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1 Dead in Santa Monica Gang Attack Near SMC

Updated at the bottom with one dead, possibly two arrested. Headline has changed. First posted at 11:55 a.m. Two people were shot not far from Santa Monica College this morning, shaking up a community already shocked by Friday's unrelated rampage. The violence in the 1500 block of Michigan Avenue, ... More >>

West Los Angeles Shooting Claims Life Of One, Injures Another On Playboy Crip Turf

One person was killed and another was injured in a shooting in West Los Angeles a couple miles south of Beverly Hills today. The attack in an alley near South Garth and Cadillac avenues was reported at 12:12 p.m., LAPD Officer Sara Faden told the Weekly. Someone wearing dark clothing walked up and ... More >>

Andre Lowe: Vigil For Teen Shot Outside Empire Club In Hollywood

A vigil for 19-year-old Andre Lowe, fatally shot outside Hollywood's Empire Club last weekend, was scheduled for 5:30 tonight. Organizers state that he was not a gang member and had just passed a state test to become a licensed security guard. Police told the Weekly that suspect, Robert Earl Thomas ... More >>

Hopeton Parsley, Playboy Gangster Crip, Charged In Oscar Duncan's Venice Murder

Hopeton Parsley, a 23-year-old Westside gangster, was charged with the murder of a popular Venice youth pastor, the L.A. County District Attorney's office said today. Parsley is said to be a member of the Playboy Gangster Crips, which claims turf about a mile south of Beverly Hills along La Cienega ... More >>

Greydon Square Is the Atheist Rapper

Midway through an interview with Greydon Square, I sneeze. "Bless you," the 31-year-old rapper born Eddie Collins says instinctively. He catches himself. "I know, an atheist that says, 'Bless you.' Habits, man." Greydon Square is the atheist rapper. In hip-hop, a genre in which where rappers thank ... More >>

Friends Wrongfully Imprisoned for Nearly Two Decades — Until the Innocence Project Won Their Freedom

Imprisoned nearly two decades for murder, it took another brutal slaying to free them

Calvin Sneed, Compton 'Pimp,' Murdered by Parents of His Sex Slave, Says San Francisco DA

The parents of an 17-year-old runaway tracked down her Compton pimp and shot him dead in NorCal, says the San Francisco DA. Calvin Sneed, a 22-year-old member of the Nutty Blocc Crips (according to the LAPD), allegedly went back up north in early June to try to retrieve the girl, whom he'd been pim ... More >>

Oscar Duncan Murder in Venice Sees 2 Arrests: Kevin Dwayne Green and Hopeton Bereford Parsley

[Update: Gang member Kevin Dwayne Green, 28, will be arraigned later today at the LAX courthouse, according to the D.A. He's charged with Oscar Duncan's June 4 murder (with gang enhancement), along with an alleged May 21 robbery and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The D.A. says Green was k ... More >>

1-Year-Old Killed in Watts in Possible Black-on-Latino Violence

A 1-year-old boy died after he and his father were shot in Watts last night, cops told the Los Angeles Times. The attack happened about 7:49 p.m. Monday in the 10500 block of Hickory Street, police told City News Service. That's only a block from the street that gives the notorious Grape Street Cr ... More >>

Know Your L.A. Hip-Hop Dances: Who, Exactly, Is Allowed To Crip Walk?

[Editor's Note: Writer Jessica A. Koslow is a USC master's student writing her thesis on krumping. Know Your L.A. Hip-Hop Dances explores some of the most popular street dances in our city.] Crip Walk "I'm C-Walkin' on the mutherfuckin' concrete," raps Ice Cube on "Go To Church." Other Crip Walker ... More >>

The Airborne Toxic Event Likes Motorcycles, Mexican Food and Blowing Stuff Up

Andrea DomanickThe Airborne Toxic Event holds it down at El Gran Burrito​See also: Airborne Toxic Event Want You On the Edge of Their Seat In this week's annual Music Issue, we go on a date catch up with hometown heroes The Airborne Toxic Event, on a motorcycle ride to some of their favorite ... More >>

TINSELTOWN OF TERROR

Federal Agents Bring The Pain Against 'East Side Pain' Gangsters In Los Angeles

The feds say East Side Pain moved weight.​We're telling you, if criminal organizations switched to old-timey names like the Eastside Benevolent Society and dressed in suits like the guys in Boardwalk Empire, there would be no heat. When you belong to a set called "East Side Pain," you display ... More >>

Notorious Kitty Cat Tagger Arrested After Allegedy Painting Feline Images Around Downtown Los Angeles

SanrioDon't you know I'm loco?​Authorities on Wednesday announced they've taken one of the Los Angeles region's most hardcore criminals off the streets -- a man who surely strikes fear into the eyes of Hells Angels, Crips, Bloods and Girl Scouts alike. That's right, he's the ... kitty cat graf ... More >>

Pregnant Westside Woman Fatally Shot Was Not Intended Target

Flickr photo by planetc1.​A 26-year-old woman fatally shot as she sat in a car parked in a Westside neighborhood was not the intended target, according to television news reports. More than one station stated that the victim's husband was a gang member or affiliate who was likely the target. ... More >>

Pregnant Woman Shot On The Westside (Updated)

​(Updated throughout at 12:20 p.m.): A pregnant woman and her fetus died in a shooting in the Westside community of La Cienega Heights Wednesday morning, police said. The attack appeared by be a gang-related, drive-by shooting near the Ward Plaza Shopping Center, which contains a Ross, a Toys ... More >>

Is Beverly Hills A Big Spender's Town? Survey Says ... Not So Much

​Swimming pools, movie stars ... and cheapskates. We always said rich people don't get that way by being loose with their pocketbooks. A survey by spending-data site Bundle might confirm that fact: Although its real estate values often rank at the top of national lists, Beverly Hills ranked a ... More >>

Yancy Cage, Reynaud Cage Jr., L.A. Homicide No.'s 73, 74: Two Reputed Gang Members Fatally Shot In South LA

Google Maps​The two men who were fatally shot in South Los Angeles April 3 have been identified as Yancy Cage, 39, and Reynaud Cage, Jr., 48. The two reputed East Coast Crips gang members were fatally shot Saturday afternoon near 162 E. 65th Street.

L.A. Gang Tours: Exploitation Or Education?

​The first of those L.A. Gang Tours we told you about took place Saturday on a bus filled mostly with journalists, and concerns that the journeys would be exploitative looks at the ghetto seemed to be mostly allayed. "I was skeptical at first, and thought it would be a 'titillating' tour, lik ... More >>

Gangs Cooperating With Each Other For Better Business, Report States

​As we told you last summer ("Gangs Lay Low, Rake in Dough") some neighborhoods that used to represent bloody fault lines in decades-old gang grudges have been eerily quiet, with some experts theorizing that the sets are working together to comprise a more-efficient money-making machine on the ... More >>

Santa Monica Police Tear Into Local Gangs

Some find it hard to believe that Santa Monica, with a median housing price of $1.6 million, is home to two entrenched gangs. The residents of the Pico Neighborhood, near Santa Monica College, know the fact well.SMPDSanta Monica police patrol the not-so-mean Third Street.​ Preston Wayne Brumf ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Fanboys, The Pink Panther 2, Push

Also, Crips and Bloods, Luck by Chance and the 2008 Academy Award-Nominated Shorts

After Marlo Jones' Arrest: How to Keep Ex-Gang Members Straight?

You've got to hand it to our city's social guardians, they can see a gold lining in every tragedy. In the soul-searching that has followed last week's arrest of gang-interventionist Marlo Jones, several people gave the L.A. Times explanations for his alleged role in robbing a member of the hip hop g ... More >>

South L.A.: London's Future

South London or South L.A.? Reporting on a drive-by murder in London's West Croydon neighborhood, the Croydon Guardian today quoted former South Los Angeles resident Dion Gibbs, 23, as saying the shooting of his friend was "just like L.A." Gibbs described the attack as something he thought he'd left ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Teaching for America in Crips Territory: Relentless Pursuit

Hope and little glory at an L.A. high school

L.A. Gangs: Nine Miles and Spreading

More codeless, arbitrary and brutal than ever... and coming to a neighborhood near you

Tookie and the Death Penalty

Blue Rage, Black Redemption

Mods & Rejects

What to do in Los Angeles this week

The Mayor's Fake "Worst Gangs"

Cops, gangs, residents — all ridicule City Hall’s politically correct top 11

The Bastard Question

A former Blood explores the roots of our nation’s longest-running war

From the Hoods to the Woods

How an O.G. gangbanger turned himself into a hardcore firefighter

Death of a Peace-Loving Playboy

Dirty Deeds

Bad cops and brass-knuckle politics in two tales of urban dystopia

Pit Stop

Unlivable Terms

Janice Hahn calls a heated meeting to end the killings in Watts

Farewell to Tookie

Tookie�s Mistaken Identity

On the trail of the real founder of the Crips

Tookie�s Hometown Sendoff

Tookie�s Inhumanity

An argument for sparing a cold-blooded killer

Tookie�s Saving Grace

Can the convicted killer�s inspirational books persuade the governor to spare him?

War and Peace in Watts

A gang treaty implodes and the killing resumes

War and Peace in Watts, Part Two

Sundance and the New Negro Cinema

It�s good for you

Flying the Flag

The debate over the latest gang crackdown

Monster Rap

An ex-gangbanger�s take on stemming the violence

Ghetto Star

'Monster' Kody Scott and the Culture of Ornament

Ganging Up in Venice

Alleged gang members mount spirited defense of their civil liberties

Crips and Bloods Unite

Nation of Islam steps in to challenge gang injunction

Virtual Gangs