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  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Does Million Trees L.A. Honcho Lisa Sarno Think Her Job Is To Help People Make Friends?

    Villaraigosa aide Lisa Sarno, middle, receives an award.​It seems we struck a nerve at the Los Angeles Mayor's Office the other day when we wrote about Antonio Villaraigosa's long-suffering Million Trees LA project. The much-publicized program kicked off in 2006, and few people, if any, know ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Dan Adler, Social-Media Mogul, for Congress: 'He Gets Shit Done,' Says a Bench-Pressin' Patti Duke (VIDEO)

    What do Patti Duke and this packin' Speedo have in common? After the jump!​Dan Adler... Dan Adler... Kinda rings a bell, right? He's not big on the political scene yet -- and he's certainly not part of the Sacramento legacy system, in which career pols do their time and get the party's blessi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    Food News Roundup: The Royal Wedding Edition

    -- Royal wedding sparks fruitcake boom in U.S. [Fox News] -- Dunkin' Donuts rolls out the Royal Wedding doughnut. No pun intended. [Orlando Sentinel] -- Where to Watch the Royal Wedding in Los Angeles. [The Feast LA] -- Coronation prawn vol-au-vents (a recipe). [BBC] -- Watch The Royal Wed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    [Video] New Yorkers John Belitsky And Dan Wuebben Take Taxi to Los Angeles (Really)

    Headed our way.​Updated after the jump: The pair reach greater L.A. A pair of New York men are taking the ultimate road trip to L.A. -- in a taxi. That's right, John Belitsky and Dan Wuebben decided to take a cab to Los Angeles after a night of partying last Friday. It comes off as kind of a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Tim Hetherington, Director of Oscar-Nominated War Doc 'Restrepo,' Killed in Libya

    Tim Hetherington on the set of "Restrepo"​Update: Chris Hondros took these stunning photographs just hours before he died. More after the jump. Tim Hetherington, a wartime photographer and documentary filmmaker -- along with his associate, Chris Hondros, also a war photojournalist -- were kil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    Lara Logan, CBS Reporter and Warzone 'It Girl,' Raped Repeatedly Amid Egypt Celebration

    Lara Logan, the "60 Minutes" firecracker who was raped at the moment of Egypt's overthrow​Updated after the jump: Commenters respond to bloggers respond to reporters respond to Tweeters respond to the inexcusable crime against Lara Logan. Breaking news: South African TV journalist Lara Logan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    AOL Buys Huffington Post; L.A.'s Arianna Huffington to Head up New Merger of AOL-Post Content

    Arianna On Line = AOL.​In our coverage of AOL's hyper-local news sites called Patch, we indicated the company's leadership might not entirely get how online news works or makes money. Well, maybe they're starting to get it, because AOL just purchased one of the hottest properties in the world ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Governor Jerry Brown Gives California Mayors (Including Villaraigosa) Stern Talking-to Over Sneaky Redevelopment Agencies

    daylife.comThe L.A. Mayor and Governor Brown​California's redevelopment agencies (RDAs) are becoming the total superstars of the budget crisis. Sure, higher education is getting totally screwed and Medi-Cal is all but lost to the wind in Governor Jerry Brown's stingy fiscal proposal, but his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Rodney Alcala, SoCal's 'Dating Game' Serial Killer, Charged With 1970s Murders of Cornelia Crilley and Ellen Hover in New York

    Rodney Alcala on the "Dating Game" in 1978​The creepiest serial killer since "American Psycho" just got a little creepier. Sixty-seven-year-old Rodney Alcala, infamous for his calm, sophisticated demeanor and cameo on the "Dating Game" -- he won, but the date never happened because was voted ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2011

    Food News Roundup: Cops, Pints, Paula Deen Jell-O

    -- Too Many Sommeliers, Not Enough Training. [ZesterDaily] -- Colorado prison inmates raise fish for food. [The Denver Post] -- Greek restaurant Xandros has a crisis of faith, identity, ownership, something. Cops, etc. [Eater LA] -- Could the days of the British "pint" be numbered? [Reuters] -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    Web Surfing: A Roundup of News from L.A. Food Blogs & Beyond

    -- The Unbearable Heaviness of Cookbooks. [Zester Daily] -- The joy of cooking squirrel. [The Ethicurean] -- Today's federal programs make you long for the Depression. [Mark Bittman] -- Seriously, What Is Up With These Pistachio Ads? [Grub Street] -- Divorce Cakes: 10 Outrageous Confections. [Hu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    L.A. Times Ripped For Allegedly Exaggerating Number Of Children Under L.A. County's Care Who Have Died

    The children of L.A. County.​LA Weekly contributor Daniel Heimpel rips the Los Angeles Times Tuesday in a piece in the Huffington Post about its coverage of the county's child welfare woes. Others have been critical of the Times' coverage, but Heimpel spells out a litany of alleged problems w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

    Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Chef Shuffles: Kris Morningstar Leaves District, Mercantile. [Chow Balla] -- Jamie Oliver: 'No one understands me. No one.' [The Guardian] -- You Never Made Me Pot Au Feu. [One For The Table] -- The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    Cal State Northridge Prof Says His Website Was Not About Thai Sex Tourism, Though It Certainly Appeared To Be

    Kenneth Ng's site was not about Thai sex tourism, the prof says.​A Cal State Northridge professor's controversial Thai sex tourism site appeared to be back up recently after he was shamed into taking it down. Economics professor Kenneth Ng last week defended the site as being about "what it r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

    Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Food blogger love. [Delicious Coma] -- The joys of blackberry cloud cake. [Gastronomy] -- Pig Island: A Pork-Stuffed Festival of Gluttony. [Huffington Post Food] -- More fun with Taiwanese moon ca ... More >>

  • News

    September 30, 2010

    Patch, the WalMart of News?

    AOL takes on longtime local bloggers with its hyperlocal news sites in Los Angeles

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Attorney General Candidate Steve Cooley Would 'Defend' Proposition 8

    L.A. County District Attorney Steve Cooley​Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, who's the Republican candidate for California Attorney General, would defend Proposition 8 in court if given the opportunity, says his campaign spokesman Kevin Spillane. "The role of the attorney g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Andrew Breitbart: Is There No Such Thing As Bad Publicity?

    ​ The past 36 hours have been a whirlwind for Andrew Breitbart, the right-wing bomb thrower who oversees a family of conservative Web sites -- Big Government, Big Journalism and Big Hollywood -- from an office building in Santa Monica. The quick history: He released a video that seemed to s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    Manhattan Beach Bubble Blogger Outs Himself

    Dave Fratello, the un-anonymous blogger behind MB Confidential​For the last three years, real estate agents in Manhattan Beach have been vexed by an anonymous blogger.MB Confidential has become a must-read for prospective homebuyers by ridiculing overpriced listings and exposing deceptive real est ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

    Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Miles Davis gets a beer named after him. [Huffington Post Food] -- Forage restaurant in Silver Lake resumes foraging. [Eater LA] -- Sotheby's hosts a Vegetable Auction. [The Art of Farming] - ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

    Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- A New Orleans bakery makes an oil-slick cake: food as political statement, of sorts. [Daily Dish] -- How to be a food snob. [Salon] -- Pat Saperstein pits Wolfgang Puck's new WP24 against the S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    50 'Wealthiest Angelenos' Worth $93 Billion

    Patrick Soon-Shiong.​The Los Angeles Business Journal's annual list of 50 "Wealthiest Angelenos" hits the streets this week and, despite the economic doldrums hitting the Angel City elite, their net worth is up 14 percent to $93 billion. That's more than the worth of billionaires in some Weste ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

    Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Marion Nestle's overview of the White House Obesity Report. [The Atlantic Food Channel] -- People dropping cakes: the video. [The Amateur Gourmet via Daily Dish] -- The cheesesteak pretzel. Stop t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

    Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Fish feel pain. Guess Cobain was wrong. [Huffington Post Food] -- Ralph's grocery chain is, apparently, ripping you off. [Grub Street] -- L.A.'s best al fresco cocktails spots. [The Rundown] -- A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2010

    Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

    Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- The 50 worst restaurants in the world. The fiction edition. [Chicago Tribune] -- How Alinea's Grant Achatz lost and found his sense of taste. [CNN] -- 10 Pepsi flavors you can't get in this count ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

    Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- La Cañada Flintridge Community Center attempts to build the world's largest Rice Krispie. [the 818 Now] -- A bacon alarm clock? Yup, the Wake n' Bacon. [Gizmodiva] -- The Worst Beer in the World, i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    Plate Spinnings: Listings From the Past Week

    Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Michael Ruhlman tells us Why Sandra Lee Is Not Evil Incarnate. [HuffPost Food] -- Gael Greene gets a racy TV show (maybe). [Variety] -- The James Beard Foundation's list of 13 Essential Baking Books. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Plate Spinnings: Listings From the Past Week

    Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- An interview with Shut Up, Foodies, a new satirical food blog. (More on this one later.) [Eat Me Daily] -- Walmart's exclusive Ben & Jerry's flavor: flourless chocolate cake ice cream. [Serious Eats] ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    Warren Beatty Made It With More Than 12,775 Women, Book Claims

    ​A biography of Warren Beatty that's due in stores next week claims the actor slept with more than 12,775 women. If you're keeping score, that's way more than Gene Simmons (4,600), but less than Wilt Chamberlain. In any case, Beatty's camp is distancing itself from the tome (but, apparently, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Senator V? One Pundit Thinks Villaraigosa Is Going Senatorial In 2012

    ​He's an utterly ambitious career politician with the $2,000 suits, million-dollar smile and billionaire friends, but you all know him simply as Mayor V. Observers have wondered what Antonio Villaraigosa was going to do next after letting the gubernatorial race pass him by. One pundit thinks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    A Q&A With Martha Stewart: Her New Book, What She Thinks of Gourmet, And Cooking to Ludacris

    photo credit: Valerie Schaff​Martha Stewart is coming to town this Monday to sign copies of her new book, Martha Stewart's Dinner at Home: 52 Quick Meals to Cook for Family & Friends. For all of you keeping track, this is Martha's 67th cookbook. We spoke with her yesterday by phone in her New ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2009

    Interview: Urb Magazine's Raymond Roker Ditches Print

    Raymond Roker started Urb magazine out of his apartment in 1990. He initially distributed the newsprint publication out of the back of his car. It was distributed mostly in clothing and record stores on Melrose. The magazine focused on the crossroads of burgeoning dance music and indie hip-hop. Its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Yosi Sergant Loses NEA Post

    Kevin ScanlonOusted: NEA's Yosi Sergant​Probably no one was more surprised by the news of Yosi Sergant's pending resignation from his National Endowment for the Arts post than fright-wing commentator Glenn Beck. Last week the Fox News personality went after Sergant, the NEA's director of communica ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    New Prescription Card Features Villaraigosa's Mug

    Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa unveiled a new discount prescription card yesterday, writes longtime Daily News reporter Rick Orlov. Villaraigosa also announced the program on the Huffington Post. ​We'll give the mayor some credit -- on the face of it, a five to 40 percent discount on pres ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    Golden Anniversary: L.A.'s Nuclear Meltdown

    This week marks the 50th anniversary of one of the Los Angeles area's most closely guarded secrets -- the partial meltdown of an experimental nuclear reactor operated by Atomics International Inc. near Chatsworth. For 20 years information of the event had been confined to a terse, euphemistically wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Scientology Battered on Two Sides

    E-meters along Hollywood and Sunset boulevards must have been going off their dials this week. The WikipediaLos Angeles-based Church of Scientology, which has fought the IRS, former members and the state of Florida, now finds itself on even less stable battlegrounds: the French legal system and Wiki ... More >>

  • LA Life

    February 26, 2009

    GO LA: Fringe Artists, Porno Films and Lisa Lampanelli

    Plus some high-brow stuff to do, February 27-March 5

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2008

    Queer Town: L.A. Prop. 8 Protest Targets Obama, Warren

    This Saturday night President-elect Barack Obama will continue to get an earful he probably never expected.Join the Impact, an Internet-based grassroots group that organizes national protests against Proposition 8, will host candlelight vigils in Los Angeles and other cities to denounce the passage ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2008

    Queer Town: Power Lesbian Criticizes "No on 8" Campaign

    On Saturday, in the Huffington Post, power lesbian and longtime gay rights activist Torie Osborn did something few people in her A-list position have been willing to do: Publicly criticize the "No on 8" campaign.   While Osborn doesn't name names, she still takes the "No on 8" campaign to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2008

    Election '08: Battleground Report -- Obama Blitzes Nevada

    BY MARC COOPER With thousands of Californians pouring over the border to assist in a last-minute door-to-door ground blitz, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama revved up a crowd of 15,000 local supporters Saturday morning saying that "there's only 3 days left before we change America." Lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2008

    Election '08: The Terrorists Strike, the Markets Crumble . . . Plus, McCain's Radical Dance

    BY MARC COOPER We had been told since the beginning that the Taliban, al Qaeda and jihadists in general worked on what was called a "biblical calendar." None of this faster, quicker B.S. They would take their time in restoring the Caliphate. Fair enough. But who knew the Weather Underground had ... More >>

  • News

    May 22, 2008

    Metrolink Tries to Censor Bloggers

    A paranoid transit agency spends public money threatening critical Web sites

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2008

    My Huffington Post

    By Pandora Young I have loved Arianna Huffington since she was the voice of the right wing on KCRW's Left, Right & Center. I loved her before I knew she was a gorgeous red-headed Amazon with some serious junk in the trunk. I fell in love with her shrill, heavily accented voice as she berated her h ... More >>

  • News

    April 17, 2008

    McHillary and True Believers Miss the Message of Obama's Misstep

    Who's bitter now?

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2008

    Marc Cooper: Clinton Campaign Stung By Third-Place Finish

    Des Moines - After a stunning defeat and finishing third in Thursday night's Democratic caucuses, Senator Hillary Clinton congratulated Barack Obama and John Edwards, and vowed to jumpstart her national campaign and win her party's nomination for president. "I am ready as I can be," Clinton told a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2008

    Marc Cooper in Iowa: Zero Hour

    Des Moines, Iowa -- Barack Obama capped off his quest to win the statewide Democratic presidential caucuses by emotionally exhorting the youthful core of his supporters to make sure they show up at tonight's prolonged exercise in voting. "In a few hours you will have a chance to make history, Iowa ... More >>

  • News

    January 4, 2007

    Long Beach Hate Crime

    Many media stumble over a man-bites-dog story of black suspects and white victims

  • News

    July 7, 2005

    Grokster Bites the Dust! Ho-hum

    At least Modest Mouse got name-dropped in a Supreme Court case

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