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The mayoral candidates spent the weekend pressing the flesh and raising cash. City Controller Wendy Greuel was seen at the L.A. Marathon, being interviewed alongside termed-out Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former Dodgers' owner Frank McCourt. City Councilman Eric Garcetti hoisted a Guinness while toasting Los Angeles during a St. Patrick's Day bash at Tom Bergin's on Fairfax. Garcetti picked up the endorsement of former mayoral candidate Emanuel Pleitez on Saturday outside the Derby Dolls' roller derby rink.

The mayoral candidates spent the weekend pressing the flesh and raising cash. City Controller Wendy Greuel was seen at the L.A. Marathon, being interviewed alongside termed-out Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former Dodgers' owner Frank McCourt. City Councilman Eric Garcetti hoisted a Guinness while toasting Los Angeles during a St. Patrick's Day bash at Tom Bergin's on Fairfax. Garcetti picked up the endorsement of former mayoral candidate Emanuel Pleitez on Saturday outside the Derby Dolls' roller derby rink.

British beer drinkers found a measure of good news amid a flood of economic downers: The fabled pint won't have to be renamed. After a long debate over whether the European Union would force pubs to serve beer by the half-liter, the European Parliament decided to let Britain retain the pint, the mile and other imperial measurements. The bill scraps a 2009 deadline to end the use of imperial measurements alongside metric units.

LONDON - It's Saturday afternoon in the jam-packed Old Red Lion on London's shopper-crowded St. John Street. Beer-fueled chatter - including some salty heckles - ricochets off the TV screens, while the pub's lone server pours pints of frothy ale in double-quick time. Local soccer team Arsenal is playing, and the game isn't going well. Nestled among the red-shirted lager lovers are several quiet imbibers, their tables topped with glasses of wine and the occasional well-thumbed paperback.

Thank you for the delightful article by Jon Gardey on England, "Lifting a Pint to Ansty" (May 12). I had to write to say it's the first really accurate account of a visit to my country that I've read. Most "I was there" articles seem to have been taken straight out of a travel brochure, but this was a wonderfully evocative memory of an England that is my home. Every detail had been noticed with warmth and humor, and the photos captured the moments as they really are. I've been visiting Los Angeles and have enjoyed reading your paper very much.

Hollywood's Cat & Fiddle is the pub that rock 'n' roll built. Founded in 1982 by British expat Kim Gardner and his wife, Paula, the place has become the go-to British pub for musicians and those who love them. Kim -- a known wild man and bassist -- was part of the British Invasion of the 1960s and played with legends including George Harrison, the Rolling Stones and the Byrds. The pub has also become a second home for generations of pint-loving neighbors and devoted monarchists who come for the hearty British fare, gorgeous front patio and down-home vibe cultivated by the Gardner family over the years.

LONDON - It's Saturday afternoon in the jam-packed Old Red Lion on London's shopper-crowded St. John Street. Beer-fueled chatter - including some salty heckles - ricochets off the TV screens, while the pub's lone server pours pints of frothy ale in double-quick time. Local soccer team Arsenal is playing, and the game isn't going well. Nestled among the red-shirted lager lovers are several quiet imbibers, their tables topped with glasses of wine and the occasional well-thumbed paperback.

Hollywood's Cat & Fiddle is the pub that rock 'n' roll built. Founded in 1982 by British expat Kim Gardner and his wife, Paula, the place has become the go-to British pub for musicians and those who love them. Kim -- a known wild man and bassist -- was part of the British Invasion of the 1960s and played with legends including George Harrison, the Rolling Stones and the Byrds. The pub has also become a second home for generations of pint-loving neighbors and devoted monarchists who come for the hearty British fare, gorgeous front patio and down-home vibe cultivated by the Gardner family over the years.

As picked by bartender and brewer Tanner Worth, 30. Duvel Green from Duvel Moortgat Brewery, Belgium A complex golden ale, this version comes only in kegs. Chef Brendan Collins says it is ultimately drinkable, calling it, "a nice six- or seven-pint kind of beer. " $10 pint Green Flash West Coast IPA from Green Flash Brewing Co., San Diego A crisp and super-hoppy India pale ale, among the top sellers. $4 pint La Chouffe, from Brasserie d'Achouffe, Belgium A rich Belgian dubbel, lightened up with spice and clove.

A teen-ager committed suicide by swallowing a pint of gasoline, making him the 18th youngster in New York City's northern suburbs to take his own life since early 1984, authorities said today. Andrew Budow, 17, of Garnerville swallowed the gasoline at 4:43 p.m. Sunday while he was home alone, police said. He was found moments later by his parents and was pronounced dead at 6 p.m.

Beer drinkers, will your India Pale Ales taste better from a glass made just for IPAs? German glassware maker Spiegelau is banking on it and has collaborated with breweries Dogfish Head and Sierra Nevada to create a glass specifically for India pale ales. Dogfish Head brewer Sam Calagione and Sierra Nevada's Ken Grossman, in a series of design and tasting sessions, helped choose a single glass that "showcases varying aromatic profiles for the American 'hop forward'" IPA beer, says Spiegelau in an announcement.

Hollywood's Cat & Fiddle is the pub that rock 'n' roll built. Founded in 1982 by British expat Kim Gardner and his wife, Paula, the place has become the go-to British pub for musicians and those who love them. Kim -- a known wild man and bassist -- was part of the British Invasion of the 1960s and played with legends including George Harrison, the Rolling Stones and the Byrds. The pub has also become a second home for generations of pint-loving neighbors and devoted monarchists who come for the hearty British fare, gorgeous front patio and down-home vibe cultivated by the Gardner family over the years.

Hollywood's Cat & Fiddle is the pub that rock 'n' roll built. Founded in 1982 by British expat Kim Gardner and his wife, Paula, the place has become the go-to British pub for musicians and those who love them. Kim -- a known wild man and bassist -- was part of the British Invasion of the 1960s and played with legends including George Harrison, the Rolling Stones and the Byrds. The pub has also become a second home for generations of pint-loving neighbors and devoted monarchists who come for the hearty British fare, gorgeous front patio and down-home vibe cultivated by the Gardner family over the years.

Seeking to reduce civilian casualties and collateral damage, the Pentagon will soon deploy a new generation of drones the size of model planes, packing tiny explosive warheads that can be delivered with pinpoint accuracy. Errant drone strikes have been blamed for killing and injuring scores of civilians throughout Pakistan and Afghanistan, giving the U.S. government a black eye as it targets elusive terrorist groups. The Predator and Reaper drones deployed in these regions typically carry 100-pound laser-guided Hellfire missiles or 500-pound GPS-guided smart bombs that can reduce buildings to smoldering rubble.

Valentine's Day shouldn't be followed by bitterness — unless, of course, you're visiting Santa Monica's Library Alehouse beginning Feb. 15. That's when the Westside's craft beer destination will launch its 11-day HopHead Heaven festival, which is specializing in hoppy beers. Things will be kept close to home on opening day, which the bar has dubbed "local bitterness" night, featuring India pale ales from nearby brewers such as Eagle Rock, Bootlegger, Smog City, Cismontane and Ladyface.

Penny Puckett came to Slab City and fell in love. After four years of "bumming around and hopping freight trains," the 25-year-old from Kansas City arrived at this hardscrabble section of the Imperial Valley desert and immediately embraced its sense of liberation from society's rules and norms. What others might view as desolation and deprivation, Puckett saw as a way to reduce life to its essence: water, food and shelter (plus Internet and cellular phone service). PHOTOS: Slab City "Slab City people have a great need to live with just the bare necessities and are happy about it," she said.

Given the temptations to goof it up, Joe Pesci's performance in this 1992 movie, itself a very mixed bag, is something of a triumph. As a swaggering pint-sized New York lawyer who only recently passed the bar on his sixth try, Pesci modulates his usual psycho-nuttiness and gives it some recognizably human, even melancholy, undertones. With its predictable city-slicker vs.

Re "Relax the Ban on Gay Blood Donors," Opinion, April 30: Douglas Starr's reliance upon "deferring gay men a year from their last homosexual contact" says more than I want to know even though "they'd be rigorously screened." Driving a vehicle is a privilege. If blood is needed, simply grant the privilege and renewal thereof dependent upon a pint of blood. Deferment for medical reasons can be made. If the driver needs deferment for religious reasons, the driver is never a blood recipient.

There's a holiday in December that comes way before Hanukkah or Christmas and might be a whole lot  jollier: It's Repeal Day, and it's Monday. As Ken Burns reminds us in his documentary "Prohibition," there was a time in this country when a glass of wine or a pint of beer could land you in the slammer. It was against the law, specifically the 18th Amendment. Bootleggers, speakeasies and all sorts of black-market goings-ons defined the Prohibition era from January 1920 to Dec. 5, 1933, when the law was repealed.

As picked by bartender and brewer Tanner Worth, 30. Duvel Green from Duvel Moortgat Brewery, Belgium A complex golden ale, this version comes only in kegs. Chef Brendan Collins says it is ultimately drinkable, calling it, "a nice six- or seven-pint kind of beer. " $10 pint Green Flash West Coast IPA from Green Flash Brewing Co., San Diego A crisp and super-hoppy India pale ale, among the top sellers. $4 pint La Chouffe, from Brasserie d'Achouffe, Belgium A rich Belgian dubbel, lightened up with spice and clove.