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Brian Banks, Jailed On False Rape Charge, Sees Dream Come True As Atlanta Falcons Sign Him

Brian Banks, the former Long Beach high school football prodigy falsely accused of raping a classmate, today got a second chance at his NFL dreams. After spending nearly a decade fighting the charge unsuccessfully, the 26-year-old was released from jail and hit the field last year in an attempt to ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: California-Grown Truffles, No Violence Required

Somewhere in a back alley outside of Paris, $30,000 worth of black European truffles is changing hands. Asking the seller about the truffles' origins could send them packing to another less inquisitive buyer, so the buyer ponies up quietly and hauls off the heavily perfumed, cloth-lined crate while ... More >>

Stephen Glass, Disgraced Journalist, Wants to be a Lawyer in L.A.

His journalistic misdeeds were the subject of the 2003 movie Shattered Glass. In the 1990s he pretty much faked us all out with made-up stories in publications including New Republic, Harper's, and Rolling Stone. Now Stephen Glass says he's a new man. He's been working for a Beverly Hills law fir ... More >>

Congress Insider Trading: L.A. County Senators, Representatives Respond (or Don't)

NorCal's Nancy Pelosi finds nothing shady about her convenient investment in Visa.​As we learned on "60 Minutes" last night, many of the politicians we've elected to U.S. Congress have clearly been using their backdoor V.I.P. passes to gather exclusive intel on when to buy and sell stocks, bon ... More >>

Marc Maron on KCRW: LA Weekly's Ultimate Guide to the Top 10 Comedy Podcasts

Doug SadlerHost Howard Kremer, guest Zach Galifianakis and co-host Kulap Vilaysack fart up, err chart up the room on the podcast Who Charted?​ As the Buggles once forecasted in their 1980s pop single: "Video Killed the Radio Star." Today, it's more accurate to say that the podcast resurrecte ... More >>

Lance Armstrong And Tyler Hamilton Face Off (Literally) Over Doping Allegations: FBI Investigates Weekend Confrontation

UFC​After pro cyclist Tyler Hamilton sung to the world about Lance Armstrong's alleged doping-while-competing regimen the two came face to face last weekend at an Aspen restaurant. And yeah, it was on. According to the New York Times, Hamiton's attorney says Amstrong, obviously the shot-call ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Doped? Former Teammate Tyler Hamilton Says He Saw It

Tyler Hamilton.​If Lance Armstrong was doping during his Tour de France-winning heyday, he sure hid it well. Maybe he was also injecting himself with ice water. Hope so because, if you ask us, the heat around him is turning way up. Besides a recent report that a federal grand jury in L.A. app ... More >>

LA Press Club Awards Finalists Announced: LA Weekly Receives Several Nods

Journalist of the Year nominee Patrick Range McDonald.​LA Weekly dominated the design category of the Los Angeles Press Club's 53rd SoCal Journalism Awards Finalists, announced today. Staff writer Patrick Range McDonald was named as a Journalist of the Year finalist and saw his piece on parent ... More >>

2011 James Beard Media Award Winners

​It's a case of local boy makes good -- make that two local boys -- at this year's James Beard Awards. Our own Jonathan Gold won the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award while Patrick Kuh of Los Angeles magazine won the Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award. In the first ever ... More >>

Lara Logan Reveals Rape Details, Moves On to Report Osama Bin Laden's Death in Same Night

CBS NewsLara Logan, back in action​"I don't want this to define me," CBS News correspondent Lara Logan told the New York Times on Thursday, previewing a solemn Sunday-night interview on "60 Minutes" in which she meticulously recounted her own February 11 gang rape in Egypt. A couple hours la ... More >>

Lara Logan Confirms She Was Brutally and Repeatedly Raped in Egypt: Why Did the Media Think She Wasn't?

CBS NewsThe photo of Logan that CBS originally included in its news flash, "moments before she was attacked on Feb. 11, 2011."​In the hours and days following CBS reporter Lara Logan's brutal and repeated rape in Egypt, the world understandably wanted details. But Logan only released a brief state ... More >>

Lara Logan Tells NYT She Was Raped by Object: By the Hands of Many Men in Tahrir Square

​Lara Logan has told the New York Times' Brian Stelter that she was repeatedly raped by the hands of many men in Tahrir Square in February. Logan will tell further details on 60 Minutes on Sunday night. For weeks, a controversy had simmered over what really happened to Logan after CBS stated ... More >>

Mayor Villaraigosa Ribbed by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, 'Glee' Producer

FoxMayor V. vs. 'Glee.'​Wow. You know you're in low-approval-rating territory when the mayor of New York gets more love than you even when it comes to art-and-culture in your own city. That was the rap for L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa this week. After a 60 Minutes profile of local billiona ... More >>

Frank Gehry Calls Eli Broad a 'Control Freak' on National Television

Gehry's Disney Hall.​The star of the 60 Minutes feature on L.A.'s own billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad was ... architect Frank Gehry. Seems like he's the only person in town who had the balls to say what others have uttered off-the-record: That Broad, while infinitely generous, is a pain ... More >>

Lara Logan, CBS Reporter and Warzone 'It Girl,' Raped Repeatedly Amid Egypt Celebration

Lara Logan, the "60 Minutes" firecracker who was raped at the moment of Egypt's overthrow​Updated after the jump: Commenters respond to bloggers respond to reporters respond to Tweeters respond to the inexcusable crime against Lara Logan. Breaking news: South African TV journalist Lara Logan ... More >>

California's 2010 Embrace of Green Tech

In killing Proposition 23, residents choose to pay more for energy, use less

California's Mystery Freefall, 63,000 Jobs Vanish: Antonio Villaraigosa Doesn't Get It, But The Healthy Great Plains Hold A Secret

Watch interactive job-loss blobs grow. See map link on jump page.​What is causing the free-fall in job losses in California, while the Great Plains, with the raw exception of a few spots, are past the recession? 63,000 jobs vanished in California in September, of 95,000 lost in the United Stat ... More >>

One Out Of Five In California Unemployed, According To '60 Minutes'

CBS'60 Minites' asks how many in this room full of jobless folks have degrees.​In a Debbie Downer of a story about California's jobless masses (yeah, we heard, the recession is over), CBS' 60 Minutes on Sunday dropped this bomb: Twenty-two percent -- more than one out of every five people -- ... More >>

LETTERS: MINKOW STINKOW

Barry Minkow 2.0

L.A.'s fraud king is back — and taking the media for another ride

Los Angeles Is One of the Worst Places To Live, According to Web Site For Geezers

​ Los Angeles is ranked the 6th worst place to live in the country, according to a study by AOL's Wallet Pop. The website compiled a list of the top 10 worst cities to live in the country and using factors such as unemployment rate, pollution, crime, health data and other factors that would ma ... More >>

Conan O'Brien To Give First Post-NBC Interview To '60 Minutes'

Meghan SinclairSuper CoCo.​In his first interview since leaving NBC, late-night talk-show host Conan O'Brien will appear on CBS News program 60 Minutes Sunday, Associated Press reports. O'Brien's exit deal with NBC -- he walked away from the network with more than $40 million for himself and ... More >>

Movie Reviews: La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet, Planet 51, The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Also, The Messenger, That Evening Sun, Defamation and more

Dudamel; Modine: Saving Classical — and the Alpacas?

What's in Your Kitchen Drawer? Useless Gadget or Valuable Cooking Tool

CBS.comAndy Rooney​At the end of a 60 Minutes show, Andy Rooney takes his time to complain about stuff. I guess you get to do that when you've been around as long as he has. Once, though, he did something rather fascinating: he emptied out his kitchen drawers and complained about all the usele ... More >>

Max Taves and LA Weekly beat NYT for DeBakey biomedical award

LA Weekly freelancer Max Taves is in Washington, D.C., today accepting a cash prize for the best 2008 coverage of biomedical research by a large newspaper for his news story, ""UCLA Profs and Scientists Sued Animal-Rights Radicals."Taves beat several leading papers, including The New York Times. Oth ... More >>

Down for the Recount

Fear and loathing in Florida as HBO re-creates the Bush-Gore fight over butterfly ballots and hanging chads

Greg Sandow on Art vs. The Arts

Sandow: "So why am I telling this story? To introduce my thought that art and the arts aren't the same thing." ALSO, some kid in a diaper covering The Beatles.

What's So Bad About Performance Enhancement?

The steroid debate rages on

Lions for Lambs: Dull Roar

The odd upside of Robert Redford's terribly earnest war drama

Marla vs. Pollock: Who’s the Fraudiest?

The art of the con of the art

You Boob

The presidential debates need more people and fewer videos

Prodigy Schmodigy

Don’t ask if 6-year-old Marla Olmstead is a painting wunderkind. Look at the work

Silent Spielberg, Holy Protest: Will Oscar have the Balls for Munich?

Updated Nov. 30

Call me Nostradamus

10 signs of the apocalypse

July Surprises

The Kerry-Edwards cute meet plus Bush’s search for Osama

My Life on the Couch

Bill Clinton’s Oprah Moment

Dirty Pictures, Dirty War

Doing your own thing in Abu Ghraib

Swallow This, Deep Throat

A case for silencing anonymous sources

Art vs. Science

Matthew Barney’s a bore; the Hubble Space Telescope’s a blast

Hip-Hop Boo-Hoo

Watching the Detectives

How a couple of middle-aged P.I.'s and world-class raconteurs survived the DEA, the mob and the tabloid wars to take on their most elusive target yet -- Hollywood

March Madness

Wicked Games

Start of History

The hour of the furnaces

The Inferno

The demonic comedy of the boiler room

Mitnick Speaks

Computer-hacking guru Kevin Mitnick says he's no cyberbogeyman

Smokin'

Michael Mann's The Insider

One Flew Over the Coup's Inquest

Letters