Corona (New York)

Dorner Carjack Victim Vows To Block Reward Payment

The $1 million reward for the capture and conviction of Christopher Dorner went to four people, including a couple that was tied up in their cabin by Dorner (James and Karen Reynolds will get 80 percent), the ski resort employee who spotted his burning truck in the mountains, and a Corona tow-truck ... More >>

Cinco de Mayo Food Drink Specials

Cinco de Mayo is on this coming Sunday, but some restaurants around town are offering specials in food and drink leading up to the day Mexico gained victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. We highlighted a few events in town for you to check out what's in store over the next ... More >>

15 Marijuana Grow Houses From L.A. To I.E. Busted In Federal Raid; 10 Arrested

Ten people were arrested yesterday and 8,000 plants were seized in a hydroponic marijuana-grow ring that spanned Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced. That's a lot of weed. Authorities say one of the ringleaders, a 39-year-old "top lieutenant" fr ... More >>

4 Los Angeles Brewery Kickstarter Campaigns: Invest in Your Beer Future

It's been a whirlwind start to 2013 for Los Angeles beer. The scene celebrated it's unofficial third birthday with the near-simultaneous anniversaries of Ladyface, Eagle Rock and Strand brewing companies and El Segundo Brewing Company released its first round of production bottles, which are now spr ... More >>

Christopher Dorner LAPD Murder Rampage Timeline

Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013: Monica Quan, 28, daughter of an ex-LAPD captain who Christopher Dorner apparently believed represented him poorly before LAPD fired him, is slain along with her boyfriend Keith Lawrence, 27. The bodies are found in a car in their condo's Irvine parking garage. Quan was an assis ... More >>

Anais Fournier: Alleged Monster Energy Drink Death Leads To SoCal Lawsuit

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been made aware of as many as six deaths and 18 hospitalizations that might be linked to drinking the high-caffeine energy drink Monster, which has its corporate offices in Corona. (Monster disputes any links). It turns out one of those deaths involved a 14 ... More >>

Monster Energy Drinks Cited in Deaths

Monster Beverage Corp.'s energy drinks have been cited in the deaths of five people -- including a 14-year-old girl -- in the last year, according to incident reports submitted to the Food and Drug Administration. The reports said the victims consumed Monster drinks prior to their deaths, Shelly B ... More >>

A Boardwalk Vendor Who Sells Stories, by Request

While the Hammer Museum debuted the Venice Beach Biennial as part of the museum's "Made in L.A." exhibit this past weekend, Chicago-based Franki Elliot jostled for a spot on the Venice Boardwalk in order to collect material for her own project, Typewriter Stories. Saturday afternoon, the 20-someth ... More >>

Connor Penhall, 21-Year-Old Caltrans Worker and Son of Racer/Actor Bruce Penhall, Killed by Alleged Drunk Driver

Updated after the jump: Caltrans responds, and the ghost of Penhall expresses unhappiness with his job. Originally posted at 8:30 a.m. The victim of a late-night crash on the 10 West has been identified as 21-year-old Connor Penhall, a Caltrans subcontractor and the son of racer-turned-actor Bruc ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's The Layover Uses Jonathan Gold as a Guide

The Travel Channel obviously saved the best for last. The season finale of Anthony Bourdain's The Layover airs tonight, in which Tony will enlighten viewers on how to get the most out of the L.A. food scene in a short period of time. Between cocktails at the Chateau Marmont and, we think, a peek in ... More >>

Mother Sues Corona-Norco YMCA, Claims Bullies Held Her Son and Knocked His Out His Teeth in Game of Dodge Ball

​Last February, a bunch of school-yard bullies attending a YMCA program so savaged 9-year-old Ethan Otterbein in a game of dodge ball that he lost several teeth in what must have been a ghastly and bloody affair. In step, the mother of Otterbein has filed a lawsuit. But she is not going after t ... More >>

Two Local Brewers Win Big at the Great American Beer Festival

Jason E. KaplanThe crowds converge on GABF​ Over a dozen L.A.-area craft brewers traveled to Denver last week to compete in the 30th annual Great American Beer Festival -- arguably the oldest and most prestigious national beer competition outside of Europe. This year, 526 breweries submitted 3 ... More >>

Live Review: Maná at Staples Center

Timothy Norris Fher Olvera ​Review by Erica E. Phillips WHO: Maná WHERE: Staples Center WHEN: 6/23/11 The long-haired, tattooed, tight-pants-and-open-black-leather-vested members of Mexican pop rock group, Maná, are as legendary as their music. Flip a radio dial in any major U.S. city and ... More >>

Top 10 American Craft Beers for Summer

Daniel DrennonOmmegang Hennepin​ Traffic. Air pollution. Earthquakes. So why, at your local sports bar, are seemingly half the patrons transplants from New York, Boston and Chicago pulling for their hometown teams and lamenting "how great it is back home?" Four words. Bikinis. Board shor ... More >>

Corona Thief Poses as City Councilman, Attempts to Purchase $1,500 Worth of Office Supplies for 'Inner-City Kids Project'

ABC7Councilman Steve Nolan (left) and poser Lorenzo Ciaramella (right). He might have tried a slimy grin?​No one can blame Riverside County parolee and wannabe office-supply thief Lorenzo Joseph Ciaramella for lack of creativity. Interest in local politics, even! Apparently thinking himself t ... More >>

First Look Inside Playa: John Sedlar's New Restaurant Opening This Friday

Nick ArnoffPlaya's Strawberry Dessert​ Playa, the second Latin restaurant from Rivera chef John Sedlar, opens this Friday, February 11 in the Beverly Boulevard space formerly home to Neal Fraser's Grace. Turn the page for details, including Sedlar's new menu items, Julian Cox's inspiration be ... More >>

Speak Softly, Drive a German Tank: Lemmy Kilmister at His Documentary Film Opening

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LAPD Officer Arrested After Allegedly Selling $4,200 Worth Of Meth To Federal Informant

​A Los Angeles police officer was arrested on suspicion of distributing methamphetamine this week after a confidential informant set up a drug buy in San Diego County that was monitored by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents, according to the U.S. Attorney's office in San Diego. Yoshio ... More >>

Cop Gets $2 Million For Firing

​Here's another costly tale of incivility in the civil services, courtesy of the Daily News.Richard Joaquin, of Corona, was an LAPD motorcycle officer who had a simple dream of leaving work early. His supervisor reprimanded him. He filed a complaint against the supervisor. The conflict escalated. ... More >>

Top 10 Ways to Eat Local in L.A.

So you've read The Omnivore's Dilemma and watched Food, Inc twice, but you still aren't quite sure how to eat local in Los Angeles. The city is covered in exhaust smoke, and it's harder to imagine growing food here then being one of those people who, um, walk. Still for all its metropolitan appearan ... More >>

Chaos in the Casitas

Lawless, south of the border-style speakeasies get a grip on L.A.

Squid Ink Food Fight: Oysters, High and Low

There are few things to eat that are better tasting and simpler than an oyster. Complete with its own sauce, seasoning and serving dish, an oyster on the half shell is a nature-ready bite of food; any dash of lemon, mignonette or other sauce is arguably unnecessary. Once plentiful and cheap, oysters ... More >>

'Scarecrow' Compton Minister Busted

The L.A. Times and other sources report that the Rev. E. Joshua Sims, who leads Compton's LASDDefrocked: Rev. E. Joshua Sims​Double Rock Baptist congregation, has been arrested on embezzlement charges. Not only is Sims accused of channeling $800,000 of church funds toward his personal use, but, ac ... More >>

Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 127: Victim Identified

The LAPD has identified the Hispanic male that was bashed over the head with a bottle of vodka in the early hours of June 8 in a suspected attempted robbery gone bad. View Larger Map According to police reports, the victim is 31-year-old Filemon Cortez. Cortez was staying at the Corona Motel, 1172 ... More >>

Ten Great Cover Songs from Coachella 2009 (and a few extras)

Timothy NorrisEven the machinery was flashing the horns. Nothing says "I love you" like a cover song. Artists at Coachella like to acknowledge their influences, love to thrill the crowd with a surprise singalong. This year bands drew from music of many genres, from ragtime to post punk to hip hop. ... More >>

Is It Helter Skelter for Manson Girl Susan Atkins?

Susan Atkins, who is suffering from brain cancer, will be lucky to see the end of the year. In September, prison authorities quietly moved the 60-year-old Charles Manson follower (who has her own Web page) from an undisclosed hospital in Southern California to the Central California Women's Facility ... More >>

CNN to Interview Former Prison Confidante of Manson Family Member Susan Atkins

Former Beverly Hills matchmaker Virginia Graham told the LA Weekly that she has a date with CNN. CNN contacted Graham after reading, Beverly Hills Matchmaker Spills About Manson Family Member Susan Atkins, she said. Graham’s upcoming interview will likely focus on her prison chat fest with Atkin ... More >>

Coachella 08: A glimpse at Prince's soundcheck

At last night's cool Filter party at the Corona Yacht Club, I ran into sculptor Christopher Janney, whose Sonic Forest installation will once again appear as part of Coachella's art offerings. Janney has been working for the past week to install his work at the Empire Polo Field, where the 2008 Coac ... More >>

Gutter Twins, Great Northern, Avalon, 4/2

The Gutter Twins, Great Northern Avalon, April 2 It's raining in Los Angeles. Twice I slip on the slick Hollywood Walk of Fame in my terribly-unsuited-for-rain Chuck Taylors, trying to make my way to the Avalon. It's perfect though; it should be raining for a Gutter Twins show, even in L.A. It wa ... More >>

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The designers behind True Love & False Idols skip their cocaine breakfast

Wake Me Up Before You Go Go

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Despiertese, Despiertese!

Starting the day with Piolín

Gobbing On Empires

Punk’s Best Responses to the Bush Regime

Paris at Wal-Mart

Slam Nation

A Considerable Town

Abloom’s Day

The future of heaviness

Unaborted

Love and crap from the Sex Pistols

The Minimax

Line Space Line Concert Series

Knock 'Em Dead, Kid

The Million-Dollar March

A tribute to greed, power and excess

Abduction and Seduction

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Letters

Good, Better, Wurst

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Letters

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