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A Mayor Spying for the Military? Why Eric Garcetti Should Not Reenlist in the Navy

Updated at the bottom: A government ethics expert has tough questions about how Lieutenant Mayor Eric Garcetti could wear two hats. What is Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti thinking? Garcetti says that if elected mayor of the country's second largest city -- which is broke, has crumblin ... More >>

Admission Review: Tina Fey's Great, But the Film Doesn't Have the Marks

Four Most Notorious Times Rhodes Scholar Eric Garcetti Pleaded Ignorance Or Kept People in the Dark When Facing Controversy

For an Ivy League grad and Rhodes Scholar, Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti has the uncanny habit of not knowing certain details when the shit hits the fan. This happens so often that L.A. Weekly has come up with four of the most notorious times Garcetti pleaded ignorant -- or personal ... More >>

Brainiac Mayoral Candidate Eric Garcetti Pleads Ignorance On Clear Channel Vote as Rival Emanuel Pleitez Files Ethics Complaint

Read L.A Weekly feature article about inner-city success story Emanuel Pleitez. Los Angeles mayoral candidate Emanuel Pleitez is now getting into the thick of a brewing scandal involving rival Eric Garcetti, who L.A. Weekly reported owned stock in Clear Channel Communications while at the same time ... More >>

Diddy's Son Justin Combs Gets Full Scholarship to UCLA as Many Students Struggle

Updated at the bottom with UCLA noting that its athletic scholarships come from non-taxpayer funds. First posted at 8:05 a.m. Should a multimillionaire's son be able to get a free-ride scholarship to a state school that has been struggling with budget cuts and raging student protests? If that son ... More >>

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All-Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List Considering that most all of today's popular music -- be it roc ... More >>

The Jocks of L.A.

Los Angeles loves its sports as much as any city does; there's no shortage of folks who will begin seething at a misspoken word about a favorite team or player. Say hi to the jocks of Los Angeles, who inspire that fervent brand of rage and rapture that can only come from a glance at the scoreboard.

Michelle Miller: It's Miller's Time

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. At the Pasadena Poly Panthers' final home game of the regular season, against the Webb Gauls, three posters plastered the gym's wall, bidding farewell to the graduating Panther ... More >>

Steve Nalepa, the Professor of Party

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] See also: *Low End Theory Anniversary *More Low End Theory Oral History From Those Who Helped Build It All apologies to Mr. Holland, but our opuses hav ... More >>

Music Picks: M83, Club Cheval, Chuck Inglish, Meshell Ndegeocello

Also, Elvis Birthday Bash, Barbara Morrison, Phonte and 9th Wonder, and others

So & So - Viper Room - 9/7/11

Danielle BacherSo & So Viper Room September 7, 2011 Better than: Being stuck in a steam room with 98.7 FM on the radio.Los Angeles-based folk-rockers So & So performed a triumphant gig at the center of a nuclear reactor last night. . . oh, wait. It was actually the Viper Room, which se ... More >>

Top 10 Essentials For A Wine-Happy ( Memorial Day) Summer, The California Edition

WenteA Busy Day For Winemaker Karl Wente ​Summer may finally be almost here -- Happy Memorial Day weekend, by the way -- but in California it's just another wine season. And so as you trade our bottles of Cabernet for Riesling, we bring you our Top 10 Essentials For a Wine-Happy Summer. And y ... More >>

The Beaver Review

Mel Gibson, playing mad and loving it

Cowboy Down

Murdered Arizona rancher Rob Krentz's family talk about his life and death

The Populist: Date Night's Shawn Levy

From Yale drama to his latest film, there's more to this multiplex master than meets the eye

Movie Reviews: Children of Invention, Mother, The Art of the Steal

Also, Green Zone, Remember Me, She’s Out of My League and more

Prop. 8 Trial: Anti-Gay Marriage Witness Says Gays Have Political Clout

As testimony for the Proposition 8 trial in San Francisco nears its conclusion, Claremont McKenna College government professor Kenneth Miller, a witness for anti-gay marriage lawyers, took the stand and said gays and lesbians have political clout in California.Claremont McKenna CollegeProfessor Kenn ... More >>

Sounds of the Skin of a Rabbit

And other West Coasty musical predilections

Stage Raw: Bright Ideas

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the current NEW REVIEWS and STAGE FEATURE on Troubadour Theater Company's Oedipus the King, Mama! and the Chekhov Studio's The SeagullNEW REVIEW GO BRIGHT IDEAS ​​Photo by Shashin Desai"All the world's a stage, and our children our players," advises a tuto ... More >>

Scott Baio, Nanci Griffith, Secret Policeman’s Ball and Other Signs of Aging

What to do in L.A., June 5-11

Last Night: Andrew Bird's Sold Out Show at the Orpheum

Timothy Norris Within the first few songs of Andrew Bird's sold out show last night at the Orpheum downtown, the singer/violinist/samplerist/guitarist had taken off his shoes, revealing red socks that quirkily contrasted with his casual black vintage suit. It was Bird, totally comfortable on a stag ... More >>

Obama vs. Baldilocks

A blogger's African dad came here on the same airlift as Obama's dad. All similarities end there

Charlie Wilson’s War: Go, Mujahedeen, Go!

A collision of good intentions and unintended consequences

Aging Disgracefully

Trying and Quartet look at the costs and benefits of growing old

Film Reviews: Chalk, The Ex, 28 Weeks Later and Delta Farce

¡Ask a Mexican! Pancho's Purloined Pate

"What do Mexicans think about President Bush’s grandfather having a hand in getting the guy that robbed Pancho Villa’s head out of jail?"

Crosstown Rivals

When USC and UCLA put on their academic game faces, nothing less than the future of the city is at stake

Betty Boop, Bowling for Dollars, Brazilian Pop... and a Duck

Rebel Yelp

Governor Girlie-man

If Arnold were tough, he'd raise taxes

The Kansas Conundrum

Thomas Frank, pontificating tightwads and the great white-male blogosphere

The Alficionado

A man and his (other) car

Things Change

Spartan, Mamet’s off his game

Primary Notes

Life as Music

John Adams goes public

The Doctor is In

Rolling with people-powered Howard Dean from the highs and lows of spring to the triumphs of summer

Who Wears the Pants?

Bush Bashing in America

Cool Schmool

N*E*R*D want theirs

Paper Chase: Goodwill Hunting in Los Feliz

The Feminist Stripped Bare

Taking it all off in Live Nude Girls Unite!

Letters

Olympic Anti-Doping an Uphill Battle

Leifland

And the women who live there

If You See Kay

Paul ‘n’ Princess: Very stimulating!

Rogan’s Heroes

Inger Lorre, Patron Saint of Fucked-over Musicians

The Go Club

Getting lost in the game

The Naughty Boy

Cole Porter, misbehavin’

Day of a Locust

Dick Nixon takes on the Pink Lady

Pi in the Sky

Writer-director Darren Aronofsky