Subject: Compton

• Weiss' Summer Jamz 08-G'Z Up, Prose Down

  Summer Jamz '08: G'Z Up, Prose Down http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4NBDRWLQ 1.Parliament-“Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) 2.N.W.A.-“Alwayz Into Somethin’” 3.Dr. Dre-“Nuthin’ But a G Thang” 4.Above the Law ft. 2Pac & Money B-“Call It What U Want” 5.The Dove Shack-“Summertime in the LBC” 6.Domino-“Getto Jam” 7.The Twinz-“Round N’ Round” 8.Snoop Doggy Dogg-“Gin and Juice” 9.2Pac ft. Shock G & Money B-“I Get Around” 10.Mi

  July 9, 2008

• An Exquisite Scar

  May 23, 2002

• 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 The Compton-based electronics firm apologizes for ads offering jobs to writers to place positive "reviews" on retail Web sites. Ledger Coke Vid Suit "Resolved" The Joker gets the last laugh as a lawyer

  January 21, 2009

• The Day the Muzak Died

  Muzak has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection -- but it doesn't put the blame on illegal downloads of its marzipanny melodies. Instead, the company pointed to longstanding debt and the cancellation of contracts by companies put out of business during the recession. A New York Times notice mentioned that much of Muzak's debt was owed to music companies whose songs it licensed. Still, an L.A. Times piece quotes Danette Christine, the owner of another company offering piped-in office tunes a

  February 12, 2009

• Has the L.A. Hip-Hop Plague Finally Passed?

  Four on the floor

  September 25, 2008

• Rock Picks: DJ Quik, Alejandro Escovedo, Ratatat

  Also, the Bad Plus, Amos Lee, Built to Spill, and more

  September 4, 2008

• Local Election Results: Ghostly L.A. Voters Deliver Surprises

  ... and mixed messages for Parks, Ridley-Thomas and Villaraigosa's cousin

  June 5, 2008

• The Election That Wasn't

  With Tuesday's expected turnout at historic lows, electors are being treated like superdelegates, and missing out on the juicy infighting.

  May 29, 2008

• Perrodin Unbound

  October 11, 2001

• Votes of No-Confidence

  September 25, 2003

• N.W.A: A Hard Act to Follow

  Hip-hop and hype from the streets of Compton (reprint of May 5, 1989, Weekly cover story)

  November 29, 2007

• Compton's Crash Course

  June 29, 2006

• Music Picks

  For the week of June 8 - 15

  June 8, 2006

• Colorblind Jobs

  May 11, 2006

• The Conversation

  May 11, 2006

• A Coroner's Cross Section

  April 27, 2006

• Street Justice

  January 26, 2006

• Sharing Tookie’s Day: A Coroner’s Cross Section of December 13

  January 5, 2006

• Quik As F**k

  The violent life, tumultuous career and fundamental goodness of DJ Quik

  September 29, 2005

• Letters

  August 18, 2005

• Compton City Limits

  August 4, 2005

• A Creek Flows in Compton

  August 4, 2005

• Bringing Over There Closer to Home

  August 4, 2005

• Chicanos and the Man

  June 16, 2005

• Tenant Services

  April 28, 2005

• Flora Gil Krisloff Interview Transcript

  March 3, 2005

• California Love

  February 3, 2005

• Politically 4th Street

  October 21, 2004

• Drowning Deaths Remembered

  September 23, 2004

• Compton Casino Faces Long Odds

  May 6, 2004

• Casino Nation

  April 8, 2004

• Killing Time on the Ghetto Blue

  January 22, 2004

• What a Difference a Digit Makes

  January 8, 2004

• Bay City Blues

  December 11, 2003

• Better Than Alright

  August 21, 2003

• Arrested Developments

  March 13, 2003

• Support Your Local Independents

  August 8, 2002

• Law and Disorder

  July 18, 2002

• Baptized in Fire

  March 21, 2002

• Omar's Comeback

  February 21, 2002

• No More Omar

  June 21, 2001

• Elective Memory

  May 3, 2001

• Where�s Omar?

  April 19, 2001

• The King of Compton

  April 12, 2001

• Held Back

  January 27, 2000

• Compton's Quagmire

  October 22, 1998

• Malign Neglect

  June 18, 1998

• Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

  Some Came Running Kenya's Wesley Korir set a finish-time record for the 24th Los Angeles Marathon, which got very lucky with cool weather despite its latest start yet in the calendar. L.A. TimesFootball Prospect Shot Dead Dannie Farber Jr., a promising football player who had just graduated from Narbonne High School, was shot and killed in a Louisiana Fried Chicken restaurant in Compton while on a date Sunday. His assailant remains at large. Daily BreezePrometheus Bound A man is accused of livin

  May 26, 2009

• Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

  Don't Call Him "Padre" Sheik Qazi Asad has become the LAPD's first Muslim chaplain. The Pakistani-born cleric had previously worked as a Sheriff's Department liaison to the county's Islamic community. L.A. Times Time to Pay Los Angeles County's sales tax jumps half a percent to 9.75 percent on July 1. L.A. Daily NewsEl Monte Thinks Chapter Nine Hit by rising costs and sinking sales-tax income, El Monte's city council will discuss filing for bankruptcy at its Tuesday meeting. San Gabriel Valley T

  June 29, 2009

• We’re Jerkin’ (Starring the New Boyz, J-Hawk and Pink Dollaz)

  August 6, 2009