Email Author Simone Wilson
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
