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Summer Jamz '08: G'Z Up, Prose Down http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4NBDRWLQ 1.Parliament-“Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) 2.N.W.A.-“Alwayz Into Somethin’” 3.Dr. Dre-“Nuthin’ But a G Thang” 4.Above the Law ft. 2Pac & Money B-“Call It What U Want” 5 ... More >>
On Monday evening, three and a half hours after Variety reported that movie director Steven Speilberg had donated $100,000 to the "No on Prop. 8" campaign, Rabbi Elazar Muskin turned over his synagogue, Young Israel of Century City, to supporters of the anti-gay marriage ballot measure. Under Muskin ... More >>
Driving down Vermont Avenue, you might spot, next door to the Islamic Center of Southern California, one of those alarming signs of the times that are multiplying as the economy cartwheels to a crash. It's an anonymous-looking building with a huge parking lot, whose facade simply bears the number 44 ... More >>
Majel Barrett, the tall beauty who appeared in 33 episodes of the original Star Trek series, died of leukemia today in her Bel Air home; she was 76. After portraying the ill-starred Captain Christopher Pike's Number One officer in the show's pilot, Barrett more often played USS Enterprise Nurse Chri ... More >>
The King of Pop's New FortressPhoto: Leahcim506 Forget Bahrain. Forget Europe. Santa Maria? -- a distant memory. The trainwreck-in-progress known as Michael Jackson has taken a lease on a mansion in L.A.'s very own Bel Air. The Associate Press reports that the King of Pop has been ensconced in ... More >>
Jazz in L.A., February 27-March 5
Jazz in L.A., February 27-March 5
Also Shutter and Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns
Also Shutter and Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns
The Grammy parties and the pod people
Rocco Somazzi
How To Cure Hollywoods Summertime Blues, The Sequel
How To Cure Hollywoods Summertime Blues, The Sequel
How To Cure Hollywoods Summertime Blues, The Sequel
How To Cure Hollywoods Summertime Blues, The Sequel
The best of Sitegeist
A visit with Judith Krantz
A visit with Judith Krantz
Bruce Wagner's I'm Losing You
Writing about race
Clinton's campaign against California's California's medical-marijuana movement
Beverly Hills meets the new labor movement
Sheriff to Close Jails? Going far beyond the early release of county inmates, Sheriff Lee Baca may also close a jail or two to cope with a massive budget shortfall that his department faces. L.A. TimesCandidate Boycotts Own Press Conference L.A. City Councilman and City Attorney candidate Jack Weiss ... More >>
Sheriff to Close Jails? Going far beyond the early release of county inmates, Sheriff Lee Baca may also close a jail or two to cope with a massive budget shortfall that his department faces. L.A. TimesCandidate Boycotts Own Press Conference L.A. City Councilman and City Attorney candidate Jack Weiss ... More >>
L.A. Weekly Flickr pool photographer, Brian Swanson, snapped this striking picture of a mountain lion in Bel Air on October 9 using his trusty Nikon. File under: don't try this at home (or in your backyard). Brian Swanson
The Los Angeles Country Club, protected under Prop. 13 limits and loopholes, pays an ultra-low rate of about $200,000 a year in property taxes based on 313 acres of prime Westside property that could be worth nearly $20 billion or even more if it were developed, according to the Garment & Cit ... More >>
Considering its long-awaited ordinance to get a grip on 545 largely unregulated medical marijuana retailers in L.A., the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday rejected a proposed 500 foot buffer zone between the shops and homes and instead drafted language that would prohibit the businesses f ... More >>
Considering its long-awaited ordinance to get a grip on 545 largely unregulated medical marijuana retailers in L.A., the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday rejected a proposed 500 foot buffer zone between the shops and homes and instead drafted language that would prohibit the businesses f ... More >>
Considering its long-awaited ordinance to get a grip on 545 largely unregulated medical marijuana retailers in L.A., the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday rejected a proposed 500 foot buffer zone between the shops and homes and instead drafted language that would prohibit the businesses f ... More >>
Considering its long-awaited ordinance to get a grip on 545 largely unregulated medical marijuana retailers in L.A., the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday rejected a proposed 500 foot buffer zone between the shops and homes and instead drafted language that would prohibit the businesses f ... More >>
Hopefully this is just another hangover gone a little sideways: A 20-year-old Pennsylvania college student went missing over the weekend after he attended what appears to have been someone's graduation party at a Bel Air residence near UCLA. Family and friends have distributed a flier with h ... More >>
Google MapsThat missing Pennsylvania student we told you about apparently is the same person who was fatally struck on the 405 freeway near Getty Center Drive over the weekend, ABC7 reported Monday afternoon. Twenty-year-old James Daniel O'Connell, a.k.a. Jamie, was last seen at a Bel Air gr ... More >>
Authorities this week were searching for the driver of a black Ford Mustang with likely windshield and front-end damage in connection with the hit-and-run death of 20-year-old Jamie O'Connell, a Pennsylvania college student. O'Connell's body was found early Saturday morning on the northbound ... More >>
We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried: Elon Musk, the love-him, hate-him chief of electric-car company Tesla Motors -- the Bay Area automaker with the green-friendly halo over its head -- is also the leader of a Hawthorne company that just received a slap on the wrist by federal official ... More >>
Ah, the luxurious bed bug of Beverly Hills.As if you don't have better things to worry about -- unemployment, global warming, the latest revelation on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills -- L.A. County health officials report that more bed bugs are invading the metropolis, particularly the t ... More >>
Tricia via PBaseCHP: Don't even think about blaming the weatherWe were still kind of making fun of the impending Los Angeles "weather" last Friday, when the shower head was set to wimpy sprinkle and L.A. drivers were farting around at their always hilarious (except when we have to get somewhe ... More >>
Sit 'n SleepYou're itching me, Larry.First we hear that bed bugs are invading Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Holmby Hills. Now comes news that they're the new roaches -- as in, they won't die, no matter how much you gas them. Great. In fact, one of the reasons the critters are in the news, besi ... More >>
TMZThe Gabor house.Prince Frederic von Anhalt has been laying the groundwork for the possible sale of his and wife Zsa Zsa Gabor's Bel Air mansion with tours for the press and, some might say, some pretty lofty Hollywood namedropping. Among his claims: Elvis once lived there. And Gabor bought ... More >>
-- Time to Boycott French Toast, French Fries Again. (See: burqa laws.) [The Awl] -- Gordon Ramsay moves to Bel Air ("12 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, a summerhouse"). [Digital Spy, via Eater] -- New Farmworker Report Paints a Big, Grim Picture. [Civil Eats via @SlowFoodUSA] -- The wonderful world o ... More >>
Vanity FairElizabeth Taylor.The FBI released its files on late actress Elizabeth Taylor today following a flurry of Freedom of Information Act requests from the media. Blogger Michael Petrelis appears to be the first to pick up the release and notes that much of what's in the files pertains ... More >>
This could be you, for 10,000 dolla!The first lady landed quietly in Los Angeles this morning, avoiding another #ObamaTraffic nightmare with an early arrival at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. There to greet her were director J.J. Abrams -- basking in "Super 8's" critically acclai ... More >>
Stuck in Customs via FlickrDelish.Updated with a sewage endorsement from the L.A. County Sanitation District. The California drought may be temporarily on hold, but that doesn't mean Department of Water and Power problem-solvers have stopped scheming up new ways to keep your taps gushing and ... More >>
Picketers outside the Hotel Bel AirSeveral hundred union demonstrators picketed outside the Hotel Bel-Air this evening, calling on managers to rehire workers who were laid off when the hotel closed for renovations."They say go away! We say no way!" the protesters chanted. After a march down to Su ... More >>
The winds are upon us.It may feel cooler and more wintery outside (OK, still in the upper 60s and 70s; sorry Denver), but don't be fooled: What has the potential to be SoCal's worst fire season ever is only just now settling in. We had a few scares back in the beginning of September -- inclu ... More >>
Guzzle & NoshWolfgang Puck at his eponymous restaurant at the Hotel Bel-Air.For anyone who's lived in Los Angeles longer than a decade, it's impossible not to feel caught in some sort of time-warp pulling up to the recently reopened Hotel Bel-Air. The swans still float serenely on the pond an ... More >>
Amanda LewisThis house in Hancock Park was the closest thing I could find in LA to a proper Christmas Yardgasm. It's not always easy being a New York transplant in Los Angeles. I defend you a lot, LA, to everyone back home who hasn't eaten at your taco trucks, felt your gleaming afternoon sun ... More >>
BravoOh boy. If you think The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is disgusting, have we got a show for you. Well, actually, we don't. All we know is that this proposed Real Housewives poseur will focus on the relationships between the Westside's super rich and their help. Let's just hope they ... More >>
Tom MeekThe Ron Jones Orchestra at the Jazz Bakery, 2008The Jazz Bakery, L.A.'s major jazz non-profit organization, is in turmoil because of the pending shutdown of the Culver City Redevelopment Agency. Jazz Bakery president Ruth Price had been working with the agency to reopen Jazz Bakery's ... More >>
WikiThe 1914 Cyclone in question.When you have $1 million worth of vehicle, try to make sure no one's tailing you. The owner of a million-dollar, one-of-a-kind, 1914 twin-cylinder Cyclone motorcycle thinks that crooks might have followed him home following its showing at the annual, open-to- ... More >>
WikipediaA California deer in the road.Los Angeles police have a lot of animals to contend with on the mean streets of the second largest city in America. And sometimes cops have no choice but to shoot. Officials say that was the case over the weekend when officers confronted ... a deer. Th ... More >>
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