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  How Important Is Home Field Advantage in the Playoffs?

  L.A. Weekly is a great predictor of Dodgers doings. In fact, we're a veritable Nostradamus of forecasting National League West outcomes, our record standing at a perfect one-for-one. The baseball writing staff conferenced on August 23, stuck a fork...

  @ The Informer by Howard Cole on September 6, 2013 @ 7:30 am

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  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 every time we need to get to the Skirball Center. And so for this year's Be...

  on October 3, 2013

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  Gay Inmates in California Can Get Married

  With the demise of Proposition 8 -- the gay marriage ban -- gay inmates in California can get married to their same-sex partners, the Associated Press has reported. In an August 30 memo, state prison officials stated that due to the recent U.S. Supr...

  @ The Informer by Patrick Range McDonald on September 5, 2013 @ 2:24 pm

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  President Obama Cancels Trip To L.A. Due To Syria Crisis

  Too bad, because that would have given us an opportunity to warn of another OBAMAJAM!!! The Hollywood Reporter was the first to break the news, which must have come as a great disappointment to folks who paid $32,400 to have an "off the cuff" dis...

  @ The Informer by Gene Maddaus on September 5, 2013 @ 1:07 pm

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  Janice Hahn's Opposition To Syria Strike Puts Her in the Spotlight

  Anybody who covered Janice Hahn when she was on the L.A. City Council knows that she always had a knack for getting herself quoted. So it's not too surprising that Hahn, who is now in Congress, has been all over the news talking about Syria in the...

  @ The Informer by Gene Maddaus on September 5, 2013 @ 12:11 pm

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  Weed Runners: Outlaw Capitalists of America's Medical Marijuana Trade

  This, after a yearlong crackdown on California's medical weed industry in which countless dispensaries closed and landlords such as Anaheim's Tony Jalali were threatened with seizure of their buildings. In Jalali's case it was over a frivolous $37 po...

  @ The Informer by LA Weekly on September 5, 2013 @ 9:45 am

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  Rod Daily: Second Porn Star Comes Up HIV Positive

  This week the porn industry got the worst possible news when a performer who goes by the name Rod Daily tweeted that he has tested positive for HIV. His would be the second positive for the virus in the adult business since August, when Cameron Bay,...

  @ The Informer by Dennis Romero on September 5, 2013 @ 9:05 am

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  Drug Users To Avoid Prison Under Mark Leno's Calif. Law

  Smoke a joint, go to jail? Not too much anymore. Not in California. In 2010, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a law making possession of less than an ounce of weed a ticket-worthy infraction. Now State Sen. Mark Leno's bill, which would allow...

  @ The Informer by Dennis Romero on September 5, 2013 @ 8:04 am

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  NFL Team "Not A Priority," Adviser To L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti Says

  Rick Jacobs, Mayor Eric Garcetti's deputy chief of staff, is on vacation in Croatia. But that doesn't mean he's not interested in making a little news. In an interview with Dalmatia News, Jacobs got on the topic of L.A.'s never-ending quest for an...

  @ The Informer by Gene Maddaus on September 4, 2013 @ 3:56 pm

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  Koufax on Mister Ed, Big D with Greg Brady, and Hollywood's Love Affair with the Dodgers

  Barry Williams and Don Drysdale With a Sandy Koufax episode of Mister Ed making the rounds today, this seemed like a good time to celebrate the Dodgers for their doings on the sound stages of Hollywood rather than just their triumphs on the diamo...

  @ The Informer by Howard Cole on September 4, 2013 @ 3:40 pm

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  Don't Go There: Santa Monica Pier Area Still Sucks for Swimming

  Santa Monica Pier: Don't Swim There, Kids! Remember when you first arrived in L.A. and people were always saying that you should not swim next to the Santa Monica Pier? They told you that despite the beautiful waves and well-manicured beach, the...

  @ The Informer by Patrick Range McDonald on September 4, 2013 @ 1:25 pm

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  UCLA Prof's New Football Helmet Liner Reduces Brain-Addling Concussions

  Professor Vijay Gupta, UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Sports enthusiast and UCLA biomechanical engineer, Professor Vijay Gupta is getting calls from football helmet makers over a hot new helmet liner after tests show...

  @ The Informer by Jill Stewart on September 4, 2013 @ 12:08 pm

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  L.A.-Area Rents Skyrocketed 10 Percent This Year, Study Finds

  The graphic above shows average rents in select L.A. neighborhoods in August 2013. It's not just your imagination: The rent really is too damn high. In the last year, in fact, rental prices in the Los Angeles area increased a shocking 10 percent. ...

  @ The Informer by Sarah Fenske on September 4, 2013 @ 7:00 am

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  Silver Lake Neighborhood Council Tackles Thorny Issue of Gang Injunction

  Forbes and Money magazine may think it's the best neighborhood in the United States, but a part of Silver Lake is facing a possible gang injunction, which would also cover Echo Park. Community activists are now figuring out if they should support it ...

  @ The Informer by Patrick Range McDonald on September 4, 2013 @ 7:00 am

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  Joe Ciaglia, Skate Park Builder, To Pay $65,000 To Resolve Allegation Of Tampering With L.A. Bid Process

  Joe Ciaglia, a big player in the small world of skate park construction, has agreed to pay $65,000 to resolve allegations that he attempted to rig the bidding on an L.A. skate park project in October 2010. Ciaglia is CEO of California Skateparks,...

  @ The Informer by Gene Maddaus on September 4, 2013 @ 6:30 am

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  Social Media Can Make Teens Drink, Smoke More?

  The worst influence in a teen's life might not be the pothead kid down the street. A new study from USC says the bad influence might be social media itself. Teens who see photos of friends smoking and drinking on Facebook and other social media site...

  @ The Informer by Dennis Romero on September 3, 2013 @ 11:05 am

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  Teen Sex Slaves Rescued by L.A. Cops

  Over the weekend, as you were enjoying hot dogs, carne asada and beer, two underage girls were preparing to head home after the nightmare of having been forced into prostitution and held against their will in the L.A. area. The L.A. County Sheriff's...

  @ The Informer by Dennis Romero on September 3, 2013 @ 10:05 am

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  Kim Nguyen: Suspect Who Fell Out of LAPD Cruiser Sues (VIDEO)

  A woman who fell out of the back of an LAPD patrol car announced over the weekend that she was suing the department for alleged negligence. Kim Nguyen, 28, had been eating, drinking and partying in Koreatown when she was arrested for allegedly bein...

  @ The Informer by Dennis Romero on September 3, 2013 @ 9:09 am

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  Hollywood Mayhem on Labor Day: Shootings, Stabbings, Murder

  The last holiday weekend of summer went out with a bang as three people were stabbed, one fatally, and three men were shot early Monday. The mayhem started about 1:15 a.m. when three victims were shot outside a club at Ivar Avenue and Yucca Street, ...

  @ The Informer by Dennis Romero on September 3, 2013 @ 8:04 am

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  Rape Crisis at Occidental College Spurs Sharp Critique -- in Poetry

  Bosch is also a writer (his work has appeared in The New Republic, Poetry, and the Daily Beast. So how better to channel his outrage than into poetry? He originally submitted this poem in response to the L.A. Times op-ed page's unusual call for poem...

  @ The Informer by Sarah Fenske on September 3, 2013 @ 7:00 am