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The Bling Ring Guide to L.A.: A Google Map

See also: *The Bling Ring Book Chronicles the Calabasas Teens Who Stole From Celebrities *Cannes: Not Even the Gifted Emma Watson Can Raise The Bling Ring Sofia Coppola's new film The Bling Ring, opening in L.A. this Friday, June 14, tells the story of five teen bandits who stole approximately $3 m ... More >>

Watch L.A. Grow With This Time-Lapse Map

In 1984 Los Angeles hosted the Olympics, Ronald Reagan was president and crack and AIDS were just starting to do damage. So much has changed since then, from the gentrification of Echo Park and downtown to the development of an actual subway system, that it seems like eons ago. Google, with the hel ... More >>

Cocaine Vaccine Could Block High, Save Hollywood

Good news for Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen, and celebrity clubbers everywhere. Maybe. Researchers are getting closer to inventing an anti-cocaine vaccine that works on humans. The academics announced over the weekend that the concoction works on primates:

Drinking Too Much Makes You Stupid, But SoCal Researcher Has A Cure

We all know that drinking a lot makes you stupid. What we don't really know is if there's an antidote to this mental decline. Now a Southern California professor and her research partner from the University of Colorado at Boulder claim there just might be:

Lindsay Lohan's Rehab Deal Had To Work Around Coachella Parties, Report Says

Coachella is a must-see event on the annual Southern California party calendar. And nobody is more aware of said calendar, it seems, than one Lindsay Lohan. RadarOnline says the celeb wanted to ensure that her recent deal for locked-up rehab, which might or might not be in jeopardy, did not conflic ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan: 5 Easy Steps To Get Your Life Back On Track

Gosh, Lohan, you're so inept at life you can't even take your luck at not having to do serious time for two DUIs and a jewelry theft and just lay low and run with it. (As friend Lalo Alcaraz said via Facebook, "If Lindsay Lohan was brown she'd already be doing 4 years in Chino."). No. In one day yo ... More >>

Banned From The Grove: 6 Others Who Should Never Step Foot There

Following our story about the Grove shopping center banning Manny Pacquiao as a result of his recent anti-gay statements, people started asking, via Twitter: Since when is the Grove L.A.s moral compass? Fair question. In the land of porn, legal marijuana, and Charlie Sheen, some entity has to step ... More >>

Internet-Savvy Kids Will Someday Rule The World

Kids who grow up with iPads, iPhones and computers will not be the same as you and I. Oh no. They're going to be "quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who approach problems in a different way from their elders," according to a summary of the latest technol ... More >>

Kim Kardashian Reportedly Paid $600K to Party in Vegas on NYE

You know you've done something right, in life, when you find yourself sorting through half-million dollar offers just to show up and do a little V.I.P. shimmy at some cush Vegas hotspot on New Year's Eve, while the rest of the world panics over which miserable laser pit is worth a week's wages. The ... More >>

LA Weekly's Top 11 News Stories of 2011

And here we thought 2010 was a sexy one for Los Angeles. Our most popular news stories in 2011 make last year's fare -- alleged John Travolta sightings at a gay spa, Vegas broads who sell sex to make rent -- look wholesome by comparison. Los Angeles was a blur of nude pics and racy murders these la ... More >>

Jack Frost Nipping at L.A.'s Nose: Freezing Low Temps For Christmas Weekend

Elvgre​Okay, you freakin' out-of-town whiners complaining about how un-Christmasy this sunny weather has been can stop now. Because Jack Frost will be nipping at your nose. The National Weather Service this afternoon has issued an urgent weather advisory to warn you that there will literally ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Nude Playboy Photos Leak One Week Early: Oops.

Editor's note: The photos of Lindsay Lohan previously published in this post have been removed at the request of Playboy Enterprises International, Inc. ("Playboy"), which did not grant permission for use of its materials. Updated at the bottom: Hef decides to release the issue early after making ... More >>

Tyler Shields: Warhol or Wannabe?

Ominous glitz of a controversial celebrity photographer

Marijuana Could be Used to Treat Cocaine Addiction, According to Federal Research

A joint will fix you right up.​Are you one of those partiers who gets caught in this cycle: You're a little plastered, so you reach for the nearest line of cocaine. Then you're a little too up, so you reach for the nearest joint. And so on. (Coughs -- Lindsay Lohan. Joking). Maybe you're onto ... More >>

Cocaine Flows Through L.A. Despite Drug War, Border Beef Up

Max Sparber​If the celebrity nightlife scene seems as giddy as ever and your favorite party girl remains quite chatty, you know why: Cocaine is economical and plentiful in these here parts. And despite a build up of more than 40,000 of agents along the U.S.-Mexico border, bloody Latin America ... More >>

Mercedes To Open Teen Driving School in Los Angeles For The Rich And The Furious

MBUSASL65 AMG: Educational.​Not so sure that if we had a teen daughter we'd want her to learn how to drive behind the wheel of the same kind of car Lindsay Lohan ditched on the side of a local road en route to a DUI conviction and her much publicized legal woes. But if there's anyplace in Ame ... More >>

Naughty SoCal School Kids to be Tracked Via Mandatory GPS Devices

Austin H. KapfumvutiSchool girls, where are you?​You know certain people deserve permanent GPS trackers attacked to their body parts -- Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan. But school kids? Really? Yep. Only in O.C. The Register reports this week that seventh and eighth grade students with four ... More >>

Top 10 LA Weekly News Stories Of 2010: Sex, Drugs, One Absurdly Long Tongue And The 'Attempted Lynching' That Shook Los Angeles

Swam2dayWe get it: You like your news with a side of sexy​How better to determine the Top 10 news items of the year in our wonderfully fucked-up, always aggravating but certainly never boring City of Angels than by raw click count? The following stories may not be the most important of the y ... More >>

LAPD Has A DUI Checkpoint Waiting For You In South L.A. Tonight

daytondui.comDon't be that girl.​Dear party people: This is where you don't want to be Friday night: On Florence Avenue between South Broadway and South Main Street in South Los Angeles from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Because that's the site of another wonderful edition of the LAPD DUI checkpoint. And ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan's Alcohol Monitor Reportedly Goes Off During MTV Movie Awards After-Party

Lindsay LohanLohan states she made this photo illustration with her iPad.​After failing to show for a court appearance related to a 2007 DUI conviction, Lindsay Lohan was slapped with an alcohol-sniffing ankle bracelet. Now it looks like she might have to visit her favorite judge in Beverly Hi ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Ordered To Appear In Court After Alcohol Monitoring Device Goes Off

​Lindsay Lohan and her attorney were ordered to appear in Beverly Hills court Tuesday afternoon, ostensibly to address the matter of her court-ordered alcohol-monitoring device going off while she was reported at an MTV Movie Awards after-party Sunday night. The court appearance was scheduled ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Gets Alcohol-Monitoring Bracelet

​After flying into Los Angeles from France over the weekend actress Lindsay Lohan showed up for court Monday morning, where a judge slapped her with a bracelet that monitors alcohol use and mandated that she drink no booze and submit to weekly drug tests. Lohan was late to her Beverly Hills S ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Scheduled To Be In Court Monday

​Lindsay Lohan had a court hearing scheduled for Monday, but will she make it? TMZ reports that she was spotted partying in France despite having a court date in Los Angeles this week that she famously missed. Her attorney said she would scramble to get back to L.A. to face the judge in a prob ... More >>

Warrant Issued For Lindsay Lohan's Arrest

​A bench warrant for Lindsay Lohan's arrest was issued Thursday after she failed to check in at a Beverly Hills court as scheduled in connection with a 2007 plea deal for driving under the influence. The actress is in Cannes for the film festival there; her attorney told ABC7 that she couldn' ... More >>

Belgian Beer Festival At The Libary Alehouse Starts Tonight

Flickr user EaganjLindsay Lohan May Be Wearing One Of These Next Week​You can pop just about anything, any time, any place, and call it a beer festival these days. Then there's a Belgian beer festival. And this one is local, at the Library Alehouse -- if Santa Monica still counts as local in L ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan as porn star Linda Lovelace?

​According to E! Online, tabloid staple Lindsay Lohan--these days best known for getting denied entry from both nightclubs and movie sets--is set to star in Inferno, a biopic of Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace. I'll believe it when I see her swallow it.

Lindsay Lohan Banned From WeHo Club

​Actress Lindsay Lohan is 0 for 2 in her battles with West Hollywood club Trousdale, at least by our count. Last month she tweeted her displeasure with the venue and Los Angeles in general after club workers would not let her cut in front of a line to get in. Now Access Hollywood (via MSNBC) ... More >>

Nightranger: Twinkle, Kinkle

LA Weekly Begins New Embed Project With Lindsay Lohan

​In a bow to the groundbreaking Entryway project, in which two young, white "reporters" have embedded themselves with a Spanish-only immigrant couple in the Westlake District, LA Weekly has decided to probe how the real, hardworking underbelly of L.A. lives by embedding a two-reporter team of ... More >>

Is Lindsay Lohan On Death Watch?

​Google "lindsay lohan death watch" and you'll get about 652,000 results, including many dating back to last year. But with bizarre behavior, heavily powdered feet, a famous diss of her home base of L.A., and a worrisome pronouncement from cops, Lindsay Lohan's dizzy, after-hours spiral seems ... More >>

Is Lindsay Lohan Losing It? L.A. Cops Considered Psych Hold For Actress

​Hot on the heels of reports that Lindsay Lohan has dissed L.A. in favor of New York, some on the Los Angeles Police Department force who come into contact with her regularly are saying they're worried about the actress' strange behavior. Hating on L.A. is not a crime. But TMZ reports that s ... More >>

Weird Al Yankovic & Madonna? The Steamy Affair Revealed

Weird Al Yankovic & Madonna? The Steamy Affair Revealed

Is Lindsay Lohan Leaving L.A? Do You Care?

​After a horrible disaster in which Lindsay Lohan was told at a West Hollywood club Trousdale that should have to wait in line to enter like everyone else (we'll call this "Linegate"), Lohan indicated her great displeasure over the weekend with our fair metropolis, saying she prefers New York. ... More >>

Teen Suspect In Celeb Burglaries A Would-Be Reality Star

One four teenagers arrested in connection with a string of burglaries that breached the homes of local celebrities was working on a pilot for the E! network, according to the channel's news site. Alexis Neirs, 18, says she didn't do anything wrong besides choosing the wrong crowd with which to run. ... More >>

Teenage Women Arrested in Celebrity Burglaries

Los Angeles police announced that five people, four of them female teenagers, have been arrested in connection with a string of burglaries targeting "well-known celebrities" and other well-heeled citizens of the Hollywood Hills.LAPDA hoodie-sporting young woman is captured on a security camera outsi ... More >>

Real Life Robin Hoodie? Teen Charged In Audrina, Lohan Burglaries

Prosecutors today charged an 18-year-old Calabasas man with burglary not once but twice. It isn't clear if Nicholas Prugo stole from the rich to give to the poor (you know, those Range Rover drivers in the far West Valley), but the district attorney's office believes he targeted well-heeled stars Li ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Deputies Shoot Machete Man A young man said to be under the influence of drugs was discovered in a Rosemead back yard by sheriff's deputies. Ernesto Castaneda was shot when he threatened them with a machete and baseball bat. He later died. L.A. TimesMolina Slams Obama on Saenz According to Superviso ... More >>

Oh Nose They Didn't

Prediction: N*E*R*D’s Seeing Sounds will be the soundtrack to a very sexy summer. Okay, maybe just ours. In Search Of still shakes up our decks (usually in the car) before a night of hot-spot hoppin,’ and after downloading the new one today (legally via the label), we gotta say, we’re feeling ... More >>

I Know What You Did Last Summer, Again

What Hollywood should learn, but probably won’t, from the tent-pole season

Workin It

Happy Labor Day lovelies! Party hearty but don't drink and drive or you may be forced to rock one of these with your fiercest footwear. The shoes are from YSL and the anklet, well that's from SCRAM. Wanna know whose working the crazy combo and actually still looking pretty classy? (Unlike Lindsa ... More >>

Film Reviews: Bratz, El Cantante, Hot Rod and more

Also, this week's picks, Laura Smiles and This is England

Film Reviews: Arctic Tale, One to Another, Punk's Not Dead

Also this week's pick, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, Lindsay Lohan's I Know Who Killed Me and Who's Your Caddy?

Disney Live-Action Classics

The Parent Trap, That Darn Cat and other classics shake off their weak remakes

Lindsay Lohan Rules in Georgia Rule

The tabloid darling shines in Garry Marshall’s otherwise tepid troubled-teen tale

Girls, Girls, Girls

Film Reviews

For the week of May 12 - 18

Wicked Games

Nightranger

Less Sugar, More Spice

Mean Girls, though entertaining, could be meaner