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  • Music

    July 17, 2008

    Put Heading Here

    Concert Clubs Other Jazz Concerts Clubs Other Blues Other Country/Folk

  • Columns

    October 25, 2001

    The Erotic Arts

    Concert Clubs Other Jazz Concerts Clubs Other Blues Other Country/Folk

  • News

    July 15, 2004

    Dawn in L.A.

    What were 12,000 people doing at the Convention Center?

  • Columns

    August 23, 2007

    Broken Sanctuary

    Did Elvira Arellano need to martyr herself?

  • News

    July 5, 2007

    Villaraigosa's Media Affair

    Telemundo, where his girlfriend is an anchor, lavishes him with free airtime

  • News

    June 28, 2007

    Mario Beltran's Undertow

    Police probe whether the Bell Gardens pol helped a three-time felon win a sensitive towing contract

  • News

    June 21, 2007

    Mario Beltran’s Strange Bedfellows

    A political brouhaha erupts as LAPD seizes documents from a Bell Gardens councilman and the city’s towing company

  • News

    April 19, 2007

    Friends in Low Places

    A city-approved towing firm’s manager faces opium-distribution charges — no biggie in Bell Gardens

  • News

    April 12, 2007

    Politics Meets Street

    Why are politicians and civic leaders bellying up to the eyebrow-raising 740 Club?

  • News

    February 22, 2007

    The Town the Law Forgot

    An L.A. ’burb is mired in gangs, cartels and south-of-the-border-style politics

  • News

    March 15, 2007

    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.

  • News

    May 4, 2006

    A Day of Power

    Can Congress pick up the vibe of the movement?

  • News

    March 16, 2006

    Bushel of Complaints

    Farmers at South Central Community Garden unload on their activist organizers

  • Music

    December 8, 2005

    Julio G. Is for Real

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

  • Film+TV

    October 20, 2005

    From the Depths of Hell to Hollywood

    A new documentary charts the remarkable rise of actor Danny Trejo

  • News

    April 28, 2005

    Tenant Services

    A new documentary charts the remarkable rise of actor Danny Trejo

  • News

    August 16, 2001

    The South

    From Downtown to Long Beach Harbor

  • News

    August 16, 2001

    In the Beginning

    An introduction to and brief history of the river

  • News

    August 16, 2001

    Downtown

    From the Narrows to South L.A.

  • News

    July 6, 2000

    Crossing the Border To Vote

    For many Californians, the presidential race ends next week

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    How You Can Help the Janitors — and Your City

    For many Californians, the presidential race ends next week

  • News

    October 14, 1999

    Letters

    For many Californians, the presidential race ends next week

  • News

    February 18, 1999

    Parade's End

    The new charter is too big to stop

  • News

    January 14, 1999

    Barrio Logic

    Immigration will revitalize Fortress L.A.

  • News

    December 10, 1998

    Lost Soul

    A lament for black Los Angeles

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Maywood RFD California Attorney General Jerry Brown is seeking a court order to impose and monitor reforms on Maywood's troubled police department. L.A. TimesGetting the Lead Out The Department of Toxic Substances Control has discovered San Fernando warehouses containing jewelry that has higher than ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2008

    Maywood Hires a Convicted Ethics Professor as Interim Police Chief

    For a town looking to repair its police department's reputation as corrupt and brutal, Maywood took the unusual step Friday of holding an emergency session to hire as its interim police chief Al Hutchings, a former Maywood and LAPD officer convicted of bilking LAPD for fraudulent overtime. Mayor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    Happy Summer: Top 10 Paletas and/or Popsicles

    J. KoslowPopshop Creations​ With Southern California's sunny climate and proximity to Mexico, the paleta has been alive and well for decades. Now that the NYT has conveniently proclaimed that ice cream sandwiches are out and frozen-treats-on-a-stick are back in, we thought we'd look around L ... More >>

  • News

    July 29, 2010

    City of Bell Corruption

    The people yell over the smell in the hell that is Bell

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2010

    Bell corruption hits Maywood as grossly overpaid Angela Spaccia resigns

    ​Acting Maywood city manager Angela Spaccia has resigned after getting fingered as one of the greedy Bell city officials reaping ungodly salaries in a corruption scandal being probed by California Attorney General Jerry Brown, Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley and a cast of thousands. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2010

    Maywood Depends On Bell For Some City Services But Wants Distance From Stench Of Salary Scandal

    Google Maps​Just last month the city of Maywood was praised in the New York Times for firing all its city employees and outsourcing everything to run the city. Problem is that some of that outsourcing went to a neighboring town you might have heard of, Bell, which at the time was having some p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    Maywood Teen Admits to Dismembring Mother With Saw, Storing Body Parts in Freezer

    Los Angeles County Sheriff's DepartmentMaywood's Moises Meraz-Espinoza admitted to stuffing his mother in the freezer last Friday​Moises Meraz-Espinoza, a 19-year-old Latino male who was living at home in a small, southeast L.A. County town called Maywood -- in the same cluster of cities as sc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    City of Bell Email Fun: Officials Called Themselves Fat Pigs, LOLed

    Porky the City Administrator​We found out long ago that Bell's Big Eight -- the shameless crew of elected officials who smuggled millions from a small town on the southeast edge of L.A. County -- were fat pigs, but it's a new kind of satisfaction to hear it straight from their own scuzzy snout ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2011

    L.A. Unified School District Board Race: Hot Seat is District 5

    Candidate Kayser's UTLA endorsement got a late start -- Sanchez has had Mayor Villaraigosa's backing from the start​With Yolie Flores deciding not to return to this post, the hot seat in the L.A. Unified School District Board elections tomorrow will be District 5, the only open seat with no in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    June 2, 2011

    City of Vernon in Fight to Death With Assembly Speaker John Perez

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Vernon vs. Assembly Speaker John Perez: What Should Happen Next?

    Photo by Anne FishbeinThe L.A. River cuts through the City of Vernon​The City of Vernon (pop. 112) is in a fight to the death with Speaker John Perez, who is trying to end the city's long history of corruption by ending the city.But while the status quo is indefensible, shutting down the city woul ... More >>

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