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The Big Lebowski Turns 15new

The beloved cult movie, in all its anniversary glory.

L.A. Weekly | Ben Westhoff, Will Russell, Sam Bloch and Nicholas Pell | 03-13-2013 | Culture

Jimmy On the Edge of Townnew

A homeless Christian-Muslim from Palestine pitches a tent behind Bed Bath & Beyond in Northridge. Then come the railroad men and feral cat activists.

L.A. Weekly | Patrick Range McDonald | 07-31-2009 | Culture

Tags: makeshift shelter, Naser Nasralla, railroads, housing, homelessness, Los Angeles, animal issues, feral cats

A Website You Can Dig Your Claws Into Is Up for Salenew

Attention all you who like cats, stuff and stuff on cats: the Web site StuffOnMyCat is up for sale.

L.A. Weekly | Gendy Alimurung | 07-10-2009 | Culture

Tags: Mario Garza, StuffOnMyCat.com

The New Cocktailiansnew

The farmers market–loving, sleeve garter–wearing ladies and gentlemen of the bar are taking over L.A.'s restaurants one glass at a time.

L.A. Weekly | Jonathan Gold | 03-05-2009 | Culture

Tags: Los Angeles, bartenders

Tricks of the Horror-Shop Businessnew

When you absolutely, positively need that dead baby overnight, BJ Winslow is the man to see.

L.A. Weekly | Gendy Alimurung | 01-30-2009 | Culture

Tags: BJ Winslow, horror shops

The Yarn- and Felt-Covered Chairs of Tanya Aguiniganew

Sometimes a chair is not a chair. Sometimes it is a way to muck up the prevailing cultural orthodoxy, as well as a place to set your buttocks on and take a load off.

L.A. Weekly | Gendy Alimurung | 01-23-2009 | Culture

Tags: visual art, furniture, Tanya Aguiniga

The Plush Life of Food: A Collector's Storynew

Collecting is a disease. After you own something, you have to take care of it. In a way, Sarah Jo Marks believes, it owns you. Like her plush food collection.

L.A. Weekly | Gendy Alimurung | 07-25-2008 | Culture

Tags: food, plush toys, stuffed food, stuffed toys

Zen and the Art of Cougar Huntingnew

They practice picking up young men at the grocery store, these older women who have never been married, or whose husbands have left them for younger stock, or whose soul mates have died of heart attacks or in car accidents. On a balmy Thursday at a hotel in Pasadena, life coach Zen Kern, simply Zen to his clients, instructs the ladies in his Cougar Class to pretend they've just spotted a cute guy contemplating the cereal at Ralphs.

L.A. Weekly | Gendy Alimurung | 07-07-2008 | Culture

Tags: Los Angeles, dating, Sex, cougars, relationships, older women, cougar class, life coaches, Zen Kern

It's Not Easy Trying to be Cougar Baitnew

If I'm to achieve a life of leisurely Parisian mornings and afternoon massages, without working for it, of course, I'll have to become someone's pretty piece of meat. Someone rich, middle-aged and a little desperate. In other words, I need a cougar. But where to find such a woman?

L.A. Weekly | Matthew Fleischer | 07-07-2008 | Culture

Tags: dating, Sex, cougars, relationships, older women