O.J. Simpson

Watch L.A. Grow With This Time-Lapse Map

In 1984 Los Angeles hosted the Olympics, Ronald Reagan was president and crack and AIDS were just starting to do damage. So much has changed since then, from the gentrification of Echo Park and downtown to the development of an actual subway system, that it seems like eons ago. Google, with the hel ... More >>

V-Nasty's Alleged Ex Fires Back With Song Referencing OJ Simpson

Last fall we spoke to Brooklyn rapper Magneto Dayo, who has collaborated with V-Nasty, the controversial MC who used to be aligned with Kreayshawn in her White Girl Mob crew. See also: V-Nasty, Having Split With Kreayshawn, Talks About Her "$750,000" Deal Dayo said that he and V-Nasty had been in ... More >>

Why Jury Duty Was One of the Best Experiences of My Life

More First Person pieces: *I Was Sick of L.A. Traffic. So I Took a Plane to Work *I Rode the Entire L.A. Metro in a Single Day *Why the San Fernando Valley Hate Needs to End Once and For All Last month I was an L.A. Superior Court juror. It was a simple felony robbery trial, with a 20-year-old man a ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Tuesday, December 4 The Starvations THE ECHO Sometimes you gotta amend "never again" to "just once more," especially when there's a good reason, and this completely unexpected reunion of L.A.'s Starvations didn't come easy. It's a benefit for writer Joseph Mattson, author of a much-acclaimed novel ... More >>

Music Picks: Lauryn Hill, Bad Brains, Shuggie Otis

Kelli Sager: Who's on First?

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Kelli L. Sager doesn't seem intimidating. With her face framed by soft brown bangs, her warm manner evokes her small-town upbringing in Wenatchee, Wash. But some magnolias ca ... More >>

Occupy L.A. Eviction: Is LAPD Restricting Coverage With Last-Minute 'Pool Media'?

[Update, morning after: Awesomely, the "pool" reports turned into a sort of crowd-sourced feed; LA Weekly reporter Gene Maddaus says he received constant email updates throughout the night from news outlets with soldiers in the pool. So it seems the chosen ones didn't adhere to the LAPD's silly, une ... More >>

Casey Anthony: Rumors Abound That She Has Come to Southern California

YfrogCasey and friend.​Updated after the jump with one local reporter saying Anthony wasn't on the plane to SoCal. First posted at 1:08 p.m. Southern California is home to the celebrity who gets off. And we're not just talking about Charlie Sheen. You know: OJ Simpson. Lindsay Lohan. Phil S ... More >>

Carmageddon Playlist: 7 Songs that Namecheck the 405 Freeway

​ By Sheila Dichoso Carmageddon is coming! We thought we'd remind you again about the three-day 405 shutdown. The media warns that chaos will ensue, so stay at home and smoke weed or something. The San Diego freeway is notoriously loathed. Because of its congestion, we put up with way too ma ... More >>

Casey Anthony Porn Video Offer Withdrawn by L.A.'s Vivid Entertainment

A photo said to be of Casey Anthony and OJ Simpson posted at Yfrog.​She might be (somewhat) innocent, at least according to a Florida jury. But at this point it looks like Casey Anthony couldn't get arrested, even in the porn capital of the world. Vivid Entertainment, the nation's biggest ad ... More >>

Casey Anthony: Echoes of OJ Simpson For Veteran Trial Watchers

Casey Anthony.​Ah, where would we be without our summertime, white-lady crime? In this edition we have not a missing Anglo female, but a woman accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter. And after the not guilty verdict form Florida in the Casey Anthony case, we haven't seen this much publi ... More >>

You Don't Gotta Believe

LOOK WHAT THEY FOUND

OJ Simpson Attorney F. Lee Bailey Says Defense Sat On More Evidence Proving Client's Innocence

baileyandelliott.comO.J. gets off.​While most of the world continues to think, yeah, O.J. did it, his former attorney, F. Lee Bailey, dredged up what he claims is evidence sat on by the defense that would have further proven his client's innocence. That would include, he claims, a witness who ... More >>

Villaraigosa Voted Worst Angeleno Of All Time

​Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa topped a list of all-time worst Angelenos chosen by online voters who responded to the Talk Back to Lopez poll at the Los Angeles Times. Wow. Maybe that $120,000 trip to Europe last month during the city's worst budget crisis in generations or taking time out to app ... More >>

Queer Town: Big Media Wants Full Access to Prop. 8 Trial

We're almost finished with 2009 and 2010 is already shaping up to be a very interesting year -- at least for gay and lesbian folks.Patrick Range McDonaldProposition 8 protestors in West Hollywood in October, 2008.​Queer Town sounded the alarm a few weeks ago about the need to allow TV cameras insi ... More >>

Camp Freddy's Billy Morrison and Donovan Leitch List Ten Important Cultural Moments of the 1990s

Editor's note: In honor of the final week of Camp Freddy's December residency, which happens tonight at the Roxy, West Coast Sound asked members of the band to chime in on their favorite music of the decades. Two weeks ago Billy Morrison highlighted his favorite things about the 1970s. Last week Don ... More >>

Tiger's Wife Is A Hero: We Look At Other Maligned Acts Of Bravery In Recent History

Tiger Woods Foundation​Tiger Woods' wife is a hero for rescuing the legendary golf pro after he crashed his SUV outside his Florida driveway early Friday morning. Standing over him, perhaps with golf club in-hand, Elin Nordegren was an image of selfless giving. She busted out a window with the ... More >>

Eleven Warhol Portraits Stolen

​When art collector Richard L. Weisman's housekeeper showed up for work at his Angelo Drive home in the hills near Benedict Canyon, she knew something was missing from the dining room -- 11 Andy Warhols to be exact. She didn't stick around to count what had been taken, though, and fearing the thie ... More >>

O.J. Simpson's Footballs Intercepted in Court

Like Jake Gittes' Chinatown, nothing is ever what it seems in O.J. Simpson Land. Simpson, of course, was sentened last year from nine to 33 years in prison  for using muscle and guns in a Las Vegas hotel room to get back memorabilia he claimed belonged to him. According to Associated Press' Lin ... More >>

Today in Photographs: July 2, 1970

Just Kickin' It. Young Buffalo Bills running back O.J. Simpson studies the team's playbook in his favorite room of his Bel-Air home.LA Times/UCLA

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

E.L.A. Gold Line Fears City and MTA officials worry for the safety of jaywalkers and beat-the-train drivers once the new Gold Line extension's trains begin running through East Los Angeles. L.A. TimesLakers Parade Wednesday morning the championship L.A. Lakers team will parade from Staples Center to ... More >>

Cliche Watch

Among the hundreds of times the expression "Chickens have come home to roost" appeared in American newspapers this year, the following subject categories, gleaned through a Nexis-Lexis search, caught our attention. Government: 236 timesRepublican Party: 51Bailouts: 34Islam: 6Immigration: 5OJ Simpso ... More >>

O.J. Simpson's Day of Infamy: A Holiday Timeline of O.J. News From Every December 5 Since 1994

From Greta Van Susteren's boasts to the Vegas sentencing

O.J. Simpson: A Holiday Timeline

It doesn't exactly seem like yesterday afternoon, but pretty close to it, that I stood in an LAX cocktail lounge that erupted in cheers when jurors in O.J.Simpson's murder trial announced they'd found him not guilty of killing Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. That was October, 1995. This mor ... More >>

Witness From the Prosecution

Phil Noir: Phil Spector’s Dark Victory

Trial wrap-up: A juror’s Lana Clarkson fantasies and failed casserole strategy as the Wall of Sound architect gets away with — what?

Phil Noir: Killing Time

Hanging a jury, listening to Phil Spector’s basement tapes

Phil Noir: Court Gesture

Dr. Baden’s ah-ha! moment

Phil Noir: Spattered

Doctor Death’s trigger-nometry lesson, plus reluctant witness Sara Caplan speaks to L.A. Weekly

Phil Noir: The Heart of the Spatter

Jurors get put on a strict science diet

The Fuhrman Factor

Thirteen years later former LAPD detective is still haunted by one that got away. Was justice in the Dawn Gamez murder case another casualty of the O.J. Simpson debacle?

Phil Noir: Like Watching Blood Dry

A slow trial suddenly goes ballistic

Phil Noir: Doth the Doc Protest Too Much?

Criminalist Henry Lee lashes out at critics

Sharon Ben-Tal, Wally Hedrick

Taser 'Em All

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9 Reasons UCLA Will Beat USC in 2006

9 Reasons UCLA Will Beat USC in 2006

Hollywood Lived Here

The semi-glorious and sometimes gory history of Hollywood apartment living. (Part of LA Weekly's special apartment-living package.)

Breathing While Black

Confessions of a 'post-Negro'

The Surprise Witness

Is it too early to wonder if Steve Cooley can win the big cases?

Murder at the Vanities

Town Without Pity

Land and LAPD Scapes

Photographs by Warren Neidich, Laurie Brown, Anthony Hernandez. Plus, 100 years of crime and punishment

TV Trial

The scrutiny of Sara Jane Olson et al.

Burning Man

Getting in Touch with One's Inner Churl

Pain and Punishment

Legal logic keeps AIDS patient in jail, off his medicine

Money, Money, Money

1995 Timeline