http://www.gridskipper.com/ This is Gridskipper's Los Angeles section. http://www.gawker.com/advertising/terms-of-use.php en-us tips@gridskipper.com 2006-08-03T10:28:27-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/los-angeles/this-week-in-runway-mayhem-191859.php This week has been a traumatic one for runway junkies. Two larger-than-life figures have been owted. LAX closed down one of its four runways for eight months as they seek to enlarge it in anticipation of Airbus's latest obese... 191859@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Los Angeles 2006-08-03T10:28:27-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/sex/not-exactly-400-blows-but-close-191518.php Our dirty brethren at Fleshbot make dreams come true. The pornophile site is offering a chance to become a porn star in a real adult film. All you'se gotta do is write them an essay explaining why you deserve the... 191518@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Sex 2006-08-02T09:28:39-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/los-angeles/david-hockney-at-la-county-museum-of-art-191111.php If you missed David Hockney's Portrait exhibit at Boston's MFA, don't miss out on the chance to see it in LA. Often and unfortunately thought of as 20th century painting's pool boy, Hockney proves adept at capturing the fluid personal... 191111@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Los Angeles 2006-07-31T23:55:39-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/los-angeles/la-river-runs-through-it-190537.php The Los Angeles River gets a bad rap. Perhaps it's the fault of the dead dogs that float by like Huck's father or that most people know the river only as the backdrop to Terminator II. But no, there's a... 190537@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Los Angeles 2006-07-28T09:48:49-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/los-angeles/nice-packagefor-a-girl-190235.php Omni Hotel is really reaching out to all demograohics. First, the hotel's Noe restaurant is throwing an Outlaw Dinner tonight (an event that has received copious coverage in these pages) to lure gastro-felons. Now, as Hotel Chatter reports, the hotel... 190235@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Los Angeles 2006-07-27T10:07:39-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/los-angeles/la-famously-segregated-or-segregatedly-famous-190208.php In today's new from Los Angeles, MSNBC gives us the top 15 places to spot celebs. Celebrities, it turns out, can be spotted wherever money can be found. This fact is neither here nor there. You could go to the... 190208@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Los Angeles 2006-07-27T08:08:53-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/los-angeles/bad-boys-bad-boys-watcha-gonna-eat-189688.php So Robert Gadsby wants to be a bad-ass, huh? The LA chef is serving what he calls an Outlaw Dinner at his Noe restaurant at the Omni Hotel. So what makes the dinner outlawed? Gatsby's piling on the foie gras,... 189688@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Los Angeles 2006-07-25T10:44:39-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/los-angeles/zen-yai-189328.php Like cream is to strawberries, and peanuts to beer, it seems kitsch décor will forever be associated with authentic Thai cuisine. Just take a peek inside Yen Thai, a quirky little cafe on Santa Barbara's main strip: traffic light in... 189328@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Los Angeles 2006-07-24T08:00:21-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/los-angeles/fat-fish-sushi-savings-andmargaritas-188853.php Usually when I order sushi, I'll choose either green tea of sake to wash it down. But at West Hollywood hot spot Fat Fish, its conventional to go for the unconventional choice and order one of their hand-shaken margaritas. No... 188853@http://www.gridskipper.com/ Los Angeles 2006-07-21T09:17:45-05:00 http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/los-angeles/the-cool-kids-of-las-club-scene-neither-cool-nor-kids-188650.php I knew this kid in junior high (not me, I swear) who made trading cards of the cool kids complete with line-drawings on the front and stats on the back. 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