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Les makes a dangerous misstep: accidentally standing on a bed of hot coals and experiencing one of the worst burns of his life. | For more Survivorman, visit http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/...

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Review: Red Medicine, a little like punk rock and splendid in its own way

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The night of the lunar eclipse, I was having a late supper at Red Medicine out on Wilshire, a few tables over from a man who had decided to dress as Jesus for the evening, a slender young man with long, straight hair and white robes flowing around his ankles. I can't be sure, but I think he ordered the tasting menu.

After dinner, I walked outside in time to see the last sliver of the moon disappear into the Earth's shadow. An elderly man plucked at my arm, eager to know what I was looking up at, and I pointed at the moon, at Mars shining bright and pink in its penumbra. The man shrugged. He'd seen better. The boulevard in Beverly Hills pulsed with the red lights of three police cars on a chase. Across the street, Jesus caught my eye and waved.

The thing was, none of this was any odder than the dinner I'd just finished eating, which included peas, trout eggs and lemon curd served in a goldfish bowl capped with a thin sheet of frozen pea-pod pure, a salad of wild roots and stalks with crunchy dried cabbage and marbles of walnut marzipan, and a delicious if unexpected dish of baby potatoes cooked with butter and yeast. The essence of young sequoia tree showed up in the lamb dish and the dessert. I tasted varieties of yarrow I had never seen outside a national forest, was directed to suck a sour wood sorrel stem and munched on a dozen species of wildflowers, some of which were arranged in the shape of the type of soft garland in a flower girl's hair.

A cocktail served in a sealed Mason jar changed from pink to dark purple when I shook it as instructed. It wasn't quite water to wine, but I was tempted to consult with that guy on the other side of the room.

Red Medicine is a splendid restaurant in its way, but it may still be better known for its faux pas than for anything that has ever appeared on its plates. The restaurant's original logo featured an image of Ho Chi Minh, who is not a popular man in the local Vietnamese community. A manager attempted to shame no-shows by posting their names on the restaurant's Twitter account. Some early dishes borrowed a bit too faithfully from the famous Copenhagen restaurant Noma, which was odd because Red Medicine was nominally a Vietnamese restaurant at the time. (Red Medicine's manifesto, still on its website, says, "Our bun cha is not striving to replicate the one your mother used to make. Hers is better, and the next time you make it, we'd love to be over.")

Most notoriously, a manager made a Los Angeles Times colleague wait 45 minutes, snapped a picture, threw her out without seating her and posted her (until-then anonymous) likeness online. No restaurateur has ever been quite so nasty to a critic. Even the best friends of the restaurant probably wouldn't let Red Medicine feed their cats while they were on vacation, testify on their behalf at a hearing or baby-sit their kids.

So has Red Medicine mellowed in the last three years? Not in the obvious ways. But it isn't a Vietnamese restaurant anymore, not that it ever convinced most people that it was one in the first place, although it is still possible to get caramelized chicken meatballs, like nem, to wrap into lettuce leaves with herbs and pickles, and the huge slabs of glazed pork belly or fish sauce-braised Wagyu beef brisket still retain a bit of Vietnamese flavor. (That beef brisket, a bit sweet and a bit smoky, is enough to feed five or six people at least.)

Instead, the locavore neo-Nordic principles that always seemed to be lurking beneath Jordan Kahn's mountains of chicken rillettes and vast bowls of rice porridge have come to define his cuisine. Servings are enormous Kahn is definitely trying to shake the small-plates thing and even the tasting menu is served as a series of huge bowls plunked in the middle of the table. A single serving of duck liver may incorporate as many foraged herbs and flowers as Alma serves in a month.

You will learn to appreciate burnt leaves as a condiment, especially in a bowl of various brassicas cabbage, broccoli, kale, etc. rising high over a puddle of duck broth. You will take it for granted that when you order the Santa Barbara uni, it will be blowtorched, arranged at the bottom of a huge bowl with liquid nitrogen-zapped horseradish ice and crunchy unripe guavas, then buried under white sheets of dehydrated almond milk that look like shreds of bark. You will have waitresses treat you like a slow schoolchild when you don't immediately grasp that the coal-like lumps in a crab dish are pickled pioppini mushrooms rolled in coal ash. You will end your meal with roasted carrots in wildflower syrup, or maybe a chocolate namelaka that looks more like grilled meat in pesto sauce than like anything you'd have as dessert. There has always been something a little punk rock about Red Medicine, but it has become hard to imagine the Los Angeles restaurant scene without it.

Red Medicine: Once faux-Vietnamese, now more neo-Nordic, Red Medicine has changed, but it hasn't mellowed.

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On Love: Victoria Stuss and Brian Bones

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It was the beginning of the school year in 2010 when Victoria Stuss and Brian Bones first took notice of each other. The two were attending a Georgetown University School of Medicine orientation mixer at Guards, a now-defunct college haunt, when Brian decided to introduce himself.

I actually knew Tori lived really close to me, basically on my street, so I went up to her and her friend and was like, Hey, why arent we besties yet? Which is totally awkward, but it was just me being a friendly newbie, I guess, Brian says with a laugh.

In their first year, the two had all of their lecture-style classes together, but Victoria says she didnt see much of him because he wasnt exactly the going-to-class-every-day type.

I definitely knew he existed, Victoria says. Id see him out all the time, and I remember thinking he was tall and funny, but we never really had a solid conversation until second semester.

Brian invited Victoria and her friends to a happy hour of sorts at McFaddens in February, and the two were able to learn a bit more about each other. Brian no longer thought of Victoria as just a quiet girl, and Victoria no longer thought of Brian as just a slacker. After spending the rest of their first year on friendly terms, Brian decided to make his move when they got back to campus in the fall.

He took her out to Mon Ami Gabi in Bethesda, where, even though they had been friends for more than a year, they still had first-date jitters. The two relied on their separate medical school experiences to lead the conversation, and they quickly found out that they were undeniably different students with polar opposite approaches to studying, which ended up helping them through the next two years of school together.

We were studying for the same tests, but we were studying in very different ways, with me being more big picture and Tori wanting to fill in the little details. But we have always had very similar successes, Brian says. Which led us to create a name for the two of us while we went through this stressful school experience Team Bones.

They considered themselves official by that December and began an extremely encouraging and valuable relationship. With medical school as demanding as it is, they started leaning on each other for support through the most difficult parts of their academic careers, such as 80-plus-hour weeks working at a hospital and grueling finals periods.

By our third year, I was thinking about what I really wanted out of life, outside of hospital life, Brian says. And quickly during that time, I realized what I wanted, and it wasnt career goals, it was about being with Tori and coming home to a person and place I loved.

After about a year as supportive teammates on Team Bones, Brian and Victoria started to talk marriage. In December 2012, Brian visited Victorias family in New Jersey and was granted permission to propose from her father. On Dec. 30, they visited the Old Post Office and climbed to the top, but Brian quickly realized that the miserable and frigid evening was not the right time, so he waited until the next day, New Years Eve.

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Frankie Knuckles Memorial at Liberty Theater, New York with Grammy Award Ann Nesby’s performance – Video

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Sound of Blackness - The Pressure Feat Grammy Award Winner Ann Nesby LIVE for Frankie Knuckles Memorial at Liberty Theater, Manhattan, New York (A Def Mix Event). April 23rd, 2014.

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@SarahPalinUSA Takes Oklahoma By STORM Fires Up @TWShannon’s Liberty Rally – Video

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@SarahPalinUSA Takes Oklahoma By STORM Fires Up @TWShannon #39;s Liberty Rally
http://barracudabrigade.blogspot.com/ @TWShannon #39;s SMOKING HOT Liberty Rally http://ow.ly/w90GL @SenTedCruz ROCKS T.W. Shannon #39;s Liberty Rally http://ow.ly/w90IY.

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Liberty University Symphony Orchestra under the Direction of Dr. Armenio Suzano–"World of Warcraft" – Video

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Liberty University Symphony Orchestra under the Direction of Dr. Armenio Suzano--"World of Warcraft"
Spring 2014 Concert--"World of Warcraft" by Russell Brower, Derek Duke Jason Hayes arr: Jerry Brubaker.

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Liberty Students Surprised With $20 Convo Gift

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Lynchburg, VA - More than $200,000 was given out to students at Liberty University Friday, all by one man, Bo Pilgrim. He's the 85 year old former CEO of Pilgrim's Pride, the largest chicken processing company in the U.S.

He wasn't even the official convocation speaker; he was there to present an award to the school's President, Jerry Falwell Junior. In fact, many students, before Friday morning, had no idea who he was. But now, his name, they won't soon forget.

"Sometimes it's kind of a drag getting out of bed early if we don't have morning classes said one student.

But ask any student about Fridays convocation, and they'll tell you, it was well worth it.

"It was awesome! That was such a blessing for me today said one student.

"I was really surprised when I turned around and actually got $20 said another.

85 year old Bo Pilgrim, not even the official speaker at Liberty University's convocation Friday, dropped $200,000 on the stunned student body.

"It was such a blessing really. He just said by the way, everyone is getting a pamphlet said a student.

A pamphlet, with a $20 bill, nestled neatly inside.

"Tells you how to get to heaven and how to live in the meantime, you can't beat that said Pilgrim.

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