Email Author Simone Wilson

Awards

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

  "Culture of Cruelty"

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2012 Stories by Simone Wilson

• 'Bachelor' Producers Who Met on Set Are Getting Married (and Chris Harrison's Officiating)

  published Apr 26, 2012

  This is too perfect. According to Glamour Magazine's wedding blog, two producers who met and courted each other while filming ABC's hit romance series The Bachelor (and The Bachelorette) are getting ... More >>

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  Trayvon Martin's Parents Are in L.A. for Justice Rally -- Along With Al Sharpton, Stevie Wonder

  published Apr 26, 2012

  When black Florida teen Trayvon Martin was shot dead by apparently crazed neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman earlier this year, his parents -- Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton -- took on the sudden... More >>

• 20 Most Embarrassing Things Found in the Los Angeles River by Cleanup Volunteers

  published Apr 26, 2012

  The Los Angeles "River" is sort of a joke in this town: It looks more like a long ugly concrete gutter than anything an egret or magical swamp fairy would call home. Maybe that explains why we treat ... More >>

• Studio City 9th-Grader Gets Science Project Stuck in Palm Tree -- One Week Before State Fair

  published Apr 25, 2012

  Christian Stewart, a freshman at Harvard-Westlake Upper School in Studio City, came up with the best science project ever this year. It's called "Low-Cost Autonomous Civilian Unmanned Aerial Systems,... More >>

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  Westsider Problems: Our Favorite GIFs From the Painfully Accurate 'When in L.A.' Tumblr

  published Apr 25, 2012

  Westsider problems make regular old white-person problems look like a trip down the L.A. River without a paddle. In fact, the daily sighs of a Santa Monica twentysomething living with her girlfriends... More >>

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  Awkward: L.A. Man Detained for Humping Sears Mannequin From Behind

  published Apr 25, 2012

  A middle-aged man lurking in the Burbank Sears yesterday morning took things a little too far with a mannequin in the women's section, according to the Burbank Police Department. Sergeant Darin Rybur... More >>

• Fred Karger, Gay Republican for President, Sees 'Sexy Frisbee' Campaign Vid Pulled From YouTube

  published Apr 25, 2012

  Vimeo not only beats YouTube in film-school cred and picture quality -- it also wins for tolerance! Fred Karger, our favorite gay Republican for president (OK, our only gay Republican for president, ... More >>

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  Randy Kagan, Stand-Up Comic, Reportedly Assaulted at 'Hollywood Improv' for Making Fun of Girl in Front Row

  published Apr 24, 2012

  Updated after the jump: A witness confirms the girl-in-the-front-row story. Meanwhile, Kagan, who sounds like he's having the worst week ever, gets really, really mad at us. He also calls his attacker... More >>

• Kim Kardashian, Adorable Armenian Children Call for Recognition of Armenian Genocide

  published Apr 24, 2012

  The myriad Armenians of Los Angeles County took to the streets today -- and to the Internet, brave new frontier for social justice! -- to call for global recognition of the "forgotten holocaust" of 19... More >>

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  The 'Teardrop Rapist' of South Los Angeles May Have Raped 28 Girls Since 1999

  published Apr 24, 2012

  Updated at the bottom: The Teardrop Rapist is back, and he's raping Angelenos. Originally posted at 9 a.m. This guy is almost like L.A.'s notorious Grim Sleeper, without the murder streak: A 40-som... More >>

• Why Did the Department of Fish and Game Kill an 80-Pound Mountain Lion in Sunlandr

  published Apr 24, 2012

  An officer-involved shooting in Sunland last Friday afternoon -- between a warden and a young male mountain lion -- has L.A. animal advocates calling for justice. According to Department of Fish and ... More >>

• Governor Jerry Brown Can't Seem to Get the Hang of the 'Brown Act'

  published Apr 24, 2012

  Without the pressure of another campaign in his future (or at least we hope not), Jerry Brown was looking like a real hero in his first few months as governor. It was the Schwarzenegger cleanse -- eco... More >>

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  Betsy Butler, Assembly Candidate for L.A.'s Westside, Spams 8,000 Residents With Weirdest Campaign Paraphernalia Ever

  published Apr 20, 2012

  Betsy Butler's bright idea to attach her campaign flyers to plastic baby bottles must have seemed cute in theory. The current assemblywoman for much of L.A. County's South Bay area is shooting for fi... More >>

• California Democrats Kill Plan to Post Elected Officials' Spending Reports Online

  published Apr 20, 2012

  A plan to post each California state lawmaker's spending habits online -- proposed by Republican Assemblywoman Kristin Olsen, and supported by her fellow Republicans in Legislature -- just died at the... More >>

• Ignoring Marijuana's Biggest Day, L.A. City Council to Declare 4/20 'Dia de Siqueiros'

  published Apr 20, 2012

  Could the L.A. City Council be any more out-of-touch with its half-lidded constituents this fine 4/20r In a move reminiscent of Invisible Children declaring April 20, 2012 "Kony Day" (the looney Evan... More >>

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  L.A. Sheriff's Gang 'Jump Out Boys' Reportedly Prides Itself on Officer-Involved Shootings

  published Apr 20, 2012

  What happens when the very badges chosen to dismantle and disempower the gangs of Los Angeles County form a gang of their ownr It's no secret that the L.A. County Sheriff's Department -- whose reputa... More >>

• Anastasia Atwil Charged With Wine-Glass Assault at Santa Monica Sushi Restaurant -- Over a Blonde Joke

  published Apr 19, 2012

  Keep it classy, Santa Monica! Patch is reporting that Anastasia Atwil, a 40-year-old blonde charged with assaulting a stranger last December at Miyako Restaurant, has plead "no contest" (aka, guilty ... More >>

• Yasha Levine, Occupy L.A. Protester, Says He Got Scabies at LAPD's Downtown Jail

  published Apr 19, 2012

  Well, this is awkward. The same citizen journalist who started a firestorm against the LAPD last winter (for allegedly using brutality against Occupy L.A. protesters while forcing them out of their C... More >>

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  'Caine's Arcade' Star Visits NASA Scientist Who Built Cardboard Rockets When He Was a Kid

  published Apr 19, 2012

  And here we thought the story of Caine Monroy, the 9-year-old who built a full-scale cardboard arcade in his dad's Los Angeles auto shop, couldn't get any more adorable. How wrong we were! "Caine's A... More >>

• Reseda Crash: Old Woman in Station Wagon Plows Into Dentist's Office, Injures Six

  published Apr 19, 2012

  An 82-year-old woman driving an old, beat-up station wagon crashed into the front of a Reseda dentist's office today, sending three bystanders to the hospital in critical condition and injuring three ... More >>

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  L.A. Bus Rider Passes Out, Vomits on Herself -- and No One Calls 911 for Over an Hour

  published Apr 19, 2012

  Have bus riders in Los Angeles become so jaded and antisocial that no one thinks to help a passed-out woman with vomit running down her chin for almost an hour-and-a-halfr The Eastsider L.A. reported... More >>

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  Alejandro Gamiz, North Hollywood Sears Employee, Admits to Videotaping Women in Dressing Rooms -- for 3 Years

  published Apr 19, 2012

  Have you tried anything on in the women's dressing room (or gone to the bathroom) at the janky old Sears in North Hollywood, anytime in the last three yearsr If so, bad news: You might have been on c... More >>

• Only in Hollywood: Smash-and-Grab Robber Cruises Around in Rented Benz Convertible, Other Luxury Cars

  published Apr 18, 2012

  Ah, the good life of a smash-and-grab robber in Hollywood! LAPD detectives say they caught convicted thief Sean Ray, who lives a short trip down the 101, cruising up on various cars in the Hollywood ... More >>

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  Hiram Medina, 'Tattoo Artist' From Van Nuys, Dies in Fiery Crash With 405 Center Divide

  published Apr 18, 2012

  An SUV reportedly exploded yesterday night after smashing into a center divider (as well as the post holding up an overpass) on the 405 freeway. The driver has since been identified as 27-year-old Hi... More >>

• Measure R: Mayor Villaraigosa Asks Taxpayers to Keeping Funding His Subway Dreams

  published Apr 18, 2012

  Were you one of thousands of Angelenos drooling over the fantasy L.A. subway map we rediscovered last weekr If so, here's your chance to make it a reality. (Sort of.) At his "State of the City" addre... More >>