Email Author Simone Wilson

Awards

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 16, 2010

  "Culture of Cruelty"

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2010 Stories by Simone Wilson

• 10,000 Turkeys -- Including Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa -- Up For Grabs In South Los Angeles

  published Nov 23, 2010

  If you hightail it down to the the 3600 block of West Slauson Avenue right now, you might be able to nab one of the 10,000 turkeys that Jackson Limousine Service has secured for its annual Thanks-give... More >>

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  Two-Year-Old Falls 50 Feet To Death In Staples Center After L.A. Lakers Victory

  published Nov 23, 2010

  Updated after the jump: Should a two-year-old really be allowed 30 feet in the air, with only 10 inches of concrete and a 16-inch piece of glass to protect himr Update, Nov. 22, 12:15 p.m.: what Tang... More >>

• Top 10 Ways To Not Electrocute Yourself With Twinkly Lights This Year, By SCE Electric

  published Nov 22, 2010

  Your lifetime subscription to SoCal power supplier SCE requires you care about its grandmotherly new list of "Holiday Lighting Safety Tips," or how to avoid all danger and joyfulness while lighting yo... More >>

• The Great L.A. Sprinkle Of Fall 2010: 275 Sunday Drivers Panic, Crash Into Wall

  published Nov 22, 2010

  There are places on this Earth where a little weather 'round the holidays is considered a comfort. Where good citizens of the roadway maneuver their vehicles up snowy switchbacks while whistling a jol... More >>

• Los Angeles Takes A Wimpy 162nd Place In National Violent-Crime Rankings

  published Nov 22, 2010

  We like to think it's pretty rough out here on the streets of Los Angeles. It seems like every hour we hear about another murder or robbery at gunpoint. So why, in this year's annual CQ Press crime r... More >>

• Unidentified Female, L.A. Homicide No. 223: 21-Year-Old Woman Shot Dead In South L.A.

  published Nov 21, 2010

  An unidentified Black woman was fatally shot in the abdomen at 3:40 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 14. The shooting took place at Central Avenue and 51st Street in South L.A. The woman was transported to the U... More >>

• Brandon Shorts, L.A. Homicide No. 222: 24-Year-Old Man Shot While Waiting in Traffic Near South Central

  published Nov 20, 2010

  Update: Shorts was declared dead at the California Hospital Medical Center just before 6 a.m. on Christmas Day. The L.A. County coroner's office told the Los Angeles Times that "Shorts died from injur... More >>

• Valley Girl Rachel Lee, Accused Of Robbing Lindsay Lohan's Hollywood Home In 'Bling Ring' Spree, Gets Off As Easy As LiLo Herself

  published Nov 19, 2010

  The young Calabassas hoodlums known as the Bling Ring -- who glamorously raided the homes of equally young, unequally loaded celebrities for whatever their hearts desired in 2008 and 2009 -- just saw ... More >>

• Break-In Burglar Takes $2,000 In Coins From Manhattan Beach Wells Fargo

  published Nov 19, 2010

  It's the season for artistic public thieving in L.A. County. First, on Oct. 27, there was the guy with the Obama mask who stuck up an El Pollo Loco branch in Duarte with a toy knife. A week or so lat... More >>

• California Voters Support Big Government Spending -- Just Not When They Have To Pay For It

  published Nov 19, 2010

  Californians want to have their cake, eat it too, but sure as hell not pay for it after the 2010 state election, a new USC poll shows. "Twenty-million-dollar deficit BAD, health care and education GO... More >>

• Asian, Latino Voters Are Less Liberal -- But Not When It Comes To Republican Whores

  published Nov 19, 2010

  Not shockingly, the Republican candidates of California are in a state of confusion after the ransacking they received on Election Day 2010. They can't understand why, when Latinos and Asian-American... More >>

• California Citizens Redistricting Commission: The Eight Lucky Winners, Feat. Two From L.A.!

  published Nov 18, 2010

  Here they are -- the eight delightfully commonplace members of the new California Citizens Redistricting Commission, tasked with what used to be the dirty-incumbent job of drawing up election boundari... More >>

• Jimmy Kimmel's 'National Unfriend Day' Is Almost Over -- But You've Still Got Time!

  published Nov 17, 2010

  If you don't watch "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", and you wouldn't be the only one, you probably had no clue that today was the unofficial (or official, if you ask him) house-cleaning day for Facebook hoarders... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Four Loko Can Stay -- If Purged Of Everything That Makes It Delicious

  published Nov 17, 2010

  It seems just yesterday we were making fun of New York City for its lonely state of Four Loko-less-ness, while we sat around playing Edward Lokohands like we were untouchable. Oh, right -- that was y... More >>

• Bill Nye Passes Out During Climate-Change Lecture At USC; Students Keep Tweeting

  published Nov 17, 2010

  Update from Nye's publicist: "Bill Nye is feeling much better after a good night's rest. He says he pushed himself too hard after a long day of an early satellite media tour combined with a late night... More >>

• Disneyland's New 'Fairy Tale Suite' Might Still Be Available For New Year's Eve -- If You've Got $500 On It

  published Nov 17, 2010

  Yeah, yeah -- Vegas is pretty tops for NYE, but keep an open mind. The Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim has unveiled a fourth *magical* suite in its new series: the 750-square-foot Fairy Tale Suite. And l... More >>

• DWP Oversight Office Watered Down, Barely Moved Toward Ballot After L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti And Seven Other Councilmembers Crumble To DWP Intimidation

  published Nov 17, 2010

  Yes, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is as bad as you've heard. 1) Its overpaid suits proposed unwarranted 28-percent rate hikes on residents last spring while guarding a $73.5 million ... More >>

• Hermosa Beach Bank Robber Channels Woody Allen, Hands Teller Note Reading 'I Have A Gun; Give Me The Money'

  published Nov 16, 2010

  We know the texting generation is more comfortable using their letters -- and now, with new e-mail capabilities, Facebook can finally erase any lingering need for verbal communication -- but we had ho... More >>

• 84-Year-Old L.A. Woman Fatally Shoved Onto Metro Gold Line Tracks

  published Nov 16, 2010

  Update: 44-year-old Jackkqueline Pogue has been charged with murder. Details after the jump. Originally posted at 6:30 a.m. And here we thought subway rage was only alive in New York Shitty. Turns o... More >>

• L.A. Plumbers Bare More Than Crack In Scandalous Wall Calendar -- But Who's Drooling

  published Nov 16, 2010

  Self-proclaimed "family business" LR Services Plumbing -- an L.A. crew that prides itself on "giving back to the community" -- is apparently also interested in giving back to the city's healthy popula... More >>

• L.A. City Council Election 2011: Remaining Stragglers Turn In Candidacy Paperwork

  published Nov 16, 2010

  The last of the L.A. City Council candidates have filed for the March 2011 municipal election. There are a lot of familiar smiles back for another round of budget-fondling and fun-killing, as usual, b... More >>

• Daktronic's Futuristic 18-Foot Video Displays Will Convert L.A.'s Westfield Topanga Mall Into 'Digital Spectacular Network'

  published Nov 16, 2010

  No one ever claimed we built the Los Angeles mall-topia on rock 'n' roll (except maybe Hot Topic). But here to erase all remaining illusions of quaint grunge in our sprawling "city" is the self-procla... More >>

• Bill Clinton Replaces Mel Gibson As Celeb Cameo Of Choice In 'The Hangover 2'

  published Nov 16, 2010

  Zach Galifianakis threw a tantrum last month when "Hangover" director Todd Philips so much as considered giving the world's biggest arse a few minutes of screentime in the July 2011 sequel to the No. ... More >>

• L.A. City Council Squeezes Two Public-Accountability Positions For Unruly DWP Into Frantic Last Meeting Before Ballot Deadline; DWP's Brian D'Arcy Still Stands In The Way

  published Nov 16, 2010

  Updated after the jump with new details on today's debate. Of all the frenzied March ballot decisions going down at City Hall today, before the Wednesday deadline -- outlined in the Weekly's "Rushed a... More >>

• Four Loko Banned In New York City (What A Bunch Of Squares)

  published Nov 15, 2010

  One by one, all the weak states are banishing Four Lokos -- those scary-tall $2-odd cans disguised in camo; part energy drink, part alcohol -- from their every last convenience aisle. The latest to c... More >>