Michael Young Ignore the naysayers. Pay special attention to the cynics who actually think they know better (and always think they know better) than the professionals in the front offices of major league baseball clubs, most of whom have worked t...
A lawsuit against rave promoters at the L.A. Coliseum and Sports Arena was thrown out by a Superior Court judge, festival organizer Insomniac Events announced today. The civil suit by the government-controlled Coliseum against the promoters alleged ...
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (a.k.a. Cal-OSHA) is investigating a July 31 porn shoot in which the patient zero of porn's recent HIV scare, Cameron Bay, allegedly performed without condoms. See also: Porn Star Cameron Bay...
Summer's almost over, and we know you want to get your last kicks in. The LAPD, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department and nearly 100 other local police agencies know this. So while you're enjoying the holiday weekend, they'll be working overtime look...
It was a once-in-a-lifetime moment. And a motorcyclist who happened to be cruising on Mulholland Highway in the Santa Monica Mountains stopped in his tracks to snap this photo. Kate Kuykendall of the National Park Service told the Weekly that of hun...
The federal government will officially stand back when it comes to enforcing its anti-weed laws in states where marijuana is legal. So says a memo from Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole today. Some in the pro-pot world were cautiously optimistic...
East Central University baseball player Chris Lane was laid to rest in Cannberra, Australia yesterday, and today his childhood baseball coach wants to create a little good out of something so tragic. Already over 33,000 people have supported coach J...
A Boy Named Horst How to summarize the reaction to last week's cover story ("Becoming Riff Raff," by Ben Westhoff)? You laughed, you cried, you called us assholes. Some of you even had articulate responses. Writes Genesia Williams, "What makes me ...
Computer techie/consultant/aspiring actor Michael Brouillet, 32, moved to Los Angeles four years ago from San Antonio and didn't quite understand how this city rolls. In his first 18 months, parking enforcement officers welcomed him with $1,500 in p...
It's around 9:30 p.m. on a brisk Wednesday night in Silver Lake, and Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, an affable, native New Yorker who takes an inner satisfaction, if not outright glee, in redefining conventional wisdom, is looking to blow off a little ste...
You only wish traffic will be moving this fast tomorrow. This just in: Your commute tomorrow is going to blow. That's according to the good people at INRIX, who use complicated but oh-so-precise forecasting to explain what's happening on L.A.'s r...
Smoke pot? Don't lie! Look who you're talkin' to. L.A. Weekly. Yes, Cannabis Rules Everything Around Me. Anyway, if you do partake of the wacky tobacky, consider yourself in good company. Weed is the most popular illicit drug on the planet. So says...
The porn industry's so-called "moratorium" on production is over after nearly a week (Aug. 21-27), but it seems that not everyone honored the shutdown, a fact that has been observed on some adult-biz blogs. See also: Porn Production OK'd After HIV S...
But as online life continues to evolve, the medium is increasingly less important than the message. Smart, funny and creative, our 2013 Web Award winners would succeed in any platform, and whether they're posting photos on Instagram, uploading videos...
Ben Welsh of the L.A. Times The L.A. Weekly's 2013 Web Awards honor the best of what's online. Check out the complete list of winners. As an undergrad at DePaul University, Ben Welsh had a work-study job answering phones at the school's College ...
Because of our deep Mexican-American population and heritage, L.A. has pretty much become the mural capital of the United States. Pair that with the global street-art explosion centered right here in Los Angeles, and you have a significant cultural ...
The porn industry has been battling against mandatory condoms in adult production, saying that consumers don't want to see them and that its voluntary performer testing works. See also: Sydney Leathers Could Have Been Exposed to HIV in Porn Debut. ...
The woman who blocks two lanes of traffic because she almost missed her precious left turn. The man who blasts through a red light right about the time you've hit the gas to go on a green. The idiot who won't pull all the way to the right to make a r...
California likes its porn like it likes its smart people -- Asian. A recent analysis of search terms on the website Pornhub shows that California is fairly clean-cut compared to the adult desires of other states. In Cali we go for "Asian" followed b...
If we had a nickle for every poseur we've seen sporting a fake Panerai watch in Hollywood clubland, we'd have, like, a buck. At least. But seriously, L.A. is poseurtown, and perhaps there's no better proof than U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CB...
Best of L.A. 2013
It’s nearly impossible to cover a city this sprawling — 470 square miles of awesomeness, 6,499 miles of streets and 3.7 million residents, all of them seemingly on the 405… More >>
Silver Lake Millennials War With Boomers in America's "Most Livable" Community
It's around 9:30 p.m. on a brisk Wednesday night in Silver Lake, and Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, an affable, native New Yorker who takes an inner satisfaction, if not outright glee, in… More >>
Computer techie/consultant/aspiring actor Michael Brouillet, 32, moved to Los Angeles four years ago from San Antonio and didn't quite understand how this city rolls. In his first 18 months, parking… More >>
A Boy Named Horst How to summarize the reaction to last week's cover story ("Becoming Riff Raff," by Ben Westhoff)? You laughed, you cried, you called us assholes. Some of you… More >>
How the Hollywood Fault Made Millennium's Future Uncertain, and L.A. a Laughingstock
Note: An unedited version of this story was inadvertently published online on Sept. 18. This is the edited version. See factual correction at end. The Los Angeles City Council rushed through… More >>
NIMBYs and Hitler: Readers Respond
Paul Teetor's critique of Ben Urwand's new book taking on Hollywood's supposed pact with Hitler, The Collaboration, drew raves last week ("Hindsight in Hollywood," Sept. 13). Scottzwartz writes, "Urwand's book is… More >>
