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5 Musical Comedy Things to Do in L.A. This Week

See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week If you need a laugh to start your weekend, or if you want to cool down from your week with some music, L.A. has you covered. This week, Angelenos can take in some jazz, enjoy some Real ... More >>

Showdown at the OK Promenade

L.A. Parking Wars: Westchester Residents vs. Loyola Marymount over $670 Student Parking Fee

By Kevin O'Keeffe A tense gathering is expected tonight of Westchester neighborhood leaders after a battle between residents and Loyola Marymount University officials came to full boil during the school's undergraduate commencement exercises this month. On graduation day, students and families st ... More >>

L.A. Voters Favor Shutting Down Most Marijuana Dispensaries

Do you really want to see 90 percent of the marijuana dispensaries in the city close down? Apparently you do. An internal poll by the folks backing May ballot Measure D, which would do just that, shows that likely voters favor the proposed city law by a rate of 52 percent. Opponents of the would-be ... More >>

Shalom, Salaam

Will Cardinal Roger Mahony Face Charges for Sex Abuse Cover Up? SNAP says Yes

On the front page of this morning's Los Angeles Times, the paper notes that several legal experts suspect Cardinal Roger Mahony will not face criminal charges for covering up clergy sex abuse due to the statute of limitations. One advocacy group says those experts have it wrong. "We aren't police, ... More >>

Gentlemen, Start Your Soapbox

Top 10 Marijuana News Stories For 2012, LA Weekly-Style

If you like drama and marijuana together, then 2012 was the year for you: It was jam-packed with topsy-turvy cannabis news. As the Obama administration cracked down on medical marijuana dispensaries in California, the president himself said pot users in marijuana-legal states shouldn't be prosecut ... More >>

Eric Garcetti Has Narrow Lead Over Wendy Greuel In New Private Poll

We were pretty skeptical when Fernando Guerra of Loyola Marymount University put out an "exit poll" showing Eric Garcetti with a lead over Wendy Greuel in the race for L.A. mayor. Guerra did not screen out unlikely voters, which made the results -- in our view -- unreliable.But now we have anot ... More >>

Medical Marijuana Business Supported By Majority Of L.A. City Voters

It looks like two initiatives to regulate pot shops in L.A. are marching toward the March city ballot. (Retailers appear to be trying to regulate themselves before the L.A. City Council tries to do so ... again). The folks at Loyola Marymount University's Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the St ... More >>

Koreatown: America's Hippest Neighborhood

Reality show K-Town unmasks the liquid rituals fueling Los Angeles' Koreatown neighborhood

Porn's Condom Law Rejected By Male Voters

Given an avalanche of endorsements for a no vote on measure B, the controversial initiative that mandates condom use for porn production in L.A. county, we were surprised by how easily it passed Tuesday (with nearly 56 percent approval). But if you break it down, it might have been a little closer ... More >>

The Ballad of Ricardo Flores Magon, Plus All the Latest New Theater Reviews

Hosted by Rubén Martínez and Raquel Gutiérrez, Loyola Marymount University, KCET Community Television and VARIEDADES present The Ballad of Ricardo Flores Magón at the Ford Amphitheatre September 28, 2012, 8 p.m., 2580 Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood. The show features Quetzal, augmented by members of ... More >>

Motoi Yamamoto Makes Enormous Art Installations Entirely of Salt

Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto loves the same thing everyone else loves about Los Angeles. "The weather is great," he said eagerly through an interpreter. But for Yamamoto the dry, temperate climate isn't just good for year-round tomatoes and brunching on patios in the winter -- it's ideal for his ... More >>

Q & A with Henry and Adriana Nguyen of Monkish Brewing Co.: Opening a Brewery in L.A., Feminist Beer Gambling in Vegas

Monkish Brewing Co. feels like the best kept beer secret of the South Bay. Located in a modest business park along Western Avenue in Torrance, you won't find the usual bells and whistles that alert you to the presence of fine, craft beer: The beer is speaking for itself. Open just over three months, ... More >>

Those Shepard Fairey-Designed MCA Billboards? Here's How They Came to Be

See also: Adam Yauch, RIP: A Life in Photos Shortly after the death of Beastie Boy MCA in early May, a billboard appeared on an industrial stretch of Venice; designed by Brooklyn artist Kaves, it was mostly black and white with a Beastie Boys photo and lyric. (It has since moved to Sunset.) This we ... More >>

Occupy L.A. Survey: Highly Educated White Males Are Most Supportive of Movement

The classic conservative sneer about Occupy Wall Street (and its L.A. faction) is that the protester base is primarily white hipsters/hippies too lazy to get a job. And a new survey out of Loyola Marymount University doesn't exactly contradict the stereotype. Based on input from 1,605 Los Angeles r ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Food: New Hires and Big (Exciting!) Changes

Let's start by stating the obvious: There have been big changes to the L.A. Weekly's food section recently. And there are even more on the way. After our longtime critic Jonathan Gold departed for the L.A. Times, we've been nibbling on this and that: a reflection on cookbooks from Roy Choi, a piece ... More >>

We're All Just Getting Along Fine 20 Years After L.A. Riots, Survey Says

If you remember the aftermath of the riots, things were dire in Los Angeles, and it seemed like every other white family had left town for the Pacific Northwest. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the uprisings and chaos, Loyola Marymount University has released a survey measuring the temperatur ... More >>

Los Angeles Mayoral Poll 2013 Shows that Voters who Grade Villaraigosa an "F" or "D" Want Zev Yaroslavsky or Wendy Greuel

A poll says 68 percent of Angelenos have no idea who they want for Los Angeles mayor in 2013. Of those who know, pixie Controller Wendy Greuel is doing better than indecisive, undeclared Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who's doing better than "I'm Latino -- really!" Councilman Eric Garcetti. It's great ... More >>

Tonight at Farmshop: Colman Andrews Italian Food

This evening, a hometown hero returns to Santa Monica. We write of celebrated cookbook author and restaurant reviewer Colman Andrews. Offspring of a radio soap scribe and an actress, former student at Loyola Marymount, City College, and UCLA respectively, Andrews is a co-founder of Saveur magazine ... More >>

340 N. Western Avenue in Koreatown: The Postmodern KFC

The The Postmodern KFC at 340 N. Western Avenue in Koreatown. Get it? It's a chicken and a bucket!

Occupy L.A.: Street Musicians Reign at City Hall

So we were wondering what kind of music was popular at Occupy L.A., the anti-Wall Street demonstration the surrounds Los Angeles City Hall night and day, and took a drive to downtown to find out. But rather than people listening to their favorite bands on iPods or whatever, we soon came to realize ... More >>

More L.A. Craft Beer News: Enegren Brewing Company

Steven ArmstrongJoe Nascenzi and Matt Enegren at Enegren Brewing Co. ​ As often happens in life, collegiate eccentricities lead to post-baccalaureate vocations. For one Harvard dropout, late-night computer programming led to multi-billion dollar "facebooking." And for three Loyola Marymount gr ... More >>

Jerime Anderson, UCLA Basketballer, Arrested for Grand Theft of Student's MacBook Pro; Anderson-Hosted Party Still on

Aw, shucks.​Sports nuts are declaring the final downfall of UCLA basketball's recruiting class of 2008 today, after reserve point guard Jerime Anderson was arrested for allegedly stealing a fellow student's MacBook Pro. (The rest of the '08ers have either dropped off the team or been drafted b ... More >>

Charles Gonzales, L.A. Homicide No. 32: Man Fatally Shot While Answering Door in Westlake

Los Angeles TimesCharles Gonzales​By Ryan Deto As he was answering a knock on his door in the early morning, Charles Gonzales was shot dead in the doorway of his residence in the 800 block of Green Avenue. According to City News Service, the 51-year-old was cooking breakfast when he heard kn ... More >>

LAPD: Virginia Tech-Style Shooting Threat at Loyola Marymount University Came From Apartment Complex Near Campus

Is there a potential Seung-Hui Cho at Loyola?​A shooting threat electronically issued to university officials at Loyola Marymount last week -- warning of a Virginia Tech-style massacre at the seaside Playa Vista campus -- has been traced back to a computer at a nearby apartment building, KNX n ... More >>

Happy Hour: There's Nothing Royal About the Prince O' Whales

dommichu/FlickrThe $6 burger, fries, and Coors lunch special.​ The Place: Prince O' Whales. 335 Culver Boulevard, Playa Del Rey; (310) 823-9826. The Hours: Fridays from 3 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $1 off all drinks

Rich In Los Angeles Endorsed Marijuana Legalization Big Time

ioffer.comPardon me, but would you happen to have any ... weed?​There were strange bedfellows in California's failed shot at legalizing marijuana in November, and we're not talking about the endorsements of African American cops and the powerful Service Employees International Union. No, inte ... More >>

WTF? Exit Polls Show San Fernando Valley Suburbanites Voted 'Yes' On Prop. 19

ShowtimeHousewives in the Valley wanna legalize it​What is this, an episode of "Weeds"? Although L.A. County voted down Prop. 19 overall -- with 47.45 percent 'Yes' and 52.55 percent 'No' -- San Fernando Valley's little boxes on the hillside squeaked out a majority 'Yes' on the controversial ... More >>

City Activists Push For Locally Elected Seat On Each Of Villaraigosa's Incestual, Downtown-Heavy Commissions

S.C. Asher via FlickrOnce again, the Valley feels left out​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's downtown-centric frame of vision -- one that certainly sticks to City Hall tradition -- is (once again) pissing off the people. The mayor currently selects all five members on each of 51 City C ... More >>

LOYOLAN AND TRUE

Students At Loyola Law School Get Better Grades Without Having To Earn Them

Loyola Law School.​There's been a stereotype about the millennial generation that it has gone through its scholastic career with "grade inflation" on its side -- the coddling, praising and teacher-torturing ways of its baby boomer parents causing schools to give in and just give praise. If so ... More >>

L.A., You're Not As Smart As You Think: San Francisco And New York Are More Educated

​Los Angeles is the land of UCLA, USC and those brainiacs at Caltech, not to mention President Obama's alma mater Occidental College, the Claremont Colleges, Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, Cal States ad infinitum, etc. So one might might think that the nation's second-largest metropolitan area ... More >>

Kate Micucci: Music Not Quite From Here

Suit To Stop Construction At Site Of L.A.'s Birthplace Rejected

City Project​A nonprofit group's legal attempt to stop the city's construction of a war memorial at the site of L.A.'s birthplace, El Pueblo de Los Angeles, was rejected by a Superior Court judge Monday, according to Associated Press. We told you last week how parks, recreation and transit ad ... More >>

Group Suing To Stop Construction At L.A.'s Birthplace

The City Project.​A parks, recreation and transit advocacy group has sued the city of Los Angeles to stop construction of a war memorial at the site of L.A.'s birthplace, El Pueblo de Los Angeles. The plaintiff, City Project, argues that construction of the Eugene A. Obregon Congressional Med ... More >>

Best Music for Cars: KXLU

World Festival of Sacred Music (and Dance): Spiritual Movement

Villaraigosa: Faking an Economic Miracle

Mayor sought a study saying East and South L.A. are booming. They're not

Time Does Steve Yagman

Cops have a "tailgate party" as the controversial civil rights attorney faces prison

Stella

The voice at 2 a.m.

Manic Monday

Raging against the Establishment

Reform for the Black Robes

Ever wonder why innocent people plead guilty?

Art Therapy

And its progression from the Holocaust camps to Loyola Marymount and beyond

The Unelected

. . . and to spend more time with their families . . .

The War at Home

Countermythologist

Donald Freed on the greatest stories never told

Bounty

A big weekend of openings

Heathen

Chocolate-flavored sex-drugs and more!