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We're masters of disaster in California. From the new prospect of a "megaquake" that could rip us a new one from San Diego to San Francisco to our apocalyptic wildfires, we do expensive acts of God (not to mention riots) like no other state. But considering the one thing that the rest of the nation ... More >>
It was raining in Los Angeles during the 2011 Christmas week, and the traffic on the 405 near the Getty Center was jammed. I had left Long Beach two hours earlier, and it would still be another hour before I arrived at work in Woodland Hills. That morning the red brake lights were staring at me like ... More >>
As a small warm-up for the massive DUI crackdown scheduled to harsh your mellow New Years Eve, police around the L.A. area are planning DUI checkpoints. Locations include West Hollywood, Long Beach and the San Gabriel Valley. Think of this as practice for Monday, the ultimate amateur night. We'll ... More >>
One man's ambitious, iconoclastic, like-nothing-ever-before-seen passion project is another man's Battlefield Earth, and so it goes that for some of us who saw the film's world premiere in Toronto last night, Cloud Atlas -- written and directed by Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski from David Mi ... More >>
A perfect storm could be hitting Los Angeles today: Hot summer weather, warm Pacific Ocean temperatures and high surf could combine to create disaster. And all this during a holiday weekend. Hear us out: Even as things were expected to cool along the coast, the unrelenting heat inland will bring ... More >>
Chef Paul Hancock of Avalon Grille has ambitions beyond beach food
Ah, beautiful L.A., home of beaches and billionaires and Playboy bunnies. And now we are a top American gateway ... for disease. Wonderful. New research from MIT says that LAX and New York's John F Kennedy would be ground zeroes for outbreaks, such as the next ...
"Bloody hell, men!" Boom. Pop-pop-pop-pop-pop. Boom. Three men in tan uniforms lie inert on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Their remaining comrades radio for help and cower behind their jeep, trying desperately to shoot the Germans hiding in the bushes. The canon sounds again, causin ... More >>
"Bloody hell, men!" Boom. Pop-pop-pop-pop-pop. Boom. Three men in tan uniforms lie inert on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Their remaining comrades radio for help and cower behind their jeep, trying desperately to shoot the Germans hiding in the bushes. The canon sounds again, causin ... More >>
So it's been a hot spring and you're ready to burst forth get your toes wet for summer's traditional opening weekend? Well, Mother Nature is playing a cruel joke on you for the Memorial Day holiday. Not only are we expecting cooler temps, clouds and even drizzle along the coast, but the Pacific Oc ... More >>
A race to the heart of the underworld is revving between Hollywood darling James Cameron and Virgin mogul Sir Richard Branson. The stakes are high. Only one submersible has ever touched the deepest point on the ocean floor, dramatically labeled the "Challenger Deep". That vessel was named Trieste, ... More >>
A race to the heart of the underworld is revving between Hollywood darling James Cameron and Virgin mogul Sir Richard Branson. The stakes are high. Only one submersible has ever touched the deepest point on the ocean floor, dramatically labeled the "Challenger Deep". That vessel was named Trieste, ... More >>
southpasadena.blogspot.comYou don't even want to know what's going on down there.Awesome. The Pasadena Star-News has released a two-part expose on South Pasadena's almost incomprehensibly crappy sewage system (complete with violation maps and damning documents). Turns out the consequences o ... More >>
It's getting hot out here.Your face is melting off, we know. (But look on the bright side -- bikinis will soon be all-weather wear) And while L.A.'s late-summer heat wave, with basin temps into the 90s and valleys seeing 100s, is a temporary thing, thanks to the imminent return of the Pacifi ... More >>
The Eastsider via PicasaThe lake was last drained in 1984. Yes, it was awful.For the new wave of borderline-eastside gentry who weren't around to see Echo Park Lake in a surly state of "stinking mud flat" in 1984 (or 1902, 1906, 1919, 1922, 1932 or 1946): We hate to be the bearers of bad ne ... More >>
LA Weekly is now taking poetry submissions. Interested in having your work posted right here on our arts blog? Send previously unpublished poems along with an image to go with it to poetry@laweekly.com. Major bonus points if you send us a video of you performing your work in a public space. A ... More >>
egotvonline.comSomebody's madThree shark sightings off the coast of San Diego in the last two weeks led to binocular-wielding tourists staking out areas like Mission Beach and La Jolla in hopes of catching a glimpse of a fishy dorsal fin. The Los Angeles Times reported in their story coverin ... More >>
Over the weekend we became aware of the fact that Lady Gaga a) has a little sister named Natali Germanotta and b) that Natali is pretty stylish, just like her big sis. This got us thinking about all the other famous musicians out there with siblings that are just as talented as they are, even if ... More >>
TheGirlsNYAh-hah!U.S. authorities seem pretty cocksure about this case: After a boat ran around in Carlsbad and smuggling-at-sea suspects they were shadowing on land led them to an apartment in Anaheim several hours later, they found ... ... nine illegal immigrants there whose clothing was c ... More >>
TheGirlsNYAh-hah!U.S. authorities seem pretty cocksure about this case: After a boat ran around in Carlsbad and smuggling-at-sea suspects they were shadowing on land led them to an apartment in Anaheim several hours later, they found ... ... nine illegal immigrants there whose clothing was c ... More >>
​The town of Casmalia, about an hour north of Santa Barbara and just a few miles from the Pacific Ocean, is best known as home of The Hitching Post restaurant, one of the best steak joints in the country and winner of the 2010 National Beef Backer Award. But the old railroad boom-town is not exac ... More >>
Marina del Rey's future is looking like L.A.: chain stores and towers
Matt Popieluch (Big Search, Foreign Born, Fool's Gold) writes on his favorite solo projects.Guest blogger Matt Popieluch is not only the lead singer in Foreign Born and riddim guitarist for Fool's Gold, but an "artist gone rogue" in his own right. He's celebrating the release of the debut alb ... More >>
taberandrew via Flickr A mockumentary released today by Heal the Bay aims to promote the passage of AB 1998, a state measure that would ban the single-use of plastic bags in retail stores in California, according to a release by the nonprofit. Actor Jeremy Irons narrated the four-minute piec ... More >>
Multimillionaire Steven Dahlberg let sewage into the Pacific for years. His modest fine: $54,000
Is it soup yet? Definitely. Today, although it looks beautiful and white-capped under the gloomy skies, Santa Monica Bay is teeming with toxins and filth, big-time, because a fairly heavy rain hit the city this morning following months of drought. And that rainfall washed God-knows-what kind of bui ... More >>
In a sign of how quickly the economic crisis is loosening California's grip on its natural resources and historical heritage, the Will Rogers Ranch Foundation is, according to the L.A. Times, seeking to take control of the operation of Pacific Palisade's Will Rogers State Historical Park. The park i ... More >>
Diggin' in the crates
What to do this week
What to do this week
Lawbreaking kayakers try to change an urban river's sad course
Shopping at the Eco Gift Expo
Is “Run!” the new strategy against firestorms on California's urban fringe?
The Chameleon
Best places to hang your hat — forever
Best places to hang your hat — forever
Living high on the Golden Mile
Living high on the Golden Mile
From Two and a Half Men to Dr. Zhivago
A striptease at Black’s Beach
On foot among the waterfalls of the Temescal Loop Trail
The U.S. military faces a battle of another kind in Japan
The U.S. military faces a battle of another kind in Japan
The U.S. military faces a battle of another kind in Japan
From Downtown to Long Beach Harbor
Horsing around in Southern California
Horsing around in Southern California
Suzy Beal sniffs the boulevard from downtown to the 405, then gives up.
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