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January 6, 2012
Los Angeles Crime Was Down in 2011, But Comparisons to 1957 Are Yanking Your Chain
This bustling, global metropolis, with its Thaitown and Koreatown, Little Armenia and Oaxacan Westside, surely isn't the Leave it to Beaver burg it was in 1957. But L.A. city leaders, somewhat bullshittingly, continue to compare present day crime to that of the "Mr. Sandman" era. The latest stats ... More >>
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June 28, 2010
LA Weekly Journalists Recognized At Southern California Journalism Awards In Downtown Los Angeles
Anderson Cooper.LA Weekly took home several awards, including Best Website for a News Organization, at the Los Angeles Press Club's 52nd Annual Southern California Journalism Awards gala, held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel downtown Sunday night. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave a speech a ... More >>
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March 22, 2009
SXSW Overview: Where We Were, What We Saw, What We Missed
View the SXSW archives for complete coverage . Randall RobertsStrange Boys drummer Matt Hammer at the Beauty Bar It's all a blur, but a few snapshots remain. Many who follow the fest, of course, were there and damn sure weren't anywhere near the Internets. We were. We were blogging. Over the past ... More >>
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November 13, 2008
Feinstein would clean Newsom's, Villaraigosa's clocks! Gawker squawks!
A hot new Field Poll shows Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom are unpopular statewide, and lag so far behind U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein that Di-Fi would sail into the California governor's post if she ran today. This news after Gawker, based in Manhattan ... More >>
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October 16, 2008
Villaraigosa's Fiscal Folly
The ant (L.A. County Board of Supervisors) and the dung beetle (City Hall)
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October 14, 2008
Billionaire Eli Broad's Fat Check to Long Beach Unified
In a reminder that it's pure fallacy when teachers and pols claim that tough, urban schools filled with poor kids cannot produce high grades and academic achievement, the tough, urban Long Beach Unified School District was today named one of four finalists for "most improved" urban schools in the n ... More >>
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September 16, 2008
"Valley Vote" and the "All About Me Mayor"
I guess they really do read LA Weekly in the San Fernando Valley. Monday night, Weekly writer Patrick McDonald was covering a meeting of Valley Vote, which spearheaded the Valley secession movement in 2001-02 and is still a highly active voice in questioning the leadership at Los Angeles City Hall. ... More >>
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September 11, 2008
Villaraigosa's Pose for Madame Tussaud
Weekly writer Patrick McDonald has a great scoop today about Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's purported "16-hour" work days, which are filled with ceremonies, PR events and travel -- including a recent session in which the "All About Me Mayor" posed for a wax statue of himself for Madame Tussaud's. We ... More >>

Blogs

Los Angeles Crime Was Down in 2011, But Comparisons to 1957 Are Yanking Your Chain

Blogs

LA Weekly Journalists Recognized At Southern California Journalism Awards In Downtown Los Angeles

Blogs

SXSW Overview: Where We Were, What We Saw, What We Missed

Blogs

Feinstein would clean Newsom's, Villaraigosa's clocks! Gawker squawks!

News

Villaraigosa's Fiscal Folly

Blogs

Billionaire Eli Broad's Fat Check to Long Beach Unified

Blogs

"Valley Vote" and the "All About Me Mayor"

Blogs

Villaraigosa's Pose for Madame Tussaud

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