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Fake Cop's 'Prostitution Sting' Leads to Sex Attack in El Segundo, Police Say

A woman who apparently offered escort services online was no easy prey when she was allegedly attacked by a suspect this week. Police say the victim arranged to meet 33-year-old Wesley Robert Stepp at an El Segundo hotel room when the man identified himself as a cop who was conducting a "prostituti ... More >>

Carla Esparza: The Girl Who Could Kick Your Ass

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here.In January, Carla Esparza became the first Invicta Fighting Championships Straw-weight Champion in Women's Mixed Martial Arts. The gorgeous 25-year-old, ranked No. 1 in her weigh ... More >>

DUI Checkpoints Tonight, Tomorrow For L.A., West Hollywood, Long Beach

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 >>

Sameh Shenouda: Photo Of South Bay Taxi Driver Suspected Of Sexual Assault Released

A South Bay taxi driver arrested on suspicion of sexual assault is being investigated in connection with other possible attacks, Manhattan Beach police said this week. Sameh Shenouda, 38, was arrested last month for an alleged summer assault and cops say they've been in contact with other possible ... More >>

Exclusive: Mexican Institute Of Sound's "Es-Toy" Video Premiere

The easiest way to get your music released is to be the president of a record company. That's the position Camilo Lara held as the head of EMI Mexico. The occasional DJ used to only be famous among his friends for his year-end holiday mixes. Upon their encouragement, the bowler-hatted Lara -- who ... More >>

Everyone at This Convention is Greener Than You Are

The AltBuild Alternative Building Materials & Design Expo, in its ninth year, is regarded as a place for the "green-curious" to make the leap to "green-committed." For people who had already waded past compact fluorescent bulbs deep into eco-consciousness territory, however, it was the place to ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Dragonfruit

Dragonfruit is so aptly named. The baseball-sized fruit is covered in long, lime green fleshy scales that ripple out from a dark red core. Open one up and you stain your hands magenta from the nearly fluorescent flesh dotted with tiny black seeds. Asia has long grown dragonfruit -- also known as ... More >>

Music Picks: Hootenanny, The Moonbeams, Kamasi Washington

Also, Eleni Mandell, Endermen, The Lions

Passover Pizza: Matzah Pizza from Fresh Brothers

For people who have been observing Passover since Friday night, right about now you might be experiencing signs of pizza withdrawal. Fear not. Fresh Brothers Pizza has a fix for you --- a special matzah pizza, available until the holiday ends Saturday night. (We'll digress for a moment to note how m ... More >>

The Standing Room: A Hawaiian Lunch 
in Redondo Beach, 
Without Chairs

It seems crazy to find a line winding out the door of Catalina Liquors. But a stream of hungry humanity queues up at this nondescript Redondo Beach convenience store to score the outrageous sandwiches and Hawaiian-inspired lunch plates sold at The Standing Room within. This minuscule, seatless deli, ... More >>

Mark Berndt, Miramonte Elementary School Teacher, Reportedly Took Photos of Kids Bound, Gagged, Crawling With Cockroaches in Sick 'Sex Game'

Update: "'Sex Game' Teacher Mark Berndt Went Free for Over a Year: How Did LAUSD, L.A. Sheriff Let This Happen?" Updated at the bottom: DNA tests show that Berndt spoon-fed the students his own semen. A longtime South L.A. elementary school teacher was fired about one year ago, in January 2011, wh ... More >>

Alleged 'Sex Game' Teacher Mark Berndt Went Free for Over a Year: How Did LAUSD, L.A. Sheriff Let This Happen?

It's hard to imagine child-molester charges more horrific than those pinned on ex-Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, 63, yesterday. The L.A. County Sheriff's Special Victims Bureau arrested the teacher, who had been at the school for over 30 years, for binding and gagging at least 23 ... More >>

LA Beer Week's Musical Beer Crawl Hits Echo Park Tonight

Cambria Griffith Craft beer takes over the taps at the Short Stop​ The third annual LA Beer Week (this year's "week" is fourteen days long) kicked off yesterday with a two-part, eight-hour party at Naja's Place in Redondo Beach. But if you missed out on the festivities, fret not. The celebrati ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Ludo's Octopus

LA Weekly Flickr pool/MyLastBiteLudoBites octopus​ This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from MyLastBite, a lovely shot of the crispy octopus, smokey chipotle and piquillo pepper polenta dish that Ludo Lefebvre served at his most recent LudoBites. It was a one night only event, very we ... More >>

Councilwoman Janice Hahn Leads Fundraising In 36th Congressional Race

Janice Hahn​L.A. Councilwoman Janice Hahn has taken a fundraising lead in her race for Congress, with the primary election a month away. In reports out this evening, Hahn raised $274,000 for the May 17 election. Her nearest competitor, Secretary of State Debra Bowen, brought in $195,000.Hahn is al ... More >>

Los Angeles Spring Storm Fells Trees, Floods Streets, Darkens Homes

MuscleNerdTree down in L.A.​Update: PCH was reopened, and so was the Grapevine. Record rainfall was recorded around Southern California, with downtown Los Angeles seeing 2.42 inches Sunday compared with 1.48 inches on the date in 1943. See more records after the jump. The first week of spring ... More >>

The New Snack Cake: Cashew Caramel Bar from Luisa & Son Bake Shop

D. GonzalezNo kidding around: The cashew caramel bar​ Excitement in food world seems driven by the perpetual pursuit of the new. A hot opening. Emerging trends. Yet, so much about food is tied to the past. Case in point, a hot new restaurant writes on their menu how it was inspired by the ... More >>

Officer Down in Redondo

A motorcycle cop rear-ends a motorist. Who deserves jail?

Roy Choi's "Modern Picnic"

A-Frame captures Asian-American flavor

WHO'S YOUR 'CRACKER?

The Great L.A. Sprinkle Of Fall 2010: 275 Sunday Drivers Panic, Crash Into Wall

Los Angeles Injury Lawyer BlogCelebrity death match: L.A. drivers vs. God's tears​There are places on this Earth where a little weather 'round the holidays is considered a comfort. Where good citizens of the roadway maneuver their vehicles up snowy switchbacks while whistling a jolly tune, wav ... More >>

Tonight: Betty LaVette, Jews on Vinyl Revue, Eastern Conference Champions, Wallpaper, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Jets Overhead

Elizabeth FladunBetty LaVette​One of the best Betty LaVette stories came out of the veteran soul singer's performance a couple years ago at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C. In a nod to one of the year's honorees, the Who, LaVette delivered a show-stopping rendition of "Love Reign ... More >>

Where There's Smoke, There's Fuego

Looking for love — and a good restaurant — along the Belmont Shore

Ask Mr. Gold: Where There's Smoke, There's Fuego

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: Could you recommend a first-date restaurant in or around Long Beach? I might be willing to venture farther, but I would prefer to remain as close to the Belmont Shores area as possible. --Sherrick B., Long Beach Dear Mr. B.: The Long Be ... More >>

Smoking Rates Up In West Hollywood, South L.A., South Bay

​Despite nationwide efforts to curb smoking, a recent study released by the county Department of Public Health has revealed that rates of lighting up in Los Angeles have remained steady since 2002, though some areas, including West Hollywood, South Los Angeles and the South Bay have seen incre ... More >>

Stage Raw: Ovations on Monday

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSThis week's stage features on Ben Bradley's Murder and The Princess and the Frog OVATIONS ON MONDAYThe LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards Ceremony for the 2008/2009 theatre season will take place Monday, January 11, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts C ... More >>

Last Free Concert on the Pier This Thursday: A Patti Smith Appropriate Take Out Menu

Jenn GarbeeRib Eye Tacos To Go​Rock legend Patti Smith is performing the season closer again this year at Santa Monica's free Concerts on the Pier on Thursday night. Although you can't BYOB like at the Hollywood Bowl, you can pack a killer picnic. Here are a few take-out suggestions appropriat ... More >>

SYLPH'S UP

Festive! All! Celebrating Lobsters, Cheese, Downtown, Abbot Kinney and Valley Film

What to do in L.A., September 26-October 2

The Breast of Times: Go Topless Protest Day

And other things to do in L.A., August 22-28

Movie Reviews: Bra Boys, Super High Me, Alexandra

Also, Young @ Heart, Remember the Daze and more

Los Angeles Ballet

Wild Horses

Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye return to celebrate the now-30-year-old debut that changed everything

Flat Land

Fuck Yeah Fest for the Kids

Best-named summer music event is also cheapest, punkest, most youth-friendly

Beggars’ Banquets

One labor struggle ends, another begins

The Other Polarizer

Letters

Letters

Return to Sender

Bill would help renters get back security deposits

Break Dance

Secession may no longer be a dirty word for black people

A 12-Step Program in Self-Reliance

How L.A.’s hardcore pioneers made it through their early years

Letters

Letters

The Chocolate Tour

The terrible price of knowledge

Nervous Man Nervous

Big Jay McNeely in 3-D

The Movie Chasers

Public Health

Aural Oligopolis

Taste Globally, Picnic Locally