Granada Hills

5 Arcade Classics for Your iPhone

See also: *Family Fun Arcade Prepares to Close After Four Decades *10 Best Arcades in L.A. Ever get the hankering to play some classic arcade games, but, alas, you're nowhere near your arcade? Or your go-to place is Granada Hills' Family Fun Arcade, which is set to close? If you have an iPhone, yo ... More >>

Family Fun Arcade Prepares to Close, After Four Decades as a Grenada Hills Hangout

Bathed in the glow of the flashing CRT screen, Jon "Jesus" Lemerand yanks his joystick back and slaps a button, letting loose a 2-D punch. A handful of onlookers hoots and claps. It's Friday night at Family Fun Arcade, or FFA, and a motley group has gathered to play Street Fighter III: 3rd Strik ... More >>

Larchmont Development Wars and Women in EDM Have Readers Talking

Joey Danan, Instructor at Valleywide Driving School, Charged With Molesting Teen Student During Lesson

The LAPD fears that the owner of Valleywide Driving School in Granada hills, a 44-year-old Filipino man named Joselito Valencia Danan (but known locally as "Joey"), may have a habit of coming onto his driver-ed students. A 17-year-old boy claims he was sexually molested by Danan during a driving le ... More >>

Deliverance: On the Road With a Domino's Delivery Guy

From our 2012 Restaurant Issue, celebrating everything pizza in L.A. Sixteen-year Domino's veteran Mark Porter drives like my old driver's ed instructor. In fact, Porter's maneuvering of his red Hyundai on a recent Wednesday afternoon reminds me, viscerally, of that long-ago driver's ed class. Mayb ... More >>

Ratchet Up: Street Hero YG Eschews Gangsta Rap in Favor of Party Music

Marijuana Dispensary Ban in Los Angeles Scheduled For City Council Vote TODAY

Today the L.A. City Council is scheduled to bust a long-awaited move: To ban marijuana dispensaries or not to ban them? That is the question. Few on the council, however, seem to be saying 'tis nobler to let pot shops operate in the city. The arguments so far have been over the details of how stron ... More >>

Pedro Trujillo: Coach Smoked Marijuana With Students En Route to Dodger Game?

Updated at the bottom with the school district saying Trujillo has been fired. First posted at 7 a.m. If you're an assistant high school baseball coach, try not to get stoned with your underage students. The LAPD last night said Kennedy High School's Pedro Cruz Trujillo, 24, didn't get that memo. ... More >>

Why L.A. Schools Should End Their Ban on Hugging

By Dr. Paul Abramson and L.J. Williamson Riot Act is a semi-regular column that challenges conventional wisdom in controversial issues Last month, Tennessee, the state where Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13-year-old first cousin and John Thomas Scopes was convicted for teaching evolution, made waves ... More >>

Kennedy High Students Rally Against Suspension of Star Baseball Coach Manny Alvarado for 'Hazing Incidents'

Parents, students and star alumni gathered in front of Granada Hills Kennedy High this morning to protest the pending suspension of Manny Alvarado, the school's beloved (and wildly successful) baseball coach of almost a quarter-century. Alvarado "was informed last week he will be suspended for three ... More >>

L.A. Participates in the First National Food Day

Krista Simmons​On Monday, October 24, local foodists can celebrate Food Day, a national initiative pushing for equal access to healthful, affordable food produced in a sustainable, ethical way. Angeleno organizers have banded together to create some great events locally, and after the past few ... More >>

Granada Hills Cracks Down on Food Trucks

Guzzle & NoshHungry Angelenos line up at a food truck.​The newest front in the Food Truck Wars is Granada Hills, where 10 inspectors from the L.A. County Department of Public Health showed up on Wednesday night to raid "Food Truck Night" along Chatsworth Avenue between Zelzah and White Oak. ... More >>

Phillip Victor Williamson: Medical Marijuana Distributor Murdered by L.A. Couple Over Weed, Cash, Cops Say

Dirty cache?​Marijuana advocates argue that the more legal it gets, the less pot-related crime we'll have. Decriminalization will wrest the drug from the hands of bad guys, including the cartels. But that doesn't seem to jibe with the reality of now: Cartels' pot exports are as healthy as eve ... More >>

Arcadia Tree-Sitters to Be Punished on Earth Day; Daryl Hannah, Ed Begley Fight Further Avatar-ization of SoCal Forests

Saving the L.A. County woodlands: Hot.​In an ironic "F you" to Mother Nature and her gutsiest allies, Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley is calling the four tree-sitters who (unsuccessfully) attempted to block a woodland wipeout in Arcadia this January to court this Friday. Here's the ... More >>

Arcadia Tree-Sitters Call For Probe of LA County Department of Public Works, Release List of More Woods Targeted for Destruction

Camron Stone​Sit in a tree. Go to jail. That's how they roll in Arcadia. The "Arcadia 4" tree-sitters are having a press conference April 19 at 10 a.m., (Criminal Justice Center, 210 West Temple Street), where environmentalists John Quigley and Camron Stone, and actors Daryl Hannah and Ed Begl ... More >>

Granada Hills Food Truck Festival: Belly Dancers, Mini Golf (and Oh Yeah, Street Food)

Giga Granada HillsPhotos of truck's from September's event.​It started out innocently enough. Just a simple "dinner and a movie night" in which 'burbanites could enjoy some food truck fare and a free flick. But the Granada Hills Food Truck Festival got a little naughtier at every turn, and it' ... More >>

Granada Hills Food Truck Festival: Food Trucks, Drunk Santas Belly Dancers (Not Kidding)

Giga Granada Hillstrucks at September's event​ Well, this has got to be the most debaucherous food truck event we've heard of so far. This weekend Granada Hills will host more than a simple gathering of favorite mobile kitchens: there will be a full bar, drunk Santas and belly dancers. Oh ye ... More >>

Granada Hills K-12 Teacher Mark Hubbard Arrested For Alleged Sex With Underage Student -- For Over A Year

LAPDAlleged sex offender Mark Hubbard​Updated after the jump with the gender of the supposed victim. Mark Hubbard -- 51-year-old teacher and athletic director at Hillcrest Christian, a Granada Hills K-12 school, for the last eight years -- was arrested by the LAPD on Sunday on suspicion of co ... More >>

The Granada Hills Food Truck Fest: Dinner & A Movie, Circa 2010

Google map of Granada Hills​ If you frequent Miracle Mile (or Councilmen Tom LaBonge's house, maybe), food trucks might be a nuisance, or something you can cheerfully take for granted, at least for now. Not so Granada Hills, which, along with many other outlying communities, has not seen the ... More >>

A Sports Field Evaporates

$24 Million Pot Grow Found In Grenada Hills: Natale Gabriele Arrested In Connection With The Operation

​Los Angeles police on Wednesday said they discovered $24 million worth of pot plants in O'Melveny Park in Granada Hills. The sophisticated grow, which used pumped irrigation from a local stream, was discovered via aerial surveillance, police said. Last weeky 49-year-old West Hills resident N ... More >>

Drownings And Near Drownings Reported Amid Southern California Summer Heat

Google MapsVenice Breakwater.​A fisherman died as he was fishing on the rock pile known as the Venice Breakwater over the weekend, reportedly as he bent down to wash his hands in the ocean. He fell in and people flagged down police about 11 p.m. Saturday, according to Fox 11 News and other rep ... More >>

Do As The City Wants And Put In Drought Tolerant Plants, And Then Get Fined

Giga Granada Hills blogDrought resistant landscaping? Pay a fine.​ File this under: Your city government, not helping. (But with a nice ending.) Here's the story, as reported by the Giga Granada Hills blog. Several years ago the Department of Water and Power enacted an incentive program to ge ... More >>

Los Angeles Freeway FUBAR: I-405 closures hitting Westside and Valley; expect an ugly three years

If you live in the roughly 50 Southern California communities sprinkled between Granada Hills and the South Bay, or anywhere west of La Cienega Boulevard in L.A., you are about to live through the worst traffic nightmare ever along the most nightmarish stretch of freeway in the U.S.​I'm talking ab ... More >>

Murder was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 156, Assault Victim Dies of Injuries

A 34 year-old Granada Hills man who was beaten up at a party on July 3 died from his injuries.  View Larger Map Bryant Matute was attending a party in the 1100 block of North San Fernando Road in northeast Los Angeles when he got into a argument with a fellow partyer. According to police repor ... 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 >>

Murder was the Case: LA Homicide No. 120, Update: Son Arrested for Stabbing Mother in Reseda Home

A 24-year-old man is sitting in jail today on suspicion of stabbing his 40-year-old mother to death inside her home in Reseda. Bryan Garcia-Munguia was arrested on June 1 around 11:15 p.m. at a Denny's, near the apartment he shared with his mother, a few minutes after he walked up to his relative ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Gun Suit Shot Down A Ninth Circuit Appeals panel has rejected a lawsuit, filed against gun manufacturer Glock, related to the 1999 Granada Hills shooting at a Jewish community center and the subsequent murder of a letter carrier. Two judges ruled that Glock cannot be held responsible for the illegal ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Dodgers Offer Stimulus Package to Manny Club owner Frank McCourt is offering the Scott Boras-repped Manny Ramirez a $45 million deal over two years. L.A. TimesShowdown on Sunset Drive Nadya Suleman's Whittier neighbors are fed up with the invasion of their street by cigarette-butt-flicking paparazzi ... More >>

Middle-Class Flight From San Fernando Valley

Will taxpayers who are leaving “America's suburb” behind doom L.A.?

Best Jungle Look: The Safari Room

Steve Erickson

Contortionist supreme

A Coroner's Cross Section

Twenty-three people who died on December 13

Sharing Tookie’s Day: A Coroner’s Cross Section of December 13

On Native Ground

Gardening in the asphalt jungle

A Mayor Fit for a Mansion

Antonio Villaraigosa can’t get enough of his job

Driving in Utopia

Cleaning the air means solving every urban ill at once

Letters

Jewish Resurrection

A deal’s within reach to save community centers in Silver Lake and Sherman Oaks

Undone by Debt and Negligence

Bills, not bullets, killed the community center that survived a racist attack. Other centers are trying to hang on.

Letters

Training Day

Photos and text by Anne Fishbein

A Scary Abundance of Water

Growing up with the San Fernando Valley

Points and Lines

Architecture and Orange Peels

Hang On

Let’s not do away with the summer ritual of drag racing

Waxing Nostalgic

DON'T CRY FOR ME, MEXICO

It’s Chinatown, Jake

The behind-closed-doors transformation of the downtown rail yards

On Granada Hills

And the arsenals of the anomic

Barrio Logic

Immigration will revitalize Fortress L.A.