El Segundo

The Vegan Beer Fest is This Saturday!

The Vegan Beer Festival this Saturday, May 4, from 1-5 p.m., is set to delight buzz-seaking meat-abstainers of Southern California for the fourth year. By popular demand the venue for the beer and food celebration was recently upgraded to the lot across from The Roxy Theatre, nearly doubling the cap ... More >>

Popcornopolis CFO Held Hostage by An Armed Female Employee

An armed female employee came to work at Popcornopolis, an El Segundo popcorn company, and held its chief financial officer hostage this morning, police said. Luckily nothing popped off and the woman was coaxed into giving up shortly after 11:30 a.m., El Segundo police Capt. Bob Turnbull told the W ... More >>

El Segundo Brewing Company Bottles Available Starting Today: White Dog IPA Standard Crude

Though it's been open for less than two years, the tiny El Segundo Brewing Company has already doubled its fermentation capacity and garnered more than 150 draft accounts from Santa Barbara to San Diego. And starting with tonight's bound-to-be-epic release party, the notoriously hop-forward brewery ... More >>

Top 5 Places in L.A. To Buy Super Bowl Party Beer Kegs

If you're hosting a Super Bowl party this Sunday for friends, you're probably already stressing at the thought of ordering a half-dozen pizzas for on-time delivery and fist fighting for the last family-size bag of Doritos at the local Ralph's. But when it comes to providing copious amounts of beer ... More >>

El Segundo Museum of Art Opens, Bringing Smartphones Into the Gallery Experience

The new home for the El Segundo Museum of Art -- which isn't a public museum, but technically a private collection open to the public -- infills a tiny slice of downtown El Segundo's Main Street, right next to a former post office storefront, in a skinny slot that used to be a drive-through alley. T ... More >>

DUI Checkpoints Tonight, Tomorrow For L.A., West Hollywood, Long Beach

As a small warm-up for the massive DUI crackdown scheduled to harsh your mellow New Years Eve, police around the L.A. area are planning DUI checkpoints. Locations include West Hollywood, Long Beach and the San Gabriel Valley. Think of this as practice for Monday, the ultimate amateur night. We'll ... More >>

Holiday DUI Checkpoint Cheat Sheet: Massive Drunk Driving Crackdown Starts Friday

'Tis the season to be jolly, yes, but try not to do your fa-la-la-la-laing in a jail cell. Not fun. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department this week previewed the anti-DUI can of whoopass it's unveiling for the holidays, starting this weekend. It's massive:

Stephen Jimenez Took Repo Man For Ride On Hood Of Mercedes In El Segundo -- Cops

A man who was having his Mercedes repossessed in El Segundo allegedly took off behind the wheel with the repo man on the hood for three blocks before bucking him off the car and causing "significant" injuries, cops say. Authorities were called to El Segundo Boulevard and Main Street around 1:54 p.m ... More >>

L.A. Beer Week: More Local Breweries Bring Shuttles and Tours

There are many ways in which the fourth annual Los Angeles Beer Week, which began last night, represents a major milestone in the city's craft beer scene. In addition to the dizzying number of events this year (the official calendar lists at least 20 separate events happening each day through next ... More >>

Q & A With Australian Brewery Mountain Goat Beer: Surfboards as Collateral The Influence of American Craft Beer

Australia doesn't just produce enviable beer commercials, as we learned last week, they produce beer equally worthy of our interest. One such brewery, Mountain Goat Beer of Melbourne, Australia, is kicking off a launch party for extended distribution at Rock & Brews in El Segundo tonight, and Congre ... More >>

DUI Checkpoint in Hollywood Tonight; Drunk Driver Crackdown Across L.A.

The dog days of summer are here, the 4th of July is way back in the rear view, and the season is winding down. But, for whatever reason, authorities across L.A. county are turning up the heat on drunk drivers with a "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" campaign August 17 to September 3. Not only that ... More >>

Robert Danhi's Easy Thai Cooking A Recipe for Grilled Lemongrass Chicken

Feel like eating Thai food? Then cook it yourself -- which isn't as hard as it sounds, because there's a book to help. It's Easy Thai Cooking, by Robert Danhi (Tuttle: $16.95). Danhi knows the kind of Thai food you like, because he lives here and has eaten his way through Hollywood's Thai Town as w ... More >>

Beer Belly Celebrates 1st Anniversary

It feels like much longer than a year has passed since Jimmy and Yume Han opened Beer Belly, the Koreatown craft beer bar that introduced the Hite-heavy neighborhood to a volume and variety of local-brewed suds like it had never seen. But sure enough, this weekend will mark the bar's one year annive ... More >>

Fishing Boat With 20 Illegals Lands in El Segundo

If you plan on coming to America in a small "panga" boat, try to land in Venice. Stinking wet with ragged clothes on, people will assume you belong. Unfortunately for this group of 20 suspected illegals, likely from Mexico, their boat came ashore along a wide-open stretch of beach in El Segundo. Yo ... More >>

Rock & Brews: Gene Simmons, Craft Beers Big Televisions

We're good with Russell, Bill and Richard but as far as Simmonses are concerned, Gene has got to go. With a tongue like an unfurling red carpet and a mouth as wide and bilious as a landfill, the bassist once known as Chaim Weitz has carved out a sizeable entertainment business empire. And now, the ... More >>

Chevron Refinery in El Segundo 'Avoided Paying Millions of Dollars in Taxes'

It's officially election season in America, and few topics are hotter or divide us more than taxes: Should the rich pay more? Do the wealthy carry the rest of us? Do corporations pay their fair share? On that last one, KCET's news series, SoCal Connected, might have a partial answer:

Barbara's at the Brewery 13th Anniversary Party

Jessica SandovalTap Handles at Barbara's​At a time when the average L.A. beer bar seems to be about 13 weeks old, Barbara's at the Brewery turns 13 years old. So GM Erik Huig, aka son of Barbara, is unleashing the best beer list you will find anywhere in Los Angeles tomorrow night, Saturday, ... More >>

4 Double Black IPAs That Debuted in 2011: Or, Crossing Over to the (Very) Dark Side

In the last twelve months, the craft beer world has welcomed new flavors from a slew of emerging styles including the rye saison (Avery's Eighteen), the wheat IPA (El Segundo Brewing's Picket Fence) and the seasonal imperial pumpkin ale (Flying Dog's The Fear). But no new style was more exciting for ... More >>

Holiday Food Drive Roundup

Bellmore Library​Did you stock up on too much food for the holidays? Any Thanksgiving non-perishable leftovers? Make the most out of it and donate to these local food drives. According to the L.A. Regional Food Bank, the most coveted food products are rice, beans, canned meat, canned vegetable ... More >>

Schat's Bakery: From Mammoth to El Segundo

Guzzle & NoshThe exterior of Schat's Bakkery in Bishop and a shot of their pecan pullaway bread.​Generations of skiers and mountaineers have stopped at Erick Schat's Bakkery in Bishop, perhaps for a loaf of their famous shephearder's bread, perhaps for a few of the deep-fried doughnuts known a ... More >>

Burger Alert: More Five Guys Headed to L.A.

Armadillo​ The East Coast burger chain Five Guys continues to zero in on Southern California territory, with plans for several more locations in the works. One of those is set to open near USC's campus near Figueroa Street and Adams Boulevard, and another on Wilshire Boulevard. According to th ... More >>

Art Sex Crime Tagging Crew Targeted in L.A. County Sweep: 8 Alleged Graffiti Vandals Arrested

MySpaceArt Sex Crime has a MySpace page.​Cops fanned out across the L.A. area in pursuit of members of Art Sex Crime, an 8-year-old tagging crew they say is responsible for more than 1,600 acts of vandalism: 11 people were arrested yesterday in eight different SoCal cities -- mostly in the sou ... More >>

Openings: 3Twenty Wine Lounge & Sammy's Woodfired Pizza

Guzzle & Nosh​Two openings to report. Today, the awkwardly named 3Twenty Wine Lounge on La Brea (just south of 3rd) officially opens to the public. The owner, Edgar Poureshagh, is a former wine rep, and the chef, Michelle Salah, comes from the Spotted Pig in New York. Look for lots of Enomatic ... More >>

L.A. joins the Craft Beer Revolution: ColLAboration Rock & Brews

Daniel DrennonRob Croxall, El Segundo Brewing, with Jennifer Greenhalgh, Rock and Brews​ This past weekend, legions of L.A. beer fans descended upon two beer "events" -- ColLAboration 2 in Hollywood on Saturday and the Rock and Brews Festival in El Segundo on Sunday. The huge turnout and joyo ... More >>

Barbie, 7 Kens Scale Mattel Headquarters in El Segundo, Protest Doll Boxes Made From Indonesian Rainforests

Molly Peterson/KPCCProtest Barbie has brief wig malfunction​Apparently inspired by last month's super meta Disney protest -- in which Burbank activists dressed as Mickey and Minnie chained themselves to the front gates of corporate headquarters and hung a banner reading "Disney: Destroying Ind ... More >>

Abuse at L.A. County Jails

Andrew Garton, Hawthorne Police Officer, Dies in Motorcycle Collision With Another Cop in Torrance

Torrance PD​Updated at the bottom: Witnesses described the scene before crash as "chaotic." The death of Garton is reported in an update on the next page. Two motorcycle police officers were "badly hurt" when they collided during a funeral procession for a late Manhattan Beach cop in Torrance ... More >>

Rich Fireman Named in Shoplifting

In El Segundo, where firefighters make $210,000 a year, anger spills over

L.A. Beaches Are Dirtier This Year, But a Surf Spot Called 'Shitpipe' Gets an A For Water Quality (Go Figure)

Heal the Bay​We know our friends at the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau are always hard at work thinking of new ways to attract tourists to our fair city. Heal the Bay's latest L.A. Beach Report Card suggests some new attractions, such as lumpy water, waves you can smell, and, of ... More >>

Al Qaeda, Other Terror Groups Reportedly Use 'vBulletin' Technology to Communicate: Fox Calls Out its Maker, L.A.'s Internet Brands

YouTubeAl Qaeda training video.​An L.A.company is under fire for creating the technology that reportedly allows terror groups like Al Qaeda to recruit members and plan attacks. Fox News this week called out El Segundo-based Internet Brands for its group-discussion platform vBulletin. Of cours ... More >>

Food Truck Friday: Ragin Cajun

Watching him tease, entice and cajole passersby to try food from his Ragin Cajun truck (@cajunonwheels), it's hard to believe that Stephen Domingue ever had a problem with self-promotion. After being eliminated on the second episode of cross-country reality show "The Great Food Truck Race," oste ... More >>

LETTERS: MINKOW STINKOW

A Stink in El Segundo Over Cadillac Salaries

Cops earn $175,000, firefighters $210,000, in a town with few criminals or fires

LAX Police Dispatched Outside Of Airport To Help Other Cops

​LAX police are often dispatched to help aid other cops in neighboring cities, according to a two-month investigation by Los Angeles radio station KNX 1070 Newsradio. In the past year and a half alone, airport officers were dispatched about 17 times to help aid police in nearby cities. "We'r ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: Best BBQ, or Sunshine on a Gloomy Day

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: So okay, not to be like everybody else who does this, but... It's my wife's birthday, and we gotta get a big bunch of barbecue - Southern American, not Southern Korean - for a group of 10ish. There are a lot of barbecue restaurants out ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: Stranded At (Or Near) LAX? Head To Mariscos Chente

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I am meeting a relative at LAX on a night when the Encounter restaurant is closed. Is there something nearby that you can recommend? It could be for drinks, some decent food, or preferably both. --Thomas, Los Angeles Dear Thomas: Someday ... More >>

Save us, WWE and Barbie! Mattel reports a revenue turnaround and sighs with relief

Can Barbie save us from the incredible, persistent 12 percent to 14 percent unemployment that has ravaged Los Angeles city and county?The folks over at Mattel are doing something right -- gobbling up successful stuff like World Wrestling Entertainment. Now, they're reporting a key turnaround in thei ... More >>

Light Rail Coming To The 'Wood And Beyond

Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Thursday approved a light-rail line that would run down the "Crenshaw corridor" from Exposition Boulevard to LAX. The line, which could open in 2018, would run through parts of Inglewood, Hawthorne and El Segundo as a much-needed north-sou ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Sandwiches

THERE'S NO SEGUNDO LIKE EL SEGUNDO

Ice Pick of the Week: We Are the Worlds

Is SoCal Aerospace Crashing -- Again?

In an ominous sign that Southern California's aerospace industry might be repeating the massive downsizing of the 1990s, Northrop Grumman today announced 750 layoffs, to occur within the next few months. According to the Daily Breeze, most of the terminations are expected to fall at the company's El ... More >>

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