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March 14, 2013
Forever 21 Compelled By Federal Judge To Comply with 'Sweatshop' Investigation
Read L.A. Weekly's feature story, "Sweatshops Are Fashion's Dirty Little Secret. But They Don't Exist in L.A. -- Do They?" Forever 21 founders and husband-and-wife team Do Won Chang and Jin Sook can't duck the federal government anymore. On March 7, U.S. District Court Judge Margaret Morrow ordere ... More >>
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March 7, 2013
99 Restaurants and a New L.A. Times Owner: Readers Weigh In
Read L.A. Weekly's feature story, "Sweatshops Are Fashion's Dirty Little Secret. But They Don't Exist in L.A. -- Do They?" Forever 21 founders and husband-and-wife team Do Won Chang and Jin Sook can't duck the federal government anymore. On March 7, U.S. District Court Judge Margaret Morrow ordere ... More >>
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March 4, 2013
Photos: Here is LA Weekly's #Plate Event Through Instagram
We asked, you photographed. Below is a sampling of our favorite photos from our Plate event last night at the Peterson Automotive Museum. If for some reason you changed your mind and don't want your photo included here, just drop us a line. See Also: - Plate, LA Weekly's Food and Wine Event, 2013: ... More >>
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February 27, 2013
Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Cocktail Competition, USC Fair Food Fest, L.A. Weekly's Plate Lucques Cassoulet Night
Cocktail Competition Who can make the tastiest red-colored cocktail? In a benefit for Go Red for Women, an American Heart Association initiative, bartenders from Marina del Rey restaurants Café del Rey, Hal's Bar and Grill, Chart House, James Beach and Tony P's will compete to create the best vodka ... More >>
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February 27, 2013
The LA Weekly App: New and Improved
You could let your conscience be your guide, but that doesn't sound like very much fun at all. Plus LA Weekly's new and improved Smartphone app is going to do a much better job, especially since it's just been technologically bedazzled and is now ready for your downloading and upgrading pleasure. W ... More >>
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February 27, 2013
The LA Weekly App: New and Improved
You could let your conscience be your guide, but that doesn't sound like very much fun at all. Plus LA Weekly's new and improved Smartphone app is going to do a much better job, especially since it's just been technologically bedazzled and is now ready for your downloading and upgrading pleasure. W ... More >>
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February 27, 2013
The LA Weekly App: New and Improved
You could let your conscience be your guide, but that doesn't sound like very much fun at all. Plus LA Weekly's new and improved Smartphone app is going to do a much better job, especially since it's just been technologically bedazzled and is now ready for your downloading and upgrading pleasure. W ... More >>
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February 27, 2013
The LA Weekly App: New and Improved
You could let your conscience be your guide, but that doesn't sound like very much fun at all. Plus LA Weekly's new and improved Smartphone app is going to do a much better job, especially since it's just been technologically bedazzled and is now ready for your downloading and upgrading pleasure. W ... More >>
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February 26, 2013
10 Best Places in L.A. For a First Date
See also: *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying *10 Oddball L.A. Museums Worth Seeing *10 Places in L.A. to Draw Nude Models Coffee dates are the worn-in blue jeans of the dating world: about as unoriginal as a third date at a sushi bar, but still used as the comfortable, familiar fallback of ch ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2013
Christopher Dorner: Cops Shoot Newspaper Delivery Ladies In Similar Truck
Cops looking for disgraced LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner fired on two women who were in a pickup similar to the one the suspect was believed to be driving. It happened in Torrance early this morning, police told the Weekly. The pair were delivering newspapers. But throwing stuff out the window a ... More >>
News
January 31, 2013
Class Warfare: Metro Rides and Homelessness Have Readers Talking
Cops looking for disgraced LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner fired on two women who were in a pickup similar to the one the suspect was believed to be driving. It happened in Torrance early this morning, police told the Weekly. The pair were delivering newspapers. But throwing stuff out the window a ... More >>
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January 28, 2013
L.A.'s Hit-And-Run Epidemic Inspires New Focus At City Hall
Following LA Weekly's eye-opening report on the city's hit-and-run epidemic, one L.A. city Councilman wants something done. Joe Buscaino is asking the LAPD to report to the council's Public Safety Committee "about what efforts are being undertaken by the Department to curtail hit-and-run incidents ... More >>
News
January 10, 2013
Army Corps' Eco-Disaster in Valley
Army Corps homophobia may have prompted destruction of 40 acres of habitat
Blogs
January 4, 2013
L.A. Hit-and-Run Crisis Uncovered by L.A. Weekly Prompts Official Demand for Answers from Charlie Beck and LAPD
Please read L.A.'s Bloody Hit-and-Run Epidemic and Victim Finds Hit-and-Run Driver Citing an L.A. Weekly probe that unveiled a hit-and-run crisis in Los Angeles, with drivers fleeing 48 percent of all crashes, Councilman Joe Buscaino asked the L.A. City Council to require LAPD to explain how it plan ... More >>
Blogs
December 28, 2012
Random Notebook Dump: The Year In Metal 2012
A lot of monumental things in metal this year. Some of them involved actual music. Many did not. In honor of the year's end, we gave our notebook a good shaking to help us remember the most important stuff. Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums of All Time -Lamb of God vocalist Randy Blythe was jailed for a mo ... More >>
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December 28, 2012
9 Silicon Beach Office Buildings and What They Say About Their Companies
See also: *More tech stories from L.A. Weekly *Fugly Buildings: Our Series on the Most Hideous Buildings in L.A. Since the arrival of Google in Venice last year, westside beach communities like Santa Monica, Playa Vista and others have seen an influx of tech companies, startups, investors and soft ... More >>
News
December 6, 2012
L.A.'s Bloody Hit-and-Run Epidemic
The city ignores a crisis of car-as-weapon crime in the streets
News
November 15, 2012
The Right to Smell? Readers Respond to Our Cover Story
The city ignores a crisis of car-as-weapon crime in the streets
News
November 8, 2012
KPCC's Madeleine Brand Problems: Readers Respond
The city ignores a crisis of car-as-weapon crime in the streets
Blogs
November 5, 2012
Assembly District 50: Facing Tough Political Battle, Betsy Butler and Friends Point Fingers and Slam L.A. Weekly
We always know we're sounding the right notes on a story when a politician and her "friends" start crying foul in such an over-the-top way that it makes us laugh out loud. Such is the case with California Asseblywoman Betsy Butler, who's running for Assembly District 50 in a tight race against Santa ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2012
Has Your License Plate Been Tracked by SoCal Cops?
If you were surprised to learn from LA Weekly's report in June that police agencies across Southern California -- including the LAPD and the L.A. County Sheriff's Department -- were using license plate readers to track your moves, you weren't alone. The Wall Street Journal used the piece as "one of ... More >>
News
September 13, 2012
LAPD Spy Device Taps Your Cell Phone
StingRay is secretly used without warrants
Blogs
September 7, 2012
Why Antonio Villaraigosa, Barack Obama's Top Cheerleader, Has Been Deemed a 'Failure' in Los Angeles
With the Democratic National Convention now over, it's clear that President Barack Obama has chosen, of all people, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to be a high-profile cheerleader for his 2012 re-election campaign. That decision has caused a lot of head scratching in Los Angeles. He was, a ... More >>
Blogs
August 31, 2012
Sight, Graffiti Artist on Cover of LA Weekly, Suspended From His Job for Speaking Out Against L.A.'s War on Graffiti
The star of L.A. Weekly's current cover story -- a talented and gentle young man named Bryant Mangum, aka UPN member "Sight," fresh out of four years in state prison for scratching up the L.A. bus system as a teenager -- has been suspended from his job as a result of the story. As we revealed in "L ... More >>
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August 2, 2012
USC Grad Student Sues Over a Deep L.A. Secret: Who Got Rich Off Illegal Billboards?
The star of L.A. Weekly's current cover story -- a talented and gentle young man named Bryant Mangum, aka UPN member "Sight," fresh out of four years in state prison for scratching up the L.A. bus system as a teenager -- has been suspended from his job as a result of the story. As we revealed in "L ... More >>
Blogs
August 2, 2012
We Need Nominees for the LA Weekly Web Awards 2012!
Doing something neat online? Know of someone who is? We want to hear about it. We're putting together the LA Weekly Web Awards 2012, celebrating the best and brightest of digital Los Angeles.
News
June 14, 2012
Shelley Lubben's Pink Cross Aims to Rescue Sex Actresses: The Industry Wants Her to Shut Up
Doing something neat online? Know of someone who is? We want to hear about it. We're putting together the LA Weekly Web Awards 2012, celebrating the best and brightest of digital Los Angeles.
Blogs
May 22, 2012
LA Weekly Nominated for Over 20 National, Regional Journalism Awards: Read the Stories That Got Us Here
It's award season again for America's journalists, and LA Weekly is racking up the noms like a fat chick on Pinterest. On a national scale, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia just released its list of finalists for the annual AltWeeklies Awards, the most coveted alt-plaques around. At that Ju ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2012
L.A. Weekly People 2012: The Covers
The L.A. Weekly's People issue is our most eagerly anticipated of the year -- and, as much as it kills the wordsmiths around here, much of the anticipation is about the cover. Who's been chosen? And just how fabulous do they look? This year, we've got five covers, all shot by Kevin Scanlon and desi ... More >>
Blogs
May 16, 2012
The Manny Pacquiao Misquote: A Timeline
Salon's sometimes media critic Mary Elizabeth Williams just wagged her mighty finger at the rumor mill that has become online journalism -- a system that allowed Manny Pacquiao to be misquoted as saying gay men should be "put to death" yesterday. In truth, Pacquiao's original interviewer deceptively ... More >>
Blogs
May 15, 2012
Ask a Teen Raver: Our Teen Raver's Last Column
Kerah Rose is a 19-year-old college student from Riverside and EDM aficionado. Ask a Teen Raver appears on Tuesdays in West Coast Sound. Send your questions to teenraver@laweekly.com. Dear Teen Raver: Do you like any crusty old DJs like Sasha and Digweed and Paul Van Dyk and all them? Don't you thi ... More >>
News
May 10, 2012
Comment: Darling Dita
Kerah Rose is a 19-year-old college student from Riverside and EDM aficionado. Ask a Teen Raver appears on Tuesdays in West Coast Sound. Send your questions to teenraver@laweekly.com. Dear Teen Raver: Do you like any crusty old DJs like Sasha and Digweed and Paul Van Dyk and all them? Don't you thi ... More >>
News
May 10, 2012
L.A. Overspends by $27,378 an Hour
Two key perks: free gas and cars
News
May 3, 2012
Car Talk
Two key perks: free gas and cars
Blogs
April 27, 2012
From the Archives: LA Weekly's Original Coverage of the L.A. Riots May Surprise You
This week's print edition of LA Weekly is a "Then and Now" retrospective on the L.A. Riots -- a seven-page dive into the scenes of destruction across Los Angeles 20 years ago, and the state those places find themselves in today. All this reminiscing led us to wonder: What was the Weekly's immediate ... More >>
News
March 22, 2012
Bizarre Hermosa Cop vs. Motorist Case Crumbles
This week's print edition of LA Weekly is a "Then and Now" retrospective on the L.A. Riots -- a seven-page dive into the scenes of destruction across Los Angeles 20 years ago, and the state those places find themselves in today. All this reminiscing led us to wonder: What was the Weekly's immediate ... More >>
News
February 16, 2012
Mark Berndt's $40,000 Payoff
Arrested as sex pervert, former LAUSD teacher settles into retirement
News
February 16, 2012
Corruption at Los Angeles Building and Safety
FBI probes whether a Koreatown inspector did business via cash-stuffed envelopes
Blogs
February 10, 2012
L.A. Weekly Poetry: 'Silver: 4 Connotations' by Jena Ardell
LA Weekly is now taking poetry submissions. Interested in having your work posted right here on our arts blog? Send previously unpublished poems along with an image to go with it to poetry@laweekly.com. Check out today's poem after the jump.
Blogs
February 9, 2012
10 Condom Reviews for the Well-Endowed Man
See more from L.A. Weekly's Sex Issue: "Condoms Suck," "The Swingers' Story: How Two Married People Found True Love While Swapping Partners," "9 Best High-Tech Vibrators to Buy for Your Valentine, Reviewed by our Experts," "Twelve Tales of Sexual Mortification," and "UCLA vs. USC Sex Survey 2012: Wh ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2012
L.A. Redistricting: Eric Garcetti's District 13 Looks Like an Evil Squirrel
Simone WilsonWhile gazing at the recently proposed boundaries for L.A.'s 15 voting districts -- which is clearly what we like to do in our spare time -- we realized that the gerrymandered City Council District 13 is the spitting image of an evil squirrel. And so begins our (badly Photoshoppe ... More >>
News
January 26, 2012
We Open in Venice
Simone WilsonWhile gazing at the recently proposed boundaries for L.A.'s 15 voting districts -- which is clearly what we like to do in our spare time -- we realized that the gerrymandered City Council District 13 is the spitting image of an evil squirrel. And so begins our (badly Photoshoppe ... More >>
Blogs
January 17, 2012
The Gold Standard 2012: Save The Date, Start Fasting
Anne Fishbeinglasses at the 2011 Gold StandardIt's that time of year again. No, not movie award time -- note to foodists: you may want to bring a bag of macarons to The Artist, just to keep yourself awake -- but time to gear up for the 2012 Gold Standard, that glorious event in which Jonathan ... More >>
Blogs
January 10, 2012
Sexy Sex Writers Wanted
L.A. Weekly is seeking new contributors who are willing to write on the wild side. Our NSFW blog is recruiting freelancers of all stripes: essayists who can write about their own experiences, reporters who know how to track down the experts and punchy stylists who don't mind riffing about sex, even ... More >>
News
January 5, 2012
Buscaino vs. Furutani
L.A. City Council race is about preserving lifer politicians
Blogs
December 28, 2011
LA Weekly's Top 11 News Stories of 2011
And here we thought 2010 was a sexy one for Los Angeles. Our most popular news stories in 2011 make last year's fare -- alleged John Travolta sightings at a gay spa, Vegas broads who sell sex to make rent -- look wholesome by comparison. Los Angeles was a blur of nude pics and racy murders these la ... More >>
News
December 22, 2011
Kinde's Crimes
And here we thought 2010 was a sexy one for Los Angeles. Our most popular news stories in 2011 make last year's fare -- alleged John Travolta sightings at a gay spa, Vegas broads who sell sex to make rent -- look wholesome by comparison. Los Angeles was a blur of nude pics and racy murders these la ... More >>
Blogs
December 12, 2011
John Atterberry, Music Exec, Died Today Following Friday's Sunset & Vine Shooting Spree Caught on Video
Tyler Brehm on Facebook.Updated at the bottom with victim John Atterberry dying today. First posted at 11:12 a.m. Friday. A suspect was dead this morning after at least one LAPD officer responding to a "man-with-a-gun" call at the iconic intersection of Sunset and Vine opened fire, police to ... More >>
Blogs
December 5, 2011
Occupy L.A. Arrestees Say Bathrooms Off Limits For Hours so They Went on Buses: Sheriff's Department Looking Into it
Ted SoquiAllegations that Occupy L.A. detainees were not allowed to use the restroom for hours as they waited on buses headed to jails are being checked out this week by the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, says spokesman Steve Whitmore. Accusations of rough and inhumane treatment of Occupy ... More >>
News
December 1, 2011
Pulling the Trigger on Failing Schools
Parents aim for revolution — again
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