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A Really Tough Job: Judging L.A.'s International Wine Competition

Would you call this heaven or hell for a wine lover? Getting forty-three Cabernets to taste but not drink, 27 Viogniers to sample and spit out -- and so on, through some 3,200 entries in this year's Los Angeles International Wine Competition. More than 70 judges willing to take on the challenge ga ... More >>

Kyle Bangayan: Man With Weapons Mentioned Newtown, Made School Threats -- Cops

Kyle Bangayan, a 24-year-old suspected of making violent threats against local schools in Facebook statements that referred to the Newtown tragedy, was arrested by the LAPD and the FBI, authorities announced this morning. The Pomona man was taken into custody at his parents' East Hollywood residenc ... More >>

Music Picks: Bloc Party, Metric, KROQ Acoustic Xmas

Top 4 Labor Day Food Events: L.A. Times' "The Taste," Lawry's USC Tailgate, Pico-Robertson Block Party L.A. County Fair

L.A. County Fair Yep, it's county fair time again. Enjoy fried treats, carnival games, amusement-park rides and more than 20 big-name musical acts through the end of September. WHAT: L.A. County Fair WHEN: Friday, Aug. 31 - Thurs., Sept. 30 WHERE: Pomona Fairplex, 1101 W. McKinley Ave., Pomona. CO ... More >>

California Tax for Mentally Ill Is Going Toward Massage Chairs, Zumba Classes in SoCal

California Governor Jerry Brown is asking for another tax hike this November: He hopes the dead-broke people of this dead-broke state will have the heart to toss a few coins at our crumbling education system. But how do we know our money won't end up paying for some bedazzled charter-school megagym ... More >>

Ginormous Drug Bust in L.A. Nets 160 Pounds of Meth: Alan Tamayo-Montoya Arrested

Authorities today said they seized enough meth to keep every trailer park in America humming for at least a year. Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Drug Enforcement Administration along with El Monte and Santa Monica police too 160 pounds of redneck crack off the streets ... More >>

Music Picks: Regina Carter, Madness, Melvins, Grace Woodroofe

Also, Neon Indian, Moab, Damien Jurado and others

Pomona College Caught in 'Wave of Anti-Immigrant Hysteria,' Says Professor

The illegal-immigration debate is on fire at Pomona College in far-east L.A. County. "You'd think that if any place was going to be a safe haven for immigrants, it would be at colleges and universities," says Peter Dreier, a professor at Occidental College in L.A. proper. "But that doesn't seem to ... More >>

America's most-watched performance art

Pacific Standard Time Performance Art Festival Preview

Music Picks: Method Man, Sufjan Stevens and Raymond Raposa, Billy Childs Jazz Chamber Ensemble

Also, Lights, Gallows, Slow Club

Five Bands Bringing Rock Back To Metal

Swedish occult-rockers Ghost​Trademarks such as death-growl vocals and vicious blast beat drumming have caused the term "heavy metal" to be associated in 2011 with the most guttural sounds that can be produced by mankind. It's very easy to forget that prior to the mid-1980s emergence of subgen ... More >>

Best Chicago in Pomona

Meet OverDoz: L.A.'s Freakiest, Cheekiest Collective

CalmaticOverDoz's core four: Joon, Sleezy, Kent, and Creamie​The small army splayed around a table on the patio of Inglewood's Simply Wholesome is focused on the black Range Rover parked just outside the door. Stevie Wonder's in the passenger seat. The eight members of Los Angeles collective O ... More >>

Vote Online Jan. 1 for Rose Parade Viewer's Choice Float: In 2010 A Weenie Cal Poly Float Won

Weenie winner: Cal Poly's 2010 Rose Float​Update Sunday afternoon: The students at Poly win again, clever things. See Viewer's Choice 2011 float on jump. You've got less than two hours to online vote or text vote for the best 2011 Rose Parade float. The Viewer's Choice has gone for two years ... More >>

Tonight: Blonde Redhead, Ed Vallance, Bryce Avary, Chasing Kings, Black Apples, Dirt Dress

Pier Nicola D'AmicoBlonde Redhead​Color us among the many who were thrown for a loop by Penny Sparkle, the latest album from long-running Blonde Redhead. With Misery Is a Butterfly (2004) and 23 (2007) having elevated the New York City trio beyond cult status, Kazu Makino and twin brothers Si ... More >>

This weekend: Best Coast, Stars, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Fistful of Mercy, Mayer Hawthorne, Junip, Pennywise, Ghostface Killah

Best Coast​"I went from being a college dropout to being NME's top-four cool list," Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino tells the Weekly's own Gustavo Turner in last week's cover story. "It's just bizarre the way life kind of turns and changes sometimes." Yeah, we'd say so. The L.A. trio's modest ... More >>

Los Angeles Has A New Serial Murderer On The Loose: Authorities Connect Three Victims Killed Within 20-Year Span

Christine Pelisek helped to bring the 'Grim Sleeper' serial murder case to light in 2008.​Leave it to Christine Pelisek, the killer reporter who used work at the Weekly, to uncover a new serial murderer who's on-the-loose in Southern California. From her new base at the Daily Beast, Pelisek ... More >>

L.A. Rush-Hour Disaster: Big Rig Carrying Dog Food Collides With Big Rig Carrying Tires On Pomona Freeway

Japan ProbeThis heartbreaking photo from Japan has nothing to do with what happened on the Pomona Freeway last night​Just when Pomona commuters thought rush hour was petering out last night -- Ba-BOOM. Rubbery kibbles 'n' bits met tumbling hoops of man-rubber at 8 p.m. in the eastbound lanes ... More >>

Tonight: Slayer, Megadeth, Film School, Los Enanitos Verdes, Wiz Khalifa, Born Ruffians, Frank Fairfield

Slayer​If the current "Clash of Titans" tour featuring Slayer, Medageth and Anthrax has reinforced one notion, it's that anger never goes out of style. The tour, with Slayer and Megadeth co-headlining, has been raging, drawing metal fans young and old to the music of bands that, along with Me ... More >>

Urban Nomad: Aldo from Maldita Vecindad Talks Collectivism, Jane's Addiction at SmokeOut Festival

Urban Nomad, the gregarious Jeremiah Alexis, will be shooting exclusive video for LA Weekly. Make sure you check out the previous installments here. The URBAN NOMAD returns to Cypress Hill's SmokeOut Festival 2010 to commune with '80s rock en español collective Maldita Vecindad. Bassist Aldo talks ... More >>

Music Picks: Ooh La La Fest, Pavement, Beach House

Also, Kris Kristofferson, the Black Keys, Bettye Lavette and others

Tonight: Fool's Gold, Dirty Projectors, All for the Hall benefit, Chinese White Bicycles, Jim Jones Revue

Marianne WilliamsFool's Gold​You almost wonder what Fool's Gold can do for an encore. The L.A.-based purveyors of pop and world-beat jambalaya have now toured the globe with their songs for a multinational, friending (in the true sense) the likes of Malian musical rebels Tinariwen and challen ... More >>

Unfinished Symphony

Steve Roden shifts into overdrive

National Weather Service: 'Dangerous Heat Expected' For Much Of L.A.

NASA​Hot enough for you yet? Still complaining about that cool summer? Didn't think so. And it looks like Madre Nature is about to turn it up a notch. The National Weather Service has issued a notice that states, in part, "dangerous heat expected" for Wednesday. The usual suspects should be o ... More >>

Tonight: Laura Marling, Squeeze, Sister Nancy at Dub Club, Obits, Neon Trees, Vanaprasta

Laura Marling​One week, two acclaimed U.K. folk singers: Somebody must have planned this thing. Last night it was Conor O'Brien, aka Villagers, giving a mesmerizing solo performance at the Hotel Cafe. (And, yes, this Conor O. very much recalls Conor Oberst.) Tonight, Laura Marling visits the ... More >>

Tonight: Maps & Atlases, Voxhaul Broadcast, Teen Inc., Lelia Broussard, Sara Radle

Drew ReynoldsMaps & Atlases​Indie-rock has just about exhausted all its permutations, hasn't it? You think so, and then you stumble across somebody like Chicago four-piece Maps & Atlases, whose don't let their technical prowess and penchant for experimentation (or impressive beards, for that ... More >>

Where Punk Meets Glam: An Interview with Murderdolls' Joey Jordison and Wednesday 13

[Also see the review by Full Metal Jackie and Alex Distefano of Thursday's Murderdolls show at the Key Club.] Taking a few minutes before a headlining show at the Key Club in Hollywood, Joey Jordison and Wednesday 13 took time to give the LA Weekly insight into the much anticipated second Murderdol ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Merle Haggard, X, Playboy Jazz Festival, Henry Rollins, Murs, the Glitch Mob, Dr. John, Tortoise

​Even if the only ink you sweat is your printer cartridge and your idea of iron comes in your vitamin supplements, there's a lot to recommend at this weekend's Ink-N-Iron Festival: the tunes. Among the the tatted masses, meticulously coiffed pompadours, corseted pin-up girls and acres of machi ... More >>

Wine & Cars Under the Stars Comes to the Fairplex June 19th

LAIWSCTasting session prep​Judging sessions for the 71st Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition have wrapped up as of the end of May. The ribbons may be on the bottles, but the winners will not be publicly announced until the annual Wine & Cars Under the Stars event at the Fairpl ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Mumford & Sons, Free Kutmah benefit, Fitz & the Tantrums, Death by Stereo

​Mumford & Sons don't add up. Four tidy West London boys doing achy, dusty Americana -- why, that's almost as suspect as four preppies from Columbia University embracing world beats in their pop music, isn't it? Indeed, Marcus Mumford and compatriots Ben Lovett, Country (!) Winston and Ted Dwa ... More >>

Live in L.A.: At the movies with Isaac Brock, Band of Horses, Angus & Julia Stone, Peter Himmelman, the Airborne Toxic Event

​Think of it as an indie rocker with extra butter. Modest Mouse main man Isaac Brock is in town tonight to perform a short set after a screening of a documentary to which he (along with James Mercer, Jack Johnson and others) contributed music. The film is "180º South," which retraces a 1968 t ... More >>

Rock Picks: Willie Nelson, Maude Maggart, Two Tears

Also, Cold Cave, Ceci Bastida, Califone, and others

Nicole Cherubini at Santa Monica Museum of Art

Ex-LAUSD Super Accused of Using Fake Badge to Pull Woman Over

Ruban Zacarias, who left as the top dog of the Los Angeles County Unified School District in 2000, plead not guilty did not enter a plea* today in response to a charge of impersonating a police officer, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office reported.Zacarias, 80, is accused of using a school po ... More >>

Rock Picks: Os Mutantes, Hall and Oates, Bat for Lashes, Davila 666, Maia Sharp

Also, the Mars Volta, Nine Inch Nails, Gun Outfit, the Pretenders and others

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Prison Mom & Baby Escape, Are Captured State prisoner Daphne Delorah Miner is back behind bars after escaping from a prison parenting class in Pomona. Miner was apprehended in Downtown L.A. and her newborn son taken from her. L.A. Daily NewsGone in 600 Seconds A team of five armed thieves drove ... More >>

At the Body Art Expo: Ink-Stained Wretches and Tattooed Babes With Prickly Piercings

The pain and the beauty, from tattoo coverups to dermal anchors and subdermal corsets

Rock Picks: The Kooks, Neil Young, Jerry Cole Memorial

Also, Kaki King, The Notwist and more

Hearts and Snow Cones

Giant Drag wake up and smell the celibacy

Hearts and Sno-Cones

Giant Drag wakes up and smells the celibacy

Erin Go Binge!

La Vida’s guide to St. Paddy’s Day, L.A. style

Lights Out, Spud Dick

Living and Dying in L.A. - Part 1

A call for a new generation of Latino arts leaders

Tenant Services

Musclin’ and Guzzlin’

In praise of V-8s

They Don’t Make 'Em Like That Anymore

Raising Robbie

Playwright Jon Robin Baitz on his youthful skip through L.A.

Peripheral Visions

The edge of L.A. in three dimensions

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