Lake Elsinore

BBQ Contest at Santa Anita Racetrack TOMORROW!

Horse racing and competition barbecue make for strange bedfellows once again at Santa Anita Park tomorrow. The Win, Place and BBQ Showdown brings back over thirty top BBQ teams to the grassy infield, where you can lose your shirt on the ponies, then lament your gambling losses with samples of smoky, ... More >>

Marijuana Crackdown in Southern California as Feds Move to Take Assets of Four Dispensaries

Bad times for pot shops in Southern California. Dispensary operators in Long Beach were recently convicted for ... selling weed. L.A. City Hall's move to ban them outright is gaining momentum. And today the U.S. Attorney's Office announced that it's going to take everything that belongs to targeted ... More >>

NASA Sting: Riverside Woman Tries to Sell 'Moon Rock' to Feds for $1.7M

Los Angeles Times​What dork in his right mind would offer $1.7 million for a big drab hunk of moon, you ask? Turns out the feds will -- but a Riverside woman found out the hard way, via cutty deal at a desolate Lake Elsinore diner, that they're not so much good for their money. The undercover ... More >>

Garrie Aspengren Jr., Hallucinating, Purposely Hit Car Head-On, Stabbed Driver, Then Injured Self With a Drill, Riverside Authorities Say

Jack Nicholson in 'The Shining.'​A man who was hallucinating drove head-on into a car, stabbed the driver, attempted to stab the passenger and then stabbed himself, Riverside County sheriff's officials said. It happened Sunday about 11:55 a.m. in the 32200 block of Safflower St. in French Val ... More >>

Forever Scared: Ten Years After Winning His Freedom, Herman Atkins Still Fears That He Will Again Be Convicted of a Crime He Did Not Commit

Rock Picks: Willie Nelson, Maude Maggart, Two Tears

Also, Cold Cave, Ceci Bastida, Califone, and others

Bob Dylan at the Palladium, Night Two (Collect Them All!)

Click here to read Falling James' review of Dylan's first of three shows at the Palladium. Like a snowflake, each Bob Dylan concert is special. No two are alike, in part because he changes the set list at every show. At Wednesday's gig, the second of three consecutive nights in Hollywood this week ... More >>

Rock Picks: Steve Earle, Polvo, These Arms Are Snakes, Correatown

Also, Bob Dylan & His Band, Motorhead, John Doe & Exene Cervenka and others

This Week in LA Weekly: Jerkin', Sunn 0))), Amanda Blank, LA Ladies Choir, More

This week's hard copy of the LA Weekly is packed with useful music information, news, profiles, and music picks (if we do say so ourselves). Haven't gotten around to grabbing one yet? Here's what you'll see: Star ForemanLA Ladies Choir​ Jeff Weiss has written an in-the-trenches feature on th ... More >>

Sylmar fire in Los Angeles could become a "siege"

NOTE: This post is about the Sylmar fire in October of 2008. For news on the Sylmar fire of November 15, 2008, click here. Note: 10:41 a.m. update regarding the Martin Mars amphibious craft capable of dropping thermogel. With a wall of fire hundreds of feet long in places, wind-driven smoke billow ... More >>

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