Email Author Dennis Romero

Awards

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 30, 2010

  "Death, Money and Megaraves"

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2011 Stories by Dennis Romero

• XXX Porn Sites That Advertise Local College Girls Get The Block Treatment From USC, UCLA

  published Dec 12, 2011

  Why would a university want to buy a porn domain name on the webr Because that website URL just might advertise hot, nude college girls who (allegedly) attend said school. And that would be bad for ..... More >>

• Guy Fawkes Mask, 'Anonymous' Milieu, Used in Teen YouTube Threat That Got SoCal High School Shut Down, Cops Say

  published Dec 12, 2011

  A threat against Bishop Montgomery High School made very publicly via YouTube landed a 16-year-old suspect in handcuffs, police said today. Torrance police Sgt. Steven Jenkinson tells the Weekly the ... More >>

• Rave Drug Ecstasy Causes 'Lasting Changes in Brain' Says New Research

  published Dec 12, 2011

  The stereotype of the e-tard, the raver who uses so much ecstasy he becomes mentally defective, might have some basis in fact. A Vanderbilt University psychiatry professor concludes in recent researc... More >>

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  Lowe's Boycott Has SoCal Roots After State Sen. Ted Lieu Blasts Home Improvement Chain For Pulling Out of 'All-American Muslim'

  published Dec 12, 2011

  This is a tale of two Americas, one based in the conservative South, the other on the liberal West Coast. After the Lowe's home-improvement giant pulled its ads from TLC's All-American Muslim reality... More >>

• Snow a Foot Deep in Local Mountains as Storms Hit Los Angeles

  published Dec 12, 2011

  May the next New Yorker who says we don't get real weather in Southern California get struck by a tree branch the size of Albert Pujols' forearm. Sorry to get violent about it. But really, after Win... More >>

• Elon Musk's L.A.-Based SpaceX to Send Private Spacecraft to International Space Station

  published Dec 09, 2011

  The Space Shuttle might be a relic of the past, but that doesn't mean America isn't still going to space. More and more, it's becoming a private affair. Elon Musk's Hawthorne-based SpaceX was given a... More >>

• Porn Condom Ballot Initiative Could be Blocked if City of L.A. Has its Way: Suit Filed to Stop it From Reaching Voters

  published Dec 09, 2011

  The city of L.A. is trying to keep condoms off porn stars, or at least off the ballot. An initiative by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation proposes to put the matter of mandatory condoms in the adult vid... More >>

• L.A. Coliseum Commission to Consider Self-Destruction After Rave Scandal: Mark Ridley-Thomas Calls For Discussion on Dissolution

  published Dec 09, 2011

  It was one almighty party -- a two-day rave that pulled in 160,000 people, saw 60 arrests, and witnessed more than 200 medical emergencies. And it was the last memory for a 15-year-old girl who soon a... More >>

• Red Moon Rising Tonight: Rare Lunar Eclipse Comes to L.A.

  published Dec 09, 2011

  Too bad this didn't happen during Halloween season. It's spooky nonetheless. So break out your favorite medicinal herb, put on a good jacket, and howl at the moon until morning, because a rare lunar ... More >>

• Teflon Sheriff Lee Baca Has a Shadow Leader in Paul Tanaka, Report Says: Jail Beating Problems Lead Back to Himr

  published Dec 09, 2011

  The decade-long accusations of unjust inmate beatings by deputies at the L.A. County Jail has only recently caught the attention of the man we call the Teflon Sheriff, Lee Baca. We had our doubts whe... More >>

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  Elizabeth Macias: Pepper Spray Lady's Black Friday Gassing Under Review by L.A. City Attorney

  published Dec 09, 2011

  As the holiday season is upon us, we turn with warm thoughts to the case of Pepper Spray Lady, the woman who unleashed a torrent of bitter tear juice on fellow shoppers during a Black Friday sale at a... More >>

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  Occupy L.A. Demonstrators Policed With Help of Private Security Known Downtown as 'The Shirts:' LAPD Says That's Not 'Typical'

  published Dec 08, 2011

  Updated at the bottom with comments from Commander Andrew Smith, who says private security guards often work with police downtown but that a skirmish line with cops might have been out of the ordinary... More >>

• Texting Til Death: Half of Young Americans Do It While Driving

  published Dec 08, 2011

  We here at LA Weekly are a little sick of needless, nebulous state laws that give cops way too much power to conduct fund raising write tickets. Case-in-point: California's retarded texting-while-d... More >>

• John Farahi: Iranian Bernie Madoffr Feds Say $20 Million of L.A. Persian Jews' Money Lost

  published Dec 08, 2011

  A Bel Air Estates man whose investment fraud allegedly cost $20 million in losses was indicted by a federal grand jury this week. And since these alleged, mini-Madoffs are getting titles in the news b... More >>

• Maxi Pad Stadium Proposal For Downtown L.A. Could Include Unprecedented, Off-Site Roof That Wasn't a Part of The Deal

  published Dec 08, 2011

  In the proposal to build an NFL stadium in the middle of the publicly owned Convention Center, it's all about the roof. The stadium's would-be owner, Anshutz Entertainment Group of next-door Staples ... More >>

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  Arthur S. Rodriguez, Cesar Chavez's Grandson, Arrested in Occupy L.A. Raid: UFW 'Proud'

  published Dec 08, 2011

  Arthur S. Rodriguez, the grandson of labor and civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, was arrested as part of the raid on the L.A. City Hall Occupy encampment last week. Arturo S. Rodriguez, his father an... More >>

• Alec Baldwin Kicked Off American Airlines Flight at LAX For Playing Nerd Game Words With Friends on Smartphone, he Indicates

  published Dec 07, 2011

  Updated at the bottom with Baldwin saying he was singled out by a flight attendant for using his phone. First posted at 4:01 p.m. Monday. Alec Baldwin tweeted today that he was pulled off an American... More >>

• Adult Diaper Company Reamed Taxpayers: SoCal's Shield Healthcare Will Pay us Back $5 Million

  published Dec 07, 2011

  Turns out you, the American taxpayer, has been overpaying for adult diapers. (Yeah, we didn't realize we were buying them either). The largest supplier of adult diapers in the nation charged us more ... More >>

• Sexual Revolution is Back: Americans Found to be Practicing 'Riskiest Sexual Behavior' on Earth

  published Dec 07, 2011

  Yes, an anal gel that could prevent HIV is being developed. Yes, it's hard to get HIV if you're a heterosexual who doesn't inject drugs. But that doesn't mean the 1970s are back, people. A recent sur... More >>

• Marijuana Dispensary Bans in L.A., Long Beach Could be Averted With Tweaked Rules For Pot Shopsr

  published Dec 07, 2011

  Los Angeles could be on the verge of banning its trademark marijuana dispensary business. And all because of a California court decision that struck down the way cities like L.A. regulate their pot sh... More >>

• Anthony Loscano, Occupy L.A. Protester, Gets Book Thrown at Him After Two Arrests, One of Which Was Caught on Video

  published Dec 07, 2011

  Nineteen-year-old protester Anthony Loscano might be the unluckiest occupier in L.A. Or maybe he's just the most aggressive. He's been arrested twice, at two different Occupy L.A. demonstrations. And ... More >>

• NFL Stadium Along L.A. River a Better Idea Than Farmers Field-Convention Center Proposalr

  published Dec 07, 2011

  LA Neighbors United, the group founded by City Controller hopeful Cary Brazeman, suggests in a letter to top city officials this week that alternatives to the downtown NFL stadium proposal have not at... More >>

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  Marijuana, When Paired With Other Powerful, Quasi-Legal Drugs, Really Works on Pain, California Study Says

  published Dec 07, 2011

  We never would have guessed this, what with all the self-medicating going in the world, but two powerful, often illicit drugs, when taken together, really work on that pain, a study claims. Seems tha... More >>

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  Harry Potter Theme Park Coming to Universal Studios Hollywood

  published Dec 06, 2011

  Updated at the bottom with a quote from J.K. herself. First posted at 11:44 a.m. Merry Christmas, nerds. Looks like Harry Potter the theme park is coming to town even though we know you've been way ... More >>

• Corporations Are Not People, L.A. City Council Unanimously Declares (Stephen Colbert Begs to Differ)

  published Dec 06, 2011

  The L.A. City Council today voted to support the idea that corporations do not share the rights of individual Americans under the U.S. Constitution. Occupy L.A. demonstrators were in the house when ... More >>