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5 Creative Things to Do in L.A. This Week

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. For those constantly churning minds looking for inspirational artists and events, this week proves a treasure trove of creative happenings. From a pop-up Etsy shop to a wacky parade to a ... More >>

Getting Etsy With It

Bomb Prank At L.A. Port Apparently Not That Funny: John Edward Bearden Gets House Arrest

A former Port of Los Angeles mechanic was sentenced to house arrest after he admitted to punking his co-workers with a fake bomb. John Edward Bearden says he did it to ...

Westside Mansions' Power-Use Gluttony Confirmed By Awesome UCLA Electricity Map

An awesome new electricity use map created by UCLA's California Center for Sustainable Communities shows what you probably already suspect. Those righteous Prius drivers and aficionados of all things "sustainable," a.k.a. rich Westsiders, have some of the highest power usage figures in town:

How a Sardine Surplus in India May Change Our Daily Diet

Sardines may not be what's for regular seafood dinners in Los Angeles, unlike in Mumbai where there is plenty to be found at a local wholesale fish market. There is a more direct tie, however, between L.A. and Mumbai seafood supplies than a comparison of what goes onto one's dinner plate. As reporte ... More >>

It's Not a Space Shuttle or a Giant Rock, But Chevron's 100-Foot Coke Drums Shut Down the PCH Yesterday

See also: *20 Ways to Pose for Photos at the LACMA Rock *LACMA Rock Finally Opens. Does It Live Up to Expectations? Last night, Chevron began moving two of six 500,000-pound coke drums -- that's oil industry lingo for processing units -- up from the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro to its refinery ... More >>

Environmental Clean-Up Firms to Wipe Up After Carmen Trutanich's Broken Campaign Pledge

Remember Carmen Trutanich's "pledge to serve"? This is a story that refuses to die. Back in 2008, when he was first running for city attorney, Trutanich vowed to serve two terms and not to seek higher office. If he ever broke his word, he said, he would give $100,000 to the L.A.'s Best after-school ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Pasadena Greek Fest, L.A. Lobster Fest, Sour Beer Night, Tour De Fat Mumbo Gumbo Fest

54th Annual Pasadena Greek Festival Homemade spanakopita, kababs, gyro and baklava -- and many more Greek favorites, including wine and live music -- will be in plentiful supply at this long-running festival. Proceeds go to the Anthony Greek Orthodox Church in Pasadena. WHAT: Pasadena Greek Festiva ... More >>

710 Freeway Expansion Would 'Improve Air Quality and Public Health,' Says Metro; Residents Call B.S.

A new wave of resistance is swelling in the decades-old struggle between California transportation officials and L.A.-area residents over both an expansion and extension of the uber-clogged 710 freeway. That's because one of various extension scenarios just released by Caltrans and Metro happens to ... More >>

Crafted, the $8 Million Crafts Market That Will Be the Biggest in the U.S., Opens in San Pedro

Collapsible Christmas trees, Barbie dolls and iPads -- a tidal wave of goods mass-produced overseas hits the Port of Los Angeles every day. Moving this bounty from ship to shore is the lifeblood of San Pedro. It may seem odd then, that the latest attraction at the port is a humungous marketplace of ... More >>

Super Yacht Off Venice Pier Causes Commotion on Summer-Like Day

SNL​A multimillion-dollar super-yacht is making waves in Venice today. The Serena (or perhaps Serene) is sitting off the coast south of Venice Pier, close enough to gawkers on this summer-like day that authorities have been fielding calls inquiring whether the awesome vessel is too close to s ... More >>

Xi Jinping Does L.A.: China's Vice President Hopes for Lakers Game, Ride on City Yacht

ReutersXi knows how to party.​China and Los Angeles are BFFing out of control right now. After L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took a $30,000-a-day tour of Beijing, Chongqing and Shanghai in December, one of China's top officials is returning the favor: Vice President Xi Jinping, fully expec ... More >>

Million-Dollar City Yacht Is Really More of a Boat, Insists L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

Awww! L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says the darndest things when he's caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Dogged CBS LA investigator David Goldstein asked the mayor why, so deep in a budget hole, the city is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to maintain a million-dollar touring yacht ... More >>

Steve Saggiani, Longshoreman at Long Beach Port, Crushed to Death by Container

A man died in a freak container accident while on the job at the Port of Long Beach yesterday evening, City News Service reports. The coroner has identified the victim as 47-year-old longshoreman Steven Nicholas Saggiani. A Facebook profile that appears to belong to Saggiani lists him as a San Pedr ... More >>

Occupy L.A.: The Revolution Is Being Televised

After 46 arrests for civil disobedience, Occupy L.A. feels its oats

San Pedro's Ugly-Tank Cleanup is Finally a Reality: 136 Westway Tanks Will be Demolished at Port of Los Angeles

Good bye to these hideous Westway tanks in San Pedro​Way, way good news for folks in San Pedro living within breathable proximity of the abandoned, Westway tank farm, which the Port of L.A. will finally demolish. Locals hope that dirty industry on this fill-dirt pier will give way to beautific ... More >>

Occupy L.A: As City Debates Cost of Occupation, Port Spends Nearly $200,000 on Party

Moet & ChandonDrink up, City Hall.​As the skies of tolerance for Occupy L.A. are getting gloomy (both Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and city Councilman Bill Rosendahl have expressed that there are limits to how long demonstrators can camp out next to City Hall), our own tolerance for bullshit gro ... More >>

More L.A. Leaders Come Out Against Teachers Union, in Support of 'Don't Hold Us Back' Reform at LAUSD

The L.A. Civic Alliance gives this ad -- which recently appeared in the Times, Daily News and La Opinion -- a big fat thumbs up.​In case you haven't heard, the door to much-needed education reform in L.A. will either be thrown open or slammed shut this fall. More specifically, the Los Angeles ... More >>

Villaraigosa's 'Clean Truck' Plan for Port of Los Angeles Fails in 9th District Court of Appeals: Greenwashing Failed to Impress

Sparkling clean truck: Los Angeles greenwashing almost worked.​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's controversial "clean trucks" plan to squeeze independent truckers out of the Port of Los Angeles as a favor to the Teamsters -- a green-washing plan he sold as merely a wholesome effort to r ... More >>

'Navy's Guide to Scoring Drugs' Says San Pedro Is 'High Drug Use/Distribution Area,' Steers Marines to Long Beach Instead

Is San Pedro too street for the USS Abraham Lincoln?​A gutsy blog called "The Scoop Deck" on the Military Times' website seems to have caused a big enough stir this morning to get itself (and the whole site) shut down, presumably by U.S. Navy officials. Much in the tradition of our own "How t ... More >>

Jose Roman, L.A. Homicide No. 39: Teenager Fatally Shot in Back Near Port High School

Google MapsThe street where Jose Roman was killed​By Ryan Deto On February 13, Jose Roman was shot dead near the corner of West 1st and South Palos Verdes streets, just a couple hundred yards from Port of Los Angeles High School. LAPD officers, after responding to reports of gunfire, discove ... More >>

Gary Moreno, L.A. Homicide No. 31: Man Killed After Being Stabbed and Run Over Near Port of L.A.

foxnews.comPort of Los Angeles​By Ryan Deto 30-year-old Latino Gary Moreno was found dead on February 5 in the 200 block of Avalon Boulevard, less than a mile from the Port of Los Angeles. LAPD officers discovered Moreno lying in an alley with a severe stab wound to his chest and abrasions o ... More >>

Los Angeles Battles Bay Area for Right to Host USS Iowa Battleship

Will the USS Iowa rest in the City of Angels?​The age-old battle between L.A. and "the Bay" might be getting a little more tense this year as the two metropolitan areas duke it out over the retired battleship USS Iowa, a.k.a. "the Big Stick." The Historic Ships Memorial at Pacific Square in t ... More >>

Lobsterfest Gets Cracking

Lobsterfest A lobster meal​ Set to go off tonight, tomorrow, and Sunday at Ports O' Call Village in San Pedro, the Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival is sure to be a polarizing affair. Committed locavores will lock up their bibs at the notion of celebrating New England's quintessential crus ... More >>

Blue Skies Forecast For L.A. Trade

Port of Los Angeles.​2008 and 2009 were described as "dismal years" for international trade at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. But 2010 and 2011 are looking up, according to a report from the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation.

Who Would Lose the Most from an L.A. Boycott of Arizona?

​Say hello to Swift Transportation. The Phoenix-based firm is one of the nation's largest trucking companies, and the biggest player in the Port of Los Angeles' Clean Trucks Program.It also has the most to lose from Councilwoman Janice Hahn's proposed boycott of Arizona -- $18 million, according t ... More >>

In Face Of City Hall Budget Crisis, Everybody Goes To Washington

​You might have gotten the idea somewhere that the city's facing a historic budget crisis with 4,000 layoffs planned, departments closing, libraries cutting hours, less cops on the beat, and fire engine companies being furloughed. But someone has yet to inform the Los Angeles City Council that ... More >>

Transferring Jobs No Panacea For City Budget Crunch

​On a week when Los Angeles city administrative officer Miguel Santana expressed optimism that half of the city's planned 1,000 layoffs could be spared through job transfers to independent city departments such as LAX, the L.A. Daily Breeze reported that only 86 open positions could be found f ... More >>

Not Sleeping With the Fishes: The San Pedro Fish Market

Waking up at five o'clock is not the greatest way to start a Saturday morning. And as impressive as the hills of Palos Verdes may be in the light of day, in the pre-dawn hours they are obscured by the fog that often stays socked in their shadow, blurring the edges of the docks, buildings, ships and ... More >>

Unions Claim Accord With City

The Coalition of L.A. City Unions is claiming to have reached an agreement with the Los Angeles City Council that will preserve a June 26 accord to permit eligible employees to retire early. "After around-the clock-negotiations resulted in a Tentative Agreement with City unions," said a coalition pr ... More >>

Envirowimps: L.A.'s Big Green Groups Get Comfy

Activists leave the street-fighting to the little guys

The Amazing Hunt: Sci Fi gives Chase, for Race heads who might like their reality TV even more like a video game

Pilot episode takes place at Port of Los Angeles

Rock Picks: Julieta Venegas, White Stripes, Spectrum

For the week of September 13 – 20

A Heavy Load

The ports say they have a plan for cleaner, safer trucks. But do they have a plan for the truckers?

The 20 Best L.A. Italian Restaurants

Winter Restaurants 2007 – The Italian moment and four classic delis

What Lies Beneath

Best tales of treasure from the underground

Tank Goodness

A shipping giant volunteers to slash emissions at the port. But why?

The $10 Million Intervention

Mayor V’s role in South Central Farm could cost Los Angeles

Ports of Cough

What it will take to clean up the mess caused by ships and trucks

Stench of Politics

Industry money to the “Mod Caucus” fouls the fight for clean air

Solving Smog

Our suggestions for ways out of this mess

Smog Sick

Hasta la Vista, Baby

Driving for the view of it

James Hahn Interview Transcript

The (Minor) Agony on the Ecstasy

When you cruise, you schmooze — with people who don’t necessarily think like your friends back home

Port in a Storm

Dealing with the polluting ways of world trade

Ports of Cash

Out-of-court settlement could force shakeup at Port of Los Angeles

Letters

Pity Poor San Pedro

So far from City Hall, so close to the Harbor Department

Of Lice and Men

Naomi Wallace's play about London's Great Plague