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5 Best Happy Hours for Craft Beer

For many bars, happy hour means rock-bottom prices for stiff well drinks that could peel paint off the walls. But plastic-bottle vodka isn't for everyone. Besides, any two-for-one deal on Kentucky Gentleman is likely to leave you stuck calling a cab. Instead, take advantage of beer-focused happy hou ... More >>

SoCal Cop Dennis Alva Stole Life Savings From Own Father, Prosecutors Allege

A Southern California cop stole the life savings of his own father, prosecutors say. The Irwindale officer, 47-year-old Dennis Alva, pleaded not guilty to grand theft, second-degree burglary and elder abuse today, the L.A. County District Attorney's office announced:

Duane Van Tuinen: L.A. Times Subscriber List Used For $1 Mil Burglary Ring, Cops Say

It all started with a call of a suicidal woman in Monrovia. But when cops arrived, instead of a basket case, they found "a large cache of cameras and other electronics," according to Monrovia police. That led them to sniff around and obtain search warrants that included a storage facility cops say ... More >>

Cafeina Galeria: A New Silver Lake Spot With "One Bitchin' Espresso Machine"

"This is the story of a cappuccino," says John Ownes, the owner -- as well as the barista -- behind the Spaziale Vivaldi espresso machine at Cafeina Galeria, the new Silver Lake coffee shop that Ownes insists isn't really a coffee shop. "We're a gallery with one bitchin' espresso machine," he says, ... More >>

Mexican Mafia Underlings Who Tried to Stamp out Black People from Azusa in Suburban L.A. Get 10 and 20 Years in Prison

A vicious, racist, father-and-son thug team tight with the Mexican Mafia, Santiago "Chico'' Rios and his deaf adult son Louis "Lil' Chico" Rios, have been sentenced to long prison terms for pouring drugs into and out of suburban Azusa -- and making it their No. 1 duty to "cleans[e] African-Americans ... More >>

2012 in the San Gabriel Valley: A List of Restaurant Openings Closings

As the calendar prepares to turn the page on yet another year, it's tradition time here at Squid Ink. A time for us to look back on the year and note restaurant openings and closings. When attempting to do this with the San Gabriel Valley, where an estimated 600 Chinese restaurants make up a vibran ... More >>

Holiday DUI Checkpoint Cheat Sheet: Massive Drunk Driving Crackdown Starts Friday

'Tis the season to be jolly, yes, but try not to do your fa-la-la-la-laing in a jail cell. Not fun. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department this week previewed the anti-DUI can of whoopass it's unveiling for the holidays, starting this weekend. It's massive:

Teen Girls Targeted by Kidnapper in Azusa Area

Cops were looking for a perv they say has tried to grab two teen girls in unincorporated Azusa this summer: Both of the teens got away and, in one case, the victim punched the creep during her escape. The attempted kidnappings happened this month and last. In both cases, witnesses said the suspect ... More >>

Congregation Ale House: A Sip At The Gastropub's New Pasadena Altar

Much as we are Beer Church believers, our drive-by impression of Congregation Ale House's latest branch across from Pasadena's Central Park was hardly revelatory. The freestanding building is boxy and rather shiny, a little too carefully designed in that chain restaurant or mega-church sort of way. ... More >>

L.A. Metro Unveils New Expo Line, Approves Billions More in Rail; Gadfly in Obama Mask Isn't Happy

The inimitable John Walsh, L.A.'s favorite gadfly (unless you work at City Hall), will show up to protest the triumphant Expo Line opening at USC today, where the train will reportedly break through a welcome banner as confetti and cannon fireworks go off in the background. The Bus Riders Union is ... More >>

Teen Bicyclist in Hit-And-Run With Car? Cops Say Celina Pangburn Was In It For Cash

Bicycle rights advocates, ever a vocal and Portlandia-esque bunch, have made a lot of wind over alleged cases of motorists' hit-and-run collisions against their ilk. Often their argument is that local police don't investigate the crashes as they would a car-on-car accident because the whole world, ... More >>

Honey I Poisoned Your Cereal: Azusa's Fernando Porras Gets 8 Years

Ah, cereal, that go-to, cozy foodstuff that never goes wrong, even when you're milk's about to turn sour like Mel Gibson at a bar mitzvah. But one Azusa woman found out the hard way that not all bowls o' flakes are hearty and wholesome. No, she'll never be able to slurp those last drops of sugary m ... More >>

Alex Rodriguez, Young Duarte Man, Dies When Car Flies off Highway 39 Cliff

This post has been updated to correct information about the victim's identity. Twenty-year-old Duarte man Alex Rodriguez was declared dead early Sunday morning. He had driven his Honda sedan off the side of the windy, cliffside San Gabriel Canyon Road -- also known as Highway 39. A 16-year-old gir ... More >>

EPA Orders $20 Million Worth of Groundwater Cleanup to Help Residents of San Gabriel Valley

​Tap water has a bad rap these days. And in many cases, for good reason. There's an awful lot of groundwater contamination out there. But for those folks living in the San Gabriel Valley who - God forbid - like being able to actually drink their tap water, there was a splash of good news today ... More >>

Azusa 13 Gang Terrorized Blacks, Monopolized Drug Sales, Sent 'Taxes' to Mexican Mafia, Feds Allege

​The feds cracked down today on a San Gabriel Valley Latino gang they say has been on a war path against African Americans for 20 years. Sixteen people were arrested, 23 were already behind bars, seven were arrested on state drug allegations, and 12 others were on the loose as authorities act ... More >>

Fun at The Royce with the Pasadena Star-News

The RoyceRoyce chef David Féau​ We are no stranger to restaurant hype; really we're not. We tend to generate a bit of it ourselves. So I hope you will believe us when we say that we have never quite seen anything like the front page of today's Pasadena Star-News, which was entirely devoted, ... More >>

Duarte And Azusa Head to Court In San Gabriel Valley Mining Showdown

Save Our Canyon​In a San Gabriel Valley smackdown, the city of Duarte is suing its neighbor to the east, Azusa, over the latter's approval of new mining on Duarte's doorstep.According to Duarte, Azusa stands to make more than $60 million in fees from the mining over the next 28 years. Meanwhile, D ... More >>

$35 Million Worth Of Pot Uprooted At Angeles National Forest

Dey via Flickr​According to the Pasadena Star News, about $35 million worth of marijuana plants were uprooted over the weekend at dozens of sites in the Angeles National Forest north of Azusa. Los Angeles sheriff's Capt. Ralph Ornelas told the newspaper that the pot was being grown in remote ... More >>

Road Warrior-Savior

The Metro Freeway Service Patrol is street-wise and safety-savvy.

Kid Accused in Morris Fire

InciWeb​A 13-year-old boy has been accused of starting August's 2,000-acre Morris Fire, according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. Investigators claim the juvenile, who is not in custody, lit the blaze near Morris Dam, in the San Gabriel Mountains north of Azusa. That fire was the first of two b ... More >>

Morris Dam Fire Containment 'Days Away'

Although 45 percent contained, the Morris Dam fire raging above Azusa is not going quietly. Quoting federal emergency authorities, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune  said that the complete extinguishing of the inferno that has blackened more than 1800 acres is "days away." The blaze erupted in the ... More >>

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 >>

Today in Photographs: June 1, 1965

Members of the International Association of Machinists, on strike against Aerojet General Corporation, greet non-union workers entering the Azusa plant with catcalls.LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

The B-Sides: Blu Interview

Contrary to popular belief, Blu did not take his name from the Eiffel 65 song popular in the late 90s. Q: So where exactly in LA did you grow up? A: I was born at St. Andrews and 54th, at my grandparent’s crib, that’s where I was living last year and it’s the first place I ever stayed. But ... More >>

Has the L.A. Hip-Hop Plague Finally Passed?

Four on the floor

Shop Till Everybody Drops

What the well-equipped survivalist will be wearing

Maria Suarez

The counselor

Freed Sex Slave Caught in Legal Bind

Looking for Schwarzenegger pardon to save trafficking victim–turned–counselor Maria Suarez from deportation

What Lies Beneath

Best tales of treasure from the underground

Inside the Box With the Super Dope Cops

Hustlers, gangsters, addicts and narcos are all trying to get their chippy on where it’s always Mardi Gras on crack

Give PEACE^® a Chance

Where Are They Now?

An ever-evolving list of L.A. Weekly alumni

Tributes

Letters

The South

From Downtown to Long Beach Harbor

Demonios en la calle Broadway

Milagros, exorcismos, anticatolicismo: cómo irse a la ruina en la Iglesia Universal del Reino de Dios por Joseph Treviño

Demons on Broadway

Miracles. Exorcism. Catholic-bashing. Going for broke in the Universal Church.

Good vs. Good

The race for the San Gabriel Valley’s 24th state Senate seat

Letters

Wilderness, Inc.

Southern California's controversial 'Adventure Pass' program

Top Dog Politics

Latinos take their turn

Letters

Trapper's Delight

Big meat in the north woods of San Gabriel