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Top 10 Food-Centric YouTube Clips

The way to a music video audience's heart, it seems, is through its stomach -- or at least that's the route these videos take, with varying degrees of deliciousness. From rank amateurs trying to grab a little YouTube stardom to established rock stars, food is a good way to establish a connection w ... More >>

Ode to Joy Division

Torrance Panhandler Bites Woman in Neck for Refusing to Give Him Money

Bums of southwestern L.A. County, gone wild! Torrance police say a panhandler waiting outside a small hospital called Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center assaulted a female employee early Saturday morning as she walked into work. "He initially asked for money," says Sergeant Steven Jen ... More >>

Pair of Lungs Found Discarded on L.A. Sidewalk; Homicide Detectives Investigating

Update: A coroner's official tells the L.A. Times the lungs were from an animal. First posted at 8:30 a.m. Monday. Another possible chapter in the 2012 Zombie Apocalypse? A pair of lungs was discovered by the side of the road in unincorporated South Los Angeles near Compton on Sunday afternoon, ac ... More >>

Top 6 Tacos in the San Fernando Valley

Following up on our list of the 10 Best Tacos in Los Angeles, we decided to look onwards and upwards, towards the San Fernando Valley in search of even more great tacos. And find them we did, especially in Sylmar and Reseda. While you're never too far from a taco truck or taqueria on any given jaun ... More >>

Two Severed Dog Heads Pulled From CVS Dumpster by LAPD

At last, the severed human head discovered on the trail to the Hollywood sign has met its two best friends. The LAPD's Animal Cruelty Task Force pulled a couple of severed dog heads -- formerly belonging to a chocolate lab and a German shepherd -- from a dumpster behind the CVS on Slauson Avenue la ... More >>

Is "Kiss From a Rose" to Blame for "My Heart Will Go On"? Maybe, but It's Still Awesome

[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] We've all been there. What normally would be a forgettable moment of your existence -- standing in line at the supermarke ... More >>

U.S. Still a Dumping Ground for Crappy Honey, Study Finds

Flickr/Joelk75​ They're calling it "honey laundering." More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores is filtered to the point where it contains no pollen -- which would make it flunk the quality standards set by most of the world's food safety agencies, according to testing ... More >>

Seven Terrible L.A. Halloween Costumes (With Suggested Improvements)

Yes. Yes it is.​ OMFG! Halloween starts this weekend! Even though CVS put out the candy and the knickknacks right after Labor Day, you still waited 'til the last minute to get a costume, didn't you? Only recent temperate climate transplants that have been waiting for the palm trees to change ... More >>

Marc Maron on KCRW: LA Weekly's Ultimate Guide to the Top 10 Comedy Podcasts

Doug SadlerHost Howard Kremer, guest Zach Galifianakis and co-host Kulap Vilaysack fart up, err chart up the room on the podcast Who Charted?​ As the Buggles once forecasted in their 1980s pop single: "Video Killed the Radio Star." Today, it's more accurate to say that the podcast resurrecte ... More >>

L.A. County Supervisors Claim Giant New Hotels, Shops, Apartments in Marina Del Rey Won't Increase Traffic (LOL)

We ARE Marina del Rey526 new apartments are proposed for the corner of Via Marina and Marquesas Way.​Marina del Rey is a breath of fresh air just south of Venice: The unincorporated community retains a touch of wildness with worn-in college huts and the occasional open patch of earth or shore. ... More >>

Just Call It Feel-Good Friday: Easter Bunny Hugs Sick Children in Downtown L.A. (VIDEO)

ABC7Awwww​If you somehow failed to notice all the pastel-colored knick-knacks and Easter-themed beanie babies lining your local CVS the last two months, we've got news: Jesus will have risen from the dead some 1,977 years ago on Sunday! It's a magical time for all, but here in L.A., we go big, ... More >>

Brazen Santa Monica Carjack-Turned-Sex Assault Reported: Two Masked Men Described

Steve LyonThe crimes were reported in the area around the Santa Monica Water Garden.​A scary sex crime is being reported out of Santa Monica. A woman says two men who covered their faces with bandanas carjacked and sexually assaulted her over the weekend in the neighborhoods south of the San ... More >>

Why Can't L.A. Seem To Be Able To Regulate Its Pot Shops? And If Pot Is Such Legit Medicine, Why Don't They Sell It At CVS?

The L.A. City Council can't seem to pass this particular joint.​The city of L.A. has had worse luck trying to pass rules that govern pot shops than the Obama administration has had in trying to make health-care reform a reality. In fact City Hall's efforts at regulating cannabis retailers star ... More >>

CVS Pharmacy Paying $75 Million After U.S. Attorney In L.A. Says The Chain Sold Precursor To Meth To Illegal Drug Makers

This is your face on meth: Thanks CVS.​We usually think of our friendly neighborhood meth dealer as a stringy-haired guy with a few missing teeth and a stained wife beater who lives in a van down by the river. Who knew that one of the biggest players in the Meth biz in Southern California was ... More >>

West Hollywood Pot Shop Continues To Stay Open, Defies City Orders To Close

dey via Flickr​A West Hollywood medical marijuana dispensary continues to defy that city by staying open. The Sunset Super Shop on Sunset Boulevard isn't one of the four pot retailers approved by the City Council, and the body even declared operating a rogue cannabis outlet a criminal endeav ... More >>

Make a Run for the Altar

With immigration reform stalled, some young, assimilated illegal immigrants are entering sham marriages with a little help from their friends

'Upskirt' Crime On The, Er, Rise?

​Is it us, or has the Japanese fetish for "upskirt" photos -- on-the-street pictures angled to capture less-exposed areas of a woman -- started to take a life of its own here in the United States? Like everything of pop cultural import -- blues, rock, jazz and techno included -- we invented it ... More >>

VANS ARE NOT ALWAYS SNEAKERS

It's A Family Affair: Couple Brings Kids Along On Alleged Robbery Spree

CHPFile photo.​We've heard of families that do everything together, but this is ridiculous. Los Angeles police report that a couple took a 6- and 4-year-old along for an alleged, early morning robbery spree in the San Fernando Valley Monday. The suspects hit a Rite Aid at 13333 Riverside Driv ... More >>

Palisades Rathouse: Unchallenged by Health Officials, Elderly Twins Fed Local Vermin Population

Old ladies lovingly nurtured rats, turning a home in one of the nation's priciest enclaves into Willard

Gone With the Wind

Santa Anas at night, surfers’ delight. Santa Anas in the morning, homeowners take warning.