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The Most Bizarre Things I've Witnessed Living at Hollywood and Highland

The tacky section of Hollywood stretches from the Madame Tussauds wax museum on Hollywood Boulevard to the The Hollywood and Highland Center. Here, you'll often attractions that are weird, but in a charming way. There's the street performer who drums on Kikkoman Soy Sauce containers, a Spiderman c ... More >>

Jennifer Klausner: The Pedal Pusher

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here.The first time Jennifer Klausner spoke up on behalf of bikes was at a Santa Monica City Council meeting in the early '90s. It was also the first time the avid cyclist and star me ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Mesmerizing Child's-Eye View of Grief, Walking the Tightrope

Child-like views delighted our critics this week, with Mike Kenney's Walking the Tightrope at the 24th Street Theatre taking Pick of the Week, and a nod to Albie Selznick's magic show Smoke and Mirrors at the Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood. There's also a recommendation for an adult comed ... More >>

Andrea Alarcon's Rise and Fall

Smart, beautiful Commissioner of Public Works parties her way out of power

Bank Robbery Suspects Toss Cash During Chase, Crowds Form in South L.A. (VIDEO)

Latest updates at the bottom. Another day, another crazy chase. This one had suspects in a Volvo SUV throwing cash out a window. That move apparently drew crowds to the South Los Angeles area near USC where the chase was going around in circles until it came to a stop and alleged bad guys were app ... More >>

Top 5 Fast Food Concepts That Don't Exist But Should

Flickr/Kevin H.Roast turkey leg​ The first fast food we knew as a kid came not from golden arches or a king of burgers, but from an outpost of a regional chain selling fat, sprout-laden deli sandwiches on wheat bread. The Fresher Cooker, it was called, and whenever our healthy-eating parents ... More >>

Cameron Slocum, the Eastside Tomato King His One-Man Urban Farm

Ted SoquiSlocum in his kingdom​ Heavy lies the head that wears the crown, especially when said metaphorical crown goes with the title Eastside Tomato King. Cameron Slocum could be dealing modern furniture or hustling to create and sell his own avant-garde artworks -- things the 53-year-old ... More >>

Top Ten Bizarre Facts About Ace of Base (They're Baaaaack!)

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the reggae-pop​True story: here at the West Coast Sound Headquarters we have a whiteboard where we write down story ideas and one of the items for a while has been "Sweden: WHY?" We're truly puzzled about all these Scandinavian acts that sing in ... More >>

Lily Burk's Killer Pleads Guilty, Avoids Death Sentence

An ex-con pleaded guilty this afternoon to the murder of Lily Burk, a 17-year-old Los Feliz girl who was kidnapped and later killed inside her car near downtown Los Angeles. Lily Burk​Charlie Samuel, 50, avoided the death penalty by pleading to the July 24, 2009 slaying. He faces life in pris ... More >>

Coroner: Los Feliz Teen Lily Burk Died from Fatal Wound to Neck

A Los Angeles County Coroner testified today in the brutal murder of Lily Burk, the 17-year-old Los Feliz teen who was allegedly kidnapped and killed by a parolee. Dr. Jeffrey P. Gutstadt testified at a preliminary hearing that the Oakwood School student had injuries from head to toe, including a ... More >>

Lily Burk's Alleged Killer Charged with New Felony Counts at Preliminary Hearing

A parolee who is accused of kidnapping and killing a 17-year-old Los Feliz teen was charged today with two new felony counts at a preliminary hearing in downtown Los Angeles. ​ Los Angeles County prosecutors charged 50-year-old Charlie Samuel with one felony count each of carjacking and kid ... More >>

INCHES reviews Lambo, Marshmallow Ghosts (mbrs of BMSR, Appleseed Cast), Bipolar Bear, and Pink Noise (MP3s)

In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good m ... More >>

Ambulance Becomes Man's Hearse

The L.A. Daily News and other sources report that a "criminally insane" man jumped out of an ambulance that was heading southbound down the 101 Freeway near Universal City last night. He was struck and fatally injured by a Volvo driven by a Van Nuys man. The mental patient was being transported to a ... More >>

Popeye’s and Jazz

In search of the perfect portable chicken dinner

Ask Mr. Gold: Popeye's and Jazz?

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menuDear Mr. Gold: If you were heading to the Bowl from the Westside, where would you stop to put together a picnic of portable, finger-friendly chicken? I'm thinking Koreatown is too far out of the way. --Zora, Culver City Dear Zora: Koreatown isn ... More >>

Losing Lily Burk

Outrage After a Popular Teen Gets Carjacked and Slain

Coroner Reports Lily Burk Died from Neck Wound

The Los Angeles County Coroner reports this morning that 17-year-old Lily Burk died from an "incised wound to neck." In other words, her neck was slashed. Burk, whose father is well-known music writer Greg Burk, also suffered traumatic injuries to her head as previously reported in local papers.Burk ... More >>

Fingerprints Link Parolee to Murder of Lily Burk, 17

The Los Angeles Police Department held a packed, late-morning press conference today, one day after they arrested a former convict who had been on parole since last August. Charlie Samuel, 50, has been charged with the murder of Lily Burk, 17. Detectives received confirmation Saturday that latent fi ... More >>

LAPD: "Parolee Charlie Samuel killed Lily Burk"

The Los Angeles Police Department announced this morning the arrest of 50-year-old Charlie Samuel, a parolee with a history of violence, for the shocking, daylight carjacking murder of 17-year-old Lily Burk. Detectives learned on Saturday that latent fingerprints collected from Lily's car were ex-co ... More >>

Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 175, Teenager Found Murdered Downtown

Lily Belle Burk, 17, was found dead in the passenger seat of her black Volvo 6:30 a.m. Saturday morning. View Larger Map The teenager had left her home in Los Feliz at 2 p.m. to pick up some papers for her mother at Southwestern University School of Law in the Westlake area. Burk had called each of ... More >>

An Engineer's Guide to Cat Yodeling: The Internet's Sexiest "Cat Guy" Discusses The Women Who Love Men Who Love Cats

Men with dogs have it wrong. The way to seduce women is with a cat. Case in point: Paul Klusman and TJ Wingard made this video about "cat yodeling" (be patient, the first few introductory minutes are of non-cat footage). Klusman and Wingard are the guys who brought you An Engineer's Guide to Cats, w ... More >>

The Tortoise and the Tank Face Off at Fort Irwin

A battle in the desert over territory and resources, starring hard-shelled refugees, burger-loving insurgents and a couple of dazed road warriors

New John Mellencamp Album Unveiled with Fancy New T-Bone Burnett-developed High-Def Process

It's going to take a lot for me to forgive John Mellencamp for 2007 and that the whole Ford Chevrolet commercial nightmare. While it's true that maybe I was watching too much TV that year, that god damned “Our Country” song, which I hesitate to say out loud because it'll likely spark an earwor ... More >>

Jay Diola

Hair apparent

Stephin Merritt Undistorted

An interview with the Magnetic Fields frontman

Face in the Hip Crowd

Revels Without a Pause

The backyard party life of teens

How to Cure Hollywood’s Summertime Blues

12 Steps to better box office

The Psychic Hipster�s Pop 10 Yindies And Crunksters And Christians, O My!

Bad Mercury Rising

The Capital of Car Design

L.A. is, once again, where the action is

Driven

In Hollywood, your car is who you are

Anita Martinez & Tiburcio Vasquez, Social Directors

The Geography of Hustling

Through the past darkly with a former pro

Hot Wheels

Political Life: Shopping for a Hero

Howard Dean meets the Hollywood Left

Midnight Cowboy

Marvel Comics' Rawhide Kid comes out of the closet

Brave New Year

Lowrider Ergo Sum

The code and creed of the Ranfla Tribe

Phallus Aforethought: Gender Bender

A Tale of Two T-Shirts

At Auction

Tricks on Hollywood Lane

Hard Up

Diary of a Mad Waitress

Tough Driving

SUV owners: Park it � right now, before I hurt you

Waxing Nostalgic

Slush

G4 and After Science

Burn, Li'l Debby, Burn

Hot Nice Lunch Forever

Moving Violations

Art cars don't kill people. They just annoy them.