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Carson

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    ICE Agent Shot at Home in Carson; 14-Year-Old Son Arrested for Murder

    On the same night that three Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents were shot on the job in NorCal -- and about a month after a fatal shootout between agents at the Long Beach federal courthouse -- another ICE agent died just after 9 p.m. on Thursday while sitting in his home in Carson. The vi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    ICE Agent Shot at Home in Carson; 14-Year-Old Son Arrested for Murder

    On the same night that three Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents were shot on the job in NorCal -- and about a month after a fatal shootout between agents at the Long Beach federal courthouse -- another ICE agent died just after 9 p.m. on Thursday while sitting in his home in Carson. The vi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    Freeway Shooter on The Loose in South Bay

    In the 1991 film L.A. Story, spring means it's "open season on the L.A. freeway!" Maybe someone finally got the memo this year, because a gunman has been on the loose in the South Bay, with a pedestrian and four vehicles hit in the last two weeks, authorities say. The woman who was walking about 2 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    Elgin Olu Stafford, USC Student, Found Dead in Carson Water Channel

    The body of a man found last week in the Dominguez Channel in Carson, not far from a popular Ikea store, was identified over the weekend as belonging to 23-year-old USC master's student Elgin Olu Stafford. Reports indicated he interned last summer for area U.S. Rep. Karen Bass. He was studying publ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    Sex Loft LA Aims its Custom Digs at Porn Industry Shoots

    Places that are set up almost strictly for sex we tend to call motels. But one Carson loft owner with an entrepreneurial spirit has set up a per diem sex den that's could be a home away from home for porn producers. Sex Loft LA is billed as a place "for both adult and mainstream video filming and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Tiesto Heads to L.A. For Record Crowds at Home Depot Center Saturday: We Ask Him Why

    See also: *Our review of Tiesto's show at Home Depot Center, October 8, 2011 *Tiesto's Home Depot Center Show in October Billed as Largest One-DJ Gig in U.S. History Tiesto is a love-him-or-hate-him DJ, but if you look at his draw in the L.A. market and beyond, you have to think people really do l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    Carson Mayor Jim Dear Is Trying Embarrassingly Hard to Name a Street After Himself

    Mayor Dear feels under-appreciated.​There is apparently nothing better to do, down in working-class Carson, than try to name streets after oneself -- than bicker for hours over whether such an honor is deserved. According to the Daily Breeze, the City Council voted 2-2 on Mayor Jim Dear's aud ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    William Barry Wise, Worker at Carson BP Refinery, Crushed to Death by Railcar

    terrapsych.comBP's refinery in Carson, where Wise was killed.​A longtime employee of the BP refinery in Carson died early yesterday morning while on the job. The L.A. County Coroner identifies him today as 54-year-old white man William Barry Wise, an Irvine resident. BP spokesman Walter Neil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Burger Alert: Five Guys Culver City Opens This Friday

    L. Balla​ Five Guys fans, get excited: We just confirmed that the next location opens in Culver City's Westfield Fox Hills mall this Friday at 11 a.m. Unless you live near Cerritos, Carson, Thousand Oaks and other outlying areas, this is huge. For the uninitiated, Five Guys started in Virgini ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    DUI Checkpoints Abound in L.A. This Weekend: Where Not to Drive Drunk

    The coppers come out on Friday (and Saturday) night​Updated with a few more stops from around the county. OK, technically you shouldn't be driving drunk anywhere (bad!), as we learned for the umpteenth time from a Long Beach fire captain who nearly killed a cyclist in Seal Beach last week, bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    The UnderDawg: Ab-Soul's "LongTerm Mentality" Starts Paying Off

    ​Back before ScHoolboy Q, the third artist to be fired like a cannonball from the TopDawg Entertainment camp, sold out his first solo show at the Key Club, we theorized that the local label was strategizing the rap game like a war. With two of its artists, Jay Rock and Kendrick Lamar, rising t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Janet Napolitano Urges You to Become a Terrorism Snitch at Staples Center: Profile Away

    Front row, next to Jack Nicholson.​Ah, the terror-snitch ho-down has begun at Staples Center downtown, where U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday announced that the "If You See Something, Say Something" tip-off program has expanded there. Any particular th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Erin Brockovich and Carson Residents Score a Victory as Shell Oil is Ordered to Clean Up Contamination

    ​Somewhere, Erin Brockovich is smiling. Since last year, the famous crusader has supported the Carousel neighborhood residents of Carson in their fight to get Shell Oil to clean up the community, where the company used to store up to 140 million gallons of crude. Dangerous levels of carcinogens, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    BP Puts Monster SoCal Refinery -- 25 Percent of All L.A. Gas -- Up for Sale

    terrapsych.comBP Carson Refinery: officially on the market​It's easy to hate BP. Those jerks made the glistening Gulf of Mexico into a goopy seafood dish that lined our nightmares in black slime and swallowed helpless baby animals whole. And that was just the view from unaffected California, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    Ray-J To Follow Kim Kardashian Sex Tape With Bid For Mayor Of Carson?

    Now that's the kind of mug we want to see on the City of Carson website​Stick to what you're good at, man. "Singer" and "actor" Ray-J -- most famous for his grainy romp with Valley sex symbol Kim Kardashian -- told AllHipHop.com on Dec. 8 that he wants to be mayor of Carson, California. It's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    Q & A With Craig Thornton: Wolvesmouth, Thomas Keller Cooking with Fire

    Caleb ChenCraig Thonton over his stove​ Back in August, we happened upon a photo from an underground supper club called Wolvesden. The blogs were already raving about these secret dinners, and in October, we had the opportunity to dine at one ourselves. There were thirteen of us there that nig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Live Review: OFF!, Redd Kross (aka Red Cross) and Scream at Club Lingerie

    Diamond Bodine-FischerOFF! at Club Lingerie​Club Lingerie, Hollywood. Last Wednesday evening. By 9:30 the line wrapped around the block, by 10 a roomful of people shuffled their feet, snuck looks at the crowd around them and sipped their beer. Around 10:30 Keith Morris -- founder of Black Fl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2010

    Feds, State Bust Up Massive Alleged L.A. ... Tobacco Ring? Yep, Tobacco.

    ​Retro: State and federal authorities up and down California and over to Vegas have busted up a big non-cigarette tobacco ring that allegedly avoided paying taxes -- $35 million in California excise taxes. A bevy of state and federal agencies were involved in the three-year investigation, rac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Carson City Council Members Squabbling Over Seating Assignments

    Mayor Jim Dear​While other city councils talk budgets, education, and housing reform-- the city council members at Carson are squabbling over where to sit during their council meetings. It's nice to know that our cities are run by such mature and professional adults. According to the Daily B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    Hunger Awareness: L.A. Regional Foodbank Report

    Via LA Observed comes a report from the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank on Hunger in L.A. County. Given the state of the economy and California's 12.4% unemployment rate, it shouldn't come as a surprise that a record number of people received food assistance last year. The report shows that almost 1 m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Evacuations Ordered For Several Foothill Communities (UPDATED)

    National Weather Service​Authorities ordered 64 households in the Paradise Valley area of La Canada-Flintridge to evacuate as storm-caused mud flows threatened a neighborhood above 2524 Ocean View Boulevard. Evacuations of 83 residences in the Riverwood Ranch, Alpine Village, Zachaou Canyon, H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    And The NFL Stadium Goes To ... Industry?

    It seemed like only yesterday that community leaders were still debating about where a prospective new NFL stadium would go -- Carson, Exposition Park (at a refurbished Coliseum) or the San Gabriel Valley's far-out city of Industry. The governor just cast a big vote for the latter. Today he signed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    This Unsporting Life: David Beckham's Plummeting Popularity

    Wikipedia​The decline and fall of David Beckham, soccer superstar, can be glimpsed in the recent headlines below. The British midfielder's popularity began falling last spring when Beckham scuttled his contract with the L.A. Galaxy so that he could return to European team play. Los Angeles fans tu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Tarnished Star A veteran sheriff's deputy has been relieved of duty and charged with perjury for lying about a 2007 drug-possession arrest. L.A. TimesCandidate to Cedillo: Donate Spree Money Longshot Congressional candidate Rafael Nadal has asked fellow candidate Gil Cedillo to donate to homeless ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Long Beach OK's Wetlands Deal The L.B. City Council has approved a deal to trade a 12-acre parcel from a public service yard for nearly 34 acres of Los Cerritos Wetlands located on Bixby Ranch.Man Ends Barricade Standoff Frank Torres peacefully left his Carson home, which is threatened with bank for ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    December 25, 2008

    "Man Bites World" Writer Running Out of Cuisines, Asks Mr. Gold

    Is it the end of the world?

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    What's Not in a Name?

    Burbank was not named for horticulturalist Luther. Stanton was not so called in honor of actor Harry Dean. Nor was Carson dedicated to late-night talk-show host Johnny. These are just some of the disillusioning facts one learns over the course of living in L.A. According to William Bright's ever-hel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2008

    Thousands Predicted To Attend Fallen SWAT Officers Funeral

    Thousands of mourners and a swarm of media are expected at Friday morning's funeral for fallen Los Angeles Police Department SWAT Officer Russel Simmons, who was shot to death on February 7 in a horrific shootout in the San Fernando Valley. LAPD officials are predicting an overflow crowd and one of ... More >>

  • News

    January 17, 2008

    Farce in Carson

    A corrupt Los Angeles suburb tries for a comeback - and lands on YouTube

  • Columns

    August 9, 2007

    X Post Facto

    The power of the X Games, especially on TV

  • Columns

    May 11, 2006

    The Conversation

    The power of the X Games, especially on TV

  • Calendar

    December 8, 2005

    Fireball Ministry

    Local bands, man

  • Music

    September 29, 2005

    Satire, Punk and Politics

    Or, black people don’t like George Bush

  • News

    April 28, 2005

    Tenant Services

    Or, black people don’t like George Bush

  • Columns

    April 7, 2005

    God Free

    Or, black people don’t like George Bush

  • Stage

    January 27, 2005

    Johnny Carson Farewell

    Or, black people don’t like George Bush

  • News

    December 23, 2004

    14 Hairstyles of the Pundits

    Or, black people don’t like George Bush

  • News

    April 1, 2004

    The Well-Oiled Deal

    Taking away local control of refineries is a family matter

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    People Whose Passing We Lament

    Taking away local control of refineries is a family matter

  • News

    July 18, 2002

    Megaplex Monopoly

    Coming to a theater near you

  • LA Life

    June 6, 2002

    Shadow Over Schools

    The next move could be busting up L.A. Unified

  • News

    May 10, 2001

    Barking for Change

    Torrance wants more say over its pets

  • Eat+Drink

    July 27, 2000

    The Accidental Gourmand

    Food as afterthought

  • Stage

    July 29, 1999

    TGIF at the Bowl

    Food as afterthought

  • News

    June 3, 1999

    The Inside Scoop on Summer Gigs

    Job programs for the young and inexperienced

  • News

    June 3, 1999

    The Anti-Reform Movement

    As election eve approaches, see who opposes the charter — and why

  • Supplement

    November 26, 1998

    1989 Timeline

    As election eve approaches, see who opposes the charter — and why

  • News

    November 5, 1998

    Taco Bowl

    Carson meets Michael Ovitz

  • News

    May 28, 1998

    Councilman Fouls Magic

    Ridley-Thomas fumes as Johnson passes on Coliseum

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