Arcadia

Man Wakes Up to Find Dead Body in Swimming Pool

Imagine waking up one fine summer morning in the lovely San Gabriel Valley community of Arcadia, taking a stroll out to your backyard pool, and finding a dead man face down at the bottom. That was the scenario for one unlucky homeowner today, police said:

BeBe Fusion Now Open in Alhambra

While fireworks were hours away from being launched this past Independence Day, co-owners Kiki Lo and Monica Wu observed a rather understated grand opening for their Taiwanese-focused restaurant BeBe Fusion. Rather than purchase ads in local Chinese newspapers or cable television, the co-owners deci ... More >>

Half & Half Tea Express Opens a New Location in Arcadia

The coffee culture in Los Angeles may be stronger than ever, but over in the San Gabriel Valley, teahouses are clearly dominating the caffeine scene. Taiwanese boba joint Half & Half Tea Express, a popular hotspot known for their milky teas, has opened another location in Arcadia on Foothill Boul ... More >>

15 Marijuana Grow Houses From L.A. To I.E. Busted In Federal Raid; 10 Arrested

Ten people were arrested yesterday and 8,000 plants were seized in a hydroponic marijuana-grow ring that spanned Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced. That's a lot of weed. Authorities say one of the ringleaders, a 39-year-old "top lieutenant" fr ... More >>

Chuan W. Pang: Marijuana Grow House Suspect Arrested Following Loud Music Report

The annals of marijuana-bust history are littered with stories of suspects who bring unnecessary attention to themselves, from the traffic scofflaw with kilos in his trunk to the guy who allegedly blows his home up while making hash oil. Today we bring you Guy Who Plays Loud Music. Yeah, cops were ... More >>

10 Best Eats In Arcadia: Neighborhood Grub Crawl

Some call it the "new Chinese Beverly Hills." For others, it's just the city where Din Tai Fung and the Los Angeles County Arboretum are located. But look closely and you'll see a lively food community in an otherwise very suburban neighborhood. Arcadia is the home of the recently relocated 626 Ni ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Warrior Snowman and a New Bridge Over the 210 in Arcadia

This week, artists contemplate the end of the Mayan calendar, Metro debuts its strange new Gold Line bridge and a group exhibition experiments in portraiture. 5. Live-streaming the end times The supposed upcoming apocalypse triggered by the end of the Mayan calendar has become a fixation. This wee ... More >>

626 Night Market Tomorrow, Vendor List And Map Announced

The 626 Night Market is up and running for the third time this year. It's this weekend on Saturday and Sunday at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia from 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. respectively, and as usual, the two day-long market will showcase a variety of pan-Asian food and businesses. Orga ... More >>

626 Night Market, Part 3: Arcadia, Two Days Cheaper Vendor Registration Fee

The 626 Night Market is coming back, for the third time this year. This time the event will be held at the Santa Anita Park in Arcadia and will be running for two nights, on Oct. 20 and 21. Admission is free of charge and the events will be staged in Santa Anita's spacious infield area. "Though we ... More >>

Marvin Hamlisch's Last Performance at the Pasadena Pops

Marvin Hamlisch, the film and stage composer best known for his work on Chorus Line, passed away on August 6 after a brief struggle with illness at the age of 68. During his career, Hamlisch won nearly every award possible, including the Pulitzer Prize for drama, a Tony Award, three Academy Awards, ... More >>

Q & A with Megan Lee of AU 79: Tea Leaves, Language Barriers Changing Demographics

Megan Lee comes from a long line of tea experts. Her grandfather was the founder of Ten Ren Tea, Taiwan's largest tea chain, with locations in seven countries including the United States. But despite being a shareholder in the Ten Ren empire, Lee's father had a different vision for the company and b ... More >>

Boiling Point Coming to San Gabriel in June

Boiling Point is coming soon to Valley Blvd.'s Life Plaza Center. The hot pot chain has been aggressively expanding within the past couple of years, with current locations in Arcadia, Hacienda, Monterey Park and Irvine.

L.A. County Moviegoer Arrested for Recording 3 Minutes of 'The Devil Inside' on Cellphone

Low-budget horror film "The Devil Inside" made a killing (har har) on its opening weekend: $34.5 million. But that didn't stop employees at the AMC Santa Anita 16 from tattling on a man who whipped out his cellphone cam at the movie's midnight premiere. Arcadia police showed up to the small-town Va ... More >>

Jose Antonio Parra, Arcadia Father, Murdered by Home Intruder as Wife, 3 Kids Listen From Bedroom

ABC7A gunman was waiting in the Parra family's garage last night.​A family of five from Arcadia lived everyone's worst nightmare last night: They returned home from church to the 11000 block of Kristi Court around 8 p.m. to find an intruder inside their garage, waiting for them. Although sheri ... More >>

Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup: Food Fight

Barbara HansenBeef noodle soup from Won Won Kitchen in Temple City.​The San Gabriel Valley is really souped up, that is, if you're thinking of Taiwanese beef noodle soup, which is everywhere. How do you know which version is the best, or at least really good? You check with people who come her ... More >>

USC's Freshman Class Most Diverse Ever: 1 Out of Four New Trojans is Asian

When we think USC freshman, we think white guy with a letterman's jacket, a mullet, a Mustang and a somewhat rich dad (says the Bruin). But it turns out that not only are Trojans smart but they're diverse too. In fact, the university is trumpeting its most diverse class of incoming freshman to da ... More >>

Daikokuya Opens 5th Location in Arcadia: More Ramen No Lines

A. ScattergoodDaikokuya in Arcadia​ If you are the sort of person who spends a disproportionate amount of time waiting in line at the Daikokuya in Little Tokyo, or who frequents the other branches of the wildly popular Japanese noodle house just to avoid the aforementioned lines, you will have ... More >>

Johnny V. Pham, SGV Teen, Arrested After He Blows Stop Sign And Cops Allegedly Find 8,000 Ecstasy Pills in His Ride

Arcadia PoliceThese Es are in name-brand bags, so you know they're good.​Among the lessons we've learned over the years from drug dealers: Utilize a ride that looks like your mom's car. Don't dress like a pimp. And, paramount among these, obey all traffic laws. Looks like eighteen-year-old Jo ... More >>

Arcadia Tree-Sitters to Be Punished on Earth Day; Daryl Hannah, Ed Begley Fight Further Avatar-ization of SoCal Forests

Saving the L.A. County woodlands: Hot.​In an ironic "F you" to Mother Nature and her gutsiest allies, Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley is calling the four tree-sitters who (unsuccessfully) attempted to block a woodland wipeout in Arcadia this January to court this Friday. Here's the ... More >>

Arcadia Tree-Sitters Call For Probe of LA County Department of Public Works, Release List of More Woods Targeted for Destruction

Camron Stone​Sit in a tree. Go to jail. That's how they roll in Arcadia. The "Arcadia 4" tree-sitters are having a press conference April 19 at 10 a.m., (Criminal Justice Center, 210 West Temple Street), where environmentalists John Quigley and Camron Stone, and actors Daryl Hannah and Ed Begl ... More >>

Arcadia Highlands' Oak Protesters Face Trial

As DA Cooley prosecutes four activists, a war to save SoCal old growth gets nasty

Seed to Skillet: Learn Home Gardening Secrets at the Arboretum

Amy Scattergood​ We have heard many times that you should never get high on your own supply, but what if that high comes from fresh jalapeños in your burrito, or a caprese salad with just-plucked tomatoes and basil? Jimmy Williams & Susan Heeger, authors of the home-gardening manual and cookb ... More >>

Arcadia Oak Tree Carnage: Before & After (Pics), Or Environment Protection Fail

Photos by Camron StoneThis was a sycamore.​ Remember those ancient oak trees in Arcadia? Chopped down by the Department of Public Works and the Board of Supervisors to make room for a sediment dump? Here's what the trees looked like before the bulldozers...and after. Environmental activist an ... More >>

Last Night: Food Truck Waterloo in Santa Anita

There's no surer bet these days than rounding out an event -- a street fair, a concert, a community festival -- with a few nouveau food trucks. Even the mediocre trucks, and there are plenty, are bound to be better than the grim array of vendors who usually populate these affairs. ($10 for a burnt ... More >>

Not Saving the Oaks

Arcadia Woodlands Oak Tree-Sitters To Talk Carnage at Board of Supervisors Meeting

​ Tree sitters John Quigley, Andrea Bowers and Julia Posin will be at the LA Board of Supervisors meeting tomorrow, Tuesday January 18 at 8:45 am. They'll be talking about what it was like to witness the demolition of 250 centuries-old oaks and sycamores from close up, then get removed by cran ... More >>

'Grandparent Scammers' In Arcadia Ask Old People For Money, Pretending To Be Incarcerated Grandkids

Zat you, Pumpkin?​The only thing more twisted than telling a toddler you have candy in your trench coat is telling a nice elderly lady you're her grandson and need money for bail. The Arcadia Police Department warned residents this morning that there's a "Grandparent Scammer" on the loose -- ... More >>

On Eve of Arcadia Vote, Pro-Density Hunger Strike Goes On

​We've been telling you for a few days about Henry Nunez, the Arcadia developer whose nakedly self-interested hunger strike has entered its ninth day.Today we chatted with Councilman Robert Harbicht, who says that Nunez's vision of an urban transit village in downtown Arcadia not what the city wan ... More >>

Today in WTF: Arcadia Developer Goes on Hunger Strike For Looser Zoning Rules

​Henry Nunez, a 51-year-old real estate developer, has a dream for the city of Arcadia. A dream of a dense, urban downtown with five-story mixed-use developments around a light-rail station. Unfortunately, it seems Arcadians do not share his dream.So he has taken a page from movement leaders like ... More >>

More DUI Checkpoints Planned For St. Patrick's Day

vintagecotton.com​Listen up beastie boys and girls: If you're heading out to Tom Bergin's, Molly Malone's or any other bar where St. Patrick's Day is a license to ill, check your head before your drive: We're now counting three DUI checkpoints planned for the county. Along with the aforementi ... More >>

'Upskirt' Crime On The, Er, Rise?

​Is it us, or has the Japanese fetish for "upskirt" photos -- on-the-street pictures angled to capture less-exposed areas of a woman -- started to take a life of its own here in the United States? Like everything of pop cultural import -- blues, rock, jazz and techno included -- we invented it ... More >>

Love, Shandong-Style: at 101 Noodle Express, a Beef Roll as Big as Your Arm

Angeles National Forest Wildfire Rages

Google Maps/InciWebSite of Morris Fire​Many Los Angeles residents awoke this morning to blue skies whose horizons were muddied  by smoke from the Angeles National Forest wildfire 22 miles to the east. The air also bore a campfire scent. The latest wildfire broke out near Morris Dam in San Gab ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Barricade Mystery No sign has been found of an armed man or the three hostages he allegedly had been holding inside an Arcadia home since Sunday night. Sheriff's deputies and SWAT members entered the home this morning only to find one elderly man. Associated PressUCLA Fire Report Blasted The family ... More >>

COOPER'S TOWN

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Is Home Shuling Next? L.A.'s Jewish day schools are facing big problems as the economy continues to teeter. L.A. TimesPrick Up Your Ears City officials are accusing mercenary dog rescuers of "cherry picking" their pound purchases based on later, lucrative resale value. L.A. Daily News Arboretum ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Slumdance Film Festival It was all Slumdog, all the time at the 81st Academy Awards, or so it seemed. DHD, VarietyNo L.A. Rustbelt Yet Manufacturing is still the king of L.A. County's economy -- even if people see less of it around -- according to an ombudsman from the L.A. Economic Development Corp ... More >>

Today in Photographs: February 6, 1941

Et in Arcadia ego  Grooms and stablehands vote to strike Santa Anita Park, shutting down turf events for a day. The racetrack in Arcadia would become a relocation center for Japanese Americans in the months following Pearl Harbor.Photo: LA Times/UCLA Collection

The Arms (and Legs) Race

Human Designs Prosthetic and Orthotic Laboratory

Fresh Voices

The L.A. Children’s Chorus premieres a brand-new opera

Short Subjects

Hot this summer: the swinging trapeze and frocks with pockets

Godmothersand Spicy Meatballs

Four classic delis

When the Bao Breaks

Hot buns at Noodle House

Ask Mr. Gold: Pot Stickers

Into the Deep

Ask Mr. Gold

Into the Deep

Hidden City: Looking for Hugo

Will the Real Taipan Please Stand Up, Please Stand Up?

Solo

Dating Yourself