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Antonio Villaraigosa's Quest for Wall Street, Washington and Wealth

Who Will Buy the Los Angeles Times?

Why do so many rich men want to buy it? And how did it get to this point anyway?

Eating Hot Foods in Plastic Bowls May Pose Health Hazard

That Hello Kitty bowl may be adorable, but plastic dishware appears to be a very bad idea healthwise. A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. finds that eating hot food from melamine bowls can expose you to high amounts of melamine, according to Fox News. Melamine is toxic crap ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Feud With Axl Rose

See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Best of L.A. issue and our Best of L.A. app This week, a photograph angers a rock star, an artist compares Fox News with CNN and an iconic sculpture returns to the building it inspired. 5. Red state, blue state Artist Jonathan Horowitz has split the Hamm ... More >>

When a Video Artwork Showed the Presidential Debate, the Audience Tried to Change the Volume. But Is That Like Drawing on a Picasso?

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Best of L.A. issue and our Best of L.A. app Last night's presidential debate didn't get nearly as heated as the firestorm that erupted during it at the Hammer Museum. Within the My Land/Your Land exhibit, a performance art piece by Jonathan Ho ... More >>

Porn Stars Rally Against Condoms

Only in L.A. will you find hot young women begging for a condom-free experience. It's true. Some of Porn Valley's top performers are rallying against a measure that will be on the November ballot in Los Angeles County: Measure B would at least attempt to enforce condom use on adult video sets. Acc ... More >>

Occupy L.A. Is Mad About Supreme Court's Obamacare Ruling

Who knew? Occupy Wall Street (and its Los Angeles faction) hates Obamacare. That's because, though your run-of-the-mill Westside liberal is likely to applaud the "health care for all!" initiative, the more skeptical end of the 99 percent sees it as just another victory for corporate America:

Immigrants: Can't Live With Them? Study Says American Can't Thrive Without Them

If you watch Fox News you know that illegal immigrants are really the reason our economy has been in the dumps. They suck up government benefits like leaches at a blood convention, they pop out anchor babies and, to top it all off, they commit mad crime. Securing the border has been a top priority ... More >>

America's Next Top Waitress: 2013 Hooters Calendar Girls

The search for America's next top bikini-clad waitress is on. The Hooters bus has hit the road to search for its 2013 calendar girls. Its mission: "To provide our customers with something beautiful to look at every single day of the year! We provide over 200 girls in each of our calendars." Over the ... More >>

A Facebook Divided: 1 Out of 5 Americans Unfriend Over Politics

A new survey says nearly 1 out of 5 of you have "blocked, unfriended, or hidden" a social networking pal because you found their politically oriented posts offensive, arguable or disagreeable. In other words, many Facebook users are thin-skinned. According to a just-released Pew Internet & Americ ... More >>

Whitney Houston: Regrettable Punditry And 'Too Soon' Reactions on Video

Bill O'Reilly​When a celebrity dies in L.A., it's a somber moment. But it's also an opportunity for competition among journalists and pundits. Members of the media can make mistakes, over-reach, and downright go too far. That was the case for some of the coverage of Whitney Houston's untimel ... 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 >>

Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore Criticized For Sex Trafficking PSA Campaign

Sofia Vergara promotes 'real men.'​The Demi and Ashton Foundation came under fire this week for, well, trying to do good. Because we all know Fox News hates do-gooders. Actually, what happened was that Norma Ramos, director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, told the network that ... More >>

XXX Porn Domains Approved; L.A.-Based Adult Industry Not Happy

estheraseIt's coming.​Good news for porn hounds. Maybe. You now have your very own domain. Kind of how the White House has .gov. You have .xxx. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the folks who control such things, gave a green light to triple-X this week. It looks l ... More >>

Tequila Can be as Bad For the Environment as it is For Your Hangovers

A shot to the environment?​Tequila, as we all know, is the new vodka. And it's good for you if you like wake up in strange places, wipe your memory clean or get arrested. But maybe you didn't know that it's also starting to wreak havoc on the environment where it's made, in the Mexican state ... More >>

Israeli Scientists Harvest Girl Tears, Force Boys To Sniff Them

Tears still work on judges, Lindsay finds​We're not sure what made a group of Israeli scientists want so ravenously to find out if the smell of human tears could affect the angle of a dude's boner, but now we have the answer -- thanks to a core group of six women who could pump out a full mill ... More >>

LA Weekly Commenting System Gets An Upgrade

Flickr/mrjoromailbox in Santa Clara County, CA ​ One of the fun things about blog posts is that you can comment on them pretty much instantly, posting your anonymous (or not) 2 cents worth for everyone to read as soon as you finish typing. Unlike the old days, when you just threw your food at ... More >>

Day In Shockers: UC Berkeley Makes You Liberal, Fox News Makes You Dumb

College OTRWatchin' some C-Span from our Berkeley-ass van​Great. Now liberals at UC Berkeley have sta-thith-tics to drop into their rants on the intolerable ignorance of middle-Americans who shop at Wal-Mart and jerk off to Sarah Palin, like they aren't guilty of the same: A new study proves ... More >>

Most Polls On Prop. 19, California's Marijuana Legalization Effort, Way Off

Polls were off when it came to Prop. 19.​What were some of these pollsters smoking? Prop. 19, the California initiative that would have legalized pot, ultimately failed 46 percent (in favor) to nearly 54 percent (opposed). But some polls had it much closer: SurveyUSA's data from last week had ... More >>

Jerry Brown Meg Whitman Election Results: Whitman Concedes

Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman​Meg Whitman just gave a concession speech over in Universal City. Her supporters booed in dismay when she said she had called "Governor-Elect Brown" to wish him well."Tonight has not worked out quite as we hoped," Whitman said. "It looks like the results are in and it i ... More >>

Barry Minkow 2.0

L.A.'s fraud king is back — and taking the media for another ride

Did Jerry Brown's Wife, Anne Gust Brown, Call Meg Whitman A Whore On LAPD Union Voicemail? Fox News' Jake Gibson Says Yes

UPI / Aaron KehoeJerry and Anne Gust Brown: Did she say "whore?"​Fox News producer Jake Gibson reported over the weekend that the person who famously called Meg Whitman a whore -- an utterance caught on-tape -- is none other than Jerry Brown's wife, Anne Gust Brown. True? We don't know. Do we ... More >>

'Fox & Friends' Reports LAPD Bought $1 Billion Worth Of Jet Packs: Chief Beck Says If Only ...

​Fox News' Fox & Friends was punk'd by its own gullibility this week when it aired a story about the Los Angeles Police Department ordering 10,000 jet packs -- more than enough for each sworn officer to have one. Problem is the story was fake -- sourced from the Weekly World News.The price ta ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/27-10/1

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Just the way we like it, really, a restaurant that doesn't really exist stuffed like pureed huitlacoche into a favorite restaurant that does..." First Bite: Test Run, or Supper Liberation Front & Pablo Moix Invade Guelaguet ... More >>

Trust Us: This Is the Only Mel Gibson Remix You Need

Mel Noise​You know the drill: someone (well-known or not) does something absurd, funny or demeaning IRL, someone else uploads it onto the Internet (for Lulz, "a corruption of L O L, which stands for Laugh Out Loud." --Phil Shuman, Fox News), and then many people make musical remixes as a way ... More >>

Rep. Brad Sherman Unwittingly Gets Fox News Gum In His Hair Over Black Panther Case

Rep. Brad Sherman​ Rep. Brad Sherman, a Democrat who represents the Valley, has become a Fox News star because he doesn't watch enough Fox News or read right wing blogs that have gone absolutely blotto about a 2008 voter intimidation case involving the New Black Panther Party. The awesome sp ... More >>

Mayor Villaraigosa Says 3,500 Will Have Been Cut From City Payroll Come July

Fox News​In a bizarre pronouncement, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa this week told Fox News' Neil Cavuto that 3,500 workers will have been cut from city payrolls come July 1 as City Hall balanced a budget that at one time was recently $585 million in the red. It's bizarre because it's not a number ... More >>

Al Franken Seeks Financial Affirmation In L.A.

Al Fraken's Stuart Smalley character.​Minnesota U.S. Senator and onetime area resident Al Franken will be in town Friday for a fundraiser that will include "dinner, discussion and laughs" with the former comedian as well as fellow Saturday Night Live alums Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon, LAObser ... More >>

New Snoop Tracks Leak: Is He Gunning for the Red State Vote? [MP3]

Snoop Dogg has always donned blue, but Malice N Wonderland might just be aimed at the Red States and the Fox News constituency. Snoop's always worn blue, but is he gunning for the red states?​ First came the album's black velvet-worthy cover art by Mister Cartoon, and last night Snoop hoste ... More >>

FYF Fest 2009: An Interview with F*cked Up

In an effort to better familiarize our readership on the upcoming FYF Fest, which occurs this Saturday at the LA State Historic Park downtown, West Coast Sound sent a brief questionnaire to a few bands scheduled to appear. What follows is the response of Pink Eyes, the amazing lead singer for Toront ... More >>

Murder was the Case: LA Homicide No. 120, Update: Son Charged with Stabbing Mother to Death in Reseda Home

The 23-year-old son of a school teacher was charged today with her murder. Bryan Garcia-Munguia is charged with one count of murder with a special allegation that he used a knife. Fox News Saida Munguia, 40, was stabbed multiple times in the chest at her apartment in the 7600 block of Reseda Boulev ... More >>

Piracy, Pickets and Peter Bart

Unrest on the studio, union and trade fronts

Is It Just Me?

. . . or is this frame from Fox News' scary trailer really depicting Barack Obama and Rahm Emmanuel  as Othello and Iago? Just askin'.The ad, seen here from YouTube, caused a stir on News Hounds and the Huffington Post last month, with writers noting the commercial's use of dark, Omen-lik ... More >>

Forget the Alamo

Dear Mexican: How hard can Spanish be to learn if Mexicans know it?

Robert Greenwald's Modest Proposal

How online activists’ fear of Fox News helped drag Democrats into hyperpartisan censorship

Movin' On, Chasin' Tails, Ignoring Voters

How the Dems got out-Foxed

Right Hook, Weak Punch

Fox News' 1/2 Hour News Hour isn't even half-funny

10 Unexpected Ways Your Hard Heart Was Moved Last Year

Stirring the Other L.A.

How the media and immigrant advocates got 500,000 people to protest

10 Unexpected Ways Your Hard Heart Was Moved Last Year

Something Wicked

Bush Wins the Air War

Big Media gets rewards for good behavior

Pulling the Plug

The long, sad road to King-Drew

The Fox Convention

Watching with O’Reilly and Kristol et al.

Anger Management

The Growing Pains of Liberal Talk Radio

The Republicans’ Passion Play

GOP knows Mel’s movie is la bomba for Latinos

Little Note nor Long Remember

Barraged by dweebish questions, Democratic candidates say little, alter nothing

Scaredy-Cats

Set Em' up, Buddy