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5 Essential Japanese Restaurants in Los Angeles

Our 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants issue came out recently, and we're highlighting a few categories drawing from the list. Today: Japanese restaurants. This is not a definitive list of the best Japanese restaurants in L.A., but it is a sampling of five that we think are each essential in their own w ... More >>

Los Angeles City Council District 3 Primary: Absentee Ballot Results Show Bob Blumenfield Far Ahead of Joyce Pearson

Bob Blumenfield is well ahead of Joyce Pearson in the early vote count for Los Angeles City Council District 3 in the West San Fernando Valley, with 54.09 percent of the vote to Pearson's 18.68. But in this crowded field of candidates, Blumenfield must maintain 50 percent plus one vote to win outrig ... More >>

DUI Checkpoint, Drunk Patrol In Hollywood This Weekend

Now that the Christopher Dorner threat is in the past (thank God), the LAPD appears to be back to full strength and ready to bust your ass with renewed vigor. Some of the cops that assumed a low profile during Dorner's alleged anti-police reign of terror included motorcycle-based traffic officers w ... More >>

L.A. Metro Unveils New Expo Line, Approves Billions More in Rail; Gadfly in Obama Mask Isn't Happy

The inimitable John Walsh, L.A.'s favorite gadfly (unless you work at City Hall), will show up to protest the triumphant Expo Line opening at USC today, where the train will reportedly break through a welcome banner as confetti and cannon fireworks go off in the background. The Bus Riders Union is ... More >>

Sushi Restaurants in Los Angeles: Top 10

10 Best Sushi Restaurants in Los Angeles

Does Los Angeles boast the best sushi in the entire country? If even Ferran Adriá is on our side, we can probably feel confident it's true. The factors that allow our city to be blessed with such a ridiculous bounty are fairly apparent: proximity to superior fish markets, a healthy roster of mast ... More >>

Top 10 Strip Clubs in Los Angeles

So you're curious to go to a strip club, but unless your buddy is a regular and brings you along, how are you going to pick which one? Yelp? Give me a break. Thankfully for you, our L.A. Weekly experts have compiled the top ten strip clubs in L.A. But don't get too excited -- save it for the girls.

Music Picks: Funk-a-Palooza, Keith Jarrett, Ute Lemper & the Vogler Quartet

Also, Hot Snakes, Strange Boys, Ken Parker, Flash Express and others

The Ettes, Sade, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Benefit for Nick Curran

Also, Kendrick Lamar, the Punk Rock BBQ, Katy B and others

LA's Top 10 Ice Cream & Gelato Spots

Guzzle & Nosh​[Catch up on the full 30 Scoops in 30 Days trek in our sweet, creamy archive.] Americans remember President Ronald Reagan as any number of things: The Great Communicator, a proponent of trickle-down economics, a hack former actor with a penchant for chimpanzees. Few, however, kn ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Lappert's (Day 26)

Outside of its birthplace in Hawaii, Lappert's Ice Cream is mostly a Northern California brand. Bored in retirement, Walter Lappert mixed his first batch of ultra rich, high-butterfat ice cream in Kauai in 1983. The brand took off, and his son, Michael, opened a California production facility the ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Jerry's Soda Shoppe (Day 13)

Guzzle & NoshThe ice cream soda at Jerry's Soda Shoppe at the De Soto Pharmacy.​A spectacular ice cream float doesn't cure the pain of existence, but it goes a long way toward soothing the ache. Yesterday, while Leo Bloom was munching on mutton kidneys and we were sorting through the detritus ... More >>

German Alex Romero, 17-Year-Old L.A. Soccer Star at Chatsworth High, Killed on Nighttime Bicycle Ride by Hit-and-Run Driver

U.S. Soccer Development AcademyHigh-school senior German Alex Romero​A boy formerly listed as a varsity soccer player at El Camino Real High School in the Valley was killed last night by a hit-and-run Toyota Corolla, reports City News Service. German Alex Romero and a friend, both 17, were ri ... More >>

Los Angeles Spring Storm Fells Trees, Floods Streets, Darkens Homes

MuscleNerdTree down in L.A.​Update: PCH was reopened, and so was the Grapevine. Record rainfall was recorded around Southern California, with downtown Los Angeles seeing 2.42 inches Sunday compared with 1.48 inches on the date in 1943. See more records after the jump. The first week of spring ... More >>

Rapper The Game vs. Canoga Park Mall: A Tale of (Allegedly) Thieving Valet Parkers, (Allegedly) Racist Cops and a Louis Vuitton Duffel Bag with $75,000 in It

​Billboard reports an amazing tale concerning rapper The Game's Christmas shopping misadventures at a local mall. Apparently Game and his associate Avante Rose (also, apparently a Tila Tequila associate) were at the Westfield Topanga Mall in Canoga Park last Friday and they left their vehicles ... More >>

L.A. Times Interactive Crime Map Informs Public Of Assaults, Car Thefts, Rapes And Worse In Your Los Angeles Neighborhoods

Los Angeles Times​In a bid to increase internet traffic, the Los Angeles Times has introduced an interactive crime map, outlining the crime incidents in LA cities and neighborhoods. You're going to be a bit stunned by what you find.I took it upon myself to look up Woodland Hills, my favorite stomp ... More >>

Ilene Woods, Voice Of Disney's Cinderella, Dies At 81

​Ilene Woods, who provided the voice of Cinderella in the classic film from 1950, died last week at a nursing and rehabilitation center in Canoga Park at the age of 81. According to the Associated Press, she died of causes related to Alzheimer's diseases. Woods was an 18-year old radio singe ... More >>

L.A. Medical-Marijuana Outlets Defy City

Two weeks after the "ban," dispensaries are waiting to hear from their lawyers

Michael Silva, L.A. Homicide No. 126: Man Found Stabbed to Death in Canoga Park [Update: Suspect Identified]

The Los Angeles Police Department is searching for a 32-year-old Canoga Park man who allegedly fatally stabbed Michael Silva on June 5. According to detectives, Jerry Wizar pulled a knife and stabbed 39-year-old Silva multiple times in the head, back, neck and chest. Wizar and Silva were long time a ... More >>

Rita Morales, Manual Reyes, L.A. Homicide No.'s 91, 92: Canoga Park Man Bludgeons Elderly Mother, Uncle

A 63-year-old man was arrested yesterday for allegedly bludgeoning his mother and uncle to death in Canoga Park. View Larger Map Los Angeles Police Department officers were called to the double murder scene around 9 a.m. April 30 in the 7000 block of Eton Avenue, near Sherman Way.

Brick’s Picks: Thelonious Assault

Gang Members Get Booked For Facebooking

Mario Rocha was identified and convicted as a gang member despite much proof.​It's something we reported on a few years ago: Gang members are using social networking sites to represent their neighborhoods, show pride in their sets and display their muscles, weapons and bravado. Today, authorit ... More >>

Unregulated Medical Marijuana: Could Pot-Brownie Bake Sales Help?

Best of L.A.: Shopping

Susannah Breslin Critiques Porn Set

Curbed L.A. flags an amusing Boing Boing piece by blogger Susannah Breslin, reporting on the aesthetics of the Valley porn set. She'd spent both her birthday and Passover last April on the Canoga Park set of a Tori Black shoot which, the director assured Breslin, that "if you want to have sex with T ... More >>

Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 133 -- Canoga Park Victim Identified

The Hispanic male who was shot on June 18 at his home in the 7400 block of Kelvin Avenue in Canoga Park was identified as 46-year-old Antonio Araiza.  View Larger Map According to police reports, two Hispanic males with "shaved heads" showed up on Araiza's doorstep and shot him several times i ... More >>

Revisiting LA Music History: Guns N Roses' 'Appetite for Destruction' Studio

Nikki DarlingThe studio formerly known as Rumbo, where "Rocket Queen" was recorded It was a time when the Valley lingered somewhere between Frank Zappa's ramblings and a real life version of Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights. A mix of agriculture, dust, white wagon wheels, diners, car dealershi ... More >>

New loopholes for Los Angeles billboards and "sign districts"

A heated hearing unfolded earlier today before the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, which wants to create yet another complicated, exception-filled plan to try to control street clutter in Los Angeles, the capital of the illegal billboard industry.Details of today's hearing will come from ace r ... More >>

San Fernando Valley's Galaxy of Chemical Goo

City planners make a slick zone change to allow easier building on troubled land

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Prop 8 Donors Fear Outing Today's N.Y. Times looks at nervous supporters of the California measure banning same-sex marriage, now that a final report revealing their addresses  is due out.Lost in Space Actor Dies Bob May, the man inside the Robby the Robot suit in the 1960s TV series, Lost in S ... More >>

Anti-Billboard Activists Gear Up for Fight

Anti-clutter, anti-billboard activists are gearing up for a fight tomorrow when a hearing will be held on a proposed, hyper-bright electronic billboard on Ventura Boulevard in Encino. The Coalition to Ban Billboard Blight has been fighting to stop the bright billboard on Ventura Boulevard since l ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Beautiful Scenes

Jazz bakery cooks, Back Room closes

Sands of Time

Jazz picks around L.A.

Latin Playboys

The rhythm, in many shapes and sizes, lands in town this week

De-railed Planning

Our readers write back

I Got Yer Inconvenient Truth!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

The End Of Murder

If New York can slash homicide by 76 percent, can Los Angeles contemplate a vanishing point?

I'm in the Moog for Tiki

A Beer-slugging, Flag-waving, Double-Wilder Week of Fun

Dennis Zine, City Council District 3

Dueling for an Education

Some parents win, others lose English-Spanish program

A Scary Abundance of Water

Part 2

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In the Beginning

An introduction to and brief history of the river

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Corruptors

The rap on Styles of Beyond

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