A Considerable Town

Writing the Trains: Graffiti on Freight Cars

November 5, 2009

Urban Farms: Where "Vegetable" Is a Murky Term

November 5, 2009

Too Much Love: Alex Sanchez's Bail Hearing

October 29, 2009

Lakers From Row 6: Homie, You're In My Seat

October 29, 2009

That '70s Vibe: A Night With Linda Perhacs

October 22, 2009

Michael Connelly: The Kid Who Couldn't Write

October 15, 2009

Tough Crowd: On Base with Comic Jeffrey Ross

October 15, 2009

Porn Versus Preacher

October 15, 2009

Only the nose hair was real

Signs of the Times at UCLA

October 8, 2009

Students, faculty stage walkouts to protest budget cuts

Summer of Tough Love: Iraqi Double Agent Remains in Limbo

September 24, 2009

In the Boardroom With Mahalo's Jason Calacanis

September 24, 2009

L.A.'s brash tech superstar

The Game Within (Or, Beer Pong, a Pissing Good Time)

September 17, 2009

9/11: Truth and Reconciliation in Tehachapi

September 10, 2009

Cat Fanciers Unite in Santa Monica

September 3, 2009

Nicole Kidman, lanky and ascetic as a hairless sphynx, slinks by with child

The Last Supper: Mansonites Converge at El Coyote

August 13, 2009

Something About Lily

August 13, 2009

HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITY AUCTIONS

July 9, 2009

Let the bidding begin

Michael Jackson: 1958-2009

July 2, 2009

The Last Michael Jackson Party?

July 2, 2009

Fabulously, Fucking Weird: Michael Jackson as Video Game Zombie

July 2, 2009

High Tea at the Langham

June 25, 2009

Recession Fallout: Man Goes Home to Mom

June 18, 2009

Or, Dancing With Larry

Among the VuQopolitans: Turning Filipino Moonshine Into Premium Vodka

June 4, 2009

At the launch party, they were dancing in the movie-set street

Full Court Press: 99 Candles — Phil Spector Sentenced to Life ... Clarkson Family Speaks

June 4, 2009

Spector faces civil suit next

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

June 4, 2009

The bar-regulars story

Glass Half Full: A Day and Night of Beauty in L.A.

May 28, 2009

Beer and sausages, cat fights and cigarettes, and a seat in a hair salon

Another L.A. Love Story — the Setting, Angeli Caffe

May 28, 2009

The waiting game

How I Met Neil Patrick Harris ... and Got Inside His House to Check Out the Art on His Walls and the Cleanser in His Shower

May 21, 2009

The MOCA fundraiser reveals not only an excellent art collection, but a bedside copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — does NPH love Dumbledore too?

Sebastião Salgado's Photo Homage to the Planet

May 21, 2009

An audience of more than a thousand, Salgado's tribe, turned up at the Hammer to hear the Brazilian photojournalist and view some of his most famous images of Earth

Dogma: Is the Power of Now About Chasing Garbage Trucks and Peeing on Bushes?

May 21, 2009

The wisdom of Willa

Van Morrison Goes Astral on The Tonight Show

May 14, 2009

Air Yeezy, Ground Hard: First in Line for Kanye West x Nike Sneaks Offered $950 for His Air Yeezys

May 7, 2009

Hardcore sneaker fans have camped out since Monday

Expanded Web Exclusive: Get Herbie -- Cops Refuse to Rescind Claims Against Rapper Herbert Gonzalez

May 7, 2009

“I couldn’t believe it when they wouldn’t give me a lie-detector test. That’s when I first knew for sure that these two detectives were trying to frame me”

George Torres, Numero Uno No More: Even After His Racketeering Conviction, Questions Remain About Which L.A. Political and Business Figures Were Influenced by His Money

April 30, 2009

Troubling allegations unsealed in investigative files of case against the grocery-chain magnate, who was a symbol of either the ethnic striver or the ingenious gangster -- or both

Michael Jackson’s Julien’s Auction Canceled

April 16, 2009

Wall of Years: The Spector Verdict

April 16, 2009

And then he was gone, like Don Giovanni pulled into the underworld by the commendatore's ghost

Star-crossed at Starbucks: Strange Twist at Anand Jon Sentencing

April 9, 2009

Girl Scouts Follow the Dough at Auntie Anne's Pretzels

April 9, 2009

Down and Out in L.A.: Novelist Patrick deWitt Comes Home

April 9, 2009

His newest, alcohol-fueled book, Ablutions: Notes for a Novel, is set among the city's marginalized

Accidental Suicide? New Involuntary-Manslaughter Option in Phil Spector Murder Retrial

April 2, 2009

The final arguments: Shifting sand dunes, or rock-solid mountains?

They Still Heart Huckabee

March 26, 2009

On the President's List: Obama Does Southern California

March 26, 2009

The Anna Nicole Smith Indictments and Jerry Brown's Contact High With the Political Power Grid

March 19, 2009

With a probable run for governor in sight for the A.G., a high-profile celebrity drug case couldn't hurt

Hammer Time: Pellicano's End, Judge's Verdicts, Juror's Accusal

March 12, 2009

Misconduct in the jury room? No fuzzy sentences for Pellicano associates

Snoop Dogg After Dark: Interview Lite

March 12, 2009

Full Court Press: Dominick Dunne's Cameo at Phil Spector Retrial; Anand Jon's Explosive Evidence of Juror Shenanigans

March 5, 2009

South L.A. Serial Killer: If a Body Falls in an Alley ...

March 5, 2009

Coming Home on Oscar Night: Twilight’s Empty Streets on L.A.'s Indoor Mardi Gras

February 26, 2009

I'd like to thank ...

H8ters L.A. Vacation: Fred Phelps’ Antigay Baptists Come Out on Oscar Night

February 26, 2009

Looking for Jesus at Home Depot: Or, How a Day Laborer Named Tino Ended Up in a Miller Duvall Music Video

February 19, 2009

The gold teeth didn't hurt

Whither the Econocalypse? Scenes From L.A. Tech Month

February 19, 2009

On the precipice of a tech revolution

Outlaw Art at Bergamot Station

February 12, 2009

Silver Lake Anxiety Attack: The Rowena Avenue Crime Wave

February 12, 2009

The latest sign of bad economic times?

Corduroy Knickers for Men Only — Encore!

February 12, 2009

Soup Lines and 35-Cent Martinis: At the Edison Downtown, Where the Depression Is Still a Happy Hour

February 12, 2009

Hot tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches with bargain cocktails

My Date With Anonymous: A Rare Interview With the Elusive Internet Troublemakers

February 5, 2009

The new new romantics

In the Doghouse: A Leash-Law Miscreant's Day in Court

January 29, 2009

Park rangers at Griffith Park show no mercy

Death Row's G-Funk Fire Sale

January 29, 2009

The Day the Music Died: The End of Indie 103.1

January 22, 2009

Henry Rollins, music director Mark "Mr. Shovel" Sovel and DJ Darren Revell talk about the shutdown

Inauguration Day: The View From Obama's So Cal Alma Mater

January 22, 2009

The swearing in at Occidental College, plus, trying to get the Spider-man comic book featuring our new superhero president

Fanning the Fame: Rapper Fannius Makes the Journey From Disney to the Viper Room

January 15, 2009

Unhappy as clean-cut rap star, Fan 3 finds new indie voice on being dropped by studio and record label for smoking pot

Obama's Inauguration Through the Post-Race Eyes of Clarence Thomas

January 15, 2009

A black man's blues

Dressing Down With the 99 Cent Calendar Girls

January 15, 2009

Also, stores that are "so last year," and wearable pop art

In-Flight Husband

January 15, 2009

Marriage takes off on a plane — then crash-lands

At the Body Art Expo: Ink-Stained Wretches and Tattooed Babes With Prickly Piercings

January 8, 2009

The pain and the beauty, from tattoo coverups to dermal anchors and subdermal corsets

2008: A News Quiz

January 8, 2009

The Reader: Book Soup’s Glenn Goldman, 58, R.I.P.

January 8, 2009