A shocking lawsuit alleging that a boy was sexually abused by a teacher was essentially dismissed by the Ontario-Montclair School District as the rantings of an overzealous parent. Assistant superintendent Cynthia Byrd told the Weekly that the allegations had been investigated not only by her distr ... More >>
Bad news, meth heads: The feds just took the good stuff off the streets of the San Gabriel Valley. After 16 months on the trail, with a little help from the DEA and the ATF, a gigantic task force of investigators from the FBI, the Pasadena PD, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department and the California ... More >>
While he's putting everything into a solo, Neil Young's face looks like his electric guitar sounds: flush with feeling, vaguely threatening, and thoroughly aged. Not old as in frail, but venerable; geologic. On the chilly, windy opening night of San Francisco's Outside Lands festival, Young the lege ... More >>
Don't say they didn't warn you. Federal authorities today seem to be making an example of the folks behind an Inland Empire chain of marijuana dispensaries run under the banner of G3 Holistic. Six people were indicted and then arrested today in connection with what the U.S. Attorney's Office in Lo ... More >>
KCRW Broadcast #168 for Saturday, June 9, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Stop Whining About How Today's Music Sucks Fanatics! I am sitting in the backstage area here at the Broadway Theater in Saskatoon Canada as Road Manager Ward wrestles with the south of great sound system here in an ... More >>
KCRW Broadcast #156 for Saturday, March 17, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Rebelling in Sweet Home Alabama Fanatics! I am writing you from what's left of a night off in Washington DC. I had a good day driving around town with Ian MacKaye. A few hours ago, we drove by the house where Min ... More >>
So we know we said we'd never mention the $10 million, 340-ton LACMA rock ever again -- unless maybe it rolled off its "oversized load" truck and crushed a Prius -- but we at the Weekly have a strict policy on covering every L.A. marriage proposal ever caught on tape. And this one is special. Ramo ... More >>
Riverside Press-Enterprise / Ontario PDCarmen Montenegro.A female suspect dragging a trash can filled with body parts down an Ontario street caught the attention of neighbors yesterday. Not just because of the smell but because, according to one witness, "she was asking some neighbors" to he ... More >>
Not the victim.No. 1 worst place to play with your 1-year-old niece/nephew: an automatic-lock washing machine. If only someone had provided such life wisdom to the 15-year-old aunt of an Ontario baby last night. KCAL9 reports that, while washing clothes with her mom and sister, she was "appa ... More >>
Not the victim.No. 1 worst place to play with your 1-year-old niece/nephew: an automatic-lock washing machine. If only someone had provided such life wisdom to the 15-year-old aunt of an Ontario baby last night. KCAL9 reports that, while washing clothes with her mom and sister, she was "appa ... More >>
Wombleton Records sells an amazing collection of rare- and not-so-rare imports--though its stated mission is to further cultural exchange between Los Angeles and Glasgow, it does all that and more carrying everything from Suzy Quattro and Zounds LP's to original pressings of Dutch freakbeat ... More >>
Don't Believe the Hype! 10 Musician's Restaurants Less Strange Than Flava Flav's Chicken Joint
AppleMore 'G' please.Los Angeles is finally getting a 4G network. Yay! It's on Sprint. Pout. It's cool though. It looks like, if you're geek like that, you can buy a router and get 4G speed on your nearby iPad or laptop. But iPhones, despite being in version 4, are out of luck for now. Spr ... More >>
Flickr user Photography_1O1Is your meat being stored at the appropriate temperature? It is National Food Safety Education Month, because everyone knows that the best way to deal with a serious issue is to give it its own month. We also love giving out National Days (yesterday was National Cr ... More >>
Villaraigosa.Despite lagging passenger traffic, Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa apparently wants to hold on to LA/Ontario International airport as part of the city's Los Angeles World Airports department that includes LAX and Van Nuys Airport too. There was some talk of selling control of the ... More >>
Yuma County Narcotics Task ForceThis is your face on meth.What does 119 pounds of meth look like? Oh, about yay-high, lives in a trailer park, missing some teeth. But seriously, that's a lot of country crack, and it was seized right here in Southern California. Attorney General Jerry Brown, ... More >>
Federal and state authorities raided an Ontario street gang that allegedly has ties to the Mexican Mafia. Twenty-seven members of the Black Angels were arrested in the action Wednesday morning after a Los Angeles federal grand jury indicted 50 of the gang's members on suspicion of racketeerin ... More >>
Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq drama tops our annual critics' survey
LAXThe Transportation Security Administration (TSA) of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has secured $150 million in taxpayer dollars to speed up baggage screening at LAX, officials announced Monday.That's a lot of cash for an automated, in-line baggage screening process. Put it this way: ... More >>
The "60 Freeway Killer" pleaded guilty today to killing two women, more than twenty years ago. Ivan Hill, 48, was already serving a death sentence for the strangulation murders of six women who were found dead along the Pomona (60) Freeway when DNA linked him to the two additional murders. 60 Fre ... More >>
From Yellow Cab to Green? Santa Monica's angst now extends to worrying whether it has too many polluting taxis, driven by impolite cabbies. A freeze is in the works. L.A. TimesBill Commemorating the Other Holocaust Once more Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Glendale) will introduce a bill to commemorate t ... More >>
The Emptying Sky Both LAX and LA/Ontario airports are experiencing substantial decreases in their numbers of travelers, despite a wave of fare reductions. L.A. TimesFreeway With a View Rows of noise-break trees have been cut down by the side of the 405 Freeway in Sherman Oaks, and by an apartment co ... More >>
Leonard Cohen just announced an extended spring tour, and will hit the Nokia Theater on Friday, April 10 -- a week prior to his Coachella appearance. Which is great for those of us who were a little worried about seeing one of our favorite songwriters surrounded by a bunch of drunken/tripping/coke ... More >>
The little robot that could tops another chart
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No one on the governing board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority had the courage to tell it like it is to the warring factions that showed up Thursday to push their pet transit projects. The message to the people who want to extend the Gold Line to mars, via Ontario airport, would have go ... More >>
No one on the governing board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority had the courage to tell it like it is to the warring factions that showed up Thursday to push their pet transit projects. The message to the people who want to extend the Gold Line to mars, via Ontario airport, would have go ... More >>
Suburban coverage hit hard as the
Driven by sporadic guitars and pulsating urgency, their danceable garage rock has been compared to the Strokes. They opened with lead singer/bassist Dave Monks screaming through a fog of distortion, “Operator! Get me the president of the world. This is an emergency,” the intro for “Cheer It O ... More >>
Time to see the Donut Man
Time to see the Donut Man
Time to see the Donut Man
Cultural barriers go tumbling down the aisle
Cultural barriers go tumbling down the aisle
Should American homosexual couples head north to elope?
Whats love and the INS got to do with it?
With all this talk of marriage, has queer politics gone soft?
Jackie Goldberg wants voters to decide three-strikes law
Jackie Goldberg wants voters to decide three-strikes law
Jackie Goldberg wants voters to decide three-strikes law
Revisiting Kon Ichikawa
Revisiting Kon Ichikawa
Revisiting Kon Ichikawa
Revisiting Kon Ichikawa
Revisiting Kon Ichikawa
Revisiting Kon Ichikawa
Notes on a literary festival
At least Frank Stronach isn't bulldozing Santa Anita for condos
At least Frank Stronach isn't bulldozing Santa Anita for condos
At least Frank Stronach isn't bulldozing Santa Anita for condos
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