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Alexis Neiers’s Pretty Wild Road to Recovery

The Former Celebrity Thief and Drug Addict Who Inspired Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Bling Ring’

Alexis Neiers's life has been turned into a meme, a magazine article, a book, a symbol for millenial narcissism, and now a movie directed by Sophia Coppola and starring Emma Watson. But she's trying to escape all that. Full story

The Worst Restaurant in the World

Where do all the horrible crawling things in LA congregate, make weekend plans, and compliment one another's handbags? Answer: the Jack in the Box on the corner of Sunset and Cahuenga. Full story

Las Vegas Needs to Get Creative with Its Homeless Problem

Las Vegas is sending their homeless people away with bus tickets and bottles of Ensure, but are there more creative solutions to this chronic problem? Sure there are! For instance, how about making the homeless into tour guides? Full story

America's Worst Housing Project Is Being Gentrified

The Los Angeles City Council just unanimously voted to tear down Jordan Downs, nearly the oldest housing project in America and probably the title holder for ugliest. Jordan Downs is comprised of 103 spookily identical buildings in the low-income, violence-ridden neighborhood of Full story

Exploring the Interior Designs of Los Angeles Weed Clinics

If you own a store that looks great and people feel comfortable shopping there, nice work. If you’re operating that store under constant threat of raids and total shutdown, years of stressy politics, infighting, and a host of thug-life problems associated with selling a product t… Full story

Jury Duty: It's Your Civic Duty

The county of Los Angeles wants to let me, a complete degenerate, participate in the judicial process and give me enough scratch to buy one flavorless sandwich per day at the court snack bar? SIGN ME UP. Full story

Should We Panic About the Strain of Deadly Meningitis Hitting the Gay Community?

This year, four men have come down with meningitis in New York City, bringing the number of infections to 22 and the death toll to seven since 2010, and similar cases have appeared in West Hollywood, California. How worried should we be? Full story

Compromises for the Woman Who Refuses to Shave Her Pubes

If you absolutely hate removing your pubic hair but feel like you have to do it in order to please a sexual partner, then allow me to offer some creative alternatives that can make both you and your partner happy. Full story

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Combover's Truth

This town’s just one big concentration camp! It’s sunny Auschwitz. But I am my own Nazi. I keep me here. Ambition. The sweet tastes of temptation are wasting me away. Spiritually emaciated. About to fall flat and just die. Full story

Celebrity Swatting and Other Popular Los Angeles Trends

Due to the inescapable fact that Los Angeles is totally boring, people here actually take the time to prank call various emergency-services agencies and trick them into responding to imaginary incidents at celebrity estates. Often times, SWAT teams will be called to the scene, he… Full story