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March 13, 2013
Richard Bradford, Murder Parolee, Ran Drug Rehab Center Endorsed By Mayor Villaraigosa
A murder convict on parole who's been off the radar since 1980 was arrested in Monrovia over the weekend, state officials announced today. And what has Richard Bradford been up to? According to the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), he's been running "a high-end drug rehabil ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2013
Hash-Oil Blast In San Diego Investigated By DEA; 3rd Weed Explosion In SoCal This Month
For the third time this month by our count, suspects allegedly extracting hash or honey oil from marijuana set off an explosion. The latest blast happened at the Heritage Inn near SeaWorld in San Diego yesterday. Police told the Weekly three people in a room where hash oil was being extracted were ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2013
Duane Van Tuinen: L.A. Times Subscriber List Used For $1 Mil Burglary Ring, Cops Say
It all started with a call of a suicidal woman in Monrovia. But when cops arrived, instead of a basket case, they found "a large cache of cameras and other electronics," according to Monrovia police. That led them to sniff around and obtain search warrants that included a storage facility cops say ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2013
West Hollywood Apartment Blast Blamed On Marijuana Honey Oil Extraction
For the second time this month in Southern California, authorities say suspects extracting "honey oil" from marijuana sparked an explosive blaze. This one happened over the weekend in the 1200 block of North Havenhurst Drive in West Hollywood, according to L.A. County Fire officials. Rescuers resp ... More >>
Blogs
January 7, 2013
Marijuana Honey Oil Process Sparks Explosion, With 3 Burned In Monrovia, Authorities Say
When experts warn, don't try this at home, they really mean it. The latest example: Three men were badly burned in Monrovia over the weekend after, cops say, they tried and failed to convert marijuana into a potent and syrupy form of hash known as honey oil. The trio was using butane, authorities ... More >>
Blogs
August 14, 2012
What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Local Gravenstein Apples Your Two Week Window
If the Red Delicious apple was hard to grow and had at most a three week harvest window, we safely predict the farmers market cognoscenti would be making at-dawn market runs to the one or two vendors who offered it -- to buy it by the crate. That rush-and-grab mantle currently belongs to the Graven ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2012
What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Kyoho Grapes
Summer is waning, but when we say this most people point us to the markets and say, woah, slow down. Peaches are at their peak, corn is sweet and the melons perfume a whole block. The autumnal equinox is still months away -- September 22 -- and we haven't even hit August yet. It's because the ... More >>
Blogs
July 9, 2012
Q & A With Jelly Belly Inventor David Klein: On Getting His Jelly Belly Due, His New Line of Jelly Beans The Astro Pop Connection
If you've never heard of local candy maker David Klein, it's likely because the inventor of the Jelly Belly sold the rights the formula a few unfortunate years too soon -- perhaps not surprising for a guy who signs emails with dangling consonants ("thankssssssssssss"), talks like he is on a constant ... More >>
Blogs
May 29, 2012
VIDEO: Bear Takes Memorial-Day Dip in Posh Monrovia Swimming Pool
Is a "Rise of the Planet of the Black Bears" playing out in northeast Los Angeles County? First there was Glendale bear, a strapping young dude who yielded for no pedestrian texter in his hunt for the mighty meatball. Then came Altadena bear, a mother of two who chose a residential sidewalk tree fo ... More >>
Eat+Drink
May 10, 2012
The Original Food Trucks
Loncheras are riding the food truck tidal wave
Blogs
April 9, 2012
Shanghai Confusion Meat: Adventures in Canned Ham at Shanghai Dumpling House in Monrovia
One of the great things about the abundance of Chinese restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley comes in discovering unique menu items. These can range from hard-to-find distinctive regional dishes to the mundane that simply got lost in translation. When it came to our attention that a restaurant w ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2012
Trader Joe's Cookie Butter, aka Speculoos, is Back!
ProfessorSalt.comTrader Joe's Cookie Butter, before they ran out last yearIf you've never experienced the creamy, crackalicious wonder that is Trader Joe's Cookie Butter, it might be because the shipment they imported late last year caught on like wildfire. They've been sold out since before ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2012
Buy This Now: Apple Wood From Ha's Apple Farm
It's that lateral-management time of year. But unless you're an apple or pear farmer, this is about as important to you as doing your taxes early. All you need to know is that proper lateral management ensures efficient fruit production, focusing a tree's energy where it counts -- building strong li ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2012
Sundance Film Festival 2012: The Ambassador, and Experimental Methodology
Mads Brugger is sort of the VICE magazine version of Sasha Baron Cohen, as financed by Lars Von Trier. His last film was The Red Chapel, an exercise in hidden camera comedy with unusual socio-political stakes, which I put on my top 10 list for 2010. In Chapel, Danish journalist Brugger posed as th ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2011
Rashad Varma, Young Aspiring Comic, Jumps to Death off Historic Pasadena 'Suicide Bridge'
weirdca.comThe Colorado Street Suicide BridgeA bridge in Pasadena infamous for hosting over 100 suicides saw another jumper last Saturday. The L.A. County Coroner's Office identifies him today as 25-year-old Rashad Varma of Montrose, originally from India. Friends on his Facebook memorial pa ... More >>
Blogs
October 21, 2011
Trader Joe's to See Angry Farm Workers March on Headquarters: They Want Better Wages, Improved Conditions in Fields
Tis the season of protest. Some angry people will be occupying Trader Joe's today, and not just for the frozen tamales. Unfortunately, this is not a case of occupiers carbo-loading for winter. Rather farm workers are pissed at Trader Joe's for failing to join a movement that seeks to improve ... More >>
Blogs
October 11, 2011
Occupy L.A. Graphic Design: Six Awesome Signs From the Downtown Protest
Last weekend, along with thousands of other cyclists, I clambered off my bicycle at the intersection of 1st and Main, and joined the crowds surging through the Occupy Los Angeles campsite in a public park off City Hall. Occupy L.A. was just one stop on the CicLAvia route, so demonstrators, perhaps ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2011
Lawsuit: Hsinlei Shao Says Monrovia Cop Beat Her Into Homelessness
This is one of those it-seriously-sucks-to-be-you kind of stories. It's about a woman, roughly 5' 2" and 115 pounds, who was trying to deliver time-sensitive blood samples to a medical facility, when she got pulled over by a Monrovia cop. And let's just say, the woman never did deliver those bl ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2011
Is Al Qaeda Planning Terrorist Attack on AeroVironment Inc? Here's the L.A. County Firm's 5 Coolest Spy Drones
strangecosmos.coWind turbines at the AeroVironment facility in Monrovia. Also pretty cool.Reports abound this morning of a possible Al Qaeda attack plan against 11 officials at L.A. County's own AeroVironment Inc., a top drone manufacturer in the U.S. War on Terror. Employees of the Monrovia ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2011
The USDA's New Food Desert Locator: Map Your Bad Food Day
Screenshot of Food Desert Locator map of area food deserts, in pink If you live in Los Angeles, you may sometimes feel like you're in a food desert. It is often maddeningly hot. You may find yourself bereft of food trucks, or good ones at any rate. You may be reading this right now from the o ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2011
Kevin Wolfe Pochter -- Hiker Accused of Killing Old Friend at L.A. Forest Campground -- Leads Sheriff on 'Armed and Dangerous' Manhunt
Los Angeles County Sheriff's DepartmentSuspected friend-killer Kevin Pochter: On the loose in the San Gabriel MountainsThis guy's good. After allegedly murdering "lifelong friend" Dean Ron Albert, 53, deep in the Angeles National Forest on Thursday, Huntington Beach resident Kevin Wolfe Pocht ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2011
Tim Hetherington, Director of Oscar-Nominated War Doc 'Restrepo,' Killed in Libya
Tim Hetherington on the set of "Restrepo"Update: Chris Hondros took these stunning photographs just hours before he died. More after the jump. Tim Hetherington, a wartime photographer and documentary filmmaker -- along with his associate, Chris Hondros, also a war photojournalist -- were kil ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2011
Greenbar Collective's Bitters Challenge: Enter Your Bitters, Win Your Own Brand
Greenbar CollectiveNeed a little spare cocktail change? If you've got a good bitters recipe, Greenbar Collective wants to (potentially) pay you for it. There is, of course, plenty of fine print. You must be a bartender - one with an actual job in the hospitality industry - and you must live i ... More >>
Columns
January 20, 2011
Not Saving the Oaks
Greenbar CollectiveNeed a little spare cocktail change? If you've got a good bitters recipe, Greenbar Collective wants to (potentially) pay you for it. There is, of course, plenty of fine print. You must be a bartender - one with an actual job in the hospitality industry - and you must live i ... More >>
Blogs
January 7, 2011
Kid Censorship Crackdown Spreads To L.A. County: Monrovia School Superintendent Bans Students From Performing 'Rent'
Don't let "Rent" happen to your kids: Here, Disney star Vanessa Hudgens falls prey to its deviant powersThere seems to be a recent spike in adults trying to keep Gen Y from all things sexy. First we saw Huckleberry Finn butchered a few days ago by NewSouth Books, who thinks replacing "nigger" ... More >>
Stage
December 30, 2010
THEATER REVIEW: ROCK WITH YOU: THE KING OF POP, LATIN STYLE
Don't let "Rent" happen to your kids: Here, Disney star Vanessa Hudgens falls prey to its deviant powersThere seems to be a recent spike in adults trying to keep Gen Y from all things sexy. First we saw Huckleberry Finn butchered a few days ago by NewSouth Books, who thinks replacing "nigger" ... More >>
Blogs
December 27, 2010
Stage Raw: Rock With You
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEW (see below)STAGE FEATURE on Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset LimitedNEW REVIEW GO ROCK WITH YOU: THE KING OF POP, LATIN STYLE For those of us brought up to giggle at Michael Jackson's foibles, from his holding his son over a balcony by his arms t ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2010
Cisneros Siblings Plead Not Guilty In Connection With USC-UCLA Brawl, Stabbings
KTLA NewsNot guilty pleas were entered in connection with last week's USC-UCLA brawl.That outbreak of ugly violence before last weekend's big USC-UCLA game was a family affair, at least partly, authorities allege. While the father of the Cisneros clan was arrested and released in connection ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2010
Two Stabbed In UCLA-USC Melee In Pasadena Rose Bowl Parking Lot Ahead Of Football Game
Fans went gangsta at the Rose Bowl.Updates after the jump with names of three additional suspect-siblings arrested (not four) and one suspect being released. See a post with video of the brawl here. First posted at 8:31 p.m. Saturday. Each year we wonder when things are going to go too far. ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2010
Sweeps in Los Angeles Suburbs Create Fear, say Anti-Police Brutality Activists
San Gabriel Valley TribuneWilmington raids net 41 suspects Probation violators received some unexpected guests on Thursday after county probation officers, along with state and federal agents, descended upon multiple locations throughout Covina, Glendale, Monrovia, Pasadena and San Gabriel, ... More >>
Eat+Drink
October 21, 2010
Shanghai Bamboo House: Ham w/ Yam
And other surprising fare
News
September 23, 2010
$9 Billion Subway-to-Sea Rip-off
War of words erupts when data show tiny ridership won't help jammed L.A. or Westside
Calendar
August 19, 2010
Free Man of Color
War of words erupts when data show tiny ridership won't help jammed L.A. or Westside
Blogs
August 16, 2010
Bar Code Bitters: New Local Formula For The Classic
greenbar.bizYour Bartender's Headshot, In BittersAt last year's Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans, Monrovia-based spirits company Greenbar Collective, formerly known as Modern Spirits, invited numerous bartenders to submit their own bitters formula to a panel of judges (which included the ... More >>
Blogs
August 16, 2010
Stage Raw: Free Man of Color
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS STAGE FEATURE on Opus, at the Fountain TheatreNEW REVIEW GO FREE MAN OF COLOR Photo by Michael LamontA young, well-spoken and highly educated black man is tapped to become the leader of a nation. But it's not who you think. The year is 1828, the ... More >>
Film+TV
June 3, 2010
Movie Reviews: Living in Emergency, Micmacs, The Painter Sam Francis
Also, Agora, Burzynski, Ondine and more
Blogs
May 13, 2010
Monrovia Track Coach Wins League Title, Loses PR War
Taylor Block (SI.com)Robin Laird, South Pas track starAfter 30 years coaching track, Monrovia High's Mike Knowles has learned a thing or two about the rule book.So when he spotted a friendship bracelet on the wrist of South Pasadena's top pole vaulter, Robin Laird, he sprang into action. Citing a ... More >>
Calendar
October 1, 2009
Eclipsed
Taylor Block (SI.com)Robin Laird, South Pas track starAfter 30 years coaching track, Monrovia High's Mike Knowles has learned a thing or two about the rule book.So when he spotted a friendship bracelet on the wrist of South Pasadena's top pole vaulter, Robin Laird, he sprang into action. Citing a ... More >>
Blogs
August 21, 2009
Stage Raw: West
The LATEST NEW REVIEWS are embedded in this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the current STAGE FEATURE on Adeline's Play at the PowerhouseECLIPSED in rehearsalBahni Turpin and Miriam F. Glover in rehearsals for the West Coast premiere of Danai Guria's Eclipsed, playing September 13 ... More >>
Music
January 1, 2009
Brick's Picks: Bobby Matos at Pershing Square, Palm Wine Boys at Cerritos Center
Jazz in L.A., January 2-8
Film+TV
November 13, 2008
Film Reviews: Antarctica, The First Basket
Plus, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, The Alphabet Killer and more
Eat+Drink
July 24, 2008
Canadian Club: Dusty's Draws in Poutine Heads
Plus, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, The Alphabet Killer and more
Eat+Drink
February 9, 2006
Where to Eat Now: New to the List
Plus, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, The Alphabet Killer and more
Eat+Drink
March 24, 2005
Ask Mr. Gold
Plus, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, The Alphabet Killer and more
News
December 25, 2003
6 Photographs by Teun Voeten in Iraq, the Gaza Strip and Liberia
Plus, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, The Alphabet Killer and more
News
November 27, 2003
Stop Buggering Oscar
A five-point plan for intervention � no one gets arrested
Columns
July 17, 2003
Children of Paradise
A five-point plan for intervention � no one gets arrested
Eat+Drink
November 8, 2001
Ambitious … Pretentious … but Pretty Good Cobbler
Restaurant Halie tries hard
Film+TV
October 22, 1998
Stranger, in a Strange Land
Dylan's visions, Lequizamo's Freak, Debbie Reynolds among the demons, Africans in America
Eat+Drink
February 19, 1998
Creme Brulee
And the sweetness of selling out
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