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Garcetti and Greuel's Worst Days in Power

Setting aside promises, how have they behaved?

Four Most Notorious Times Rhodes Scholar Eric Garcetti Pleaded Ignorance Or Kept People in the Dark When Facing Controversy

For an Ivy League grad and Rhodes Scholar, Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti has the uncanny habit of not knowing certain details when the shit hits the fan. This happens so often that L.A. Weekly has come up with four of the most notorious times Garcetti pleaded ignorant -- or personal ... More >>

Brainiac Mayoral Candidate Eric Garcetti Pleads Ignorance On Clear Channel Vote as Rival Emanuel Pleitez Files Ethics Complaint

Read L.A Weekly feature article about inner-city success story Emanuel Pleitez. Los Angeles mayoral candidate Emanuel Pleitez is now getting into the thick of a brewing scandal involving rival Eric Garcetti, who L.A. Weekly reported owned stock in Clear Channel Communications while at the same time ... More >>

Eric Garcetti Owned Clear Channel Stock When He Voted For Digital Billboard Giveaway

Councilman Eric Garcetti long ago conceded that he made a mistake when he voted for a legal settlement that allowed Clear Channel Outdoor and CBS Outdoor to erect 420 digital billboards apiece across the city.The vote was one of the bigger debacles of Garcetti's reign as city council president. Resi ... More >>

Buh-Bye to LA's 100 LED Billboards?

USC Grad Student Sues Over a Deep L.A. Secret: Who Got Rich Off Illegal Billboards?

Whitney Houston 'Crack Ho' Remark: Should Angry White Men Like 'John & Ken' Be Allowed to Have A Radio Station to Themselves in L.A?

Conservative talk radio hosts John & Ken are back on the air this week following a week-and-a-half suspension for calling the late Whitney Houston a "crack ho." A group of African Americans in broadcasting met with the duo yesterday and seem cool with the outcome, but in a statement the coalition s ... More >>

American Radio Network Under Attack

'Grim Sleeper' Girls Go Big On 86 Digital Billboards Across Los Angeles

PHOTO BY TED SOQUIThe LAPD released 180 photos from the collection of serial killer Lonnie Franklin Jr. yesterday​Clear Channel Outdoor may not care about erecting massive flashy ads-on-poles without a permit -- and will do anything in its power to keep the Weekly from finding out about it -- ... More >>

Carmen Trutanich, L.A. City Attorney, Wins Billboard Crackdown Ruling From U.S. Judge Audrey Collins: They Ain't Free Speech

Don't stand here during a quake​Reason to cheer the departure of Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo: Carmen Trutanich, his replacement, won another courtroom victory against the 11,000 billboards slathered all over sad-sack L.A -- up to 4,000 of them illegally installed without an eart ... More >>

The Tower of Torta: ampm's Secret Menu

Willy BlackmoreAdvertising ampm's Secret Menu​ We're used to finding our Mexican food in less-than-normal places: sold out of grocery carts, cooked in fly-by-night outdoor kitchens, served out of bicycle-mounted freezers. But the lexicon of this cuisine--tamales, huaraches, sopes, paletas, ra ... More >>

Judge Throws Out City's Digital Billboard Settlement

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled today that the city's billboard settlement agreement that allowed 840 digital billboards citywide is invalid. Superior Court Judge Terry Green ruled that the settlement agreement between the city and billboard giants Clear Channel and CBS Outdoor was inval ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Mayor Meets With Other Clinton Today Antonio Villaraigosa and former President Bill Clinton will make a joint City Hall announcement about replacing the city's current street lights with  energy efficient LEDs. L.A. TimesClear Channel Future Murky for AV The Antelope Valley might see a reductio ... More >>

Is Tokyo the Future for Los Angeles?

A new "ban" would allow 20 areas citywide thick with billboards

How Energy Conscious is Los Angeles? Not Very!

Here is a mind-boggling conflict that seems strangely at odds to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's effort to creat a green, energy-conscious city. On the one hand, the DWP is pushing homeowners to go green -- even suggesting that homeowners use low wattage bulbs instead of incandescent ... More >>

Billboards Gone Wild, L.A. City Council Defiled

Citizens take matters into their own hands

Can a Billboard Catch a Serial Killer?

Clear Channel and L.A. City Councilman Bernard Parks joined forces December 18 a second time to post a billboard in South Los Angeles that offers a $500,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the Grim Sleeper, a serial killer who has been victimizing African American wome ... More >>

Will L.A. Finally Zero in on Forest of Illegal Billboards?

Almost seven long years after the Los Angeles City Council vowed to find the exact locations and determine the physical condition of the city's virtually unregulated forest of legal and illegal 10,000 billboards, the city's Building and Safety Department says they will begin the long-awaited program ... More >>

Bizarre Election Triangulation: Grim Sleeper, Clear Channel and Bernard Parks

Category: Desperate election moves. Check out the new deal between former Police Chief Bernard Parks, now an L.A. City Councilman, and Clear Channel, whose bad neighbor approach to doing business has helped plaster L.A. with illegal billboards (Clear Channel denies this). Clear Channel forced LA Wee ... More >>

KCET Investigates Billboard Blight in Los Angeles

Billboard blight was the subject of a segment on "SoCal Connected" on KCET last night. "Billboard Confidential" looked at LA's billboard boondoggle and the reasons why LA is "ground zero" for a $7 billion dollar billboard industry. The show - the result of a two-month investigation - was a recap ... More >>

Planning Commission Votes to Tighten Sign District Laws

Last week, the City's planning commission voted on a proposal that would tighten up the city's "specialty billboard district" laws. The plan to revamp the sign district ordinance came about after concerns that the city was frivolously granting too many sign districts to billboard companies. The pl ... More >>

Los Angeles City Committee Will Consider Motion to Rewrite Billboard Ordinance

The City’s Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee will consider a motion today that would address and fix the colossal problems that have been raised in court cases challenging the city's sign ordinance. The motion, introduced by Los Angeles city councilmember Jack Weiss on July 29, ca ... More >>

Clear Channel Drops Bid for Digital Billboard

Anti-billboard activists are breathing a sigh of relief. Yesterday, Clear Channel decided to withdraw its application to install a hyper-bright electronic billboard on Ventura Boulevard in Encino. Clear Channel's attorney sent a letter to city planners withdrawing its application for a 14 foot by 4 ... More >>

New Foe Against Digital Billboards?

“Supergraphics” Company Continues Attack Against Los Angeles’ Billboard Ban

Last week, attorneys for World Wide Rush filed a motion in federal court asking a judge to permanently block the city from prosecuting building owners who allow “supergraphics” signs on their buildings. The motion was filed after the city began enforcing its sign ordinance against the owners o ... More >>

L.A.'s 4,000 Illegal Billboards Have a New Foe

Last April, LA Weekly went to Los Angeles Superior Court to force the city to hand over public information about the locations of thousands of potentially illegal billboards erected without permits or formal safety inspections. Over the objections of Clear Channel Outdoor and CBS Outdoor, a judge ru ... More >>

Federal Court Judge Rules in Favor of Illegal “Supergraphics”

It looks like Councilmember Jack Weiss’ plan to impose hefty fines on companies that post multi-story “supergraphics” signs plastered illegally around Los Angeles is kaput – for now. A federal court judge made sure of that. Last April, Weiss held a press conference across the street from a ... More >>

Billboard Inspection Program Still a Bust

“It is the Los Angeles dodge and delay program,” said a frustrated Marilyn Cohon, the Vice President of Westwood South of Santa Monica Homeowners Association about City Hall’s long-awaited billboard fee inspection program. “We find it appalling that the city is dragging its feet.” Even C ... More >>

Billboards Gone Wild: 4,000 Illegal Billboards Choke L.A.'s Neighborhoods

Is City Hall corrupt, or just inept?

Cbs and Clear Channelsanitized “inventories” Omit Illegal Billboards

Their sanitized "inventories" omit long-sought illegal billboard info

L.A. residents slam Special Order 40, Clear Channel shakedown

Correction below: Alleged murderer Espinoza was released from jail by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, not the LAPD. Update: The LA City Council has approved the giant electronic billboard on the 10 Freeway by a vote of 13-1 with only Jack Weiss opposing. It will go before the council a ... More >>

CBS and Clear Channel Lose Billboard Secrecy Bid

The judge says L.A.'s thousands of billboards are hardly a “trade secret”

Clear Channel Messed with LA Weekly and Lost!

Recently, reporter Christine Pelisek asked the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety for a list of all legal and illegal billboards in L.A. - an embarrassing document that will show the public all 11,000 "points of blight" allowed on local streets by City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, Mayo ... More >>

Buying Billboards, Bugging Bloggers

Wired got someone from Clear Channel on the line to confirm that their annoying electronic billboard was not hacked. Clear Channel's Tony Alwin is unhappy about the hacking rumors. "The advertisement was bought under the assumption that it was art that was in an art show," he says. "Any claims abo ... More >>

Skullphone may have bought time?

Curbed.la is claiming that Skullphone didn't hack Clear Channel billboards, but actually bought space on them, just like strip clubs and Disney movies do. And while that's kind of sad, it's also kind of funny: The guy got his money's worth in publicity. Also, the idea's now floating out there. Some ... More >>

Skullphone hacks Clear Channel electronic billboards

UPDATE: Curbed.la is claiming that Skullphone didn't hack Clear channels billboards, but actually bought time on them. And while that's kind of sad, it's also kind of funny: The guy got his money's worth. Also, the idea is now floating out there. Someone is going to try to hack into these huge g ... More >>

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