Camarillo

SoCal Farm Workers Canned for Fleeing Fire? All a Misunderstanding, Farm Says

The story of more than a dozen farm workers fired after fleeing smoke from the Springs fire in Ventura County has turned out to be the story of more than a dozen farm workers who still have a job. Maybe. You see, after the story became a headline, the SoCal farm in question said it was all just a ... More >>

Porn Pulls Out Of L.A.

After you, the L.A. County voter, decided in November to mandate condom use in local porn production, the adult industry has nearly pulled out of town, so to speak. FilmLA, which processes permits for the city and county of Los Angeles, says it has received only two adult film applications this yea ... More >>

Porn Knocks On Camarillo's Door After Condoms Required In L.A.

The porn industry has been none too happy about L.A. county's mandatory condom ordinance. It has threatened to leave the state, but it might have found a solution closer to home: By simply moving production into neighboring counties that don't require condoms for adult video shoots, porn can pretty ... More >>

Vanessa Tsakrios, 24-Year-Old Substitute Teacher in Oxnard, Allegedly Sexted 17-Year-Old Student

Another teenage boy's wet dream in Oxnard! Right when students might finally be coming down from the vision of Haydock Intermediate School teacher/porn star Stacie Halas getting railed on the Internet (footage she reportedly shot while she was employed as a teacher), they find out their substitute t ... More >>

Paula Daniels: Like Water for Strawberries

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Growing up in a Korean-American family in Hawaii, Paula Daniels had a precocious awareness of the natural environment. When her 12-year-old friends made "slam books," solicitin ... More >>

Silicon Beach: 5 People Making L.A. a New Tech Industry Capital

Los Angeles may be 350 miles south of Silicon Valley, but it's making strides to close the distance between the two in terms of sheer brain power and inventiveness (with a little bit of entertainment thrown in for good measure). Here are five people from our People issue helping to make that happen.

Adam Lisagor: The Video Guru

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. If you've been to the website of a buzzy new tech startup in the last few years -- Groupon, Airbnb, Square -- chances are you've seen the work of Adam Lisagor. Not just his sho ... More >>

Jet Crashes Near Camarillo Airport

Updated at the bottom with more information about the plane, which was being used by the military. Headline has been changed. First posted at 12:49 p.m. A private jet crashed near Camarillo Airport this afternoon, according to authorities and reports. A Ventura County sheriff's captain told the We ... More >>

Eat This Now: Dragons' Whiskers Salad Specialty Vegetables at Cafe Fusion

It's a great time to eat at Café Fusion. May officially kicks off dragons' whiskers salad season at the eight-year-old Taiwanese restaurant, and it also marks the seasonal arrival of locally grown baby bamboo shoots, yam leaves and other produce you rarely see elsewhere. The restaurant attained ... More >>

Taqueria Cuernavaca: Land of Eternal Spring

If you didn't initially order the taco al pastor at Taqueria Cuernavaca, surely you will after the trip to the salsa bar. Because while loading the small plastic cups with salsa and a few dark, dark red chiles de árbol, you'll probably glance into the kitchen. And in said kitchen, you'll spot meat ... More >>

Cindy Reyna, Model and UC Santa Barbara Student, Faces Deportation

Updated at the bottom: She was arrested on suspicion of DUI. First posted at 1:58 p.m. Immigrants' rights activists are coming to the aid of Cindy Reyna, a UC Santa Barbara student and sometime model who they say was arrested and now faces deportation despite being a potential DREAM Act student. T ... More >>

Lassen's Protest Tomorrow

​It doesn't have the critical mass of the Occupy movement, but tomorrow at 1 p.m., Los Feliz locals upset at gay-unfriendly Lassen's, the store that took over Nature Mart when it closed, will stage a protest outside the health food store at 1 p.m. Some locals are boycotting Lassen's because of ... More >>

5 Local Farmers Who are Doing it Right

Felicia FriesemaThe Hollywood market earlier this year.​After reading Beth Barrett's piece about farmers markets this week, it might be tempting to hang up the locavore hat and head out for an angsty and cathartic mouthful at the local McDonald's. We're envisioning an army of market goers as ... More >>

Nature Mart in Los Feliz to Close

Guzzle & NoshAssorted vegetables.​After 38 years in business, popular Los Feliz health food store Nature Mart will close on November 1st, reports Echo Park Patch. Founded by Matt Huupponen in 1973, the store known for its array of bulk food items, fresh fruit and vegetables and freshly pressed ... More >>

Robbery Inmates Escape on Mulholland Drive: LAPD on The Lookout in Laurel Canyon Area

​Updated at the bottom: California prison officials say the pair has been caught. First posted at 4:38 p.m. on Aug. 5. Cops in the Laurel Canyon area were on the lookout for two jail inmates who escaped while on brush-clearance work detail, according to the LAPD. Officer Sara Faden told the W ... More >>

Katelyn Policastro, 5-Week-Old at Childrens Hospital L.A., Needs a Donated Lung to Survive: If She Gets One it Would be a Worldwide First

Childrens Hospital Los AngelesSuper cute.​A 5-week old Southern California girl is battling to stay alive as a result of a rare lung disease. On Monday Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and the girl's parents made an appeal for a lung donor who would likely save Katelyn Policastro's life. If it ... More >>

Lenny Dykstra Arrested in Encino, Charged With Embezzlement

lennydykstra.com​Update: TMZ reports that Charlie Sheen put up $22,000 to bail Dykstra out of jail. Retired baseball star Lenny Dykstra was charged this week with bankruptcy fraud. The U.S. Attorney's Office says he was arrested last night in an unrelated matter. A sheriff's inmate informatio ... More >>

Urban Homesteading Panel: Your DIY Food Security Garden

smgov.net​ If you like to spend your weekends putting beds of lettuces in your back yard, growing herbs on your roof, or raising chickens next to your swimming pool (please do not do this, at least not literally), you might want to head over to the Santa Monica Public Library this Thursday to ... More >>

Happy Holidays: L.A. Sees Record Warmth Over Weekend; More Temps In The 80s Expected Today

The sun blazes in December for L.A.​Don't worry. It's not the salvia talking. It really is 80-plus degrees in December. After a summer that saw some record low temps in late July, the heat has arrived during the holiday shopping season. The city of San Gabriel almost reached 90 degrees over t ... More >>

Soft Revolution Ends Gerrymandering

Under Prop. 20, 14 citizens chosen this month will remake state political map

California's Proposition 20 and Proposition 27: Gerrymandering And Election-Fixing And Why You Should Give A Rip

By Hillel Aron California's "Ribbon of Shame" Congressional District 23 stretches more than 200 miles from outside Camarillo to the Monterey Co. border, narrows to 100 yards and is said to "disappear at high tide​Update: Before Nov. 2, read about shadowy Michael Berman, a map-making guru who ... More >>

Propositions 20 and 27 in California: Arizona provides a peak into the end of gerrymandering, the start of fair redistricting

By Hillel Aron A massive throng of 31,000 wanted to join the California Citizens Redistricting Commission. This isn't them.​If voters approve California Proposition 20, ending the sleazy gerrymandering of Congressional voting districts, and at the same time dump the spoiler, Proposition 27, w ... More >>

Propositions 20 And 27: California Newspapers Unanimously Back 20 (Except One) And Unanimously Pillory The Egregious 27

By Hillel Aron The California Legislature's crack gerrymandering team​The editorial boards of California newspapers agree: Proposition 27, which would overturn a voter-approved 2008 reform that prevents Sacramento legislators from gerrymandering voting districts to keep their jobs, is an ugly ... More >>

L.A.'s First GABF Gold: Eagle Rock Brewery Takes It Home Tonight's Celebration Party

J. GarbeeJeremy (left) and Steven Raub In Front Of The Brew Tank Where It All Started​Dozens of breweries took home medals at last weekend's Great American Beer Festival (GABF) in Denver, but none was likely as shocked as Eagle Rock Brewery, barely a year out of the hops bin, to win. "We were ... More >>

Two Arrested In Murder Of Santa Monica Actress

SMPDSuspect Kelly Soo Park.​Santa Monica police announced Friday that they've arrested two suspects in the murder of 21-year-old actress Juliana Redding, who was found dead in her apartment in the 1500 block of Centinela Avenue on March 16, 2008 after police went there to conduct a welfare che ... More >>

Suspect Arrested In Hotel Manager's Slaying Was Found Walking Nearby

Google MapsThe Chetwood Hotel.​Police say the 39-year-old suspect arrested in the murder of a 74-year-old Little Tokyo hotel manager was found walking nearby and taken into custody. Los Angeles police allege Jian Hong Li fatally stabbed 74-year-old residential hotel manager Hideko Oyama Jan. ... More >>

Craig Strong's New Beachfront Kitchen, Wherein the Chef Demonstrates How to Stuff a Squid A Recipe

Chef Craig Strong left the kitchen of Pasadena's The Langham, Huntington Hotel & Spa at the end of May--after eight years and one Michelin star--and decamped for Laguna Beach, where he became executive chef of Studio at Montage in June. (Studio's previous chef, James Boyce, left for Alabama; Strong ... More >>

Rock Picks: Orphics, Roky Erickson, Madonna

Also, Linda Ronstadt, Rise Against and more

Capitol's Vinyl Series: A Storied Label Digs in its Crates, Uncovers Some Gems

Yeah, it's easy to pile on the major labels these days for all their foul-ups and foibles, for their lawsuits and their protectionism, for single-minded focus on money at the expense of dignity (see below blurry photo of Coldplay banner sullying the roof of the majestic Capitol Building of this su ... More >>

Goldfinger Arraigned

James Michael Fayed appeared in federal court today to plead not guilty to a single charge of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. His Camarillo-based company, Goldfinger Coin and Bullion Sales, faces the same count, stemming from a sealed complaint alleging the firm engaged in fraud ... More >>

The Killing of a Gay Oxnard Student

Lawrence King: Punch-drunk Hate

Latino Leaders' Clinton and Obama Endorsements: California's Wannabe Kingmakers

Deciphering the payback, ambition and backbiting behind it all

Flight Patterns

A local architect takes recycling to new heights

Turn That Smile Into a Brown

How the Orange bishop put the deal together

Tehran Nights

From Motown to Rimtown

The blinging of Los Angeles

The Doctor of Shirts

Vinyl Fetish

The often weird, sometimes sad and occasionally wonderful world of song-poems

Letters

A Trip to Purgatory

Exhuming Camarillo State Hospital's Troubled Past

Off Center and in Control

On the set with Neil LaBute

Trouble in Paradise

A regional environmental official’s departure raises questions

Broken Hearts Club

The Gospel of Charles

Charlie Parker’s bebop nativity, unabridged

The Night Salvador Dali Stole the Moon

An appeal from the asylum

Letters

Sunny Days, Sultry Nights

Highlighting the events of the season

Bad News

L.A.'s Low-Definition TV Journalism

Immigrant Workers

The law that keeps them chained

Drug Trials

County may resume experiments on mentally ill