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Alicia Estrada: Stop Staring! Fashionista

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. When an acquaintance delivered Alicia Estrada a message from God in late 2011, it wasn't the first time that a man she hardly knew told her something that would change her life ... More >>

Philip Levine, Poet Laureate, Tells Us About California vs. Detroit (and Curses a Lot)

"A poetry reading is like a painting," Philip Levine says in regards to his upcoming reading in downtown Los Angeles. "Somebody asks you, 'What do you hope to accomplish with that painting?' Come on." He starts to laugh. "You want it to be admired. ... I go there with my poems." Levine -- the 18t ... More >>

Hummer House? L.A. Architecture Firm HplusF Makes Residential Lemonade Out of Gas-Guzzling Lemons

Hummer vs. girl.​Ah, the much-maligned Hummer, destroyer of rugged terrain, vestige of the go-go '00s, guzzler of gasolina. In its life under the General Motors umbrella it had become the symbol of all things eco-unconscious. Well, time heals (unless you're dealing with global warming, in whi ... More >>

After the Media Storm: Country Singer Chely Wright on What Happened after her Very Public Coming Out as a Lesbian, How Nashville Still Won't Talk about It, and Why k.d. lang Doesn't Count as Country

Photo by Laura Crosta​Chely Wright is a gay country singer, which for some feels like calling someone a clumsy heart surgeon or a nymphomaniac nun. You just can't be both. It's partly this prevailing idea that somehow "gay" and "country star" is an oxymoron that kept Wright in the closet for ... More >>

Who's Right? Villaraigosa and Riordan, By The Numbers

​Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former Mayor Richard Riordan went to war this week over the city's fiscal future. In the Wall Street Journal, Riordan predicted the city will go bankrupt by 2014, and charged his successor with fecklessness in the face of a crisis.One of Riordan's claims was that ci ... More >>

L.A. Times Loses Nation's Top Automotive Journalist

EsquireDan Neil.​It seemed like the right fit -- the nation's top automotive journalist pairing up with the newspaper of record in the car culture capital of the country if not the world. And for much of the time it worked: Dan Neil won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism during his tenure at the L ... More >>

Good money after bad: Should L.A. taxpayers pay $40,000 to steal $20,000 jobs from South Gate?

Capitalism: A Love Story's Awful Truth

Michael Moore sells the same old shtick

The Edison's Drink Man Explains His Bartender Exchange Program

The EdisonSeptember's Party​The Radio Room at The Edison is host to the most unique cocktail program around: every month, Aidan Demarest, The Edison's director of beverages and spirits, along with lead barman Marcos Tello, invites mixologists from across the country to spend a night behind the ... More >>

Dexter Filkins' The Forever War: Eight Years (and Counting) in Iraq and Afghanistan

Restrained writing brings power to writer's firsthand accounts of Middle-East conflict

Neon Neon Set DeLorean's Story to Music

Boom Bip and Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys spin a stainless steel tale of Detroit

What's Smart About Smart Growth?

City Hall's plan for the future expects you to give up the yard, the car - and learn to love density

Auto Motives

How car-seat upholstery became Kim White’s bag

Film Reviews: Norbit, Hannibal Rising

Including Norbit, Hannibal Rising,Traffic Signal, and the Ralph Nader documentary, An Unreasonable Man

All I Want for Christmas Is a New Music Industry

The Tip of the Melting Iceberg

25 minutes with Al Gore

Stench of Politics

Industry money to the “Mod Caucus” fouls the fight for clean air

All Fired Up

Clearing the air begins with harsh words for our smog police

Baquet Begins - Web Exclusive Update

Inside the L.A. Times upheaval

Tinky & Peppy Save the World

The Mad Science of Fredwreck

Snoop, Xzibit and Dr. Dre all praise the Palestinian-American freak of beats

The Defibrillator

Richard Alarcón tries to jolt the mayor with a campaign about saving the middle class, Latinos and the Valley

Attack of the Portable Dark Ages

Clearing the Air

Power broker William Burke leaves the state Air Resources Board

Lonely Pioneers

Bush gives the boot to two of his richest pals in Texas

The Beater meets the Swan

Black Sheep on the Head of a Pin

Why they won’t let badass batteries out of the pen

American Bigmouth

Why Michael Moore won’t shut up

The Mayor Who Made L.A. Big

The Weekly focused more on the late failings of Tom Bradley than his early success

Here Comes . . .Who Are You Again?

Sam and His Pals

L.A. is a Wal-Mart town. Get used to it.

The Silent Campaigns

Gubernatorial candidates aren’t going out of their way to address the environment

Union Triage

The fight for hospital workers involves two unions against each other – and a health-care giant

Hummer Bummer

Going for a test drive the day after explosions rip through a dealership

Different Chairs

Trail Follies

Sometimes it's just hard believing what the candidates say

The L.A. 53

A Scary Abundance of Water

Growing up with the San Fernando Valley

Reading in Wartime: A Post 9/11 Response

Death of a Nation

Donald Freed’s newest play, American Iliad

Rocky’s Road

Delgadillo is driven to develop L.A. — and his career

Captain Bringdown Captures the Flag

Where Money Didn’t Talk

In Santa Monica at least, the good guys won

Ralph Rising

What the Nader Candidacy means for Gore, the Greens, the left, and the nation

The Red Sea

How the janitors won their strike

Hollywood, Straight Up

The craps-shooting cop, the hungarian brawl and other stories from Steve Boardner's bar

Mexico and Y2K

The U.S. stands to lose if millennium bug strikes south of the border

The Grand Finale?

The City Council lines up behind the new charter — but that doesn’t mean it has to like it

Letters

Rocket Reducer

Wayne Kramer on the MC5