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Jennifer Klausner: The Pedal Pusher

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here.The first time Jennifer Klausner spoke up on behalf of bikes was at a Santa Monica City Council meeting in the early '90s. It was also the first time the avid cyclist and star me ... More >>

Freeways and waterways

Paper-Mache Surfer Rides Los Angeles River -- Part of Ongoing Street-Art Project Downtown

A street-art duo consisting of New York transplant Calder Greenwood and an anonymous accomplice have been leaving little paper-mache presents all over downtown L.A. They started with the now-famous sunbathers, a family of mannequins who pitched their umbrella and sunned their limbs on a dirt plot a ... More >>

Meg Gill: I Wish They All Could Be California Beers

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Meg Gill is not a Bud Light girl. The Golden Road Brewing co-founder, 27, has had to correct this assumption time and again. The good-old-boy network within the beer industry ... More >>

CicLAvia Rules! How Bicyclists Made L.A. a Better Place

5 Most Influential L.A. Architectural Shifts in 2011

What were the five most influential shifts in Los Angeles' architectural realm this year? It turns out they're not about pretty pictures. Or at least that's the feedback we got when we took a poll to come up with this LA Weekly best of 2011 list. Instead of touting singular designs, the answers o ... More >>

The Five Most Underrated East L.A. Backyard Punk Bands Of All Time

Javier Cabral​See also: *East L.A. Backyard Punk Scene Rages On As Uninhibited and Intoxicated As Ever *The Five Best East L.A. Backyard Punk Bands *Reviewed: Stomp-Outz, The Lumberjacks, Who Gives A Fuck in a Backyard on West 79th St. Last week I wrote about movers and shakers on the curren ... More >>

The L.A. DWP Wants You to Drink Recycled Sewage -- and Pay $20 a Year For It

Stuck in Customs via FlickrDelish.​Updated with a sewage endorsement from the L.A. County Sanitation District. The California drought may be temporarily on hold, but that doesn't mean Department of Water and Power problem-solvers have stopped scheming up new ways to keep your taps gushing and ... More >>

Victor Felix: Eastside Stories

Victor Felix: Eastside Stories

What Happens When Six Canadian Musicians Canoe the L.A. River?

L.A. River.​Among the sounds the musicians of the Canadian band Twin heard while canoeing the Los Angeles River were chirping birds, lapping waves, rustling trees and the screeching of a police department helicopter siren. Musically speaking, the LAPD's Loud Hailer airborne siren leaves someth ... More >>

L.A. Road Closures, Wednesday Edition: Where Not To Drive

PHOTO BY TED SOQUI​I punish thee with hella traffic​Updated after the jump: The beginning of the end FLASH FOOD warnings until 6 p.m. (this includes downtown L.A.). Constantly updated with traffic conditions, evacuations and the best in emergency rescues. Originally posted at 8:30 a.m. ... More >>

New Housing Development Plotted At Intersection Of Three Major Freeways, Despite 'Black Lung' Health Risks

PHOTO BY TED SOQUIThe Avenue 26 project from the original story, which Mayor Villaraigosa called a model for family housing​The Weekly's cover story for March 6 -- "Black Lung Lofts," by Patrick Range McDonald -- revealed that the City of Los Angeles was allowing developers to build family hou ... More >>

L.A. Councilman Ed Reyes Wants You To Row-Row-Row Your Boat, Gently Down The L.A. River

Councilman Ed Reyes.​Los Angeles city Councilman Ed Reyes is proposing to decriminalize non-motorized boating in the Los Angeles River. A motion to direct city officials to work with county and federal authorities to study the issue was introduced to the full council Tuesday. The move follows ... More >>

Atwater Village Activists Fear L.A. Councilman Tom LaBonge's Push For High-Density Redevelopment

L.A. City Councilman Tom LaBonge​Friends of Atwater Village sounded the alarm on Sunday, with the neighborhood activist group writing on its news blog that L.A. City Councilman Tom LaBonge's controversial and "long-time dream" to redevelop a section of the community may finally come true. Mo ... More >>

Ross Lipman's Urban Decay

Film-restoration specialist brings his own works on city ruins to L.A. for the first time

L.A. Gang Tour Is A Popular Ride For Media

Alfred Lomas.​Organizers of that tour of Los Angeles gang turf and history we told you about previously have been inundated with requests from news media to go on the inaugural ride Jan. 16. So much so, in fact, that "if we accommodated all the requests from media to go on, the tour would have ... More >>

Riled Over California's High-Speed Rail

It sounded like such a good idea. But the highly disruptive routes anger many

Woodland Hills? Yes, Woodland Hills.

Theater Reviews: Cymbeline, Oleanna, The Little Foxes

Also, School House Rock Live! Too, Stranger and more

Heal the Bay's "Top Ten Beach Bummers"

Heal the Bay's 19th annual report card on 10 terrible shorelines is out -- and so, apparently, are the waters around Catalina Harbor, Cabrillo Beach and the Santa Monica Pier. All but two of the guilty beaches are located in Southern California, with Pismo Beach Pier and Campbell Cove State Park tak ... More >>

Moles La Tia: Beyond the Magnificent Seven

Sauced in East L.A.

Griffith Park Shenanigans

La Bonge's landmark designation leaves big loopholes for chains and hotels

America: I Want to Be Your Flag Hag!

What to do in L.A., July 4-10

Arroyo Seco Mural Saga Continues

Three months ago, County Supervisor Gloria Molina, through an emergency measure passed by the County Board of Supervisors, gave Friends of the Los Angeles River an ultimatum -- remove the mural at the Arroyo Seco in 90 days, or pay through the teeth. Ninety days have passed and there is still no ... More >>

Arroyo Art Project Whitewash Hits AP

Associated Press has a story on Yahoo News this morning about the permitted artwork along the Arroyo Seco that went up last year during the Meeting of Styles, which brought together graffiti artists from across the country. According to their reporting, "The county has given organizers until Wednes ... More >>

Game Over

Quakes, asteroids, mass extinction — when the end comes, will it come from below, above or within?

Urine Luck, L.A. Gangs!

Piddling programs — like teaching kids to install urinals — dominate Antonio’s plan to save the city’s youth

Goodbye, L.A. Gangs

If that smart Connie Rice is right, we just need to change society and spend $1 billion

Beaches of Shame

Why can’t we keep our oceans clean?

A Methane-charged Lawsuit

Playa foes urge a judge to rule permits invalid for massive development

Get Naked for Gaia or Go Clean a Stream

Hoopla's Earth Day Edition

Blight Fighter

Cecilia Estolano

Sketchers, Hair Wars and Courting Venus

Eastside Story

The day we caught the night stalker

Alligator Tales

A battered marsh’s unlikely hero

The Bridges of L.A. County

Let us now praise famous spans

Highs and Lows of L.A. Rail

A Creek Flows in Compton

In a city famous for gangs and hardcore rap, it’s hard to imagine how a heron soaring above you can improve your life

Citizen Forester

Andy Lipkis speaks for the trees. Now he wants to solve our water problems too.

Yet More Lists

Burning Blades

Riding high with the LAPD’s Air Support Division

A Scary Abundance of Water

Part 2

Open Doors

SCI-Arc rediscovers itself — and the city — downtown

Cash, Class and Cool

New books from David Brancaccio, Gerald Horne and Lewis MacAdams

Ecocide

Letters

People’s Podium

A protester’s guide to the Democratic convention

It’s Chinatown, Jake

The behind-closed-doors transformation of the downtown rail yards

Jeremiah Among the Palms

The lives and dark prophecies of Mike Davis