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The 10 Best Bars in Culver City

As we all know, Culver City has gotten very trendy in recent years. Home to famous spots like The Culver Hotel and Sony Studios, Culver City has developed a unique niche, according to one bartender we talked to: "It's where the hipsters go to hang out when they're not on." Whether or not that's true ... More >>

Fort Hernandez, Symbol Of Occupy's Anti-Foreclosure Stance, Evicted

A bastion of the contemporary Occupy movement is no more. A foreclosed house dubbed Fort Hernandez was cleared out by sheriff's deputies early this morning, observers report. The eviction after a four-month sit-in at the Hernandez family home in Van Nuys was reported about 4:30 a.m. An witness said ... More >>

Antonio Villaraigosa Joins Committee to Fix the Debt, Completing Plutocratic Conversion

Update below: Online petition calls for mayor to resign from Fix the Debt. Villaraigosa responds.Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has joined the Committee to Fix the Debt, thus completing his transformation from firebrand Chicano organizer to servant of the plutocracy.Fix the Debt wants lawmakers to addre ... More >>

Space Shuttle Endeavour: Why Isn't the California Science Center Conducting an EIR Before Cutting Down 265 Trees?

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires that any project which "may have a significant effect on the environment" be prefaced by an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) -- an often lengthy document investigating the project's possible effects on both the natural environment on the urba ... More >>

Ray Vega, Reported BF of Manager in Crazy Bank of America Robbery, Arrested

Police announced an arrest in that crazy Bank of America robbery in which a manager had a fake bomb strapped to her and claimed she had been kidnapped. Huntington Park police said in a statement this afternoon that the suspect they had in custody is Ray Vega, a 33-year-old from the city of Bell. An ... More >>

Gregory Bojorquez Happened Upon a Hollywood Shooting Spree. Good Thing He's a Photographer

Here in the land of moving pictures, fine art photographer Gregory Bojorquez works to capture frozen moments of existence. His images of street life, neighborhood personalities and gritty landscapes are uncommon, unforgiving and, despite our beautiful weather, sometimes laden with wanton, icy sentim ... More >>

ICE Deportation Sweep Includes Over 200 Illegal Immigrants in L.A. Area -- Only Half of Whom Are Serious Criminals

In a plea for the Latino vote, President Obama keeps promising that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will ease up on the deportations. In a direct contradiction to that promise, ICE officers across the country just conducted a week-long deportation sweep called "Cross Check" --

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #10-6

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #15-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #5-1 10. Pussycat Dolls The Pussycat Dolls may seem like an easy target, but they're actually a quite difficult one, considering they're less band than brand. There's their rea ... More >>

Sarah Mason, TIME's Protester of the Year: More Photos, Details Behind Occupy L.A. Cover

UPISarah Mason, TIME covergirl sans beanie and bandana, far left.​Updated on second page with even more up-close shots of Mason -- these ones taken by Ted Soqui, the LA Weekly photographer behind the TIME cover. Originally posted December 15 at 4:40 p.m. Ah, the elusive Sarah Mason -- she of ... More >>

Occupy L.A. Demonstrators Policed With Help of Private Security Known Downtown as 'The Shirts:' LAPD Says That's Not 'Typical'

YouTubeLAPD gets an assist from purple-shirt-wearing security guards at an Occupy demonstration.​Updated at the bottom with comments from Commander Andrew Smith, who says private security guards often work with police downtown but that a skirmish line with cops might have been out of the ordin ... More >>

Anthony Loscano, Occupy L.A. Protester, Gets Book Thrown at Him After Two Arrests, One of Which Was Caught on Video

YouTubeThis, apparently, is Loscano on Dec. 3.​Nineteen-year-old protester Anthony Loscano might be the unluckiest occupier in L.A. Or maybe he's just the most aggressive. He's been arrested twice, at two different Occupy L.A. demonstrations. And in one case a lowly security guard even appeare ... More >>

Occupy Affiliated ReFund California to March on Cal State Trustees, Wells Fargo in Long Beach Today

ReFund California​Updated at the bottom with blood, pepper spray and a clash between protesters and police. First posted at 7 a.m. The Occupy-affiliated protesters who scared the UC Board of Regents into cancelling their big meeting this week will be at the Cal State Board of Trustees meeting ... More >>

DWP Punishes Water Conservers: Ron Nichols Seeks $5 BofA-style Monthly Fee Because Angelenos Saved Too Much Water

DWP: Watch out, it's alive and it wants your wallet.​Shame on Los Angeles residents for conserving water. The Department of Water and Power (a widely hated agency, but also a public utility owned by all 4 million Angelenos) plans to slap everyone with a $5 per mo charge. Why? We hurt DWP's bot ... More >>

Occupy L.A.'s Dilemma

Protesters share enthusiasm and disenchantment, but need unity to survive

Kristen Chrstian: L.A. Gallery Owner Behind Bank Transfer Day Talks About Her Inspiration to Take Her Cash to a Credit Union

Courtesy Kristen Christian​She says it has nothing to do with Occupy L.A. and its Occupy Wall Street sister movement. Class warfare? Meh. Yet the timing of L.A. gallery owner Kristen Christian's idea couldn't have been better for those fed up with corporate banks that took billions in taxpaye ... More >>

Occupy San Diego: Man Reportedly Dead After Falling From Civic Center Garage

​[Update: Police say the man, who jumped off the eighth story of the parking structure, does not appear to have ties to the Occupy San Diego protest. The San Diego Union-Tribune says his political fliers read, "Important Message to Intelligent Earthlings From Your Creator." The OSD protesters held ... More >>

Richard Rudy Aragon, Teen Son, Face Robbery Charges After Allegedly Using Pit Bull That Bites Off Ears of Victim

Get ready/This ain't funny/I'm a pit bull/And I'm about to get money.​There are all kinds of ways scumbags try to get your money (right, Bank of America?). But having a pit bull bite your ears off is a new potential revenue stream even for Wall Street. Authorities allege that, after his 17-ye ... More >>

FBI Makes Fun of L.A. Bank Robber's Enormous Ears

KABCThere's no disguising those babies​Reveling in the only lighthearted part of working for the FBI -- the official naming of the crooks -- investigators have christened a prolific bank robber currently on the loose in Los Angeles the "All Ears Bandit." Which is kind of mean, actually. With ... More >>

West Hollywood City Deputies Spent At Least $13,788 on Perks -- Fancy Meals, Gift Cards, $370 Mont Blanc Pens -- Last Year

Make that F. Solomon​EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: WeHo resident Ed Buck, who filed the public records act request, says $13,788 was just a FRACTION of the unethical charges he found in the pile of city credit-card receipts. He estimates that, once properly combed, luxurious spending will reach $100,000 f ... More >>

Future Shock

American Apparel Looks To Corporate-Turnaround Firm To Change Fortunes

Dov Charney​Reuters reported this week that financially struggling clothing maker American Apparel was in talks with a restructuring firm in an effort that could save the hipster brand from bankruptcy. Sources told Reuters that American Apparel chief Dov Charney was in talks with the corporat ... More >>

Q & A With Wolfgang Puck: WP24, Life in Indianapolis, Ma Maison & The Invention of Pizza

It might seem odd to someone who does not live in Los Angeles, but we often don't see the permanently blue skies and the palm trees. We forget to go to the beach. We completely forget about Lindsay Lohan. We take Wolfgang Puck for granted, despite the beautiful garden of Spago, the Oscars, the remin ... More >>

Can Placido Pull It Off?

With a secretive Domingo convalescing, L.A. Opera faces a high-stakes Ring Festival

The Big Canvas

If you give an artist a billboard ...

L.A. Opera’s $14 Million Imbroglio

Superstar Plácido Domingo pushes the company closer to worldwide acclaim — and financial collapse

Michael Connelly: The Kid Who Couldn't Write

Dead Without Garcia: Is It Worth the Effort, or a Waste of Time?

Uneasy Wind In the Land of the Dead

Villaraigosa: Faking an Economic Miracle

Mayor sought a study saying East and South L.A. are booming. They're not

Letter From Moscow: U.S. Dollar Follies

The idea of America, and her currency, being slightly torn and defaced in the eyes of the world stabs at me.

The Notebook Guy

Vanished series creator Josh Berman keeps the world in three rings

Frankly Giving a Damn

Daniel Selznick weighs in on a play about his father, David O. Selznick

Down on Main Street

A guide to living among the crack addicts, mentally ill, homeless and young-pros-on-the-go in a changing downtown

Blood and Ink

Pastor, Present, and Future

After 27 years at the pulpit, and 12 as South-Central’s ranking ambassador, Cecil Murray, resigns as pastor of First AME

The Untouchables

Lasting, sad lessons of Rampart

Preying for Money

L.A. considers law to slam door on unethical loans

The Old Order Trembles

And who knows what -- in our economy and our politics -- is about to give way?

Lost in a Maze

More puzzles than clues in new Rampart book

Guilt Trip

The transformation of Kathleen Ann Soliah into Sara Jane Olson

Pump up the Value

The latest “record-breaking” domain-name sale may be more hype than high-finance.

Life Without Ramon

Massive changes await L.A. Unified

The Lady From Where?

Meet Fran Pavley: Westside winner

Her Last Worry

Lucy Esquivel blamed the tainted soil for her cancer

L.A.'s Telecom Hotel

Downtown high-rise is Information Superhighway's Grand Junction (Internet and phone giants shake hands in the Meet Me Room)

Stuck in Translation

La Opinión searches for readers — and a mission — in the Times’ shadow

The Accidental Populist

Magic Johnson gives some back

Bank JOB

Stafford called on Roski in bid to control local lender

Critical Bestsellers

Letters

...Your May 15-21 Naked Hollywood article by Charles Fleming ["It's the Jews"] was irresponsible journalism at its worst...

The Way of the Dinosaurs?