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Courtney Friel Froze When Hubby Carter Evans Got Pinned In Dorner Shootout

With reporting from Jill Stewart You're taking care of your 10-month-old and 2-year-old at home when your friends reach out to just let you know that your husband " ... is in a gun battle!" Not only that, but the gun battle is on live TV. Such was the day of Fox News Channel and Fox 11 News ente ... More >>

Fox News Suicide Video Nothing New; Shootings on Live TV Not Uncommon in L.A.

Fox News broadcast a suspect's suicide live today, setting of a firestorm of criticism, as well as viral views of the video (warning: the disturbing, graphic clip is posted after the jump). The motorist was being chased by police in the Phoenix area when he got out of a vehicle, ran away, stopped, ... More >>

Porn Condom Ballot Measure For L.A. County Sees Campaign Kickoff

The folks behind a ballot measure that asks you, the L.A. County voter, to make condoms mandatory in porn, officially kicked off their campaign this week. Measure B will be on the November ballot, and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has been pushing for mandatory condoms in adult video for ye ... More >>

Miramonte Teaching Staff Not Fired Over Sex-Abuse Scandal, Despite Reports

Sunday and Monday headlines declared that the entire staff of Miramonte Elementary School in South L.A. has been fired following the sex-abuse scandal there earlier this year. Why? To quell a "culture of silence," the reports quoted L.A. Unified School District superintendent John Deasy as saying. ... More >>

TRUST Act Passes California Senate: Bill Would Override 'Secure Communities,' Protect Illegal Immigrants From Deportation

The most liberal immigration legislation since California's DREAM Act just passed the state Senate 21-13 -- and it has a good chance of making its way through the Assembly and the governor's office, as well. The TRUST Act, otherwise known as the Anti-Arizona Act, would more or less override the fed ... More >>

Pizza Isn't a Vegetable, Congressman Insists

Those Democrats. They just won't drop that ridiculous "pizza is not a vegetable" thing. Fox News reports that Rep. Jared Polis, a Democratic congressman from Colorado, has proposed legislation that would end pizza being counted as a vegetable in public school lunches. The SLICE (School Lunch Improve ... More >>

Poor Dog Group: Anti-Theater

Michael Scott Moore, L.A. Surfer/Journalist Writing a Book About Somali Pirates, Held Hostage by Somali Pirates

Manhattan Beach native Michael Scott Moore, behind awesome surfing novelSweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread From Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, With Some Unexpected Results, told The New York Times two summers ago that he had begun a full-length sophomore effort on Somali pirate ... More >>

Nation's College Freshmen More Liberal, Hardworking Than Years Past: UCLA Report

The Daily TrojanThe youth is starting to change, brah.​The freshman class of 2011 is challenging the "lazy millennial" stereotype that has come to define Generation Y, according to a nationwide survey conducted by UCLA. "On the academic front, students showed more positive behaviors consiste ... More >>

Mother/Daughter Lingerie Modeling. Sweet or Incestuous?

The Lake and the Stars is a U.S. lingerie company whose most recent ad campaign features an older mother (MILF material if you ask me) and her 19-year-old daughter posing together like pale-skinned dolls wearing little more than garters and sheer lace underthings. Co-owners Nikki Dekker and Maayan ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Occupy America

​[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] My editor contacted me the other day and asked if I had an opinion on the Occupy protes ... More >>

Cody Kretsinger, Alleged 'LulzSec' Hacker From Arizona, on Way to L.A. for Sony Hacking Trial

LulzSec does L.A.​The summer storm of hacks carried out by Anonymous offshoot LulzSec -- beginning with Fox News in May, and ending with News Corp. in July -- may have gone quiet, but the FBI is just now nabbing some of its alleged masterminds. (If you consider giggly, self-satisfied techies t ... More >>

Meet The Guy Who DJs for Obama

​The Secret Service was busy digging through the background of Adam Bravin, aka DJ Adam 12, when the two of us spoke yesterday. The reason? The spinner behind popular old school hip-hop party AFEX -- which debuts at Los Globos on Thursday night -- will perform at an Obama fundraiser at House o ... More >>

Soulstyce Festival featuring Fat Joe and others - Pico Rivera - Sept 17, 2011

Ben WesthoffFat Joe performs at the left. BMX dudes catch air to the right. ​Soulstyce Festival Reaturing Fat Joe, Redman, Ras Kass, Binary Star and others Pico Rivera Sports Arena Sept 17, 2011 Better than...party rocking in the house tonight. The second annual Soulstyce Hip-Hop And Arts F ... More >>

Political Action Group MoveOn Holds 'Rally to Defend American Dream:' Urging Senators to Ease Proposed $100 Billion Budget Cuts

Adrienne Hatrick, retired city employee, believes in 'the people that brought you the weekend.' ​Yesterday evening MoveOn, a political action group, hosted a "Rally to Defend the American Dream" outside of the west side's Palms Ranch Library. The message? It was for Senators Barbara Boxer an ... More >>

Donald Trump Gives Finger to Liberal Hollywood, Says He's Against Gay Marriage

Donald Trump says no to same-sex marriage.​Donald Trump hasn't been shy when courted by gay-friendly Hollywood (The Apprentice, et. al.), and he certainly has more fake hair than Ru Paul, but that doesn't mean he can't make a stand that defies logic. The day after same-sex couples descended o ... More >>

UCLA Egypt Professor: Museum Looting, Mummy Beheading Amid Chaos Is 'Huge Loss' for World Heritage

This King Tut statue was smashed by looters​At stake: Human rights. Freedom. Democracy. And a gilded wooden statue of King Tutankhamun. UCLA Professor Willeke Wendrich just got back from an Egyptian archeological dig in December. She says she could detect a "longstanding unhappiness" in lower ... More >>

Barbara Boxer vs. Carly Fiorina Election Results: California U.S. Senate Race Side-Steps Anti-Incumbent Anger, Exit Polling Predicts Democrat Boxer Wins

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer​Update, 10:13 p.m.: The New York Times is projecting that the Democratic Party will retain control of the U.S. Senate, but lose the House of Representatives. Update, 11:37 p.m.: Republican Carly Fiorina refuses to concede during a speech, saying, "This is going to ... More >>

Oderus Urungus, Balzac the Destroyer Deck Out the Slave Pit for GWAR-B-Q

Oderus Urungus, Balzac the Destroyer Deck Out the Slave Pit for GWAR-B-Q

A Short, Brisk Walk Down Hot-Dog Lane

Elton John Played Rush Limbaugh's Wedding for $1M

​We're a little late on this one, but, seriously, we couldn't pass this up. Rush Limbaugh got married for the 4th time last week and Elton John was his Wedding Singer. For 1 million dollars (who was Rush's Wedding Planner? Dr Evil?). From The Guardian: On Saturday, Elton John performed at ... More >>

SoCal Politician Says White Supremacists Behind Arizona Law

​U.S. Rep. Linda Sanchez, a Cerritos Democrat, seems to have started a firestorm this week when she suggested that white-supremacist forces were partly to blame for Arizona's controversial immigration law. "There's a concerted effort behind promoting these kinds of laws on a state-by-state ba ... More >>

L.A. Black Group Criticizes Mayor, Council Members Over Anti-Arizona Stance (Updated)

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson.​A Los Angeles-based African-American "cultural action" organization is criticizing L.A. City Council members who support a boycott of Arizona over its controversial immigration law. (Updated after the jump with background on the group's leader). Council members Janice ... More >>

Plate Spinnings: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: --Portrait of the Food Trucker as a Young Man. [Time] --I'll have a slice of cheese with pigs-in-a-blanket crust, please. Ketchup and maple on the side. [This is Freaking Ridiculous] --Hesperia's Banan ... More >>

Yosi Sergant Loses NEA Post

Kevin ScanlonOusted: NEA's Yosi Sergant​Probably no one was more surprised by the news of Yosi Sergant's pending resignation from his National Endowment for the Arts post than fright-wing commentator Glenn Beck. Last week the Fox News personality went after Sergant, the NEA's director of communica ... More >>

New Anti-Obama 'Joker' Poster

​A new poster depicting President Obama as a version of Heath Ledger's Joker character in The Dark Knight has appeared in Los Angeles, according to rightwing sources. Blog posters to such online sites as American Thinker and Tammy Bruce are predictably in the throes of political orgasm. The poster ... More >>

This Week in Media WTFBBQ: This Internet's Dead Anyway

Maybe it's because of the looming Memorial holiday, but social media was kind of dead this week. Seasoned party crashers ourselves, we decided to see what the real media kids were up to. It turns out like everyone else in America they too were having a BBQ... a WTFBBQ. Here are our findings, separa ... More >>

Going Viral (and Vile) About Swine Flu and Immigration

"Make no mistake about it: Illegal aliens are the carriers of the new strain of human-swine avian flu from Mexico." These words, spoken in the tremulous, outraged voice of California radio jock Michael Savage, are typical of the "debate" that is already inflaming the airwaves and blogosphere in the ... More >>

The Audacity of Hype: Tax Teabaggers Doth Protest Too Much

Today is the day when conservatives are protesting the tax cuts the White House has given 95 percent of Americans. Borrowing imagery and rhetoric from the Boston Tea Party, anti-tax KFI Photo Gallerydemonstrators, mourning the restoration of taxes for  the ultra-rich threw out tea bags at par ... More >>

Profiler Profiles the Grim Sleeper

The L.A. Weekly interviewed nationally known criminal profiler and CNN/Fox News correspondent Pat Brown to learn her thoughts about the Grim Sleeper - the longest operating serial killer west of the Mississippi. The Grim Sleeper has killed mostly African American women in South Los Angeles since ... More >>

Warrengate: Obama's First Fuckup as President Elect?

Black is the new white

Left, Right and Center

Sifting through the LA Weekly mailbag over the weekend, I couldn't help but take perverse amusement at a number of virulent missives written in response to my review of An American Carol, the independently produced and distributed right-wing propaganda movie that opened on Friday and ended the week ... More >>

Hillary Clinton projected winner in California

By Jill Stewart The networks and Fox News have projected Hillary Clinton as the winner in California, with huge leads among Latinos, Asians and, to a lesser degree, women. The projection came only about an hour and fifteen minutes after the polls closed, and indicated that Clinton also did very wel ... More >>

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