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Nas & Lauryn Hill - The Wiltern - 11/30/12

Nas & Ms. Lauryn Hill The Wiltern 11/30/12 Better than...a Kelis and Wyclef double billing Nas & Lauryn Hill have a strong incentive to tour recently -- tax problems. Ahead of their double billed show last night at the Wiltern (they play again tonight) fans were hoping that they as well as the IRS ... More >>

Xzibit Carries the Weight

Post–Pimp My Ride, the rapper strides forward

Melvin Walker: L.A. Marijuana Dispensary Operator, 11 Others, Arrested By Feds

The federal crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries in Southern California continued today as the U.S. Attorney's Office announced the arrests of 12 people associated with a chain of pot shops. John Melvin Walker operated 9 dispensaries in L.A. and Orange counties, feds say, and he topped the l ... More >>

James Rosemond, Who Once Managed Rapper The Game, Convicted For New York-to-L.A. Cocaine Ring

James Rosemond, the rap manager one L.A. journalist says was behind an attack that sparked the East Coast-West Coast hip-hop wars of the 1990s, was convicted today in a case that accused him of running a New York-to-L.A. cocaine ring, a courtroom observer told the Weekly. Rosemond, who goes by the ... More >>

Daniel Becerril's Victims Use Yelp to Fight Alleged Murderer and Con Man

Marijuana Movement Plans 420 Day of Action Friday

April 20, a.k.a. 420, is the stoner's holiday -- almost as big as Cinco de Mayo in L.A. But this time around, marijuana decriminalization activists want you to turn it into "a day of action," a time to voice displeasure with the Obama administration's crackdown on dispensaries in California. Dale ... More >>

Rave Promoters Paid Millions to L.A. Coliseum Union Workers Under the Table and in Cash, Sources Say

Timothy NorrisYoung faces at the 2009 Electric Daisy Carnival.​More than $2.5 million in cash was paid to union hands who worked concerts, mostly controversial raves, at the publicly run L.A. Coliseum and Sports Arena, according to sources and documents obtained by the Weekly. On Tuesday lawy ... More >>

Illegal Immigrant Sentenced to 1.5 Years For Claiming 20 Nonexistent Children on Tax Returns

It wasn't her.​Now, if you read this particularly author you know we have defended the undocumented as a necessary and sometimes-abused cog in our unjust economic system. You can't diss 'em and still get your car washed, eat out for dinner, or even buy lettuce. Just can't. Well, for all you i ... More >>

Delivery Boys

LA Ale Club's Chili Cook-Off: Pints For Prostates

LA Ale ClubSpradley (left) and 38 Degrees' Co-Owner Brian Sugita At Last Year's Event​Got a killer chili recipe? Of course you do. Get your ingredients ready for the 2nd annual L.A. Ale Club Chili Cook-off on April 2nd at 38 Degrees Ale House. Organized by L.A. Ale Club founder Chris Spradley, ... More >>

Bankrupt Businessman James Agate Angles for a Slice of Billionaire Ted Forstmann's Riches

Feds Shut Down Tax Preparer Guillermo Garcia

​Tax season is upon us, which means it's time to find a tax preparer who can get creative with deductions. And according to the federal government, Guillermo Garcia is one of the most creative guys around. Sadly though, he'll be sitting this year out."He doesn't work here no more because he's reti ... More >>

Stage Raw: Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 & Over

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSPUZZLER​Padraic Duffy's noir drama of East German Spies opens this weekend at Sacred Fools Theater Company. Photo by C.M. GonzalezFAIRY TALE THEATRE: 18 & OVERJ. Michael Feldman's ... More >>

O.C.'s Dana Ray Reynolds Gets 18 Months In Federal Prison For Following His Own How-To-Tax-Dodge Videos

​Well, you can't blame him for walking the walk (but the feds did): Orange County tax adviser Dana Ray Reynolds sold books and videos about how to avoid paying taxes. Apparently he also took his own advice, which led to prosecution on failure to pay Uncle Sam, according to the U.S. Attorney's ... More >>

Does The Lesbian Sister Of Christine O'Donnell, Delaware Tea Party Senate Candidate, Live In L.A.?

Christine O'Donell​Christine O'Donnell is the eccentric Tea Partier who shocked the world this week by beating Establishment Republican Mike Castle in the Delaware primary, thus likely ruining whatever outside shot the GOP had at taking the Senate. O'Donnell has spent most of her ramshackle pu ... More >>

Luis Rodriguez Ortega Files For Tax Refunds In The Names Of Several Puerto Ricans, Gets 57 Months Behind Bars

​A man who filed tax returns under the names of several Puerto Ricans in order to reap $5 million in refunds was sentenced this week to 57 months in federal prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Tuesday. Downey resident Luis Rodriguez Ortega, 35, was also ordered to pay more than $780, ... More >>

Heimlich Maneuvered

A gala at Cindy Landon's honoring a top scientist discredited by his son gets a venue change

Following Pimp-'N'-Ho Sting, Community Group Closes Its Doors

​Acorn, the controversial community service group caught up in an right-wing video sting that targeted its offices in Los Angeles and elsewhere last year, announced this week that it's closing up shop, with all its offices scheduled to shut their doors by April 1. And no, it doesn't seem to be ... More >>

ABSINTHE, OPIUM, AND MAGIC; GAY APPAREL: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE HOUSE OF BESARAB

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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 >>

Will Smith Encores His Pursuit of Happyness

It's a miserable life

Stage Raw: Director-Teacher Milton Katselas dies at 75

Stage Raw: Apollo bound for Oregon

Stage Raw: CTG Receives $90,000 New Play Development Grant

Villaraigosa: Faking an Economic Miracle

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

Hoisted by His Own Petard

Stephen Yagman’s outsize arrogance, not his politics, done him in

Spare the Writer

Smoked Out

Joint interviews with a medical-pot pharmacist and a neighbor who says, Not in My Schoolyard.

Arnold's Bad Hand

The guv cuts the wrong deal with the Indians

Chief Greedovich

One of the most powerful Indians gets his way — again

Rock Picks

For February 3 - 10

Brother Love

The Isley Brothers at the Henry Fonda Theater

Bad Night for the Vineland Boyz

Huge raid could be a mortal blow to notorious Valley gang

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Church and State

Ring in the old, ring in the new

Rockie Horoscope

Husband and Husband

As real as any doggie or kitty wedding

The Right Times

A secret White House memo just for John Carroll’s eyes

Pure Class

New and Improv-ed

Letters

Urban Naturalist: The $5.5 Billion Bird

The Fleiss Family Bed

Richard’s Bracelet

Disgraced Alatorre must stay in his home

Signs of 'Arrival'

What To Do When Your Career Is Dead: A) Sell Your Amps on EBay, B) Wait Tables at Miceli's, C) Writ

How Andy Prieboy created White Trash Wins Lotto

Foreign Trade

Back to bartering for goods and services

The Pharmacist's Daughter

Culver City in the '50s

Cannabis Connection

Clinton's campaign against California's California's medical-marijuana movement

A City Hall Telenovela

Eastside councilman, longtime rivals locked in family dispute