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Lawsuit Over LAPD's Videotaped Killing Of Teen Abdul Arian Tossed

It was a crazy police chase. The last breaths of 19-year-old Abdul Arian were caught on tape on April 11, 2012. He exited his unmarked, ex-police car in the middle of the 101 freeway in Woodland Hills, faced several officers, crouched and appeared to assume what cops described as a "shooting stanc ... More >>

Jason Torchinsky's Stolen '73 Beetle Found On L.A. Street Thanks To Google Maps

What would you do if your 1973 Volkswagen Beetle was stolen? Most of you would say, Thank the Lord for this blessing and buy better transportation -- a bicycle, perhaps. But understand this: 41-year-old Angeleno Jason Torchinsky, a contributor to the mega-car-guy blog Jalopnik, had this black-stri ... More >>

Los Angeles Sugar Daddies Spend $5,448 A Month On Their Ladies?

The economy is dire. People are selling their used underwear on Craigslist. You've downgraded from DirecTV to YouTube. You buy your fresh produce from a freeway offramp! And yet Los Angeles sugar daddies are spending $5,448 a month on their chickadees? Yep. So says the latest annual sugar daddy rep ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan: 5 Easy Steps To Get Your Life Back On Track

Gosh, Lohan, you're so inept at life you can't even take your luck at not having to do serious time for two DUIs and a jewelry theft and just lay low and run with it. (As friend Lalo Alcaraz said via Facebook, "If Lindsay Lohan was brown she'd already be doing 4 years in Chino."). No. In one day yo ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Pecking Order, Episode 304: Kim Richards Calling the Shots

See also: *Our Real Housewives archives 1. Kim Richards (Last week: 7) Kim! Welcome back! In one episode you've gone from snoozy wallflower to H.B.I.C. You and Yolanda Foster are like some warped version of Regina George and Cady Heron from Mean Girls. Yolanda's all "I'm new and I don't really und ... More >>

Jeffrey Gundlach's Multimillion-Dollar Art Recovered After Santa Monica Home Burglary

It's official: Jeffrey Gundlach is the luckiest man alive. Not only has the CEO-investor been living a life of riches known only to the 1 percent (and to other friends of Mitt Romney -- house north of Montana Avenue in Santa Monica, museum-worthy paintings on his walls, Porsche Carrera 4S in the ga ... More >>

Jeffrey Gundlach: $10 Million Santa Monica Art Heist of Jasper Johns, Porsche, Patek

Cops this week were looking for the thieves who cleaned out a Santa Monica home left alone earlier this month by a resident on a "trip." The $10 million-plus haul included "numerous" art works, including a piece by Jasper Johns, a 2010 Porsche and a handful of watches, including a Patek Philippe. Al ... More >>

Richest Cities in California Slum For Rides, Prefer The Prius

California has more billionaires than just about anywhere in the world except the United States itself, China and Russia. Really. So, if you were to survey a couple of the Golden State's wealthiest communities, what car make do you think would enjoy top rates of ownership? Maybach? Maybe Ferrari? A ... More >>

I Had Zero Interest in Celebrity Home Tours...Until I Went on One

When I moved to Los Angeles a year ago, I swore that I would never be caught dead on a celebrity-homes tour. I couldn't care less whether the Kardashians lived in a mansion with an infinity pool or a gingerbread house constructed by sugarplum fairies. The buses cruising the streets reminded me o ... More >>

Abdul Arian: $120 Million Lawsuit Filed in Case of Teen Shot by LAPD on Live TV

That $120 million legal claim against the city in the case of Abdul Arian, a 19-year-old who was fatally shot on live television by LAPD officers in April, is now a $120 million lawsuit. This after the city rejected the claim. The suit, filed yesterday in L.A. Superior Court, comes after the famil ... More >>

Confirmed: Lindsay Lohan Is a Really Shitty Driver

Lindsay Lohan was reportedly involved in another car crash around noon today. According to TMZ, who is ON IT, the recovering party girl smashed her black Porsche into the back of a semi while heading north on the PCH. [Update: It may have been a rental. Update No. 2: Lohan is fine, says TMZ, and bac ... More >>

Only in Hollywood: Smash-and-Grab Robber Cruises Around in Rented Benz Convertible, Other Luxury Cars

Ah, the good life of a smash-and-grab robber in Hollywood! LAPD detectives say they caught convicted thief Sean Ray, who lives a short trip down the 101, cruising up on various cars in the Hollywood area -- punching their passenger-side windows out and snatching whichever electronics he could find ... More >>

8 Essential Vegan Kitchen Tools: Spork Foods on Good Knives and Baby Whisks

Jenny Engel and Heather Goldberg of Spork Foods take cooking to a unique vegan-friendly apogee. As full-time sisters, instructors, consultants, and now cookbook authors, their relationship to the lifestyle is dedicated. They drop tips on necessary tools -- in no particular rank, save for the chef's ... More >>

Rice Krispyhenge & Gummy Bearskin Rugs: The Food-Fueled Whimsy of Brock Davis

Brock DavisRice Krispyhenge​In the world of Minneapolis-based artist Brock Davis, junk food can be medium, muse and, perhaps, message. Davis has a Time magazine cover to his credit and has counted the likes of Porsche and Gibson as clients, but some of his choicest work plays with nutritionall ... More >>

Showgirls 2 -- Penny's From Heaven: Rena Riffel's New Spoof of Paul Verhoeven's, Err, Classic

Rena Riffel​ Everyone remembers the infamous scene from 1995 cult classic Showgirls in which Cristal Connors (actress Gina Gershon) gazes into the eyes of Nomi Malone (actress Elizabeth Berkley) and says, "You see, darlin', you are a whore." Though the notoriously so-awful-it's-great film see ... More >>

Farmers Field Roadside Billboard Risks

Expect a big jump in distracted, dangerous drivers, expert says

Basil Max Price III Killed in Ferrari Crash on PCH: Car Split in Half

A Ferrari 360.​The second Ferrari to split in half in a crash on Pacific Coast Highway in the last five years took the life of a man ID'd by cops as 23-year-old Basil Max Price III of Glendora. He was the passenger in the 1999 car that was apparently speeding and went out of control on PCH no ... More >>

Lynda Benglis at MOCA: Conceptual Art Meets Dildoes (NSFW)

Courtesy the artist and Cheim & Read, © Lynda Benglis, DACS, London/VAGA, New York 2009Lynda Benglis, Fling, Dribble, and Drip, February 27, 1970, Life Magazine​ In 1974, Lynda Benglis ran an advertisement in Artforum that caused five editors to protest and pack up: she photographed herself n ... More >>

Simone Legno of tokidoki: Italian-Japanese Fusion

Why Cars Suck: Daredevil Bike Riders' Death-Defying Commutes in To Live & Ride in L.A.

Swank OneDown by the (L.A.) River. That's fixed-gear legend Keo Curry (left) and George Gregor (right). ​ Sean Martin can tell you about the moment he thought he would die. Sure, the fixed-gear cyclist who moved to L.A. in 2008 and cycles to work daily had had close calls before but one sunn ... More >>

Huffington Post is Optimistically Off by Several Years in Naming its Baby Boomer Section 'Huff/Post 40'

Wilson!​While some news organizations are known for inventing a generation every time Apple introduces a new product (the iPad generation!), there are limits. Historians William Strauss and Neil Howe have come up with perhaps the most cited and widely trusted framework: A generation is a coho ... More >>

Sexual Attraction: Smiling for Men is Chick Repellent

NBC / HuluBlizzard Man is a virgin.​Those brooding hip-hop guys in puffy jackets in the corner of the club -- the place where "nobody smiling." Turns out they get all the girls after all. A study published this week in the American Psychological Association journal Emotion states that women a ... More >>

Mormons, Incest and Weird Car Crashes: The Sordid Saga of The 5 Browns, Utah's Version of the Von Trapp Family

The 5 Browns: A sordid saga​Today's incredibly strange music story comes courtesy of the great fellow Western state of Utah. There once (back in the '90s) was a quintet of classical piano-playing siblings--the Mormon version of the Von Trapp family from Sound of Music, if you will. Three adora ... More >>

L.A. Official Police Garage Website Lets You Buy Back the Car the LAPD Just Took From You

Robert S. DonovanDon't expect to find too many 599s at an OPG auction.​So you came to America to cut our grass, change our babies' diapers and wash our dishes for shite money. You suck. You bought a shite car but couldn't get a frigging drivers license because ex-Gov. Arnold, in his infinite w ... More >>

David Beckham's Customized Porsche For Sale In L.A.

Chequered FlagDavid Beckham's onetime ride.​For sale: One very hot Porsche Turbo Cabriolet ... with hooker stains. We kid! Don't hit us David Beckham. But seriously, stains or not, this matte black 2008 rear-engined marvel with custom number "23" accents -- the player's L.A. Galaxy digits -- ... More >>

Missing California Lottery Ticket Worth $200,000 Was Purchased Five Months Ago In East L.A.

Act soon, or your hard-earned cashmoney will go toward education​If you're going to waste a perfectly crisp Washington on a one-in-a-bagillion chance of winning the lottery, at least check to see if your impulse buy was worth the shame. One lottery hopeful (or not-so-hopeful) has yet to disco ... More >>

The Company Men: Men Without Balls

Ben Affleck, emasculated by the economic crisis

AFI Fest A to Z: Hey Man, Yeah

Our critics' picks for what to see and skip at this year's festival

Dodgers Outfielder Manny Ramirez Donates Rare Porsche To Charity

​An online charity auction of Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez's 1994 Porsche 911 Turbo 3.6 will begin on Friday. Proceeds from the auction will benefit ThinkCure!, which funds research to cure cancer and Maryvale, a Rosemead resident placement home for girls. ThinkCure!, a non-p ... More >>

LAPD Plans To Give Higher Priority To Car-Versus-Bicycle Collisions

​The Los Angeles Police Department will soon give higher priority to collision investigations involving vehicles versus bicycles, particularly hit-and-runs, a department official tells the Weekly. A special order taking away such investigations from beat cops and giving them to one of the depa ... More >>

Norbert Wabnig: Der Kaesehaendler

L.A. Ranks Surprisingly Low Among Nation's Biggest Spending Cities

​Last week we told you how Los Angeles wasn't really a big city when it comes to the size of certain anatomical parts. Now comes word that Angelenos aren't really big spenders either. Despite the region being home to Rodeo Drive, the biggest Porsche-buying market in the nation and a large if ... More >>

Driver Walks From Possible Hit-And-Run Case; Bicyclists Plan Protest Ride

​A Porsche driver who allegedly struck a bicyclist downtown then left the scene only to report the accident later is being allowed to walk as any possible case against her was apparently eschewed by the City Attorney's and District Attorney's offices. The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition ... More >>

Shopping For Valentine's Day on Hollywood Blvd. with Kool Keith [NSFW]

​Kool Keith waited for the rain to let up on Sunset Blvd & Vine. The corner, once flanked by prostitutes and drag queens like a scene from Pretty Woman, now has a Borders bookstore sitting on it. Here Kool Keith drinks tea with producer Yeti and rapper/allies Bushman and Denis Deft, describing ... More >>

Lack Of Arrest In Alleged Hit-And-Run Questioned

​The Los Angeles Police Department's response to a hit-and-run collision that injured a cyclist last week downtown has come under scrutiny as the driver was never arrested. The collision on East Second Street was reported shortly before 8:30 a.m. Wednesday and it injured, of all people, a man ... More >>

Home Invaders Flee In Porsche

2001 Porsche 911 Turbo.​For nearly 45 years the Porsche 911 has been everyman's object of desire in the U.S., an exotic and sometimes super car for a fraction of the cost of a Ferrari. Despite its quirky, rear-engined configuration and back seats that could only comfortably accommodate Oompa-L ... More >>

Has L.A.'s Auto Show Overshadowed Detroit and Tokyo?

In the wake of the bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler, a downsized Detroit auto show that saw the likes of Nissan, Porsche and Mitsubishi pull out, and a Tokyo auto show subsequently passed up by the Detroit three automakers, is L.A.'s own annual showcase next the place to be for the auto w ... More >>

LAUSD's Finest: Los Angeles School Police

How an oblivious school board lets a tiny, scandal-ridden force endanger L.A. kids

Maxine in Hot Waters Over Bank Conflict

L.A. Observed's business writer Mark Lacter does a fine job pulling together choice quotes from the Wall Street Journal and N.Y. Times on L.A. Congresswoman Maxine Waters' ties to OneUnited Bank. Until a few years ago she was an investor and her husband was once a director of the Boston-based bank, ... More >>

Gone With the Wind

Santa Anas at night, surfers’ delight. Santa Anas in the morning, homeowners take warning.

Theater Reviews: The Drawer Boy, Hollywood Hellhouse, Max Maven

Also Jim Morrison's Swimming to the Moon and this week's pick, Innocent When You Dream.

Datarock's Binary Numbers

Norway band creates disco anthems for the geekoid masses

Sean Penn, With His Own Two Eyes

Sean Penn on anger, humility and the power of seeing things for yourself

Tia Maria Torres

Underdogs

Weekends With Jerry

Film Reviews: Hot Fuzz, Redline and More

Also In the Land of Women and the documentary, Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea

Film Reviews: Disturbia, Perfect Stranger and More

Also Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Thetaers, The Ritchie Boys and this week's pick, Red Road

Imperfect Recall

I’m okay, the problem is my cheap car

Babbitt, Run

The dark side of normalcy

Moving Violations

Art cars don't kill people. They just annoy them.