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Celeste Fremon

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    'Times' Editor David Lauter Defends Paper's Coverage Of County Child Care, Calls Out Critics As Biased

    The Times stands by its coverage of county child welfare.​Updated after the jump with reference to a day when the Times changed its figures without noting the fact to readers. First posted at 11:41 a.m. The Times, they aren't a-changin.' At least not when it comes to the paper's controversial ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    Questions Raised In Authorities' Fatal Shooting Of Teenager Zachary Champommier In Studio City

    ​The official account of a deputy involved shooting that took the life of 18-year-old Zachary Champommier was questioned this week by a witness, Douglas Oeters, who says he saw the incident because he was meeting up with the teen that night, according to the crime-and-justice blog WitnessLA. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    Gang Interventionist Tried For Conspiracy To Be Freed On Bail (UPDATED)

    Sanchez.​Alex Sanchez, the Los Angeles anti-gang activist accused by federal authorities of diving back into street life and conspiring to commit serious crimes, was granted bail Wednesday, according to Celeste Fremon's WitnessLA. After two hearings on the matter and much support for Sanchez ... More >>

  • News

    August 27, 2009

    Early Release Candidate No. 1: Prisoner Najee Ali

    The L.A. activist says cut him loose, help the state budget

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2009

    Trutanich's Anti-Graffiti Injunction Draws Fire

    The response to L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich's proposal, reported in yesterday's L.A. Times, to criminalize the mere gathering of members of graffiti-tagging crews has not been pretty. Graffiti is one of those quality of life issues that people can point to when explaining why Los Angeles is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    LAPD Chief Bill Bratton: A Hero or a Palin?

    Ever since Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bill Bratton announced his resignation last week, it's as if the guy has become some kind of victorious, military hero who fought a horrible, bloody mission in some god-forsaken land...and now he gets to take a well-deserved breather and enjoy the spoil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2009

    The Joker Is Wild: Alan Mittelstaedt's Tax Proposals

    The sardonic Alan Mittelstaedt has been letting off steam this past week as he guest-hosts Celeste Fremon's Witness L.A. blog. His latest blast is in the form of fancifully proposed state taxes and, while ostensibly showing how easy it really is to balance the budget, Mr. Sardonicus manages to take ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2009

    Cadaver Trial Convict Allegedly Tormented in Men's Central Jail

    Last October UCLA's former director of its Willed Body Program, Henry Reid, pleaded guilty to running  a criminal enterprise in which he and a collaborator sold body parts to research outfits as though they were hubcaps. In January he was sentenced to nearly four and a half years in state priso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2009

    Hard Cell: Central Jail Stacks 'Em High

    In her Witness L.A. blog, Celeste Fremon talks to a prisoner stuck in the crowded county lockup. "Al," as she calls him, is nursing a bum knee created by a mishap that occurred when he was sliding down from a three-tiered bunk bed. That's how sardine-can-like the Men's Central Jail has become. The p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2009

    Death in the Afternoon: USC Journalism Students Investigate a Tragedy

    Celeste Fremon's Witness L.A. blog has given well-deserved coverage to the efforts of USC journos investigating a Highland Park double murder. The shooting deaths of two high school students, Alejandro Garcia and Carlos Hernandez, occurred in broad daylight last month on heavily trafficked Figueroa ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 22, 2007

    Feb. 23. 2007

    The Town the Law Forgot by JEFFREY ANDERSON. No Peace in the Valley by STEVEN MIKULAN. Li'l Dickens Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Make Love to the Vice President by JERRY STAHL

  • News

    April 20, 2006

    Streets of Intervention

    William “Blinky” Rodriguez

  • News

    April 13, 2006

    Not-So-Free Trade

    William “Blinky” Rodriguez

  • Articles

    January 19, 2006

    About LA Weekly: Staff

    William “Blinky” Rodriguez

  • News

    August 11, 2005

    Letters

    William “Blinky” Rodriguez

  • News

    June 23, 2005

    Boycotts and Blacklists

    William “Blinky” Rodriguez

  • News

    June 9, 2005

    Raging Against a Homophobe

    William “Blinky” Rodriguez

  • News

    May 12, 2005

    Letters

    William “Blinky” Rodriguez

  • News

    January 20, 2005

    Letters

    William “Blinky” Rodriguez

  • News

    December 30, 2004

    A Fragile Peace

    Frances and Luis Aguilar fight to get their children back. But it takes more than that to keep the family together. Tensions reach a boiling point.

  • News

    December 30, 2004

    Family Analysis: A Fragile Family

    Lessons from a year with Frances, Luis and their children

  • News

    October 14, 2004

    Letters

    Lessons from a year with Frances, Luis and their children

  • News

    September 30, 2004

    Letters

    Lessons from a year with Frances, Luis and their children

  • News

    July 29, 2004

    Letters

    Lessons from a year with Frances, Luis and their children

  • News

    June 17, 2004

    Letters

    Lessons from a year with Frances, Luis and their children

  • News

    May 27, 2004

    Letters

    Lessons from a year with Frances, Luis and their children

  • News

    March 4, 2004

    Letters

    Lessons from a year with Frances, Luis and their children

  • Supplement

    December 11, 2003

    Apocalypse Tuesday

    Covering the new world disorder

  • News

    August 7, 2003

    Letters

    Covering the new world disorder

  • News

    June 12, 2003

    A Bear Trap

    Civil-rights lawyer Connie Rice takes on Rampart

  • News

    April 10, 2003

    Letters

    Civil-rights lawyer Connie Rice takes on Rampart

  • News

    November 14, 2002

    Letters

    Civil-rights lawyer Connie Rice takes on Rampart

  • News

    September 12, 2002

    Introduction

    Civil-rights lawyer Connie Rice takes on Rampart

  • News

    July 4, 2002

    And the Winner Is...Us

    Civil-rights lawyer Connie Rice takes on Rampart

  • News

    October 25, 2001

    Letters

    Civil-rights lawyer Connie Rice takes on Rampart

  • News

    September 6, 2001

    Letters

    Civil-rights lawyer Connie Rice takes on Rampart

  • News

    August 23, 2001

    Letters

    Civil-rights lawyer Connie Rice takes on Rampart

  • News

    August 9, 2001

    Letters

    Civil-rights lawyer Connie Rice takes on Rampart

  • News

    June 21, 2001

    Letters

    Civil-rights lawyer Connie Rice takes on Rampart

  • News

    February 15, 2001

    Letters

    Civil-rights lawyer Connie Rice takes on Rampart

  • News

    June 29, 2000

    Letters

    Civil-rights lawyer Connie Rice takes on Rampart

  • News

    August 19, 1999

    Letters

    Civil-rights lawyer Connie Rice takes on Rampart

  • Supplement

    November 26, 1998

    Body and Soul

    Life before serotonin re-uptake inhibitors and boner pills

  • Supplement

    November 26, 1998

    LETTERS

    Life before serotonin re-uptake inhibitors and boner pills

  • News

    October 8, 1998

    Letters

    ...I read Michael Kearns' piece on nudity in gay theater ["Getting Undressed for the Theater," September 4-10], and my first reaction was . . . Enough already! ...

  • Art+Books

    August 27, 1998

    Shooting Kids

    East Side Stories: Gang Life in East L.A.

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