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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 >>

Police Car Replica Stolen In Norwalk Weeks After L.A. Gang Reportedly Wanted One

This is kind of scary. The L.A. Sheriff's Department this week says a car set up to look just like an official police cruiser was stolen from a cop equipment store in Norwalk. This following a report in winter that a gang allegedly planned to steal cop cars and build a replica:

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 >>

Donald Vincent: Ice Skating Coach Suspected Of Molestation Worked Throughout SoCal

An ice-skating coach who has worked at rinks in Culver City, Anaheim, Riverside and more, was charged this week with lewd acts on a minor. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department announced that 29-year-old Donald Vincent was jailed in lieu of $1 million bail after a 17-year-old boy came forward and cl ... More >>

DUI Crackdown For Late Summer Includes Hollywood Checkpoint Tonight

We're not sure why the end of summer is DUI crackdown season, what with all the other wonderful times of year to find drunktards on the road -- St. Patrick's Day, Cinco De Mayo, New Year's Eve, at. al. It just is. We've got a boatload of info for you in our latest edition of LA Weekly's DUI checkp ... More >>

Clark Tabor at L.A. Dark Knight Screening: 'I Should Go Off Like in Colorado' -- Cops

Following Friday's massacre at a Dark Knight screening in Aurora, Colorado, movie-goers have been a bit on-edge. And who could blame them? Theaters in the summer of 2012 have become the new airplanes. Even the LAPD stated it was going undercover at local movie houses -- like air marshals of the aisl ... More >>

Buyepongo Bring the Motherfucking Ruckus

South Central band Buyepongo is known for digging deep into the neighborhood's Latin roots and serving up a new formula for grinding on the dance floor. They're inspired by Wu-Tang Clan and manage to live up to their name, which means, literally, "to cause a ruckus." Originally formed in 2005, they ... More >>

DUI Checkpoints Across L.A. For Memorial Day Weekend: Here's Your Cheat Sheet

Memorial Day weekend is the traditional kick-off for summer. Don't start it $10,000 in the hole, which is about what you will pay in fines and legal costs if you get a DUI -- not to mention a likely night in jail. The CHP, the LAPD and the L.A. County Sheriff's Department will be testing you this ... More >>

Porn Condom Initiative Heading For L.A. County Ballot: Signatures Turned in Tomorrow

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation will turn in signatures tomorrow in its bid to put mandatory condom use for the area porn industry before L.A. county voters, AHF chief Michael Weinstein told the Weekly. The group has more than 300,000 signatures, more than 30 boxes worth, that it will haul to the Lo ... More >>

Woodys Toys' Money Laundering Scheme Funneled $6 Million in 'Narco Cash,' Feds Say

With a name like Woody's Toys, it has to be good. Good meaning bad. At least according to federal authorities, who this week threw the book at two co-owners, three employees and two clients of the City of Industry toy wholesaler for allegedly doing way more than importing toys. A two-count indictm ... More >>

10 Creepiest Items Found in the Madonna Stalker's Storage Unit

Best "Storage Wars" ever. A storage unit belonging to Robert Dewey Hoskins, the crazy dude arrested for stalking both Madonna and Halle Berry (and recently re-arrested after escaping from a Norwalk mental hospital), was emptied out this week because he was so far behind on rent. CBS LA reporters a ... More >>

Chucho Valdes and Poncho Sanchez - Walt Disney Concert Hall - 2/16/11

Christina Limson O'ConnellPoncho and Terence channel Chano and Dizzy​ Poncho Sanchez & His Latin Jazz Band Chucho Valdes & the Afro-Cuban Messengers Walt Disney Concert Hall 2-16-12 See also: *Poncho Sanchez Played the Weekend Wedding Circuit, Until a Gringo Changed His Luck *Marlon Brando R ... More >>

Poncho Sanchez Played the Weekend Wedding Circuit, Until a Gringo Changed His Luck

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] See also: Marlon Brando Rocked the Conga Drums -- in Fact He Invented One "I'd rather be lucky than good." --Lefty Gomez, Hall of Fame pitcher and inven ... More >>

Get Your Valentine's Marriage on for Only $25 (License Extra)

Want to get married on Valentine's Day? And you're a cheap bastard? Boy, have we got a deal for you: L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan announced over the weekend that people can line up for marriage licenses ($85 to $90) and civil ceremonies ($25) on Tuesday and get them both c ... More >>

Robert Dewey Hoskins, Madonna Stalker, Caught in Long Beach After Escaping From Mental Hospital

madonna.com​Updated at the bottom with where they found him. First posted at 11:56 a.m. The crazy man who inspired Halle Barry to consider moving to France and who once threatened to "slice my throat from ear to ear," Madonna claimed, is back in custody after he escaped into beautiful southea ... More >>

Elda Mayo, Downey 24-Year-Old, and Two Relatives Killed When SUV Bursts Into Flames After Crystal Cathedral Service

FacebookR.I.P. Elda Mayo​The young woman who died after service at the Crystal Cathedral last night in a fiery crash on the 5 North, along with two older female relatives, has been identified by the coroner as 24-year-old Downey resident Elda Mayo. The other two fatalities were reportedly Ange ... More >>

Juan P. Garcia-Machado, Illegal Immigrant and SDSU Student, Is Reportedly Employed by State Capitol, Has Advised Politicians

LinkedInJuan P. Garcia Machado​Looks like the California government can now be added to the list of employers who have hired illegal immigrants. The employee's name is Juan P. Garcia-Machado, a San Diego State University student set to graduate in 2012. And from the looks of his NBC LA profil ... More >>

Whittier Stolen-Goods Suspect Inadvertently Calls Cop, Who Comes to Make Arrest

Not the alleged caller.​Ring-ring. Who is it? It's me, man. Got the stuff. Good work. We'll pick you up. Something like that conversation happened this week and, unfortunately for the suspect with the alleged stuff, he was talking to a cop, and not the friend he thought he was ringing. That's ... More >>

Last Night: The 2011 James Beard Foundation Awards The Winners

J. RitzOutstanding Chef nom Suzanne Goin and Best NYC Chef winner Gabrielle Hamilton on the green carpet outside the JBFAs. ​ We Californians have a reputation, however fictional or exaggerated, for looking on the bright side of things. So when it comes to reporting on the 2011 James Beard Fou ... 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 >>

Meet Your Busser: Gilbert Solorza (First in a Series)

​ We spend a lot of time, here at Squid Ink, writing about restaurants and their food. How it tastes, how it smells, how it looks. Sometimes, we even talk about where that food comes from. Maybe we celebrate the chef who cooked it. One thing we almost never discuss: The people who, day-in and ... More >>

Top 5 Spots for Korean Shaved Ice: Or, Your Patbingsu Fix

SupaflyKorean store window display for patbingsu​ The Korean shaved ice snack called patbingsu handily trumps even the most elaborate Fosselman's sundae when it comes to sheer, omg-inducing visual impact. For the uninitiated, patbingsu is like Pinkberry on psychotropic drugs: an often deli ... More >>

Bottega Louie Building on the Auction Block

R. E. ~​If you've got several million dollars to spare, you could be Bottega Louie's next landlord. Located at the corner of 7th St. and Grand Ave., the 80-unit Brockman Building houses the loudest restaurant in downtown L.A. but not much else. After nearly 20 months in bankruptcy court, th ... More >>

Peace-Loving Smart Car Driver Targeted By Shooter In Downey

Does this car make you want to open fire?​Someone in Downey decided not to give peace a chance. The question is, was the shooting of an eco-conscious Smart Car on the 605 freeway this week an act of anti-environmentalist defiance, or simply the prank of a kid with a pellet gun? No one knows. ... More >>

Steve Cooley, Kamala Harris Campaigns Trade Jabs As Last California Attorney General Votes Counted: Commenter Says There's No Voter Fraud

Kamala Harris has slight edge in tight race for Attorney General.​State Attorney General hopefuls Steve Cooley and Kamala Harris are still fighting tooth-and-nail over every vote for the still-up-in-the-air Nov. 2 election, with a focus this weekend on the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder's offi ... More >>

Kamala Harris To Steve Cooley: Call Off The Goons (Updated)

Getting testy in Norwalk​Updated below with response from the Cooley campaign at 7:23 p.m.Kamala Harris' chief strategist is accusing Steve Cooley's campaign of intimidating election workers in Norwalk in an effort to disqualify provisional ballots.Harris holds a narrow 14,000 vote lead in the rac ... More >>

Best Chocolate Milk: Norwalk Dairy

Flickr/Pink Scarfglass of chocolate milk​ As much as our daydreams may run toward the coffee milk you find in Rhode Island and the root-beer milk popular in the greater Wichita area, we have nothing against chocolate milk, really we don't. The sticky concoctions in most supermarket dairy case ... More >>

Prank Calls To SWAT No Joke To L.A. County Sheriffs

​Swat Team members are fuming over two recent operations in the Los Angeles area that were the result of prank calls, part of what police say is a growing national problem known as "SWATing," the Long Beach Press-Telegram reports. In a "SWATing," pranksters, displaying fake phone numbers, cal ... More >>

Extended Hours For Same-Sex Marriages Announced In Anticipation Of Prop. 8's Possible Demise Wednesday

​The Los Angeles County Clerk on Monday detailed its expanded hours for Wednesday, the first day same-sex marriages would be allowed there under a federal court ruling overturning California's Prop. 8, the initiative that outlawed such unions. The hours at the Clerk's Norwalk office will star ... More >>

Petros: Stuck in the Middle With You

And I'm wondering what it is we should do

Ask Mr Gold: Stuck in the Middle With You

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I should probably be sent to therapy for attempting this in the first place, but I'm going on a first date with someone from Orange County. Since I pack a passport when I have to go east of the 405, obviously there is no way ... More >>

Northern Comfort: In Winter, Khao Soi Hits the Spot

Ask Mr. Gold: Northern Comfort. In Winter, Khao Soi Hits the Spot

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I just returned from a trip to Southeast Asia, and while in northern Thailand, I discovered the yellow noodle dish with chicken in curry and coconut milk, known as khao soi. It's the perfect winter comfort food (spicy and cr ... More >>

National Record Store Day in LA and at Coachella: Celebrating Brick, Mortar, Mom, Pop

Patrick O'DellFatbeats' DJ Rhettmatic Celebrating record stores as part of the second annual National Record Store Day, which is tomorrow, should be a no-brainer for Southern Californians. After all, the region is the undisputed center of the vinyl industry, with RTI, Rainbo and Erika all pressing ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Miss March, Race to Witch Mountain, Sunshine Cleaning

Also, The Cake Eaters, The Secrets and more

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Dem on Dem Payback State Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-L.A.) disciplined three members of her party for not voting to put spending limits on the ballot -- part of a key compromise Democrats made to finally pass a budget with Republicans. Stripped of their committee chairmanships were Black Caucus l ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Fanboys, The Pink Panther 2, Push

Also, Crips and Bloods, Luck by Chance and the 2008 Academy Award-Nominated Shorts

Movie Reviews: The Tale of Despereaux, The Yellow Handkerchief, Yes Man

Also, Tunnel Rats and Where God Left His Shoes

Rider on the Storm: The Best and Worst of L.A. Buses, Subways and Light Rail

Scenic journeys to hell, on wheels

Chai Thung: Isaan Also Rises

The unexpected Thai restaurant

Renu Nakorn: Spicy Thai Hot Spot Reopens

To make a tiger smile

Relighting the Fire: The Return of Renu Nakorn

Shock Corrido

Two radically different Latino odysseys

Must See Art

Martin McMurray’s “The Procession” and Alia Malley’s “How Soon IS Now”

Ask Mr. Gold

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Letters

Drug Trials

County may resume experiments on mentally ill

Automatic Rounds

The Krispy Kreme Doughnut invasion