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Donald Vincent: Ice Skating Coach Suspected Of Molestation Worked Throughout SoCal

An ice-skating coach who has worked at rinks in Culver City, Anaheim, Riverside and more, was charged this week with lewd acts on a minor. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department announced that 29-year-old Donald Vincent was jailed in lieu of $1 million bail after a 17-year-old boy came forward and cl ... More >>

Holiday Beer Guide: 5 Great California Crafts

Gone are the long, hot summer days that call our hearts to big, hoppy beers. 'Tis the season for the winter-warming of holiday ales. In this uncharacteristically cold Los Angeles December, a spicey pint or boozey snifter is just the thing to help you make merry. Brewers have a tendency to become ov ... More >>

All Marijuana Dispensaries in Anaheim, La Habra Told by Feds to Shut Down

In the wake of the city of Los Angeles' decision to close all pot shops in town, some of you were thinking, Fine, I'll just go to Orange County to get my "medicine." Not so fast. Federal authorities today cracked down on several marijuana dispensaries in Anaheim and La Habra, ordering each and eve ... More >>

Anaheim Police Chief John Welters Has a MySpace Page

Hacker group Anonymous came through on its promise to target Anaheim police today by publishing not only the home address of Chief John Welters but, more embarrassingly, his MySpace page info. Lulz? Reacting to clashes between mostly white cops and mostly Latino protesters weary of three officer in ... More >>

Anaheim Clashes Inspire Protest at LAPD Rampart Station in Westlake

Protesters planned to march outside the LAPD's Rampart Division station in Westlake today in a show of solidarity with demonstrators who have been clashing with police in Anaheim over a rash of deadly officer-involved shootings in that city to the south. LAPD Officer Norma Eisenman told the Weekly ... More >>

Anaheim Erupts: Anti-Police Demonstrators Riot

After the 20th anniversary of the L.A. riots this spring, many Angelenos looked back and marveled at how things have changed for the better and how much farther away from that precipice of chaos we've traveled. Well, in Orange County, the sense that police are an occupying force in a minority commu ... More >>

Anonymous' Operation Anaheim Asks You to 'Rise Up' Against That City's Cops (VIDEO)

If we were the Anaheim Police Department, we'd also put our IT geeks on high alert. While cops in the Orange County city stood off with protesters overnight after two officer involved shootings in the largely Latino town put residents on-edge, the notorious hacker group Anonymous appears to have of ... More >>

VIDEO: L.A. Journalists Amber Lyon, Tim Pool, Steven Gregory Shot at by Anaheim Police

Approximately 500 protesters, majority Latino, were showered in police beanbags, rubber bullets and pepper balls last night outside Anaheim City Hall as they rioted over two recent officer-involved shootings in the Orange County town. (And the fight wasn't one-sided: Protesters reportedly hurtled bo ... More >>

Anaheim Police Fire Non-Lethal Rounds, Release Dog on Families (VIDEO)

Update at 1:53 p.m Sunday: The suspect shot by cops is dead. Get his ID and more video from our sister publication, OC Weekly (click this sentence), which is all over it. First posted at 11:28 p.m. Saturday. Cops shot non-lethal rounds toward men, women and children and unleashed a dog who charged ... More >>

Mafia Rusa

Update at 1:53 p.m Sunday: The suspect shot by cops is dead. Get his ID and more video from our sister publication, OC Weekly (click this sentence), which is all over it. First posted at 11:28 p.m. Saturday. Cops shot non-lethal rounds toward men, women and children and unleashed a dog who charged ... More >>

Disneyland Pepper Spray Video Shows Glenn L. Horlacher Allegedly Punch, Kick Security

[Added at 11:23 a.m. Monday]: It happened outside the Tower of Terror ride at Disney's California Adventure park adjacent to Disneyland. California's pepper spray zeitgeist continued well into 2012 as Disneyland guest Glenn L. Horlacher, 53, was given a good dousing of the spicy tearjerker in a fig ... More >>

Music Picks: The Descendents, Stones Throw 15th Anniversary Show,, Princess Pangolin, Brian Setzer

Also, Guns N' Roses, Weingart, Stevie Wonder's House Full of Toys, and others

Marouch: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Also, Guns N' Roses, Weingart, Stevie Wonder's House Full of Toys, and others

Mary J. Blige, Larry Carlton, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

Also, Peanut Butter Wolf, Lucy Woodward, Chromeo and others

LinA In LA Party Picks: Death By Dance

Something Fish-y this way comes ...​The Halloween hangover is just about gone and it's time to be a boogie man (or woman) again with a new array of themed soirees; some you can even dress up for if you didn't get to (or want to) last weekend. Funky, freaky, gloomy and groove-y, this week's DJ- ... More >>

Music Picks: India.Arie, Merle Haggard, Endangered Blood, Little Dragon

Also, Lupe Fiasco, Yelawolf, Miguel Migs, Chad VanGaalen and others

Green Lantern: First Flight Roller Coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain, the LA Weekly Review: In Hottest Day, The Wackest Flight

PR NEWSWIREIn Briefest Flight​ Just in time for July 4, Six Flags Magic Mountain has opened their record-breaking 18th roller coaster in the serpentine form of Green Lantern: First Flight. Inspired by the animated direct-to-DVD movie that dares to offer more than just Ryan Reynolds and Blake L ... More >>

Juan 'R2D2' Martinez, Anaheim 12-Year-Old, Dies in Parking-Lot Stabbing

Facebook12-year-old Juan Martinez​Updated after the jump with Facebook banter between Martinez and Ocampo's friends and tagging crews. [Update, 11:30 a.m.: 18-year-old Bryan Ocampo was arrested at 9:15 p.m. yesterday, on suspicion of stabbing Martinez on his way home from school -- perhaps af ... More >>

Is Anaheim Comic Con a Sign of What's to Come When Wizard World Heads to L.A.?

Shannon CottrellHanging out at the GNB Cosplay booth at Anaheim Comic Con​ See more of Shannon Cottrell's photos in "Anaheim Comic Con 2011." Read more in "Southern California Ghostbusters Turn up at Anaheim Comic Con" and "Green Lantern Goes Samurai at Anaheim Comic Con." On the morning of A ... More >>

Green Lantern Goes Samurai at Anaheim Comic Con

Shannon CottrellSef Harding posing with Alexander Lam, aka Shogun Vader, who we featured at Anime LA 2010​See more of Shannon Cottrell's photos in "Anaheim Comic Con 2011." Also, check out, "Southern California Ghostbusters Turn up at Anaheim Comic Con." "Green Lantern is just an awesome char ... More >>

Illegal Immigrants Suspected of Landing in SoCal on a Boat Caught Caked With Sand in Anaheim, Feds Say

TheGirlsNYAh-hah!​U.S. authorities seem pretty cocksure about this case: After a boat ran around in Carlsbad and smuggling-at-sea suspects they were shadowing on land led them to an apartment in Anaheim several hours later, they found ... ... nine illegal immigrants there whose clothing was c ... More >>

Anaheim Man Crashes Into Four Parked Vehicles -- Including Cop Car With Another Alleged Drunk Driver Inside -- Breaks Nose, Tries to Run Away

CBSOops.​This, dear readers, is what we call a clusterfuck. (See also: "Double Hit-And-Run Leads To Beating Of Driver Who Actually Stopped To Help Another Victim He Hit In Hawthorne.") Last night at about 2 a.m., better known by cops as DUI prime time, a 28-year-old Anaheim man was driving hi ... More >>

Kim Rebar Henry, Middle-Aged O.C. Woman, Allegedly Moonlights as Racist Graffiti Artist

Anaheim Police DepartmentKim Rebar Henry probably hates you​Holy freakshow. We didn't give the January spree of nine highly offensive tags in Orange County much of a thought, back at the time of their inception -- probably just some young punk trying to get back at the world for not giving a ... More >>

Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg: Exclusive Live Footage Last Night for LA Weekly

Wiz Khalifa makes his major label debut of, "Black and Yellow," with DJ Snoop Dogg at 300 Bowling Lane in Anaheim, CA last night. "Black and Yellow" being the first offering from his 2011 Rostrum Records/Atlantic Records release. These two pot enthusiasts, Snoop and Wiz, announced their joint movie ... More >>

Med-Heads Rejoice: California Cities Can't Ban Pot Shops Based On U.S. Drug Laws

Anaheim can't outlaw pot shops based on federal drug laws.​Can cities ban medical marijuana shops based on federal law that outlaws pot? A state court essentially said no this week, handing a victory to cannabis-shop advocates. The Fourth District Court of Appeals finalized its order that ove ... More >>

While We Were Thawing Our Toes This Morning, We Noticed That Unemployment Benefits Had Been Terminated For 2 Million Americans

ZastavkiWhad'ya say we all just move to Antarctica​What a bone-chilling way to slide into December. Not to mention the holidays. We woke up this morning after a night of visible breath and twinkly lights to the news that unemployment benefits will likely terminate for 2 million people by th ... More >>

This weekend: HARD Haunted Mansion, Ninja Tune 20th Anniversary, KCRW Masquerade, Of Montreal, Stone Temple Pilots

Perou.co.ukUnderworld​Whether you're all about the costumes or just in it for the tunes, Halloween weekend offers some massive show-going choices ... starting with, well, something very close to a massive. HARD Haunted Mansion, with an eclectic electro lineup including Bloody Beetroots, Busy ... More >>

Best Place to Buy Nutella: Super King Market

A. Scattergoodcrate of Nutella at Super King​ If you live anywhere near the San Gabriel foothills, you will be familiar with the drive north up Lincoln from the Rose Bowl or thereabouts, into the giant, impossibly crowded parking lot across from a tiny carnicería, and into the cavernous inte ... More >>

Pro-Pot Group Says Court Decision Means California Cities Can't Ban Pot Shops

​After a California court of appeal rejected the city of Anaheim's argument that marijuana's federal outlaw status allowed the municipality to ban medical pot dispensaries, a pro-cannabis group is urging all cities in California that ban pot shops to change course. "It's long past time for lo ... More >>

Music Picks: Sunset Junction Street Fair, Lucinda Williams, Y & T, Tanya Morgan

Also, GZA, Jimmy Webb, Fol Chen and others

City Of Los Angeles Allegedly Writing Thousands Of Bogus Parking Tickets

​The city of Los Angeles could be writing million of dollars in bogus parking tickets each year, according to a NBCLA investigation. More than 17,000 tickets were issued at parking meters that were reportedly broken, according to the site. City policy, however, forbids traffic officers from ... More >>

Labor Activists Warn Comic-Con That Moving To Anaheim Could Be Unpleasant

Unite HereA hunger strike outside Disney headquarters in Burbank earlier this year.​A labor union representing hotel workers involved in a bitter dispute with Disney's Anaheim hotels warned organizers of Comic-Con that if they moved the popular summer convention from San Diego to Orange County ... More >>

'They Sell Marijuana Out Of A Van'

Lakeview Collective​It certainly sounded like a good idea: While many doctor-pot-shop relationships are of a longer distance than customers would like (get a doctor's note here, get your weed there), a couple in Riverside County came up with a solution. Partnering up with a doctor's referral b ... More >>

In Fight To Host Comic-Con, Anaheim Enlists Facebook

A scene from Comic-Con.​The city of Anaheim recently launched a Facebook Fan Page in its effort to woo the packed Comic-Con convention from San Diego. The city also penned an open letter to the organizers of the get-together, stating, "You need to be assured that moving to Anaheim is the best ... More >>

Natural Products Expo: Get Ready, Big Mouths May Be Coming Soon To A Store Near You

All Natural Extermination​Trade shows like this weekend's Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim are ideal for studying the brilliant beginnings and soon-to-be lifeless remains of capitalism. It's here that you can almost taste product success in the the tiniest nibbles of caramelized peanut an ... More >>

Alleged MySpace Predator Is Said To Be Pro Wrestler

Matthew Castaneda.​A tipster tells LA Weekly that a man suspected of luring a 12-year-old girl for sex via MySpace is a pro wrestler who works in the Mexican lucha libre style of grappling under the name Chippy Sanchez. Similar tips came in the form of comments to an OC Weekly post about the a ... More >>

To Catch A (MySpace) Predator: Suspect Who Lured 12-Year-Old Nabbed

Zaby's Motor Lodge.​Authorities over the weekend nabbed a suspect they say used MySpace to lure a 12-year-old girl to a hotel room for sex. Her parents had reported her missing. Matthew Martinez Casteneda, 33, was arrested over the weekend after allegedly luring the girl to a meeting at a mal ... More >>

Marijuana Law Backer Joins Legal Challenge Of Pot-Shop Bans

​State Sen. Mark Leno, co-author of the state's medical marijuana clarification act (SB 420), has joined a court challenge that will help decide whether cities can ban medical marijuana dispensaries in a state that approves them. The San Francisco Democrat filed a legal brief in Qualified Pat ... More >>

Can A City Like L.A. Ban Pot Dispensaries Outright?

​While some Los Angeles streets have several medical marijuana dispensaries to choose from for your, er, medical needs (and we're guessing here that, as New Year's Eve approaches, there's going to be a spike in such needs), some cities ban them. Anaheim is just such a place, but a state appea ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne Fights Blazing Fire at BlizzCon 2009, Hoses Thousands

This past weekend Ozzy Osbourne gigged BlizzCon, the convention held by top-tier gaming producer Blizzard Entertainment, the creator of, among others, World of Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo. From the photos that LA Weekly's Eric VanBeek snapped during the show at the Anaheim Convention Center, th ... More >>

L.A.'s Episcopal Diocese Stokes Gay Controversy

The L.A. Times reports today on the Los Angeles Episcopal Church Diocese's nomination of two gay ministers for suffragan bishop's seats. Only last month leaders of the national episcopate, meeting in Anaheim, ​voted to permit the consecration of homosexual clergy. The L.A. diocese put forward six ... More >>

LA People 2009: The Re-Percussionist — Sexual Chocolate

The Crystal Antlers' drummer and wingman might be known to his mother by his birth name, but everyone else calls him Sexual Chocolate

Staycations Here to Stay?

Southland residents are looking no further than their own back yards, relatively speaking, when it comes to planning summer getaways. According to a feature in today's L.A. Daily News, 2009 represents the second year so-called staycations are in vogue. Last year holiday travel was cut by skyrocketin ... More >>

Rock Picks: The Wailers, Thelonious Dub, Halfmonk, Mike Watt & the Secondmen

Plus, Good for the Jews, Legowelt, Resistant Culture, and others

Forget the Mustache: Beauty-Shop Quartets

Some postquaint, teenage-girl harmonies

Rock Picks: Detroit Cobras, Gore Gore Girls, MF Doom, Squeeze

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Cops vs. Cops

Agencies ask Culver City to back off