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What if Jeffrey Deitch and MOCA Had Made it Work?

The official announcement that the Museum of Contemporary Art's director Jeffrey Deitch would step down only arrived at 3:30 p.m. yesterday, nearly two days after L.A. Weekly's Dennis Romero reported the resignation's imminence and one day after editorials on Deitch's tenure began appearing on arts ... More >>

Michael Hastings' Engine Flew, Boosting Conspiracies, But It Happens

Conspiracy theorists who have trained their Twitter accounts on the death of journalist Michael Hastings often seem to focus on the fact that engine in the Mercedes he crashed landed several yards away. In fact we learned through traffic investigators that the motor landed about 100 feet away. Unus ... More >>

More Events: Calabasas Malibu Wine & Food Festival, Summer Float Series Pacific Coast Seafood Fest

7th Annual Calabasas Malibu Wine & Food Festival The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills, Bouchon Bistro, Mr. Chow Malibu, Calabasas Vineyards, Cielo Malibu Estate Vineyards and Four Sisters Ranch are among the purveyors serving food, wine, beer and spirits at the festival. Tickets range from $50 to $300: ... More >>

Mafia Cocaine Ring Ran Through Beverly Hills?

A mob-connected drug trafficker was living right under our noses in Beverly Hills, helping to stash kilos of cocaine, make deals with the Sinaloa drug cartel and move millions of dollars worth of drugs for the Rizzuto organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra. Those are the facts of the case for 39- ... More >>

Luxury Car Hit-And-Run Drivers Running Rampant in L.A.

Why are drivers of luxury cars in Los Angeles involved in a bloody binge of hit-and-run driving, leaving innocent victims for dead? Are rich folk out of their minds? This is felony manslaughter, not "oops." The city is offering a $50,000 reward to help find the driver of a silver or white Mercedes ... More >>

A Janis Joplin Musical Boosts the Pasadena Playhouse Box Office

One Night With Janis provides some nostalgic comfort food

10 Most Memorable L.A. Art Events of 2012

This year felt like a year of growing pains for art in Los Angeles. Maybe that's because 2012 started as Pacific Standard Time -- that regionwide, Getty-funded series of exhibitions on SoCal art history -- wound down and the art community shifted attention from past to present. Maybe it's because th ... More >>

AEG's Asking Price Is $10 Billion?

The L.A. company that wants to build a stadium downtown is selling out. And if this report is true, it wants $10 billion for the whole shebang. Anschutz Entertainment Group, the locally based conglomerate owned by Denver rich guy Phil Anshutz, runs Staples Center, LA Live and the Nokia Theater, ow ... More >>

Linda Hogan's DUI Arrest Comes in Midst of Hulk Hogan's Sex-Tape Scandal

Hulk Hogan's ex-wife Linda Bollea, a.k.a. Linda Hogan, was arrested yesterday on suspicion of driving her Mercedes under the influence of alcohol on the 101 freeway in Calabasas, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department announced today. It happened shortly after 1:30 a.m. on the 101 at Kanan Road, depu ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including an Exhibit About Prince at the Forum

A festival run by a rapper, brunch inspired by Prince, a Cadillac in a gallery, a soap opera cast with women in white, "taking account of oneself" taken to its extremes: It feels like spring. 5. The "fun" in fundraiser Until May 6, the Beastie Boys' Mike D is moonlighting as a MOCA curator. He has ... More >>

Mike D of the Beastie Boys on Curating His New Show at MOCA

Mike D, Beastie Boy, recent Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame inductee, mad collector of modern furniture and in general, the man with all the fly juice, has now found the time to curate his own museum show. "Transmission LA: AV Club" is a free, 17-day festival of art, music and food, opening to the publi ... More >>

Stolen Ferrari, Mercedes, BMW Headed For Asia Seized at Port of L.A: PHOTOS

A Gone In 60 Seconds-style stolen car ring saw a shipment to Asia disrupted by federal authorities, who seized a near-new Ferrari and other vehicles, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced today. The 20-car haul at the port of Los Angeles/Long Beach was worth $1.5 million, according to a CBP ... More >>

L.A. Fire Department Posts Gruesome Photos of Train vs. Benz Crash in Downtown L.A.

One week after the controversial media blackout on L.A. Fire Department response times and addresses -- ordered by Fire Chief Brian Cummings -- is the department overcompensating for its much-ridiculed secrecy? LAFD photographers Rick McClure and Mike Meadows snapped some insane photos of a train v ... More >>

L.A. Food Truck Driver Dies in Crash With Mercedes Near Pico-Union

Update: The dead driver has been identified as 55-year-old L.A. resident Elba Escobar. More at the bottom. Originally posted March 20 at 6:10 p.m. A horrific crash between a food truck and a Mercedes in the Pico-Union area of central Los Angeles has left one dead and two seriously injured, says Se ... More >>

The Five Most Hilariously Offensive Misuses of Classic Songs For Commercial Purposes

​ We were so excited when we saw the wooden box on our desk with the words "Bob Marley" branded into the top. A CD box set? Possibly--if we are very very lucky--a box set of 7"s? With little booklets that have liner notes full of interesting and amazing facts about one of the word's seminal p ... More >>

Yousef Akbari and Amin Najib -- El Camino Real High Students -- Missing Since Yesterday Morning, May Be Driving Gold Benz

Two students missing in Woodland Hills​Two students last seen "leaving for school" at 7:20 a.m. (but never quite making it) yesterday morning in a gold 1996 Mercedes-Benz still haven't turned up at school, or otherwise. The Afghani boys, 17-year-old Yousef Akbari and 14-year-old Amin Najib, a ... 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 >>

L.A. Woman Pays $200K to Rid Herself of Family Curse

Angel cards... $200K. Not buying that crock... priceless.​Gypsies who hand out fliers on the streets of West Hollywood can seem mighty trustworthy, we know; but when they start asking you to buy them gold bars and Mercedes Benzes, we'd hope your inner "This is a freaking scam" buzzer might sta ... More >>

(Video) Part Of Violent UCLA-USC Weekend Brawl Caught On Tape

KTLA NewsFans got into it at the Rose Bowl.​Portions of that violent brawl before Saturday's annual USC-UCLA football game were captured on a video obtained and posted by KTLA News. Reports differed on whether the fight, which ended in the stabbing of two men, was the fueled by a longstanding ... More >>

Murdered Hollywood Publicist Ronni Chasen Videotaped Driving Mystery Mercedes

TMZRonni Chasen in a mystery Mercedes.​TMZ has obtained video of murdered Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen driving a Mercedes-Benz -- not the one she was killed in -- and police are taking a look. The video, however, was taken down Wednesday afternoon. The video was shot by a private investig ... More >>

Ice Pick Attack In Yorba Linda Ends Harmlessly

​Only funny because no one was seriously injured: A Yorba Linda woman was arrested on suspicion of stabbing her ex-boyfriend and roommate with an ice pick in a church parking lot, Brea police reported today. The victim was leaving a meeting at a Lutheran Church in Yorba Linda Monday night whe ... More >>

Who's Crashing Charlie Sheen's Cars?

​For the second time this year one of Charlie Sheen's vehicles was found at the bottom of a hillside off Mulholland Drive, according to reports. Just like the incident in February, the keys were left inside a Mercedes-Benz belonging to the actor, and it was apparently taken from his home, whic ... More >>

Man Drains 97-Year-Old's Life Savings Via ATM

LAPDThe suspect.​Police on Wednesday announced they were looking for a Mercedes-driving suspect they say drained a 97-year-old's life savings by using an ATM card stolen from the victim. The man's alleged take was $46,000 withdrawn at Southern California ATMs between August and November. Los ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Shopping

Inside The Baader Meinhof Complex

Seeing red

City Councilman Takes Power From the People

Today's O.C. Register reports that Westminster city councilman Andy Tuan Ngoc Quach was arrested for DUI after he wrapped his S550 Mercedes Benz around an electric pole just after midnight this morning. Although the councilman was apparently unhurt, the crash knocked out power to 300 homes until thi ... More >>

Advertising for Trouble: Supergraphics Landlord Protested at Home

Curbed L.A. has a report about Sunday's protest by anti-billboard activists at the Brentwood home of Frank Rahban. He is the owner of several buildings in L.A. that have become giant easels on which vinyl supergraphics ads have been draped. The Rahban-owned office building at 10801 National Boulevar ... More >>

La Vida Loca: Monsters, and Cory Kennedy's Socks

Plus, Obama socks take off big time

Troubadour Theater Company Spins Shakespeare Like a Copper Penny

Political clowning, from Bono to Barack

Chills, Hills and (Cheap) Thrills

Catching the fashion bug takes on new meaning during flu season, or so we've discovered. The collections and presentations at Mercedes Benz fashion Week at Smashbox Studios the past few days have been fairly interesting, but nobody should have to cram into stuffy rooms filled with bitchy fashion fi ... More >>

Gonna Party Like It's $19.99

From Krazy Straws to frozen salmon, a housewarming soiree where nothing is more than 99 cents

Un-Fashion Week

I've been unnoticeably absent from Fashion Week this season for no real reason other than I have been doing lots of random shit. It's not 'cause of any beef I may have with Smashbox (even though I am on Fern Mallis' shitlist after accidentally misquoting her in a piece I wrote for the LA Times - she ... More >>

The Crisco Kid

Brian Friedman wants you to fill 'er up with veggie oil

We Heart Denim...Honest

I'm not sure if any of us Style Council gals were at the denim shows last night... Buffalo, Yanuk and Taverniti were the designers showing, and even though denim and sportwear are LA's greatest exports - or at least most lucrative - how exciting can a pair of jeans get, right? Maybe that's why I ... More >>

California Dreamin’

Whips, Whacks and a Whole Lotta Love

Beauty and Madness

How I learned to love L.A.’s Fashion Week

Snakebites

From Motown to Rimtown

The blinging of Los Angeles

The Capital of Car Design

L.A. is, once again, where the action is

The Fashion Week We Need

What L.A. Style?

The California sportswear monster that ate L.A. Fashion Week . . . and the designers who valiantly fought back

Hummer Bummer

Going for a test drive the day after explosions rip through a dealership

Strike a Pose

L.A. Fashion Week Fall 2003

The Making of a Designer

Monah Li on creation, transformation,faith — and garmentos

Brave New Year

L.A. SPECTATOR

Gaga for Guga

Mope Springs Eternal

Them's the Breaks

Rat Patrol