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USC Locks Down its Campus Fortress, Adjacent to South Central and High Crime, to Keep Out Non-Students. Does This Make Sense?

Security became far tighter, and way more paranoid, this week at the University of Southern California located a few blocks west of gang-riddled South Central Los Angeles, and some people might find the new lock-down rules a bit hard to take. A new rule instituted on Monday, Jan. 14 forces student ... More >>

Why Does Everyone in L.A. Drive Drunk All the Time?

Car culture was the last element I embraced in my new life as an Angeleno. The first few months I lived here, filling my gas tank made me physically ill. The cost! The fossil fuels! The hours spent in traffic! I may have cried about it once or twice, alone in my sad sublet behind one of Silver Lake' ... More >>

Koreatown: America's Hippest Neighborhood

Reality show K-Town unmasks the liquid rituals fueling Los Angeles' Koreatown neighborhood

Crazy Hollywood Bus Crash Injures Mother, Daughter in BMW, Many Passengers

As many as 33 people were injured when a driverless dump truck rolled into a Metro bus which then careened into a woman driving her preteen daughter in a BMW in Hollywood today, authorities said. That driver seemed to get the worst of it, with the L.A. Fire Department's Brian Humphrey saying she ha ... More >>

Did Scott Barker Knife Rich Kid Tony Takazato to Save His Girlfriend from Prostitution?

Bryshon Nellum, USC Runner Shot in Leg by Gangsters, Now Going to London Olympics

The University of Southern California (USC) is one of the nation's most prestigious private universities -- its reputation for academic excellence bested only by its reputation for churning out sports stars. In fact, USC's PR team announced today that the school has produced more Olympians than any ... More >>

Hollywood Improv Assault: Cops Nab Suspect, Invite Comedian Randy Kagan to LAPD Christmas Party

Randy Kagan, the L.A.-based comedian who was mauled by a patron at Hollywood Improv while doing a standup routine in April, was raving mad in the days that followed. Mad at the "fucking lunatic felon" who attacked him; mad at Improv security for not jumping in sooner; mad at the Improv in general fo ... More >>

Dan Goods: Thinking Outside the Lab

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Standing in his studio at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Dan Goods places a small cube of gel in a visitor's hand. He looks the visitor in the eye. Then he gets o ... More >>

USC Lawsuit: Parents of Murdered Chinese Grad Students Say School Lied to Solicit Foreigners

L.A. police and politicians have been tripping over themselves to regain the public's confidence after two USC graduate students from China were murdered in a BMW outside their apartment near campus. The mayor apologized profusely. The LAPD added 30 more officers to the Southwest Division. The City ... More >>

USC Cop Shoots Jeremy Hendricks, Suspect in Student Robbery, on Same Day as Memorial for Ying Wu and Ming Qu

Student and parent fears about the crime-ridden area surrounding USC have not been quelled, this morning, by another attempted robbery and shooting near campus. Just after 12:30 a.m., four students were walking near Pi Beta Phi sorority house on "The Row" near West 28th Street and Figueroa, accordi ... More >>

Amanda Bynes DUI: Nickelodeon Star Clips L.A. Sheriff's Vehicle While Allegedly Wasted

Is Amanda Bynes the new Lindsay Lohan? Her hair is looking extra fried and face extra puffy these days. But more importantly, the former child star (and up-and-coming West Hollywood party girl) was arrested last night for drunk driving, according to Sergeant Arthur Famble at the West Hollywood Sher ... More >>

Wilshire Boulevard Shut Down Near Miracle Mile After Man Shot: VIDEO

Updated at the bottom: What started the whole thing? First posted at 2:28 p.m. It's not unusual to hear of a man shot on a weekday afternoon in L.A. But in this area it is. Wilshire Boulevard was shut down near the Miracle Mile east of La Brea Avenue today after a man was shot on the street at Sou ... More >>

Jomo Zambia, Convicted L.A. Pimp, Crashes Into Inglewood Police Car After Being Murdered in Red BMW

Jomo Zambia via Facebook​A young man named Jomo Adoula Zambia was murdered in broad daylight yesterday while driving his red BMW down Florence Avenue in Inglewood. Inglewood police say he blew through the red light at Eucalyptus Avenue around 2:30 p.m., after being shot in the arm and torso - ... More >>

Said Jaziri, Controversial Muslim Cleric, Caught After Allegedly Entering U.S. Illegally East of San Diego

YouTubeSaid Jaziri.​Said Jaziri, a controversial Islamic cleric who had been deported to Tunisia from Canada, was caught east of San Diego after he was allegedly smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico earlier this month, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. Jaziri was a Montreal imam who led ... More >>

MTA To Cut Nine L.A. Bus Lines By Dec. 12

Metro board chair Don Knabe says: Buses < Subways < My Car​Updated after the jump: The Bus Riders Union says the latest bus cuts are straight-up racist. Originally posted at 11:19 a.m. As Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa pumps all time and city resources into three more stops (12 more minutes) onto ... More >>

Producer Daniel Lanois in Intensive Care after LA Motorcycle Accident

​The NME reports that producer and performer Daniel Lanois, known for his atmospheric collaborations with Brian Eno, U2 and Bob Dylan, suffered a motorcycle accident in LA that forced him to postpone a UK tour. The report is not specific as to the details: The Quebec-born musician/producer, b ... More >>

Disney Expo Channels Peter Pan

Enslaved in Suburbia: Inside the World of Trafficked Indentured Servants and the Visa Violators Who Care for Our Old

Two women, two fractured American dreams

Best Day in the 'burbs

Going carless in Glendale and Montrose

Mr. Wilson's War

Former ambassador Joseph Wilson warns the country-club crowd about the “theo-con” threat

Un Pueblo Olvidado por la Ley

A Spanish translation of “The Town the Law Forgot”. Pandillas, carteles y políticas al estilo “sur de la frontera” enlodan la reputación de un suburbio de L.A.

Santa Monica or Saigon?

A tale of two brothers

Who's Resurrecting the Electric Car?

Forget those poky little golf cars — the battery-powered muscle car is just around the corner

Who Hates Their MTV?

How the rebel network sold its soul for bimbos, princesses and bucks

A Second Skin

Sloughing it off for summer

To Be Real

Is The Game playing for keeps?

Hollywood Reporters and Gatsby Envy

Why do journalists lust after the trappings of Tinseltown?

Brown Dirt Cowboys

Meet Esteban Hills and crew, your gardeners

Bunny Love

Yogis for Kerry

Babes in Hummerland

A Very Ovitz Christmas

A Very Ovitz Christmas

Good tidings from the once and not future king of Hollywood

A Day With The Locust

On the road with the world’s most dangerous band. Also, an investigation of death metal, “hardcore,” millionaire punks and the mysterious Tijuana zebra

The Stray Cats of Tblisi

Can an impoverished former Soviet republic afford the luxury of kindness to animals?

Urbanities: Frank O. Gehry Has a Gripe

The Crash of Civilizations

12 highlights from 365 days

At Auction

Tricks on Hollywood Lane

In the Beginning

An introduction to and brief history of the river

Demonios en la calle Broadway

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

Manhattan Project

Signs of 'Arrival'

Ballad of a Tin Man

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott’s daughter inherits the family business

Letters

Faith Healer

Richard Vetere’s play about an atheist who dies and goes . . . somewhere

Busta Rhymes, All the Time . . .

. . . if you want it: Scour.net, straight from the underground

Writing Will Set You Free

A black man in Dachau

Taking From the Till

Bird was flyin’ high, but not right

In Search of ''Hollywood''

Behind the Velvet Rope

Sandra Tsing Loh on Bad Sex . . . and more. So much more.