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Want to Feel Like a Celebrity? For $3,000, You Can Hire Adoring Fans

Nothing is what it seems on Rodeo Drive. On a spring day with a crisp breeze and a blue sky and clouds so perfectly fluffy they seem Photo­shopped, the famous British royal walking down the street isn't famous, or British, or royal. The beautiful girl on his arm isn't his lover. And the people b ... More >>

CBS' Scott Pelley Talks L.A. Viewers, the Young Adult Demographic, and How Social Media Is Changing Journalism

By Kate Stephanus Today marks the second anniversary of Scott Pelley's tenure as anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News. Since he's taken over, CBS Evening News ratings have improved significantly -- viewership is up 6 percent in Los Angeles alone. It's the only network news program to add ... More >>

L.A. County Meningitis Stats Raise More Questions -- County Only Recently Began Tracking Sexual Orientation

Updated at the bottom: Health experts say only some types of bacterial meningitis are spread person-to-person, these types are not as contagious as flu and are not sexually transmitted. The CDC says there is no increased risk among gays and no rationale for county officials to alter their approach. ... More >>

Edward "Apple" Nelson Is a Legendary L.A. Drummer and 70-Year-Old Yoga Enthusiast

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] You could mistake the funky drummer born Edward Nelson for a decade and a half younger than his 70 years. We're in the Highland Park offices of Now-Again ... More >>

Manti Te'o's Girlfriend Was A Hoax Straight Out Of SoCal

Of course the most bizarre story in sports in the new year has to run through Southern California ... more than once. The website Deadspin blew the lid off Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend Lennay Kekua, a dying college student-cum-grad who inspired his play in the school's near-ch ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Jeff Goldblum as a Writing Teacher

Starting this week, we will now include our listings of all ongoing shows, below the new reviews, to help make it easier for you to decide which shows to see this week.The writing of neurologist Oliver Sacks has inspired a new work at Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena -- Kathryn Walat's Creation. S ... More >>

Begley/Huffman in November, Roger Robinson in Fraternity, Brushing up Our Shakespeare, Plus All the Latest New Theater Reviews

Our critics were brushing up their Shakespeare over the weekend, with reviews of CymbelineJulius Caeser and Henry VI, Part I Jeff Stetson's 1987 retrospective drama on the effects of church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama is this week's Pick of the Week. For all the Latest New Theater Reviews, go to ... More >>

The Dirty Projectors' David Longstreth on Wearing a Haz-Mat Suit in the Largest Landfill in the Country

To listen to Swing Lo Magellan is to hear David Longstreth holding something back. Released on July 10 on Domino Records, Magellan is the seventh full-length album Longstreth has recorded as the Dirty Projectors, and the third since 2007's Rise Above, an idiosyncratic interpretation of a Black Fla ... More >>

Daniel Becerril's Victims Use Yelp to Fight Alleged Murderer and Con Man

Nyesha Arrington: The Island Girl

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. It's hard to imagine upon meeting her, but Nyesha Arrington -- warm, friendly, quick to laughter -- used to be a thrower. Pans, mostly. But though she still works 14 hours a da ... More >>

Big News! Tonight We're Premiering The New Video From The Internet, aka Odd Future's Syd the Kyd and Matt Martians

Star Foreman​See also: *Odd Future's Syd the Kyd Joins The Internet *Syd the Kyd On Odd Future, Her Sexuality And Why She Hates The Word "Lesbian" Last week's cover story focused on Syd the Kyd, Odd Future's DJ cum crooner. Her group with Matt Martians is called The Internet, and they recentl ... More >>

The Internet's "Fastlane" Video Premiere: Syd the Kyd Goes Natural Born Killers

​See also: *Odd Future's Syd the Kyd Joins The Internet *Syd the Kyd On Odd Future, Her Sexuality And Why She Hates The Word "Lesbian" It's here! Earlier today we announced we were premiering the new video "Fastlane" from The Internet -- aka Odd Future's Syd the Kyd and Matt Martians. You can ... More >>

Arrests Made in 2008 Long Beach Homeless Encampment Murders

Updated at the bottom: The suspects have been named by the Long Beach Police Department and are being linked to other crimes too. Originally posted January 18 at 3:45 p.m. By Taylor Freitas Long Beach police just announced that they've made an arrests related to the killing of five people in a ho ... More >>

Lawsuit: Roseanne Larsen, 45, Says L.A. Sheriff's Deputies Called Her an Old, Drug Addled Whore Before Falsely Arresting Her

​As everyone knows, cops are supposed to Protect & Serve. But, of course, it doesn't always happen that way. Sometimes things get a little nuts - words are said, accusations are made and civil liberties are thrown out the window. Such was the case, according to a woman from Lancaster, who s ... More >>

L.A. County's Private Property War

National Homebrew Competition L.A.-Area Finalists

JgarbeeHomebrews At Pacific Gravity's Annual Party​If you've heard a lot of homebrewer buzz at your neighborhood pub the past few weeks, it's likely because the National Homebrewers Conference (NHC) is being held in San Diego this year. Hoards of home brewers will be descending upon Southern C ... More >>

SoCal DMV Gets a Teeny Bit Less Awful With New Self-Serve Kiosks (Video, Locations)

Self-serve bypass, sucka!​If there's a hell on Earth, we're pretty sure it's the California Department of Motor Vehicles. Not only does a simple license/registration errand eat up the better part of an afternoon, but a cacophony of cranky employees and crankier babies makes it the worst aftern ... More >>

National Children's Study Seeks to Change Lives, But Will L.A. Politicians Take Notice?

Ted SoquiApartment building near a freeway in L.A.'s east side​Dr. Calvin Hobel, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, believes the National Children's Study has the opportunity to change lives. "If we can begin to improve pregnancy outcome," Hobel tells L.A. Weekly, e ... More >>

Monuments to Me

Legacy-obsessed L.A. politicians are covering buildings and parks with their names

Surprise: Rest Of The Shoo-Ins Win* California State Senate, Assembly And Congressional Districts In Election 2010, Banding Together For Mass Extermination Of Opponents

In a startling upset, Gerrymandering Congressman Howard Berman wins again​*OK, so we fibbed in the headline. The final results aren't in. But -- thanks to sleazy incumbent fixing of elections in California by the Berman brothers -- the new crop of California Senators, Assemblymen and Congressm ... More >>

ACLU Adds New Names In Their Lawsuit Against U.S. Government Challenging Their Policy Of Detaining Immigrants Indefinitely Without A Hearing

​The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California announced Tuesday that they're adding new plaintiffs to its lawsuit against the U.S. government, challenging the government's right to hold immigrants indefinitely while they wait for their cases to be heard in immigration hearings. T ... 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

EXCLUSIVE: First Interview with LA DJ Kutmah after His Controversial Deportation

​ Two months ago, news broke that the popular Dublab and Low End Theory-affiliated DJ, Justin "Kutmah" McNulty had been detained by Department of Homeland Security authorities for failing to honor a voluntary deportation notice that he had signed over a decade earlier. The arrest triggered a ... More >>

Golden State Funk

A new generation rediscovers the lost singles of California's "Right On" era. Plus: a real soul survivor speaks

We’re Jerkin’ (Starring the New Boyz, J-Hawk and Pink Dollaz)

Gangsta rap is over. Clownin’ and Krumpin’ too

Middle-Class Flight From San Fernando Valley

Will taxpayers who are leaving “America's suburb” behind doom L.A.?

Rider on the Storm: The Best and Worst of L.A. Buses, Subways and Light Rail

Scenic journeys to hell, on wheels

The Tortoise and the Tank Face Off at Fort Irwin

A battle in the desert over territory and resources, starring hard-shelled refugees, burger-loving insurgents and a couple of dazed road warriors

Metrolink Tries to Censor Bloggers

A paranoid transit agency spends public money threatening critical Web sites

Weird Ripper: Baseck Redefines Dance Music ...

... with two turntables and two Game Boys

Tia Maria Torres

Underdogs

Avenues of Death

How Highland Park’s Latino gang targets African-Americans

The Chilling Fields

Homeland’s ICE cools Cambodian’s hopes

Thinking Out of the Box

Inglewood’s obsession with Wal-Mart

Sam and His Pals

L.A. is a Wal-Mart town. Get used to it.

Memories of Blurry Donald

Domestic Targets

With war on, opposition to Fed’s pursuit of Iraqis and others wanes

Death Mansion

What’s really behind Gray Davis’ push for a 1,000-bed death row?

Passport to Hell

A man from Kuwait meets the War on Terror in Long Beach

Spiritual Living: God Is in the Peacocks

Butterfly Meets Bazooka

An L.A. Times community news reporter is fired for e-mailing a congressman

From There to Here: Starman Envy

Home Grown?

If anthrax is domestic, likely suspects abound

I, Voyeur: Hell is Other People

Strike Victims

L.A.’s largest adult school lost students — and maybe money

Ecstasy-in-a-Can

Forever Fabulous

Happy hours with Royce and Marilyn

Taming the Wild Trickle

A Gray-Water Adventure on the Mighty L.A.