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California Dreamin'

"I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited; and it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are available in America." - Hilton Helper

California, the state where fortunes are made and lost in a weekend, muscle-bound movie stars become governors, and box office takes carry as much weight as football scores. Lesser regions may affect to snub the Golden State, but with the largest GDP in the country and the eighth largest in the world, California doesn't care.

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  • December 2008

    • LA Rockers Revive Sixties Aura in Laurel Canyon

      Rolling Stone  |  Dec 10, 08 3:14 AM CST

      LA Rockers Revive Sixties Aura in Laurel Canyon

      (Newser) - The sounds of the Sixties were strummed out of the Laurel Canyon section of Los Angeles, but the neighborhood is now nurturing a similar movement in American music. Musicians are picking up the torch of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, and the Doors, by creating new sounds in a  "free-spirited, collaborative way," writes Jenny Eliscu in Rolling Stone.   More »

    • Mom Gives Hills Marriage '6 Months'

      Us Magazine  |  Dec 3, 08 3:59 PM CST

      Mom Gives Hills Marriage '6 Months'

      (Newser) - Heidi Montag’s mother gives her daughter’s marriage to fellow Hills star Spencer Pratt “six months,” saying she is devastated to lose her daughter to the “manipulative” Pratt, US Magazine reports. Darlene Egelhoff says that she suspects her daughter was drugged by Pratt during their elopement in Mexico, for which she skipped Thanksgiving with her family. More »

    • Mayor Channels Inner Wonk in 7½-Hour YouTube Speech

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Dec 1, 08 3:00 PM CST

      Mayor Channels Inner Wonk in 7&frac12;-Hour YouTube Speech

      (Newser) - San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is living up to his chatty reputation with a 7½-hour state-of-the-city speech—on YouTube. The mayor, who is averse to speaking with the city’s board of supervisors and enamored of policy, will release the detailed address in 45-minute chunks. Why watch, wonders the Chronicle ? “The good news is no one has to,” Newsom says. “For those that don’t want to, don’t.” More »

  • November 2008

    • Earlier Milk Release Might've Killed Prop 8

      Slate  |  Nov 27, 08 3:30 PM CST

      Earlier Milk Release Might've Killed Prop 8

      (Newser) - If Milk, the film on San Francisco’s first openly gay city supervisor, had opened earlier, might it have swung the Proposition 8 vote? Maybe, writes Dennis Lim in Slate—but in light of the passage of the California gay-marriage ban, Milk becomes both a poignant “look-how-far-we-haven’t-come” tale and a roadmap for the gay-rights battle ahead. More »

    • Twilight 's Bella Gets High

      TMZ  |  Nov 27, 08 11:28 AM CST

      Twilight 's Bella Gets High

      (Newser) - Twilight is a huge hit, but star Kristen Stewart hasn’t gotten the message about dodging the paparazzi: TMZ caught her toking up on her front porch this week. Stewart, who plays the chaste Bella, was seen smoking something from a pipe outside her Los Angeles home—perhaps a remedy to the panic attacks afflicting overwhelmed co-star Robert Pattinson, the National Ledger adds. More »

    • Nicollette Rings In Birthday With David Spade Hookup