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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2013 Stories by Dennis Romero

• Breaking: White People Tend to Live Closer to The Beach

  published May 15, 2013

  No big surprise here. As we bid adieu to our May heat wave, new research has "discovered" that minorities tend to live in hotter communities throughout the nation. Why is this no big surprise to usrI... More >>

• Cross-Dresser Secretly Videotaped Women In SoCal Macy's Restroom, Cops Say

  published May 15, 2013

  In the annals of bizarre and desperate attempts to videotape women in the most private of moments, this one is a winner. A man dressed as a woman went into a Macy's restroom with a camera concealed i... More >>

• 5 Hottest Rental Neighborhoods in Los Angeles

  published May 15, 2013

  Competition for apartments and rental homes in this town is fierce. At least according to the online rental marketplace Lovely, which crunched the numbers for L.A. recently. It found that a mix of up... More >>

• Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine Donate $70 Million To USC For Arts Academy

  published May 15, 2013

  See also: Dr. Dre speaks to LA Weekly about the contribution. Must be nice to have so much cash that you can pair up with a buddy and donate $70 million to a private, rich kids' school like USC. Of ... More >>

• Armando Gonzalez: The Skate Shopkeeper

  published May 15, 2013

  One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. In Latino neighborhoods in the early 1980s, skateboarders were rare. The one... More >>

• Tyrese Gibson: One-Man Band

  published May 15, 2013

  One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. Tyrese Gibson is checking out new office space for his expanding record labe... More >>

• Drunk Guy Gets Stuck In Sylmar Chimney, Calls 911

  published May 14, 2013

  Drunk and stuck in a chimney is not where you want be when the LAPD comes rolling around. But that was the story for 27-year-old Cuauhtli Castillo Lujano overnight, who told cops he was jumping from ... More >>

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  Eric Garcetti Woos Hipster Vote With Steve Aoki Fundraiser

  published May 14, 2013

  When a 15-year-old girl died from a drug overdose after she attended Electric Daisy Carnival at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 2010, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was quick to question whether raves sh... More >>

• Sex Offenders, Narcotics Convicts Working As California Drug Counselorsr

  published May 14, 2013

  A look at California's substance abuse counselors found that at least 23 of them were convicted sex offenders, with many having rape or child molestation on their records. That's according to a Calif... More >>

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  Watch L.A. Grow With This Time-Lapse Map

  published May 14, 2013

  In 1984 Los Angeles hosted the Olympics, Ronald Reagan was president and crack and AIDS were just starting to do damage. So much has changed since then, from the gentrification of Echo Park and downt... More >>

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  Bike Week L.A. Is Here; Free Bus, Metro Train Rides Thursday

  published May 14, 2013

  It's officially Bike Week L.A., so try not to mow down bicyclists as usual, Angeleno drivers. What is Bike Week L.A., you askr Mostly it's just a way to encourage you to step away from the gas guzzle... More >>

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  It's Official: America Hates Hipsters, Poll Says

  published May 14, 2013

  See also: The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: The Complete List. And you thought you were tired of those Echo Park kids in candy-colored sunglassesr It turns out that the rest of America is sick of hipsters... More >>

• Rendition of Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' Diverts LAX Flight (VIDEO)

  published May 13, 2013

  If you sang Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" on a shrill, nonstop loop during a flight from LAX to New York we'd beg for an emergency landing and then dial up the nearest SWAT team. Fortuna... More >>

• Twitter Hate Map Finds Racism Hot Spot In SoCal

  published May 13, 2013

  The Twitter "geography of hate" map that's getting so much buzz has nary a splotch of color in Southern California, indicating we are indeed some mellow, peace-loving liberals. Yes, while the Southea... More >>

• Teacher's Aide Molested Teen In Full View of High School Camera, Cops Say

  published May 13, 2013

  A teacher's aide molested a teen girl at a local high school, and it was caught on tape. So says the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, which today announced the arrest over the weekend of Juan Carlos... More >>

• Doctor Ran One-Stop Shop For Hydrocodone, Marijuana Prescriptions, Feds Allege

  published May 13, 2013

  A West Hollywood doctor served as a one-stop shop for both hydrocodone (a.k.a. OxyContin) prescriptions and medical marijuana recommendations. So say federal prosecutors who today announced that Jame... More >>

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  Cocaine Vaccine Could Block High, Save Hollywood

  published May 13, 2013

  Good news for Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen, and celebrity clubbers everywhere. Maybe. Researchers are getting closer to inventing an anti-cocaine vaccine that works on humans. The academics announced... More >>

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  Silver Lake Reservoir Robbers Target Joggers

  published May 13, 2013

  Cops are on the lookout for two or three robbers who have targeted joggers around the Silver Lake Reservoir in recent weeks. So far the LAPD has only recorded two such crimes, including one last week... More >>

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  On Mother's Day, Cops Say Father Killed 6-Month-Old Whittier Girl

  published May 13, 2013

  On Mother's Day L.A. sheriff's officials announced that a 21-year-old Whittier father was arrested on suspicion of murdering his 6-month-old baby girl. The suspect, Eduardo Orozco, was arrested over ... More >>

• Triple Murder In Harbor Gateway

  published May 13, 2013

  Updated at the bottom: An arrest has been made. First posted at 3:17 p.m. Friday. Three men were killed and another was wounded in an early morning shooting in Harbor Gateway. Officers responding to... More >>

• Marijuana: L.A. Police Union Says No Dispensary Is The Best Dispensary

  published May 10, 2013

  See also: L.A. Voter Guide to Medical Marijuana Measures D, E and F on May 21 Ballot. The fight over the future of L.A.'s marijuana dispensaries has made for some strange bedfellows. After trying to ... More >>

• Geisha Video That Disrespects Asian Americans Made With L.A. Tax Money

  published May 10, 2013

  Of all thing things the city does with your tax dollars -- writing unnecessary tickets, letting workers drink and go to strip clubs, sending the mayor to Washington every other week -- this has to be ... More >>

• Jogger Dies After She's Attacked by 4 Pit Bulls East of Palmdale

  published May 10, 2013

  Updated at the bottom: The victim has been identified. A marijuana grow was found in the search for the dogs. First posted at 1:45 p.m. A woman attacked by four pit bulls in the High Desert community... More >>

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  Farrah Abraham Rejected By Sugar-Daddy Dating Site

  published May 10, 2013

  That slippery slope from C-list celebrity to straight-up XXX video vixenr We have identified how it appears to work, at least for one reality TV personality turned porn star. The sugar-daddy website ... More >>

• 2 Teens Charged In Murder Case That Led To Upscale Rancho Palos Verdes

  published May 10, 2013

  Two teenagers have been charged with the murder of 42-year-old Long Beach man Christopher Waters, whose body was found April 23 in a burned out SUV in Rancho Palos Verdes. The second of the two suspe... More >>