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Victoria Justice: The Kids' Choice

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. "I think you go right here," says Victoria Justice, guiding a reporter toward her house in the Encino Hills, overlooking the mountains and just down the street from Martin Lawr ... More >>

Alejandro Razo Accused Of Having Sex With Dead Woman At Sherman Oaks Hospital

A Reseda man was arrested on suspicion of having sex with a dead woman, police say. The Los Angeles County Department of Coroner planned an autopsy on the body as part of the investigation, but officials at that office said details would not be forthcoming as a result of a security hold. The suspe ... More >>

LAUSD Rubber Rooms Crowd Up

Denials and confessions by those in teacher jail

10 Best Cheap Eats in Los Angeles

As you may have noticed, this year's Best Of issue dropped on your doorstep, metaphorically if not actually, yesterday. There are hundreds (yes, hundreds) of listings, of spas and hikes and cocktails and grottos (yes, grottos), so many that you might get lost -- so many that we thought we'd pull ou ... More >>

Inside the L.A. Dominatrix Industry

This piece is part of our series on the L.A. dominatrix industry. See also: *How a Dominatrix Does Her Taxes "Chains and whips excite me," Rihanna sings. "You're a dirty little whore, and I'm going to send you home to your parents covered in cum," Lena Dunham's love interest tells her on "Girls." ... More >>

Top 6 Tacos in the San Fernando Valley

Following up on our list of the 10 Best Tacos in Los Angeles, we decided to look onwards and upwards, towards the San Fernando Valley in search of even more great tacos. And find them we did, especially in Sylmar and Reseda. While you're never too far from a taco truck or taqueria on any given jaun ... More >>

Toni Monroe Is a Big Beautiful Rapper

See also: Top Ten Sexiest Fat Chicks in Music Toni Monroe is beautiful. She has a powerful stage presence, and doesn't need a hype man. But yet, she's something of a hard sell. For one thing, she's white. For another, as her press release says, she is rap's "biggest" new artist -- a reference to he ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/916 - 4/20

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "This meal need not stray too far from your preferences. Not when there are such wide-ranging options like vegan ice cream, pizza, and com ga hai nam available." 10 Best Vegan-Friendly Restaurants in L.A.: Happy Earth Day. "C ... More >>

Reseda Crash: Old Woman in Station Wagon Plows Into Dentist's Office, Injures Six

An 82-year-old woman driving an old, beat-up station wagon crashed into the front of a Reseda dentist's office today, sending three bystanders to the hospital in critical condition and injuring three more. The driver, however, was completely uninjured, says Matt Spence at the L.A. City Fire Departm ... More >>

Asian Lanka: Finding Sri Lanka's Culinary Identity

Taric, a Sri Lankan immigrant and a regular at Asian Lanka Restaurant in Reseda, is one of those gregarious strangers who can trigger hunger pangs when he speaks to you about food while you wait in line to order. Ingredients and cooking methods leap off his tongue. Even if you're uninterested in the ... More >>

Busted Marijuana Dispensary in Reseda Could Have Been Any Other Pot Shop in Town, Cops Say

Even though the explosion of marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles happened about 5 years ago, we bet you didn't know this: The city of L.A. considers pot shops that sell weed to strangers for cash -- and that's pretty much all of them -- illegal. Scary innit? As such, the LAPD could pretty much s ... More >>

Stop-Sign Cameras Ticket 70,000 in Los Angeles Parks

Sunset Junction Ticketholders Plan Class-Action Lawsuit

Colin Young-WolffEdward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros performing at Sunset Junction in 2010​It's been nearly three months since Sunset Junction was canceled, but most people still haven't gotten their refunds. Frustrated ticketholders are now taking steps to file a class-action lawsuit against t ... More >>

Steve Campos, 25-Year-Old Motorcycle Rider, Killed by Valley Man in Pickup; Truck Driver Charged With Murder

A motorcycle like Campos'​A young motorcyclist was riding his 2010 Yamaha R6 motorcycle down Vanowen Street in Reseda yesterday afternoon at around 3:20 p.m., when -- out of nowhere -- a Nissan pickup turned right in front of the motorcycle, driven by 25-year-old Steve Campos. The truck drive ... More >>

Jane Oshita: Fall Girl

Young Woman Trying to Find Her Ride After Night Out Attacked by Two Men in Arclight Parking Lot in Hollywood

Pierre LaScottA woman was sexually attacked in Hollywood.​Updated after the jump: The District Attorney's office argues that the woman had consensual sex with the suspect and indicates she allegedly lied about the situation. Cops say a twentysomething woman who lost her way to her ride after ... More >>

Police Impersonators Kidnap, Rob Rite-Aid Drug Delivery Worker In Sherman Oaks

Rite-Aid​Let us now add to our official list of dangerous jobs -- taxi driver, armored-car guard, snarky blogger -- one more: dude who delivers prescription drug supply to local chain pharmacy. Who knew? On Thursday morning said guy was kidnapped and taken for a ride in his delivery vehicle b ... More >>

L.A. Times Interactive Crime Map Informs Public Of Assaults, Car Thefts, Rapes And Worse In Your Los Angeles Neighborhoods

Los Angeles Times​In a bid to increase internet traffic, the Los Angeles Times has introduced an interactive crime map, outlining the crime incidents in LA cities and neighborhoods. You're going to be a bit stunned by what you find.I took it upon myself to look up Woodland Hills, my favorite stomp ... More >>

L.A. Suburbs Get What's Coming To Them: West Nile Virus Has Been Detected in Mosquitos

​West Nile virus has been found in mosquitoes who can transmit to humans in Cerritos, Whittier, Rowland Heights, Encino and Reseda, making 47 cases in Los Angeles County in 2010. Of people who get West Nile, one in five get symptoms. Of those, one in 150 end up in the hospital. Hopefully the su ... More >>

More Room for the Ripper

A new and improved Fab Hot Dogs

First Bite: More Room For the Ripper -- A New and Improved Fab Hot Dogs

Christie BishopJonagold apple, portions removed​Joe Fabrocini is a scholar of the hot dog, an expert on the dozens of traditions that make up the American frankfurter diaspora. When it is imperative to explore the differences between a Carolina slaw dog and a North Jersey Italian hot dog, a Ba ... More >>

L.A. Council Rejects Home Buffer Zone For Pot Shops

​Considering its long-awaited ordinance to get a grip on 545 largely unregulated medical marijuana retailers in L.A., the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday rejected a proposed 500 foot buffer zone between the shops and homes and instead drafted language that would prohibit the businesses f ... More >>

Mother Recognized For Wrestling With Bank Robber

While most of us would run at the sound of gunshots coming from a bank, a mother's instinct prompted one woman to head toward the danger: 48-year-old Kathleen Khalid ran into the bank because her son was there cashing a check.​ Upon her arrival she found a security guard struggling with a sus ... More >>

Bobby Bendon Gets By

"Weather" — or Not?

Brainy Tacos

Gray Anatomy Con Queso

Ask Mr. Gold: Gray Anatomy Con Queso

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menuDear Mr. Gold: I was wondering if you have any recommendations for tacos de sesos in Echo Park or surrounding neighborhoods. It seems brains are more difficult to come by than they were in the past. --Nicole, Echo Park Dear Nicole: Sesos aren't ... More >>

Murder was the Case: LA Homicide No. 120, Update: Son Arrested for Stabbing Mother in Reseda Home

A 24-year-old man is sitting in jail today on suspicion of stabbing his 40-year-old mother to death inside her home in Reseda. Bryan Garcia-Munguia was arrested on June 1 around 11:15 p.m. at a Denny's, near the apartment he shared with his mother, a few minutes after he walked up to his relative ... More >>

Murder was the Case: LA Homicide No. 120, Woman Found Stabbed to Death in Reseda Home

The body of a Hispanic woman who had been stabbed to death was found today in her Reseda apartment by her brother. Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to a 911 call at 2:51 p.m. to an apartment in the 7600 block of Reseda Boulevard. Paramedics later pronounced her dead at the scene - ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

I Spy A Chinese-born former Boeing employee will stand trial for economic espionage related to charges he passed on to China documents concerning the space shuttle, Delta IV missiles and Boeing's C-17 transport plane. Long Beach Press-TelegramThis Round's for You Four steel containers holding ammuni ... More >>

Torched Dancer and Bikini Club Profiled

Today's L.A. Daily News identifies the exotic dancer who was set ablaze yesterday as a Brazilian-born single mother of two named Roberta Abdue Dos Santos Busby. The 27-year-old Simi Valley woman had recently lost her bill-collector job and returned to dancing at Babes 'n Beer Sports Bar in Tarzana. ... More >>

Babes & Beer Dancer Set on Fire

An unidentified 27-year-old woman who danced at Tarzana's Babes & Beer nightclub was set afire early this morning, say police and newspaper reports. The woman, a mother of two children, was splashed with a flammable substance and lit near the Oxnard Street club around 1:30 a.m. Thursday. A man a ... More >>

Middle-Class Flight From San Fernando Valley

Will taxpayers who are leaving “America's suburb” behind doom L.A.?

Best Hot Dog: L.A. Street Dog at Fab's

Chai Thung: Isaan Also Rises

The unexpected Thai restaurant

Pretenders: Mock Duck

And other vegetarian "meat" dishes

Tasty Comments on Bacon-Wrapped Dogs

And more from the Weekly's audience

Money Laundering

Jack White's Ghost Sonata

Dennis Zine, City Council District 3

Ask Mr. Gold

A Life in 10 Cars

Ask Mr. Gold

Harder ’n Emeralds

A Scary Abundance of Water

Part 2

A Scary Abundance of Water

Growing up with the San Fernando Valley

A Mantu for All Seasons

Mapping the Afghan menu

Shots in the Dark

Filmmakers, educators, politicians stand up to campus violence

1987 Timeline