Subject: Church of Scientology

• My Date With Anonymous: A Rare Interview With the Elusive Internet Troublemakers

  February 5, 2009

• Why Don't We Do It in the Dirt?

  Top 10 e-mail responses to the question, “Where would you have your last lay in apocalyptic L.A.?”

  October 4, 2007

• Special Jury Duty Edition! (Van Nuys Courthouse)

  What to do in L.A., May 2-8

  May 1, 2008

• Beck's Benefit Show at the Echo Tonight: What Exactly is "Educating Children International"?

  What exactly is Educating Children International? There's a mystery brewing regarding tonight's Beck show at the Echo, which is being billed as a benefit for something called "Educating Children International." The flyer, posted above, lists the organization's website as www.educatingchildreninternational.org, but there's nothing at that URL. We took the process one step further and did a domain search, and, lo, the address is listed as available for purchase.

  March 11, 2009

• More Evidence that Beck's Echo Show Tonight Is a Scientology-Affiliated Benefit (UPDATE)

  An astute reader has just sent us a link to this Scientology page, which seems to add further evidence to the assertion that the non-profit organization to be the beneficiary of the $35 cover to tonight's Beck show at the Echo, Educating Children International, is indeed affiliated with the Church of Scientology.

  March 11, 2009

• City Council's Birthday Gift to Scientology

  LAist and L.A. Observed are among those questioning why the L.A. City Council, in the depths of an economic sinkhole, voted to waive $3,000 in city fees for the Shrine Auditorium celebration of L. Ron Hubbard's birthday. Zach Behrens quotes from Councilman Bernard Parks' motion: "This annual celebration recognizes the achievements of Mr. Hubbard, Founder of the Scientology religion, and honors Churches of Scientology internationally. The event is attended by over 7,000 local Scientologists, thei

  March 20, 2009

• On Chandler, L. Ron and a treeless L.A.

  Plus: In defense of Michael Jackson

  April 2, 2009

• HOUSES OF THE HOLY ROLLERS

  March 12, 2009

• I Believe in Miracles

  October 28, 2004

• Music’s Masked Avenger

  December 2, 2004

• Missing Hollywood

  What's great (and not-so-great) about our old hood

  May 1, 2008

• "Anonymous" vs. Scientology: Group Targets "Church" Headquarters

  Growing movement of Internet pranksters hits the organization's heart in Hollywood

  March 20, 2008

• BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON

  January 10, 2008

• Scientology Battered on Two Sides

  E-meters along Hollywood and Sunset boulevards must have been going off their dials this week. The WikipediaLos Angeles-based Church of Scientology, which has fought the IRS, former members and the state of Florida, now finds itself on even less stable battlegrounds: the French legal system and Wikipedia. Culling information from several sources, a Huffington Post article today said the online encyclopedia Wikipedia "has banned the Church of Scientology and its members from editing its site afte

  May 29, 2009

• They Must Be High

  Spacing out with Ben, Chris, Tom and Tom

  June 28, 2007

• Citizen Beck

  Coming to terms with our native son

  September 28, 2006

• Bong Hits, Bluegrass, Pervy Puppets, and Tom Petty As Hipster

  September 14, 2006

• War of the Words

  August 24, 2006

• Cruise in Control

  May 4, 2006

• 10 Reasons to Switch From Christianity to Scientology

  April 27, 2006

• Remember to Smile

  April 27, 2006

• Gnarls Barkley, the Beauty of Being Blunt, and the Poppy Lips Battle the Apocalypse

  April 6, 2006

• More Feuilletons Lists

  January 5, 2006

• Nightranger

  November 3, 2005

• Selling Day for Night

  October 6, 2005

• Unwinding at 'The Stretch'

  August 4, 2005

• Materialistic Fetishism Reconsidered

  December 23, 2004

• Not in My Neighborhood Council

  August 26, 2004

• Here Comes . . .Who Are You Again?

  December 4, 2003

• Silver Lake Fights Back

  October 30, 2003

• Hurry Sunrise

  December 20, 2001

• Letters

  December 6, 2001

• Eat at L. Ron’s

  November 15, 2001

• Letters

  July 26, 2001

• Unfair Game

  June 28, 2001

• Hollywood Squared

  March 1, 2001

• Why I Drive a Hate Crime

  January 25, 2001

• Annihilation Man

  January 4, 2001

• Rifling Victoria’s Secrets

  July 27, 2000

• Junkman’s Journey

  June 29, 2000

• Letters

  June 22, 2000

• Surf’s Up for Scientologists

  June 1, 2000

• L.A. Times Who Knew? Department

  January 20, 2000

• L. Ron Speaks!

  December 2, 1999

• Believe it or not

  July 22, 1999

• Scientology, cont.

  May 28, 1998

• FASHION NIRVANA?

  LA Fashion week is in full swing, and though it's too early to make judgments about the season as a whole, some definite trends are already emerging. Hello again grunge! Yes, the plaid flannel is flapping in the breeze once again, along with Chris Cornell hair, motorcycle boots, Indiana Jones-style jackets, Courtney Love red/orange lipstick, and shredded denim and tights- at least what we saw at Orthodox and Whitley Kros, who showed at Smashbox Sunday. Orthodox's wearable but drab collecti

  March 11, 2008

• Newspaper Describes Scientology Beatings

  Although the St. Petersburg Times' three-part series on L.A.-based Scientology and its enigmatic leader, David Miscavige, mostly focuses on the church's Clearwater, Florida operations, there's a deep Los Angeles background to some of the stories involving beatings that have allegedly become an institutional practice among senior staffers. Part One begins with a violent game of music chairs played out in a small office building outside L.A., where Miscavige had been holding church executives as v

  June 22, 2009

• Sign-tology: The Big Blue HQ Gets a Huge Name Plate

  No, the big blue Scientology headquarters on Fountain near Vermont didn't get smaller -- its signDakota/Curbed LA just got bigger. So huge, in fact, as to move Curbed L.A.'s Dakota to exclaim, "Holy frickin' thetan. Behold the new LED Scientology sign, now atop the church's building . . ." According to Dakota, each letter is 16 feet tall and San Diego ad designers Signtech Electrical Advertising needed two days to install the sign. There are some nice/scary photos on Curbed's site, showing the s

  July 14, 2009

• France to Scientologists: Stop Defrauding Us

  He's no Jerry Lewis. ​Apparently the French have less tolerance for financially exploitative religious institutions than we do. A Paris court today convicted the French branch of the Los Angeles-based Church of Scientology of fraud, says the Associated Press. The church's French office was fined more than $900,000 for demanding way too much money from its members and the "commercial harassment" of recruits. The case was brought by a woman who was recruited to join the Church of Scientology, wh

  October 27, 2009