This Special Sauce May Be Contaminated

from the San Jose Mercury News Woman found dead in machine at SoCal food processor that supplies McDonald’s   Associated Press Posted: 07/21/2009 08:31:31 PM PDT Updated: 07/21/2009 08:50:12 PM PDT   INDUSTRY, Calif. — A 40-year-old woman has been...

Saving The Watts Towers

from The LA Times Strapped city wants donors for Watts Towers conservation 11:33 AM, July 17, 2009 The Watts Towers may be a unique and symbolically rich work of folk art, but it is also a world-class money trap, vulnerable to earthquakes and the elements, and...

Beck interviews Waits

from Beck.com Tom Waits x Beck Hansen : Pt. 1 Irrelevant Topics in a new section featuring conversations between musicians, artists, writers, etc. on various subjects, without promotional pretext or editorial direction. For the first in this series of conversations,...

The Man Who Gave Us HAROLD AND MAUDE

from The Los Angeles Times   Hal Ashby, turbulent genius of the ’70s   AMPAS A special Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences salutes Oscar winning film editor and director Hal Ashby on Thursday, June 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater...

Rat Press Re-dressed

from Shelf-Awareness Rat Press: Hollywood Director Moonlights as Publisher By day Brett Ratner is a Hollywood producer, director and photographer. At night, he moonlights as the publisher of Rat Press. “It’s a one-man operation,” he said. “I do...