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Themed Runs, Obstacle Courses Taking Over Jogging Events

Apparently just doing it isn't enough for you people. Nope. Putting on your New Balance shoes and heading for the tape is a bore. And so a revolution is afoot: Themed runs and obstacle-course events are taking over the 5k, 10k, and marathon scenes. You hungover hipsters apparently need the extra st ... More >>

Video Gamers Have Fast Hands, Sharp Eyes, Study Says

As the E3 Expo opened at the Convention Center this week, bringing geeks far and wide to see the latest in video games and gaming hardware, a new study says players have skills other than eating Cheetos and repelling real-life love interests. According to a summary of research from Duke University' ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Why I Write

[Update] How L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Spent His 12-Hour Days in 2012

Updated below with Villaraigosa responding to the Weekly's coverage, saying "I live in a bubble, and I love that bubble." Please see today's L.A. Weekly cover story, "L.A. Mayor With Baggage Seeks Job: Antonio Villaraigosa's quest for Wall Street, Washington and wealth," and check out the mayor's ... More >>

Antonio Villaraigosa's Quest for Wall Street, Washington and Wealth

5 Los Angeles Rental Neighborhoods Under The Radar

With average rent in Venice reaching more than $2,800 according to one report, it's getting hard to find affordable housing in L.A. that hasn't lost its soul. Lucky for us there's nearly 500 square miles of space in the city alone, so there's always an up-and-coming community just around the corner ... More >>

Victoria Justice: The Kids' Choice

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. "I think you go right here," says Victoria Justice, guiding a reporter toward her house in the Encino Hills, overlooking the mountains and just down the street from Martin Lawr ... More >>

5 Hottest Rental Neighborhoods in Los Angeles

Competition for apartments and rental homes in this town is fierce. At least according to the online rental marketplace Lovely, which crunched the numbers for L.A. recently. It found that a mix of upscale and hipster neighborhoods made up Los Angeles' most-competitive areas for people seeking to re ... More >>

Marijuana Shops Would Survive If Poll That Has Measure F Winning Is Accurate. It Isn't.

A poll touted over the weekend shows a measure that would allow most L.A. city marijuana dispensaries to keep operating is winning among voters. One that would shut down most pot shops is losing. Good news, perhaps, for the marijuana nation. The poll, however, has flaws that even backers of the pro ... More >>

5 Ways To Solve L.A. Traffic, Including Immigrant Driver's Ed

See also: Traffic Experts Crap All Over Eric Garcetti's Million-Dollar Gridlock Prize. Once again L.A. is the traffic nightmare capital of America, and much of that can be blamed on our own damn selves. We chose to live in a city with limited public transportation, far-out suburbs and already-stuff ... More >>

Newspaper Delivery Ladies Shot By LAPD In Dorner Manhunt See $4.2 Mil Settlement

So you're driving down the street delivering newspapers and all of a sudden police open fire on you without much if any warning. You're wounded and your delivery truck is finished. What's your damage? You get a new truck, sure. But there's a lot of medical treatment and emotional stress. Here's wha ... More >>

Porn Pulls Out Of L.A.

After you, the L.A. County voter, decided in November to mandate condom use in local porn production, the adult industry has nearly pulled out of town, so to speak. FilmLA, which processes permits for the city and county of Los Angeles, says it has received only two adult film applications this yea ... More >>

Lucky to Be Alive

A couple's devastating encounter with Lee Baca's COPS HIT deputies

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 >>

99 Restaurants and a New L.A. Times Owner: Readers Weigh In

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Class Warfare: Metro Rides and Homelessness Have Readers Talking

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 >>

Army Corps' Eco-Disaster in Valley

Army Corps homophobia may have prompted destruction of 40 acres of habitat

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

L.A.'s Bloody Hit-and-Run Epidemic

The city ignores a crisis of car-as-weapon crime in the streets

The Right to Smell? Readers Respond to Our Cover Story

KPCC's Madeleine Brand Problems: Readers Respond

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 >>

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 >>

LAPD Spy Device Taps Your Cell Phone

StingRay is secretly used without warrants

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 >>

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 >>

USC Grad Student Sues Over a Deep L.A. Secret: Who Got Rich Off Illegal Billboards?

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.

Shelley Lubben's Pink Cross Aims to Rescue Sex Actresses: The Industry Wants Her to Shut Up

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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L.A. Overspends by $27,378 an Hour

Two key perks: free gas and cars

Car Talk

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 >>

Bizarre Hermosa Cop vs. Motorist Case Crumbles

Corruption at Los Angeles Building and Safety

FBI probes whether a Koreatown inspector did business via cash-stuffed envelopes