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The government shut down, a royal baby was born, and even the pope turned out to be cool. 2013 was an amazing year, and we've memorialized some of its best moments in LEGO form. LEGO creations and all photos by L.J. Williamson. Want more LEGO fun? Check out 2012: The Year in LEGO and our 2011 version, too.
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In tonight's Tribute to Elmore Leonard, they come to praise the author, not to bury him. You might be excused from wanting to heap plaudits upon the late crime and Western author if your experience with his works was limited to the satanically shitty movie versions of Be Cool, Stick or Killshot. Luckily for real fans, the distilled essence of Leonard — smart heroes struggling in a world of stupid people, suffering all manner of surprises through incredibly vivid dialogue — is alive and well-developed on Justified, the FX crime series culled from a short story, which has expanded into an entire universe emanating from the seamy backwoods of Harlan County, Ky. Over 45 novels, Leonard made even small characters cast long shadows, and now some of the larger characters orlando hotel deals in his life gather to read from his work. Son Peter Leonard joins Justified big shots Graham Yost (the show's creator), Timothy Olyphant (its star), orlando hotel deals Walton Goggins (who plays the unremittingly orlando hotel deals fascinating Boyd Crowder) and others, ushering this great and illuminating scribbler not-so-gently into that good night. Ann and Jerry Moss Theater orlando hotel deals at New Roads School, 3131 W. Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica; Tues., Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m.; $25. (310) 855-0005, orlando hotel deals writersblocpresents.com.
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The Growlers performed in the round at Echoplex on Sunday night to a sold out house. (Friday and Saturday saw the band with sold out shows upstairs at The Echo). The Mystic Braves and The Abigails opened the night. All photos by Timothy Norris.
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Many of the best things I ate this year tell a distinct story: about the people who cooked them, their personal journey, the country of their heritage, as well as the city they now call home. At this moment in time, there's no other place in the world I'd rather be eating or writing. Here are the dishes I most savored in 2013.
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"Rated R for sexual references" is the typically tone-deaf ruling from the MPAA flywheels on Darren Stein's comedy G.B.F., a film that has far fewer sexual references than the similarly themed Easy A. But while the PG-13 Easy A was about a straight teenage girl whose social status drops when she's falsely accused of losing her virginity, G.B.F.'s protagonist, Tanner (Michael J. Willett), is a closeted teenage boy whose social status rises when he's accurately outed as gay, reluctantly becoming arm candy for the popular girls to avoid getting bullied by the jocks.
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The female orgasm can be an elusive little bastard. So