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Joan Didion's Blue Nights: Why She's the Quintessential Writer for Pacific Standard Time

Gary Leonard​What makes Joan Didion the quintessential writer for Pacific Standard Time isn't just her presence at the defining social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. True, in her forty years of reportage, fiction, and most recently in memoirs, she has examined many of them. Whether she's w ... More >>

Doctor David Hung Do, Alleged to Have Touched Women's Privates During Routine Checkups, Stripped of Medical License

A booking photo of David Hung Do.​A Southern California doctor is out of a job for now after the state Medical Board recently revoked his license. What did he do, allegedly? Well, let's just say five of his patients claim he was playing doctor -- and they didn't want to play. Some alleged he ... More >>

Prop. 26 Is Emission-Happy Prop. 23's Sneaky, Environmentally Unfriendly Stepsister

indybayA lonely Prop. 26 protestor​While environmentalists get their panties in a twist over Prop. 23, a slicker plan to dodge environmental regulations is making its way past protesters. By changing the definition of "fee" to "tax," Prop. 26 would require a 2/3 majority of the California Sta ... More >>

L.A. City Council Approves A Contract With A First: Workers To Pay For Health Care

​The L.A. City Council approved a new contract with the city's Engineers and Architects Association, whose 5,000 members agreed to become the first city employees to share in the cost of their health care. The Weekly reported on the contract agreement with the engineers, including the new conc ... More >>

Los Angeles Program, 'Hire LA's Youth,' Offering 10,000 Paid Summer Jobs

Photo Credit: Hire LA's Youth​More than 10,000 jobs will be offered to Los Angeles youths this summer after the city of Los Angeles was granted $25 million in stimulus money by the federal government. The youth program, Hire LA's Youth, is to provide employment opportunities and vocational tra ... More >>

Heal Thy Patient, Heal the Planet

Lila JavanUCLA Hospital Food Today​ Looking to hitch their food carts to the popular trend of sustainability, a growing number of Southern California medical centers have done away with canned goods and processed foods in their cafeterias and are making meals from scratch from locally sourced ... More >>

Ken Jeong: Doctor on the Set

Pregnant Westside Woman Fatally Shot Was Not Intended Target

Flickr photo by planetc1.​A 26-year-old woman fatally shot as she sat in a car parked in a Westside neighborhood was not the intended target, according to television news reports. More than one station stated that the victim's husband was a gang member or affiliate who was likely the target. ... More >>

Jana Collins, L.A. Homicide No. 95: Police Searching for Gunman who killed Pregnant Woman

Los Angeles Police Department detectives are asking for the public's help in identifying the gunman who fatally shot a pregnant woman while she was seated in her car May 5. View Larger Map The shooting of 26-year-old Jana Collins occurred around 9:10 a.m. in the 1900 block of Corning Street in La ... More >>

Pregnant Woman Shot On The Westside (Updated)

​(Updated throughout at 12:20 p.m.): A pregnant woman and her fetus died in a shooting in the Westside community of La Cienega Heights Wednesday morning, police said. The attack appeared by be a gang-related, drive-by shooting near the Ward Plaza Shopping Center, which contains a Ross, a Toys ... More >>

Darlene Robles, L.A. Homicide No. 82: Video Surveillance Captures Hospital Body Dump

Los Angeles Police Department detectives are asking for the public's help in identifying two males and a female suspect who dropped off 17-year-old shooting victim Darlene Robles at a hospital emergency room shortly before she died April 6. Van Nuys homicide detectives just released video footage ... More >>

Market Report: New Market at Barnsdall Park

There's a new market to add to the already long list of Los Angeles farmers markets. In the heart of East Hollywood, the Los Angeles Medical Center (LAMC) Farmers Market at Barnsdall Park offers food lovers yet another opportunity to shop for local, California produce. For those of of you stuck on ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Mile Wide/Inch Deep Dept. The results of next week's L.A. City Attorney race will be seen as an indicator of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's clout. L.A. TimesKicker Cop Justified A lawyer for the El Monte Police Officer Association claimed the televised kick to the head of suspect Richard Rodriguez was ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Phil Spector Found Guilty Famed music producer Phil Spector was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2003 death of sometime actress Lana Clarkson. He faces a prison sentence of 18 years to life. L.A. DailyUrban League The L.A. Dodgers' opening home game was marked by a parking-lot stabbing and v ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

CalTrans Slammed in Flintridge Crash Laura Olhasso, the mayor of La Canada Flintridge, claimed that CalTrans has ignored her town's concerns about runaway trucks on Angeles Crest Highway. A big rig killed two people and injured 12 Wednesday when its driver lost control and struck several vehicles be ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Send in the Tow Trucks Public hearings will soon be held to gather comments on plans to speed traffic during rush hours on Pico and Olympic boulevards. LA TimesSign of the Times The recession began with Chevy and Washington Mutual signage being draped with canvas and now the AIG corporate logo has b ... More >>

OctoMom's Apocalyptic Naming of Her Brood

Amid her chaotic homecoming and the continuing shenanigans at 2051 Madonna Lane, La Habra, OctoMom Nadya Suleman's naming of her eight newborns has largely flown under the media's radar. Still, as the infants are released in twos by Kaiser Permanente in Bellflower, it's clear Suleman is intent on be ... More >>

Bug Music's Commercial Zone

Helping to fill the pockets of indie bands now that CD sales have dried up

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Brave New Archive UCLA will get the correspondence, speeches, papers and audio recordings of 20th-century author, seeker and drug experimenter Aldous Huxley. L.A. TimesSlay Case Man Still Missing Nearly nine months after the gruesome killings of four people in a Quartz Hill house, a fifth presumed v ... More >>

OctoPorn: Will Octuplets' Mom Suck It In for Vivid Entertainment?

Octuplet Mom Update: The Circus Continues

Ever since octuplet mother Nadya Suleman was released February 6 from a Kaiser Permanente hospital in Bellflower, her public image has steadily plummeted  southward. Her early, somewhat-disparaging nickname, Octo-Mom, seems to have come from talk radio, probably KFI. By the time she checked ou ... More >>

Octuplets' Mom and the Public: Where's the Love?

An Associated Press story indicates that Nadya Suleman, the Whittier mother of octuplets, shouldn't hold her breath waiting for the kindness of strangers. While parents of multiple-birth babies are usually showered with gifts from an adoring public, it seems that the nature of these particular birth ... More >>

Octuplets' Mom: No Welfare -- Just $2M for My Story

Several sources are reporting that Nadya Suleman, the Whittier mother of octuplets born in a Bellflower Kaiser Permanente hospital last week, is hoping to rake in $2 million from TV interviews and product sponsorships. The 33-year-old woman has been under increasing fire by letter writers to newspap ... More >>

Octuplets' Mom Named

A mother of eight newborns who remain at a Bellflower Kaiser Permanente hospital lives in Whittier, and her name is Nadya Suleman. Late Friday afternoon, the City News Service revealed, "Although the woman has asked that her identity not be released, she was identified in various media reports as Na ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Homeless Man Was Torched With Flare Robert Winton of the L.A. Times reports Deputy D.A. William Hodgman's charge that Ben Matthew Martin set fire to John Robert McGraham (not, as reported, "McGrath") with a road flare after dousing the homeless man with gasoline in an L.A. alley last fall. Martin, a ... More >>

In Search of The Authentic Character

The reel life of Laura Dern

It's About Term Limits, Stupid

A fight over a Home Depot exposes the true intent of Proposition R

The Final Hours of Miguel Contreras

The 911 call said he went in for a card reading. But the death of the labor leader prompted a prostitution raid. What really went down at the botanica?

Hand Jobs and Handouts

Deputy Mayor Troy Edwards became Leland Wong’s go-to boy

Dylan Goes Gay for Guillen

Eternal collective consciousness holds breath

Flat Line, Bottom Line

Is a hospital chain cutting corners for profit?

Microsoft Wants to Kill Your iPod, Summer Goes Pop!

Dying to Get Off Skid Row

Downtown can be a last chance... or the last stop

Crumbelievable!

What You Can't See Can Kill You

Clear and Present Danger: A Special Report

Air Angels

The Lid Comes Off

Secret memo to Mayor Hahn lays blame for DWP’s woes on union control

The Silenced Warrior

Lloyd Monserratt, 1966–2003

A Conscientious Employee

Times pulls plug on vet scribe

Pandora’s Panacea

Pot’s okay — you just can’t have any

Small Is Psychedelic

Los Angeles under a microscope

Double Fault

Sampras' ex-coach convicted on child sex counts