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Valentine Road is a Great, Urgent Doc About the Murder of an LGBT Teen

Sherman Oaks Residents Enraged Over Fire Station Secrecy

The Great Oxnard Salsa Challenge 2013: Or, Where to Eat Mexican Food in Oxnard

If you want the lowdown on where to eat really good Mexican food in Oxnard, here is your list, with one proviso. It's based solely on the merits of the salsas these places put out, whether they're actually Mexican or not. The list is short -- just five made the cut, all of them champions in the Gre ... More >>

Raves in Desert Busted by L.A. Deputies

Summer is prime raving season. But the L.A. County Sheriff's Department has in recent months been using social media to crack down on raves and house parties. This weekend deputies announced that they busted two events with the help of social media:

Oxnard Street and Whitsett: Pad Thai, Israeli Pizza Scary Lavash in North Hollywood

You know you've found a real gem of an intersection when two competing strip malls face each other, each with their own unknown dining options. The intersection of Oxnard Street and Whitsett Avenue in North Hollywood is one such magical place, with donut shops, Thai places, and at least one tropical ... More >>

David Granados' Bike Hit-And-Run Fatality Sees $50,000 Reward Offered

See also: Luxury Car Hit-And-Run Drivers Running Rampant in L.A. Cops are looking for the driver in the latest in a string of hit-and-runs involving luxury vehicles in Los Angeles. This one was fatal, ultimately killing bicyclist David Alexander Grandados after he peddled near Oxnard Street and Be ... More >>

5 Awesome Nostalgic Things to Do in L.A. This Week

It's good to step back from the present-day and look back on the city's -- or your own -- history once a while and this week lets you do just that with events ranging from bizarre to nostalgic. Check out a mid-career retrospective from artist Gary Baseman, an Esoutoric program exploring Tom Waits' ... More >>

Stories From His Life

What's in Season at the Farmers Market: A Mini Strawberry Primer

The buzz from the official arrival of spring this week was summarily squashed when a sage market-goer clucked her teeth at a friend and said, "please, I've been eating spring for two weeks. Have you seen Zimmerman's asparagus?" She had a point. Seasonal eating around here has a slightly differen ... More >>

Stacie Halas, Porn Star-Teacher, Appeals Firing, Takes Matter To Ventura Court

Stacie Halas is appealing a professional standards board ruling that she lied about her porn career and deserved to fired from her job as an Oxnard middle school teacher. The educator, whose story of being found out by students surfing the web mesmerized local and national media, is taking her case ... More >>

What's in the Chef's Market Cart: String Beans from Tamai Farm

What's in your cart, chef? This week, we ask Mark Hopkins, sous chef at Canelé in Atwater Village. We found him carefully packing his truck with what looked like too many crates of colorful late summer produce. "This week, I'm most excited about the green beans from Gloria [Tamai]," Hopkins told ... More >>

After 100-Degree Temps, Rain & Snow For L.A.

After a heat wave bathed Los Angeles in 100-degree temperatures -- in October no less -- the weather gods now bring us rain and even snow. One week later. What the hell is going on, you ask? We took that question to the trustworthy forecasters at the National Weather Service in Oxnard, who prett ... More >>

Paul Mingyu Sang, South Korean Exchange Student, Suffocates in Sand-Pit Collapse at College Beach Party

A 19-year-old foreign-exchange student at a small Christian college in Santa Clarita reportedly suffered a tragic death at a SoCal beach on Wednesday, when a hole he was digging in the sand collapsed around him. South Korea native Mingyu Sang, whose American name was Paul, dug the hole while attend ... More >>

Vanessa Tsakrios, 24-Year-Old Substitute Teacher in Oxnard, Allegedly Sexted 17-Year-Old Student

Another teenage boy's wet dream in Oxnard! Right when students might finally be coming down from the vision of Haydock Intermediate School teacher/porn star Stacie Halas getting railed on the Internet (footage she reportedly shot while she was employed as a teacher), they find out their substitute t ... More >>

Stacie Halas Was Doing Porn While Teaching, Admitted She Could Get Fired

Some enterprising investigative journalists over at Xbiz (NSFW content) have discovered what has long been rumored: Embattled porn-star turned fired teacher Stacie Halas was apparently working in the classroom at the time she was moonlighting in adult video in the mid-2000s. In fact, in one particu ... More >>

Strip Club Tax of $10 a Head Being Considered by California Legislature

Gov. Jerry Brown says there are $8 billion worth of cuts coming to state programs this summer, and that's not even enough to fill the $16 billion sinkhole California faces July 1. One enterprising legislator has a wild idea, though: Tax strip club patrons $10 each time they enter an exotic dancing ... More >>

Tragedy and Nails - Echoplex - 4/29/12

Tragedy, Nails Echoplex 4-29-12 Better than... the Bee Gees cover band of the same name. Most musicians nowadays are accessible via Twitter or Facebook, making Portland hardcore/crust punk group Tragedy quite the anomaly. Since their formation in 2000, they have shunned interviews, photo shoots, ... More >>

6 Things We Bet You Didn't Know About The Boba Truck New Oxnard Store Location

Since it's launch in 2010, The Boba Truck has become a serious contender in the Southern California bubble tea scene. Patrons know it for its unique flavors like Fuji Apple Green Tea and Rose Oolong Tea -- but there's actually much more behind the four-wheeled tea spewing machine. Turn the page for ... More >>

California Strawberry "Berry Blast Off" Contest Wants Your Recipes

Do you have a good idea for a terrific strawberry dish that doesn't involve turning on the oven? We're gonna assume the answer's yes. Lucky you, because the 2012 California Strawberry "Berry Blast Off" recipe contest is now up and running. The competition is open to anyone who has a strawberry recip ... More >>

Stacie Halas, Best Porn-Star Teacher Ever, Fired

Stacie Halas, the Southern California teacher who blew the mind of every eighth-grade boy ever, is sadly, out of work. The Oxnard School District's board of trustees tonight decided to can Halas following last month's revelations that she starred in Big Sausage Pizza and other fine adult videos pro ... More >>

Porn-Star Teachers Are Nothing New: Our All-Time Top 5 (PHOTOS)

Stacie Halas shocked Southern California and rocked her male students when it was discovered last month that she had a porn-star past. You never saw boys pay attention like they did the day they spotted her work. But, strangely, she's not the only instructor with a degree in bow-chica-bow-wow. Perh ... More >>

Porn Industry Says Ex-Performers (Stacie Halas, Shawn Loftis) Shouldn't be Banned From Teaching

So you did a little performing in your younger days -- like Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian. And? Should that mean you can't be a successful reality show star or even a teacher? The case of Stacie Halas, the Oxnard school teacher accused of having performed in adult video, has set the porn industry ... More >>

Teacher Moonlighting As A Porn Star? Oxnard School District Investigates Every Schoolboy's Fantasy

An Oxnard teacher just blew the mind of every schoolboy ever. School officials in the Ventura County town put the woman on leave this week after receiving information that she might have, as rumor had it, actually moonlighted as a porn star. Students reported the teacher as a possible adult video ... More >>

GV30: Black Flag, Descendents, The Vandals - Santa Monica Civic Auditorium - 12-18-2011

Javier CabralKeith Morris and Chuck Dukowski of Black Flag​See also: *Reviewed: GV30 Night One, featuring Social Distortion, X, Adolescents, 12-16-2011 *Tons Of Punk Videos Were Yanked Off YouTube: Here's What Happened *Milo Aukerman Interview: The Descendents Attempt To Clone Themselves Las ... More >>

Feds Sue Rogue Debt Collectors in the Valley, Reveal Horrifying Tactics They Used to Collect

mymajicdc.comWhatever it takes.​Ever had the grave misfortune, over the last five years, of receiving a call from Forensic Case Management Services in Van Nuys? You'd definitely remember. (Though the company may have called itself Rumson, Bolling and Associates, Commercial Recovery Solutions ... More >>

Squid Ink Food Writers' Most Reviled Childhood Dinners

southerbornandbredgirl/flickrFried chicken livers​ With food, one person's penance is another's pleasure. Many parents view dinner-time as an opportunity, not just to share food and company with their beloved offspring, but also to exert control. Sometimes kids are picky and sometimes parent ... More >>

Free Food Today at Cafe Rio in Lakewood

​The newest location of Cafe Rio Mexican Grill, in Lakewood, is giving out free meals all day today, form 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. It's part of a promo to mark the restaurant's opening. There will, however, be a tip jar next to the cash register soliciting donations for The Boys and Girls Club. ( ... More >>

Did Glendale Dating Service 'Two of Us' Take $100,000 From Victims Without Finding Them Mr. Right?

FoxGlenn Quagmire is available.​Candy Porbansky, a 52-year-old Oxnard widow, paid $35,000 to join Two of Us, a Glendale-based dating service, in part because her matchmaker said a very eligible, $80,000-membership buyer was on the phone just dying to meet her as soon as she signed up. But whe ... More >>

Music Picks: Physical Forms, Kimya Dawson, Madame Recamier, Young Hunting

Also, Lizz Wright, Wanda Jackson, Iron and Wine, Wallpaper. and others

They Wanna Talk to Samson: Rappers Shill for Their Favorite Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

Strong Arm Steady manhandle mucho cheeba at Los Angeles' Hemporium.​It seems like something out of Dave Chappelle's 1998 stoner comedy classic, Half Baked, but could allegiances to specific medical marijuana dispensaries be rap's next big territory war? If pot ever goes completely legal, and ... More >>

Earthquake Weather? 4.0 Shakes Santa Monica Bay

​There are true believers in the concept of hot and dry earthquake weather. They got some fodder for their theory when a 4.0 struck the Santa Monica Bay Monday night. The quake centered three miles north-northeast of Santa Barbara Island struck at 10:42 p.m. according to the Southern Californ ... More >>

WATCH: Oxnard Rapper MED Celebrates His Medical Marijuana Card in New Video for Stones Throw

MED's delivery arrives: a sack of medical marijuana.​"Used to mess up my high when I passed the law / Now I got myself a medical card." There've been plenty of musical paeans to Miss Mary Jane, and at least one famous rapper has publicly acknowledged that he's a card-carrying member of the "d ... More >>

Heat Wave: DWP Urges Angelenos To Conserve Power As Temps Soar

​The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is urging consumers to conserve power to avoid straining the city's electric grid. The National Weather and Service issued a excessive heat watch for parts of Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties from Thursday through F ... More >>

The Madlib Mystique

An exclusive interview with underground hip-hop's most elusive producer

The California Strawberry Festival: Your 2-Day Berry Eating Contest

A. Scattergood​Strawberry season hits its official peak this weekend, with the California Strawberry Festival, which is held every year since 1984 in Oxnard, a short trek up the coast from L.A. 11,538 acres of Ventura County produce more than 27% of the state's strawberry supply, which at the ... More >>

99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die

Fugu to foie gras, pizza to panuchos

Web Surfing: A Roundup of Posts from L.A. Food Blogs and Newsletters

-- Celebrating the Marino family and their restaurants. [e*starLA] -- Goody's in San Gabriel shutters. [LA Observed] -- Haitian Libations Charity Event on February 6th at Vertical Wine Bistro. [Mattatouille] -- Robbie Burns' Address to a Haggis. [Deep End Dining] -- Ruth Reichl, The Movie? (Seco ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "So you're just going to have to go with me on this: I was a baby bulimic." NYT restaurant critic Frank Bruni. "I'm dabbling in it and looking at becoming a chef." Keanu Reeves on molecular gastronomy. "There, ... More >>

S'lake'd Thirst: Fine Wine and the Return of Don Dickman at Barbrix

Claudio and Adria Blotta's new wine bar is already packed

First Bite: S'laked Thirst -- Fine Wine and the Return of Don Dickman at Barbrix

When the L.A. Weekly offices were located in Silver Lake what seems like a millennium ago, the area could not have been more of a culinary wasteland -- the only place within walking distance was what may have been the single worst Mexican restaurant in L.A. That stretch of Hyperion Avenue is now so ... More >>

End of Week Agenda: A Brimming, Ripe, Juicy Calendar

Mid-May is a busy time for food events around the L.A. area, y'all. To wit: California Strawberry FestivalBerrylicious funOnly about an hour drive north gets you to the California Strawberry Festival in Oxnard. The big, juicy, seasonal fun goes from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; general ... More >>

Valley Water Show Means Money Down the Drain

Why is it that water always gets wasted when it rains? Early on in last week's storm there was the image of a gushing fountain in Oxnard, created when a car, skidding in the rain, sheared off a hydrant.  Then, on Monday, a 12-inch main burst by MacArthur Park and shut down Alvarado Street for h ... More >>

The Killing of a Gay Oxnard Student

Lawrence King: Punch-drunk Hate

Cold Stone Greenery

Good Vibrations

Inconspicuous Consumption

It Ain't Pretty

Art and commerce clash in the NoHo Arts District about auto-body shops

Toppling Pyramids

An open-and-shut case for change at the LAPD

Who Am I This Time?

Remembering Glenn