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         <title>Skid Row Puts on a Memorial Day Parade Extravaganza -- With the Help of Mr. Brainwash</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Los Angeles Poverty Department36 portraits of Skid Row visionaries by street artist Mr. Brainwash
At first glance, L.A.'s Skid Row doesn't seem like it would have a flourishing performance]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Laugh All You Want: 6 of L.A.&apos;s Most Fascinating Comedians</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Kevin ScanlonLiz Meriwether


Yes, Los Angeles is wading in a profusion of comedic talent and is home to countless excellent comedy clubs (some housed in fish taco joints.) For our People 2012 issue, ]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 10:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Laura Dave, L.A. Novelist, on Nora Ephron, Chick Lit and Whether Facebook Makes Us Happy </title>
         <description><![CDATA[Allen Murabayashi

Laura Dave made a career  of writing the kind of fun, unabashedly frothy fiction we all tend to impulse-buy at the airport before long flights, but that doesn't mean she hasn't earn]]></description>
         <link>http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/05/laura_dave_the_first_husband_t.php</link>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 09:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger: The Wunderkinds</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Kevin ScanlonTwo of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here.

The first time Isaac Aptaker and his partner, Elizabeth Berger,]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:02:30 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Want Dodgers Tickets for Cheap? Check Out ScoreBig.com</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Courtesy of ScoreBigAfter working in ticketing and marketing for the National Basketball Association, Adam Kanner recognized that the league had a problem: too few butts. Butts in the seats, that is.
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         <link>http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/05/scorebig_dodgers_lakers_angels_van_halen.php</link>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 10:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Invasion of the Beauty Bloggers</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Photo by Angela + IthyleBri Emery, uberblogger
Erika Brechtel's kid is only 3 years old, but she knows the perils of being raised by a fashion blogger. "Mom, put your iPad down," she'll say. Or rather]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 09:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>What Land Art Would You Create If Money Were No Object? Three Artists&apos; Proposals</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Courtesy Mungo ThomsonMungo Thomson proposes a piece in which viewers enter to find a cloud of marijuana smoke.In 1966, Robert Smithson, famous for piling up mud and black basalt in Utah's Great Salt ]]></description>
         <link>http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/05/land_art_moca_exhibition.php</link>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 08:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Linda Didn&apos;t Know Her Dad Was a Serial Rapist. Then She Discovered Joel Engel&apos;s New Book</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Joel Engel reads from his book L.A. '56: A Devil in the City of Angels at Book Soup.

When you investigate the life of a rapist based on a decades-old case file, you don't expect to be confronted by t]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 07:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Bert Chan: These Shoes Were Made for Tapping</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Kevin ScanlonOne of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here.

Eight is considered a particularly lucky number in Chinese cult]]></description>
         <link>http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/05/bert_chan_people_2012.php</link>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Dance</category>
        
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         <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 16:22:44 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>RJ Mitte: The Good in Breaking Bad</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Kevin ScanlonOne of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here.

When RJ Mitte first moved to Los Angeles at 13, he never imagin]]></description>
         <link>http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/05/rj_mitte_people_2012.php</link>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 14:24:16 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Lena Dunham&apos;s Girls and Her Dad Carroll&apos;s Drawings: Two Approaches to Making Us Uncomfortable</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Courtesy the artist, Blum & Poe and Gladstone GalleryCarroll Dunham's Sketches for The Alienist (1997)Before the New York Studio Program moved from Lower Manhattan to DUMBO, art students there used to]]></description>
         <link>http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/05/lena_dunham_carroll_blu_poe.php</link>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 13:53:08 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Kit Quinn and Tallest Silver: The Great Pretenders</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Kevin ScanlonTwo of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here.

Kit Quinn and Tallest Silver keep their legal names off the rec]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 12:55:41 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Seven Sins: A True Crime Anthology: Village Voice Media&apos;s First eBook</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Every week writers for L.A. Weekly and our parent company, Village Voice Media, produce elegant, magazine-style feature writing -- a gritty portion of which comes in the form of true-crime stories. No]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 12:15:55 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Cannes Film Festival: Brad Pitt in Killing Them Softly and Gael Garcia Bernal in No</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Killing Them SoftlyThe opening credits of the Brad Pitt-starring Killing Them Softly are set to snatches of Barack Obama's 2008 Democratic Convention speech, focused on the notion of "the American pro]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 11:50:15 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Silicon Beach: 5 People Making L.A. a New Tech Industry Capital</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Kevin ScanlonAdam Lisagor

Los Angeles may be 350 miles south of Silicon Valley, but it's making strides to close the distance between the two in terms of sheer brain power and inventiveness (with a l]]></description>
         <link>http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/05/la_tech_silicon_beach.php</link>
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