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How Much Rope Does Don Mattingly Have Left?

Exactly how much rope does the Dodgers' skipper have left? Probably not the best choice of words there, because whatever you think of the way Don Mattingly is going about his business, any and all rope is best locked away safe and sound. Rope, sharp objects, plugged-in radios near bathtubs, adjacen ... More >>

Dodgers Sweep Bucs, Trade Harang. A Good Time Was Had by All

Check almost any close-up of Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle during a baseball game and watch the frequency and ferocity of the up-and-down jaw smacking of his gum chewing; you'll be convinced, and afraid for his family, that his face is about to explode. Of course, it might be the Pirates' flounde ... More >>

#FindTesla Hashtag Mobilizes Hundreds in Silver Lake to Search for a Lost Dog

In a city where no one walks, hundreds of volunteers took to the hilly streets of Silver Lake this past week in search of Tesla, a 25-pound Terrier/Poodle mix, who bolted from her home in search of her owner, Alex Berg, just before New Years Eve. Berg, the artistic director of the L.A. branch of the ... More >>

Langer's Pastrami Delivery: From L.A. to You

The pastrami sandwich at Langer's Delicatessen is legendary. So delicious that it made our "100 Favorite Dishes" list. So distinctive that Nora Ephron deemed it "the finest hot pastrami sandwich in the world." So beloved that Angelenos regularly queue up for a taste -- and out-of-towners bemoan thei ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, December 17 The Moonbeams HEMINGWAY'S LOUNGE The Moonbeams' upcoming single might be titled "Life's a Circus," but the song is more mournful and foreboding than cheery or escapist. Lead singer Beck Black howls her bloody imprecations with a solemn, sullen intensity as drummer Adam Alt and g ... More >>

Music Picks: The Weeknd, That '70s Soul, Power of the Riff

DIY: These Curing and Smoking Eggs and Poultry Books Show You How

The cottage food law buzz is a timely reminder: Not all good books come in glossy, high-dollar commercial packaging. Consider two new releases from Canadian publisher Firefly Books' "Made at Home" series, Curing and Smoking and Eggs and Poultry. Both novel-sized paperbacks are written by Dick and ... More >>

James Rosemond, Who Once Managed Rapper The Game, Convicted For New York-to-L.A. Cocaine Ring

James Rosemond, the rap manager one L.A. journalist says was behind an attack that sparked the East Coast-West Coast hip-hop wars of the 1990s, was convicted today in a case that accused him of running a New York-to-L.A. cocaine ring, a courtroom observer told the Weekly. Rosemond, who goes by the ... More >>

Coachella Craigslist Ticket Scammer Anthony Berson Busted by Hawaii 5-0, Cops Say

Busted. A genius in Hawaii allegedly advertised Coachella tickets via Craigslist but took the money and ran. Cops on the Big Island say 19-year-old Anthony Derick Berson of Keaʻau promised to send the tix and wristbands via FedEx to at least four victims who wired him hundreds of dollars. Of cour ... More >>

Brother, Can You Spare a Book Deal?

Flying Fugly: Museum of Flying at the Santa Monica Airport

Between Frank Gehry's house, the Bergamot Station complex and countless other condo developments, parking structures and strip malls around Santa Monica, the city could stand to implement a 10-year ban on corrugated metal-clad buildings.

Spiny Lobster Season Now in Los Angeles

Kathy A. McDonaldLocally caught Pacific lobsters at the Hollywood Farmers Market​Although California in the midst of Pacific lobster season, it's surprisingly hard to find the hyper-local crustacean at area fish markets or restaurants. That's because the bulk of SoCal's most abundant and susta ... More >>

Karma? Fed-Ex Truck Crashes Into L.A. Metro Bus, Just Miles From Occupy's Fed-Ex Protest

Good Jobs LA​Conspiracies! On this suspiciously nice-weathered morning in Los Angeles, a freak accident between a Fed-Ex truck and a Metro bus has blocked Van Nuys Boulevard in Panorama City. The crash occurred mere hours before a big union- and Occupy L.A.-vetted protest of Fed-Ex (and othe ... More >>

Sunset And Vine Takeover: Protest Over Corporate Tax Loopholes Hits The Streets of Hollywood

jericl catSunset y Vine.​If you think "class warfare" is dead because the Occupy movement no longer really occupies anything, you're probably wrong. Following the release of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romeny's 2010 tax return, which showed a 13.9 percent rate on his corporate-raid ... More >>

Village Voice Media Responds to Clergy

​Today 36 clergy affixed their names to a paid ad and open letter to Village Voice and the classified ad site Backpage.com. The full page ad was published in the New York Times. The religious coalition demanded that we close down our legal, adult classifieds. Neither government officials n ... More >>

Why This Song Sucks: Cobra Starship's "You Make Me Feel..."

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Cobra Starship's "You Make Me Feel..." featuring Sabi History: Cobra Starship is a pop band and just about the most hardcore thing to come from New York ... More >>

Pet Grief Art in the Photoshop Age: Should a 'Lost Dog' Poster be Awesome or Pathetic?

​ "I just want a photo and the word lost and the telephone number and when and where she was lost and her name. Not like a movie poster or anything stupid." So rang the immortally frustrated words of the Shannon, the secretary or assistant or generic office peon with the gall to approach graph ... More >>

James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond, Rap Manager Allegedly Responsible for 1994 Tupac Attack, Arrested

James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond​As just reported by Dennis Romero on our news blog, The Informer, James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond was apprehended this morning in New York. Rosemond was collared this morning after a foot chase near Park Avenue and 21st St., a federal official told the Weekly. ... More >>

Stephen Bainbridge, Conservative UCLA Prof, Under Fire For 'Third World Shithole' Blog Comment

professorbainbridge.comStephen Bainbridge said what?​Well-regarded UCLA law Professor Stephen Bainbridge was under fire this week after he wrote on his blog about a bad experience with FedEx customer service. The comments were called out by some on campus as "insensitive," according to the UC ... More >>

Larry King: Ryan Seacrest Has Been My 'Jeans Supplier' for Seven Years (VIDEO)

Don't tell Seacrest -- Larry shops Juicy​Larry King was looking all kinds of fly in three different shades of purple last night on the freshly revived "Conan." But for once, we looked past the suspender/tie/button-up combo to a whole new side of Larry: his bottom half. Before you go calling u ... More >>

Kill It, Cook It, Eat It: Slaughtering In Your Living Room in HD

Kill It, Cook It, Eat It​Just in case your meat guilt wasn't powerful enough, here comes Kill It, Cook It, Eat It, a BBC show premiering in America January 11th at 7 p.m. on Current TV. Each episode, volunteers will head out to the farm to meet, care for, and then slaughter and eat a wide var ... More >>

Your Thanksgiving Meal... in Cupcakes

Yummy CupcakesClockwise from top right: Lime Jell-O, Turkey Cranberry, Pumpkin Pie and Marshmallow Yam. ​ Don't want to make an entire Thanksgiving dinner? Just skip to dessert. Yummy Cupcakes (with stores in Burbank, Hollywood, Brentwood and Santa Monica) is offering cupcakes with such holida ... More >>

Taxidermist Humor

Squirrel Chili

Q & A with Ari Rosenson, Chef de Cuisine at Cut, Part 1: The Importance of Mom & The Value of Skipping Culinary School

Ari Rosenson, Chef de Cuisine at Cut, has had a career that's both atypical for a chef, and practically an anomaly in just about any industry during this era of diminishing corporate loyalty. That's because Rosenson has worked for Wolfgang Puck since he was a teenager. Yes, you read that right. As i ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Exit Through the Gift Shop, Handsome Harry

Also, Letters to God, The Joneses, Who Do You Love and more

County Dogs Sniff for Illicit Produce

Courtesy: Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky's Web site​Because practically nobody covers the county anymore, the job of writing light feature stories about the nation's largest local government has fallen to... Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky's press staff.Today they turn in a nice piece on Ebony and Tahoe (p ... More >>

Pot Shops In L.A. City Number 540 -- Not 1,000 Or So, As Is Often Cited

Gregory Bojorquez​As part of LA Weekly's investigation into the largely unregulated nature of the city of Los Angeles' medical marijuana business, the paper looked into each an every one of the more than 800 pot shops registered with City Hall and found that only 540 were actually operating (P ... More >>

Somers Town: Truth in Advertising

Shane Meadows’ latest gets at the heart of working-class London

Finding the Center

Department of lost (and literary) souls

The Beginning of a No Age: Nouns

Simply put, the best punk album of the 21st century

Coming Back From Iraq

And all they want are normal jobs

Night of the Living Dead

KPFK is where North Korea meets North Hollywood

Toppled Tower

Duuuuude!

Deftones at Avalon

The Right to Die... Onstage!

Between rock and a sidesplitting place with “World’s Funnyman” Neil Hamburger

Monkeys, Monsters and Dead Flies

Post Cards of Intolerance

Bowing to the Christian-inspired attacks on gays

California Dreamy

Firing Arnold

More Than This

The road unexpectedly taken in Lost in Translation

Ask Mr. Gold

The Sundance Suckers

They've got to be stupid to be smart

Spiritual Living: God Is in the Peacocks

The Delivery Diaries

From pâté de foie gras to deli ham to Nabisco Cremewiches — calling out for inspiration

A Tale of Two T-Shirts

Anthrax Reborn

A new wave of threatening letters sent to abortion clinics

In a Lonely Place

Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, plus Cast Away,The House of Mirth and The Family Man

Letters

Box Busters

Post office puts squeeze on private mail service

It's a Wonderful Half-Life