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Los Angeles Unified School District Approves Historic Parent Trigger, L.A. Mayoral Candidates Weigh In Or Stay Mum

Elected board members of the Los Angeles Unified School District -- the second largest public school system in the country -- unanimously approved a Parent Trigger for the 24th Street Elementary School in West Adams. It's a first for L.A. Unified, and Los Angeles mayoral candidates are weighing in o ... More >>

Family Fun Arcade Closes With a Video Game Marathon That Gets Shut Down in the Middle of the Night

See also: *Family Fun Arcade Prepares to Close After Four Decades *10 Best Arcades in L.A. At 11 a.m. on Sunday morning, the Granada Hills shopping center that is home to Family Fun Arcade was so full that guys in neon raincoats were directing traffic. But the crowd wasn't here for gaming action -- ... More >>

Hollywood Community Plan Passed by L.A. City Council: Welcome to Skyscraper Hell

As expected, the L.A. City Council gave its final unanimous approval this afternoon to a new zoning code that will allow for the Manhattanization/Blade Runner-ization of Hollywood. Opposition to the plan has been long and loud. Hollywood preservationists are hoarse from screaming at city leaders, w ... More >>

Three Strikes? D.A. Candidate Jackie Lacey and the Teen Who Got Life for a Stolen Cell Phone

In 1997, 18-year-old Andre Wilks broke into a Nissan Maxima parked outside of a Target store in Granada Hills and stole a cell phone. The vehicle burglary qualified as a third strike for Wilks, who had been convicted in 1995 for a purse-snatching spree committed one week after he turned 16. If the ... More >>

Alice Shin: Curbing Our Appetite

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. When Alice Shin's brother-in-law phoned her to say that he'd gotten his hands on a truck they could use to begin peddling tacos filled with Korean-style barbecued meats, as the ... More >>

CicLAvia Rules! How Bicyclists Made L.A. a Better Place

Shawn Tischler, TV Extra and Venice Denizen is Missing; Dad Seeks Help Finding Schizophrenic Son

Shawn Tischler, missing denizen of Venice Beach ​By Carly Klein Schizophrenic former TV extra Shawn William Tischler went missing May 27 in Pacoima, and his father is asking the Los Angeles public's help in finding the slight, tattooed Venice regular who "doesn't know who he is and gets confus ... More >>

Franc Fernandez: Raw Talent

L.A. Ralphs Pleads 'No Contest' (Aka, Admits) to Marking Up Price Tags of Pre-Weighed Items

ryanorourke.orgRalphs meat aisle: No longer to be trusted​Goddammit -- we might as well have splurged on Whole Foods. An investigation by the L.A. City Attorney's Office, unveiled in May 2010, found that 14 different Ralphs stores throughout L.A. County had been overcharging for prepackaged m ... More >>

Hollywood is missing 30,300 people. Antonio Villaraigosa's "elegant density" plan says they'll appear

New, improved Hollywood Boulevard​Los Angeles City Hall produces padded "population growth estimates" for L.A., an over-jammed city now driving away more humans than it attracts. Now, Antonio Villaraigosa and Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner are using the junk data to further remake Hollywood. Cit ... More >>

Jackie Lacey Could Be L.A.'s First Non-White, Non-Male District Attorney

​Had D.A. Steve Cooley been elected attorney general, the odds-on favorite to replace him would have been his third-ranking administrator, Jacquelyn P. Lacey.Lacey, 53, was considered most likely to get Cooley's support for the appointment. She's also a Democrat and an African-American, which woul ... More >>

LAPD Finds Pot Shop Owner Making Huge Profits

Who says you can't make a profit selling medical marijuana? Despite the protestations of numerous medical weed store owners, who regularly gripe that they're just making ends meet, Los Angeles Police Department found a detailed list of the hefty profits made on different marijuana strains sold at ... More >>

L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti Flip-flops on Medical Weed?

Has Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti flip-flopped on medical weed shops?It was only a few weeks ago, on November 6, that Garcetti, now a leading voice in the debate over a medical marijuana ordinance, told L.A. Weekly that he thought medical marijuana stores don't "need to be everywh ... More >>

On Jimmy on the Edge, Funk Spirit and the Nuclear Family

Neil Strauss' New Game: He Survived the Pickup-Artist Scene, Now He Wants to Survive the Apocalypse

But will he be thwarted by cute raccoons and stubborn goats?

Body Dig Underway for Boy who Disappeared 40 years ago

As a media throng watched from behind yellow crime scene tape, dozens of law enforcement and forensic experts on Monday began excavating a small piece of land along the 23 Freeway in Moorpark where police believe child serial murderer Mack Ray Edwards buried 16-year-old Roger Dale Madison 40 years a ... More >>

Forget the Mustache: Beauty-Shop Quartets

Some postquaint, teenage-girl harmonies

City Hall's "Density Hawks" Are Changing L.A.'s DNA

Bitter homes & gardens?

MTA's Plan to Gate L.A.

Miraculously, our subways use an honor system. The pencil pushers just hate that

Brad Laner, Medicine Man

Under any other name — even his own! — a new album still sounds as (psychedelically) sweet

Will Teach for Food

A payroll disaster at LAUSD ruins educators’ finances, with no fix in sight

Antonio Remakes School Board

But with 43,000 kids fleeing LAUSD to charter schools, will mayor follow?

It's About Term Limits, Stupid

A fight over a Home Depot exposes the true intent of Proposition R

Welcome to Gentrification City

Teardowns. Evictions. Investment. Rebirth. And the significance of that new gelato stand. The perils and pleasures of gentrification

Punk Puppet Apocalypse

Starring members of Green Day, Rancid, X and more, Live Freaky! Die Freaky! is guaranteed to offend

We Do, Too!

How to plan an absolutely fabulous same-sex wedding

Letters

Alligator on a Stick, San Pedro Punks and Luchadors

Is It Good for the Jews?

The chosen people choose a mayor

For Those About to Rock

Seven nights at the Whisky, where dreams still die hard

It’s Dog Eat Dog in Runyon Canyon Parking Ruckus

Winning Grandma Millie’s Vote

The attorney general’s bottom line with Enron

Signal Hill

New fiction by Alan Rifkin

Still L.A. — With Regrets

The citywide implications of a Valley election

Find Your Local Peace Vigil

Peace Vigils, War Protests, Readings, etc.

Letters

City Without a Story

Quick, Now: What's L.A.'s Story?

Three Guys and a Megaphone

The JDL’s shrinking role in Jewish extremism

Letters

Letters

A Vision for the City: Participant Profiles

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The Lady From Where?

Meet Fran Pavley: Westside winner

Sport of Supes

Maybe it makes sense to expand L.A.’s Board of Supervisors

Health Care for Saints

Now the state must find money to pay for health plans for people who care for the elderly and disabled

Letters

Court is in a Real Pickle

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BUYBACK BUST

Loose Cannon

Buford Furrow stops, shops