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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 >>

Victim Finds Hit-and-Run Driver

Famed bicyclist Don Ward tracked lobbyist Glenn Gritzner to a body shop

Koreatown to File Redistricting Lawsuit Against L.A. City Council; 2 Pro-Bono Firms on Board

They threatened, and they meant it: Koreatown is taking the L.A. City Council to court over the gerrymandered land grab that was redistricting 2011-12. City Hall politicians get loads of legal threats thrown their way, on the daily. But Koreatown activists' growing rage was given a lot more weight ... More >>

Drake - USC Galen Center - 3/5/12

See also: *Our slideshow of Drake, Kendrick Lamar and A$AP Rocky at the USC Galen Center *Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Drake Is an Incredible Lyricist No current rapper is more divisive than Drake. Despite only recently relocating to L.A., he's been both championed and criticized on West Coast Sound. S ... More >>

'Parent Trigger' School Reform Effort in Adelanto Attacked by Charter-Fearing Parents, Teachers, L.A. Times (Deja Vu)

Update, February 22: "'Parent Trigger' Petition Rejected by Adelanto School District After Teacher-Backed Rescission Campaign." A historic first for K-12 school reform might be chronicled tomorrow in the small desert town of Adelanto, two hours east of Los Angeles. If the Adelanto Unified Elementa ... More >>

Mark Berndt, L.A. Teacher Accused of Horrific Sex Crimes, Still Being Paid More Than $3,800 a Month -- Report

Mark Berndt, the 63-year-old former teacher accused of horrific crimes against children at a South Los Angeles elementary school, is actually enjoying a $3,800-a-month-plus pension that you couldn't take away from him even if he was put away for life. It's true. The revelation came last night afte ... More >>

L.A. Arson Fires: Suspect Under Arrest, LAFD Says

Updated at the bottom with an official arrest (the third since Thursday). Fire officials now count 53 blazes in the arson spree. First posted at 2:48 a.m. Monday. The L.A. arson fires have sated the city's everlasting expectation for the criminally bizarre, but so far there's no Michael Connelly en ... More >>

Sexy Club Girls Need Not Suffer in High Heels All Night: Rollasole Vending Machine Flats Coming to The Colony Club in Hollywood

superluderHurts so good.​You're clubbing it hardcore and having a pretty good time, but your sky-high Louboutin heels are are pain in the ass or, at least, the feet. Your options are to take that wedding-cake image of a princess-in-pumps and completely destroy it by barefooting it on the dirt ... More >>

Catching Up With Grandmaster B

New Planet Found by NASA Could be Suitable For Humans (or Aliens?): SoCal Scientists Involved in Kepler 22b's Discovery

NASA​With reporting from Simone Wilson. They're getting closer and closer to finding aliens in space, and not the kind who'll help you remodel your home for only $50 a day. And while we here in journo land are psyched to get the occasional minor scoop or a mention in LA Observed (and that al ... More >>

Fairey Tales

Councilman Bill Rosendahl to Occupy L.A.: "Time To Move On"

Bill Rosendahl​Update, 4:45 p.m.: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wants some new laws to kick Occupy L.A. off the lawn. More below.A day after the Oakland P.D. unleashed tear gas on their Occupy movement, L.A. Councilman Bill Rosendahl is saying that it's time for Occupy L.A. to wind down."It's not an ... More >>

50 Reasons Los Angeles Is the Best Effing City in America

Timothy Norris​John Lennon once said of Los Angeles, "That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco." Pretty rough stuff from a supposedly nice guy. Clearly, the Eggman (or was he the Walrus?) missed the endless taco stands, the pupusas, the pho, the don ... More >>

Biggie Smalls Murder Confession: Voletta Wallace's Attorney Still Has Questions

​A couple weeks ago, ex-LAPD detective Greg Kading says he handed Voletta Wallace, mother of Biggie Smalls, a copy of his new book, Murder Rap, in which Kading reveals never-before-seen evidence implicating Suge Knight in the death of her son. After giving her the book, Kading claims that Wallace ... More >>

Protesters to Demand Their 'Apron' Parking Spots Back

stopLADOT.comAn example of "apron" parking​On August 28, the Department of Trasportation (LADOT), who consistently claims to have Aneglenos' best interests in mind, started to enforce a city-wide ban on "apron" parking. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this L.A. staple, "apron" parking ... More >>

Venice 311 Commotion

Christina Salazar, L.A. Homicide No. 48: Teen Girl Shot Dead in Back by Neighbors

Courtesy of Cynthia SecrestChristina Salazar​Christina Salazar, a 17-year-old Latina girl, was shot in the back near USC on March 2. According to an anonymous cousin's email obtained by Simone Wilson of the Weekly, Salazar stumbled over to the driveway of the cousin's apartment after being sh ... More >>

Roberto Herrera, L.A. Homicide No. 45: Teacher Fatally Shot by Student in Class After Argument

Los Angeles TimesRoberto Herrera​Just before 4 p.m. on February 23, student Law Thien Huynh stormed out of a training class for potential security guards after an argument with his teacher, said witnesses. He returned moments later, pointing a pistol at the teacher, 43-year-old Latino man Robe ... More >>

Darsy Noriega, L.A. Homicide No. 29: Anti-Gang Teen Found Shot Dead in South L.A. Alley

Google MapsThe alley where Darsy Noriega was killed​By Ryan Deto An 18-year-old Latina woman, Darsy Noriega, was shot multiple times near East Avalon Boulevard and South 111th Street late night on February 2. LAPD officers discovered Noriega lying in an alley after responding to a 911 call. ... More >>

LA Press Club Awards Finalists Announced: LA Weekly Receives Several Nods

Journalist of the Year nominee Patrick Range McDonald.​LA Weekly dominated the design category of the Los Angeles Press Club's 53rd SoCal Journalism Awards Finalists, announced today. Staff writer Patrick Range McDonald was named as a Journalist of the Year finalist and saw his piece on parent ... More >>

Jose Huizar vs. Rudy Martinez: LA Weekly Exit Poll in Eagle Rock Shows Problems for Martinez

District 14 challenger Rudy Martinez​Update: Early election results reveal Martinez' problems may be even bigger than we thought. As of 9:08 p.m., Huizar holds over 60 percent of the vote, though only 15 percent has been reported (and that's mostly older absentees). Reporting by David Futch a ... More >>

West Hollywood City Council Candidates Square Off in First Debate, Challengers Say Time for Change

Ted SoquiWest Hollywood Mayor John Heilman​A long-anticipated debate will take place in West Hollywood tonight between all of the candidates running for City Council, including several hard-charging challengers and incumbents John Heilman, Abbe Land, and Lindsey Horvath. The challengers will ... More >>

L.A. Film School Hopes to Build New 'Classroom' -- Smack Dab in Heart of Hollywood Farmers Market (Told You So)

Simone WilsonUrban farming at the weekly Hollywood market​Finally, the land war goes mainstream. L.A. Film School spokesman Antoine Ibrahim spilled to the Times this morning that the school is thinking about erecting another building at the corner of Selma and Ivar Avenues, an intersection th ... More >>

Venice's First Friday: 7 Food Trucks in Search of a Policy

S. WilsonVenice First Friday​ As we reported here, the most recent First Friday event along Venice's Abbot Kinney Boulevard was complicated by the ongoing lack of consensus (that's putting it mildly) between the food trucks, the Venice merchants, the Abbot Kinney Merchants Committee (AKMC), an ... More >>

L.A. City Councilman Eric Garcetti And Hollywood's 'Elegant Density' -- A Love Story

Simone WilsonElegant, if not harmonious​Hollywood Patch opened its doors last Thursday -- hey guys! -- and we're not particularly surprised to see that editor Anna Bakalis' first story attempts to tackle the Hollywood Farmers Market vs. L.A. Film School beast. Its the latest in a line of many ... More >>

COMMENT: DID KILLER SLIP AWAY?

Rushed and Confused L.A. City Council

Library, weed, DWP measures aimed for ballot all get short shrift