Inglewood

Move-In Special

Holiday DUI Checkpoint Cheat Sheet: Massive Drunk Driving Crackdown Starts Friday

'Tis the season to be jolly, yes, but try not to do your fa-la-la-la-laing in a jail cell. Not fun. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department this week previewed the anti-DUI can of whoopass it's unveiling for the holidays, starting this weekend. It's massive:

Middle of Nowhere Director (and Former Rapper) Ava DuVernay on the Future of Black Film

Endeavour's Tree-Killing Debut

Steve Soboroff falsely said the chopped trees were dying, sick

Space Shuttle Endeavour: Why Isn't the California Science Center Conducting an EIR Before Cutting Down 265 Trees?

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires that any project which "may have a significant effect on the environment" be prefaced by an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) -- an often lengthy document investigating the project's possible effects on both the natural environment on the urba ... More >>

Where to Buy Marijuana in Los Angeles After Dispensary Ban Takes Effect

Now that the L.A. City Council has decided that all medical marijuana dispensaries must shut down by Sept. 6, where will you get your medicine? The slacker down the street? No, he was put out of business by the dispensaries. MacArthur Park? Cleaned up years ago. Tijuana? You want to end up in Mexic ... More >>

Mitt Romney's Bain Capital Targeted in Protest of Burlington Coat Factory, Low-Wage Jobs

Pro-labor organizers were outside a Bain Capital-owned Burlington Coat Factory store in Inglewood today to protest what they say are its non-living-wage jobs and a corporate system that benefits the rich at the expense of more poverty in America. Bain, as you know, is the venture capital firm found ... More >>

Masa Madness at Maria's Tortillas

Unless you're shopping at gas stations or forcing yourself through an instant ramen diet, $2.90 rarely buys lunch. At Maria's Tortillas on the edge of Inglewood, that handful of laundry money buys not only lunch, but a tasty if somewhat light one: a single hefty husk-swathed tamale bolstered with ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including an Exhibit About Prince at the Forum

A festival run by a rapper, brunch inspired by Prince, a Cadillac in a gallery, a soap opera cast with women in white, "taking account of oneself" taken to its extremes: It feels like spring. 5. The "fun" in fundraiser Until May 6, the Beastie Boys' Mike D is moonlighting as a MOCA curator. He has ... More >>

Kendrec McDade Wasn't the First: 6 More Controversial Police Shootings of Unarmed L.A. Black Men

As the investigation continues into 19-year-old Kendrec McDade's death by police gunfire on March 24, the scenario is looking worse and worse for the two Pasadena police officers who shot McDade. Last Saturday, at a tense community meeting near the crime scene, Pasadena Police Chief Philip Sanchez ... More >>

Despise You Are More Hardcore Than Hardcore

They reigned for years as mysterious underground legends. This is their story

Are 1 Million L.A. County Residents Getting Fracked Over by Oil Company PXP?

Guess what? If you live anywhere near the 1,000-acre Inglewood oil field -- in Culver Crest, Baldwin Hills, Baldwin Vista, Ladera Heights, Windsor Hills, Village Green or anywhere around there -- your home is bordering the largest urban oil field in America. Cool, right? It's run by giant Texas oil ... More >>

Michelle Obama Pays Visit to Inglewood Today

As part of her "Let's Move!" nationwide health campaign for fitness and healthier food, First Lady Michelle Obama will be making a stop in Inglewood today -- the second day of her two-day visit to Los Angeles. She'll speak to supporters at a future site for a Northgate Gonzalez Market. The "Let's M ... More >>

Christian Cobian, Unarmed Cyclist, Shot Dead by L.A. County Sheriff's Deputies

Christian Cobian via Facebook​A trip to the corner store turned deadly for 26-year-old Lancaster resident Christian Cobian on Saturday night, when he was pulled over by L.A. County Sheriff's deputies for riding his bike without a headlight. His aunt tells NBC LA that Cobian was at a family bap ... More >>

Meth -- 35 Pounds Worth -- Seized in Inglewood Drug Bust

This is your face on meth.​Cops Inglewood say they seized 35 pounds -- 35! -- in a meth bust this week. The crystal methamphetamine was valued at $1.7 million. That's enough cracker crack to feed an Inland Empire biker gang for like a year. What it was doing on the 'Wood is anyone's guess. A ... More >>

Cali Swag District Concert at Hollywood Nightclub 'Wonderland' Erupts in Gunfire; Roadie Takes a Bullet

dedica.laCali Swag District targeted by another gunman?​Wounds are fresh for friends and fans of Cali Swag District, the Inglewood hip-hop crew that saw key member Montae "M-Bone" Talbert murdered in a liquor-store drive-by just last May. Last night, another scare: City News Service reports t ... More >>

The Most Vicious Mosh Pit You Will Witness All Year: The Top Five Bands at California Discord Festival

brooklynvegan.comMagrudergrind​One of the year's more relentless metal festivals will lay waste to downtown this weekend. California Discord Fest invades The Vortex for two days of whiplash-inducing death metal, brutal grindcore, and mosh-friendly hardcore. Acoustic interludes, good cop/bad co ... More >>

South L.A.'s Rampant Chlamydia Problem to Be Tackled by... Local Church Ladies?

South L.A. gets tested.​Another "don't ask, don't tell" policy is being trampled today in the Southland: The backward, Palin-vetted, abstinence-only approach to sex-ed that's long plagued popular Christian culture. About 18 churches throughout L.A. County Supervisor Mark-Ridley Thomas' STD-ri ... More >>

Meet OverDoz: L.A.'s Freakiest, Cheekiest Collective

CalmaticOverDoz's core four: Joon, Sleezy, Kent, and Creamie​The small army splayed around a table on the patio of Inglewood's Simply Wholesome is focused on the black Range Rover parked just outside the door. Stevie Wonder's in the passenger seat. The eight members of Los Angeles collective O ... More >>

Medical Marijuana Seller Who Grew Pot Sees Case Dismissed After LAPD Raided His Home And Garden

Inglewood Wellness Center.​Marijuana proponents are smoking tall after a case against an Inglewood dispensary owner was dismissed recently. Activist Brett Stone says felony charges against Paul Scott were dismissed in L.A. Superior Court. His home was raided last June after an LAPD helicopter ... More >>

Guilty: L.A. 'Westside Rapist' John Floyd Thomas Jr. Admits to Strangling 7 of His 30 Supposed Victims, Gets Life Term for Each

The Westside rapist, arrested in March 2009​Of the approximately 30 middle-aged white women police believe were raped, strangled or both by L.A. County resident John Floyd Thomas, Jr., now 74, in the 1970s and '80s, seven victims saw justice today when the notoriously prolific "Westside rapist ... More >>

"Jersey Shore" Guidos Do Cali Swag District's "Do the Dougie": Viral or Not?

Ok--here are the facts: Cali Swag District is a hip hop trio from Inglewood. They're teenagers. They have a song/dance craze called "Teach Me How to Dougie." It's being pushed as this year's Soulja Boy, but we (and many others) are ambivalent. Today their press person emailed us a video of the Je ... More >>

The Wood Cafe's Fuzzy Logic

Ben CalderwoodHow big is it?​Everyone knows the basic algebra of a diner is starch plus protein divided by coffee³--pancakes plus bacon or eggs plus potatoes in a myriad of ways for breakfast, bread plus meat (e.g., the Wood's tumescent 8-ounce Niman Ranch Woody Burger) for lunch.

Census' Least Counted Areas In L.A. Identified

​The California Community Foundation on Wednesday identified Los Angeles' least-counted areas in the 2010 U.S. Census and stated that, for the first time, early data means that outreach can give those communities a second shot at being represented.

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>

Light Rail Coming To The 'Wood And Beyond

Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Thursday approved a light-rail line that would run down the "Crenshaw corridor" from Exposition Boulevard to LAX. The line, which could open in 2018, would run through parts of Inglewood, Hawthorne and El Segundo as a much-needed north-sou ... More >>

Over the Weekend: HARD Music Fest Shut Down by Police, Plus a Pool Party and Downtown Disco

To put it simply, our weekend was HARD. On Saturday night, this summer's highly anticipated electronic music festival also turned out to be highly controversial. HARD Summer at the Forum was shut down by Inglewood police who ordered the closure of the rave event after it was "declared a hazard" and ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Feds Probe Inglewood Cop Shootings The Justice Department announced it will investigate Inglewood's police force and instances in which its members have shot unarmed civilians and allegedly used excessive force. L.A. TimesAnna Nicole Smith Figures Arrested The late Anna Nicole Smith's friend and att ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Off and Running? Detailed plans are moving forward to replace Inglewood's storied Hollywood Park racetrack with a mixed-use retail district and residential complex. L.A. TimesMercury Insurance Job Cancellations L.A.-based Mercury Insurance Company announced it will lay off 360 employees in order to ... More >>

Home Depot Throws in the Trowel in Sunland-Tujunga Fight

Inglewood had its war with WalMart,  Glassell Park fought to keep Home Depot out of an old Kmart site. And now one of the other great neighborhood v. big-box store battles is apparently over -- again won by a community determined to keep a retail behemoth from landing its extra-large footprint ... More >>

Grim Sleeper Returns: He's Murdering Angelenos, as Cops Hunt his DNA

The most elusive serial killer west of the Mississippi took a 13-year break. Now he's back

Unarmed Man Killed by Deputies in Lennox

A deputy shot and killed a 35-year-old Lennox man on Wednesday night. Deputies patrolling the area believed he was a drug dealer who was reaching for a gun, according to police reports. Christian Portillo, 35, was shot twice in the chest and died at the scene. With the fatal shooting of Portillo ... More >>

Gang Crackdown or Police Overkill

Delgadillo spun a Venice raid as a success. Suck and excess might be closer, residents say

Letters

Duped by Wal-Mart

How Annie Lee Martin got fooled into becoming a poster girl for the corporate giant in Inglewood

Straight Shooters

Guerrilla filmmakers PSTOLA declare war on jigabooism

Under the Rug in Inglewood

A judge wants to seal a settlement in a police-brutality case

Heart Less

Community health advocates fight closure of cardiac programs at Daniel Freeman

Sam and His Pals

L.A. is a Wal-Mart town. Get used to it.

High Stakes, Mixed Message

Voters turned out in record numbers, even where the polls weren’t working

Letters

Quiet Riot

Inglewood didn’t burn after the Jeremy Morse acquittal, but was it supposed to?

Closing Time

The Howling Monk’s last wail

Letters

Spiking the Punch

The Dick and Ed Show

These political warhorses can entertain

Held Back

The Miserable State of Black Education

Doctor’s Orders

L.A. County doc accused in union grievance of using public staff for private practice

Inglewood School Chief Dies

District left facing fiscal, legal woes

Heavy Duty

A new black theater arrives in Inglewood