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Weekend DUI Checkpoints Start Tonight In Hollywood, Silver Lake

April showers bring May flowers. Sure. But an April DUI will only bring you misery for months and years to come. The AAA of Southern California now estimates that the cost of a DUI conviction is $15,649. At the same time, cops across the Southland are giving you an easy out. They're giving you a vi ... More >>

Nitrous Oxide Bust Announced By L.A. Sheriff's Department

Updated at the bottom with three arrests and details about how, authorities allege, the nitrous was distributed. First posted at 4:29 p.m. Nitrous oxide is in your dentists office, and sometimes it makes you feel good. But authorities say the gas is being abused in the rave and party scene. Today ... More >>

Rave Drug Nitrous Oxide Suspected In Lynwood DUI Crash

Cops think nitrous oxide, a.k.a. NOS or laughing gas, might have played a role in a DUI crash that injured five people in Lynwood this week. Investigators say they found a nitrous oxide tank following the Monday collision at Atlantic Avenue and Imperial Highway, according to an L.A. County Sheriff' ... More >>

Hector Martinez Arrested For Allegedly Blocking 10 Freeway For Marriage Proposal

That January marriage proposal that shut down the 10 freeway in West Covina has come home to roost. All we can say is, Hope it was worth it. The California Highway Patrol today said groom-to-be Hector Martinez was arrested along with some of his follow motorcycle enthusiasts who allegedly helped h ... More >>

Skacore Band Gets Touring Van and Gear Stolen on Christmas Day, Needs Your Help Finding Thieves

Members of Lynwood act La Resistencia had about the crappiest Christmas morning you can imagine this year. The skacore band has a recording and rehearsal space in Lynwood, where they normally keep their touring van off the street. On Christmas Eve, however, they moved the van to accomodate a neigh ... More >>

Readers Take on the Sheriff, Our Theater Critics -- and Our Treatment of Kristen Stewart

Register To Vote Online, L.A: Today Is Your Last Day

Today is the last day to register to vote in the Nov. 6 presidential election, people. So when it comes to the Obama vs. Romney war, don't talk about it, be about it. County registrar officials say as many as 3 million people in L.A. County who are eligible are not registered to vote. Wow. And her ... More >>

Juan Diego Valencia: Man Shot Woman Before Car Chase, SWAT Standoff -- Cops

It was like a scene out of a Quintin Tarantino movie. Cop pulls behind a driver, suspect shoots a woman (the officer actually sees the muzzle flash) in the car, guy allegedly dumps the victim, then he speeds off with the 5-0 in pursuit. This really happened, sheriff's officials allege. This is how ... More >>

DUI Checkpoint in Hollywood Tonight; Drunk Driver Crackdown Across L.A.

The dog days of summer are here, the 4th of July is way back in the rear view, and the season is winding down. But, for whatever reason, authorities across L.A. county are turning up the heat on drunk drivers with a "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" campaign August 17 to September 3. Not only that ... More >>

Arely Amaya, Teen Mom, Arrested After Babies Found in 110-Degree Car in Cudahy

A teen mom was arrested after L.A. County sheriff's deputies said they had to rescue her 2-week-old infant girl and one-year-old baby boy from the backseat of her 110-degree, black car. The children were "hot and moist to the touch" and were taken to a hospital by paramedics, according to a sheriff ... More >>

Rape Is on the Rise in Los Angeles County

L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck held their biannual crime-stats press conference today in typical feel-good fashion: They were proud to announce that for the first half of 2012, violent crimes were down 8.8 percent from last year. But the same cannot be said for reported ... More >>

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All-Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List Considering that most all of today's popular music -- be it roc ... More >>

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 20-16

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List Considering that most all of today's popular music, be it rock, pop, dance, or rap, sprang from genres pioneered by black musicians, to be all caucasian about your songs is to, literally, betr ... More >>

Roxy Borboa, South Gate 16-Year-Old, Reportedly Shot Dead While Waiting in Car Outside Party

A shootout in South Gate last night took the life of an apparently innocent 16-year-old sitting in a car nearby. Friends identify the victim on Twitter as Roxy Borboa-Galindo. (The L.A. County Coroner cannot confirm her identity at this time.) And Mike Perez, a family friend, told NBC Los Angeles l ... More >>

'Weird Al' Yankovic Chats About Justin Bieber, Lynwood and Career Longevity, at Gallery 1988

The line stretched out the door and onto the balmy L.A. streets on Friday at Gallery 1988: Melrose, one of the two spaces set up by Jensen Karp to showcase pop culture-inspired art. Fans waited patiently for a chance to look at and buy work from "Is This Thing On? 2, The Weird Year," with with artis ... More >>

Lynwood Parents Fight Back Against Nasty, Anti-'Parent Trigger' Newsletters From Teachers Union

PHOTO BY NANETTE GONZALESAlma Alvarado and her daughter, Jessica Alvarez, at Lynwood's Washington Elementary.​At a heated press conference in Lynwood today, a group of parents whose children attend the Lynwood Unified School District are trying to clear up some recent rumor-mongering by the lo ... More >>

10 Cheap Restaurants for New Year's Eve

Last week, we listed 11 new restaurants open for New Year's Eve. All will present special menus -- at "special" prices ranging from $46 to $475. Prefer to not break the bank for New Year's? We've selected ten restaurants where you can dine for less than $30 per person (not including drinks) past ... More >>

Lee Baca's Jail-Beating Problems to Get New Oversight From Judge Carlos R. Moreno

Judge Carlos R. Moreno.​The county's top cop is about to get a new boss -- Judge Carlos R. Moreno, who was appointed to the Citizen's Commission on Jail Violence. County Supervisor Gloria Molina today announced the appointment to the body that was formed "in response to allegations that Sheri ... More >>

Benjamin Jackson, L.A. Homicide No. 15: Police Say Green Meadows Man Stabbed by Girlfriend After Domestic Dispute

​By Annabel Martin Just before midnight on January 17, 29-year-old black man Benjamin Jackson was allegedly stabbed in the neck by his common-law wife (they were married, but not officially) after a domestic dispute at their Green Meadows home on the 800 block of East 97th Street. Although th ... More >>

Travis Patterson, L.A. Homicide No. 11: 31-Year-Old Man Gunned Down Near Elementary School in Watts

Flournoy Elementary, located down the street from where Patterson was murdered​At 12:40 a.m. on January 15, LAPD Criminal Gang and Homicide detectives believe 31-year-old black man Travis Patterson got into an argument with a man who would turn out to be his murderer, challenging him to a figh ... More >>

Louis Smith, L.A. Homicide No. 5: Watts Man Shot Dead After Fight at Popeye's

Google Maps​A black man who died from multiple gunshot wounds one day after an alleged altercation in Watts on January 3 has been identified as 33-year-old Louis Smith. The L.A. County coroner told the Los Angeles Times that Smith "was approached by a male and got into a fight" just before 4 ... More >>

Alma Arredondo, 24-Year-Old Norwalk Woman, Killed on 710 Freeway After Plowing Her Mustang Into Tow Truck

A mustang like Alma's​Norwalk resident Alma Berenice Limon Arredondo was driving her silver 2005 Ford Mustang down the 710 South last night, just after midnight, when she somehow drifted over to the right shoulder of the freeway, where a tractor/trailer was being towed by a truck from Pepe's T ... More >>

The Black Thing

Teen Shot At Burger Joint Near Bell High School

Bell High School.​It's been a sad week of school-related violence in L.A. On Tuesday two students were wounded when a gun went off accidentally at Gardena High School. On Wednesday an L.A. school police officer was shot by a suspect near El Camino High. And now word comes over the wire at a 1 ... More >>

Robert Rizzo, Bell's Former $1.5 Million City Manager, Released From L.A. County Jail On $2 Million Bail

​In the most highly anticipated jail release since Lindsay Lohan walked out of a Lynwood lockup for women, former Bell city manager Robert Rizzo, who some say was the most egregious earner in that city's salary scandal, waddled out of the Twin Towers Correctional Facility downtown early Thursd ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Freed From Lynwood Jail, Reportedly Heading Straight To Treatment Program

​Lindsay Lohan was freed from jail early Monday morning after serving less than two weeks of a 90-day sentence for violating terms of probation that stemmed from two DUI arrests. Paparazzi were camped outside the county facility in Lynwood late Sunday and early Monday morning as Lohan was whi ... More >>

Request To Have Lindsay Lohan Testify About Jail Strip Search Rejected. Darn.

​A federal judge this week rejected a court filing that sought to find out if Lindsay Lohan had been strip searched before her current stint at a county women's facility in Lynwood. The filing requested that Lohan be deposed to testify about the search process at the Century Regional Detention ... More >>

Was Lindsay Lohan Strip Searched Before Entering Jail? Inquiring Legal Motion Wants To Know

​A lawyer in a lawsuit over strip searches at the women's county jail facilities has filed a motion to determine if Lindsay Lohan received special treatment in the form of being able to skip the invasive search that all female inmates must endure. A request has been filed to order Lohan to be ... More >>

Top 10 Songs About Food (But Not Buildings)

Books about food; art about food; movies about food. What about songs about food? Here's 10 songs to put on your foodie playlist. For this list--which is in no particular order--children's songs, instrumentals and songs using food as a euphemism for, em, other activities, have been excluded. Also d ... More >>

Evacuations Ordered For Several Foothill Communities (UPDATED)

National Weather Service​Authorities ordered 64 households in the Paradise Valley area of La Canada-Flintridge to evacuate as storm-caused mud flows threatened a neighborhood above 2524 Ocean View Boulevard. Evacuations of 83 residences in the Riverwood Ranch, Alpine Village, Zachaou Canyon, H ... More >>

Got a Black Flag Bars Tattoo? Get It Photographed for Art Book This Weekend

Barred for life? Black Flag's four bars, that is? Philadelphia writer Stewart Ebersole invites tattooed fans of the legendary hardcore band inked with their famous Raymond Pettibon-designed logo to be a part of his upcoming book Barred for Life (estimated publication in 2010). ****More hardcore th ... More >>

Opposing Views on "The All-About-Me Mayor"

Also, defending Obama, community spirit and Igor's makers

Grim Sleeper's Victims

Eleven lives stolen and one lucky survivor

Rock Picks: Spindrift, Randy Newman, The Gutter Twins

Also, Zola Moon, David Banner, Naïm Amor, and more

Un Pueblo Olvidado por la Ley

A Spanish translation of “The Town the Law Forgot”. Pandillas, carteles y políticas al estilo “sur de la frontera” enlodan la reputación de un suburbio de L.A.

Oops! Year-Ended Again!

What Adults Don't Get

Inside the minds of student marchers

Julio G. Is for Real

After a three-year hiatus from radio, KDAY’s hardcore son comes home

Tenant Services

The New Urban Frontier: A User’s Guide

Zen and the Art of Sheriffing

Lee Baca’s Khaki Revolution

Let Bygones Be Buy Gone

An Exquisite Scar

Life and commerce along the Alameda Corridor

Ismael Gardea

The King of Compton

Mayor Omar Bradley and his reign of chaos

Heating Up

Coming out against South Gate’s proposed power plant

The Case of the Lunch-Time Shooting

What went wrong at a Lynwood restaurant remains a mystery

The 911 Mystery

Questions surround off-duty LAPD cop’s calls for help

The Dick and Ed Show

These political warhorses can entertain

Beat Seeker

Don't punk Julio G