City of Industry

Half & Half Tea Express Opens a New Location in Arcadia

The coffee culture in Los Angeles may be stronger than ever, but over in the San Gabriel Valley, teahouses are clearly dominating the caffeine scene. Taiwanese boba joint Half & Half Tea Express, a popular hotspot known for their milky teas, has opened another location in Arcadia on Foothill Boul ... More >>

NFL Dreams For Downtown Los Angeles Fading In Face Of Team Transfer Deadline

Time might be running out for L.A.'s NFL dreams. A deadline for team owners to express interest in moving to Los Angeles is looming, but few if any have expressed serious interest in coming here. The problem might be the would-be sale of the developer of the proposed downtown stadium, Anschutz Ent ... More >>

Holiday DUI Checkpoint Cheat Sheet: Massive Drunk Driving Crackdown Starts Friday

'Tis the season to be jolly, yes, but try not to do your fa-la-la-la-laing in a jail cell. Not fun. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department this week previewed the anti-DUI can of whoopass it's unveiling for the holidays, starting this weekend. It's massive:

Monja: Like Eating at a Night Market in Taipei

Small plates Taiwanese style is what you get at the new restaurant Monja in City of Industry. Eating there is like browsing in a night market in Taipei, picking up noodles at one stall, fried squid balls at another, a soup with rice dumplings, wonton and vegetables somewhere else. These aren't trend ... More >>

Downtown Stadium Inspires Lawsuit Over Right to File Lawsuits: Only in L.A.

The $1.5 billion football stadium proposal for downtown L.A. gained a bit of an advantage when California lawmakers granted it the right to have legal challenges to its environmental impacts fast-tracked to appeals courts. Of course, other developments, including a competing stadium proposal in Cit ... More >>

Tom Leykis, One of Radio's Top Talkers, Is Off the Airwaves -- and Online

"There were a lot of greedy home flippers!" radio talk-show host Tom Leykis exclaims into the microphone. "Everyone who got evicted got exactly what they deserved. They didn't evict enough people."Leykis is blasting what he considers the avaricious, irresponsible impulses of those participating in t ... More >>

Prop. 28 Passes With Flying Colors: How California Legislators Tricked Voters Into Extending Their Term Limits

Update: Philip Blumel with the group U.S. Term Limits tells us Prop. 28 was "the most deceptive referendum that I've ever seen." More at the bottom. Like Big Oil-backed Prop. 26 in the 2010 election, another disastrous Trojan Horse made its way past California voters last night.

Farmers Field NFL Stadium Downtown Could Be Slowed By Serious Legal Challenge

If you were a gamblin' man, and a good one at that, you'd probably put your money on Farmers Field getting built, or at least getting every approval it needs by the soft-spine L.A. City Council. The owner of Staples Center and LA Live, Anschutz Entertainment Group, has steamrolled over City Hall, s ... More >>

Woodys Toys' Money Laundering Scheme Funneled $6 Million in 'Narco Cash,' Feds Say

With a name like Woody's Toys, it has to be good. Good meaning bad. At least according to federal authorities, who this week threw the book at two co-owners, three employees and two clients of the City of Industry toy wholesaler for allegedly doing way more than importing toys. A two-count indictm ... More >>

Tempest in a Teacup: Cup Controversy at Half & Half Tea House

To call the tea bar scene in the San Gabriel Valley vibrant is a vast understatement. Dozens of perpetually crowded small cafés across the 626 serve teas and boba drinks while providing socializing and studying spots for those not old enough to drink alcohol or those not so inclined. It's precisely ... More >>

Jimmy Luong, L.A. Ecstasy Kingpin, Gets 22 Years Behind Bars

And then there was agony. Jimmy Luong, a 30-year-old from Monterey Park, was somewhat of an Ecstasy kingpin in these parts, responsible for the distribution of at least 1 million pills in just a few months' time, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A. Now he'll be living in a cell ...

2011 in the San Gabriel Valley: A List of Restaurant Openings Closings

Jim ThurmanLamb soup with knife cut noodles, Shaanxi Gourmet, Rosemead​2011 in the San Gabriel Valley restaurant scene witnessed the usual spate of openings and closings, some notable and some not so notable. With some 300 Chinese restaurants alone, trying to compile a list of the year's open ... More >>

Churros for Hanukkah: Oil and Pluralism

Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​Dear Mr. Gold: It's Hanukkah, and I want to have a party, but I live in a small apartment and hate frying things because the smell never goes away. I thought I would have a churros and spiked cider party instead. Where is the best place to get churr ... More >>

EPA Orders $20 Million Worth of Groundwater Cleanup to Help Residents of San Gabriel Valley

​Tap water has a bad rap these days. And in many cases, for good reason. There's an awful lot of groundwater contamination out there. But for those folks living in the San Gabriel Valley who - God forbid - like being able to actually drink their tap water, there was a splash of good news today ... More >>

Farmers Field or Blade Runner Stadium?

The downtown NFL arena deal allows a sea of billboards, congestion and millions in public costs

How Lobbyist John Ek Gets His Way at City Hall

More Fun in the Valley: The SGV Food Truck Festival

sgvfoodtruckfest.comJanuary SGV food truck fest​ If you're tired of trekking west for food truck convoys -- or dealing with the parking issues on Abbot Kinney -- this Friday's monthly SGV Food Truck Festival is your chance to eat standing up considerably east of the 405. The SGV Food Truck Fe ... More >>

Mark Ridley-Thomas To NFL: Call Me When You're Serious About Coming Back To L.A.

Mark Ridley-Thomas​AEG and Majestic Realty are duking it out in yet another act of the endless drama over whether the NFL will return to Los Angeles.Like Charlie Brown, Angelenos have had this particular football yanked away several times, so they can be forgiven for tuning the drama out. And spea ... More >>

Vote For One: An NFL Stadium Downtown Near Staples Center, Or One In The San Gabriel Valley, In The City Of Industry

Majestic RealityAn artists rendering of the Industry NFL stadium.​It's not like you have much of a choice: Two of Southern California's most-powerful developers will duke it out until the best man wins. But if you did have the choice, what would you pick: An NFL stadium at the Convention Cent ... More >>

Ed Roski's Proposed 'Los Angeles Stadium' Good For World Cup Soccer As Well As NFL

gnews pics via FlickrIs L.A. ready for another World Cup?​The developer of a proposed NFL stadium in the City of Industry has just sweetened the pot: The venue will be World Cup soccer compatible! And the crowd (of three people) goes wild. Developer Ed Roski's Majestic Reality says the San Ga ... More >>

Tim Leiweke, Staples Center's Boss, Wants To Turn Part Of Los Angeles Convention Center Into NFL Stadium

L.A. conventioneers, soon to be under AEG's supervision?​Touche, Ed Roski. Yesterday the developer said his proposed NFL stadium in the City of Industry could also double as a World Cup venue. (To which we said all three soccer fans in L.A. were elated). Well, today the other shoe dropped. An ... More >>

Following Post-Rave Death Of Teen, U.S. Attorney's Office Cracks Down On Alleged Ecstasy Ring; $17 Million In Pills Seized

U.S. Attorney's OfficeTuan Vu, at-large.​Fifteen suspects were indicted this week following a federal investigation in the Los Angeles area that led to the seizure of 1.1 million tablets of ecstasy -- $17 million worth, the U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A. announced Thursday. The U.S. Attorney i ... More >>

Make a Run for the Altar

With immigration reform stalled, some young, assimilated illegal immigrants are entering sham marriages with a little help from their friends

Environmental Groups Fight Fast-Tracking For Possible NFL Stadium Near Staples Center In Downtown Los Angeles

​Nearly 70 environmental groups have been warning California legislators not to let the owner of Staples Center off the hook when it comes to providing an environmental impact report for an adjacent NFL stadium the company hopes to build. Leaders at the Sierra Club say they've heard rumors th ... More >>

L.A. Could Get NFL Team By Next Year

An artist's rendering of a stadium proposed in Industry.​Los Angeles could see the return of an NFL football team by next year if the developer of a proposed stadium in Industry has his way. "I strongly believe an NFL franchise will play in Los Angeles for the 2011 season," John Semcken of Ma ... More >>

Pangs of Industry: Earthen

Where to eat in a city without residents

Ask Mr. Gold: Pangs Of Industry. Where to Eat in a City Without Residents?

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I'm in the City of Industry. And I'm starving. --Evan K., Los Angeles Dear Evan: There are worse places to be hungry than Industry. But while there are a lot of decent restaurants in the area, it's generally too f ... More >>

Jpop and Purikura: The Next Wave in Nighttime Fun?

When we heard that Tune in Tokyo was throwing their holiday bash in City of Industry, we were a bit perplexed. After all the San Gabriel Valley city is a good half-hour drive from the monthly Jpop/Jrock party's Little Tokyo digs. Then we found out that it was to be held at purikura studio Kira Kira ... More >>

Ed Roski Jr. Sells 'Los Angeles Stadium' to the O.C.

The San Gabriel Valley Trib's James Wagner reports on the new tone of self-confidence (or hubris) displayed by mega-developer Ed Roski Jr. and representatives of his Majestic Realty Company. Roski's long political fight to build a 75,000-seat sports stadium/retail complex in the City of Industry see ... More >>

Proposed City of Industry Stadium Becomes Political Football

Proposed Industry Stadium ​​Until now, the civic imbroglio involving super-developer Ed Roski's plan to build a 600-acre football stadium and retail complex at the crossroads of the 60 and 57 freeways has been confined to local belligerents. Namely, Roski's Majestic Realty company, the captive g ... More >>

Judas Priest's Performance of British Steel at Gibson Amphitheatre: Sonically Beefier, Possibly Record-Breaking

By Skylaire Alfvegren Judas Priest at Gibson Amphitheatre, August 2 Last year, Birmingham, UK stalwarts Judas Priest released an ambitious double album conceptualizing the life of French seer, Nostradamus, and mounted an epic summer escapade with Motorhead and Heaven & Hell. Under the stars abo ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Ah, Wilderness! The House of Representatives has passed a massive conservation bill that would declare as wilderness almost as much land as George W. Bush did during  eight years in office. Included are a new wilderness area centered on Magic Mountain and the cleanup of San Gabriel Valley groun ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

From Yellow Cab to Green? Santa Monica's angst now extends to worrying whether it has too many polluting taxis, driven by impolite cabbies. A freeze is in the works. L.A. TimesBill Commemorating the Other Holocaust Once more Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Glendale) will introduce a bill to commemorate t ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Waiting for Wal-Mart Far from fearing a big-box store, job-hungry Florence-Firestone residents are petitioning to get a Wal-Mart put in their community. L.A. TimesHeal the Aquarium An octopus exploring its tank at the Santa Monica Aquarium loosened a water-control valve, flooding the facility with m ... More >>

Industry Stadium: Years Before Kickoff

Today City of Industry's city council rubber-stamped approval of a plan to build a football stadium on vacant land near the nexus of the 60 and 57 Freeways. The vote followed Tuesday's  victory of a $150 million bond measure, which was passed by 60 of Industry's 82 registered voters. The build- ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

City of Industry Votes for NFL Bait A majority of City of Industry Voters (all 82 of them) passed a measure allowing the sale of $150 million in bonds, whose money could be used to build an NFL stadium. The vote was 60-1 on the scheme proposed by developer Ed Roski.Belkin Admits Plug n Pay Scheme Th ... More >>

The Last Drive-in

Taking in the air at the county’s only “ozoner”

Astroturf Wars

The fight is on to halt a subdivision near Joshua Tree

Dirty Air Deals

Smog fighters are about to cave to Big Business — again

From the Red Car to the Hummer

An automotive timeline

Mr. Fantastic, Superduper Star

Chris Jackson is a Backyard wrestler. All he wants from this media-saturated world is a little bit of glory, a little bit of fame. Even if it takes blood. Or having a fluorescent-light tube jammed

We Are Familia

Rock, romance and Go Betty Go

The Old Ball Game

L.A.’s future is fine without football

Letters

Readings: Laughing With Wen Ho Lee

Blundering Times

Publisher and editor still have some answerin’ to do about the dumb Staples Center sellout

Power Player

Ed Roski Jr. owns a piece of the Kings and the Lakers. But his favorite game is hardball

Bank JOB

Stafford called on Roski in bid to control local lender

Standing on the Corner

Day laborers get organized

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