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Jose Gardea Vs. Gil Cedillo in L.A. City Council District 1 Election: Ugly Fight for $178,789 Job

Eastside L.A. voters in the March 5 primary might elect someone outright for City Council District 1 without awaiting the May 21 runoff if either candidate gets 50 percent plus one vote. The spoils? A $178,789 job, a staff of about 20 aides, and eight free cars paid for by L.A. taxpayers. So the Jo ... More >>

It's Not a Space Shuttle or a Giant Rock, But Chevron's 100-Foot Coke Drums Shut Down the PCH Yesterday

See also: *20 Ways to Pose for Photos at the LACMA Rock *LACMA Rock Finally Opens. Does It Live Up to Expectations? Last night, Chevron began moving two of six 500,000-pound coke drums -- that's oil industry lingo for processing units -- up from the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro to its refinery ... More >>

El Segundo Museum of Art Opens, Bringing Smartphones Into the Gallery Experience

The new home for the El Segundo Museum of Art -- which isn't a public museum, but technically a private collection open to the public -- infills a tiny slice of downtown El Segundo's Main Street, right next to a former post office storefront, in a skinny slot that used to be a drive-through alley. T ... More >>

Proposition 32 Union Campaign Contribution Limits: Hitler Endorsed!

OK, so the late Adolf Hitler hasn't officially endorsed Proposition 32, the ballot measure designed to stop corporations and unions from deducting political contributions from employee paychecks. But based on the flurry of over-the-top attack mailers arriving in the last two days, it's surely only a ... More >>

Gas Prices Could Reach All-Time High in L.A. as Some Stations Expected to Shut Down

Southern California is an island of gas-price hell this week. One station in Calabasas is charging nearly $6 ($5.89 to be exact) a gallon for high-octane fuel, the Costco in Simi Valley has run out of regular-grade gas (with other stations expected to follow suit), and one expert tells us that all-t ... More >>

Gas at $5.51 a Gallon in Los Angeles? Prepare for More Increases as a Result of Refinery Fire

Updated at the bottom: And it gets worse as another refinery in the Bay Area goes up in smoke. First posted at 2:40 p.m. If this heat wave has you down, just wait until your next gas station visit. A fire at a Chevron refinery near San Francisco last Monday knocked out a portion of one of Califor ... More >>

Richmond Refinery Fire Could Push L.A. Gas Prices Back Over $4

Goddammit. Just when we were beginning to get used to this summertime dip in gas prices -- they've fallen from over $4.30 in March to about $3.90 today -- the largest refinery in NorCal has to go and screw everything up. According to reports, a series of explosions at the Chevron oil refinery in Ri ... More >>

Sam McPheeters, of the '90s Punk Band Born Against, On His Bizarre Novel About L.A.'s Angriest Chevron Owner

"I wanted it to be like a firework show," Sam McPheeters says about the crescendo of energy and tension in his debut novel, The Loom of Ruin. "It just gets more and more insane." Co-founder of the legendary hardcore punk band Born Against, McPheeters' first novel was just released via Mugger Books ... More >>

Chevron Refinery in El Segundo 'Avoided Paying Millions of Dollars in Taxes'

It's officially election season in America, and few topics are hotter or divide us more than taxes: Should the rich pay more? Do the wealthy carry the rest of us? Do corporations pay their fair share? On that last one, KCET's news series, SoCal Connected, might have a partial answer:

$5.59 Gas in Los Angeles: Fuel Reaches High Not Seen Since 2008

The jobless rate is down. People are starting to spend money again. Some of Wall Street's biggest stocks, like Apple, are trading at record highs. Damn, this Great Recession might have just turned a corner for the better. Finally. Wait a minute. Did you say $5.59-a-gallon gas? Right here in L.A?

Driving Pacific Standard Time: How a Studio Becomes a Starbucks

A journey to discover what's become of L.A.'s art landmarks

Bill Gallegos: Cooling Dante's Inferno

Gloria Allred, L.A. Attorney to the Stars, and the Children of Huntington Beach vs. $8 Million Chevron Solar Panels: We Want Our Lawn Back

Gloria Allred departs Hollywood for a Huntington Beach middle school today​Updated after the jump: Gloria and 200 angry middle-schoolers give police, school administrators -- and most of all Chevron -- a piece of their mind. We're more used to seeing L.A. attorney Gloria Allred fight for the ... More >>

Prop. 26 Election Results: Environmentalists Foiled, Big Oil Gloating As Prop. 23's Evil Twin Sneaks Up, Takes The Lead

indybayProp. 26 protesters should have used a megaphone​Update, 12 a.m.: The Sacramento Bee has called a victory for Prop. 26. More details after the jump. While environmentalists were hitting California voters over the head with their big-oil-bashing 'No' on Prop. 23 campaign this election s ... More >>

California Prop. 26, The Morning After: How Did Big Oil Get Away With This?

Bloomberg BusinessweekChevron 1, Big Green 0​California enviro-activists never saw it coming. News outlets called the defeat of Prop. 23 early last night, giving Big Green honchos plenty to clank their champagne flutes about. (The Weekly reports on the clash of the Green and Big Oil titans ov ... More >>

Steelworkers Union Tries To Organize L.A. Carwash Workers

​Via LA Biz Observed, Steven Greenhouse, labor reporter for The New York Times, writes up the unlikely effort to organize L.A. carwash workers. Many of the estimated 10,000 workers in the business here are illegal immigrants, who are too scared to speak out or give their bosses any excuse to ... More >>

Tiger's Wife Is A Hero: We Look At Other Maligned Acts Of Bravery In Recent History

Tiger Woods Foundation​Tiger Woods' wife is a hero for rescuing the legendary golf pro after he crashed his SUV outside his Florida driveway early Friday morning. Standing over him, perhaps with golf club in-hand, Elin Nordegren was an image of selfless giving. She busted out a window with the ... More >>

Shootings Rock The Westside (Updated)

UPDATED: Whomever says the Westside sees no action hasn't been paying attention this week. On Tuesday night a 20-year-old man was fatally shot in Santa Monica and early Thursday morning Los Angeles police opened fire on a robbery suspect, wounding the boy in the Sawtelle neighborhood of West Los Ang ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Jennifer's Body, Love Happens

Also, Crude, You the Living and more

Crude: A Sticky Situation

Joe Berlinger’s documentary dives into the toxic battle between big oil and dying natives in Ecuador

Street Eats: Feeding Off the Wandering Taco Cart

Regardless of the busy rush of cars on Olympic Boulevard., she seems more interested in making sure her fresh tortillas are grilled to a char than her own safety from the traffic three feet behind her.

Crude Realities

One of Anna Wintour's most significant (and profitable) contributions to Vogue, we learn in The September Issue, has been her decision to put movie stars -- rather than fashion models -- on the magazine's cover. That gives The September Issue an unintended but hardly insignificant point of connectio ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2009: Crude Realities

One of Anna Wintour's most significant (and profitable) contributions to Vogue, we learn in The September Issue, has been her decision to put movie stars -- rather than fashion models -- on the magazine's cover. That gives The September Issue an unintended but hardly insignificant point of connectio ... More >>

Best Communal Tennis Courts: Echo Park Tennis Courts

"Fill her up": What a Girl Must Pay to Pump

High-poontang fuel

MTA's Toxic Towers in Van Nuys

Metro wants to cram 2,000 renters onto land that faces a Chevron oil plant

Gas Snaps Four Bucks

Sure we've seen gas for four-and-change in Cambria and other places up the coast. But this Chevron, with the spankin' new slightly-altered logo signage, was caught in Chinatown on Sunday. The Times noted that "the average price of a gallon of self-serve regular climbed 7.7 cents to $3.685 -- th ... More >>

William Langewiesche on The Atomic Bazaar and Facing our Worst Fear

The eventualist

Camping, but Not Really

El Capitan Canyon — the great outdoors for pansies

Fuel's Gold

While Bush and Schwarzenegger rush to market biofuels, the fact is that not all ethanol is created equally.

New Year, Same Old Crap

Only an act of God will change moneygrubbing political parties

Voters’ Guide

Making sense of the ballot measures L.A. City Measures:

Voters' Guide

Making sense of the ballot measures

Green and Bare It

Biodiesel can be sexy

Stench of Politics

Industry money to the “Mod Caucus” fouls the fight for clean air

Outing Polluters

How to Cure Hollywood’s Summertime Blues

12 Steps to better box office

The Big Pull

What Did the Last Easter Islander Say as He Chopped Down the Last Tree?

The best-selling author of Guns, Germs and Steel asks whimsical questions with grave answers. In his latest book, he turns his attention to the collapse of civilization.

Black Sheep on the Head of a Pin

Why they won’t let badass batteries out of the pen

Valhalla on a Tank of Gas

Recipe for a Recall-Free California

Make it easier to pass a state budget

Can You Hear Them Now?

Unlikely activists shoot down Palisades cell-phone tower

Heathen Worship

Capitol Creeps

Now look what they’re trying to pull

Music-Driven Lifestyle. Positive?

All the World’s a Farm

Chicken Run and other delights from abroad

Juvenile Injustice

Proposition 21 aims to send thousands of California teenagers to adult prisons

Home, Sweet Dump

Some 1,400 low-income tenants live atop an old refinery and toxic dump

Rat Patrol