La Jolla

5 SoCal Cities That Are Hell on Earth

From the beaches of La Jolla to the majestic mountains of the Angeles National Forest, from the Joshua trees of the Mojave desert to the gilded canyons off Mulholland Drive, Southern California is a beautiful place. But, frankly, it can also be hell on earth. If you've ever been stuck in traffic on ... More >>

Queer as Film

Now Open: Kosher Experience at Hancock Park Ralphs

With Passover less than a month away, it's appropriate to ponder the holiday's traditional four questions and to ask a fifth: Why is the Hancock Park Ralphs different from all other Ralphs? For starters, there's a mashgiach on site, something not offered in most grocery stores. A different kind of ... More >>

Mitt Romney's La Jolla Beach House Site of Tax Protest Tomorrow

Updated at the bottom with photos of the action. First posted at 12:19 p.m. Friday. It was only a matter of time before Southern California Democrats descended on Mitt Romney's beach home in La Jolla: It's so close and yet so close. An L.A. labor coalition is planning a protest there Saturday to m ... More >>

The Best EDM Shows to See in L.A. This Month

Wednesday, September 5th Digitalism Yost Theater Only Germans would call themselves "Digitalism." On the other hand, EDM production duo Jens Moelle and Ismail Tüfekçi did title their second album I Love You Dude. That duality between clinical zeroes-and-ones and hug-it-out-bro emotionalism is ref ... More >>

Martin Crimp's The City and How Obama Got His Groove Back Show the Art of Escaping Reality

Massive Shark Caught Off Marina Del Rey (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

In a scene reminiscent of Jaws, fishermen 15 miles off the coast had to tow in an estimated 900-pound shark Tuesday: It was too heavy to get on the boat. And it broke the scale. It all culminated Tuesday when the fishing boat docked at Del Rey Landing, according to Marina Del Rey Patch:

5 Scariest Shark Attacks in SoCal History

Now that we're officially in the thick of summer, you'd be a lousy Southern Californian if you didn't take your board down to the beach and get your water-sport on. (Even Lindsay Lohan's trying. Key word "trying.") But because we're part of the fear-mongering mainstream-media machine, and we can't ... More >>

Whose Silicon Beach Is It? San Diego Used the Term 2 Decades Before Google Came to Venice

Updated at the bottom: One tech czar says maybe all of Southern California's tech-biz scene should be called "Silicon Beach." First posted at 8:07 a.m. We get mad at New York for trying to surf, claiming that it invented graffiti art despite the fact that Latino gangs have been doing it here for ne ... More >>

We Don't Need No Playwright: How Ensemble-Created Work Is Changing L.A. Theater

Some Southern California Beaches Could be 4 Feet Underwater in 18 Years

Pull back, David Geffen, pull back! Whoever thought it was a good idea to build houses on the edge of the crashing surf in Malibu wasn't thinking long-term. (He was thinking hot tubs and bikinis, obviously. Or, in Geffen's case, infinity pools and man-thongs). A new report from Climate Central says ... More >>

7 Camp Pendleton Marines Killed in Helicopter Collision Over Arizona

Horror at the Yuma, Arizona training range: Two helicopters reportedly collided around 8 p.m. last night during a training exercise, killing seven marines from SoCal. Though reports originally indicated that the marines were based out of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, located just east of La Jol ... More >>

I Wish They All Could Be California Bands

Bob Simmons, Pioneer of the Modern Surfboard, Gets a New Exhibit

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Chuck Close, Aaron Curry, Richard Hawkins and a Guide to Suburban Survival

Courtesy David Kordansky GalleryA view of Aaron Curry and Richard Hawkins' collaboration​ The November/December gallery scene looks like it might be pretty exciting this year, starting with a surprising collaboration and crowd-pleasing paintings in Culver City. 5. Surviving the O.C. James Lu ... More >>

Restaurant Bookkeeper Booked for Stealing $3 Million

Images of Money / Flickr​In the end, crime didn't pay for Tara Moore. The former bookkeeper was booked yesterday on charges of embezzling $3 million from San Diego area restaurant Jack's La Jolla.

Tender Greens Opens in Santa Monica

Guzzle & NoshLab and polenta from Tender Greens (left); chef Rian Brandenburg (right).​Tender Greens is on an expansion kick. After opening a Pasadena location earlier this summer, the salad-based concept opened its newest outpost this past Saturday. It's in Santa Monica at the corner of 2nd a ... More >>

Great White Shark Population in SoCal Increasing? Research Says No

egotvonline.comSomebody's mad​Three shark sightings off the coast of San Diego in the last two weeks led to binocular-wielding tourists staking out areas like Mission Beach and La Jolla in hopes of catching a glimpse of a fishy dorsal fin. The Los Angeles Times reported in their story coverin ... More >>

Radiation From Japan Ended up in Southern California, UC San Diego Researchers Confirm

​Researchers at UC San Diego confirmed today that radiation from quake-and-tsunami-damaged Fukushima reactors reached Southern California. Though other tests have determined that minuscule amounts of nuclear material reached our shores, this one was trumpeted by USCD as "the first quantitativ ... More >>

Burger Lounge Comes to Sunset Strip

A burger from Burger Lounge (left); exterior of the chain's Sunset Strip location.​Checked in with Dean Loring, president and CEO of Burger Lounge, who tells us the first Los Angeles location of the San Diego-based chain should open some time in October. Situated on the Sunset Strip (not far ... More >>

Angenette Thomas, L.A. Probation Officer, Bilked Federal Gov Out of Unecessary Student Loans, Kept Cash, U.S. Attorney Says

zazzle.com​Talk about a naughty school girl. With handcuffs, no less. As if the L.A. County Probation Department doesn't have enough problems comes word that an officer allegedly applied for federal student aid she didn't appear to need and pocketed more than $135,000. According to the U.S. ... More >>

Hollywood Fringe Festival

Facebook to Establish Offices on Los Angeles' Westside: Do You Like?

Facebook plans to make more friends in L.A.​Facebook is coming to Los Angeles. "Like" or unfriend? The Palo Alto company has signed a letter of intent to lease 8,000- to 15,000-square-feet of office space at the Tishman Speyer complex in Playa Vista, according to the Los Angeles Business Jour ... More >>

Radioactive Surf Coming to Los Angeles From Japan? Maybe Not (Here's Why ...)

Radioactive waves?​So Japan is releasing 11,000 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific, the same ocean we happen to enjoy right here in Southern California. Should we be afraid? Should surfers cancel that planned weekend session? Will your bikini disintegrate in nuclear--tainted saltwater ... More >>

Nude Woman Rescued From Side of Southern California Cliff at Black's Beach

blacksbeach.orgNude fans of Black's Beach.​Black's Beach in San Diego is known for its laissez-faire attitude toward nudity. While it's not legal, being clothed is not enforced. We're told the La Jolla beach is a place for shriveled up old pervs who still think it's 1978. But for some reason, ... More >>

Q & A With Whist Chef Tony DiSalvo: Homemade Meatballs, Sicilian Roots Tales Of A Private Chef

ViceroyWhist's Executive Chef Tony DiSalvo​From W Hollywood's Delphine to The Montage's Scarpetta to The Four Seasons' Culina, transforming L.A.'s hotel restaurants from forgettable to five-star is seemingly becoming routine. Now Tony DiSalvo (Gramercy Tavern, Jean Georges, Jack's) is making h ... More >>

A New Chef at Petrossian Shunji's to Open on Melrose

Guzzle & NoshCaviar at Petrossian.​Now that Ben Bailly has left Petrossian to revamp the Culver City Fraiche (which just began serving Sunday brunch yesterday), the West Hollywood caviar hub has brought in Giselle Wellman as executive chef. Formerly of Bouchon Beverly Hills, Jack's La Jolla ... More >>

More Shark Sightings In Southern California: Warning Issued In La Jolla

​It's been a strange summer all around, what with record-low temperatures, spring-like conditions along the coast and several shark sightings. The latest great white shark sighting happened off La Jolla Shores in San Diego over the weekend. A lifeguard spotted one of the beasts with high-powe ... More >>

'Miss Cougar 2010:' Sherman Oaks' CC Perkinson Takes Cougar Crown

Courtesy of delmarscene.com​Sherman Oaks resident, CC Perkinson was crowned Miss Cougar 2010 Del Mar over the weekend , receiving over 1,600 votes via Twitter, online, and via texting. "You can learn from the older, you can learn from the younger and you can have such a great time, and that ... More >>

Former NACAR Driver Still Caught After Successfully Speeding Away From Authorities

KTLA News/O.C. Sheriff's DepartmentDeputies' on-board footage of the chase.​What we like about this story is that the guy actually got away. Authorities called off the chase after he sped south on the 5 freeway at a reported 140 miles an hour in a C5 Corvette. Forget it, the cops said, it's no ... More >>

Dat Boy Slim: World's Richest Man A (Gasp) ... Mexican

Carlos Slim Helu.​It is whispered among some Mexican-Americans that rich Mexicans don't tend to keep residences in the Los Angeles area, preferring San Diego (La Jolla, Bonita, Chula Vista) New York and, of course, Mexico City over America's most-Latino city: The region's deep history of anti- ... More >>

More Flooding in September: Ed Hardy Gets Wet

A day after a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power spokeswoman told the Weekly that all the subterranean water-system carnage that's happened over the week is "normal," another pipe burst, closing Melrose Boulevard near Fairfax Avenue and sending water rushing into a nearby -- gasp! -- Ed Hardy ... More >>

Senior Citizen With Oxygen Tank Robs Bank

Times must be really hard. A man described as 70- to 80-years-old walked into a San Diego bank today and robbed the place of an undisclosed amount of cash. He was actually seen with an oxygen tank and a tube running to his nose.FBIThis guy​ Witnesses, apparently, did not recount seeing a weap ... More >>

Another Pipe Bursts: Street Flooding 'Normal' in September, Says DWP

The oft-arid nature of this city belies a subterranean water world that sometimes flows like an El Nino storm in reverse. This, of course, is what happened Saturday when a 95-year-old water main ruptured on Cold Water Canyon Avenue near Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, sending cars adrift, flooding ... More >>

The Big Sleep: Raymond Chandler, 50 Years Dead

Writer who gave L.A. a lasting identity took the language of the street and made it sing

Gaza on Wilshire: Part 2

Today two implacable foes will fight over a barren strip of land that time seems to have forgotten. That would be, of course, the stretch of Wilshire Boulevard that is home to the Israeli Consulate, where pro-Palestinian demonstrators will protest the Jewish state's invasion of Gaza -- and where, ac ... More >>

A Game of Charade

Hoop of L.A.

What to do in L.A., October 3-9

The World on Fire

Something wicked this way will come again

Poet In the Midst

The Island of Jorge Hank Rhon

They call him a criminal, a murderer and the worst mayor in Tijuana history. In search of Genghis Hank.

At the Museums

Selected highlights of the fall and winter season

Snakebites

Gummy Boobs

Upsetting the Record Straight

Bare Beyond the Bone

A striptease at Black’s Beach

The Sound of Silence

Polka Dot Uptown Girl

Making it

If Not Now, Wha’?

Contraptions and gizmos

Frigid Eyre, Cool Duke

The bizarre alchemy of musicals