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Blogs
March 22, 2013
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 >>
Blogs
February 26, 2013
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 >>
Blogs
October 22, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
October 10, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
August 24, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
July 30, 2012
3 Tons of Trader Joe's BBQ Chicken Salad Recalled
Nearly three tons of prepared barbecue chicken salads sold at Trader Joe's have been recalled, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service. The recall comes after the announcement of possible Listeria contamination at Oxnard-based Gills Onions, Trader Joe's o ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2012
Stacie Halas, Fired Porn Star Teacher, Takes on Gloria Allred as Attorney
Our favorite porn-star-turned-teacher, SoCal's own Stacie Halas, is chillin' like a villain, apparently, despite having been fired from her job as an Oxnard middle school instructor. That's because she's on paid administrative leave, kickin' back like a Teamster on disability, according to the Vent ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
May 24, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
May 15, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
April 30, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
April 23, 2012
Stacie Halas, Porn-Star-Teacher, Will Challenge Her Dismissal From SoCal School
Porn star-turned-teacher Stacie Halas is fighting back. The 32-year-old says she'll challenge her dismissal from her teaching gig at Haydock Intermediate School in Oxnard. She was placed on paid leave last month after her film work from about six years ago was discovered, reportedly by students:
Blogs
April 23, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
April 20, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
April 18, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
April 3, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
March 13, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
March 7, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
December 19, 2011
GV30: Black Flag, Descendents, The Vandals - Santa Monica Civic Auditorium - 12-18-2011
Javier CabralKeith Morris and Chuck Dukowski of Black FlagSee 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 >>
Blogs
October 14, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
September 14, 2011
LAUSD Becomes First California School District to Mandate Gay Curriculum
Instinct MagazineL.A. is officially leading this parade.The "Stop SB 48" campaign may be doing its darndest to shield California youth from the horrors of learning about gay and lesbian contributions to history, but the religious bigots behind it are bugs under the shoe of the L.A. Board of E ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
May 11, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
February 25, 2011
Blame Alaska: Rare California 'Arctic Blast' Comes From the North
Stop getting your snow all up in our happy place, PalinWe knew California wasn't to blame for this dreadful, borderline-blasphemous cold spell! As usual, we have the northerners to thank for our unhappiness: This crazy-cold polar storm is whistling like an ambush of icicles straight down from ... More >>
Blogs
January 24, 2011
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
January 20, 2011
Music Picks: Physical Forms, Kimya Dawson, Madame Recamier, Young Hunting
Also, Lizz Wright, Wanda Jackson, Iron and Wine, Wallpaper. and others
Blogs
September 14, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
August 24, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
August 23, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
July 15, 2010
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 >>
Music
June 24, 2010
The Madlib Mystique
An exclusive interview with underground hip-hop's most elusive producer
Blogs
May 10, 2010
The California Strawberry Festival: Your 2-Day Berry Eating Contest
A. ScattergoodStrawberry 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 >>
Eat+Drink
February 26, 2010
99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die
Fugu to foie gras, pizza to panuchos
Blogs
January 27, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
August 31, 2009
Celebrate 30 Years of L.A. Farmers' Markets at City Hall This Thursday
These days it seems like no matter where you live in Southern California, there's a farmers' market or two nearby offering fresh, locally grown fruits and veggies. Yet while farmers' markets in Los Angeles have a long history, (Third and Fairfax passed the 75 year mark earlier this summer) the Garde ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2009
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 >>
Eat+Drink
May 21, 2009
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
Blogs
May 21, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
May 15, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
February 12, 2009
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 >>
Columns
February 21, 2008
The Killing of a Gay Oxnard Student
Lawrence King: Punch-drunk Hate
Eat+Drink
July 6, 2006
Cold Stone Greenery
Lawrence King: Punch-drunk Hate
Columns
May 25, 2006
Good Vibrations
Lawrence King: Punch-drunk Hate
Calendar
October 6, 2005
Inconspicuous Consumption
Lawrence King: Punch-drunk Hate
News
May 13, 2004
Flamethrowers to Framecams
Cool new car stuff
News
May 29, 2003
It Ain't Pretty
Art and commerce clash in the NoHo Arts District about auto-body shops
News
February 20, 2003
Failing a Generation
How to fix California�s broken Foster-Care system
News
February 13, 2003
Toppling Pyramids
An open-and-shut case for change at the LAPD
Music
December 13, 2001
Who Am I This Time?
An open-and-shut case for change at the LAPD
Music
June 22, 2000
Remembering Glenn
An open-and-shut case for change at the LAPD
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