Frank Shyong

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• Who is Neil Gaiman

  Feb. 7, 2010 at 11:33 p.m.

  Neil Gaiman doesn’t like to plan things out.

• Q&A with Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer

  Jan. 20, 2010 at 12:01 a.m.

  Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer are L.A.-based comedians who form two-thirds of MTV’s “Human Giant,” a sketch comedy show which also stars Aziz Ansari from NBC’s “Parks and Recreation.”

• Screen Scene: "The Road"

  Nov. 25, 2009 at 12:52 a.m.

  Typically, sadness steals over you like the effects of a very strong, very sweet wine; it builds in your abdomen like a bad stomachache; or it festers like an open wound.

• UCLA apartments suffer storm damage

  Nov. 3, 2009 at 12:58 a.m.

  They laughed about it at first.

• Film flourishes in Persian Gulf with Doha Tribeca Film Festival

  Nov. 3, 2009 at midnight

  When the Doha Tribeca Film Festival kicked off on Thursday, the Persian Gulf, home to some of the most conservative Islamic sects in the Middle East, also became one of the world’s most crowded film festival circuits.

• Three Westwood marijuana dispensaries close

  Nov. 2, 2009 at 2:10 a.m.

  Three of Westwood’s five cannabis dispensaries have closed for unstated reasons.

• District attorney's plans to crack down on medical marijuana dispensaries still intact

  Oct. 22, 2009 at 1:59 a.m.

  City Attorney Carmen Trutanich and Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley plan to drastically reduce the number of medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles.

• A rare bond between human and leopard

  Oct. 19, 2009 at 1:11 a.m.

  Dereck and Beverly Joubert were exhausted, frustrated and caked in riverbed mud from the Okavango Delta in Botswana.

• Number of marijuana dispensaries growing in Westwood

  Oct. 5, 2009 at 1:11 a.m.

  When Michael Kwon opened a new Westwood BBQ Chicken franchise on Le Conte Avenue in June 2009, he was dismayed to find his business promptly flanked by a marijuana dispensary on the left and a new medical cannabis doctor’s office on the right.

• Cash at Folsom Prison

  Oct. 3, 2008 at 12:40 a.m.

  There may never be another artist who embodies contradictions as effortlessly as Johnny Cash. He was the country music singer who hobnobbed with Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. He wrote ...