Baldwin Park

Ana Martinez: The Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Girl

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. In other cities, vice president of the Chamber of Commerce would not be considered a flashy gig. But in Hollywood, it's a dramatically different story and one unique to Los Ange ... More >>

Lynsi Torres, America's Youngest Female Billionaire, Is L.A In-N-Out Heir

Meet America's youngest billionaire. She lives in a $17.4 million home in the San Gabriel Valley foothill community of Bradbury. She drag races in area NHRA events. She's reportedly only 30. And she doesn't have a college degree. She's Lynsi Torres, and ...

Top 5 Huell Howser Food Episodes: In Memoriam

As many Angelenos probably already know, Huell Howser died Sunday night at the age of 67. In memoriam, we thought we'd channel-surf through some episodes of Howser's KCET series California's Gold, which have covered myriad subjects over the course of the beloved reporter's long career -- Howser onl ... More >>

Q & A With Eddie Huang Watch Episode 2 and 3 of Fresh Off The Boat L.A. Installment

Eddie Huang can be a tough guy to wrap your head around. The New York-based chef who went to law school, passed the bar, then dropped out of law to cook and eventually opened Baohaus is now a bona fide food celebrity and, to many observers, full of contradictions. Huang's new show with VICE, Fresh ... 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:

Holy Mole

At Juan's Restaurante in Baldwin Park, the "pre-Hispanic" food Is hit or miss. But oh, that mole!

The 5 Things You Need Know About This Week's Review of Juan's Restaurante

This week the review focuses on a Baldwin Park oddity, Juan's Restaurante. Odd why? Well you can read the full review to find out, or check out the abridged version:

DUI Checkpoint in Hollywood Tonight; Drunk Driver Crackdown Across L.A.

The dog days of summer are here, the 4th of July is way back in the rear view, and the season is winding down. But, for whatever reason, authorities across L.A. county are turning up the heat on drunk drivers with a "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" campaign August 17 to September 3. Not only that ... More >>

32 Chihuahuas Seized From La Puente Home

A woman found with 32 chihuahuas and chihuahua mixes living inside her La Puente home told officers she was just trying to save them from life on the suburban streets of east L.A. County. According to Aaron Reyes at the county's Department of Animal Care and Control, his department was summoned to ... More >>

7 Great Los Angeles Ethnic Markets

As significant as farmers markets are in reintroducing seasonality to our diet, it is the neighborhood market that regularly holds us down when times call for lingonberry syrup or injera bread. It may be too early to declare Los Angeles -- or anywhere for that matter -- post-racial, but in a city wi ... More >>

Connor Penhall, 21-Year-Old Caltrans Worker and Son of Racer/Actor Bruce Penhall, Killed by Alleged Drunk Driver

Updated after the jump: Caltrans responds, and the ghost of Penhall expresses unhappiness with his job. Originally posted at 8:30 a.m. The victim of a late-night crash on the 10 West has been identified as 21-year-old Connor Penhall, a Caltrans subcontractor and the son of racer-turned-actor Bruc ... More >>

Shooting at Southern California Edison Takes Multiple Victims; Baldwin Park Schools on Lockdown

The SoCal Edison office where the shooting occurred -- part of the San Gabriel Valley Corporate Campus​A shooting at the Irwindale branch of Southern California Edison -- located at 4900 Rivergrade Road -- has taken multiple victims, KTLA reports. And the San Gabriel Valley Tribune identifies ... More >>

Simmering Mole Rivalry at 4th Annual La Feria de los Moles

While some of our blogger brethren headed down south this weekend to celebrate the regional cuisine of Baja California, those who hung tight had the opportunity to taste distinct moles from Oaxaca and Puebla. Over 30,000 people turned out for Sunday's Feria de los Moles at Plaza Olvera, where snakin ... More >>

Baldwin Park Hit-and-Run: 24-Year-Old Woman on Way to Church Killed by Suspected Drunk Driver

Google MapsSunday's hit-and-run victim was just one block from church.​A churchgoer reportedly heading to St. John Baptist Church in Baldwin Park on Sunday morning was robbed of her young life when Rafael Espinosa Moreno, who police believe was drunk, veered his Jeep up onto the sidewalk and h ... More >>

[Updated] Michelle Obama Announces Retailers Will Expand Into Food "Deserts"

Samantha Appleton/White HouseThe First Lady and elementary school students tend the White House garden​ Update 11:50 a.m. 7/20/2011 - Mayor Manuel Lozano spoke before Obama about his work in Baldwin Park, along with James Gavin III, chairman of the Partnership for a Healthier America's Board ... More >>

Ton of Marijuana Found After West Adams Traffic Stop in L.A. by Torrance Cops, They Say

​A strange, one-ton pot post went down following a traffic stop in the West Adams District last week by Torrance cops with a drug-sniffing dog, police said late Wednesday. It all started at Adams and Hauser boulevards Friday. The sequence of events is a bit confusing to us, but we're guessing ... More >>

Jesus Cabrera, 27-Year-Old War Vet, Dies in Fiery Motorcycle Crash With Excavator During Closure of 10 Freeway

Pasadena Star-NewsConstruction on the 10 West​For reasons unknown, late Tuesday night, a 27-year-old motorcyclist entered a construction zone stretching two miles down the 10 West -- closed off via large neon "road closed" signs. After almost making it through the zone alive, the man plowed st ... More >>

Sutan Amrull: King of the Queens

In-N-Out's Longest Surviving Location Demolished in Baldwin Park: City Officials Shocked

In-N-Out​Update and correction: In-N-Out says it isn't the oldest surviving location. Plus, why L.A. Conservancy director Linda Dishman says this could happen again. All of that after the jump. Oops. In a typically L.A. move, the corporate folks at In-N-Out tore down what many believe is the ... More >>

Baldwin Park In-N-Out Demolished: With No Warning to City Officials

​In-N-Out officials touched off a furor earlier this week when they tore down their Baldwin Park location, which many believed was the chain's oldest surviving restaurant. The Baldwin Park In-N-Out was demolished right under the nose of city officials who thought they were working with the com ... More >>

Car-to-Car Shooting on 10 Freeway in Baldwin Park Puts Man Behind Wheel of BMW in Critical Condition

NoiseCollusionThe 10 freeway.​A twentysomething man behind the wheel of a white BMW was hospitalized in critical condition after he was shot on the 10 freeway in Baldwin Park, according to the California Highway Patrol. The shooting on the westbound 10 near Baldwin Park Boulevard happened abo ... More >>

Monuments to Me

Legacy-obsessed L.A. politicians are covering buildings and parks with their names

Allegedly Drunk Pomona Man Who Caused Six-Car Crash And Vehicle Fire On I-10 East Found Drunk-Munching A Burger At Jack In The Box

Cheese-Burger.netJack in the Box burgers: great comfort food for traffic guilt​Yesterday afternoon, a six-car pileup on the 10 freeway heading east was enough to make 68-year-old Antonio Holguin Sr. very, very hungry for some good 'n' greasy over-processed cow meat. Holguin initiated a destru ... More >>

Pigeon Smashes Through Helicopter Windshield Above L.A. County

A Robinson model R-44 like the one in last night's accident​One Baldwin Park pigeon couldn't have seen it coming last night. He was just cruisin' along, makin' his way up into admirable altitudes, watchin' the sun set and thinkin' about all the naughty things he wanted to do to the mother of ... More >>

Surprise: Rest Of The Shoo-Ins Win* California State Senate, Assembly And Congressional Districts In Election 2010, Banding Together For Mass Extermination Of Opponents

In a startling upset, Gerrymandering Congressman Howard Berman wins again​*OK, so we fibbed in the headline. The final results aren't in. But -- thanks to sleazy incumbent fixing of elections in California by the Berman brothers -- the new crop of California Senators, Assemblymen and Congressm ... More >>

Latest Response To The Bell Scandal: CA Controller's Office Posts All Public Salaries Online, L.A. County Water-Board Officials Found To Pad Own Paychecks

California State Controller's Office​Holding public officials accountable is so hot right now. The state Controller's Office made its heroic contribution to the transparency trend today, unveiling a website it's been cooking up (on low heat) for the past three months. On August 3, Controller ... More >>

Camp Blogaway: A Boot Camp For Food Bloggers

Camp Blogaway​ There are two types of food bloggers, says Patti Londre, who runs Camp Blogaway, a boot camp for food and recipe bloggers. There are those who don't care all that much about how many hits they get but are more interested in the content, and there are those trying to make a few ... More >>

Baldwin Park Bans New Drive-Throughs

Flickr/livingonimpulseIn-N-Out​ In an act of legal symmetry, sort of, the city of Baldwin Park has declared a moratorium on any new drive-through fast food restaurants. Why symmetry? Because Baldwin Park is where it all started, when In-N-Out opened in 1948 as the nation's very first drive-th ... More >>

Identity Crisis at The Habit Burger Grill

Ben CalderwoodBecoming intimate with the #1 Charburger meal​ Discussions about The Habit Burger Grill, the West Coast fast-patty chain spun out of a single Santa Barbara lunch shack in 1969, inevitably revolve around comparisons to other burger joints. The Habit is like In-N-Out. The Habit is ... More >>

Local Man Starves To Death

Chalk up another point for the Great Recession, if you please: Sheriff's detectives say a 21-year-old man found dead in his Baldwin Park apartment had simply starved to death.Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department​ Sheriff's homicide investigators were called to the 3100 block of Vineland Av ... More >>

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 >>

A Los Angeles “Ban” That Really Invites Billboards?

Critics assail a “Swiss cheese” vision that allows massive sign proliferation

The Town the Law Forgot

An L.A. ’burb is mired in gangs, cartels and south-of-the-border-style politics

Unequal Division of Labor

Did the County Fed pour it on for Kevin de León at the expense of three who lost?

Writing on the Walls

Judy Baca

Minuteman Divisions

Internal squabbles tear at anti-immigrant movement

In Occupied Territory

A Kilo Full of Kryptonite

Big Joe Bralic thought he was Superman. Then the Canadian tried to do a drug deal in L.A.

Slam Nation

A Considerable Town

Dog Ma

One woman's Doberman mission

Pot Reform Stalls in Sacramento

Governor Davis playing it straight