Pico Rivera

Now Open: Tierra Mia Coffee Serving Specialty Coffee Horchata Frappes in Downtown

Compared to its other locations scattered throughout the South Bay, Tierra Mia's new Downtown's location at the base of the Bartlett Building at 7th and Spring Streets is small. "Yeah, this is Downtown-sized," owner Ulysses Romero says, noting that a few of Tierra Mia's comparatively spacious cafes ... More >>

Kater-Crafts Bookbinders Practices an Ancient Art While Feeding the Hollywood Beast

In the workshop of Kater-Crafts Bookbinders, Bibles from the 19th century, calculus textbooks and medical journals on digestive diseases sit in stacks, reinforcing the reputation of books as arcane, unsexy, packed with esoteric information. But two shelves tell a different story. Lined up here ... More >>

Torture in L.A. Burbs Looks Like La Eme

Assembly District 58 Results: City of Bell Activist Cristina Garcia Beats Entrenched Has-Been Tom Calderon

Updated to reflect the final vote totals. What happened on June 5, 2012 in Assembly District 56 covering Bell Gardens, Downey, Pico Rivera and Cerritos, where government reformer Cristina Garcia beat Democratic darling Tom Calderon, of the Calderon dynasty, and will almost certainly win in Novembe ... More >>

The Original Food Trucks

Loncheras are riding the food truck tidal wave

California's Confusing Food Taxes: Why You're Paying Extra For That Breakfast Sandwich

Have you ever wondered why a sandwich that has been zapped in a convenience store microwave is taxed at a higher rate than one that isn't? Or why you pay a different price based on your answer to the question "For here or to-go?" (...Oh you didn't notice the difference? Well, that's probably why Cal ... More >>

Maria Hicks Gets Justice: Grandmother Murdered for Standing Up to Taggers Angel Chris Rojas and Cesar Lopez

Vicious taggers in 2007 murdered Maria Hicks, a beloved grandmother and neighbor in Pico Rivera, for committing the insult of flashing her headlights at one of them to stop him as he scrawled graffiti on a wall in her community. Today Norwalk Superior Court Judge Dewey Falcone sent that violent tagg ... More >>

Meet Brent Tercero, USC Student, City Council Member: He's 26 (Really)

What are your accomplishments at age 26? Wrapping up community college? Completing your bong collection? Touring Vegas locations made famous by The Hangover? Sorry to make you feel insecure and underachieving, but this is the guy your mom wants you to be: His name is Brent Tercero, and not only is ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Dal Rae

Your Counter Intelligence Preview: In Which Mr. Gold Considers Dal Rae

Anne FishbeinRichard preparing the bananas flambé tableside at Dal Rae​ This week, Jonathan Gold considers the Dal Rae in Pico Rivera, where there are enormous relish trays and people in ageless sweaters and sparkly pantsuits and where they still make the Caesar salad tableside, at least whe ... More >>

10 Best Coffee Shops in Los Angeles

T. NguyenCoffee Commissary​It used to be that you just needed one hand to count all the truly outstanding coffee shops in Los Angeles. Now, thanks to a recent surge of brave coffee geeks-turned-entrepreneurs, you need both hands to tick off all the stellar shops in the city, and maybe that is ... More >>

Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, Walks Out on 1,000-Plus Parents Who Traveled to His L.A. County Town Hall

Arne Duncan has places to be.​Lydia Grant, a big education activist in SoCal, asked us to attend U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's two-hour-long town hall in Pico Rivera earlier this week. Duncan had promised big things for the Tuesday event: The town hall is hosted by the U.S. Depart ... More >>

Local Pantry: Zeta Za'atar Lavash Chips (Say That 10 Times Fast)

JgarbeeZa'atar Zeta Hour​Hit your semi-specialty "local" national grocer (Whole Foods, we're talking about you) these days, and you can pretty much declare your local condiment duties done. But if we step away from the fancy Artisinal LA packaging and get straight down to tasting, finding top ... More >>

Six-Year-Old Boy Molested in Pico Rivera Park Bathroom as His Mother Stood Nearby

LASDAn artist's rendition of the alleged molester.​A parent's worst nightmare came true over the weekend after a mom walked her 6-year-old boy to the entrance of a park bathroom in Pico Rivera only to see him come out crying with a creep of a man following, authorities say. On Tuesday the L.A ... More >>

Worst Legislator in California, Part II

Charles Calderon lets special interest groups ghostwrite his laws

Whittier Stolen-Goods Suspect Inadvertently Calls Cop, Who Comes to Make Arrest

Not the alleged caller.​Ring-ring. Who is it? It's me, man. Got the stuff. Good work. We'll pick you up. Something like that conversation happened this week and, unfortunately for the suspect with the alleged stuff, he was talking to a cop, and not the friend he thought he was ringing. That's ... More >>

Murder Tattoo: Anthony Garcia Convicted of L.A. Gang Killing After Sheriff Notices Gory Details Inked on His Chest

The face of a dumb-ass, after the jump.​When it comes to the law, pride is a bitch. And detailing the impressive details of your crime on Facebook is one thing -- the Internet is forever -- but getting them permanently tattooed into your flesh, with the distinct possibility that you could one ... More >>

L.A. Coroner Unearths Dead Body in Backyard of Shady Lennox 'Drug House', Keeps Digging

Bad landlords beware​Update: OK. This could not possibly get more ridiculous. SOMEONE JUST SET THE HOUSE ON FIRE. Update: A suspect is under arrest! Sheriff's investigators found him near Beverly and Rosemead Boulevards in Pico Rivera. We assume the man in question is Marcos Lomeli (refer to ... More >>

The Gizmo Matrix

Rehearsal-Dinner Dining

Get a taste of your relatives-to-be at Tavern

Ask Mr. Gold: Wedding Bell Bonding, or Places to Eat For Pre-flight Consideration

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I'm getting married and in dire need of a legit rehearsal-dinner spot. My fiancée and I would gladly eat anywhere you recommend, but our families' tastes are a bit more conservative than bossam or pig ear. Any ideas for a spot (ideally W ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Japanese Cucumbers

A. SimmonsJapanese cucumbers from Yasutomi Farms.​ The cucumber sandwich is a posh punch-line. We think of feathery pads of crustless white bread layered with butter and icy green wafers. They're arranged like tiles on silver platters at high teas presided over by the wigged, rouged, and pow ... More >>

Los Angeles County Cities Have Highest Sales Taxes In The State, Including 10.75 Percent In Pico Rivera And South Gate

Slices of Light via Flickr​Updated after the jump with comments from the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce's CEO, who says high sales taxes could hurt car sales. Originally posted at 1:38 p.m. Eleven cents on the dollar in sales tax? Believe that. As five California cities, including two in Sou ... More >>

Is West Hollywood Councilman Jeff Prang Caught in a Political Tug of War?

West Hollywood City Councilman Jeff Prang​West Hollywood City Councilman Jeff Prang appears to be caught in the middle of a nasty political tug or war, but it has nothing to do with behind-the-scenes maneuvers at West Hollywood City Hall. According to WeHo News, Prang's troubles are located ... More >>

Has Teen Sasha Rodriguez's Death Following 'Electric Daisy Carnival' Put A Chill On L.A. Raves? One Venue Pulls The Plug

​Operators of a public venue pulled the plug on an Eastside rave this weekend, ostensibly as a result of unruliness at the massive Electric Daisy Carnival event at the Los Angeles Coliseum -- and the subsequent death of a 15-year-old girl who had attended the party. The Whittier Daily News re ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Henry Rollins at Largo

Caroline Ryder​"Like being licked by a cat for four hours" is how Henry Rollins describes his own show which, depending on whether you're a cat person or not, can be a fantastic or torturous way to spend an evening. At Friday's Largo show, the first of three nights in LA, he held true to his ... More >>

Music Picks: Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, VoicesVoices, Peter Gabriel, Jakob Dylan

Also, Ane Brun, the Melodians, Kate Miller-Heidke, Ian Whitcomb and others

Pave to Save Whittier Narrows?

A tense battle over erecting a "hands-on" museum and more parking on a shrinking band of green

Red Line Fever: It’s Casual

Coming to an off-ramp near you

What Is a Burrito? A Primer

It's a Chicano thing — you gotta understand

Synthpop and Hi-NRG Star Stacey Q Returns with a New Album, Live Dates

SSQ "Synthicide" In the early-1980s, a group of Southern California musicians channeled their love of Kraftwerk and The Plastics into Q, a short-lived synthpop studio project that quickly morphed into SSQ. The band was a unique presence amidst LA's musical landscape, where, despite the popularity ... More >>

Sticker Shock Treatment: Fake Governor to Pay Real Sales Tax

At the stroke of midnight Angelenos will get hit by a double dose of sales-tax increases that will bring our county's up to 9.75 percent -- tying us with Alameda County for having the state's highest countywide tax. (Some individual cities, such as Pico Rivera and South Gate, will be even higher -- ... More >>

Vendor Beware: Street Peddlers Are Vulnerable to Crime, But One Robber Gets Hard Time

There are no hard figures on whether crime against the county's uncountable street vendors has gone up during the recession, but occasionally there are glimmers of the tough life they endure. Many in places like L.A.'s MacArthur Park neighborhood are forced to pay protection money to gangs and some ... More >>

Bet the Ranchera

Long Beach Calling!

What to do in L.A., August 29-September 4

Brick's Picks: Summer Hums Along

Jazz in L.A., June 27-July 3

Burrito's Kings

Three taquerias that wrap refritos in style

A Federal Case

Eating D.F. style on both sides of town

Globavore or Locavore

Two nights at Grace, close to home and from afar

Veal Oscar

Looking for a lost classic

Nueva York

A Life of Letters

From the Red Car to the Hummer

An automotive timeline

Lowrider Ergo Sum

The code and creed of the Ranfla Tribe

Take Me to the River

L.A.’s hopes for a new park

Heartaches by the Numbers

In Search of Lost Tortas

Is Chroni's the place?

Reds

Post-communism with knife and fork

?Que Paso, Gloria?

A River Should Run Through It

Repairing downtown, riparianly