7-Eleven Inc.

Tow Truck Ran Light, Did 50 MPH in Fatal DTLA Crash, Cops Say

The tow truck that collided with a Metro bus, killing its driver, was going as fast as 60 miles per hour through a red light when the downtown L.A. crash happened, police said today. The flatbed tow truck was headed south on Broadway when it struck the westbound bus at Fifth street before careening ... More >>

5 Ways To Solve L.A. Traffic, Including Immigrant Driver's Ed

See also: Traffic Experts Crap All Over Eric Garcetti's Million-Dollar Gridlock Prize. Once again L.A. is the traffic nightmare capital of America, and much of that can be blamed on our own damn selves. We chose to live in a city with limited public transportation, far-out suburbs and already-stuff ... More >>

Man Set On Fire At Long Beach 7-Eleven Dies

Updated at the bottom with the suspect charged today with capital murder. Prosecutors claim he was "lying in wait." First posted at 7:07 a.m. A man set on fire in front of Long Beach 7-Eleven has died, Long Beach police announced. The horrific attack, allegedly by a homeless man, was captured on t ... More >>

Coffee Bean And Tea Leaf Celebrates 50th Birthday With Free Drinks

Half a century ago, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf graced us with their first location in Brentwood. Today, with over 900 stores across 25 countries, the company shop is the oldest coffee and tea retailer in the United States. They're celebrating their 50th birthday on Wednesday, Jan. 30 and the drinks ar ... More >>

Santa Monica College-Adjacent Shooting Injures Teenage Woman; Waiverly Thomas Arrested

People are often surprised to learn that Santa Monica has crime, gangs or a historic barrio near Santa Monica College. It does. A shooting over the weekend proved that point. An 18-year-old woman was gunned down on Pico Boulevard but survived with non-life-threatening injuries, according to Santa ... More >>

Xposed Strip Club Billboards Subject of Takedown Effort by Mad Mom Ursula Pyland

There is a thing called freedom of speech. But do you want a stripper peering down at you longingly, right in your own neighborhood? Okay, don't answer that guys. If you're a mother, would you want said exotic dancer giving your 11-year-old boy a come-hither look from a billboard right near the loc ... More >>

She's a Character

VIDEO: Lloyd Morris, Alleged Glendale Drunk, Rams Thunderbird Into Crowd at 7-Eleven

The tale of Lloyd Morris' arrest alone is enough to make the Glendale PD history books. When a cop showed up to his house on Edmonton Road last Thursday morning, the suspect allegedly flipped a bitch, becoming "combative and aggressive" and daring the officer to shoot him. "The officer was finally ... More >>

Free Slurpees Tomorrow: 7-Eleven's National Holiday

Tomorrow is 7/11. That's right, you know the drill. It's Free Slurpee Day at 7-Eleven locations. Hallmark might not sell Slurpee Day greeting cards (yet), nor is the holiday pre-labeled on your kitten-themed calendar, but it goes without saying that America has come to embrace the day of free froz ... More >>

Reality Bites: The Ultimate Sellout?

Irony behind celebrating the movie as an indie classic

The Boulevard of Broken Crank Vials

Chang Qui, Teen BMW Driver, Cited When Three-Hour Mall Trip Ends in Death of Dog Who Remained in Hot Car, Authorities Say

mioi​A teenage driver was cited for suspicion of animal cruelty after her 1-year-old dog, left in a closed car while she went to a mall for three hours, died from apparent heat exposure, authorities say. It happened in the Ontario Mills Mall parking lot in Ontario Monday evening when security ... More >>

Super 8 Review

JJ Abrams meets Steven Spielberg

Temple of Scream: Relishing the Horror of a Hollywood Franchise

Sam SlovickAnthony Torres has been collecting memorabilia from Wes Craven's horror series since 1996.​ Deep in the far reaches of Montebello, in a secret temple, a young monk arranges sacred objects on the altar with exacting specificity. Each item is invested with hallowed significance and pl ... More >>

OH, JOY-- HIP PEOPLE ASKING US FOR THINGS

Bum On Skid Row: 'Two White Men' Gave Us Four Loko Surplus, But 'I'd Rather Be Cold Than Drink That Shit'

Uptown AlmanacOther bums -- particularly, the kind who live in dorms -- can't resist the stuff​Bet you were wondering what happened to all those glorious old Lokos that had to be recalled after the FDA banned alcoholic energy drinks from U.S. shelves earlier this month. (Well, aside from the 5 ... More >>

Dale's Pale Ale: Coming To A Convenience Store Near You The Theory of Relativity As It Applies to Canned Beer

J. Garbee​If you frequent L.A.'s better beer hangouts - The Yard, West Fourth and Jane, and The Surly Goat among them - you've probably had, or seen, a can or two of Dale's Pale Ale, America's "first hand-canned beer" (the brewery's words, not ours) from Oskar Blues in Colorado. But when you' ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Fishbone, Sam Sparro, I&I Soundsystem and Infinity at Sunset Junction Street Fair

Lina Lecaro High at Sunset Junction​The photo above was taken from atop (and we mean the very top) of the ferris wheel at this year's Sunset Junction Street Fair. We have lots just like it because the giant wheel got stuck --yes stuck!-- as soon as we got on. "A tangled cable or something," i ... More >>

Michael LoGrande Confirmed Planning Director; Symposium Asks, What Now?

New Planning Director Michael LoGrande with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa​ Michael LoGrande, who had been the city's chief zoning administrator, was confirmed Wednesday by the City Council to become the new planning director. He'll be charged with creating and executing a vision for the city's fu ... More >>

Indo Café: Out of the Ashes

... and into the urap

Black Moth Super Rainbow's Kaleidoscopic Surgery

Meet the Musicians: Tobacco, Graveface, the Seven Fields of Aphelion, Power Pill Fist, Iffernaut and (of course) Father Hummingbird.

Rock Picks: Doves, Ceci Bastida, Carina Round, New York Dolls

Also, The Detroit Cobras, the Aggrolites, Loney Dear and others

Help Is on the Way: Tales of an Ambulance Driver

“You are young, eager, a rookie, and you don’t yet know that this job does not mean saving lives.”

C.R.A.N.K Mob Does Not Go Gentle Into The Night

RFID: Tag, We're It!

As the technology spreads, who will protect our freedom from information

The Blockbusters Cometh

It could be a Promised Movieland this summer, unless...

Jet Blues

Chronicle of an airport refugee

From the Hoods to the Woods

How an O.G. gangbanger turned himself into a hardcore firefighter

Theater Reviews

Final Destination

The Jacuzzi Apocalypse

Everything but the Bird

Around the Horn of Fairfax

West L.A. and Culver City

Make War, Not Breasts

New To the List

In Service to the Patron Saint of Cirrhosis

Pac-Man Forever

Momma Does Mackie

Jay’s Last Stand

L.A.’s great burgers lose rent battle

Mitnick Speaks

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

Dystopia, Datopia

Southern California on film

The Suck '90s and So You Do

Loose Cannon

Buford Furrow stops, shops

First Bites

Sampling L.A.’s newest restaurants

Hell on Wheels

Consume Part II:

[Mostly] Not Food

Lotus Eaters

Indian food for a post-Beck Silver Lake

Liver

And the end of being hip

Creme Brulee

And the sweetness of selling out