Rialto

GLOW Festival in Santa Monica: The Trials of Creating an Art Show on the Beach

Darian Tillman: Suspect 'Sextorted' Teen Into Taking, Sending Nude Images

Federal authorities say a Corona man coerced underage victims to photograph themselves in sexually explicit ways and then send the images to him via the internet. Darian Anthony Tillman, 21, pleaded guilty today to "enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity" as part of a deal with federal ... More >>

Why California Democrats Protect Sex Abuser Teachers

How Betsy Butler and Mike Eng torpedoed Alex Padilla's sex-pervert bill, SB 1530

Rodney King Compared LAPD Beating to Abuse Suffered by Slaves

Updated at the bottom with complete audio of the show. First posted at 12:53 a.m. KPFK (90.7 FM) says it probably has the last interview given to the press by Rodney King, who drowned June 17 in his backyard pool in Rialto. The interview will air this morning and stream on its website at 7 a.m., a ... More >>

Rodney King Was Smoking Weed Before His Death -- Report

Rodney King's fiancee is reportedly saying the 47-year-old was smoking weed before his death yesterday morning. But don't blame it on the marijuana just yet. While cannabis is a depressant, Cynthia Kelley also told friends, according to TMZ, that he had been drinking -- a lot. King had a long an ... More >>

Rodney King Dead at 47

Rodney King, whose beating by Los Angeles police helped spark the 1992 riots, died early this morning in an apparent drowning, police said. He was 47. His fiancee found him unconcious in the swimming pool of his Rialto home about 5:25 a.m., Capt. Randy DeAnda told City News Service. Cops said he w ... More >>

Marijuana Dispensary in Upland Raided by Feds: Six Arrested As Part of Ongoing Obama Administration Crackdown

Don't say they didn't warn you. Federal authorities today seem to be making an example of the folks behind an Inland Empire chain of marijuana dispensaries run under the banner of G3 Holistic. Six people were indicted and then arrested today in connection with what the U.S. Attorney's Office in Lo ... More >>

James Beard Awards 2012: Semifinalists Announced

Los Angeles chefs made a strong showing among the semifinalists for the 2012 James Beard Awards, which were announced today. Local nominees for the Best Chef, Pacific award include Josef Centeno (Lazy Ox Canteen), Michael Cimarusti (Providence), David Feau (The Royce at the Langham), Matt Molina (M ... More >>

Bryan Stow Beating: Of 20 Witnesses, Only 1 IDs Suspect Louie Sanchez; None Finger Co-Defendant Marvin Norwood

Marvin Norwood.​Former baseball manager Yogi Berra uttered the immortal words "deja vu all over again," and, well, you have to wonder if that phrase applies to the prosecution of two men accused in the near-fatal beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow at Dodger Stadium. Reports from t ... More >>

Beaches in L.A. Moving Inland: Rising Seas Via Global Warming Mean Drinking Water Problems

Kim Davies​Why go to the beach when the beach will come to you? Literally. Slowly: A fraction of an inch at a time. A new report says that by the mid point of this decade sea level will be a foot and a half higher. That, in our view, could be devastating to the way-too-close-to-the-beach deve ... More >>

Louie Sanchez and Marvin Norwood -- Bryan Stow Beating Suspects -- Reportedly Cut Out Stow's Eye and Tongue, Then Bragged About It

Louie Sanchez, 29​Marvin Norwood, 30​Update: To be clear, the criminal complaint against Sanchez and Norwood alleges that the suspects "did cut and disable the tongue, and put out an eye," but the District Attorney's Office says Stow did not actually lose either his tongue or eye. More d ... More >>

Angenette Thomas, L.A. Probation Officer, Bilked Federal Gov Out of Unecessary Student Loans, Kept Cash, U.S. Attorney Says

zazzle.com​Talk about a naughty school girl. With handcuffs, no less. As if the L.A. County Probation Department doesn't have enough problems comes word that an officer allegedly applied for federal student aid she didn't appear to need and pocketed more than $135,000. According to the U.S. ... More >>

Aaron Scott Vigil, Rialto Cop, Busted by FBI For Allegedly Accepting Bribe And Promising to Make an O.C. Prosecutor's Case Go Away

Andy Clymer​Little, money, lots of burn in this case, it would seem. FBI agents today arrested a Rialto cop and an Orange County defense attorney for allegedly taking cash for a defendant in exchange for telling prosecutors he was an informant who deserves easy treatment. The alleged bribe w ... More >>

Joseph Mahon's Burger Parlor: His Permanent Fullerton Burger Pop-up

A. ScattergoodJoseph Mahon in the Bastide kitchen​ The trajectory of a fine dining chef these days is circuitous -- see: Ludo Lefebvre -- more often than not encompassing pit-stops, pop-ups, food trucks, food festivals, fried chicken epiphanies, grilled cheese sandwich trophies, then back to b ... More >>

Jamie Jones, 28-Year-Old Rialto Resident, Killed by Freightliner on 210 Freeway

Facebook28-year-old Jamie Jones​A double accident on the 210 East in the wee hours this morning took the life of 28-year-old Jamie Angelina Jones, a Rialto resident who had been riding in the passenger seat of a 2008 Kia. California Highway Patrol officers tell City News Service that, at abou ... More >>

Taco Bell Drive-Thru Robbery Claims Life of Joshua Michael Huizar, 20-Year-Old Southern Californian

Google MapsA young man was killed at this Taco Bell drive-thru.​Updated after the jump: Police say they have their man. There's a fast food killer on the loose in Southern California, and cops say he might have hit eight restaurants and convenience stores in the Inland Empire. The latest cri ... More >>

Danuta W. Tuszynska, Attorney Who Filed Suit Over Allegations That Rialto Cops Got More Than Lapdances From Local Strip Club Workers, Is Targeted In Burglary

A suit alleges police in Rialto did more than protect and serve.​Boy, things are getting dirty in the Inland Empire. And we're not just talking about the action around the stripper pole at the Rialto Spearmint Rhino, where, it's alleged, on-duty cops picked up employees and took them to their ... More >>

Whew! White Supremacist Daniel Schruender NOT A Shoo-In For Rialto School Board

​ Last week we told you about the white supremacist Daniel Schruender, who claims to be a retired teacher, running for the governing board of the Rialto Unified School District. Thankfully, a bunch of candidates have filed to run for the two open seats, giving Rialto residents -- most of who ... More >>

Suit Alleges Rialto Police Officers Had Group Sex With Strippers

​A woman who set off a firestorm by alleging on-duty Rialto police had sex with strippers in a union hall has filed a $500,000 claim against the city that also claims that the cops had group sex with the woman. The details emerged in a report in the San Bernardino Sun Friday. The claimant, Na ... More >>

Rialto Watch: A White Supremacist School Board Member And Cops Allegedly Having Group Sex With Strippers

​ We here at The Informer connect dots. Reading through our copious Friday content, we noticed that on the same day a white supremacist seems all but assured of winning a spot on the Rialto school board, a stripper has filed a lawsuit claiming she had sex -- sometimes group sex -- with Rialto ... More >>

Arabian Prince: A Jheri Blossoms

Electro pioneer who quit N.W.A weeks before Compton now makes beats for Grand Theft Auto

Moz Krew: From L.A. to the South Bay, the Annual Smiths Convention

A game of "Name That Tune" turns bad: "How can you not get 'Ask'?"

Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad returns

House of 1,000 corpses

L.A. Architecture: What We Lost in 2007

In a tear-down city, bulldozers and redesigners reigned

Sherman Torgan: Last of the Independents

1944–2007

Film Reviews: Dynamite Warrior, License to Wed

Also Joshua, Vitus and more

Jindabyne: So Much Carver, So Far From Home

Jindabyne takes an iconic American writer down under, but stays true to his spirit

Waxing Nostalgic

From the Hoods to the Woods

How an O.G. gangbanger turned himself into a hardcore firefighter

Film Reviews

For the week of April 28 - May 4

Eight Seconds at a Time

Street Justice

Remembering a 19-year-old African-American killed by police

The Air That We Breathe

Just when it looked like we might win the war on smog, a new and more deadly form of air pollution stalks Los Angeles

Stench of Politics

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

World of Wonders

Global Lens at REDCAT

New York Stories

In America and The Triplets of Belleville

The Last Picture Show

Of Los Angeles’ great archival double-bill theaters, only Sherman Torgan’s New Beverly Cinema remains. Can this revival house be saved?

Good Rep

Smart selection and pristine prints from Rialto Pictures

A Man Escaped

Sandler runs with Punch-Drunk Love (plus Bowling for Columbine)

Planet of the Apes: A Space Odyssey

This Week: Special guest star Jerry Falwell!

Mommy Dearest

Oedipal dreams in The Deep End and The Others

Things Fall Apart

If your mother can’t take care of you, who will? The story of Sophie’s boys

A Man's World

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train and the restored Grand Illusion

Lost Soul

A lament for black Los Angeles