By Evan George


â€œExcuse me officer,â€ we said rolling down our window.  â€œDo you know if thereâ€™s any street parking in this neighborhood at all?â€ we asked guiltily. He shook his head, so my dining companion pulled a U-ey into the smiling, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All New From Robert Scheer!</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/19/all-new-from-robert-scheer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/19/all-new-from-robert-scheer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get your war-stoppin&#8217; on!
Unh. 
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		<title>Iraqâ€™s Killing Fields</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/19/iraqs-killing-fields/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/19/iraqs-killing-fields/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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Staying the course is a prescription for disaster.
By Robert Scheer

Martin Luther King Jr., shortly before his assassination, grieved that his own nation was &#8220;the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.&#8221; He was referring to the U.S. quagmire in Vietnam, but were he alive today, his prophetic voice would no doubt similarly question the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Do 10.18 &#8211; 10.24</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/18/to-do-1018-1024/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/18/to-do-1018-1024/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Things To Do]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday 10.18
Craft Night at Akbar
I can&#8217;t think of anything better to do on a Wednesday night, that most doldrumic of days, than to get creative. When you&#8217;re stuck in the middle of the work week feeling utterly sapped of creative juices, head on down to Akbar and roll around in glitter glue. Um. Wait. Maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/18/disc-junkie-22/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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Add these to your weekly list: October 20-26
By Paul Gaita

Multiplex
The kids get all the good stuff this week, but the bonus for parents and big siblings is that all of the titles are thankfully lacking the aggravating noise level, cloying dialogue (and best of all, rampant advertising) that plagues most new childrenâ€™s entertainment. And for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whip it Good.</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/18/whip-it-good/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/18/whip-it-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
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A history of velvet violence
By Dan Gillis III
In this postmodern world where truth is merely an agreed-upon lie, the aperture of reality forever opens to the point of complete saturation of choice and consequence, paralyzing us with endless possibilities.
So where can I find an S &#038; M club in this god forsaken town? And more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Universe Up Now!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/17/new-universe-up-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/17/new-universe-up-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Explore the top-secret Googleplex, the largest most mysterious computer in the world!! Bwaaahahahhhahhh!
Check It! 
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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/17/cd-reviews-34/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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VARIOUS and JÃ“HANN JÃ“HANNSSON
By Bernardo Rondeau

VARIOUS
The World Is Gone
(XL)
3 out of 5
Shrouded in secrecy â€“ or, more specifically, weirdly fantastic black-and-white sketches of topless ladies engaged in bizarre activities with a gamut of animals (a hippo, an elk, a leopard, etc.) that suggest the sketchbook erotica of an acid-gobbling wildlife preservist â€“ Englandâ€™s Various quietly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mysterious Googleplex</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Universe]]></category>

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OMFG thatâ€™s a big computer!
By Claire L. Evans

A few months ago, in homage to the last puffs of summertime breeze to caress the Pacific Northwest, I visited the worldâ€™s largest computer. It wasnâ€™t exactly beach blanket bingo, and I probably could have found a more youthful way to celebrate the dog days of summer, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L.A. Fashion Week Day 1 Breakdown</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/17/la-fashion-week-day-1-breakdown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/17/la-fashion-week-day-1-breakdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smashbox Studios in Culver City
By Tiffany Lee

L.A. Fashion Week is a lot likeÂ  a family reunion.Â  You look forward to it, but at the same time you know it could get ugly. There are a lot of old people and a lot of familiar faces from last season (sometimes wearing the exact same outfits).Â  And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Officer Big Brother Reporting for Duty</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/17/officer-big-brother-reporting-for-duty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/17/officer-big-brother-reporting-for-duty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I was burning through Hollywood on a Saturday at dawn, trying to make it back east from Santa Monica before the traffic got nuts. For some reason I was wearing extremely large Devo sunglasses, the kind you fit over regular eyewear, when I squeezed through an intersection just as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New &#8216;Living In Sin&#8217; Up Now!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/16/new-living-in-sin-up-now-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/16/new-living-in-sin-up-now-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Damn you dental dam!!! Damn you all to hell!

Yum!
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/16/geeked-18/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

Video game reviews: Company of  Heroes
By Seth MCM. Donlin

PUBLISHER &#124; THQ
DEVELOPER &#124; RELIC ENTERTAINMENT
PLATFORM &#124; PC
PRICE &#124; $49.99
ESRB RATING &#124; M (MATURE)
WHATâ€™S COOL: Incredible graphics and sound, varied and challenging scenarios, fully destructible surroundings, an interesting mix of unit types and truly impressive infantry AI.
WHATâ€™S UNCOOL: No dynamic lighting effects, long load times, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That Goddamn Dental Dam</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/16/that-goddamn-dental-dam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/16/that-goddamn-dental-dam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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Confused by the cunnilingus cover-up.
By Jen Sincero

Send questions to advice@jensnicero.com. 
 Dear Jen,
Maybe I&#8217;m naive, or maybe I&#8217;ve just been married to one woman for so long that I&#8217;m out of the loop, but could you please explain to me the mechanics of using a dental dam?
It&#8217;s difficult enough for me to imagine how one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take the Hot Knives Zucchini Shooters Challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/13/take-the-hot-knives-zucchini-shooters-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/13/take-the-hot-knives-zucchini-shooters-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New &#8220;Hot Knives&#8221; posted below veggie freaks!
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		<title>Zook Shooters</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/13/zook-shooters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Hearty recipes for heady homies 
By Evan George and Alex brown

Quick tip here: We were goofing around this week with some hollowed out zucchini and stumbled upon what we think is a kick-ass appetizer.
Take a medium to large sized zuch, wash it and cut into four pieces about the length of a shot glass. Then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wholesale Soul Searching</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/13/wholesale-soul-searching/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/13/wholesale-soul-searching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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Touring notorious Santee Alley&#8217;s knock-off treasures and dangerous deals.
By Lucinda Michele Knapp
I&#8217;ve had to make annual pilgrimages to Santee Alley for various constituent parts of Halloween costumes, fabric for overly ambitious sewing projects and beads and trim for burlesque costumes (none of which are currently in circulation, thanks). It has never been an easy endeavor. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lord Of the Ring</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/12/lord-of-the-ring/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/12/lord-of-the-ring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diarrhea of a Madman]]></category>

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(Not A Hobbit)
by Dan Gillis
Ah yes, hula-hooping.  It was my favorite past time as a child, second only to Slip-n-slide, which had an unfortunate ability to smoosh my genitalia.  But speaking of ambiguous junk, this is a video of Karis, the hula-hooping extraordinaire, twisting and gyrating during the halftime show of the LA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cinnamon and Bittersweet</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/12/cinnamon-and-bittersweet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/12/cinnamon-and-bittersweet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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Highland Parkâ€™s first vegetarian joint may keep the hipsters at bay.
By Evan George
Rating: 2 out of 5

Before Cinnamon had tables or chairs or even as much as a flat-top stove, it had a gloriously large sign that declared its intentions.
That its marquee (â€œCinnamonâ€ in sunburst orange and â€œVegetarian Restaurantâ€ in a non-ironic, forest green) showed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Scheer Fires Back at Bush on N. Korea</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/12/robert-scheer-fires-back-at-bush-on-n-korea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/12/robert-scheer-fires-back-at-bush-on-n-korea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New column posted below.
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		<title>Bush Brings it On</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/12/bush-brings-it-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/12/bush-brings-it-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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Our presidentâ€™s failed diplomacy, blamed on Clintonâ€™s success.
By Robert Scheer

Well, Bush showed them, didn&#8217;t he?
Over the past six years, our &#8220;my way or the highway&#8221; president blew up a crucial nonproliferation agreement that was keeping North Korea&#8217;s plutonium stores under seal, ended bilateral talks with Pyongyang, squashed Japan&#8217;s and South Korea&#8217;s carefully constructed &#8220;sunshine policy,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>T-Shirt Power!</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/11/t-shirt-power/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/11/t-shirt-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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Far more than cotton underwear, the T-shirt may very well be the most powerful item in our possession-comfy or otherwise.
By Lesley Bargar
Photos by Aaron Farley
In August, the Fancy Pants Society of America (yep, there is one) took a 1,000-person fashion poll that included various questions about T-shirts. The results were as follows:
- 62 percent of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/11/disc-junkie-21/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/11/disc-junkie-21/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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Add these to your weekly list: Oct 13-19.
By Paul Gaita

Multiplex
I donâ€™t know how long itâ€™s going to take before people accept Warren Beatty as something beyond his tabloid profile, but maybe (just maybe) the 25th anniversary edition of his epic romance/drama Reds (Paramount) might convince a few people. A massive production (both in scope and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/10/cd-reviews-35/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/10/cd-reviews-35/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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LindstrÃ¸m and Tim Hecker.
By Bernardo Rondeau

LindstrÃ¸m
It&#8217;s a Feedelity Affair 
(Feedelity Recordings/Smalltown Supersound)
4 out of 5
Michael Mannâ€™s stripped down, pumped up, doubly mustachioed Miami Vice redux wouldâ€™ve been better served cold. That means the total omission of Audioslaveâ€™s groggy grunge-histrionics and the overheated therapy-rock of Linkin Park from its soundtrack, both of which just prematurely thawed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All-New &#8216;Universe&#8217;!</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/10/all-new-universe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/10/all-new-universe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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Yup, the Universe is all new. Or at least, OUR &#8216;Universe&#8217; is, and this week, science siren Claire L. Evans ponders the sci-fi obsession with our future&#8217;s past. Meaning the past of what will be our future, which is still future to us&#8230; Oh fuggit, I&#8217;ll let her explain:
Check it!
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		<title>Future Tropes</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/10/future-tropes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/10/future-tropes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Universe]]></category>

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Sci-fi predicts the past to our still very distant future.  
By Claire L. Evans


When our futures become the past, what will they prove to have been like?
As mind-bending as this question is, it lies at the heart of every successful science fiction story. Good writers in this underappreciated genre can be so forward-thinking that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/09/geeked-17/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/09/geeked-17/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
Vidoegame reviews by Adam Diamond

PUBLISHER &#124; LUCASARTS
DEVELOPER &#124; TRAVELLERâ€™S TALES
PLATFORM &#124; PS2, XBOX, GC, 360, GBA, DS, PSP, PC
PRICE &#124; $49.99
ESRB RATING &#124; E 10+ (EVERYONE 10 AND OVER)
WHATâ€™S COOL:  Playing the original trilogy; creating a character with Obi-Wanâ€™s body, Greedoâ€™s head, and Darth Maulâ€™s lightsaber and Force [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hunting for Brains In Hollywood</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/09/hunting-for-brains-in-hollywood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/09/hunting-for-brains-in-hollywood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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Hollywoodâ€™s first zombie mob shuffles out of the gates of hell and into the arms of the Lord. 
by Lucinda Michele Knapp
The disheveled man limped anxiously across the intersection of Hollywood and Vine with a hunted gaze on his face. His touristâ€™s Hawaiian shirt and Bermudas were scuffed and smeared, grime coating his legs and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Radio Goes Electric&#8230;Cars!</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/09/little-radio-goes-electric/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/09/little-radio-goes-electric/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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Yep, the downtown internet radio broadcasters/elusive music venue/place to chill can now add another slash to their already extensive list of jobs. Car Dealer. No, Dave Conway will not be donning a cheap suit and hustling warehouse bums to take advantage of the &#8220;killer financing!&#8221; Nope, but Conway and Co. have snagged the &#8220;exclusive dealership [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New &#8216;Living In Sin&#8217; Up Now!</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/09/new-living-in-sin-up-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/09/new-living-in-sin-up-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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Jen Sincero tells us to Just Say No to office sex, and comforts a hubby whose wife wants girl lovey.
Check it!
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		<title>In the Office Affair and A Man with No Hair</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/09/in-the-office-affair-and-a-man-with-no-hair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/09/in-the-office-affair-and-a-man-with-no-hair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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Sex and secrets by Jen Sincero

Dear Jen,
I&#8217;m having this crazy affair with this guy at work.  He&#8217;s married, and that, along with the fact that we do it at the office during work hours , makes it really taboo, which I guess makes it even hotter for me.  I could lose my job [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zombies Mob Hollywood, Depressed to Find NO BRAINS</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/07/zombies-mob-hollywood-depressed-to-find-no-brains/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/07/zombies-mob-hollywood-depressed-to-find-no-brains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2006 06:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and our intrepid reporter was there! Her report, once she finds her half-gnawed frontal cortex and shoves it back into position, is forthcoming. In the meantime, you can enjoy her [depressingly few] photographs by cutting and pasting the link here: http://flickr.com/photos/45208212@N00/sets/72057594121445914/
The quick consensus:
1. Zombies are cool.
2. Zombies in Hollywood are a clever cultural commentary.
3. Zombies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This weekend beer IS for breakfast. New Hot Knives posted below</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/06/this-weekend-beer-is-for-breakfast-new-hot-knives-posted-below/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/06/this-weekend-beer-is-for-breakfast-new-hot-knives-posted-below/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And for more beer in your food visit www.laalternative.com/hotknives
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		<title>Levitation Flapjacks</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/06/levitation-flapjacks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/06/levitation-flapjacks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

Hearty recipes for heady homies
by Evan George and Alex Brown

Itâ€™s rumored that Queen Elizabeth I started every day with a hunk of Stilton and a tankard of strong English ale. For that dear old battleaxe, beer was just for breakfast. With this super simple flapjack recipe, itâ€™ll be beer oâ€™clock before noon for you too.
And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Apology to Becky Regarding Barf</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/05/an-apology-to-becky-regarding-barf/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/05/an-apology-to-becky-regarding-barf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diarrhea of a Madman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Who in L.A. hasnâ€™t stepped on beer-face leakage?
by Dan Gillis III
Dear Becky,
Iâ€™ve been known to party from time to time.
But just between you and me, I really donâ€™t like party surprises, especially when it has an impact on my impending alcoholism. Recently, I succumbed to paying a cover for some lame-ass bar that charged an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/05/cd-reviews-33/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/05/cd-reviews-33/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bert Jansch and BenoÃ®t Pioulard
By Bernardo Rondeau

Bert Jansch
The Black Swan 
(Drag City)
3 out of 5
Nearing his 63rd birthday with a new addition to over four decadesâ€™ worth of music (which has already influenced the likes of Jimmy Page and Neil Young), Bert Janschâ€™s pinched, weary voice and radiant fretwork will never be heard on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One more nail in Print&#8217;s Coffin?</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/05/one-more-nail-in-prints-coffin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/05/one-more-nail-in-prints-coffin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This morning it was announced that Jeff Johnson, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, is being asked to resign. According to Times staffer James Rainey&#8217;s inner-office reporting, Tribune has appointed Chicago Tribune Publisher David Hiller to step in.
This is the latest, and largest, blow to the newspaper in a series of slash and burn attempts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Condoleeza Lies</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/05/condoleeza-lies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/05/condoleeza-lies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
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Why molesting Liberty hurts us more than molesting pages does.
by Robert Scheer
They are such liars. And no, I am not speaking only of the dissembling GOP House leaders led by Speaker Dennis Hastert who, out of naked political calculation, covered up for one of their own in the sordid teen stalking case of Rep. Mark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call in sick &#8230; of George Bush</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/05/call-in-sick-of-george-bush/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/05/call-in-sick-of-george-bush/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A rally and march is planned for today, Thursday, Oct. 5, with participants converging on Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles starting around noon. The event, tagged as the Bush Crimes Tour and March, is being organized by the World Can&#8217;t Wait coalition. Organizers are asking those of us sick of the Bush administration to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pope Just Figures It Out: Limbo Not Real</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/04/pope-just-figures-it-out-limbo-not-real/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/04/pope-just-figures-it-out-limbo-not-real/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As if dying immediately isn&#8217;t bad enough, billions and billions of stillborn babies are even more royally screwed today, now that the Pope&#8217;s decided&#8211;by Papal decree!&#8211;that there is no such thing as limbo.
For those who didn&#8217;t go to Catholic School [sob], Limbo is the liminal realm between heaven and hell where unbaptized souls&#8211;including children and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All New &#8220;Living In Sin&#8221; Up Now!: Penis Lies and Silky Guy Thighs</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/04/all-new-living-in-sin-up-now-penis-lies-and-silky-guy-thighs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/04/all-new-living-in-sin-up-now-penis-lies-and-silky-guy-thighs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jen Sincero tells men to stop BSin&#8217; about their man meat, and reminds us that dudes enjoy soft fabrics on their nether-regions too.
Check it!
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		<title>Penis Lies and Silky Guy Thighs</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/04/penis-lies-and-silky-guy-thighs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/04/penis-lies-and-silky-guy-thighs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
By Jen Sincero

Dear Jen,
I&#8217;m having a problem with the guys I&#8217;m meeting online.  I&#8217;m just looking to get laid, but am getting discouraged because of all the lying!  If I meet one more guy who tells me he&#8217;s hung, and then I drag myself all the way over there only to find out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digestion Invention</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/04/digestion-invention/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/04/digestion-invention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Hot Knives crew reinvents the egg for vegan readers.
http://www.laalternative.com/hotknives 
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		<title></title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/03/2111/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/03/2111/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.laalternative.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/hronline.thumbnail.jpg
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		<title>The New Griffith Observatory,  A First Look</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/03/the-new-griffith-observatory-a-first-look/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/03/the-new-griffith-observatory-a-first-look/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

As promised, hereâ€™s a first look at the new (and improved?) Griffith Observatory,  set to officially open on November 3rd.
The date was announced by a giddy Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa who arrived at the front lawn news conference the same way the rest of us will starting next monthâ€”by transit shuttle. For â€œa short period [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush In Westwood for Ten Whole Minutes Today</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/03/bush-in-westwood-for-ten-whole-minutes-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/03/bush-in-westwood-for-ten-whole-minutes-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 18:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reports from sources both newsy and non inform us that the Chief Exec will be in L.A. today; word on the street is he&#8217;ll be meeting with campaign donor Elliot Broidy. Given that sources put his arrival at LAX around 5 pm, and his departure at 8&#8211;and then calibrated using our Los Angeles Traffic algorithm&#8211;we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FCC in L.A. Tuesday for Public Hearings</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/02/fcc-in-la-today-for-public-hearings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/02/fcc-in-la-today-for-public-hearings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In an uncharacteristic display of magnanimity the five commishes of the FCC will be in Los Angeles today for two public&#8211;yes, public&#8211;hearings. The public will be able to ask questions and offer testimony. While not exactly a paragon of democracy in action, this should be a good chance for those who oppose the consolidation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Griffith Observatory Revealed! â€¦Tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/02/griffith-observatory-revealed-tomorrow-226-pm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/02/griffith-observatory-revealed-tomorrow-226-pm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
With the Griffith Observatory news conference scheduled for tomorrow morning, weâ€™re all just hours away (15 to be exact) from uncovering whatâ€™s been going on for the past four years up at the famous hilltop landmark. Look to Laalternative.com to be one of the first to share the details and photos of the new complex.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SLNC Flips A Coin</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/02/slnc-flips-a-coin-today-1113-am/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/10/02/slnc-flips-a-coin-today-1113-am/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LAtest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Silver Lake Neighborhood Council governing board elections took place Saturday, Sept. 30 which resulted in a Region 4 tie between  schoolteacher Mark L. Hummer and 20-year resident/park enthusiast Gale Jaffe. According to the SLNC website, the tie will be settled in the time-tested method of a coin toss.
Among other electoral highlights: The new [...]]]></description>
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		<title></title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/2086/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/2086/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Click to learn why we&#8217;ve ceased our print publication, and read plans for the new and exciting LAALTERNATIVE.COM!
Our cover story last week began with the phrase, &#8220;Everything ends,&#8221; and it&#8217;s a phrase that is perhaps more relevant than we thought at the time.
This issue of L.A. Alternative will be the last. That is not to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say It Ainâ€™t So, Al</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/say-it-aint-so-al/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/say-it-aint-so-al/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The catâ€™s outta the bag with Weird Alâ€™s Straight Outta Lynwood.
by Mike Winder


Hold on to your butts. After three long years, Alfred Yankovic, the prolific artist better known as â€œWeird Al,â€ has finally released a new album. Straight Outta Lynwood tackles topics as varied as computer viruses, frivolous lawsuits, the workings of an internal organ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/side-stage-31/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/side-stage-31/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Side Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotlighting the best of local music: The Parallelograms
by Evan George


Geometry dudes tell us that if a quadrilateral has two pairs of opposite sides of the same lengths, then it is a parallelogram. In that case Chris Curtis and Stephanie King definitely form a parallelogram. The L.A. duoâ€”thick-framed Curtis and sultry synth princess Kingâ€”manages the difficult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purgatory Production</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/purgatory-production/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/purgatory-production/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus Campâ€™s look at Christian boot camp is scary, but surface level.
by Jay Antani
 Rating: 2 out of 5

Documentary collaborators Heidi Ewing and Rachel Gradyâ€™s Jesus Camp opens with, and ultimately returns to, a series of wonderfully evocative images of Middle Americaâ€”Missouri, to be exactâ€”in lush green swaths of open land, cloud-swept skies, and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/cd-reviews-32/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/cd-reviews-32/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The DFA Remixes â€“ Chapter 2 and Clark
by Bernardo Rondeau

Various
The DFA Remixes â€“ Chapter 2 
(DFA/Astralwerks)
 Rating: 4 out of 5
In the second, though likely not last, installment of DFAâ€™s remix anthologizing, James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy brandish some of their finest bleep-crusted wares. More consistent than this springâ€™s Chapter 1, the new discâ€™s leading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War On Intelligence</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/war-on-intelligence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/war-on-intelligence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bush silenced the truth of terrorismâ€™s upswing.
by Robert Scheer

You would think that a consensus report from all 16 U.S. intelligence services concluding that he has blown the war on terror would be a really big deal to the president. But that assumes that George W. Bush values intelligence.
Clearly, he does not. So the news that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forbidden Sushi</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/forbidden-sushi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/forbidden-sushi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hearty recipes for heady homies 
by Alex Brown and Evan George

To serious vegetarians and vegans, fish is verboten. And thatâ€™s just too bad, especially considering most veggie rolls are pathetic (tomato and cucumber is a waste of rice). Here, weâ€™ve used miso shiitakes to mimic the rubbery protein of raw fish. The crisp compliment of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Shallow Web</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/a-shallow-web/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/a-shallow-web/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Universe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
As we become Internet beings, are we losing feeling?
by Claire L. Evans
In the year 2000, Stephen Hawking wrote that the â€œnext century will be the century of complexity.â€ Of course, he wasnâ€™t referring to political quagmires or environmental degradationâ€”although he might as well have beenâ€”because all that shit is getting brambly. â€œComplexity,â€ as a theoretical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/disc-junkie-20/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/disc-junkie-20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tip sheet for compulsive DVD buyers.
by Paul Gaita

Multiplex
Letâ€™s start out with something nice, shall we? And it doesnâ€™t get much nicer than The Little Mermaid (Disney), which streets this week in a special restored two-disc set that include much making-of material, deleted scenes, and commentary. If youâ€™re gonna watch a Disney animated film, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Bottoms and A Downward Dawg</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/two-bottoms-and-a-downward-dawg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/two-bottoms-and-a-downward-dawg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jen Sincero
Sex is something that drives us, empowers us, and gets us into really stupid situations with people we have no business seeing naked. Be you the studliest of studs or the coyest of virgins, there are always questions, and thereâ€™s always room for growth. Jen Sincero is the bestselling author, sexpert and motivational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/geeked-16/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bombermanâ€”Act: Zero
Videogame reviews by Adam Diamond


PUBLISHER &#124; KONAMI
DEVELOPER &#124; HUDSON SOFT
PLATFORM &#124; 360
PRICE &#124; $49.99
ESRB RATING &#124; T (TEEN)
WHATâ€™S COOL: Hmmâ€¦ the picture on the box looks kind of cool.
WHATâ€™S UNCOOL: Everything else about this game.
GAMEPLAY: 1 out of 5
GRAPHICS: 1 out of 5
SOUND: 1 out of 5
Fans of video games have a lot of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from the Editors</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/letter-from-the-editors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/letter-from-the-editors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Our cover story last week began with the phrase, â€œEverything ends,â€ and itâ€™s a phrase that is perhaps more relevant than we thought at the time.
This issue of L.A. Alternative will be the last. That is not to say that our unique voice will completely disappear, although, as youâ€™ll see on the following pages, each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Busch</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/in-the-busch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/in-the-busch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chugging â€œspecialtyâ€ beers and cheese with the King of Beers.
by Alex Brown
The last time I was inside a fancy hotel on the Sunset Strip was the birthday celebration of a wealthy, hedonistic Dallasite. We chugged PBR, snorted cocaine off a toilet seat with the stars of Jackass, and tried to communicate to the glass box [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard to Forget</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/hard-to-forget/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/29/hard-to-forget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[American Hardcore is a hallmark moment of blood, sweat and piss.
by Eric Otto
 Rating: 4 out of 5

Itâ€™s not your fatherâ€™s punk rockâ€”wait, actually it is. Hardcore is getting up there in years and so are those hardcore guys. The tattoos may sag a bit, hairlines are receding and bellies may show more, but bless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Rag in Town, Better L.A., More Praise for LAA Cover People</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/best-rag-in-town-better-la-more-praise-for-laa-cover-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/best-rag-in-town-better-la-more-praise-for-laa-cover-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Best Rag in Town
Holy Crap! You are simply the best free publication out there right now. Your sex columnist, science columnist, and sheer selection of articles on things that actually matter to Angelenos make me proud for this city. You had a great best of L.A. edition, especially compared to what Citybeat put out this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insulting Injury</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/insulting-injury/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/insulting-injury/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
L.A.&#8217;s emergency unit of black comedy, performance art and softcore puppetry, Art of Bleeding, hits the big time â€” laughing all the way.
by Lucinda Michele Knapp
photos by Allan Amato, styling by Raquel
Everything ends.
It&#8217;s the Big Dumb Truth of life, the one we struggle with the most. People don&#8217;t like change: We want our romances to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed Signals and Sexy Squirts</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/mixed-signals-and-sexy-squirts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/mixed-signals-and-sexy-squirts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jen Sincero
Sex is something that drives us, empowers us, and gets us into really stupid situations with people we have no business seeing naked. Be you the studliest of studs or the coyest of virgins, there are always questions, and thereâ€™s always room for growth. Jen Sincero is the bestselling author, sexpert and motivational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gimme Dat Nut</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/gimme-dat-nut/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/gimme-dat-nut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diarrhea of a Madman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fair to remember or journey to peanut hell?
by Dan Gillis III

I know of nothing more pure and true than my unadulterated love of anthropomorphized foodstuffs. Whether itâ€™s empanadas with tap shoes, jumbo shrimp with sunglasses, or even a torta playing the trombone, I just canâ€™t get enough of these cute little fuckers. So, when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cycle of Life</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/cycle-of-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/cycle-of-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CICLE shows how life in L.A. can be car-free.
by Laura Hauther

If clogged streets, sky-high gas prices and polluted air arenâ€™t reasons enough to run out and buy a bike or give the subway a try, CICLEâ€™s hoping to show the way to a less car-dependent lifestyle with a series of gatherings, workshops and, well, partying.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nocturnal Emissions</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/nocturnal-emissions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/nocturnal-emissions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Michel Gondryâ€™s the Science of Sleep is a pillow stuffed with dreamy fluff.
by Wayne Melton
 Rating: 3 out of 5

The Science of Sleep is a perplexing title. This rare work of auteurship by noted music video and feature film director Michel Gondry is all about fantasy and dreams. The hapless dreamer StÃ©phane (Gael GarcÃ­a Bernal), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/a-tip-sheet-for-compulsive-dvd-buyers-10/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/a-tip-sheet-for-compulsive-dvd-buyers-10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tip sheet for compulsive DVD buyers
by Paul Gaita
Multiplex
Not to bring you down or anything, but the best pick of the week is Combat Diary: The Marines of Lima Company (A&#038;E), a harrowing documentary about a Marine unit in Iraq that lost 23 men during its tour of duty in 2005. The film is refreshingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/saints-row/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Saints Row
Videogame reviews by Seth Mcm. Donlin

PUBLISHER &#124; THQ
DEVELOPER &#124; VOLITION
PLATFORM &#124; 360
PRICE &#124; $59.99
ESRB RATING &#124; M (MATURE)
WHATâ€™S COOL: The variety of side missions and their importance to the overall game; the customized wardrobes; the ability to attract followers; superb voice acting.
WHATâ€™S UNCOOL: Some graphical bugs; radio stations that come up short when compared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rockstar Super No!</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/rockstar-super-no/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/rockstar-super-no/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tour-A-Saurus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Where were L.A. dimwits in the recent reality show contest?
by Glenn Dugan

The recent cliffhanger conclusion to Rockstar: Supernova, this seasonâ€™s sleazy hard-rock answer to American Idol, may have left more questions than answers. (How embarrassed are Canadians for birthing the showâ€™s winner, Lukas? for example. How many times did Brooke Burke have to blow Dave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gang Mentality</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/gang-mentality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/gang-mentality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gang Gang Dance kindly asks us to stop shopping and start jungle shaking.
by Michael Mannheimer

Experimental music, at its most basic level, stems from the need to create something newâ€”a need that sometimes caters more to the creator than the audience. And often there is no middle ground: You either dig the shit or you donâ€™t. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The â€œDevilâ€™sâ€ Playground</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/the-devils-playground/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/the-devils-playground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bush disgraces the world at the U.N. podium.
by Robert Scheer
What an outrage for the president to invoke the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in his address to the United Nations, a day after a Canadian government commission accused the United States of rendering a Canadian to Syria for torture. Did no one on his staff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sit-ins Come Back</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/sit-ins-come-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/sit-ins-come-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Labor issues reframed as civil rights issues in protest tactics.
by Evan George

In hopes of brightening their future, Los Angeles workers and labor organizers are turning to tricks of the past: civil disobedience in large numbers.
This week the strategy showed up on Wilshire Boulevard, where members of a coalition trying to unionize security officers in downtown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS v. God</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/irs-v-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When confronted by tough choices, Christian churches and youth groups across the United States often look to one simple question for guidance: What Would Jesus Do? Thatâ€™s exactly what a former pastor of Pasadenaâ€™s All Saints Episcopal Church asked his congregation back in 2004. Only the issues he was concerned with arenâ€™t typical sermon fodder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Dot Gets Greener, Wal-Mart Gets Bigger, Two-Wheel Procession, Rough Times</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/green-dot-gets-greener-wal-mart-gets-bigger-two-wheel-procession-rough-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/green-dot-gets-greener-wal-mart-gets-bigger-two-wheel-procession-rough-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Briefs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Green Dot Gets Greener
Green Dot Public Schools, a company that operates 10 charter high schools in Los Angeles, received a $1.8 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this week. According to Green Dot, the money will go toward supporting five new charter schools, called the Animo High Schools, which opened this year.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/side-stage-30/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/side-stage-30/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Side Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotlighting the best of local music: Casxio
by Max Read

The Gospel according to Casxio: In the beginning was the Beat. And the Beat was with God, and the Beat was God. And the music was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/cd-reviews-31/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/cd-reviews-31/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Akron/Family and Wolf Eyes
by Bernardo Rondeau
Akron/Family
Meek Warrior
(Young God)
Rating: 3 out of 5
The music on Akron/Family&#8217;s second proper album-or third, if you count their &#8220;split&#8221; disc with Young God honcho Michael Gira&#8217;s Angels of Light project-is ridiculously ecstatic. Its seven tracks map a rugged topography where volcanic streams of freeform electricity burst forth from jangling folk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faint Lights</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/faint-lights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/faint-lights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Aurora Borealis shoots for fireworks but looks like sparklers.
by Eric Otto

Aurora Borealis is kind of like those family dramas on the station formerly known as the WB: beautiful people in common roles with singular personal problems that are vaguely recognizable but advance nicely as plot, sweeping perfectly into a happy ending. That&#8217;s not too surprising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Display Case</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/22/display-case-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Irregular Wine Tasting
by Victor Rodionoff

With their relentless advertising, fiber companies have conned us into believing that regularity is everything.Â  But beyond the strictly gastroenterological realm, regularity denotes conformity to established rules and criteria, and the tedium of formality. And few things are more bound to routine than wine tasting-that rigorous ritual so preoccupied with prettying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Strip</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[True to Love
by David Pifer of Secret Headquarters
Love and Rockets, Volume 2, Number 16
Los Bros Hernandez
(Fantagraphics 2006)
B&#038;W Comic Book
28 pages, $4.50
Love and Rockets No. 16, published this summer by Fantagraphics, is the most recent comic book offered by the accomplished Hernandez Brothers. The issue is split into three ongoing stories; Gilberto&#8217;s &#8220;Down in Heaven&#8221; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rolling Back the Clock</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/rolling-back-the-clock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Rolling Blackouts warp the space-time continuum.
by Lucinda Michele Knapp

The Rolling Blackouts are not a time machine per se. An actual time machine takes passengers into the past, or transports them forward into the future. But the Rolling Blackouts still qualify, because what they&#8217;ve brought to the Here and Now is a reminder of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Text Twister</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/text-twister/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Z. Danielewski only writes in revolutions. 
by Lesley Bargar


As I watch cult obsession/modern literary groundbreaker Mark Z. Danielewski frantically foot the Grove parking structureâ€™s maze of cement pillars, escalators and bichon frise in a fruitless quest for his black Priusâ€”no doubt one of 10,000 in attendanceâ€”I canâ€™t help but smile. Not simply because itâ€™s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donâ€™t Just Sit There</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/dont-just-sit-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ground Truth is a poignantly biased look at the lives of frustrated Iraq veterans. 
by Jay Antani
 Rating: 4.5 ouf of 5

After viewing Patricia Foulkrodâ€™s profoundly moving The Ground Truth, I kept wrestling with the question, â€œIs this a documentary or a fantastically put-together PSA urging veteransâ€™ rights?â€ Foulkrod approaches her subject matter with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sound of Sadness</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/the-sound-of-sadness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If its characters were coddled as carefully as its soundtrack, The Last Kiss could have been another Braff success.
by Sean Oâ€™Connell
Rating: 2.5 out of 5

The catchy pop ballads found on the soundtrack for Tony Goldwynâ€™s The Last Kiss will break your heart in two. The movie these songs support only wishes it could make such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opa!</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/opa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Relishing the Big Fat Greek staple Papa Cristoâ€™s during L.A.â€™s Greek Week.
by Lucinda Michele Knapp


I didnâ€™t really understand Greek food until now. Feta cheese, yeah. Big whoop. Grape leaves, blah. Weird yogurtâ€”OK. Itâ€™s all fine and dandy. But I didnâ€™t get it.
When I went to Papa Cristoâ€™s to celebrate L.A. Greek Week (Sept. 8-10), I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/cd-reviews-30/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mouse On Mars and The Howling Hex
by Bernardo Rondeau

Mouse On Mars
Varcharz 
(Ipecac)
Rating: 3 out of 5
Many writers, this one included, unfairly dismissed Mouse on Marsâ€™ last studio album, 2004â€™s Radical Connector, for its ebullience. A spunky record of chopped voices and cubed melodies, its avant-pop funk seemed to betray MOMâ€™s post-rock pedigree. After an accompanying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sap-tastic Eleventh</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/sap-tastic-eleventh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MEDIA WATCH:  Coverage of 9/11 emits its annual smokescreen.
by Evan George


The recent Oliver Stone film World Trade Center got flak from critics for playing too much like big budget Hollywood hero worship of the NYFD everyman. Meanwhile, this weekâ€™s over-produced personal drama â€œnews coverageâ€ of the 5-year anniversary of 9/11 escaped unscathed from media [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pink Slip Times, Bike to Work</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/pink-slip-times-bike-to-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Briefs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Pink Slip Times
Los Angeles civic leaders sent a leader this week to the Tribune Co., Chicago-based owners of the Los Angeles Times, asking that the company cease from making more cuts to the paperâ€™s staff. Twenty L.A. leaders, including former Secretary of State Warren Christopher and labor leader Maria Elena Durazo, signed the letter saying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save a Brat, Ride a Pimp, Cool Beans, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Donâ€™t Forget Those Breadsticksâ€¦, Security Blanket</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/letters-v5n42/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/letters-v5n42/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Save a Brat, Ride a Pimp
[re: â€œDisplay Case,â€ vol. 5 no. 41]
Anybody out there who has a couple dumb-ass preteen brats needs to take them to see Idiocracy. Immediately. Before itâ€™s too late.
The film does all the right things: makes fun of pimps and Ebonics, wrestling and porn. It made a total mockery of American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hit the Boards Harder</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/hit-the-boards-harder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How much unfettered access should advertisers have to public spaceâ€”along our freeways, in our neighborhoods, even in our brains? Itâ€™s a question we thought City Hall had already tackled in 2002 when the City Council passed two laws targeting the 10,000 â€œoff-siteâ€ billboards that sit on public land rather than on a companyâ€™s property. Two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Browning the Green Movement</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/browning-the-green-movement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Starved for parks and urban recreation, the Latino community has seized on the greening of the L.A. River as more than a new take on urban environmentalism-it&#8217;s a metaphor for rising Latino power. 
by Evan George
How do you play soccer in a river?
It&#8217;s not a riddle; it&#8217;s a question-one I kept coming back to during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Menoplease stop touching me</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/menoplease-stop-touching-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jen Sincero
Sex is something that drives us, empowers us, and gets us into really stupid situations with people we have no business seeing naked. Be you the studliest of studs or the coyest of virgins, there are always questions, and thereâ€™s always room for growth. Jen Sincero is the bestselling author, sexpert and motivational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Your Grandpaâ€™s Family Values</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Yo Mama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by guest columnist Heather Cushman-Dowdee
I am a Democrat. And have proudly been so for as long as I can rememberâ€”except for an occasional flirtation with the Green Party and once in the â€™90s when I became convinced that libertarianism was the way to go. (I was soon talked out of it by a boyfriend who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science Hata</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/science-hata/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Universe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Donâ€™t hate the researcher, hate the game. 
by Claire L. Evans

These days, few things are as commonplace in the landscape of scientific research as the perpetual yowl of opposition. Despite the fact that huge announcements in the sciences often arenâ€™t, right off the bat, that thrilling (â€œtwo galaxies a million light years away collided and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloodlust Roulade</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/bloodlust-roulade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hearty recipes for heady homies
by Alex Brown and Evan George

The Stuffing:
4 shallots, peeled and sliced
6 cloves of garlic, peeled and sliced
1 cup button mushrooms, chopped
1 cup oyster mushrooms, chopped
4 Tbs. cabernet sauvignon
6 stoned wheat crackers
1â„4 cup basil, minced
1â„4 cup gold raisins
2 Tbs. balsamic vinegar
1 Tbs. maple syrup
2 Tbs. Dijon mustard
1. Heat a sautÃ© pan on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manga</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/textbook-manga/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Textbook Manga
by Lyn Jensen
For years, people have been arguing that comics can educate as well as entertain, and the three-volume 1 World Manga series that VIZ is currently marketing is a delightful example.  And while itâ€™s not actually classified as an educational text, it is very different from whatâ€™s commonly found in the manga [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/a-tip-sheet-for-compulsive-dvd-buyers-9/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/a-tip-sheet-for-compulsive-dvd-buyers-9/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tip sheet for compulsive DVD buyers
by Paul Gaita
Multiplex
Hey, just in time for the new TV seasonâ€”itâ€™s all of last season on DVD! Actually, Iâ€™m very pro about TV boxed sets. Not only does it allow you to enjoy a show without commercial interruptions, but you can indulge in a show at your own pace. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/madden-nfl-07/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Madden NFL 07
Videogame reviews by Adam Diamond

PUBLISHER &#124; EA SPORTS
DEVELOPER &#124; EA TIBURON
PLATFORM &#124; PS2, XBOX, GC, 360, PSP, GBA, DS, PC (PS3, Wii)
PRICE &#124; $29.99-$69.99 DEPENDING ON PLATFORM AND EDITION
ESRB RATING &#124; E (EVERYONE)
WHATâ€™S COOL: Just about everything here is amazing.

WHATâ€™S UNCOOL: The Hall of Fame features seem like a waste of space and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subverting Democracy With The Big Lie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/15/subverting-democracy-with-the-big-lie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bushâ€™s remarkably shameless remarks on 9/11.
by Robert Scheer
If representative government were alive and well in America, President Bush would not have dared to give the speech he made Monday on the fifth anniversary of 9/11. In a blatantly partisan screed, the president ripped off a nationâ€™s mourning for the 9/11 victims in order to justify [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living In Sin</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/living-in-sin-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/living-in-sin-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Give Butts and New Partners a Chance 
by Jen Sincero

Sex is something that drives us, empowers us, and gets us into really stupid situations with people we have no business seeing naked. Be you the studliest of studs or the coyest of virgins, there are always questions, and thereâ€™s always room for growth. Jen Sincero [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bird, A Plane, Aâ€¦Bean Bun?</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/a-bird-a-plane-a-bean-bun/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/a-bird-a-plane-a-bean-bun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A superhero quest for sweets in Little Tokyo.
by Candace Ryan


At the intersection of anime and pop food culture stands a flying red bean bunâ€”a pastry superhero, to be exact. Anpanman, the long-time Japanese anime character, has brought his superhero powers across the Pacific. The anpanâ€”a popular Japanese pastry filled with sweet adzuki bean pasteâ€”inspired manga [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Display Case</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/display-case-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/display-case-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Top Secret Mike Judge Flick
by Lucinda Michele Knapp


Itâ€™s the stealth movie of the year. For some reason Fox Studios has decided to release Mike Judgeâ€™s latest film, Idiocracy, with absolutely no publicity. None. You canâ€™t even find the film online unless you search for â€œUntitled Mike Judge Comedy.â€ Weird. We only heard about it through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Killed the Murder Mystery?</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/who-killed-the-murder-mystery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/who-killed-the-murder-mystery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hollywoodland fails to squeeze out the juiciest parts of a Tinsel Town murder. 
by Eric Otto
Rating: 2 out of 5

HBO director-alumnus Allen Coulter makes his feature film debut with Hollywoodland, an attempt to shine a little L.A. Confidential on the death of actor George Reeves, the 1950â€™s TV Superman. Itâ€™s fun to watch Ben Affleck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down and Out</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/down-and-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/down-and-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sherrybaby shows, if a bit too authentically, the unfortunate life of a well-intentioned ex-con. 
by Wayne Melton
Rating: 3 out of 5

If nothing else, Maggie Gyllenhaal should land a few action movie offers after her tough performance in the indie film Sherrybaby. As Sherry Swanson, a former exotic dancer and heroin addict recently paroled from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No-Fussinâ€™ Tuscan</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/no-fussin-tuscan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/no-fussin-tuscan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[La Maschera breaks the chain of Pasadenaâ€™s chain-ready fusion contusion. 
by Alex Brown


In my six years as an Angeleno, I have seldom ventured into Pasadena with a strong will. I really donâ€™t like it there. The bums dress better than I do, and the police are infinitely more brash (and present) than many of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manga</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/manga-18/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/manga-18/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Where No Manga Has Gone Before
by Lyn Jensen

To boldly go where no man has gone before.â€ This was the original mission of the starship Enterprise. No ordinary TV series, Star Trek boldly forged new frontiers for TV and science fiction. When the show was abruptly cancelled in 1969, it didnâ€™t just fade away into some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/geeked-15/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/geeked-15/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Darkstar One 
Videogame reviews by Seth Mcm. Donlin


PUBLISHER &#124; CDV
DEVELEOPER &#124; ASCARON
PLATFORM &#124; PC
PRICE &#124; $39.99
ESRB RATING &#124; T (TEEN)
WHATâ€™S COOL: An interesting ship that can be customized to suit your style of play, and a plot that keeps you wanting to push forward.
WHATâ€™S UNCOOL: The method by which the Darkstar One can be customized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acid Rocket</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/acid-rocket/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/acid-rocket/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kawabata Makotoâ€™s Acid Mothers Temple launches another one into orbit.
by Evan George


As a small child, Kawabata Makoto had a ringing in his ears. When the screeching would start heâ€™d run to the window of his familyâ€™s house looking to find the source of the noise. â€œI believed it was messages from UFOs,â€ he says.
A few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/side-stage-29/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/side-stage-29/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Side Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotlighting the best of local music: The Harpeth Trace
by Lesley Bargar


Thereâ€™s something unbearably sad about Labor Day weekend. Under the smell of burning coals and burgers lurks the foreboding scent of freshly sharpened pencils. Pool party swimmers try to avoid the few dried leaves floating on the waterâ€™s surface. Thereâ€™s a dubious undercurrent to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/cd-reviews-29/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/cd-reviews-29/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yo La Tengo and Indian Jewelry
by Bernardo Rondeau

Yo La Tengo
I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass  
(Matador)
 Rating: 4 out of 5
Yo La Tengoâ€™s 12th album is also their fourth consecutive double-LP, compilations notwithstanding. But after the light-heeled, pastel tranquility of 2003â€™s Summer Sun, their latest feels like a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drug Traffic Taliban</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/drug-traffic-taliban/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/drug-traffic-taliban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Afghanistan is high on opium, not democracy. 
by Robert Scheer

The good news, for drug fiends, is that Afghanistan has just harvested its biggest opium crop ever, up a whopping 59 percent from last year and big enough to cover 130 percent of the entire world market. The street price for illegal heroin, 92 percent of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laborâ€™s Party</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/labors-party/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/labors-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[L.A. labor organizers say Labor Day was just the beginning of Labor Month.
by John Guigayoma


With forks digging into scrambled eggs and mouths sipping from wine glasses, hundreds of union members greeted their Labor Day with a breakfast that played host to politicians, labor organizers and workers at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.
Indicative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kid Row, Greening Tractors</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/kid-row-greening-tractors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/kid-row-greening-tractors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Briefs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Kid Row
The Los Angeles Mission, one of skid rowâ€™s busiest homeless shelters, will hold a block party for homeless and needy children on Saturday, Sept. 9. TV celebrities and volunteers will help the Mission give kids a reprieve from the health issues and stress caused by living on the streets. Game booths, face painting and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scheerly Depressing, What Stripes?, Hail Coop</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/scheerly-depressing-what-stripes-hail-coop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/scheerly-depressing-what-stripes-hail-coop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Scheerly Depressing
Seriously, next week or sometime in the near future, please write something positive [re: â€œHow Clinton Killed Welfare,â€ vol. 5 no. 40]. There must be some group of well-meaning citizens (of course they wonâ€™t be politicians) who are doing something effective for the community and the world that makes it better for us all. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Affirming Action</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/an-affirming-action/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/an-affirming-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
UCLA officials announced this week that the university will now use a more â€œholisticâ€ approach to admissions when accepting new students, spurred partly by a disturbing slip in minority enrollment. Itâ€™s what we would call a more â€œlogicalâ€ approach.
Since California voters passed Proposition 209, the 1996 voter initiative that barred colleges and universities from using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poker in the Front, Liquor in the Rear</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/poker-in-the-front-liquor-in-the-rear/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/poker-in-the-front-liquor-in-the-rear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diarrhea of a Madman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rootin&#8217; tootin&#8217; good ol&#8217; poker time, in tha&#8217; hood.
by Dan Gillis III
I snapped my mother-of-pearl shirt snaps, tightened my screaming eagle bola tie and fastened my oversized belt buckle while my boots stomped the parquet floors in my kitchen. The excitement didn&#8217;t stop as I felt the stares coming out the drive-thru window as I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salad Brunch</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/salad-brunch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/salad-brunch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BLT Breakfast Salad with Fingerling &#8220;Hash&#8221;
by Alex Brown and Evan George

BLT Breakfast Salad
1 block tempeh
2 Tbs. extra virgin olive oil
2 Tbs. soy sauce
1 Tbs. smoked salt
2 Tbs. maple syrup
20-30 cherry tomatoes (heirloom if possible)
3 Tbs. extra virgin olive oil
2 shallots, peeled and shaved
1 pinch thyme
10 leaves of basil, chiffonaded
2 cloves garlic
2 Tbs. sherry vinegar (or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/disc-junkie-19/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/disc-junkie-19/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tip sheet for compulsive dvd buyers.
by Paul Gaita
Multiplex
I&#8217;m not sure whether I should recommend the new two-disc special edition releases of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi (all Fox)-it&#8217;s the umpteenth home video release of the movies, with the hook here being that the sets include the original versions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheesy PR</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/cheesy-pr/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/cheesy-pr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tour-A-Saurus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Taco Bell&#8217;s rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll competition brings battle of the bands to new lows.
by Glenn Dugan

Last week, as we were winding down on deadline (and I was settling into my Tecate bubble), the most sinister PR release I&#8217;ve ever received in my non-career-career showed up in my e-mail inbox.
&#8220;In an effort to help struggling bands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schooled by Rock</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/schooled-by-rock/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/08/schooled-by-rock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Teaching for LAUSD by day and playing in a band by night can lead to mysterious and difficult double lives for L.A. musicians. But with grown-up punks ruling the classroom, the kids might just be better off.
by Shannon Flaherty
photos by Aaron Farley
Summer nights at The Smell are sweaty. Kids thrash around and migrate back and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Color Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/color-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/color-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Picking a color for the new MTA line shouldnâ€™t be taken lightlyâ€¦or darkly. 
by Gavin Shulman


Stop everything, people: There is a crisis, and itâ€™s about color. More specifically, itâ€™s about what color to assign the new light rail line that will travel from Downtown to Culver City. On the one hand are the transit authority [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Be the Judge</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/you-be-the-judge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/you-be-the-judge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This Film Is Not Yet Rated unmasks the ratings tribunal.
by Wayne Melton
Rating: 3 out of 5

You might think that movie ratings donâ€™t matter if they no longer keep you out of a movie. But donâ€™t underestimate the benefit of being reminded which movies to be wary of. I, for one, wish there were a rating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less Action, More Talk</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/less-action-more-talk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/less-action-more-talk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, Zhang Yimou karate chops martial arts to the curb. 
by Chris Cabin
Rating: 3 out of 5

So, youâ€™re a director; a Chinese director, to be exact. Youâ€™ve just hit the peak of your career with a huge box-office success (Hero) and a monster critical success (The House of Flying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Winos</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/hot-winos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/hot-winos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Uncorking the best and worst of the Los Angeles Wine and Food Festival.
by Hot Knives


They say, â€œIn wine, is truth.â€ Or Plato did anyway, and we all know how he felt about wine. Well, when Hot Knives attended the Los Angeles Wine and Food Festival last weekend, we found the exact opposite to be true. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starbrite, See Tonight</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/starbrite-see-tonight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/starbrite-see-tonight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Among passing trends, the Starlite Desperation canâ€™t shake their sound.
by Kate Petre


Ah artists! So often seen as societyâ€™s harbingers of cultural change and glorious heralds of ideas to come. They intuit the wax and wane of the times and harness that feeling into a medium, to present something that the rest of society was just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/side-stage-28/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/side-stage-28/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Side Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotlighting the best of local music: Teenage Talking Cars
by Lesley Bargar


A couple of weeks ago I was waiting outside Silver Lakeâ€™s margarita mecca El Conquistador when a delectably disheveled girl in combat boots and a shredded white dress stumbled out to the curb. Obviously looking for a slurring partner, she turned to the sidewalkâ€™s only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/cd-reviews-28/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/cd-reviews-28/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Junior Boys and Grizzly Bear
by Bernardo Rondeau

Junior Boys
So This is Goodbye
(Domino)
Rating: 4 out of 5
Loss and regret haunt Jeremy Greenspan. The very titles of his two albums as Junior Boys speak to this melancholy condition: 2003â€™s Last Exit and now So This is Goodbye. Both imply dreary moments of realization; the edges of change that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guards Demand Security</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/guards-demand-security/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/guards-demand-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[L.A.â€™s mostly-black security workforce makes a push to unionize. 
by Seth Meyer


With Labor Day approaching, leaders from the labor movement and the black community met Aug. 25 to voice their support for unionizing private security guards, a low-wage job where blacks make up more than 60 percent of the workforce in Los Angeles.
Security workers have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giddy About Gardens, House Shopping, Crazy About Crime</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/giddy-about-gardens-house-shopping-crazy-about-crime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/giddy-about-gardens-house-shopping-crazy-about-crime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Giddy About Gardens
[Re: â€œGreen House Effect,â€ vol. 5 no. 38]
Iâ€™m honored at your mention of the Lakewood lifestyle. I moved there four years ago on a whim and wouldnâ€™t dream of moving back to the Westside of L.A. The garden yard???? Hmmmm. What a great idea! No, I havenâ€™t gone â€œStepfordâ€!!!
-Christina Seltzer
House Shopping
[Re: Debutantes in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheers Guvâ€™na</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/cheers-guvna/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/cheers-guvna/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Whatâ€™s wrong with the world when you canâ€™t even hate your pro-business, boob-fondling, celebrity Republican governor? Well, technically it means thereâ€™s one less thing wrong with the world.
When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed this week to a mandatory 25 percent cut in greenhouse emissions by Californiaâ€™s power plants and refineries by 2025, it was hard to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skin Deep</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/skin-deep/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/skin-deep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
L.A.&#8217;s provocative &#8220;lowbrow&#8221; pop art pioneer Coop and his big, bold, bare babes get ready to expose the sexy side of corporate America.
by Lucinda Michele Knapp
Coop doesn&#8217;t look like the craven, debauched sex fiend I expected.
In fact, when I meet the prolific young artist in his workspace at the Brewery Arts Complex, he&#8217;s downright sweet. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plastic Burritos &amp; Unsolicited Noses</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/plastic-burritos-unsolicited-noses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/plastic-burritos-unsolicited-noses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jen Sincero
Sex is something that drives us, empowers us, and gets us into really stupid situations with people we have no business seeing naked. Be you the studliest of studs or the coyest of virgins, there are always questions, and thereâ€™s always room for growth. Jen Sincero is the bestselling author, sexpert and motivational [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dear Pluto,</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/dear-pluto/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/dear-pluto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Universe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I guess this is goodbye.
by Claire L. Evans

I hope you donâ€™t mind that Iâ€™m writing you. A friend of mine in the Astronomy Department slipped me your coordinates and I figured, well, Iâ€™m a pretty big fan of yours andâ€”letâ€™s be frankâ€”you seem to be having a hard time lately. Besides, judging by how long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Own Sweet Time</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/our-own-sweet-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/our-own-sweet-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Yo Mama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Depending on our age, it flies or stands still.
by Lisa Keller
Iâ€™m lying in bed with my little one, Eva, enveloped in the velvety pink semi-darkness of her room. Iâ€™m waiting for her to fall asleep, so that I can make my way downstairs and do some writing, or clean the kitchen, or just sit and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manga</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/no-point-no-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/no-point-no-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No Point, No Problem
by Lyn Jensen
The word â€œyaoiâ€ originated as an acronym for a Japanese expression that translates very roughly as, â€œNo peak, no point, no problem.â€ The story may have no peak (the joke) or point, but the lack of meaning is no problem. The term was originally applied to fanzines (doujinshi in Japanese) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/a-tip-sheet-for-compulsive-dvd-buyers-8/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/a-tip-sheet-for-compulsive-dvd-buyers-8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tip sheet for compulsive DVD buyers
by Paul Gaita
Multiplex
Warning to DVD-philes: the collectorsâ€™ discs are out in force this week. Lost: The Complete Second Season (Buena Vista) leads the pack in terms of sheer quantityâ€”not only do you get expanded versions of the entire 2005-2006 season on six discs, but thereâ€™s also a seventh disc [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/big-oil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/big-oil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Big Oil
Videogame reviews by Adam Diamond

PUBLISHER &#124; TRI SYNERGY
DEVELOPER &#124; DARTMOOR SOFTWORKS
PLATFORM &#124; PC
PRICE &#124; $19.99
ESRB RATING &#124; E (EVERYONE)
WHATâ€™S COOL: You can make millions by polluting and spoiling natural resources without any consequences!
WHATâ€™S UNCOOL: Wouldnâ€™t the game be better (and more interesting) if the consequences were at least remotely realistic?
GAMEPLAY: 2 out of 5
GRAPHICS: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Clinton Killed Welfare</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/how-clinton-killed-welfare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/09/01/how-clinton-killed-welfare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Clintonâ€™s presidency won the war on welfare, not on poverty.
by Robert Scheer
To hear Bill Clinton tell it, his presidency won the war on poverty three decades after President Lyndon B. Johnson launched it, having changed only the name. Unfortunately, however, for the mothers and their children pushed off the rolls but still struggling mightily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Los Angeles c. 2231</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/los-angeles-c-2231/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/los-angeles-c-2231/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Itâ€™s never too early to start planning for the big four-five-oh.
by Mike Winder


Founded in 1781, El Pueblo de Nuestra SeÃ±ora la Reina de los Angeles del RÃ­o de PorciÃºnculaâ€”or just â€œLos Angelesâ€ as the Anglo minority likes to call itâ€”celebrates its 225th birthday on Sept. 4. Now donâ€™t make that faceâ€”225 isnâ€™t that old! Why, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flies Like an Eagle</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/flies-like-an-eagle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/flies-like-an-eagle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Invincible tells the mostly true tale of a classic underdog.
by Sean Oâ€™Conell
Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Following the disappointing 1975 season that saw the team finishing 4-10, the Philadelphia Eagles needed assistance and werenâ€™t picky about where the help would come from. In a move characterized as part desperation, part publicity stunt, the Eagles organization held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worse Than Chores</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/worse-than-chores/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Dogwalker has all the drama of a pooper-scooper.
by Eric Otto
Rating: 2 out of 5

Itâ€™s inevitable that every review of The Dogwalker is going to mention the recent, unexpected death of Pamela Gordonâ€”a mainstay of Los Angeles theater for many years. But for anyone who caught Gordonâ€™s performances (and if you went to the theater [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wok on the Wild Side</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/wok-on-the-wild-side/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Family lets vegetarians experience real Chinese food.
by Hot Knives


Fermented oyster juice, shark fin soup, jellyfish: Chinese food can be a jungle. That is, until Panda Express decided the cuisine needed a dash of pineapple and MSG, some bright white lighting and plastic forks; Americans napalmed the shit out of the Chinese culinary jungle and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving Port</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/leaving-port/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Great Northern embarks on a treacherous voyage of labels, recording and funnel cake.
by Lesley Bargar

While the crew of L.A.&#8217;s Ship collective continues to sail this city&#8217;s rough musical waters, a few deckhands have embarked on a voyage of their own. The crew: Captains Rachel Stolte (vox piano) and Solon Bixler (vox/guitars), First Mate Davey Latter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/side-stage-27/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/side-stage-27/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Side Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotlighting the best of local music: The Flypaper Cartel
by Nadine Levyfield

It&#8217;s said that guitar god Jimi Hendrix was afflicted with a strange neurological condition called synesthesia, which led him to visualize colors that corresponded to the music he played. Listening to high school (yes, high school!) glam rockers the Flypaper Cartel is kind of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/cd-reviews-27/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/cd-reviews-27/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Total 7 and Stereolab
Various
Total 7
(Kompakt)
Rating: 4 out of 5
There are few markers of summer&#8217;s end (or spring&#8217;s arrival, depending on which side of the equator you&#8217;re on) as improbably joyous as Kompakt&#8217;s annual rich inventoryÂ  of vinyl dutifully garnished with choice, previously unreleased vintages. Vertically integrated and proudly beholden to a singular, sleek aesthetic in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police Tactic Strips Homeless of Comfort</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/police-tactic-strips-homeless-of-comfort/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/police-tactic-strips-homeless-of-comfort/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Critics of the LAPD say milk crate recovery is a new harassment.
by Evan George

&#8220;That&#8217;s everything I own, my personal property!&#8221; Handcuffed in the back seat of a police cruiser, LeRoy Jackson is inconsolable. As one of the officers rolls up the automatic window, Jackson screams, &#8220;I am being arrested for having a crate!&#8221;
It&#8217;s a scene [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Plastic Past, Three Cheers, If She Only Had A Brain, Head Over High Heels, Nice Word, Tough Issue</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/a-plastic-past-three-cheers-if-she-only-had-a-brain-head-over-high-heels-nice-word-tough-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/a-plastic-past-three-cheers-if-she-only-had-a-brain-head-over-high-heels-nice-word-tough-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Plastic Past
[Re: "Doll Face," vol. 5 no. 38]
This would make an interesting thesis-what with the role of historical memory and all.
Armando Guerra
Three Cheers
[Re: "Hip, Hip Hooray," vol. 5 no. 36]
Just a heartfelt thanks to Andria for some kind words. Much appreciation. If you come back, please introduce yourself.
Louis Jacobs
I love this play. &#8230; I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charting the Wrong Course</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/charting-the-wrong-course/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/charting-the-wrong-course/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This was cram week for Mayor Villaraigosa to pass AB 1381, his severely amended takeover plan for LAUSD. And our mayor worked his ass off. But in the end, it may turn out that Villaraigosa has been sitting in the wrong classroom this entire time: While he&#8217;s been busy perfecting his politicking skills and polishing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missing the Ex and A Threeway</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/missing-the-ex-and-a-threeway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/missing-the-ex-and-a-threeway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jen Sincero
Sex is something that drives us, empowers us, and gets us into really stupid situations with people we have no business seeing naked. Be you the studliest of studs or the coyest of virgins, there are always questions, and thereâ€™s always room for growth. Jen Sincero is the bestselling author, sexpert and motivational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fart Yeah Fest!!</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/fart-yeah-fest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diarrhea of a Madman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How to save face when faced with farts.
by Dan Gillis III
So, itâ€™s happened. Youâ€™ve met that special someone who knows the difference between an AE-1 and Aeon Flux; who prefers silk screens to silk sheets; and who is hotter than Chuck Berryâ€™s forehead on a summerâ€™s day. Without any clever cajoling, youâ€™ve gotten him or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beerscream</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/beerscream/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/beerscream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hearty recipes for heady homies.
by Alex Brown and Evan George

We at â€œHot Knivesâ€ are admittedly, and decidedly, dessert deficient.  Salt, hot peppers and garlic hold the key to our hearts. Those of you who dutifully cut out this recipe column every week (that wasnâ€™t supposed to be a joke!) will note that since our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torturous Path</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/torturous-path/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Torturous Path
by Lyn Jensen
Kazuo Koike stands virtually alone among writers in the world of international comics. At a recent appearance in San Diego, many fans wanted to personally tell him how wonderful he is. He wrote Lone Wolf and Cub, which became The Road to Perdition with Prohibition-era gangsters replacing Japanese samurai. He wrote Lady [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/a-tip-sheet-for-compulsive-dvd-buyers-7/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/a-tip-sheet-for-compulsive-dvd-buyers-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tip sheet for compulsive DVD buyers
by Paul Gaita
Multiplex
Weâ€™ve got a lot of titles to cover in this column and only so much room, so I suggest you stretch before readingâ€¦
First up, the smartest and sweetest drama of the last few months, Akeelah and the Bee (Lions Gate); yes, it occasionally treads After School Special [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/dead-rising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dead Rising
Videogame reviews by Seth Mcm. Donlin

PUBLISHER &#124; CAPCOM
DEVELOPER &#124; CAPCOM
PLATFORM &#124; 360
PRICE &#124; $59.99
ESRB RATING &#124; M (MATURE)

WHATâ€™S COOL: Good graphics, great sound effects, an interesting storyline and more ways to kill zombies than you could ever imagine.

WHATâ€™S UNCOOL: The repetitive nature of many of the missions, the limited save system and the fact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suck-it Junktion?</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/suck-it-junktion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/suck-it-junktion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tour-A-Saurus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our darling street fair hits some potholes this year.
by Glenn Dugan

Iâ€™m happy to announce that this yearâ€™s Sunset Junction will be the best yet: For the first time in its 26-year history, the festival will finally offer celebrities, performers and all manner of hangers-on some much-needed chill-out time from the rest of us Silver Lake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Other War</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/the-other-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The countryâ€™s biggest fight is within the Democratic party.
by Robert Scheer
Make no mistake about it: The fight within the Democratic Party over the Iraq war is as important as it is real. This is no sideshow between a seasoned Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) and an upstart challenger Ned Lamont, between pros and bloggers, or lefties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Horrifying, Bizarre, Unnatural History of Sunset Junction</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/the-horrifying-bizarre-unnatural-history-of-sunset-junction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/25/the-horrifying-bizarre-unnatural-history-of-sunset-junction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
As illustrated by the Map of Infamy
The strange and unusual multitude of murders, suicides, robberies, car crashes, ukelele beatings, firefighting pups and other odd factual tidbits from the historic era of today&#8217;s Sunset Junction.
By Kim Cooper
Los Angeles is older than she looks-225-and her memory banks are piled high with forgotten oddities that were once big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/24/disc-junkie-18/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/24/disc-junkie-18/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tip sheet for compulsive DVD buyers.
By Paul Gaita

Multiplex
DVD biz, please give me a break. I have to turn out a preview column every week for LA Alternative, and if what youâ€™re giving me to present to our readers as the best new releases of the week is Just My Luck (Fox) or Psycho Midget [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Business, Butch-lover Bummer</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/bad-business-butch-lover-bummer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/bad-business-butch-lover-bummer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jen Sincero
Sex is something that drives us, empowers us, and gets us into really stupid situations with people we have no business seeing naked. Be you the studliest of studs or the coyest of virgins, there are always questions, and there&#8217;s always room for growth. Jen Sincero is the bestselling author, sexpert and motivational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Times</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/good-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/good-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Universe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Claire L. Evans

For effect, I&#8217;m just going to say something here, something that your outer skeptic-even your inner skeptic-might immediately buck against. Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m not going to start talking about the healing power of Lemurian Seed Crystals. I will only present you with this deceptively simple idea: The world is a better place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Did on My Summer Vacation, Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/what-i-did-on-my-summer-vacation-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/what-i-did-on-my-summer-vacation-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Yo Mama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Lisa Keller
We walked into Les Baous, the neighborhood pizzeria in Vence, France, and the two brothers, Tom and Tanguy, rose immediately from their seats. Although they hadn&#8217;t seen us for a couple of years, they murmured &#8220;Bonsoir,&#8221; shook our hands and kissed us gravely on both cheeks.
My 9-year-old daughter, Greta, was in mild shock. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghost Diner</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/ghost-diner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A survey of old eats with SoCal&#8217;s Restaurant Historical Society.
by Lucinda Michele Knapp

Los angeles has this bad habit of knocking over the architectural gems most dear to us, Alzheimering our history. But with the help of some feisty, preservation-minded Angelenos, a few gems have dodged the demented wrecking ball of this amnesiac city-including the recently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Born Into This?</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/born-into-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The folks behind Facotum misread Bukowski/Chinaski.
by Wayne Melton
Rating: 2 out of 5

It&#8217;s tough for the movies to do Charles Bukowski. First of all, he was not in the slightest a handsome dude, even by the new movie-star standard of rough guys like Russell Crowe and Colin Farrell. Flabby and badly pockmarked, Bukowski looked like an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mental Problem</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/mental-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/mental-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lunacy isn&#8217;t quite crazy enough.
by Jay Antani
Rating: 3 out of 5

For a movie conceived by Czech surrealist master Jan Svankmajer and inspired by the writings of Edgar Allen Poe and the Marquis de Sade, Lunacy is a rather stolid affair. It&#8217;s bizarre, no doubt. But this tale of proverbial inmates taking over an asylum never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hijos de BolÃ­var</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/hijos-de-bolivar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/hijos-de-bolivar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sauces of the South
by Alex Brown and Evan George

SimÃ³n BolÃ­var dreamt that one day the entire American continent from Mexico to Paraguay would be one country: a Latin America with no borders that was united and totally free from foreign control. While we all know that the latest and greatest champs of &#8217;sans border&#8217; mentality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Omnivore Galore</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/omnivore-galore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Animal eater or not, Green Leaves Vegan is a welcome new casual cafÃ©.
by Lesley Bargar

It&#8217;s absurd that the area from Los Feliz to Echo Park doesn&#8217;t have a vegan restaurant on every corner. Where there&#8217;s a plethora of yoga studios, so should there be a surplus of spots specializing in animal-free fare. I myself do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Letter Fest</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/four-letter-fest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Fuck Yeah!! Fest strikes again.
by Staff
Three years ago, an 18-year-old kid named Sean Carlson got together with veteran punk Keith Morris (of Black Flag and the Circle Jerks fame) to make a festival. Well, really it was supposed to be more of a large gathering, but it quickly turned into thousands of wristbanded Eastsiders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fucking Founder</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/the-fucking-founder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/the-fucking-founder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Side Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A chat with 21-year-old Fuck Yeah!! fest pioneer Sean Carlson. 
by Lesley Bargar

L.A. Alternative: So, I know the festival was initially going to be happening downtown this year. Why were you going to move it in the first place, and why did it come back home to Echo Park?
Sean Carlson: So, the original plan for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/cd-reviews-26/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Broadcast and Ike Yard
by Bernardo Rondeau
Broadcast
The Future Crayon
(Warp)
Rating: 4 out of 5
Lumping together tracks originally scattered across six singles and two compilations between 1998 and 2003, The Future Crayon plays as cogently as any other of Broadcast&#8217;s three studio albums. Thankfully, it&#8217;s also just as magnificent. While last year&#8217;s Tender Buttons found the quintet stripped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bombs on a Plane</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/bombs-on-a-plane/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/bombs-on-a-plane/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British bomb plot fits right into Bush&#8217;s partisan plan.
by Robert Scheer
Government-induced hysteria thrives on public ignorance, which is why President Bush is so confident of turning the British bomb plot to his partisan purposes. Otherwise, how could he dare claim that his policies have made the nation safer?
Consider, first off, that the attack envisioned-smuggling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Difficulty Hearing</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/difficulty-hearing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/difficulty-hearing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Republican-led immigration hearings strive to dictate, not listen.
by Evan George

This week, Republicans held another wave of congressional field hearings on immigration, including one in San Diego on Monday, Aug. 14, designed to galvanize support for tougher enforcement, even as public opinion across California and nationwide sways toward more comprehensive reform.
In Los Angeles, a counter-hearing Monday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pins And Needles</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/pins-and-needles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/pins-and-needles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Briefs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thirty-nine employees of the Westin Los Angeles Airport hotel were suspended for refusing to remove their union pins on Wednesday, Aug. 2. The Local 11 chapter of UNITE HERE, a national organization that supports hotel workers, filed charges with the Regional Office of National Labor Relations Board, alleging that the hotel acted to discourage support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving on Out, Odd Couple, Sounding off, How Does Their Garden Grow?</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/moving-on-out-odd-couple-sounding-off-how-does-their-garden-grow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/moving-on-out-odd-couple-sounding-off-how-does-their-garden-grow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Moving on Out
[Re: "Debutantes in de 'Hood," vol. 5 no. 36]
It&#8217;s sad to see that gentrification is spreading like a wildfire on Waterloo. To wit, the L.A. Times did an article today on Silver Lake and a hip iconic designer named Dana Hollister. The article shows and misunderstands who is being displaced by the influx [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying for the &#8216;Free&#8217; Market</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/paying-for-the-free-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/paying-for-the-free-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To hear critics of the recently proposed moratorium on Westside condo conversions tell it, you would think such a moratorium was not just un-American, but downright ignorant of the principles of economics. If property values are too high, the only way to lower them is to increase supply, they say. And they&#8217;re right: A+ in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Neighborhood Power DONE For?</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/is-neighborhood-power-done-for/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/18/is-neighborhood-power-done-for/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
While L.A.&#8217;s neighborhood councils cry that City Hall is leaving them in the dust, others complain that election delays, infighting and conflicts with the city have slowed up the neighborhood council movement. The battle for the future of neighborhood councils is now in session.
by Seth Meyer
illustration by Dan May
Who would want to move into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hip, Hip Hooray</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/hip-hip-hooray/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/hip-hip-hooray/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[7 Redneck Cheerleaders reminds this theater cheerleader why she bothers.
by Andria Regan

Rating: 4.5 out of 5

Last night, I found myself in one of those hole-in-the-wall, strip mall bars that sits between a 98-cent store and a coin op. The place reeked of dashed hopes and wasted potential, air circulating by drunken voices belting American idle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Foraging</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/urban-foraging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/urban-foraging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Flirting with the life of a hunter/gatherer in Los Angeles.
by L.J. Williamson


Michael Pollanâ€™s The Omnivoreâ€™s Dilemma is one of those books that will get under your skin. Unlike the many other â€œHereâ€™s what you should and shouldnâ€™t be eatingâ€ books that seem informed by belief systems first and research second, Pollan takes readers on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doll Face</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/doll-face/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/doll-face/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ruminations and revelations at the 2006 National Barbie Doll Collectors Convention.
by Gavin Shulman


Did you know that three Barbie Dolls are sold every second? Talk about human trafficking. Three Barbies. Every second. Three seconds: nine Barbies. Ninety Barbies in 30 seconds. That blonde is one hot commodity. Everybody wants her bodyâ€”with a different dress on, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Display Case</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/display-case-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/display-case-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Home Movie Day
by Victor Rodionoff


Advances in digital video media have largely replaced traditional film formats and the attendant processing hassles. Where the developing turnaround for an amateur snuff film used to be several days, itâ€™s now instantaneous. Yet this seemingly promising stride in visual technology has an unfortunate consequence: people spurn the old formats, taunt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Love Memento</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/a-love-memento/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/a-love-memento/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Conversations with Other Women scores as flashback romance.
by Jay Antani

Rating: 4 out of 5

Try to watch director Hans Canosaâ€™s Conversations with Other Women twice and in quick succession. The memories that haunt the filmâ€™s reunited lovers subtly inform every look, line and gesture between them. For that reason, the film not only stands up to, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad to the Bone</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/bad-to-the-bone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/bad-to-the-bone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Edmond finds dark humor in William H. Macyâ€™s vice-indulging Everyman.
by Jay Antani

Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Whether itâ€™s a white-collar noir (Glengarry Glen Ross), a courtroom drama (The Verdict), a gangster saga (The Untouchables), a brainy thriller (The Spanish Prisoner, Ronin), or even a monster movie (The Edge), it seems that David Mametâ€™s particularly cerebral, male-centric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Search of a Clue, and a Threeway</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/in-search-of-a-clue-and-a-threeway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/in-search-of-a-clue-and-a-threeway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jen Sincero
Dear Jen,
I&#8217;m a lesbian and have been dating this great woman for six months. We have a lot in common, are very sexually compatible and talk sometimes twice a day. She occasionally says, &#8220;I love you,&#8221; at the close of conversations, yet insists she is not &#8220;in love.&#8221; She also says she&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Learned from Live with Regis and Kelly</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/what-i-learned-from-live-with-regis-and-kelly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/what-i-learned-from-live-with-regis-and-kelly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diarrhea of a Madman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Dan Gillis III
Over the last few months of writing for L.A. Alternative, I&#8217;ve taken part in some pretty bizarre activities: going to cuddle parties and cyber-clown sex chat sites, stoned dining excursions, and even a colossal colon blow. But nothing compares to the carnage that ensued this last week, as I succumbed to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moo-shu Grace</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/moo-shu-grace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/moo-shu-grace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hearty recipes for heady homies
by Alex Brown and Evan George

The last time we saw our friend Grace, she had gathered a number of us around a steaming wok of sautÃ©ing leeks for this veggie version of moo-shu pork. Since then, she&#8217;s become &#8220;Missoula Grace,&#8221; where she studies writing and sleeps under the stars every day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manga</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/manga-17/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/manga-17/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yellow&#8217;s Risky Business
by Lyn Jensen
At a recent interview at DMP&#8217;s Gardena office, Makoto Tateno explained her inspiration for Yellow. Over the years she had come across many different manga incarnations, but she&#8217;d never read a story pairing a gay guy with a straight guy. She decided to combine that concept with her love of action [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/disc-junkie-17/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/disc-junkie-17/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tip sheet for compulsive DVD buyers.
by Paul Gaita
Multiplex
The reissues outweigh the new releases at the Multiplex this week-tops from the vault are two new multi-disc sets from Warner Bros. Both the James Stewart and Clark Gable Signature Collections go a long way towards re-introducing new audiences to these iconic actors who probably know them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take A Seat</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/take-a-seat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/take-a-seat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mike &#038; Anneâ€™s is one of the better seats in town, if they donâ€™t take it out from under you.
by Lesley Bargar


When I was growing up, my motherâ€™s picky restaurant etiquette used to drive me absolutely insane. For instance, because of her European sensibilities (and a biologically confused insistence that lettuce sat lighter â€œon top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making their Mark</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/making-their-mark/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/making-their-mark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How the Sharp Ease are scrawling a big, fat, permanent line to the top. 
by Max Read


Itâ€™s six oâ€™clock on Monday afternoon and Iâ€™m supposed to be interviewing the Sharp Ease. Iâ€™m standing outside a Streamline trailer in front of a large house at the base of a driveway tucked away on a barely-paved road [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/side-stage-26/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/side-stage-26/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Side Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotlighting the best of local music : The Prayers 
by Michael Mannheimer


The side-project has a long, storied past in the canon of rock and roll. From each Kiss member releasing separate solo albums in 1978 to Damon Albarnâ€™s take on cartoon hip-hop with Gorillaz, the side-project has always been a way for an artist to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/cd-reviews-25/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/cd-reviews-25/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Comets On Fire and Windsor for the Derby
by Bernardo Rondeau

Comets On Fire
Avatar
(Sub Pop)
Rating: 3 out of 5
Avatar is Ben Chasnyâ€™s third release this year (counting a collaboration and a solo project) and it manages to be both the loudest and least adventurous of the bunch. The new disc finds Comets on Fireâ€™s psych-rock juggernaut less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/geeked-14/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/geeked-14/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NCAA Football 07
Videogame reviews by Adam Diamond

PUBLISHER &#124; EA
DEVELOPER &#124; EA TIBURON
PLATFORM &#124; PS2, XBOX, 360, PSP, (PS3)X
PRICE &#124; $49.99, $59.99 360 &#038; PS3, $39.99 PSP
ESRB RATING &#124; E (EVERYONE)
WHAT&#8217;S COOL: Spring Drills are a great tutorial; the scrimmage is finally here; 1-A and 1-AA rosters show up as well, but the crowning achievement is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dock of the Day</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/dock-of-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/dock-of-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Will we soon be watching L.A.â€™s port pollution roll away?
by Evan George


The future docked at the Port of Los Angeles earlier this week, in an unprecedented showing of green technology for the San Pedro-based port. For the first time ever, not one, but two â€œgreenâ€ mega ships equipped with advanced environmental features docked simultaneously at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the Music&#8217;s Over</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/when-the-musics-over-is-it-time-to-eulogize-westside-rock-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/when-the-musics-over-is-it-time-to-eulogize-westside-rock-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tour-A-Saurus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is it time to eulogize Westside rock yet?
by Glenn Dugan

Did you hear that weird sound last week-something that resembled a last, dying gasp for breath, or David Lee Roth wetly soiling himself before expiring? That was the sound of the last brick crumbling from beneath the pantheon of West Hollywood&#8217;s once-majestic rock kingdom. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venice Housing Moratorium, Marijuana Initiative</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/venice-housing-moratorium-marijuana-initiative/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/venice-housing-moratorium-marijuana-initiative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Briefs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Venice Housing Moratorium
On Tuesday, August 8, following a similar move last week by City Councilman Alex Padilla in the Northwest Valley, Venice area Councilman Bill Rosendahl proposed that a moratorium be imposed on the conversion of rental units into for-sale units. Rosendahl is acting to stem the flow of middle class and middle-income tenants out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Muslim Hun</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/the-muslim-hun/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/the-muslim-hun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Neocons have conned us into fearing a boogeyman enemy.
by Robert Scheer
Hysteria over the barbarians at the gate has destroyed republics from Rome to Germany. Will President Bush&#8217;s post-Sept. 11 America meet a similar fate? In the name of stopping the new bogeyman of international terrorism, our government has claimed an unfettered right to torture foreigners, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Props from Echo Park, Moronic Rancheros, Keep on Jamminâ€™</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/props-from-echo-park-moronic-rancheros-keep-on-jammin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/props-from-echo-park-moronic-rancheros-keep-on-jammin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Props from Echo Park
[re: â€œDebutantes in da â€™Hood,â€ vol. 5 no. 36]
I enjoyed this article, especially after seeing the movie. It was interesting to learn about other experiences recently taking place in my neighborhood.
-Edwin
Moronic Rancheros 
[re: â€œSidestage: The Stevenson Ranch Davidians,â€ vol. 5 no. 36]
Iâ€™m not sure if this band needs â€œto be known around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who (Child) Cares?</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/who-child-cares/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/who-child-cares/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
The people we entrust with our childrenâ€™s future are starting to worry about their ownâ€”and for good reason. A report released this week finds that low salaries and stingy benefits are dissuading young people from entering the child-care field in California, even as the population of children under 5 is expected to increase by more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green House Effect</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/green-house-effect/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/11/green-house-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Fritz Haeg&#8217;s Edible Estates project transforms suburban front yards into sustainable gardens, empowering modern suburbanites and reconnecting them to their property, their produce and their planet. 
by Lucinda Michele Knapp
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
~Mohandas K. Ganhdi
Urban sociologist Mike Davis made an unfortunate blunder when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fine and&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/fine-and/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/fine-and/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dandy clubnight says au revoir to conventional nightlife.
by Lucinda Michele Knapp

If you step into the Dandy club at Safari Sam&#8217;s this coming Thursday, you may feel as though you&#8217;ve fallen down the rabbit hole: You emerge into the turn-of-the-century, boardwalk carnival atmosphere, where young men and women look as though they&#8217;ve stepped out of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet Fifteen</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/sweet-fifteen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/sweet-fifteen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[QuinceaÃ±era is everything but Kitchen Sink drama.
by Jay Antani
Rating: 3 out of 5

Writer/director DUO Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland have cited British Kitchen Sink dramas as a key influence behind their Sundance prize-winning QuinceaÃ±era. That might be pushing it. QuinceaÃ±era lacks the stark, poignantly confrontational social commentary of its alleged forebears. If anything, it more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Messy Affair</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/a-messy-affair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/a-messy-affair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[B-B-Q Co.&#8217;s saucy offerings make it a hard-to-hide lunch quickie.
by Scarlett Lindeman

There comes a time in many girls&#8217; lives when the craving for large portions of dripping red meat hits with an unexpected wallop. This affair, for me, usually occurs at least bi-monthly, or whenever I happen to unknowingly drive into the wafting scent of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Talk About Islam</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/lets-talk-about-islam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/lets-talk-about-islam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Changing Times illustrates Europe&#8217;s more open, realistic attitude toward Islamic tensions.
by Eric Otto
Rating: 3 out of 5

Changing Times might be considered something of a letdown measured against the standards of French director AndrÃ© TÃ©chinÃ©. It&#8217;s easy to spot the film as a star vehicle for GÃ©rard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve with its underlying, sentimental-tinged theme. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hotpants, Helmets and Humping</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/hotpants-helmets-and-humping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anavan cooks up an interstate booty quake.
by Drew Tewksbury

First, take two cups of low fat milk and combine with an equal amount of cream in a large saucepan over a medium heat.  In a separate pan, melt a stick of butter while adding a handful of flour.  &#8220;This is called the roux, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/side-stage-25/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/side-stage-25/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Side Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotlighting the best of local music: The Stevenson Ranch Davidians
by Max Read

With World War III seemingly just over the horizon in Lebanon and the temperature&#8217;s rapidly rising (no thanks to the global warming brought about by rush hour traffic), it&#8217;s been a high-stress couple of weeks for most of us. But not for the Stevenson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gno Gnocchi, Toy Mutilation, Unaffordable Housing</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/gno-gnocchi-toy-mutilation-unaffordable-housing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/gno-gnocchi-toy-mutilation-unaffordable-housing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gno Gnocchi
[Re: "We're Jammin,'" vol. 5 no. 35]
I&#8217;m so happy you wrote a review [of BluJam CafÃ©]! I live around the corner and stop in a few times a week. Everything is always good but the article left off my favorite item which is the gnocchi but only cause its not on the menu and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for the Rich</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/tips-for-the-rich/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/tips-for-the-rich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most Angelenos have done time, or will, in the service industry, relying on tips and the generosity of customers-not a living wage-to help pay the rent. Generally speaking, U.S. Senators skip that pesky little phase of waiting tables, so you&#8217;ll have to excuse them for their poor tipping and some especially mean-spirited legislation this week.
Just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Westside Butts Out</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/westside-butts-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/westside-butts-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Santa Monica plans to adopt one of the harshest anti-smoking bans in the state.
by Sam Roudman

The bustling, upscale strip of Santa Monica&#8217;s 3rd Street Promenade seems an unlikely showdown for the debate about outlawing public smoking, but the picturesque stretch, one block away from the Santa Monica pier, has attracted a strict smoking ban for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defying the Limits, Universal Poverty Walk</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/defying-the-limits-universal-poverty-walk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/defying-the-limits-universal-poverty-walk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Briefs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Defying the Limits
Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously this week to put a measure on the November ballot that would, among other things, extend their term limits from two to three. Also included were new restrictions on campaign contributions by lobbyists that members said were intended to clean up local politics.
City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo immediately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go Suck Yourselfâ€¦or Your Roommate</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/go-suck-yourself-or-your-roommate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/go-suck-yourself-or-your-roommate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jen Sincero
Sex is something that drives us, empowers us, and gets us into really stupid situations with people we have no business seeing naked. Be you the studliest of studs or the coyest of virgins, there are always questions, and thereâ€™s always room for growth. Jen Sincero is the bestselling author, sexpert and motivational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>www.psycho.com/crazy</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/wwwpsychocomcrazy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/wwwpsychocomcrazy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Universe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet has invaded the delusions of sociopaths. 
by Claire L. Evans

The Internet has long been a playground for deluded sociopaths. This is why the wise among us roundly deny Myspace friend requests from strangers, why paranoid parents install content filters on their childrenâ€™s computers, and why I just trashed an email with the subject [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting for the childless</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/parenting-for-the-childless/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/parenting-for-the-childless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Yo Mama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The basics of kid-friendly interaction.
by guest columnist Laura Hauther
Kids are one of lifeâ€™s Big Questionsâ€”no matter who you are, youâ€™ll wind up pursuing, avoiding or struggling over it. Iâ€™m definitely a struggler. But the one thing I am sure of is that the thought of being an overworked, sleep-deprived â€œworking motherâ€ makes me want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pa-Tofu Tacos</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/pa-tofu-tacos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/pa-tofu-tacos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hearty recipes for heady homies 
by Alex Brown and Evan George

You donâ€™t have to be OK with eating something called â€œcabezaâ€ just to enjoy a taco, but in L.A. it sure helps.  And while most taco trucks have veggie optionsâ€”potato or even just vegetarian tacos with beans, veggies and cheese are always safeâ€”you probably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manga</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/manga%e2%80%99s-answer-to-american-idol/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/manga%e2%80%99s-answer-to-american-idol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mangaâ€™s Answer to American Idol
by Lyn Jensen
More than a dozen talented young American manga artists have burst upon the scene via TokyoPopâ€™s Rising Stars of Manga contests: Felipe Smith, Amy Kim Ganter, Wes Abbott and more. Like a Project Runway/American Idol-style reality series, the Rising Stars of Manga 6 compilation gives fans a fresh look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/1626/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/1626/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tip sheet for compulsive DVD buyers.
by Paul Gaita
Multiplex
The pick to click this week is The Wire: The Complete Third Season (HBO) and Iâ€™ll go on record here that if youâ€™re a cop show fan, you wonâ€™t ever need to bother with another series beyond this fascinating program from producer David Simon (who was behind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/chromehounds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/chromehounds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chromehounds
Videogame reviews by Seth Mcm. Donlin

PUBLISHER &#124; SEGA
DEVELOPER &#124; FROM INTERACTIVE
PLATFORM &#124; 360
PRICE &#124; $59.99
ESRB RATING &#124; T (TEEN)
WHATâ€™S COOL: Good graphics; simple, yet convincing sound effects; an interesting mix of weapons and other components; engrossing online component.

WHATâ€™S UNCOOL: The lackluster single-player campaign is really just an extended tutorial for the gameâ€™s online component.
GAMEPLAY: 3.5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addicted to War</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/addicted-to-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/addicted-to-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With friends like Bush, who needs enemies?
by Robert Scheer
Those who mindlessly support Israel, right or wrong, from President Bush on through the cheerleaders in Congress and the media, betray the security of the Jewish state. They are enablers, who have encouraged Israelâ€™s dependency on the drug of militarism as a false escape from the difficult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debutantes in da â€™Hood</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/debutantes-in-da-hood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/08/04/debutantes-in-da-hood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
In Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzerâ€™s block-party drama QuinceaÃ±era, Echo Park plays a character full of contradiction, conflict and champurrado, coming of age with gentrificationâ€™s growing pains.
by Evan George
The two menâ€™s neatly landscaped cactus garden stands out like a gorgeous, sun-kissed sore thumb. The rest of the houses on Waterloo Street sit bare and still; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short Circuit Solo</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/short-circuit-solo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/short-circuit-solo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Boynton brings the dark art of circuit bending to L.A. ears.
by Laura Hauther


Deep in the valley, itâ€™s over 110 degrees and stepping out of an air conditioned car feels like getting hit with a flame thrower. But thatâ€™s not stopping L.A.â€™s sultan of circuit bending, Jeff Boynton, from exploring three different thrift stores in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ray of Light</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/ray-of-light/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/ray-of-light/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Little Miss Sunshine glitters among summer drama duds.
by Eric Otto
 Rating: 5 out of 5

ow Hollywood works is sometimes a mysteryâ€”like when a small film such as Little Miss Sunshine stews in development for years, and gets dropped by Focus Features only to be purchased (after it was made) by Fox, followed by an attention- [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serial Biller</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/serial-biller/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/serial-biller/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Woody Allenâ€™s Scoop proves that, for him, itâ€™s not always quantity over quality.
by Wayne Melton
 Rating: 4 out of 5

Itâ€™s hard to believe that Woody Allen has made almost one movie a year since Bananas in 1971.
â€œToo bad theyâ€™re not good!â€ is the way one friend summed up Allenâ€™s obsessive drive, noting heâ€™s fallen victim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weâ€™re Jamminâ€™</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/were-jammin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/were-jammin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BluJam CafÃ© hopes you like jamminâ€™ too.
by Deborah Klugman


Blueberries have always been magical to me. Years ago a friend and I spent several summers in Maine, picking sweet, wild blueberries and carrying them back to our cabin where we would mix them with yogurt or just gobble them down whole. That was decades before this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Party Girls</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/party-girls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/party-girls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With their new, high-profile recordâ€™s release, Mika Miko invite the world to their party. 
by W.C. Moriarity


Standing guard at the front door of the Smell, Mika Miko singer Jenna Thornhill is busily stamping the hands of kids ponying up their $5 get in. In another corner of the downtown club, singer/guitarist Jennifer Clavin is cheerily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waging Sympathy</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/waging-sympathy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/waging-sympathy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Middle East conflict explodes on L.A.â€™s streets and podiums.
by Evan George


â€œIt was just beautiful,â€ said City Councilman Dennis Zine about his trip to Beirut earlier this month, days before the rockets started falling.
Zine and City Council President Eric Garcetti returned July 3 from a trip to finalize an agreement with the Lebanese capital, making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powerâ€™s Price, AFL-CIO Endorses AB 1381</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/powers-price-afl-cio-endorses-ab-1381/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/powers-price-afl-cio-endorses-ab-1381/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Briefs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Powerâ€™s Price
The board of the Department of Water and Power approved increases in water rates on Tuesday, July 25, but now must wait for a vote by the Los Angeles City Council. The vote comes at a time when the DWP has been under pressure for its service during the recent heat wave that sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Arnieâ€™s Credit, Slither and Grind, Pass the Jay</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/to-arnies-credit-slither-and-grind-pass-the-jay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/to-arnies-credit-slither-and-grind-pass-the-jay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
To Arnieâ€™s Credit
Can someone please explain to me the almost obligatory trashing of the current gov. [re: â€œIs Anybody Out There?â€ vol. 5 no. 27] of our state? I mean, Iâ€™m an indie music loving, environmentally active, liberty loving, Bush despising, independent voter, and I canâ€™t figure out why Arnieâ€™s so bad. And no, Iâ€™m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Health Free</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/make-health-free/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/make-health-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
If youâ€™re moving to San Francisco any time soon, be sure to Google a clinic of your choice, because on top of offering free wireless Internet access throughout the city, San Francisco unveiled a plan last month to provide free healthcare to all of its residents. Mayor Gavin Newsom said the measure will target the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suspicious Snuggler</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/suspicious-snuggler/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/suspicious-snuggler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jen Sincero
Sex is something that drives us, empowers us, and gets us into really stupid situations with people we have no business seeing naked. Be you the studliest of studs or the coyest of virgins, there are always questions, and thereâ€™s always room for growth. Jen Sincero is the bestselling author, sexpert and motivational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hells&#8217; Belles</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/hells-belles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/hells-belles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diarrhea of a Madman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An Evening with the Derby Dolls.
by Dan Gillis III

Thora Zeen flies past Broadzilla, crouching low to the track, her skates hugging the curves as her curves-hugging skirt flips up like the tail fin of a â€™57 Chevy. Candy Striker clenches her teeth and scowls as she delivers a hit to Markie d. Sod, who falls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Magical Curd</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/the-magical-curd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/the-magical-curd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tofu techniques plus FREE Tofu Fest tickets.
by Alex Brown and Evan George
In the â€™80s, Americans held more culinary contempt for two foods than all the other food groups combined: sushi and tofu. â€œRaw fish, oh yeah, that sounds good,â€ or, â€œWhat in the hell is tofu!â€ Thank god those days are over. On August 12, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manga</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/losing-my-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Losing My Religion
by Lyn Jensen

The conflict between Christianity and homosexuality is a delicate topic, so weâ€™ll let a Japanese manga artist take a crack at it. La Esperanca, by Chigusa Kawai, is a long-running yaoi manga about boysâ€™ relationships at an all-male Catholic school. Need we say more?
Despite its controversial premise, Kawaiâ€™s manga takes a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/pirates-of-the-caribbean-the-legend-of/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/pirates-of-the-caribbean-the-legend-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow
Videogame reviews by Adam Diamond

PUBLISHER &#124; BETHESDA SOFTWORKS
DEVELOPER &#124; 7 STUDIOS
PLATFORM &#124; PS2, PC
PRICE &#124; $39.99, $29.99 PC
ESRB RATING &#124; T (TEEN)

WHATâ€™S COOL: Neat premise with loads of potentialâ€¦

WHATâ€™S UNCOOL: &#8230;that never gets realized because of bad gameplay and aging graphics.
GAMEPLAY: 2 out of 5
GRAPHICS: 2.5 out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enter Soundman</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/enter-soundman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/enter-soundman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tour-A-Saurus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sounding off on L.A.â€™s best and worst sound guys.
by Glenn Dugan

Some people will tell you that if you find a soul mate who understands you, never let them go. I donâ€™t know much about that. What I do know is that if you find a good sound guy, hold on to him for dear life. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dipstick Diplomacy</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/dipstick-diplomacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/dipstick-diplomacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bushâ€™s â€œnewâ€ Middle East is worse than ever.
by Robert Scheer
The Bush foreign policy, from coddling Pakistanâ€™s nuclear bomb-making to cheerleading Israelâ€™s attacks on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, is in a freefall of such alarming consequence that it may be difficult to grasp.
Certainly that is the case for President Bush, who has been reduced to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/side-stage-24/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/side-stage-24/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Side Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotlighting the best of local music: Willoughby
by Max Read


Willoughby does not, strictly speaking, make â€œsummer jams.â€ A summer jam, for one thing, is a song like â€œIgnition (Remix),â€ â€œCrazy in Love,â€ or â€œHot in Herre.â€ Theyâ€™re amazingly popular, and often amazingly irritating. A summer jam is all over Top 40 radio from May to August. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Display Case</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/display-case-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/display-case-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Punky Reggae Party
by Michael Suter


With â€œmash-upâ€ gaining recognition as a not-completely-retarded club scene, the time is nigh for, as Huey Lewis once put it, â€œa new drug.â€  L.A.â€™s celebrated sonic selectors Part Time Punks (Michael Stock and Benny White)â€”working tag-team with the Echoâ€™s Dub Club DJs (Roy Corduroy and Boss Harmony)â€”have given us just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/cd-reviews-24/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/cd-reviews-24/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Knife and Excepter
by Bernardo Rondeau

The Knife
Silent Shout
(Mute)
Rating: 4 out of 5
Though technically the third album from the fraternal duo of Olof Dreijer and Karin Dreijer Andersson, Silent Shout is ostensibly the Knifeâ€™s American debut. A chart topper in their native Sweden, the album is an addictive blend of grotesque menace and oneiric chill. Largely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Band from Nowhere</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/band-from-nowhere/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/28/band-from-nowhere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Darker My Love trip out and come home.
By Lesley Bargar
Photos by Aaron Farley
The city is full of heat. Swollen from it, dripping with it, its tenants lumbering through the tangible thickness of it. The summer light turns palm trees into jokes, their sparse-toothed combs of shade falling futile on the sidewalk. Our eyes are glued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Chick Lit</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/real-chick-lit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/real-chick-lit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WriteGirl creates a safe space for girls to grow into themselves.
by Lucinda Michele Knapp

Itâ€™s tough to be a girl.
You think we wouldâ€™ve gotten that ironed out by now, in our post-feminist world. But one thing most women will agree onâ€”whether they denounce feminism as antiquated in a world of equal opportunities, or they argue that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy Being Green</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/easy-being-green/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/easy-being-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tender Greens lets carnivores and vegans munch from the same trough.
by Jackie Lam


If areas of our beloved Los Angeles were represented as stock characters in a teen horror flick, where Santa Monica would play the part of the prissy prom queen and Silver Lake was the reluctantly adored art brat, Culver City would be the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyday Wilderness</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/everyday-wilderness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/everyday-wilderness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brightblack Morning Light drift from the forest to the frontlines of a â€™weirdâ€™ revolution.
by Max Read


Nathan Shineywater has the kind of Southern accent those of us from L.A. have only heard in movies. Thick and drawling, Shineywaterâ€™s twang singles him out as a former resident of the Deep South, specifically Alabama, where he and Brightblack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agoraphobic Sex, Gory Homeless Sex</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/agoraphobic-sex-gory-homeless-sex/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/agoraphobic-sex-gory-homeless-sex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jen Sincero
Sex is something that drives us, empowers us, and gets us into really stupid situations with people we have no business seeing naked. Be you the studliest of studs or the coyest of virgins, there are always questions, and thereâ€™s always room for growth. Jen Sincero is the bestselling author, sexpert and motivational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/side-stage-23/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/side-stage-23/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Side Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotlighting the best of local music: Jeremy Jay
by Michael Mannheimer


Back in the golden age of rock, circa 1972, a certain group of musicians grew bored with what was by then standard fare: guitar, bass, drums and a broken heart. Fortunately, they didnâ€™t get all sad-sack on our asses. Instead of looking inward for some sort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buckyâ€™s Dictionary</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/bucky%e2%80%99s-dictionary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/bucky%e2%80%99s-dictionary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Universe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sunclipse, worldaround and other new words for capturing our universe correctly.
by Claire L. Evans

Every day, under our noses, obsolete scientific ideas run rampant. All of us, even those of us who are highly educated, perpetuate grossly inaccurate ideas without even knowing it.
Although everyone with a first-grade education knows that the Earth is a sphereâ€”belief in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/cd-reviews-23/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/cd-reviews-23/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Fosson and The Sleepy Jackson
by Bernardo Rondeau

Mark Fosson
The Lost Takoma Sessions
(Drag City)
Rating: 3 out of 5
Mark Fossonâ€™s debut for John Faheyâ€™s long defunct Takoma Records imprint has landed at last, though nearly 30 years late. Last year they sifted through every listed Gary Higgins to find the author of 1973â€™s folk spook Red Hash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The God Question</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/the-god-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Yo Mama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How to teach children without enforcing belief.
by guest columnist Edith Weil
So, weâ€™re driving past the church near our house when my child suddenly inquires, â€œMommy, why do people go to church?â€ I sputter, I choke, I stall. Quickly gathering my thoughts, I manage something like, â€œPeople go to church for a lot of different reasons, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yam â€œAu Gratinâ€ with Nuts &amp; Gravy</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/yam-au-gratin-with-nuts-gravy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/yam-au-gratin-with-nuts-gravy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hearty recipes for heady homies 
by Alex Brown and Evan George

Hey vegetarians out thereâ€”shake what your mama gave you! The imitation meat thang can be overrated. Itâ€™s important to remember that youâ€™re a vegetarian because you like vegetables. So, here weâ€™ve gone and stolen some tricks from the carnivorous Frenchies and applied it to yams, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Condos Condemned</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/condos-condemned/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/condos-condemned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Angelenos protest condo convention in the name of affordable housing.
by Sam Roudman


As the sun burned away any hope of meteorological reprieve in Century City on Thursday, July 13, more than 100 protesters converged outside the Hyatt Regency to demonstrate against the loss of affordable housing in Los Angeles and the Ellis Act. The controversial state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manga</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/demon-love-and-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/demon-love-and-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Demon Love and War
by Lyn Jensen
Haruhiko is like any teenage schoolboy with two women on his mind. One is his prim young teacher and the other is a scantily clad demon that wants his body. The latterâ€™s demon lover got knocked-off in some supernatural world war and now sheâ€™s looking for a replacement.
So begins Enchanter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/a-tip-sheet-for-compulsive-dvd-buyers-6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/a-tip-sheet-for-compulsive-dvd-buyers-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tip sheet for compulsive dvd buyers.
by Paul Gaita

 Multiplex
I donâ€™t fall in line with the opinion that Dave Chappelle is the funniest comedian in America (or whatever equally overblown label theyâ€™re heaving at him this week), and his late sketch comedy series, Chappelleâ€™s Show, was as hit-or-miss as any on TV. But when it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/prey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/prey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prey
Videogame reviews by Seth Mcm. Donlin

PUBLISHER &#124; 2K GAMES
DEVELOPER &#124; HUMAN HEAD STUDIOS
PLATFORM &#124; 360, PC
PRICE &#124; $59.99, $49.99 PC
ESRB RATING &#124; M (MATURE)
WHATâ€™S COOL: Nice graphics; interesting weapons; intriguing storyline; some novel gameplay inovations.

WHATâ€™S UNCOOL: Short gameplay time; aliens speak English; annoying control flaws.
GAMEPLAY: 3.5 out of 5
GRAPHICS: 4 out of 5
SOUND: 4 out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-clipsed!</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/e-clipsed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/e-clipsed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Da Rukus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by The CHZA

The Clipse must think the world is their oyster. And by world, I mean the Interweb and all of its destitute inhabitants (bloggers, armchair analysts, armchair analysts of armchair analysts) and not the actual Worldâ€”studio execs, label moguls, and professional tastemakersâ€”that real people with real jobs stagger and stumble into on a daily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thin Green Line, Snakes &amp; Spelling Mistakes, Wal-Mart a Threat, Music Review Haikus, SoCal Youth,</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/thin-green-line-snakes-spelling-mistakes-wal-mart-a-threat-music-review-haikus-socal-youth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/thin-green-line-snakes-spelling-mistakes-wal-mart-a-threat-music-review-haikus-socal-youth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Thin Green Line
Your editorial [re: â€œGreen Line Fever,â€ vol. 5 no. 32] about the Green Line and LAX concluded with the line, â€œThereâ€™s nothing stupid about building with the future in mind.â€ I would like to suggest that expanding a branch of the rail into LAX would be a major challenge. A look at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush shits on the air</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/bush-shits-on-the-air/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/bush-shits-on-the-air/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What was revealed by that open mic 
by Robert Scheer
Bombs were exploding and innocents were dying, from Beirut to Haifa to Baghdad, and yet George W. Bush managed to pose for yet another photo-op, smiling as he gave the thumbs up at the close of the G8 summit in St. Petersburg. Thanks to an unsuspected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sit Down Council!</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/sit-down-council/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/sit-down-council/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Considering the L.A. City Council spent the first half of this week wasting their timeâ€”not to mention taxpayer moneyâ€”demanding an apology from loudmouth Police Chief William Bratton, itâ€™s ironic that theyâ€™re also pushing a measure this week that would give them four more years by extending term limits.
If you havenâ€™t been following the preschool antics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duck and Cover</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/duck-and-cover/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/duck-and-cover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
When our &#8220;worst case scenarios&#8221; become reality, will a chic new group of hyper-prepared disaster freaks become the sole survivors?
by Shana Ting Lipton
Illustrations by Gregg Einhorn
It&#8217;s an unseasonably warm summer Sunday evening in Franklin Hills-the rustic pocket of Silver Lake whose old quaint architecture inspired the likes of Walt Disney. Beneath the dark wood beams [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soda Jerks</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/soda-jerks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/soda-jerks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Clerks II offers less behind-the-counter philosophy and more donkey sex.
by Wayne Melton
Rating: 2 out of 5

They say, â€œOnce a philosopher, twice a pervert.â€ Does that mean that five, six, seven times makes you Kevin Smith?
Clerks II, Smithâ€™s first movie since Jersey Girl, is set at a McDonalds-like joint called Moobyâ€™s. Itâ€™s a fitting location, just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Slow Death</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/a-slow-death/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/21/a-slow-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Time to Leave (Le Temps qui Reste) puts the â€œmellowâ€ in melodrama. 
by Eric Otto
Rating: 3 out of 5

Time to Leave presents director FranÃ§ois Ozon with a huge obstacle: how to infuse intrigue into a film about death. Even the title fails to suggest any mysterious undercurrents in the film, and truth be told, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death by Boredom</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/death-by-boredom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/death-by-boredom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And Then There Were Noneâ€™s murder mystery kills.
by Andria Regan
Rating: 2 out of 5

If I were a superhero, and my power was to control time, Iâ€™d shorten my life by two weeks and donate it to The Dreamhouse Ensemble to prepare for their current production of And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Happy Joy Joy Redux</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/happy-happy-joy-joy-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/happy-happy-joy-joy-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With Ren and Stimpy: The Lost Episodes, creator John Kricfalusi writes a happy ending.
by Mike Winder


The cartoon misadventures of Ren HÃ¶ekâ€”an &#8220;ashthma-hound&#8221; Chihuahua in desperate need of anger managementâ€”and his loving idiot-savant feline partner, Stimpson J. Cat, first appeared on Nickelodeon 15 years ago. With its highly stylized animation, intense sequences of unraveling psychodrama, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Devilâ€™s Son-in-Law</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/the-devils-son-in-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/the-devils-son-in-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The life and times of Blaxploitation legend Rudy Ray Moore. 
by Paul Gaita


â€œRudy Ray Moore was the clown prince of the grindhouses.  He was part of a tradition of blue humor that spun off from his raunchy party records, and had its origins in the oral tradition of toasts.  Petey Wheatstraw is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less Talking, More Pole Dancing</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/less-talking-more-pole-dancing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/less-talking-more-pole-dancing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jen Sincero
Sex is something that drives us, empowers us, and gets us into really stupid situations with people we have no business seeing naked. Be you the studliest of studs or the coyest of virgins, there are always questions, and thereâ€™s always room for growth. Jen Sincero is the bestselling author, sexpert and motivational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snakes on the Brain</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/snakes-on-the-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diarrhea of a Madman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the set of the Snakes on a Plane music video.
by Dan Gillis III
In the way that some people wait with fingers crossed and eyes closed for the next My Bloody Valentine album, I kneel next to my bed every night, press my hands hard together and pray: â€œDear Mr. Jesus, I thank thee for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Display Case</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/display-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/display-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Outdoor Screwball Comedy Screenings 
by Nadine Levyfield


Summertime is the season of escapist cinema. Itâ€™s when people flock to the movies to see some superhero in tights save the day, and as long as they can sit in an air-conditioned theater for two hours, it doesnâ€™t matter that theyâ€™re watching a pretty crappy movie where the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colonel Kurtzâ€™s Napalm Bahn Mi</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/colonel-kurtzs-napalm-bahn-mi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/colonel-kurtzs-napalm-bahn-mi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hearty recipes for heady homies 
by Alex Brown and Evan George

Weâ€™d like to think that when Marlon Brando was getting ready to emerge on the set of Apocalypse Now, he started gorging himself on something that was regionally specific. He wanted something that would keep him cool and satiated in the jungle, something that would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Guys</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/family-guys/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/family-guys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Burns goes back to the old neighborhood to bring us The Groomsmen.
by Wayne Melton
Rating: 3 out of 5

How regular is a â€œregular guyâ€ who thinks someone is putting on airs for using the word â€œcordial?â€ Does that make him irregular? In The Groomsmen, Mike (Jay Mohr), the thickly accented cousin of soon-to-be-wed Paulie (Edward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manga</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/putting-the-gay-in-gay-paris/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/putting-the-gay-in-gay-paris/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Putting the â€˜Gayâ€™ in Gay Paris
by Lyn Jensen
July brings a double dose of You Higuriâ€™s yaoi (gay-themed) manga, with DMP/June introducing her Gorgeous Carat Galaxy and TokyoPop/BLU continuing the earlier Gorgeous Carat series. One of yaoiâ€™s most popular artists, Higuri started drawing Gorgeous Carat in 1999. After that seriesâ€™ four-volume run, she changed publishers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/a-tip-sheet-for-compulsive-dvd-buyers-5/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/a-tip-sheet-for-compulsive-dvd-buyers-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tip sheet for compulsive DVD buyers.
by Paul Gaita
Multiplex
Itâ€™s too damn hot to do anything except watch movies (that, and lie very, very still), so you might as well watch something good, no? Start with the Film Noir Collection, Vol. 3 (Warner)â€”there are five movies in the set, so youâ€™ll keep cool for a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/night-watch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/night-watch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Night Watch
Videogame reviews by Adam Diamond

PUBLISHER &#124; CDV
DEVELOPER &#124; NIVAL INTERACTIVE
PLATFORM &#124; PC
PRICE &#124; $39.99
ESRB RATING &#124; T (TEEN)

WHATâ€™S COOL: Interesting storyline; campy humor; easy to learn game mechanics.
WHATâ€™S UNCOOL: Turn-based fighting takes a while to get used to; terrible graphics; poor voice acting; repetitive gameplay.
GAMEPLAY: 2 out of 5
GRAPHICS: 1.5 out of 5
SOUND: 2.5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L.A. Ghosts and Flowers</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/la-ghosts-and-flowers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/la-ghosts-and-flowers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tour-A-Saurus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sonic Youth are NYâ€™s rock ambassadors, whereâ€™s ours?
by Glenn Dugan

How many times do you think Thurston Moore has whined about a critic not liking his songs? Iâ€™m willing to bet itâ€™s close to nilâ€¦so I guess itâ€™s really more of a rhetorical question then, isnâ€™t it? It wasnâ€™t the only one that came to mind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Lesson From Nixonâ€™s Playbook</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/a-lesson-from-nixons-playbook/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/a-lesson-from-nixons-playbook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tricky Dick could have handled N. Korea better.
By Robert Scheer
To recall the genius of Richard Nixon, thatâ€™s my lesson plan for the day. Admittedly, it is an act of desperation on my part to search that far back into the darker regions of the American presidency to find a role model that the Bushites might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freak Fest</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/freak-fest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/freak-fest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Five fitful days in the head, heart and record collection of avant-folkist Devendra Banhart.
by Lesley Bargar


The term â€œfestivalâ€ is an incredibly loose one. In Los Angeles, it can signify everything from a breakfast special at IHOP, to a jump castle free-for-all, to a soy-celebrating street fair, to 100-ish musicians declaring Fuck Yeah!!! on the streets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super Ban Returns</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/super-ban-returns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/super-ban-returns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Inglewood votes to restrict Wal-Mart and other Superstore retailers.
by Evan George


Earlier this week in Quebec, managers at a Wal-Mart received a bomb threat and forced 40 nervous employees, whose job descriptions did not include security, to search the store for a suspicious object. Here in Inglewood, Wal-Mart received a different kind of threat that may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Academy of Your Anus,You Were Right About Pirates</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/academy-of-your-anusyou-were-right-about-pirates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/academy-of-your-anusyou-were-right-about-pirates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Academy of Your Anus
Some people may see a rose and point out its thorns while others become transcended with the beauty of its spiraling petals and pleasing fragrance.
So it is that the writer of â€œAlien Cajonesâ€ [vol. 5 no. 25] in the May issue of Los Angeles Alternative presents a biased view of both the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quit Robbing Coppers</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/quit-robbing-coppers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/quit-robbing-coppers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
When politicians start campaign stumping to put more police on the streets, itâ€™s always worth asking the question: couldnâ€™t the money be better spent on other thingsâ€”like education, social programs, the arts? Funding these areas can be just as crime-preventative as the prospect of spreading eagle on the hood of a black and white, after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blood Loss, Squeaky Clean Row</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/blood-loss-squeaky-clean-row/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/blood-loss-squeaky-clean-row/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Briefs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Blood Loss
According to American Red Cross officials Monday, blood supplies have reached a critical low among Southern California hospitals. Type O-negative, often called the â€œuniversalâ€ blood type, and the most popular in emergency rooms, was at such low levels officials deemed it an eight-hour supply.
The lack of donations is, officials claim, the result of severe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/side-stage-22/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/side-stage-22/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Side Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotlighting the best of local music: This Song Is A Mess But So Am I
by Michael Mannheimer


Choosing a band name is often a total crapshoot. When you really stop and think about it, most titles picked out by an artist blow thoroughly; they are either intentionally weird or abstract enough to qualify as â€œartsyâ€ or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/cd-reviews-22/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/cd-reviews-22/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DJ T. and Optimo
by Bernardo Rondeau

DJ T. 
Body Language Vol. 2 
(Get Physical)
 Rating: 4 out of 5
Though it comes clad in a most unfortunately blah sleeve (a three-quarter view of Thomas Koch aka DJ T. standing before what impossibly appears to be a blurry Tron workout video) Body Language Vol. 2 is nothing less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blank Verse Generation</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/blank-verse-generation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/14/blank-verse-generation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Framing L.A. poetry with spoken-word pioneer and Beat avatar S.A. Griffin.
by Lucinda Michele Knapp
photos by Aaron Farley
Los Angeles is a city that breeds the fuck out of language. Hollywood specializes in the inbreeding of culture, grafting one contrived world onto another, creating impossible images and unattainable realities. Here, we perpetuate the uninformed and careless dreams [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Last Frontier</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/the-new-last-frontier/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/the-new-last-frontier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
While the American icon of space exploration-the Space Shuttle-may soon be losing its wings, the government hopes to relaunch our Apollo-era imaginations with a slew of new technologies and a detailed outline for planetary domination. 
by Claire L. Evans
cover image by Jona Bechtolt
By July, the heat on the banks of the Banana River lagoon is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Through A Lens, Lightly</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/through-a-lens-lightly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/through-a-lens-lightly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Artist Kevin Rollyâ€™s chiaroscuro oilgraphs let the human spirit shine.
by Lucinda Michele Knapp

â€œThe first picture I ever remember shooting was when I was in love with this older womanâ€¦she was 11. I was 8.â€
Kevin Rolly, an artist and photographer who makes his home in downtownâ€™s Brewery Art Colony, leans back in his patio chair outside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Blue Blockbuster</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/big-blue-blockbuster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/big-blue-blockbuster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Manâ€™s Chest goes Bruckheimer big. 
by Jay Antani
 Raing: 2 out of 5

In 2003, Jerry Bruckheimer and Gore Verbinski shanghaied Disneyâ€™s Pirates of the Caribbean ride into a madly popular swashbuckler. It made a boatload of booty, and made Johnny Depp a bona fide movie star. Its sequel, Dead Manâ€™s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Six Packs</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/summer-six-packs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/summer-six-packs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A battle between beers named for summer and those that just taste like it.
by Evan George and Alex Brown


A cold one sounds good right about now, doesnâ€™t it? Yes it does, because summer was made for beer and itâ€™s hot as Hades this July. How ironic then, that this is the season of absolute treason [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back Beat</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/back-beat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/back-beat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Rentalsâ€™ comeback is one part nostalgia, two parts pure pop inspiration.
by Michael Mannheimer


For some people, the idea of looking back can be a bit scary. Nostalgia, at its core, is supposed to be a beautiful thingâ€”reminiscing about meaningful encounters, stories, first crushes and what could generally be called â€œthe good life.â€ We are usually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/side-stage-21/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/side-stage-21/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Side Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotlighting the best of local music: Rocking Horse People. 
by Max Read


When you stop to think about it, LSD trips arenâ€™t really that different from childrenâ€™s books. Bright colors, interesting characters, simplistic moral messages. Which explains why so many kids are drawn to the Beatlesâ€™ â€œLucy in the Sky with Diamonds.â€ It captivates the attention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/cd-reviews-21/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/cd-reviews-21/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oneida and Rub â€˜nâ€™ Tug Present Campfire
by Bernardo Rondeau

Oneida
Happy New Year
(Jagjaguwar)
Rating: 3 out of 5
The eighth album from Brooklynâ€™s Oneida continues the bandâ€™s recent pursuit of a more melodic variant of lysergic avant-rawk. Itâ€™s likely not a coincidence that the trioâ€”guised in their comic book monikers of Hanoi Joe, Kid Millions and Bobby Matadorâ€”have chosen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Needle and the Damage Done</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/needle-and-the-damage-done/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/needle-and-the-damage-done/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Scanner Darkly illuminates a barely-waking life.
by Eric Otto


Employing the same animation technique as Waking Life (since popularized by Earthlink TV ads), Richard Linklater has pulled off one of the best interpretations of a Philip K. Dick story ever. The animation embellishes the translation of A Scanner Darkly to the screen rather than playing it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Universal Importance, Killing the Critic</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/of-universal-importance-killing-the-critic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/of-universal-importance-killing-the-critic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Of Universal Importance
Thank you for such a fantastic article [re: â€œDark Matters,â€ vol. 5 no 29]. Please continue publishing Ms. Evansâ€™ columns. Itâ€™s great to read something so interesting and important.
Gail Stanley
I think human beings with their human brains are potentially the perfect detectors and conductors of all relative and quantum forces, like John Travolta [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Line Fever</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/green-line-fever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/green-line-fever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Next time an out-of-town friend is planning to fly into LAX and gives you grief for living in the only major American city whose airport is inaccessible by rail, just recite a handy line given to us last week by Lydia Kennard, the mayorâ€™s appointee to head the Los Angeles International Airport: â€œJust because people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/disc-junkie-16/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/disc-junkie-16/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tip sheet for compulsive DVD buyers.
by Paul Gaita
Multiplex
The Showtime series Weeds teeters perilously between smart and fresh and &#8220;too cute&#8221; &#8211; it is, after all, a show about a widowed suburban mom who sells marijuana to her wealthy and eccentric neighbors to make ends meet &#8211; but the producers stave off any threat of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insatiable Butts and Drama-Queen Dildos</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/insatiable-butts-and-drama-queen-dildos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/insatiable-butts-and-drama-queen-dildos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jen Sincero
Sex is something that drives us, empowers us, and gets us into really stupid situations with people we have no business seeing naked. Be you the studliest of studs or the coyest of virgins, there are always questions, and thereâ€™s always room for growth. Jen Sincero is the bestselling author, sexpert and motivational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Duh Code</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/the-duh-code/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/the-duh-code/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Universe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Binary increasingly runs our world, but why?
by Claire L. Evans

The history of informationâ€”which is to say, the history of everythingâ€”is littered with codes. Some are impossibly cryptic, understood by a select few, while others are made to be cracked. Numbers, for example, are symbols which translate the abstraction of mathematical information into a code we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot House of Non-violence</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/hot-house-of-non-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/hot-house-of-non-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Yo Mama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by guest columnist Rebecca Weiker

A long time ago in my earlier lifeâ€”the one in which I was single and childlessâ€”my oldest sister Wendy gave birth to her first and only child, a son she named Amit (which means friend in Hebrew). I was 25, she was 29; I lived in New York and she lived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drill &amp; Grill, Surf &amp; Turf</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/drill-grill-surf-turf/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/drill-grill-surf-turf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hearty recipes for heady homies 
By Alex Brown and Evan George
When it comes to grilling, thereâ€™s a tendency to eschew anything that involves plating. The usual suspects (hot dogs, burgers and kebabs) are fine for finger foodinâ€™ itâ€”especially if you need to have one hand free for drinking, smoking, tossing a Frisbee or getting into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lady and the Tramps</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/lady-and-the-tramps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/lady-and-the-tramps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Da Rukus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[R&#038;B summer babes score.
by The CHZA

Summer tends to be a season marked by ubiquity: remember Mariah Careyâ€™s â€œWe Belong Together?â€ Itâ€™s also dominated by cookouts, flossing and Snoop Dogg. Two-thousand and six has certainly had its share of dog-eat-dog momentsâ€”newly christened king of the South T.I. tsk-tsking the haters (â€œWhy You Wannaâ€); Rick Ross bullying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Wrecking Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/stop-wrecking-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/stop-wrecking-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The war canâ€™t be undone but Dems could stand strong.
by Robert Scheer
Time for yet another Bush Iraq photo-op. Heck, the last oneâ€”when the president popped into the liberated Green Zone to once again proclaim a turning point in his obviously endless warâ€”worked so well that he went up five points in some opinion polls.
No matter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Debate Migrates</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/the-debate-migrates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/the-debate-migrates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As two immigration bills await Congress, both sides turn words to action.
by Evan George


As summer settles over Washington D.C. like a jungle haze, the raging immigration debate has largely fallen silent in the nationâ€™s capital. The two at-odds immigration bills passed earlier this year by the House and the Senate will likely nap until after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L.A.â€™s Pricy Rank, Raise for LAPD</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/las-pricy-rank-raise-for-lapd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/07/07/las-pricy-rank-raise-for-lapd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Briefs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
L.A.â€™s pricy rank
Los Angeles is the 16th most expensive city in the US, according to a survey conducted by the Kosmont Companies and Rose Institute of Local Government at Claremont McKenna College. The 12th annual survey, which examines businessesâ€š taxes, costs and incentives in 398 cities among 49 states, also found that while California cities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So you know how to blog&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/adventures-in-subjectivity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/adventures-in-subjectivity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2006 01:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Slanted for the Disenchanted]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most mainstream journalism blogs aren&#8217;t unethical, they just blow.
By Evan George

Here is a riddle for you. How can institutions that still pursue time-tested notions of objectivity create a killer blog? If you could answer this, Iâ€™m sure a consortium of American daily newspapers eager to steal Slate readers would fling money at you the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Of Alternative L.A.: Readers&#8217; Choice</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/best-of-la/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/best-of-la/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
YOUR choice cuts of 100% Grade-A L.A.
by Staff
We asked, thousands of you voted. Now here are your picks for L.A.&#8217;s best alongside our musings on the winners, the losers, and the cherished quirks in between.

A Breakdown
Who you love and why you love them.
by Michael Mannheimer
Giant Drag
As the winner in our Best Of poll, Giant Drag [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asian Gang Trio</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/asian-gang-trio/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/asian-gang-trio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thai Samosa w/Ginger Wasabi Curry and Sweet Basil Edamame Chutney.
by Alex Brown and Evan George

In most American markets, the Chinese restaurant has been issued a swift kick to the egg rolls in the last decade by three worthy competitors from elsewhere in the Orient: Japanese, Indian and Thai cuisines. Americans got a taste of curried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sucks in the City</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/sucks-in-the-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/sucks-in-the-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diarrhea of a Madman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The top three L.A. dates for those who hate dating.
by Dan Gillis III
Everybody knows that dating sucks. In the old days, dating was so much easier: you&#8217;d ride your triceratops up to a floating castle while a damsel (or VanDamsel) would prance a unicorn down an iridescent rainbow, and minutes later you&#8217;d perform the seventh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glenn Duganâ€™s the Loser</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/glenn-dugans-the-loser/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/glenn-dugans-the-loser/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
[Re: vol. 5 no. 30 â€œAll of Our Futureâ€]
Great job Glenn! Wow, you really are an amazing writer. You are so good at this sort of thing. I think Iâ€™m in love with you! Everybody knows better than to listen to some disgruntled douche bag with a voice on some random internet site. People like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>â€¦Or of the Press</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/or-of-the-press/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/or-of-the-press/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
This week, President Bush admitted to the American people one more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War on the Free Press</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/war-on-the-free-press/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/war-on-the-free-press/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bush disgraces the constitution again.
The Bush administrationâ€™s jihad against newspapers that reported on a secret program to monitor the personal banking records of unsuspecting citizens is more important than the original story. For what the president and his spokesmen are once again asserting is that the prosecution of this ill-defined, open-ended â€œWar on Terrorâ€ inevitably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taming Animal House</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/taming-animal-house/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/taming-animal-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Eagle Rock residents look to curb some off-campus college housing.
by Ross A. Lincoln


Timing, as they say, is everything.
So when The Eagle Rock Association (TERA) met at a public library on the gorgeous first day of summer to discuss the future of residential zoning laws in Eagle Rock neighborhoodsâ€”particularly those bordering Occidental Collegeâ€”it was not by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manga</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/manga-16/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/manga-16/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rising Star Wes Abbott
by Lyn Jensen

â€œI wanted to write a mystery with the most unlikely protagonist imaginable, someone who was a complete puzzle to the reader and even the other characters,â€ Wes Abbott explains about why he thought TokyoPopâ€™s Rising Stars of Manga contest would be a good match for his comics. â€œI also had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/disc-junkie-15/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/disc-junkie-15/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tip sheet for compulsive DVD buyers.
by Paul Gaita

Wow, itâ€™s Doldrum City for DVDs this week. No major releases, unless you consider Charlieâ€™s Angelsâ€”The Complete Third Season (Sony) or UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie, Vol. 3â€”Pirates the Princess (ADV) as major (and Iâ€™m not faulting you if you do). OK, The Matador (Weinstein) is out, and itâ€™s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/geeked-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Glory of the Roman Empire
Videogame reviews by Adam Diamond


PUBLISHER &#124; CDV / ENLIGHT
PLATFORM &#124; PC
PRICE &#124; $39.99
ESRB RATING &#124; E (EVERYONE)
WHATâ€™S COOL: An interface that doesnâ€™t require a manual and fun, open-ended challenges that lead to many hours of gameplay.
WHATâ€™S UNCOOL: A little too easy in the opening stages.
GAMEPLAY: 4 out of 5
GRAPHICS: 3.5 out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hairy Situation</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/hairy-situation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In La Moustache, a strip of missing facial hair sprouts a thick existential dilemma.
by Jay Antani
Rating: 2.5 out of 5

In adapting his novel of facial hair horror, writer-director Emmanuel CarrÃ¨re takes his cinematic cues in equal parts from Antonioni and Hitchcock. After shaving off his moustache on a lark, soft-spoken, good-natured Marc (Vincent Lindon) finds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teenage Waistband</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/teenage-waistband/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wassup Rockers is a field trip to L.A.â€™s street corners.
by Wayne Melton
Rating: 4 out of 5

Several months ago I was walking to the subway station near 6th St. and Wilshire when I noticed an incongruous group of teenagers. They were Latino, and not clichÃ©d kids sporting the usual baggy street garb. They were super skinny, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Sports Venue</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/best-sports-venue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/best-sports-venue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ariel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dodger Stadium is L.A.&#8217;s Hottest Ticket
By Ricardo Cuevas

Just a short drive from Olvera Street-where Cesar Chavez spits out Sunset Boulevard heading west into the winding streets of Echo Park that lead you deep within the hills of Chavez Ravine-sits a mosaic of culture and history, culminating high above the streets of El Pueblo de la [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living In Sin</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/living-in-sin-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lesbian Craves Geezer Weiner/Geezer Craves Teen Ween
by Jen Sincero

Sex is something that drives us, empowers us, and gets us into really stupid situations with people we have no business seeing naked. Be you the studliest of studs or the coyest of virgins, there are always questions, and thereâ€™s always room for growth. Jen Sincero is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Foolâ€™s Bet</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/a-fools-bet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/a-fools-bet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[La BÃªte plays risky and cleans up.
by Andria Regan
Rating: 4 out of 5

Of all lifeâ€™s guaranteed miseries, there is one that will eventually knee us all in our tender loins: that moment when we realize that who we areâ€”or who weâ€™ve beenâ€”is inconsequential when stacked against that hot little thang walking by sluttâ€™n her stuff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sexy Beast</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/sexy-beast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/sexy-beast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why Godzilla keeps us coming back for more.
by Mike Winder

At this very moment, North Korea is preparing to test a missile that could reach U.S. shores, diplomats are scrambling to stop Iran from developing an atomic program, and Karl Rove just announced he&#8217;ll be appearing in the third season of Dancing with the Stars. Okay, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preserving The Nation</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/preserving-the-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/preserving-the-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Victor Navasky speaks on the freedom of independent thinking.
by Evan George


Victor Navasky says he began work on A Matter of Opinion, which came out this month in paperback, about the same time he became editor of The Nation almost 30 years ago. It was to be, he thought, a much-needed look at the role journals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mix-tape Mysteries</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/mix-tape-mysteries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/mix-tape-mysteries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jacob Smigel eavesdrops for us all.
by Evan George

It is 1 a.m. on a December morning in 1976 and Carol is in a frightfully low mood. She&#8217;s ruminating on everything from her eating disorder to whether the underage, gay liquor store clerk Doug will date her, all the while she masturbates furiously into her handheld tape [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Vibrations, Bad Daddy</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/good-vibrations-bad-daddy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/good-vibrations-bad-daddy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jen Sincero
Sex is something that drives us, empowers us, and gets us into really stupid situations with people we have no business seeing naked. Be you the studliest of studs or the coyest of virgins, there are always questions, and there&#8217;s always room for growth. Jen Sincero is the bestselling author, sexpert and motivational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Takes A Village</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/it-takes-a-village/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/it-takes-a-village/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Yo Mama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Graduation thoughts on cooperative schooling.
by guest columnist Edith Weil
My daughter graduated cooperative nursery school a few days ago, and in these final few weeks I&#8217;ve found a great sense of clarity and perspective on things I used to take for granted, like the work of running the school. I used to ask &#8220;Why am I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Electric</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/its-electric/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who Killed The Electric Car? takes GM for a ride.
by Eric Otto
Rating: 3 out of 5

It doesn&#8217;t take longer than the second shot of Chris Paine&#8217;s Who Killed the Electric Car? to spot Ed Begley, Jr., the eco-friendly celebrity poster-boy. In fact, Paine&#8217;s film is a cavalcade of celebrities, from Tom Hanks explaining how cool [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No, It&#8217;s Superman</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/no-its-superman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only thing new about Superman Returns is the tights.
by Wayne Melton
Rating: 3 out of 5

Maybe it&#8217;s Batman&#8217;s shadowy, vigilante nature that makes unlimited incarnations possible. Superman, on the other hand, doesn&#8217;t even wear a mask, except when he isn&#8217;t Superman. Fists firmly on his hips, he&#8217;s plain and open about who he is and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBQ Part Deux</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/bbq-part-deux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/bbq-part-deux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hearty recipes for heady homies 
by Alex Brown and Evan George

So you followed our orders last week, threw a summer kegger, and left a few cups of wicked brew sludge to use for a barbecue sauce-now what? Well, there are any number of things you could do with it, but here are two of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>East of Edible</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/east-of-edible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tiger Lily aims to conquer the cuisines of the East&#8230;all of them.
by Deborah Klugman

In Asia, the tiger lily is appreciated not only as a flower but as a food. Its buds are used in jai, a vegetarian soup traditionally served at Chinese New Year, as well as in muxi pork, a northern Chinese stir-fry, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manga</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/manga-15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[June Bloom
by Lyn Jensen

Decades before &#8220;gay rights&#8221; became a slogan, French writer Jean Genet (pronounced zja-ne) shocked society with his explicit and often deliberately provocative portrayals of homosexuality. Much later a pioneering Japanese yaoi magazine, June, was named in his honor. (The Japanese spell Genet as &#8220;June&#8221; when using the English alphabet.)
Now Digital Manga Publishing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/disc-junkie-14/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tip sheet for compulsive DVD buyers
by Paul Gaita
Multiplex
There are many reasons to watch Taylor Hackford&#8217;s excellent documentary and concert movie Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll! (Image), among them a heart-stopping slide guitar take on &#8220;Wee Wee Hours,&#8221; but the highlight for me is Keith Richards wheezing his way through a story of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/geeked-12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jaws Unleashed
Videogame reviews by Adam Diamond

PUBLISHER &#124; MAJESCO
DEVELOPER &#124; APPALOOSA INTERACTIVE
PLATFORM &#124; PS2, XBOX, PC
PRICE &#124; $29.99, $19.99 PC
ESRB RATING &#124; M (MATURE)
WHAT&#8217;S COOL: Great concept and action; turning surfers into chum; overturning small boats and eating their crew.
WHAT&#8217;S UNCOOL: Disappointing graphical problems, a frustrating player interface and a horribly missed opportunity.
GAMEPLAY: 3 out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tequila Folk</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/tequila-folk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Mariachi USA Festival celebrates a rich musical tradition and a growing American obsession.
by Kate Petre

In some dark watering hole, the mariachi is a living petroglyph: A great sequined troubadour whose face is a wrinkled mesh of hard times and good times. When he and his compadres tip their instruments and begin to wail of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/side-stage-20/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/side-stage-20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Side Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotlighting the best of local music: The Meek 
by Max Read

Whatever else you can say about the late-&#8217;80s shoegaze contingent, they made good music to take drugs to. Bands like Jesus and Mary Chain and Spacemen 3 drowned their listeners in feedback with songs built of giant, unredeemable, slow-moving noise; washes of barely inflected sound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Of Our Future</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/all-of-our-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/all-of-our-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tour-A-Saurus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bad pop on Myspace foretells some bleak days to come.
by Glenn Dugan

Have you ever gotten super excited about a &#8220;New Friend Request&#8221; on Myspace.com, only to realize it&#8217;s some mass request from a shitty band? If the answer is yes, you probably need to take a break from the Internet, but nevertheless I can sympathize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD reviews</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Six Organs Of Admittance and Brightblack Morning Light
by Bernardo Rondeau
Six Organs Of Admittance
The Sun Awakens
(Drag City)
Rating: 4 out of 5
If last year&#8217;s splendid School of the Flower was many people&#8217;s introduction to Ben Chasny&#8217;s nearly decade-old Six Organs of Admittance project, its follow-up, the equally entrancing The Sun Awakens, is likely to inspire some back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garden Varieties, Wrong Advice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Garden Varieties
Your recent editorial &#8220;Damaged Crop,&#8221; vol. 5, no 29] failed to recognize the South Central Farm controversy for what it really is-a conflict between opposing notions of ownership-and therefore obfuscated its long-term importance. Rather than taking a counter-notion of property seriously, the arbiters of reason have dismissed the farmers&#8217; claim to the land as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D for Effort</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you are grading a group presentation in a third-grade English class, but when it comes time to hand down a final grade, the kids start protesting every which way. &#8220;But I just did Chapter 5,&#8221; or, &#8220;So-and-so messed up the handout,&#8221; they whine. Group grades are not just an introduction to real life, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary &#8216;War Dove&#8217; Clinton</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/hillary-war-dove-clinton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the presidential hopeful won&#8217;t wise-up.
by Robert Scheer
How do you triangulate between death, hypocrisy and stupidity? Not at all logically, which is why Sen. Hillary Clinton&#8217;s dissembling on Iraq has become a fatal embarrassment not only for her, but for anyone who hopes she can provide progressive leadership for the nation. If she has still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hoods Hold Congress</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/the-hoods-hold-congress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Neighborhood council gathering yields training, appointment decisions.
by Seth Meyer

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced last week that representatives from the city&#8217;s neighborhood councils would be included in the selection of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment&#8217;s next general manager.
Speaking on Saturday, June 17 at the Congress of Neighborhoods-a bi-annual gathering of leaders from 86 of L.A.&#8217;s neighborhoods-Villaraigosa said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Longer Immigrant Jailing, Dealers Not Users</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/longer-immigrant-jailing-dealers-not-users/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Briefs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Longer Immigrant Jailing
On Tuesday, June 20, the L.A. Police Commission approved a policy that will double the time illegal immigrants could be held in city jails. Under the new policy, illegal immigrants can now be held in jail for up to 48 hours, until they are retrieved by federal immigration authorities. This will not affect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Amazing Possible Outdoor Adventures of You. Yes You!</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/23/the-amazing-possible-outdoor-adventures-of-you-yes-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
A summer guide to unusual sports.
by Mel Cowan
photos by Helena Wei
Summer is a tricky beast. For some of us, it means three months of freedom from academic shackles; a time to get our knees scabbed and make out with that dreamboat from our philosophy discussion group. For others ensconced in the 9-to-5 world, it meansâ€¦nothing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Barless</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/going-barless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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With a new, gender-conscious approach to incarceration, California officials are looking to move thousands of women out of the remote, overcrowded high-security prisons and into small, private treatment centers nestled amidst our neighborhoods.
by Kimberly Thorpe
After a half hour of traffic in the overexposed light of a south Los Angeles afternoon, the first glimpse inside the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Hibernation</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/happy-hibernation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bipolar Bear shacks up in the suburbs.
by Michael Mannheimer


Los Angeles is so enormous and sprawling that it is possible to live here for years and never notice entire neighborhoods. Itâ€™s not just about navigating the freeways or knowing the right people; occasionally a well-timed fluke will unveil something jarringly genuine, new even. Located just 15 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flirt with Skirts and Fiddle the Faddle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jen Sincero
Dear Jen,
My girlfriend and I have been together for about three years. She is gorgeous, hilarious, and fun. Sheâ€™s my best friend and I feel so lucky to have found her. Iâ€™m just wondering, though, where you draw the line between best friend and lover, because I recently got in trouble with her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wholesome Whore</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/wholesome-whore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One Way Ticket to Hell is divine.
by Andria Regan
 Rating: 4.5 out of 5

Darling Cassandra Leigh done growed up to be a smack husslâ€™n whore. Whoâ€™d have thought that one sweet little girlâ€™s descent into sin could be so fun?
One Way Ticket to Hell at the Marilyn Monroe Theatre in West L.A. is the song [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dark Matters</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/dark-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Universe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Finding gravityâ€™s rainbow with dream-catchers.
by Claire L. Evans

There are, as far as the layman is concerned, two kinds of scientific truth. At one end of the spectrumâ€”the gamma ray end if we use the electromagnetic spectrum as a modelâ€”we have the kinds of concepts we associate with scienceâ€™s grand design, those  permeating the depths [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Little Ponies and Me</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/my-little-ponies-and-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diarrhea of a Madman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Playing the horses at Hollywood Park. 
by Dan Gillis III
I was never really one to play with girlsâ€™ toys when I was a child. Sure, there was an occasional time that I would give unneeded attention to April Oâ€™Neilâ€™s smelly plastic likeness instead of Donatello or Raphael, but when it came to â€œgirlieâ€ stuff in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tapped?!! Beer BBQ Sauce</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hearty recipes for heady homies
by Alex Brown and Evan George
When you fail to finish off a keg, youâ€™ve clearly shirked your responsibilities and there is only one way to redeem yourself: turn it into to a thick and smoky barbecue sauce. Contrary to popular opinion, that brown sugar, hickory ooze is not such a mysterious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Things He Loves</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/the-things-he-loves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A very thorough stroll through David Hockneyâ€™s Portraits. 
by Tucker Neel


Somewhere in the human brain, lodged neatly between the compartment that handles sexual longing and the one in charge of losing your car keys, sits a funny piece of human nature: the seemingly infinite ability to remember a
face. An old friend, your grandfather, the waitress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manga</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/bloodlust-for-kicks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloodlust For Kicks
by Lyn Jensen

Before Masayuki Taguchi drew the infamous Battle Royale, he created the nine-volume sci-fi manga Baron Gong Battle. Now that TokyoPop has concluded the 15-volume Battle Royale, fans lusting for more of Taguchiâ€™s controversial blend of adult thrills may want to check out his earlier series, available from Media Blasters.
Taguchiâ€™s manga career [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/a-tipsheet-for-compulsive-dvd-buyers-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tipsheet for compulsive DVD buyers
by Paul Gaita
Good Erica Gavin, how could I have forgotten to mention that Russ Meyerâ€™s Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Fox) was released last week! An amazing exploitation apocalypse of sex, rock and roll, transsexualism, and the evils of showbiz, all wrapped up in a high gloss candy coating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiddle About</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Creepily kid-obsessed characters spoil Say Uncleâ€™s defense of gay parents.
by Eric Otto
Rating: 0.5 out of 5

Queer As Folk star Peter Paige has cashed-in his Showtime channel 15 minutes and conceived his own star vehicle with Say Uncle. Though well meaning, the film is so simplistic that it undermines the very thing it seeks to convey: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/hitman-blood-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hitman: Blood Money
Videogame reviews by Seth Mcm. Donlin

PUBLISHER &#124; Eidos Interactive
DEVELOPER &#124; Eidos Interactive
PLATFORM &#124; PS2, XBOX, 360, PC
PRICE &#124;$39.99, $59.99 360
ESRB RATING &#124; M (Mature)
WHATâ€™S COOL: Fantastic new American locales, useful new actions and equipment and an intriguing plotline that links all Agent 47â€™s missions together.
WHATâ€™S UNCOOL: Some stiff graphics, inconsistent A.I. and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nach-yo Best Movie</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nacho Libre gets laughs, but with too many easy fat-guy jokes.
by Sean Oâ€™Connell
 Rating: 3 out of 5 reels

Husband-and-wife filmmakers Jared and Jerusha Hess share a bizarre sense of humor, one thatâ€™s difficult to categorize but apparently pretty popular. They know what amuses them, be it an eccentric sight gag or a particular turn of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meat on a Stick</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Eagle Rockâ€™s Spitz hints at the potential of traditional DÃ¶ner Kebab.
by Lesley Bargar


In the southern French town of Aix-en-Provence, tucked neatly among the nonsensical cobblestone streets, sits an unassuming eatery that at long last mastered the worldâ€™s most perfect food. I know, because I spent every Wednesday of my mandatory, year-long â€˜abroad experienceâ€™ relishing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viva La Hip-Hop</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/viva-la-hip-hop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Da Rukus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rappers vs. World Cup Champs
by The CHZA

The World Cup is upon us, and what better time for ill-advised analogies, overblown oratory, and outlandish connections? Itâ€™s a multicultural game, this futbol, and one thatâ€™s played with technical precision, flamboyant gestures, and just the right combination of frenzy, finesse, and fanaticism. Sound familiar? Thatâ€™s because your football [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/cd-reviews-19/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/cd-reviews-19/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sonic Youth and Hot Chip
by Bernardo Rondeau

Sonic Youth
Rather Ripped 
(Geffen)
Rating: 4 out of 4 rock-ons
On the occasion of Sonic Youthâ€™s fourteenth album, deans of rock criticism down to discussion board anonyms currently pursue the question of whether this veteran vanguard has ever made a bad long-player. Recent reissues of some of their best and least [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DeLay&#8217;s Goodbye Party</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/delays-goodbye-party/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/delays-goodbye-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DeLay leaves office with ego intact.
by Robert Scheer
What a pity that Tom DeLay gave up his congressional seat just when things were going so well.
Reading the list of political achievements he recited in his farewell speech to thunderous applause from his GOP colleagues, one is perplexed as to why he is walking away from it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/side-stage-19/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Side Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotlighting the best of local music: Labwaste
by Max Read


With the new Ice Cube album being mostly garbage, the Game already a has-been, and Dre and Snoop having gone global, one could be forgiven for thinking that Southern California hasnâ€™t seen a true rap pioneer since Egyptian Lover (even Fatlipâ€™s album was boring). But despite the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Downtown Goes Uptown</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/downtown-goes-uptown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/downtown-goes-uptown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New five-star hotel and condo tower to define downtownâ€™s high class.
by Evan George


The high-rise constellation of downtown L.A.â€™s growing skyline gained another brightly burning corporate star this week with the unveiling of plans for a 1,000-room hotel complexâ€”made up of a four-star Marriot and five-star Ritz-Carltonâ€”to tower over downtownâ€™s Convention Center. The new piece of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Vote for Clean Voting, Polis Wrong on the Farm, Article for Artists</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/one-vote-for-clean-voting-polis-wrong-on-the-farm-article-for-artists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/one-vote-for-clean-voting-polis-wrong-on-the-farm-article-for-artists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
One Vote for Clean Voting
[re: â€œIs Anybody out There?â€ vol. 5 no. 27]
To his question â€œWhat does this tell us about the Way We Live Today?â€ Marc Haefele answers, â€œDoes it tell us that you have to be rich to run for governor of California?â€ He then goes on to mention that if you are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Damaged Crop</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/damaged-crop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/damaged-crop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
a seed of city error, water it with misplaced rage, political opportunism and a sprinkle of stubborn, mean-spirited proprietorshipâ€”what do you get? A pile of bullshit, but not the kind fit to fertilize fruits and vegetables, it turns out, as the battle over the South Central Farm drew to a close this week. The star-studded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museum of Natural History Extinct?, Bio-diesel Demonstration</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/museum-of-natural-history-extinct-bio-diesel-demonstration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/museum-of-natural-history-extinct-bio-diesel-demonstration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Briefs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Museum of Natural History Extinct?
This week, officials of the county Museum of Natural History sent an ultimatum to the California Science Center board of directors warning that they may withdraw from the current building site if their lease is not renewed by July 1. Concerns have been raised that the museumâ€™s lease agreement will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Cupâ€”Un-American?</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/world-cup-un-american/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/16/world-cup-un-american/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ariel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Ricardo Cuevas

So I get home, grab a drink, kick off my shoes, turn on the tube and settle in to watch the day&#8217;s finest highlights from the wide world of sports. I&#8217;m tuned to the Four-Letter-Network and I am often reminded of it with the station identification ads&#8217; dinging sound effects and nerve stimulating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rainy Parade</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/rainy-parade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/rainy-parade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Black Heart Procession wears the darkness on its record sleeves.
by Lesley Bargar

In Southern California, a long, gray shadow is cast down from every towering palm tree. There sits a shallow dimple on the surface of every perfectly tanned ass cheek. Our beaches have a shard of glass for every 1,000 grains of sand. Even the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Pie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/american-pie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/american-pie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Prairie Home Companion serves up a big sappy slice of nostalgia.
by Eric Otto
Rating: 3 out of 5 reels

Boy, Garrison Keillor sure has death on his mind. Whatâ€™s immediately striking about A Prairie Home Companion is how often Keillorâ€”in the winter of his own careerâ€”evokes the fragility of life in this Robert Altman film. Death [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subtle is for Suckers</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/subtle-is-for-suckers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/subtle-is-for-suckers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Devilishly overdoing The Omen makes for entertaining cinema. 
by Joel Meares
 Rating: 3.5 out of 5 reels

My favorite character in John Mooreâ€™s remake of The Omen is the Pope. I am not entirely sure which Pope it is, and it is more of a cameo role really, but every time the pontiff graced the screen, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy Freezy</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/easy-freezy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/easy-freezy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scoops and Pazzo Gelateria make Angelenos scream for cream.
by Claire L. Evans and Lesley Bargar


Scoops
Ice cream just may be the ultimate populist treat; nowhere in this country are you far from a parlor doling out cheap sherbet or a gas station icebox filled with push-pops gathering freezer burn. However, unlike most things high in saturated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/side-stage-18/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/side-stage-18/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Side Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotlighting the best of local music: Monster
by Max Read


In a hyperreal city like L.A., where drivers will race 85 miles down the freeway between hour-long stretches of immobile traffic, and where celebrities are born and killed in the space of a single weekend, thereâ€™s something to be said for the art of the slow burn. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Primary Colors</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/primary-colors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/primary-colors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A roundup of wins, losses, and trends in the June 6 races.
by Evan George

When the polls closed in Los Angeles County on Tuesday, one clear winner emerged in the June 6 primary election: Angeleno apathy.
Only 24.2 percent of L.A.â€™s registered voters turned out for the election with 926,013 of the 3,839,483 ballots cast, falling well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pump Dumped for a Day, Watershed Time</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/pump-dumped-for-a-day-watershed-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/pump-dumped-for-a-day-watershed-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Briefs]]></category>

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Pump Dumped for a Day
On June 8, Santa Monicaâ€™s Big Blue Bus took part in the national â€œDump The Pumpâ€ day. The event was intended to encourage â€œthe public to park their cars and ride transit to beat the high cost of drivingâ€ and was organized by the American Public Transportation Association, a non-profit group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be More Judgmental, Be Really Judgmental, Mistaken Identity</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/be-more-judgmental-be-really-judgmental-mistaken-identity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/be-more-judgmental-be-really-judgmental-mistaken-identity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Â Be More Judgmental
Where does a progressive (or â€œworseâ€) go for info on the 38th District State Assembly, and, more importantly, judges? Now that the â€œWeaklyâ€ &#038; PW are owned by corporate america and The Reader is no more, only the L.A. Times tribunal offers us any advice. How are we to judge? Help us next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robocop Airways</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/robocop-airways/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/robocop-airways/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Imagine a not-too-distant future where your government has the ability to glean your reading habits from library records, listen in on your phone conversations without a warrant, track the websites that youâ€™ve visited on a home computer, or even fly drone aircrafts overhead to keep tabs on your whereabouts. OK, so the government already does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bisexual Hags and Painful Vag&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/bisexual-hags-and-painful-vags/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/bisexual-hags-and-painful-vags/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jen Sincero
Dear Jen,
Iâ€™m a straight male in my late 30s who seems to attract bi-sexual women. My most recent girlfriend was older than I am, but I was her first male lover. Another girlfriend was experienced with men, but it eventually became clear that she had the hots for her female roommate. Nothing happened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The NBA Finals</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/the-nba-finals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/the-nba-finals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ariel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Ricardo Cuevas

The world&#8217;s stage is set for the most riveting and highly anticipated human drama about to unfold in front of millions of captivated eyes. I&#8217;m so excited I can feel the grains in the hourglass fall one by one; I&#8217;m literally counting the minutes until it&#8217;s underway. Beneath my sarcastic rhetoric and soap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Eat Watermelon</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/how-to-eat-watermelon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/how-to-eat-watermelon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Yo Mama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Lisa Keller

Watermelon at home: Get mom to cut watermelon in half. Search high and low for lost â€œmelon baller.â€ Stamp around and glare a lot. Shriek with glee when you find it. Using small side of melon baller, make infuriatingly tiny balls. Share with sister (one for you, two for me). Eat down almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Granddadâ€™s Penultimate Cakes</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/granddads-penultimate-cakes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/granddads-penultimate-cakes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hearty recipes for heady homies 
by Alex Brown and Evan George

This pancake recipe is a hand-me-down from an old chemist, Alexâ€™s Grandfather. If you take the time to hunt down the required wheat germ and some proper flour, you will resolutely swear off pancakes from a box until the day you die. Grandaddy Brown did. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manga</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/closet-psychics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/closet-psychics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Closet Psychics
by Lyn Jensen
Imagine youâ€™re the new guy in high school; youâ€™re pretty-faced, of slight-build, and the two hottest schoolboys you meet wonâ€™t get their hands off you.  Itâ€™s not what you thinkâ€”or is it?
After the boys at school beat him up and put a dress on him, girlish-looking Kotaru transfers to his older [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/a-tipsheet-for-compulsive-dvd-buyers-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/a-tipsheet-for-compulsive-dvd-buyers-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tipsheet for compulsive DVD buyers
by Paul Gaita
Multiplex
My wife makes a very good point about concert movies: theyâ€™re never as exciting as watching it in the flesh. But two new Criterion DVDs offer an exception to that rule (sorry honey). Jimi Plays Monterey/Shake! Otis at Monterey offers the complete sets from these legendary artistsâ€™ sets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/x-men-the-official-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/x-men-the-official-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[X-Men: The Official Game
Videogame reviews by Adam Diamond

PUBLISHER &#124; ACTIVISION
DEVELOPER &#124; Z-AXIS GAMES
PLATFORM &#124; PS2, XBOX, 360, GC, GBA, DS, PC
PRICE &#124; $59.99 360; $39.99 PS2, XBOX & GC; $29.99 GBA, DS &#038; PC
ESRB RATING &#124; T (TEEN)
WHATâ€™S COOL: Excellent graphics and good sound really make this fun to watch and listen to.
WHATâ€™S UNCOOL: Astoundingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pop-rock Gem</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/pop-rock-gem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/pop-rock-gem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tour-A-Saurus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Few rock bands deserve fame, but hereâ€™s one.
by Glenn Dugan

If I were to count on my fingers the L.A. bands that deserve to be famous, Iâ€™d have one hand still free to masturbate. Which is awesome! Except that maybe thatâ€™s not such a hot sign for L.A. music.
Actually, thatâ€™s not necessarily true. If I were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media Shirked its Duty on &#8220;Spy&#8221; Case</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/media-shirked-its-duty-on-spy-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/media-shirked-its-duty-on-spy-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Robert Scheer
Five media giants joined the U.S. government last week in paying maligned Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee $1.6 million while once again denying any serious culpability in his totally unjustified and extremely harsh incarceration. Hiding behind their â€œbondâ€ with government sources, the media companies continue to protect officials who broke the law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/cd-reviews-18/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/cd-reviews-18/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stuart A. Staples and Marc Leclair
By Bernardo Rondeau
Stuart A. Staples
Leaving Songs
(Beggars Banquet)
Rating: 3 out of 5 rock-ons
The title of Stuart A. Staplesâ€™ second solo album rather boldly infers not only â€˜moving onâ€™ but also â€˜moving out.â€™ Specifically, Staples breaks away from the musty clutter and chamber melancholy of Tindersticksâ€”the English sextet he has fronted for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The War Over  &#8220;C&#8221;s</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/the-war-over-cs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/09/the-war-over-cs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Our kamikaze food reviewers dive deep into the trenches of L.A.&#8217;s gastronomic ghettos to find out once and for all if &#8220;C&#8221; really stands for &#8220;caution.&#8221;
by Staff
photos by Aaron Farley
While the finest restaurants this city has to offer have stars stuck on them like so many fat-assed generals, the rest of our city&#8217;s eateries abide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barry Balco</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/05/barry-balco/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/05/barry-balco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 21:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ariel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Ricardo Cuevas

As a kid, I remember loving and hating Barry Bonds, the Pittsburgh Pirate outfielder, from 1986 -1992. He was a well-rounded baseball player blessed with the ability to hit with power, run with speed, field and throw. Barry Bonds was the embodiment of the rare &#8220;five tool player.&#8221; But more importantly, the Man [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate All-stars</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/pirate-all-stars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/pirate-all-stars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diarrhea of a Madman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kicking balls and drinking booze.
by Dan Gillis
Standing in deep right field on this heavenly Sunday, I drank in the summer smells of barbecue and fresh cut grass, as the cool breeze crawling in from the coast tickled the back of my neck with the hair emerging from under my mesh hat. I closed my eyes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All-Star Pirates</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/all-star-pirates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/all-star-pirates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diarrhea of a Madman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kicking balls and drinking booze.
by Dan Gillis
Standing in deep right field on this heavenly Sunday, I drank in the summer smells of barbecue and fresh cut grass, as the cool breeze crawling in from the coast tickled the back of my neck with the hair emerging from under my mesh hat. I closed my eyes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Under the Ol&#8217; Eucalyptus Tree</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/under-the-ol-eucalyptus-tree/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/under-the-ol-eucalyptus-tree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cochina undermines the exploitative &#8220;festival&#8221; concept by under-doing just about everything.
by Sam Roudman

Birthed in the spring of 1999 as a chaotic mash of serotonin depleted desert ravers and badly dancing indie rockers, the Coachella festival is now the music industry&#8217;s perennial stroke-fest. It&#8217;s a sweltering spectacle long ago divorced from the music it promotes; a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The King of Downtown</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/the-king-of-downtown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/the-king-of-downtown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Collector and art impresario Jim Fittipaldi is an artistâ€™s best friend.
by Marjorie Kaye


Art shouldnâ€™t kill. Jim Fittipaldi is especially concerned that it not kill his artist friends while they create it. So if, for instance, Richard Godfrey is constructing a 15-foot-high kinetic light installation with a rapidly rotating motor, Bedlam Galleryâ€”Fittipaldiâ€™s downtown artspaceâ€”is the ideal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>G-Rowing Downtown</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/g-rowing-downtown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/g-rowing-downtown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Urban arts epicenter Gallery Row continues to blossom.
by Tucker Neel


The section of downtown L.A. between 2nd and 9th and Main and Spring Streets known as Gallery Row has matured from a curiously small group of galleries in 2003 to a fledgling Chelsea-of-the-West, encompassing more than 20 art spaces, each exhibiting vastly different bodies of work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hugging the Homeless</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/hugging-the-homeless/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/hugging-the-homeless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mouth to Mouth brings tenderness to a story of struggling street kids.
by Eric Otto
Rating: 3 out of 5 reels

Canadian Alison Murrayâ€™s first film Train on the Brain was a self-made documentary about riding the rails in full free-spirited hippie-hobo style. With her dramatic debut Mouth to Mouth (which she also wrote), she returns to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/disc-junkie-13/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/disc-junkie-13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tip sheet for compulsive dvd buyers
by Paul Gaita
Multiplex
Nostalgia can be a very seductive drug (who hasn&#8217;t wasted precious daylight poring over back issues of old comics or sitting through every episode of a Partridge Family marathon?), but the joys of rediscovering something precious from your youth can also be intoxicating. So, to wit, my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short Attention Span Theater</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/short-attention-span-theater/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/short-attention-span-theater/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Alibi exploits our cultural A.D.D. to its undeserving benefit.
by Chris Cabin
Rating: 2 out of 5 reels

Distraction is one of Hollywoodâ€™s greatest assets. People are easily distracted by damn near anything, and in movies this becomes crucial. Story doesnâ€™t quite make sense? Create an explosion or a tidal wave. Character development not going so well? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joint Gets Rolling</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/joint-gets-rolling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/joint-gets-rolling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Vegan Joint in Palms is a divine intervention of meatless wonders.
by Jackie Lam


As a vegetarian residing in Palms, an area of the Westside thatâ€™s a mundane, urban miscellany of condensed brown blocks of apartment complexes and iron-barred middle schools, my food requisites are hard to come by. On most evenings, when I am Whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manga</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/manga-14/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/manga-14/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Girl Trouble
by Lyn Jensen
&#8220;Hentai&#8221; is one of the more controversial terms in a manga (or anime) fan&#8217;s lexicon. It&#8217;s all but synonymous with adults-only porn to some, to others it refers to nothing more provocative than glimpses of young women&#8217;s underwear. Sometimes it&#8217;s applied narrowly to heterosexual content, other times it applies to homosexual content [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/geeked-11/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/geeked-11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis
Videogame reviews by Seth Mcm. Donlin

PUBLISHER &#124; ROCKSTAR GAMES
DEVELOPER &#124; ROCKSTAR SAN DIEGO
PLATFORM &#124; 360
PRICE &#124; $39.99
ESRB RATING &#124; E (EVERYONE)
WHAT&#8217;S COOL: Some of the most realistic character models ever seen, incredibly crisp gameplay and surprisingly engaging sound.
WHAT&#8217;S UNCOOL: Particularly barren features-this is definitely a &#8220;first in the series&#8221; game. No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/cd-reviews-17/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Boards Of Canada and Charalambides
by Bernardo Rondeau
Boards Of Canada 
Trans Canada Highway
(Warp)
Rating: 4 out of 5 rock-ons
The elusive, tour-resistant Boards of Canada resurfaced last year with The Campfire Headphase, their third and arguably most-awaited album. Disappointing to some but surprising to few, it turned away from the dense, musty hallucinations of 2002â€™s Geogaddi, ditching strobed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/side-stage-17/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Side Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotlighting the best of local music: Bodies of Water  
by Evan George

The best time to get into a band is, generally, not when youâ€™re famished on a street corner waiting for a man named JosÃ© to finish baking the extra large pizza that a dozen stoned college kids have sent you out to fetch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weeds in the Story, Satanâ€™s Minions</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/weeds-in-the-story-satans-minions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/weeds-in-the-story-satans-minions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Weeds in the Story
Thank you for your article about the Eagle Rockdale Community Garden &#038; Art Park [re: â€œVictory Garden,â€ vol. 5 no. 26]. Iâ€™m sure that your readers will appreciate hearing about this latest addition to our community.
However, please know that I was disappointed that the Gardenâ€™s primary sponsor and champion, The Eagle Rock [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dick Slips and Seat Lifts</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/dick-slips-and-seat-lifts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/dick-slips-and-seat-lifts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jen Sincero
Sex is something that drives us, empowers us, and gets us into really stupid situations with people we have no business seeing naked. Be you the studliest of studs or the coyest of virgins, there are always questions, and thereâ€™s always room for growth. Jen Sincero is the bestselling author, sexpert and motivational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Miseducation of Universe</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/the-miseducation-of-universe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Universe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A portrait of the marine biologist as a young artist.
by Claire L. Evans

Though this may not come as a surprise to many, I have a confession to make. I am not an accredited scientist.
In fact, Iâ€™ve only just graduated from college. And although the pomp and circumstance has barely dissipated and Iâ€™m still getting checks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our June 6th Primary Endorsements</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/our-june-6th-primary-endorsements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/our-june-6th-primary-endorsements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Governor: No Endorsement (though Phil Angelides will be a stronger candidate against Schwarzenegger come November)
This primary election has given us a hard dose of reality: we need to fix the way in which elections are financed in this country. A good start is the California Clean Money Campaign now making its way through the legislature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Insano&#8221; Caprese Salad</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/insano-caprese-salad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/insano-caprese-salad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hearty recipes for heady homies 
by Alex Brown and Evan George

Whatâ€™s not to love about a cool Caprese salad of thickly sliced heirloom tomatoes and fresh buffalo mozzarella drizzled with 15-year-aged balsamic vinegar? Nothing, except the price tag. Good ingredients are always worth the splurgeâ€”if you canâ€”but letâ€™s be honest, if the choice is between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kool Keith</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/kool-keith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Da Rukus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by The CHZA

Superlatives aside, there really is nothing quite like the benefit concert. Normal billing consists of one superstar act, and one, maybe two â€œup-and-comers,â€ which is a pleasant way of saying â€œthe dudes/dudettes who play while everyoneâ€™s in the beginning stages of trying to get their buzz on.â€ But everything in a benefit concert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush Link Energized Enron</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/bush-link-energized-enron/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/bush-link-energized-enron/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Robert Scheer
The Bush family consistently acted to put Enron and its longtime CEO, Ken Lay, into a position to rip off investors and taxpayers. Why is the mass media ignoring that fact now that Lay has been convicted in arguably the most egregious example of white-collar fraud in U.S. history?
Until he hooked up with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Anybody Out There?</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/is-anybody-out-there/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/is-anybody-out-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Itâ€™s a real election this timeâ€”so letâ€™s really vote.
by Marc B. Haefele 

Does the approaching June 6 election seem to lack some luster?
That could be because we already had one in March that deflated some innately unpopular ballot initiatives (mostly by the governor and his high-rolling friends). Their defeat left us only a melancholy haze [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City of Angles</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/city-of-angles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/02/city-of-angles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
In the middle of everything and nothing, Culver City is taking L.A. art in a decisive new direction. How did this &#8220;Bermuda Triangle of L.A.&#8221; turn into the coolest wrinkle in the Thomas Guide?
by Lucinda Michele Knapp
It&#8217;s earthquake weather in Los Angeles. Nothing in this town is stable, and we all live with it. Whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/the-monolators/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/the-monolators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 22:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Side Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotlighting the best in local music: The Monolators
by David Yurkovich
Every decade or so, a band manages to achieve the nearly impossible: capture the essence of cool in a song. Sure, there&#8217;ve been plenty of cool-looking bands throughout most decades (though don&#8217;t get me started on the &#8217;70s). But I&#8217;m not talking about image. Capturing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goat Heads and Corpse Paint</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/goat-heads-and-corpse-paint/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/goat-heads-and-corpse-paint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 19:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Contemplating Satan and Scandinavia with Metal Storm&#8217;s Christian La Rocca.
by Drew Tewksbury

Last Sunday, I sat down with Christian La Rocca, guitarist/vocalist for Eyes in the Fog and host of KXLU 88.9&#8217;s institution of eardrum impaling, Metal Storm. Hoping to untangle the interlocked horns of Satan and death metal, La Rocca and I chatted about goat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gettin&#8217; Hot in Here</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/gettin-hot-in-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/gettin-hot-in-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 19:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Al Gore&#8217;s An Inconvenient Truth tries to save us from an extremely uncomfortable future.
by Wayne Melton
Rating: 5 out of 5 reels

Has anyone other than Al Gore noticed that Lake Chad is missing? Actually, there might have been a tiny portion of water visible in the overhead picture on display, but whatever was left of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With a Vengeance</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/with-a-vengeance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/with-a-vengeance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 19:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dead Man&#8217;s Shoes takes revenge to a not-so-new, very British level. 
by Eric Otto
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 reels

Vengeance is all the rage (get it?) these days, with a spate of recent films including Lady Vengeance, The Proposition and here with Dead Man&#8217;s Shoes-Shane Meadows&#8217; stab at spanking some bad arses in the UK Midlands. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Glory</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/morning-glory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/morning-glory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 19:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Square One agrees the first meal of the day is also the best.
by Lesley Bargar

Breakfast has always been my favorite meal. As a kid, it was five bowls of cereal a day. As a teenager, waffles took the (pan)cake. And as an adult, I&#8217;ve found myself in a dirty, emotionally abusive love affair with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuna-less Salad Melts</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/tuna-less-salad-melts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/tuna-less-salad-melts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 18:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hearty recipes for heady homies
by Alex Brown and Evan George

Nets suck, but if there&#8217;s anything that we love more dearly than dolphins it&#8217;s a good tuna melt. Thanks to the gem of Indonesia-i.e., the fermented soy cake that is tempeh-being compassionate doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t enjoy this staple of comfort fare.
Here we whipped up a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manga</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/manga-13/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/manga-13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 18:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All Yaoi, All The Time
by Lyn Jensen
&#8220;We are tremendously excited to be working with some of the leading female artists in Japan to bring beautiful and exciting graphic novels to the United States for female readers 18 years of age and older,&#8221; declared publisher Masumi Homma O&#8217;Donnell, when Central Park Media launched its yaoi-only affiliate, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/disc-junkie-12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/disc-junkie-12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 18:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tip sheet for compulsive dvd buyers
by Paul Gaita
The Grindhouse section wins top honors for most entertaining titles this week, so I&#8217;m devoting the entire column to it. Granted, &#8220;entertaining&#8221; may be a relative term in regard to many of these (sure, I can see how Bare Behind Bars might not be the best movie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/geeked-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 18:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PQ: Practical Intelligence Quotient
Videogame reviews by Adam Diamond

PUBLISHER &#124; D3PUBLISHERS OF AMERICA
DEVELOPER &#124; NOWPRO
PLATFORM &#124; PSP
PRICE &#124; $29.99
ESRB RATING &#124; E (EVERYONE)
WHAT&#8217;S COOL: Fun and progressively interesting puzzles&#8230;
WHAT&#8217;S UNCOOL: &#8230; that never get so difficult as to actually qualify as challenging.
GAMEPLAY: 3 out of 5 wizard hats
GRAPHICS: 1 out of 5 wizard hats
SOUND: 1 out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wringer/Wrongstress</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/wringerwrongstress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/wringerwrongstress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 18:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tour-A-Saurus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Living through a night of singer/songwriter hell.
by Glenn Dugan

The Satanists will be glad to know they&#8217;re not the only ones up to their keisters in Satan&#8217;s jizz this week. I committed the biggest cardinal sin in music &#8220;journalism&#8221; and I feel real bad about it Mr. Priest man: I went to a show having already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Campaign Turning Point</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/another-campaign-turning-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 18:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Robert Scheer
George W. Bush received a standing ovation Monday from the National Restaurant Association convention, which might have been expected had he promised to guarantee their right to exploit immigrant cooks and dishwashers through a guest-worker program. But that wasn&#8217;t the president&#8217;s topic, and the applause came after Mr. &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221; bragged about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busting the Board</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/busting-the-board/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/busting-the-board/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 18:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looking toward a mayoral LAUSD.
by Marc B. Haefele 

It&#8217;s interesting to trace back the concept of our mayor helming the L.A. school system:Â  it went from a 1990s ambition of Mayor Dick Riordan to a vague gleam in the eye of former mayoral candidate Bob Hertzberg and now to the dominating, front-and-center issue of Mayor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Bush Approval, Low FiancÃ© Standards</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/big-bush-approval-low-fiance-standards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/big-bush-approval-low-fiance-standards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 18:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jen Sincero
Sex is something that drives us, empowers us, and gets us into really stupid situations with people we have no business seeing naked. Be you the studliest of studs or the coyest of virgins, there are always questions, and there&#8217;s always room for growth. Jen Sincero is the bestselling author, sexpert and motivational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with Different</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/dealing-with-different/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/dealing-with-different/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 18:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Yo Mama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by guest columnist Rebecca Weiker
When I was trying, but not succeeding in becoming pregnant with my first child, it seemed that wherever I looked, I saw pregnant women. When I did become pregnant, and then had to find something else to feel anxious about, I then seemed to see children with disabilities everywhere.
Every time I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of the Night</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/the-end-of-the-night/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/the-end-of-the-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 18:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A last call to get drunk on words.
by Andrew Pogany
Lo and behold, June nears, and with it, the 6-month anniversary of this column-longer than all the bands and most of the relationships I&#8217;ve ever been in. Touching as you might find this, the multi-million dollar contract I signed with the paper has recently come up. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golden Oldie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/golden-oldie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/golden-oldie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 18:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Sherlock Holmes thatâ€™s hardly elementary.
by Andria Regan
 Rating: 2 out of 5

Are you perchance dating a much, much older woman? Perhaps you have an anniversary coming up and would like to impress the old lady with a romantic evening, where sheâ€™ll not only have a good time, but feel comfortable among her peers? The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Pre-Schooled</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/getting-pre-schooled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/getting-pre-schooled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 18:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Breaking down the debate over the â€œpre-school for allâ€ initiative, Prop. 82.
by Sam Roudman

With the June 6 primary election fast approaching, the battle is heating up over Proposition 82. Put forward with the backing of film director Rob Reiner (who recently stepped down as chair of First 5â€™s Early Childhood and Welfare Commission), the proposition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victory Garden</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/victory-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 18:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While other urban gardens face the developerâ€™s hoe, one takes root. 
by Kara Ford Martinez


When asked to draw a garden, many urban first graders have been known to draw the carrots growing skywards. Officially open to the public this month, the Eagle Rockdale Community Garden and Art Park offers some city dwellers a chance to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Father of the N.E. Side</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/father-of-the-ne-side/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/father-of-the-ne-side/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 18:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The upcoming Lummis Day celebration honors the adventurous founder of Northeast L.A. 
by Ross Lincoln


Perhaps itâ€™s just election year cynicism, or terrified people reacting to uncertainty with suspicious exclusion, but in the last year the debate over the ethnic and cultural character of the country has returned with a vengeance. From the attempts to legalize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Satan Goes to Hollywood</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/satan-goes-to-hollywood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/satan-goes-to-hollywood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 18:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
As 6/6/06 draws near, so does the first-ever international convergence of Satanists, the brainchild of Satanic priests/PTA parents Bryan Moore and Heather Saenz.
by Evan George
photos Thomas Hargis
There&#8217;s a young boy standing in the pulpit of the Kingdom Hall, wearing his best three-piece suit and giving all the old ladies of the Church the time of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DisPlace, Swing Lo, Sweet Celebrities, Forget the Clams Beware of Sand</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/displace-swing-lo-sweet-celebrities-forget-the-clams-beware-of-sand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/displace-swing-lo-sweet-celebrities-forget-the-clams-beware-of-sand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 18:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Briefs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
DisPlace
Lincoln Place, the embattled Venice apartment complex was once known for its summer barbecues. Now itâ€™s more renown for its vigils. Lincoln Place tenants and supporters will make it the site of a Memorial Day demonstration on Sunday, May 28, to protest the loss of affordable housing in Venice and L.A. Evicted tenants say their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/cd-reviews-16/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/cd-reviews-16/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 17:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dinosaur Jr. and Ricardo Villalobos
by Bernardo Rondeau
Dinosaur Jr.
Green Mind 
(Expanded &#038; Remastered)
(Rhino)
Rating: 3 out of 5 rock-ons
Dinosaur Jr.
Where you Been
(Expanded &#038; Remastered)
(Label)
Rating: 4 out of 5 rock-ons
In 2005 Dinosaur Jr.&#8217;s original lineup was impossibly operational: tours, interviews and-thanks to Merge Records-not one but three albums on store shelves. With more live dates this year and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Bad News</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/more-bad-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/more-bad-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 17:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
[re: â€œAnd Now the Bad News,â€ vol. 5 no. 25]
Just happy to see youâ€™re still reading us.
Southland Co. papers publish some outstanding stories in the course of a year. It would be a shame to let them just go by without giving them the maximum exposure possible. As for the money, all of the stories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peace and Harmon?</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/peace-and-harmon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/26/peace-and-harmon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 17:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Endorsement for Marcy Winograd for the 36th Congressional District

Much has been made these last few years of the shadowy inner battle raging within the Democratic partyâ€”one of ideological jousting, soul searching and reconnecting with votersâ€”but we havenâ€™t seen it. What weâ€™ve seen for the most part has been business as usual: a whole lot of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cavaliers and Pistons</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/cavaliers-and-pistons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/cavaliers-and-pistons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 23:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ariel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ricardo Cuevas
Instant Karma got a hold of Rasheed Wallace this past week. In case you missed it, the Detroit Piston forward guaranteed a game four victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers only to fall on his face-literally-and come up lame, twisting his ankle early in the second quarter. Wallace, who&#8217;s normally a key player, was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legend of the Fall</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/legend-of-the-fall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 19:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Trying to understand the legendary Mark E. Smith, or at least find him. 
by Michael Mannheimer

Itâ€™s 6:50 p.m. on Saturday, and Iâ€™m supposed to meet the Fallâ€™s infamous frontman Mark E. Smith for an interview in 10 minutes. Hollywood is always a mess on the weekends, and tonight is no different; the three blocks immediately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/cd-reviews-15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 19:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CD Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Espers and Growing 
by Bernardo Rondeau

Espers
II
(Drag City)
Rating: 4 out of 5 rock-ons
On their sophomore effort and Drag City debut, Espersâ€™ wildwood wonderland remains splendidly intact. The Philadelphia-based sextet belongs to the gentler end of the present free/freak folk spectrum as evinced by their brief stint supporting a reformed incarnation of the Incredible String Band a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/side-stage-16/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 19:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Side Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotlighting the best of local music: White Widow
by Evan George

Itâ€™s show time. The already dim lights fade from twilight blue to unconsciousness-black, like slow shovels of dirt burying you alive. On stage thereâ€™s a pitched tent and something glowing within it, something that resembles a fluorescent insect abdomen, and a shadow of a man lifting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Itâ€™s Atwater</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/where-its-atwater/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/where-its-atwater/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The stylish Asia represents another new Eastside culinary cove.
by Deborah Klugman


Atwater Village isnâ€™t the first neighborhood that comes to mind if youâ€™re thinking about upscale dining. So itâ€™s all the more of an adventure to discover Asia, a sleek new fusion restaurant on Los Feliz Boulevard, halfway between Glendale and the thick of Hollywood. Two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Quite Cracked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/not-quite-cracked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Da Vinci Code, or, how Jesus got his swerve on and Bible dudes are prudes.
by Wayne Melton
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 reels

What are we to make of a modern action-thriller hero who, racing madly across town having just eluded capture, exclaims, â€œI have to get to the library, fast!â€ Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Another Teen Movie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/not-another-teen-movie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/not-another-teen-movie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Twelve and Holding shows a real dark side of adolescence. 
by Chris Cabin
Rating: 4 out of 5 reels

Being a kid is awkward and awful, but not in the stick-your-penis-in-a-pie way and certainly not the Peter Pan way. Situations that you canâ€™t even fathom happen ad nauseum from ages 11 to 19 on account of wild [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvest Season</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/harvest-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Fallen Fruit Project is seeking to make the city a little sweeter.
by Cord Jefferson 

This time of year, the city of Los Angeles becomes a jungle. But not the urban one so often referred to when caught in the midst of our freeways, parking lots, skyscrapers, and even the tangled mess of the entertainment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eyes for Indie Theaters</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/eyes-for-indie-theaters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/eyes-for-indie-theaters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 68 Cent Crewâ€™s latest is worth far more.
by Andria Regan
 Rating: 3 out of 5 masks
Theater in L.A. is a stone brick-hard sell. Iâ€™m not talking The Producers, starring big screen actors where you go with your grandparents for a graduation present. Iâ€™m talking theaterâ€”starring performers who are awkward in their day jobs just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Los Angeles Plays Itself</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/los-angeles-plays-itself/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/los-angeles-plays-itself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts + Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[E3 was swell, but game makers should try harderâ€”and get local.
by Mike Winder

â€œItâ€™s not very exciting, is it?â€ says a disappointed King of All Cosmos in the charming and bizarre sleeper hit of a game Katamari Damacy. In Katamari, a diminutive prince tries to win his fatherâ€™s affection by rolling a sticky ball (katamari) that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End War Now</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/end-war-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/end-war-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

(Is anyone still trying?)
BY Karl Stromsta
At 5 p.m. every Friday near the Vista Theater in Los Feliz, a handful of middle-aged folks gather around a pile of poster board signs.  They peer down at the overlapping fluorescent letters spelling out &#8220;WAR,&#8221; &#8220;PEACE,&#8221; &#8220;NO,&#8221; &#8220;BUSH,&#8221; and &#8220;HONK,&#8221; and choose the one they&#8217;ll flash at oncoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mindless Moratorium, Colonoscopy Fan Mail, Correction</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/mindless-moratorium-colonoscopy-fan-mail-correction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/mindless-moratorium-colonoscopy-fan-mail-correction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Mindless Moratorium
[re: â€œExtended Stay,â€ vol. 5 no. 24]
â€œA moratorium on the redevelopment and demolition of all residential hotels in Los Angeles-8,000 of which are located in the downtown area.â€ I donâ€™t think so. Perhaps you mean 8,000 units, but even that number sounds huge to me. Also, the ICO applies citywideâ€”not just downtownâ€”and yet the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Track the Badge</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/track-the-badge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/track-the-badge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Last week, a federal judge gave a three-year extension to a consent decree requiring the LAPD to operate under federal supervision. In doing so, U.S. District Judge Gary Feess rejected the city of Los Angelesâ€™ plea that the decree be only partially extended, much to the chagrin of Chief Bill Bratton. â€œAs we are struggling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Race vs. Taste</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/race-vs-taste/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/race-vs-taste/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Da Rukus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Letâ€™s Talk â€˜bout Race, Baby
by The CHZA

Alt-media types are always huffing, puffing, and trying to blow the establishment down. It never ends with usâ€”every perceived slight becomes magnified in the tangled web of New Media, new-journalism, and new variations on Iâ€™m hipper-than-thou-because-I-use-more-made-up-words-on-my-blog-than-you snobbery.
The latest brouhaha revolves around one Stephin Merritt, the unquestionably talented, somewhat pretentious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manga</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/blue-collar-comedy-japanese-style/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/blue-collar-comedy-japanese-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blue Collar Comedy, Japanese Style
by Lyn Jensen

What are the boys in the backrooms of Antique Bakery and CafÃ© Kichijouji cooking up now? DMPâ€™s serving up this pair of workplace comedies that were marketed as shojo manga in Japan, but theyâ€™re not the usual teen romances of that genre. Theyâ€™ve got more in common with sitcom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/a-compulsive-tip-sheet-for-dvd-buyers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/a-compulsive-tip-sheet-for-dvd-buyers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disc Junkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tip sheet for compulsive DVD buyers
by Paul Gaita
Multiplex
First, a trio of high-grade guilty pleasures: the kid-pop juggernaut High School Musical (Disney), which, despite more than a few passing plot similarities to Grease, is an agreeable sugar rush of dancinâ€™ and romancinâ€™, with a Tiger Beat-friendly cast and some relentlessly catchy tunes. Need to distract [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeked</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/rumble-roses-xx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeked]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rumble Roses XX
Videogame reviews by Seth Mcm. Donlin

PUBLISHER &#124; KONAMI
PLATFORM &#124; 360
PRICE &#124; $59.99
ESRB RATING &#124; M (MATURE)
WHATâ€™S COOL: Impressive graphics, a wide variety of interesting moves and a perviness factor that explodes off the charts.

WHATâ€™S UNCOOL: A lack of an engaging plotline in the single player career mode, no explanation of how to unlock [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother of a Day</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/mother-of-a-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/mother-of-a-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[LAX Hilton Hotel workers return from a not-so-needed break.
by Sam Roudman and Evan George

If the idea of a one-week, forced vacation sounds like a great Motherâ€™s Day gift, just ask the 75 LAX Hilton Hotel employees who were barred from work after participating in a Motherâ€™s Day work stoppage last week to protest what they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush more right than wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/bush-more-right-than-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/bush-more-right-than-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robert Scheer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Robert ScheerThese days, even when George W. Bush is right, heâ€™s wrong.
Six years of deceitful defenses of disastrous policy decisions will have that effect on a presidentâ€™s credibility. It is good news that the public is finally hip to his con, yet it is worrisome when surprisingly sensible proposals by the president on immigration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alien Cajones</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/alien-cajones/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/alien-cajones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Universe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A pilgrimage to the Unarian Academy.
by Claire L. Evans

The drive from Los Angeles to El Cajon doesnâ€™t take more than two hours, excluding traffic. And although the scenery along the way is generally bleak, as it is on most stretches of the I-5, there is something meditative about driving along the Pacific Ocean. Once you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girl-on-girl, In-LAW-cest</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/girl-on-girl-in-law-cest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/girl-on-girl-in-law-cest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living In Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jen Sincero
Sex is something that drives us, empowers us, and gets us into really stupid situations with people we have no business seeing naked. Be you the studliest of studs or the coyest of virgins, there are always questions, and thereâ€™s always room for growth. Jen Sincero is the bestselling author, sexpert and motivational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golden Desert Fritters</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/golden-desert-fritters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/golden-desert-fritters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hot Knives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hearty recipes for heady homies 
by Alex Brown and Evan George

The New Mexico state motto is â€œThe Land of Enchantment,â€ and we believe it. If youâ€™ve ever had a batch of fire-roasted green chile from Hatch, New Mexico you believe it too. See, that stateâ€™s big open sky and unimaginably arid climate make for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Street Cred, Westside Fears LAUSD Plans, Turning Trash Into Cops</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/new-street-cred-westside-fears-lausd-plans-turning-trash-into-cops/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/new-street-cred-westside-fears-lausd-plans-turning-trash-into-cops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Briefs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
New Street Cred
Highland Avenue, the thoroughfare in the center of Hollywood, was handed over to the city of Los Angeles Friday, in what City Councilman Tom Labonge is hailing as the first step to its recovery from neglect and congestion.
The state of California gave up its control over Highland (previously designated as state Highway Route [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Lofty Motion</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/a-lofty-motion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/a-lofty-motion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the moment, the poor and the rich can share downtown.
by Marc B. Haefele 

Twenty-two years ago, going to work my night shift, I saw a tumbleweed rolling down an utterly empty 4th Street in downtown Los Angeles. A brisk night breeze kicked it around the corner from the Million Dollar Pharmacy, past the shuttered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Now the Bad News</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/and-now-the-bad-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/19/and-now-the-bad-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 18:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Slanted for the Disenchanted]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Local papers get a little less local.
by Evan George

That institutions specializing in the printed word are struggling is by no means â€œnews.â€ Daily papers, weeklies, even monthly magazines have felt a readership squeeze in the last few years that has often meant a shedding of staff, even as the ratio of ads to wordsâ€”in most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L.A. Alternative&#8217;s BEST OF 2006 Nominations</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/17/bestofla/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/17/bestofla/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2006 19:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ariel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Of LA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Itâ€™s no secret that Los Angeles can be a trying place. We may have more egos per capita than most cities, along with red carpets and red-alert smog days. But what is a secretâ€”to many at leastâ€”is that anybody with good taste and some of that old tyme pioneer perserverence  can discover the more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dark Side</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/12/the-dark-side/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/12/the-dark-side/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 19:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>heidi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Crossing over with Austin&#8217;s I Love You But I&#8217;ve Chosen Darkness.
by Catherine Adcock

An indie band from Austin seems best watched by a crowd donning glasses, tight pants and bad hair, but I Love You But I&#8217;ve Chosen Darkness has landed audiences more akin to the Azrael Abyss type, aka SNL&#8217;s black-turtleneck-clad Prince of Darkness.
&#8220;We&#8217;re not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/12/side-stage-15/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/05/12/side-stage-15/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 19:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Side Stage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotlighting the best of local music: Icebird
by Evan George

Something horrible happened around 1994 that fundamentally changed the face of modern music: the fuzzy, flannelly gruffness of so-called &#8220;grunge&#8221; was stripped from the wimpy arms of thoughtful, college-educated dudes like lunch money and bestowed upon the posed laurels of jock apes. For the latter part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manga</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 19:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Death Sentences
by Lyn Jensen

What would you do if you held the power of life and death over everyone in the entire world? What if you could knock people off just by adding their names to a death list?
According to Japanese folklore, you die when your name is written on a &#8220;death note&#8221; kept by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disc Junkie</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 19:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tip sheet for compulsive DVD buyers.
by Paul Gaita
Multiplex
What did TV fans do before DVD boxed sets? Well, I know what they did-they filled up their houses with crappy VHS copies of their favorite shows. Thankfully, that untenable situation went the way of the dinosaur as soon as studios figured out they could make more [...]]]></description>
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