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Brit Marling Saves the World From the World-Savers, in The East

How Undercover Animal Rights Activists Are Winning the Ag-Gag War

What's the Deal With Those "Radio Stations" That Play While You're Pumping Gas?

What's your favorite radio station? More specifically: What's your favorite radio station to listen to while you're pumping gas? Admittedly, it's a pretty stupid question, because, as L.A. folks are undoubtedly aware, you don't have a choice. If you're at one of 171 stations in the broader metro are ... More >>

Gas-Price Gouging Possible As Cost of a Gallon Reaches New Record High in L.A.

See also: *Gas Prices Could Reach All-Time High in L.A. Gas prices set a new record in California over the weekend. Is this a scam? Sen. Dianne Feinstein asked the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission to launch an "immediate investigation" into the price spikes because, she stated, "it does no ... More >>

Gas Prices Could Reach All-Time High in L.A. as Some Stations Expected to Shut Down

Southern California is an island of gas-price hell this week. One station in Calabasas is charging nearly $6 ($5.89 to be exact) a gallon for high-octane fuel, the Costco in Simi Valley has run out of regular-grade gas (with other stations expected to follow suit), and one expert tells us that all-t ... More >>

Gas at $5.51 a Gallon in Los Angeles? Prepare for More Increases as a Result of Refinery Fire

Updated at the bottom: And it gets worse as another refinery in the Bay Area goes up in smoke. First posted at 2:40 p.m. If this heat wave has you down, just wait until your next gas station visit. A fire at a Chevron refinery near San Francisco last Monday knocked out a portion of one of Califor ... More >>

The Bank That Looks Like a Del Taco: 6348 Sepulveda Blvd., Van Nuys

You can walk in and ask for a "Del Fargo" burrito at this Wells Fargo branch in Van Nuys but, sadly, you probably aren't gonna get one. Built in 2007 where a Mobil gas station used to sit at the corner of Victory and Sepulveda Boulevards, this fairly new, ketchup and mustard-colored building could ... More >>

Pulling Off the White Tablecloth

In the L.A. dining scene, it's no magic trick. It's casual.

Gas Leak

Bill Burke, The "Lead Investor" In China-Backed Bid For Dodgers, Is Even Poorer Than We Thought

Bill Burke​Remember Bill Burke, the guy who offered to buy the Dodgers last week with $1.2 billion of China's money? Something about that didn't smell quite right, so last week we tracked down his wife's financial disclosure statement from 2003. Turns out, the Burkes are worth no more than $6.8 mi ... More >>

38 Degrees Ale House & Grill: Beer Lover's Paradise... in Alhambra

Daniel DrennonClay Harding, co-owner of 38 Degrees with 38 taps​ Apparently the economic downturn has not hindered craft beer drinkers. They say, even in a recession, folks will still seek an escape from tough times at the movies. The same can now be said of beer bars. Despite dozens of ho ... More >>

Good Riddance, Ray Irani

Chief of Occidental Oil, stepping down, seen by many as greediest of all

Dictator Watch: Teodorin Obiang, African Royalty in Malibu, Orders Yacht Worth 3 Times His Country's Health Education Budget

BossipJust another day in the life of Teodorin Obiang​"I've been very lucky in business ... and I like to live well." -- Teodorin Obiang We mostly stick to small-fry targets like West Hollywood politicians who green-light towering concrete atrocities and Los Angeles mayors who green-light six ... More >>

Schwarzenegger's Chemical Romance

Angering environmentalists, Arnold rewrites his Green Chemistry initiative in his final days in office

California Prop. 26, The Morning After: How Did Big Oil Get Away With This?

Bloomberg BusinessweekChevron 1, Big Green 0​California enviro-activists never saw it coming. News outlets called the defeat of Prop. 23 early last night, giving Big Green honchos plenty to clank their champagne flutes about. (The Weekly reports on the clash of the Green and Big Oil titans ov ... More >>

Two Local Strikes on the Horizon

A pair of labor disputes that could have far-reaching effects on the L.A. economy are edging into the spotlight. Tomorrow morning Local 675 of the United Steelworkers of America will seek a strike sanction from the L.A. County Federation of Labor. The union, whose local and national negotiating comm ... More >>

Barack Obama's Slippery Fund-Raising Slope

Small donors aside, he's awash in cash from big labor and business. Can he say no?

Special Tortilla Contest Edition

Corn vs. flour: Cual es mas masa?

Luminosities

Czech Mates

Countdown to Extinction

The 11th Hour says we’re all gonna die — but maybe not

What Would Erik Satie Do?

Coping with Linkin Park, gas prices and American Idol in a world where only Muddy Bears make sense

Malibu Bad Neighbor

A dictator in training buys his way in, as politically active superstars stay mum

Voters’ Guide

Making sense of the ballot measures L.A. City Measures:

Best Monsters in the Tar Pits

The Tip of the Melting Iceberg

25 minutes with Al Gore

Rise of the Machines

Pretty Boy and the Nerd try to bring down the Terminator, while the Democratic Party searches for its soul

Off-Road Rebellion

Who got port drivers out of their trucks on May 1?

The Knockout Shot

A former boxer’s encounter with LAPD undercover cops

Outing Polluters

Bush’s Energy Disaster

Time to park the SUVs in the White House garage

How to Cure Hollywood’s Summertime Blues

12 Steps to better box office

Home Is Where the Concierge Is

The return of the residential hotel

The End of Donald Kuspit?

The opening of his "California New Old Masters"

Corporate Kerry

The senator comes to California for the rich person’s vote and dollars

Halfway to Venus

The Piano Lesson

Beaching the Cleanup Plan

How a one-man crusade to overturn pollution controls became a $1 million legal fight

Progress Report: Gehry in Bloom

The End of the Fucking World Survey

Tee Time

Heathen Worship

The Gray Rat

Blame the governor for no books, no desks, no toilet paper

It’s the Oil

For all of punditry’s hot air, the root cause remains the same

Waxing Nostalgic

Wilderness, Inc.

Southern California's controversial 'Adventure Pass' program

No Fries; Chips

Take a Hike

Consume Part I: Food

Forty-One Reasons to Live in LA