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Baby Sea Lion Hits The Road, Heads For Ikea In Carson

A baby sea lion was rescued on the street in Carson, more than eight miles from open water, sheriff's officials reported today. Caught near Avalon Boulevard and Dominguez Street, it appeared the pup took a wrong turn and was headed toward ... Ikea? Who knows. Sheriff's Lt. Chris Bergner told the W ... More >>

Kendrick Lamar's Mood Music

The Compton rapper carries the expectations of his city on his shoulders. It's tiring

56: Smothered Chicken at R and R Soul Food

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 56: Smothered Chicken at R & R Soul Food. A good soul food plate should be formidable. It should make you worry whether you are going to be able make the driv ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

Is it the end of the world?

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 >>

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 >>

Farce in Carson

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

X Post Facto

The power of the X Games, especially on TV

The Conversation

Fireball Ministry

Local bands, man

Satire, Punk and Politics

Or, black people don’t like George Bush

Tenant Services

God Free

Johnny Carson Farewell

The Well-Oiled Deal

Taking away local control of refineries is a family matter

People Whose Passing We Lament

Megaplex Monopoly

Coming to a theater near you

Shadow Over Schools

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

Barking for Change

Torrance wants more say over its pets

The Accidental Gourmand

Food as afterthought

TGIF at the Bowl

The Inside Scoop on Summer Gigs

Job programs for the young and inexperienced

The Anti-Reform Movement

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

1989 Timeline

Taco Bowl

Carson meets Michael Ovitz

Councilman Fouls Magic

Ridley-Thomas fumes as Johnson passes on Coliseum