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The Essentials: LA Weekly's 6th Annual Food and Wine Event ... Jitlada, Kogi BBQ, Little Sister, Loteria Grill, Mariscos Jalisco, Mexicali Taco & Co., Nickel Diner, Oinkster, Salt's Cure, Sotto, Sqirl, Star King BBQ, Superba Snack Bar and more. If you remember back to our previous events (food coma notwithstanding), you'll recognize some of the restaurants, but this year there will be plenty of new ones too. As for the...

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Businessweek - Business News, Stock Market & Financial Advice Productivity Fight Fatigue by Harnessing the Power of Your Internal Clock Sluggish? Tired? In Which These Are The 100 Greatest Writers Of All Time The 100 Greatest Writers of All Time by WILL HUBBARD and ALEX CARNEVALE Other lists of this kind have been attempted, none very successfully. Inland Empire Weekly LOCALS ONLY: Mansions on the Moon A mix between big electric drums being slammed together and chamber vocal harmonies taken from any M83 song, is the best way to describe “Full Moon”–the first track off of the LA-based electro-pop band Mansions on the Moo... Townes is The Band that Brings It On Home Bringing out the Morrison within with their new album titled The Band EP, local indie rock group, Townes touches on a classic mid-to-late ’60s groove while still leaving room for uncharted territories with each song.

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Harvard Seeks to Jolt University Teaching - Teaching By Dan Berrett Cambridge, Mass. A growing body of evidence from the classroom, coupled with emerging research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, is lending insight into how people learn, but teaching on most college campuses has not changed much, several speakers said here at Harvard University at a daylong conference dedicated to teaching and learning. Too often, faculty members teach according to habits and hunches, said Carl E. Wieman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, who has extensively studied how to improve science education. In large part, the problem is that graduate students pursuing their doctorates get little or no training in how students learn.

Dedicated to Music Lovers Designer/illustrator Alejandro de Antonio Fernandez has made collection of portraits inspired by vinyl records. Photos © Alejandro de Antonio Fernandez Link via Beautiful Life Conscientious Articles Contemporary Photographers Diane Meyer May 6, 2013 – According to the artist, Diane Meyer’s Time Spent That Might Otherwise Be Forgotten “is based on photographs taken at various points in my life and arranged by location. Sections of the images have been obscured through a layer of embroidered pixels sewn directly into the photograph.