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USC’s Kappa Sig Fraternity Is Doing Serious Damage To BYU’s Honor Code

First was the infamous e-mail circulated by Kappa Sig members detailing sorority girls they’ve slept with. Then there was this week’s new definition of public display of affection – sex on a campus building roof in broad daylight. USC has recently taken part in a massive overhaul of BYU’s honor code. This isn’t to begin [...]

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Bridge to Nowhere Hike

The Bridge to Nowhere is located in Azusa, California. In the 1930s, someone thought it would be a good idea to build a road in the middle of a mountain range that would forever be uninhabitable. This was before Sim City. When they hit a giant dip over a river, they built a beautiful arch [...]

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Things I Miss About New York: Racing to Read the End of the Chapter Before the Subway Doors Open at My Stop

This shouldn’t be a nostalgia day. It’s a perfect seventy degrees in the Southland while NYC is getting knocked with those freezing water rain pelts (I think there is another word for this). I was just thinking about how all the fun has been taken out of reading ever since I moved west. This is [...]

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I Suck At Dating In L.A. For The Same Reason That Finches on Each Galapagos Island Have Different Beaks

After three years of living in Los Angeles, it’s become obvious that all the genetic dispositions and traits I adapted to thrive in New York’s dating scene are completely useless when dating in Los Angeles. As an east coast sarcastic Jew, I was clearly bred with the ability to pass on my DNA in environments [...]

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Mount Baldy Hike

Mount San Antonio (better known as Mount Baldy) at 10,068 feet is the highest point in Los Angeles County and the third-tallest mountain in Southern California. Pretty easy to find, with well-marked trails, take the 210 to Mount Baldy Road and keep going up. There are three trails to the top, and we took the [...]

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Death Valley Vacation Video

This trip was back in November. About a six hour drive from Los Angeles. I-15 towards Vegas, route 127, then 178 into the park. Stopped by Badwater Salt Flats, the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere. Then around Artists Palatte (purty rocks) and up to Dante’s View, which looks down on the whole valley. Camped [...]

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Auto-Reply E-mail: Drunk In The Office For the World Cup

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Mount Wilson Trail

Mount Wilson is located near Sierra Madre and is a grueling fifteen mile hike to the observatory, which affords stunning views of the San Gabriels and downtown Los Angeles. Todd and I climbed it while making dick jokes. Here’s the hike: To get to the trailhead, take the 210 freeway to Baldwin Ave. in Sierra [...]

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Los Angeles Outdoor Movies 2010

Despite the fact that Los Angeles doesn’t have anything by way of seasons, it appears that there are three or four months where it only drops ten degrees at night instead of the usual forty. During these months, which northerners call “Summer,” you can find some outdoor movies around Los Angeles. Here are the 2010 [...]

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5 Best Bike Lanes in Los Angeles

5. Chandler Boulevard One of the newest bicycle right-of-ways in the city, this stretches across nearly the entire valley floor from one side of boring, ghetto suburbia to the other. There’s not a lot of sun cover, which makes the Chandler path useless from May through October, and you have to stop frequently at intersections, [...]

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