Our 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants issue came out last week, and we're highlighting a few categories drawing from the list. Today: Mexican restaurants. This isn't every single Mexican spot on the list (there are a ton!), so make sure you check out the whole thing, but here are five of our favorites ... More >>
Our 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants issue came out last week, and we're highlighting a few categories drawing from the list. Today: Mexican restaurants. This isn't every single Mexican spot on the list (there are a ton!), so make sure you check out the whole thing, but here are five of our favorites ... More >>
Mexican rockers Maná made their mark in concrete as the foursome were inducted the Hollywood Guitar Center's Rock Walk yesterday. Like Bon Jovi, The Boss and Guns N' Roses all rolled into one (but from Guadalajara, Jalisco), Maná has garnered dozens of accolades -- including winning eleven Grammys ... More >>
Mexican rockers Maná made their mark in concrete as the foursome were inducted the Hollywood Guitar Center's Rock Walk yesterday. Like Bon Jovi, The Boss and Guns N' Roses all rolled into one (but from Guadalajara, Jalisco), Maná has garnered dozens of accolades -- including winning eleven Grammys ... More >>
See also: Don't Call Them Hooligans: Meet Ultras, L.A.'s Major League Soccer Superfans Ten minutes into the second half at Home Depot Center on this Saturday night, the P.A. booms "¡Arriba las Chivas!" so loud the ushers flinch. The grito over the loudspeakers whips up the sold-out house of 18,800 ... More >>
There are two groups of soccer "types" everyone is familiar with. There's the "soccer mom," scooting across town in her minivan with her 2.5 children, and the "hooligan," a soccer fan whose sole purpose in life is to beat the living shit out of anyone who doesn't support his favorite team. There is ... More >>
With a name like Woody's Toys, it has to be good. Good meaning bad. At least according to federal authorities, who this week threw the book at two co-owners, three employees and two clients of the City of Industry toy wholesaler for allegedly doing way more than importing toys. A two-count indictm ... More >>
With a name like Woody's Toys, it has to be good. Good meaning bad. At least according to federal authorities, who this week threw the book at two co-owners, three employees and two clients of the City of Industry toy wholesaler for allegedly doing way more than importing toys. A two-count indictm ... More >>
Two days after Thanksgiving Day 2011, hardcore b-boy fans poured into Moscow's Nikulin Circus for the annual Red Bull BC One Championship. The event is one of the largest and best-known international competitions, tagging itself the "Official Breakdance World Championship." Sixteen of the world's to ... More >>
Teri Gender Bender is the most volatile woman in rock
Teri Gender Bender is the most volatile woman in rock
Just call her La NarcomamiMexico's Proceso magazine is calling Enedina Arellano Felix the world's first female drug lord today, based on information from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. While we're not buying that lofty title -- "Cocaine Cowboys" star Griselda Blanco was the godmother of b ... More >>
Entrenched and ridiculed, they line up for a March 8 "coronation"
Ivan FernandezLe Butcherettes: Subverting everything! (even French grammar!) Mexico City's Le Butcherettes made their second appearance in Los Angeles this past Tuesday as the opening act for the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group at the Troubadour. The trio led by vocalist/guitarist Teri Gender Bend ... More >>
Mexicana airlines has canceled nearly one-third of its flights out of LAX as it filed for bankruptcy amid labor troubles this week. The Daily Breeze reported that four of its 15 daily flights out of LAX, including two to Guadalajara, one to Mexico City and one to Puerto Vallarta have been ni ... More >>
Mexicana airlines has canceled nearly one-third of its flights out of LAX as it filed for bankruptcy amid labor troubles this week. The Daily Breeze reported that four of its 15 daily flights out of LAX, including two to Guadalajara, one to Mexico City and one to Puerto Vallarta have been ni ... More >>
Buried in Thursday's news that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and city controller Wendy Greuel have issued a city spending freeze was a mandate that "travel has been suspended" with some exceptions. It's fascinating because, as you might have read here, the mayor has been everywhere b ... More >>
As the city's historic budget crisis loomed, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa went to Guadalajara, San Antonio and Europe. He's been to the Grammys, the Oscars and his own Academy Awards party. The mayor even found time to make an appearance on the soap opera All My Children recently, e ... More >>
As the city's historic budget crisis loomed, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa went to Guadalajara, San Antonio and Europe. He's been to the Grammys, the Oscars and his own Academy Awards party. The mayor even found time to make an appearance on the soap opera All My Children recently, e ... More >>
A man who was assaulted in Hollywood on New Year's Eve died of his injuries. According to police reports, Jesus Cruz, 36, was partying at the Club Temple bar when he left around 12:50 am to get something to eat at a nearby taco stand at 1075 North Western Avenue. View Larger Map The West Hollywood ... More >>
A mayoral spokeswoman confirmed to LA Weekly Friday that the mayor's trip to Europe this week to attend a climate conference and meet with world leaders and European dignitaries in Copenhagen, Berlin and London cost taxpayers "approximately" $120,000. While in Europe Mayor Antonio Villaraigo ... More >>
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If you were surprised to read that City Hall has once again put off the issue of whether to ask the owners of Staples Center to reimburse taxpayers for its Michael Jackson memorial show, or if you're angered after finding out that after two years of deliberations at least one City Council mem ... More >>
There's writing about food and there's writing about food writers and then there comes the lofty point of your career at which you go to a city and just eating a sandwich makes the headlines. Here's the front page of the Jalisco Mural. Scroll down to read documentation of Jonathan Gold's recent trip ... More >>
There's writing about food and there's writing about food writers and then there comes the lofty point of your career at which you go to a city and just eating a sandwich makes the headlines. Here's the front page of the Jalisco Mural. Scroll down to read documentation of Jonathan Gold's recent trip ... More >>
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