Cops say a creeper who was following a jogger in La Crescenta was under arrest today for allegedly attempting to kidnap two other women in North Hollywood. The suspect was ID'd as 37-year-old La Crescenta resident Jason Kies. The LAPD says it somehow came upon him as a suspect and put him under sur ... More >>
Cops say a creeper who was following a jogger in La Crescenta was under arrest today for allegedly attempting to kidnap two other women in North Hollywood. The suspect was ID'd as 37-year-old La Crescenta resident Jason Kies. The LAPD says it somehow came upon him as a suspect and put him under sur ... More >>
See also: *8 L.A. Stores for Alternative Valentine's Day Gifts *Top 10 Bars With the Hottest Women in L.A. *10 Bars Most Likely to Get You Laid in L.A. Yes, yes. We know. Valentine's Day is overrated. If you're single, it's a day seemingly created just to make you feel bad about yourself. If you'r ... More >>
I once dreamed of being a transportation planner: fast-roping into jungles, skirting ancient booby traps to snag gilded idols, natives and Nazi occultists in hot pursuit. Sadly, urban planners do none of those things. The most daring thing most of them will ever do is Sharpie "Fuck you, Robert Moses ... More >>
In-Chan Thai Cuisine is the subject of this week's restaurant review. Here's a taste of what you can find in the review, as well as a few extra tidbits: Food: Make sure to ask for the special Northern Thai menu, which isn't given out to most patrons unless specifically asked for. Order of it and yo ... More >>
The Hollywood Fringe Festival continues through August in an extended program, The Best of Hollywood Fringe, sponsored by a trio local theaters: Actors Circle Theatre, Artworks, Theatre Asylum and Lab. For shows you may have missed in June, see the complete schedule following New Theater Reviews aft ... More >>
Have you tried anything on in the women's dressing room (or gone to the bathroom) at the janky old Sears in North Hollywood, anytime in the last three years? If so, bad news: You might have been on candid camera. While inspecting their fitting rooms, Sears security personnel recently discovered th ... More >>
If nations were built on the Principles of Pie -- flaky crust, freshly made filling, everything baked with dedication and love -- we'd likely have a more contented, albeit fatter, populace. Until then, there's Republic of Pie, a newish North Hollywood cafe. Open since mid-January, the cafe is spac ... More >>
That is how you do barbecue, folks. We're not entirely opposed to barbecue sauce, but we are something of a smoked meat minimalist. Deep down in our salty, withered core, we believe when barbecue arrives glopped over with sauce, it's probably to mask a half-hearted rub or the fact that the meat has ... More >>
Steven GuntherSandra Bernhard: I Love Being Me, Don't You?​Sandra Bernhard performs I Love Being Me, Don't You? this weekend, and through August 21. Check out Amy Lyons' review on Tuesday.(Here are the latest capsule NEW THEATER REVIEWS and this week's Theater feature on Melissa James Gi ... More >>
ABC7The victim's downed bicycleUpdate: The victim has been identified as 19-year-old Shoichi Joe Minesaki of Sylmar. Originally posted June 6 at 9 a.m. Just after 1:30 a.m. this morning, a cyclist in his 20s was fatally gunned down in North Hollywood by a white van full of suspected gang mem ... More >>
Facebook23-year-old Kevin ButcherKevin Butcher was riding his red Ducati motorcycle down the 10 East yesterday afternoon, when traffic began to slow up ahead. He was riding behind another motorcyclist on a white Honda at the time -- a 29-year-old man from North Hollywood who West L.A. CHP Of ... More >>
The "Lost Boy" ring was shut down.The alleged pervs apparently thought they had outwitted the long arm of the law. Federal authorities say they set up an almost mob-like system of membership where each new man who wanted to partake had to bring an original photo of a sexually exploited child ... More >>
LA Talk RadioFrank Sheftel, the guy who once carved chocolate statues in the likeness of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley for their '90s wedding, now thinks he can run City District 4The last of the L.A. City Council candidates have filed for the March 2011 municipal election. There are ... More >>
​All you politicians and would-be politicos out there it's time to play that game we call musical chairs: The L.A. City Clerk warns that it's time to move to the voting district you plan to temporarily represent while you think of a better political gig.If you don't move now, you won't just be ine ... More >>
LAPDA sexual predator who targeted elderly women in the San Fernando Valley has been caught, Los Angeles police announced Thursday. Forty-two-year-old North Hollywood resident Edwin Ernesto Cabrera was arrested on suspicion of sexual battery following an alleged spree that had him exposing h ... More >>
Los Angeles Police Department detectives are looking for the gunman responsible for the killing of 20-year-old Jose Arroyo in North Hollywood August 29. Arroyo, a North Hollywood resident, was found dead around 2:37 a.m. Sunday in the 8400 block of Lankershim Boulevard. He was the victim of a ... More >>
Swimming pools, movie stars ... and cheapskates. We always said rich people don't get that way by being loose with their pocketbooks. A survey by spending-data site Bundle might confirm that fact: Although its real estate values often rank at the top of national lists, Beverly Hills ranked a ... More >>
​The suspect in last year's shooting at a North Hollywood synagogue was arrested today by the Beverly Hills P.D. SWAT team.The arrest of Christopher Littlejohn, 37, leaves several unanswered questions. He is accused of shooting two men in the leg on Oct. 29 at the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic Sy ... More >>
Barbara HansenThe Thai Town Songkran festival draws a crowdNew Year's Day is coming for the third time this year. January 1 revelry in the West had no sooner died down than decorations began to go up for Chinese New Year February 14. Next on the calendar is the Thai new year, Songkran, April ... More >>
Barbara HansenThe Thai Town Songkran festival draws a crowdNew Year's Day is coming for the third time this year. January 1 revelry in the West had no sooner died down than decorations began to go up for Chinese New Year February 14. Next on the calendar is the Thai new year, Songkran, April ... More >>
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck.Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck has joined the chorus of law enforcement officials urging California Attorney General Jerry Brown to appeal to the state Supreme Court a ruling that overturns a ban on body armor for violent ex-felons. In a letter this week to Bro ... More >>
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the current NEW REVIEWS and this week's STAGE FEATURE on The Night Is a Child at the Pasadena Playhouse, and Not to Be, at ZJUNEW REVIEW GO AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY ​Photo by Robert SafersteinTracy Lett's 2007 Great American Family Drama, or so we'd believe from ... More >>
The latest NEW REVIEWS are embedded in the COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the current STAGE FEATURE on Troubadour Theater Company's Oedipus the King, Mama! and the Chekhov Studio's The SeagullJULIUS CAESAR​Shakespeare's history play is being performed at Theatricum Botanicum, and is one o ... More >>
It was inevitable: A movie that is purportedly as much a love song to L.A. as was Woody Allen's Manhattan to the city of the same name had to produce its own map. And now here it is, courtesy of LAist, which lists and locates 500 Days of Summer's key L.A.-centric landmarks for our viewing and drivin ... More >>
Social Insecurity A federal "desktop raid" that exposed false Social Security numbers of 260 undocumented workers has left a Vernon food processing plant devastated. L.A. TimesEvicted for Following Orders Residents of a North Hollywood apartment building that was foreclosed upon were told by a bank ... More >>
THIS COMING WEEK'S COMPREHESIVE THEATER LISTINGS ARE EMBEDDED WITH THE LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWSAlso at your fingertips, this week's THEATER FEATURE: an Off-Broadway roundupLUMINOUS BIRCHRandy Sean Schulman applies the convention of silent film to live theater. With a group called The Collective, ... More >>
Plus: In defense of Michael Jackson
Theatre Movement Bazaar's Model Behavior; i.e., The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, opens this weekend at 24th Street Theatre, and is being reviewed this weekend. Photo courtesy of CalArts Photography Check back here on Monday afternoon for that review, plus reviews of the West Coast ... More >>
What to do in L.A., October 3-9
I’d never tell Mayor V the real reason I jump at the chance to ride the rails with him. I want to be there when the Big One brings the Red Line to a halt, stranding the mayor and me hundreds of feet underground for days. Under those conditions, I’ll offer him a bottle of water from my emergency ... More >>
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Beyond the valley of the dulls
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Best place to get props
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How to plan an absolutely fabulous same-sex wedding
How to plan an absolutely fabulous same-sex wedding
How to plan an absolutely fabulous same-sex wedding
Not a pretty picture for Mayor Hahn
Not a pretty picture for Mayor Hahn
Not a pretty picture for Mayor Hahn
Art and commerce clash in the NoHo Arts District about auto-body shops
Art and commerce clash in the NoHo Arts District about auto-body shops
Art and commerce clash in the NoHo Arts District about auto-body shops
I’m okay, the problem is my cheap car
I’m okay, the problem is my cheap car
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Day laborers get organized
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