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Xinhai Huang, USC Honor's Student, Killed In Car Crash

Updated at the bottom with a suspect targeted for arrest. First posted at 8:03 a.m. Monday. A USC honor's student was killed in a two-car crash on St. Patrick's Day. Police said 22-year-old Xinhai Huangel was killed in a 2:55 a.m crash about five miles southwest of campus in South L.A. The colli ... More >>

Hyde Park on Hudson Review: Bill Murray Is Excellent as Franklin Roosevelt, But Is That Enough?

Dennis Herbert Tillet, 25, Killed in Hyde Park Shooting on Fourth of July

See also: Just 10 minutes and five miles away, 14-year-old Unique Russell likewise fell victim to gunfire amid the celebration. Update: Morehouse College, one of about 100 "historically black colleges and universities" around the country, confirms that Tillet was a graduate. Read the college's full ... More >>

Unique Russell, 14, Shot Dead While Watching Fireworks Outside Grandma's L.A. Home

Two especially tragic shootings pierced through the Fourth of July fireworks last night in South L.A. -- only 10 minutes apart and five miles away. We already reported this morning that 25-year-old Dennis Tillet was murdered around 10:30 p.m. while celebrating the Fourth of July with a group of peo ... More >>

LAPD's Abandoned Rampart Station, Center of B.I.G. Scandal, Is Now Blight Capital of the Eastside

A new kind of scandal has overtaken the LAPD's old, boarded-up Rampart Station in Historic Filipinotown. It's a lot less hip-hop than the last one, but infuriating all the same: "This old station has now been abandoned for at least the past 3 years, and has been a magnet for graffiti, vagrants, and ... More >>

Unlicensed Driver Tenina Calhoun Crashes SUV Into Palm Tree; 3 L.A. Sisters Dead

The three fatalities in Friday's tragic collision between an Infiniti SUV and a Hyde Park palm tree have been identified as a trio of sisters from the South L.A. area, according to City News Service. The youngest, 19-year-old Jeshai Chanae Jones, was declared dead just hours after the 2:45 a.m. cra ... More >>

Bocuse d'Or USA Winners Announced

​The Bocuse d'Or USA competition was held yesterday at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., to determine who will represent America in the next annual International Bocuse d'Or, held in France a year from now. The winner? Richard Rosendale, executive chef of the Greenbrier i ... More >>

LAPD Mistakes Hyde Park Library Cleanup for 'Occupy' Protest, Orders Youth Group to Disperse

Maegan Ortiz via Lockerz"Youth Justice Coalition meeting across fence since LAPD separated them."​What should have been a warm 'n' fuzzy cleanup of the abandoned Hyde Park Library in South L.A. this morning went awry when responding LAPD officers reportedly mistook the Youth Justice Coalition ... More >>

Reputed Gang Members Charged with Extorting Food Trucks

Guzzle & Nosh​Violence is nothing new in the food truck scene, where payoffs to local thugs and vicious truck vs. truck fighting is just the cost of doing business for some vendors. What's rare is when any of this violence actually makes its way into the legal system. Reputed 18th Street gang ... More >>

Bootsy Collins Announces "Bootzilla" Fine Art Collection (Plus Let's Talk About Pedro Bell)

​ As if Lee 'Scratch' Perry wasn't already threatening the delicate definition of reality as we know it--yesterday famed funk bassist Bootsy Collins (J. Brown, P. Funkadelic and his own solo work) announced the imminent unveiling of "three hundred epic canvases" on December 1st. What will the ... More >>

Music Picks: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Bridget St. John, Bad Astronaut, Kings of Leon

Also, Lilith 2010, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Smokey Robinson, Antibalas and others

Tina Sanchez, L.A. Homicide No. 85: Woman Found Dead in South LA Alley Identified

A woman who was shot to death and found wrapped in a blanket in a Hyde Park alley April 15 has been identified as 40-year-old Tina Sanchez. View Larger Map Sanchez was found in an alley near Crenshaw Boulevard and 73rd Street about 3:30 a.m. Thursday.

Q & A With Joseph Mahon: The Bastide Chef on His 16-Course Try-out, the CIA Why He Once Quit the Business

When Bastide reopened, after a year-long hiatus, a month ago, it was with a recalibrated feel (it's also a bookstore, of all things) and a new chef. Joseph Mahon joined the impressive list of chefs who have helmed Joe Pytka's Melrose Place restaurant, a catalog that reads like a Michelin inspector's ... More >>

Bocuse d'Or USA Calling for Chef Applicants New Scholarship Program for Young Chefs

It's Bocuse d'Or International Culinary Competition time again, in which teams from 24 countries compete for the honor of winning Paul Bocuse' legendary culinary prize. The Bocuse d'Or USA Foundation, which is led by Jerome Bocuse, Daniel Boulud and Thomas Keller (just think about those three names ... More >>

Thyme Cafe And Market Opens Tomorrow Morning in Santa Monica

A. Scattergoodchairs at Thyme Cafe​Thyme Cafe and Market is opening tomorrrow morning on Ocean Park in Santa Monica. The lofty space, which has been under construction for the last year, is also the new home of Thyme Catering, founded by caterer and 3rd generation Angeleno Maire Byrne, whose g ... More >>

Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 211, Teenager Killed, Two Wounded in Hyde Park Shooting

A teenager was killed and a man and woman were wounded in a shooting in Hyde Park  August 23. View Larger Map All three victims were shot in front of a home in the 6400 block of Seventh Avenue about 12:15 a.m. The 17-year-old boy was shot in the face and declared dead at a local hospital. On ... More >>

Opposing Views on "The All-About-Me Mayor"

Also, defending Obama, community spirit and Igor's makers

Villaraigosa: Faking an Economic Miracle

Mayor sought a study saying East and South L.A. are booming. They're not

Heath Ledger's Final Days Among the Masses

L.A. Art Collective Struggles to Go On After Actor's Death

Foreclosure Frenzy

L.A.’s middle class embraced $3,000 mortgages. Will a recession ensue?

Bookworm Sanctuaries

Best local libraries

Paint It Black

De Palma and Ellroy tap one of L.A.’s darkest mysteries

The Cops and Minister Tony

A clash in South L.A. puts the city on edge

Man of the World

Though he makes political films, Fernando Meirelles doesn’t see himself as a political filmmaker

War and Peace in Watts

A gang treaty implodes and the killing resumes

''Do Not Hesitate''

After the Party’s Over

Freeways to Perdition

God on the Tracks

The end of trains as I knew them

Ten Years and a Cloud of Dust

Crenshaw in slow motion

Give the Anarchist a Cigarette

Mick Farren on the Deviants, fantasy fiction and blowing shit up

Can the Lion Roar?

Unequal Books

Vikram Seth’s fate

The Beatin' Path

Merging atoms with Adam Rudolph

Lost Soul

A lament for black Los Angeles