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Keep your head down. Whatever you do, don't look them in the eye. Stay silent. Let them beat you, and pretend to be in more pain than you really are. Scream and yell louder than you would. They enjoy it when they hear your pain. This is what Mohaned Soori was thinking when Syrian authorities …
It's tempting to snipe that the argument of Atlas Shrugged Part II—that the genius of an unregulated free market results in the greatest of all greater goods—is somewhat undone by the chintziness of Atlas Shrugged Part II because, seriously, if this is the best promotion of itself that the free market can manage, it really …
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Your Anaheim Angels of Anaheim have jumped onto The John and Ken Show bandwagon . . . that's bound for “Off the Air.” Sí, señor, owner Arte Moreno flexed that Aztlanista muscle under the bicep sleeve of his red Halos polo, using it to yank Angels advertising from KFI's controversial afternoon rush-hour program. See also: …
By: Jessica Hopper [Editors Note: Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. Send your problems to …
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The winner of the Grand Jury Prize for documentary at Sundance, Eugene Jarecki's The House I Live In, an occasionally muddled disquisition on the colossal failure of the war on drugs, rehashes much that will be familiar to even the most casual reader of newspapers: that this “war” is waged against the poor, particularly minorities. …
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You can't mention the United States-Mexico border in modern-day Southern California without unleashing a stream-of-consciousness rant from both sides of the divide: how we need to put soldiers/mines/electric fences/Minutemen/moats with sharks down there, or how there should be no Border Patrol, or how we should have a high fence and wide gates, or how Mexicans …
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“Where did you find that dish?” the kind owner of Al Tannour asked when I went to the register to pay for my gargantuan meal of a lamb shank slathered in sauce on top of Iraqi bread. “In your menu,” I replied. He couldn't believe it. He picked up the bright-orange booklet—printed in one-quarter English, …
Many of us have heard this rumor: that if you leave a McDonald's hamburger out, indefinitely, it will never go moldy. Plausible enough, right? The average McDonald's meal is filled with more mystery than the average show on Coast to Coast AM, right? Its nutritional value is so dismal we'd be better off eating cardboard, …
Independent cinema seems to be popping up everywhere, even in an uncompleted park that remains Orange County's largest public works project. Witness the weekly Independent & Inspired Film Series, which debuts this evening at the Orange County Great Park, skips a Thursday (Oct. 11) and then picks up every Thursday through Nov. 15. ] See …
Aside from La Palma Chicken Pie Shop and a handful of chain restaurants (Claim Jumper, KFC, Marie Callender's), there just aren't enough places doing pot pie anymore. And if they are, it's certainly almost never beef pot pie. Comfort food in the wrong hands can be too much of a good thing–over-portioned, with too much …
Addicted to java? Blame your career. Dunkin' Donut and CareerBuilder conducted a joint survey on U.S. coffee consumption trends in the workplace and released a list of the top 15 professionals who need coffee the most. Any guesses who takes the No. 1 spot? Hint: It's not this guy. ] See also: Ten Great …
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but sometimes those beholders are fucking weird. Case in point: Bagel heads. These are people who get saline injections to make it look like there are bagels inside their foreheads. Bagels, as in the breakfast food. Inside their foreheads. Yeah. It's fashion. Just go with it. …
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