7-Eleven Inc.

Meiko's Boyfriend Left Her for a Hooters' Girl. It Was the Best Possible Thing

Singer-songwriter Meiko moved to Los Angeles from a small Georgia town outside Macon in 2001. Her career has since taken off; she signed a major label deal with Universal imprint Concord Records, licensed a bazillion of her songs to TV and film, and got big in Japan (seriously, she's on the radio th ... More >>

One Dollar Coffee Wednesdays at 7-Eleven

Java junkies rejoice. For those unwilling to fork up more than a buck for caffeine, 7-Eleven is giving out coffee for only $1. The promotion is only on Wednesdays and lasts until the end of January. That means any size cup and all the sugar, flavorings, topping and cream you can possibly want are ... More >>

7-Eleven Coffee Drinkers May Predict Presidential Race Outcome

Predicting the outcome of an event can be done in one of several ways. Possible results can be gauged using statistics, polls, qualitative analysis -- or maybe psychic octopus. For the presidential election, the convenience store 7-Eleven partnered with The Onion and drew in voters with the simply- ... More >>

6 Things We Learned From the Roy Choi Ludo Lefebvre Talk

As part of the ALOUD series at the L.A. Central Library, two of the L.A. dining scene's most controversial and beloved figures got together on Wednesday evening to finally set the record straight about their respective unorthodox paths through the culinary world during a program titled "Taking the K ... More >>

Banana Boat Sunscreen Recalled, Could Set You On Fire (Really)

Good thing summer's finally over (two October heat waves later): The folks who make those ubiquitous Banana Boat sunscreen products sold at your local Ralphs and 7-Eleven revealed today that some of their fine goods do the opposite of what you want, which is to protect you from burning. In fact, s ... More >>

We Watch Performers Do Crazy Tricks at the Cirque Du Soleil Auditions

See also: Our slideshow of the Cirque du Soleil auditions Watching a Cirque du Soleil show is so trippy you'll be convinced someone slipped a tab of acid on your tongue. Last week, the circus traveled to L.A.'s Kinetic Theory searching for new talent. Apparently, it's not enough to be a human Gum ... More >>

Darnell and Tania Washington, Bonnie and Clyde of L.A. County, Wanted for Wild Crime Spree in Carjacked Minivan

An attractive Southern California couple is wanted in two counties this morning for the jailbreak and joyride of a lifetime. San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials say that 24-year-old robbery suspect Darnell Washington escaped from county jail on August 28 with the help of his wife, 25-year-old ... More >>

7-Eleven Introduces Slurpee Lite Free Slurpee Day

7-Eleven is introducing a new low-calorie, sugar-free Slurpee at its stores nationwide this week. The offering targets women in their 20s who have bought into the whole "skinny girl" hoopla. Right off the bat, we see a couple of problems with this move. One, we weren't aware that anyone over the ag ... More >>

Eat This Now: Oden At Morinoya

If you get tired of American comfort food, you might consider comfort food from Japan -- by which we do not mean, at least at the moment, ramen and curry rice. One of the most comforting of Japanese comfort food dishes is oden, a bowl of broth in which has been simmered many things, notably fish cak ... More >>

Celeb Coffee Showdown: Leonardo DiCaprio vs. Will Oldham

Last time we hosted a Celeb Coffee Showdown, we threw Darth Vader, David Lynch and Rob Zombie into the same metaphorical octagon. What did we learn? Everyone's a product whore, even the Dark Lord. This time, we went for a less formal but more carefully curated showdown, pitting Bonny "Prince" Bill ... More >>

Starbucks Adds Alcohol: Chain Is One Bad Hot Dog Away From Becoming 7-Eleven

As if the hipster / unpublished author / part-time screenwriter milieu of Starbucks wasn't enough of a reason to get your ass to the nearest indie java dealer ASAP, the coffee giant announced today that it's adding alcohol to the menu of as many as six Southern California locations. Our local Starb ... More >>

L.A.'s Idea of Japanese Food vs. What Japanese Really Eat

Our Venn Food Diagram series has studied the people of Thailand, Armenia, Vietnam and most recently California, comparing what they actually eat with what Angelenos believe they eat. In this edition, we turn our attention to Japan, looking past ramen and sushi to see what foods Angelenos have left t ... More >>

Binge Drinkers Hit The Bar Once a Week, Get Wasted: U.S. Health Officials Concerned

America, we've got a problem. The first step is admitting it: More than 38 million of us binge drink about four times a month (only?), having as many as 8 drinks in a sitting (lightweights). In some nations across the Atlantic -- Germany, England, the Netherlands -- this is called being a pussy. ... More >>

Nigel Tufnel Day 11/11/11: Eleven Ways To Celebrate

obamicon.me​See also: Nigel Tufnel Day 11/11/11: It's Official 11/11/11 is finally here. Happy Nigel Tufnel Day! After all, the man is both a rock god and a numerologistical prophet. Which is why, in his name, we celebrate this sacred and mystical occasion, when all of the elevens come toget ... More >>

Gumby-Costumed Man Tries to Rob 7-Eleven in SoCal, Cops Say

Gumby.​Updated at the bottom with San Diego police telling us they don't believe it was a hoax. Two suspects turned themselves in. First posted at 6:03 a.m. on Sept. 7. Gumby tried to rob a Southern California 7-Eleven. You read that right. A man dressed in a full-on, head-to-toe Gumby cost ... More >>

Your July Sugar Rush: Free Slurpees, Lollipops and Dessert A Slurpee Recipe

Cheesecake Factory's newest Hershey's flavor & free 7-Eleven slurpees​ Café patios are jammed at mid-day, beach parking lots are more overcrowded than usual, and neighborhood teens are breaking into your pool at midnight. If you're reading this during "normal" business hours, you're most like ... More >>

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Zachariah Timothy Lehnen, Accused in Double Murder of Culver City Pair, Could Have Been in Prison Until 2013 But Was Released Early

Patrick HealyZachariah Timothy Lehnen.​The transient accused of killing two people in Culver City this month was let out of prison late last year -- with three years cut off his time -- via a controversial early-release program. Thirty-one-year-old Zachariah Lehnen's parolee information sheet ... More >>

A Glee-Inspired Slushie Food Fight: Slurpee vs. ICEE

FOXGuilty pleasures: Glee & Slushies​ In a list of guilty pleasures about a mile long, two things rise to the top. First, the TV show Glee. Second, the slushie: a brain freeze-inducing, icy concoction sold at most convenience stores and movie theaters. Lucky for us, we can (sort of) enjoy bot ... More >>

Rogue's Gallery: Mug Shots Of Robert Rizzo And 'The Bell Eight' For Your Next Dart Game

Ted Soqui​They're quickly becoming known as the "Bell Eight" -- those illustrious officials from that working-class, Los Angeles suburb accused of misappropriating public funds and, as state controller John Chiang put it Wednesday, using public money "like a petty cash drawer." On Tuesday they we ... More >>

8 Reasons Why Your Drug Dealer Hates You

Open for business. Unless you suck. ​It's been said that miserable circumstances are incited when you piss off your bartender, hairdresser or leader of your preferred religious denomination, in addition to a slew of people in other professions (your pizza delivery guy, your fitness instructor) ... More >>

L.A. City Council: Helping 7-Eleven Go Upscale?

​ The L.A. City Council has two food related items on the agenda today, in a sign of the continuing momentum of food activists who are either ameliorating hunger and reversing the decades-long trend toward bad, processed food, or being annoying nanny staters wasting Council time while bigger ... More >>

Neighborhood Activist Allan DiCastro's Rules of Engagement With The City Hall Leviathan

DiCastro knows how to get these fixed.​ In these lean budget times, services are being cut, which means more trash, potholes and unwanted liquor stores in your neighborhood, in a city already known for having well enough of all of the above. City workers have many more demands on them and are ... More >>

2010 Hangover Cures

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Member: A.C. Thamer​ Every New Year is a time for contemplation, resolution and for celebrating the infinite possibilities of the next 365 days. But for many, the end of one year marks the chance for limitless imbibing in the new year. As we prepare for the leap into a ... More >>

L.A. City Council Puts Off Pot-Shop Ordinance ... Again

​If you were an animal-rights advocate worried about the plight of cats and their claws, justice would be swift and City Hall would be at your service with a quick ban of declawing. But if, say, you lived next to a pot dispensary that did more business than a 7-Eleven (and that had shady chara ... More >>

Indo Café: Out of the Ashes

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7 Eleven Opens New Store: Free Pizza The Laker Girls

Who'd have guessed that the debut of a new 7-Eleven would be such a grand event? This Friday's opening of the new convenience store in Compton will occasion the kind of fanfare normally reserved for oh, I don't know, a celebrity-named community center or a new hospital wing. In addition to an appea ... More >>

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