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How an LAPD Homicide Detective Became One of Hollywood's Top Screenwriters

Is This Tom Waits' First LP?

Could Tom Waits be one of the trumpeters on this old junior high school band recording? A 1964 album by a Chula Vista junior high concert band -- an ensemble in which the songwriter is known to have performed -- is now listed on eBay, and could well be his first LP. Titled 1964: Sounds of Music, it ... More >>

Why Dianne Harrison Struck It Rich at CSUN

$324,000 may be just the beginning

John Steven Burgess, Jailed in Teen Donna Jou's Death, Nabbed in L.A. Craigslist Caper

Cops in Hollywood last night arrested a registered sex offender, John Steven Burgess, who was convicted in the 2007 death of a 19-year-old San Diego State student whose body was apparently dumped in the ocean. What did the 42-year-old do? Just as he had met late teenager Donna Jou, Burgess reached ... More >>

Lalo Alcaraz Celebrates 25-Year Career as Hilarious Cartoonista at Mexican Cultural Institute

Giovanni SolisLalo Alcaraz at his first solo retrospective exhibition, "Heritage Month: 500 Years of Art, Comics & Satire.​ For over 20 years, Lalo Alcaraz has gotten hate mail in response to his barbed Chicano satire, sarcasm and socio-political commentary. Reared in San Diego and a former Sa ... More >>

Wavves On How They Managed To Get Kicked Out Of Both The VMAs and Lil Wayne's Afterparty

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Juan P. Garcia-Machado, Illegal Immigrant and SDSU Student, Is Reportedly Employed by State Capitol, Has Advised Politicians

LinkedInJuan P. Garcia Machado​Looks like the California government can now be added to the list of employers who have hired illegal immigrants. The employee's name is Juan P. Garcia-Machado, a San Diego State University student set to graduate in 2012. And from the looks of his NBC LA profil ... More >>

Fabian Nunez Riles Crime Victims

Bill inspired by Luis Santos' murder targets political favors for criminals like Esteban Nunez

CSU Students to See 12% Tuition Hike for Fall

Associated PressState students wait for the verdict.​Update: Fat tution hike, approved. Students, screwed. (Except for those in-staters whose families make under $70,000 per year. They're covered.) So much for the all-day efforts of young protesters outside the Board of Trustees meeting... Ori ... More >>

Esteban Nunez's Manslaughter Sentence Reduction by Schwarzenegger Challenged in SoCal Court

Arnold.​He called Democrats girly men and took money from corporate interests while decrying good-ole-boy ways of Sacramento. But perhaps nothing Arnold Schwarzenegger did while governor was more arrogant that slicing 9 years off of the 16-year manslaughter sentence of 22-year-old Esteban Nune ... More >>

Glendale Police Officers Out of a Job After Using a Marked Patrol Car For a Trip to Las Vegas

Chris YarzabA Glendale P.D. Crown Vic.​Hey, guys: Let's take a patrol car to Vegas. No way. Way! That conversation, or something like it, was the likely beginning of the end for a trio of Glendale police officers, who this month are out of a job after the reportedly took a cop car on a Vegas ... More >>

Schwarzenegger Snores When Reminded of Reduced Sentence for Manslaughter Convict Esteban Nunez

Arnold.​CBS 2 reporter Dave Bryan won't let former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger live down his last-minute sentence reduction for the manslaughtering son of a powerful state Democratic leader. And so he dogged the Governator today, asking him, Why? The gov wasn't having it, saying "Don't ask me ... More >>

Arnold Schwarzenegger, State Prisons Sued Over Sentence Reduction for Esteban Nunez, Son of Fabian Nunez

Esteban Nunez.​Did the Governator violate California's own rules when he reduced the prison sentence of Esteban Nunez, son of pal Fabian Nunez? A lawsuit filed this week claims he did. Baby Nunez was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years in prison for his involvement in the 2008 ... More >>

Schwarzenegger Sends Apology Letter To SDSU Stabbing Victim's Father For Esteban Nunez Sentence Commute; Father Will Sue

22-Year-Old Luis Santos was stabbed to death by Esteban Nuñéz in Fall 2008​Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger went out with a bang last week, turning what might have been his last lazy Sunday in office into a flex of very un-girly political muscle -- heard 'round California and the nation ... More >>

Kiplinger's best value colleges: UCLA makes the list

​Several University of California schools are among the nation's best deals and offer the most bang for the buck. According to Kiplinger's annual list of the 100 best bargains among the country's public colleges, no UC school makes the top ten, but several do make the cut. Which ones, you ask?

Gov. Arnold's Last Move: The Gift Of A Shorter Sentence For Manslaughter Convict Esteban Nunez, Son Of Democratic Player Fabian Nunez

Thanks, Arnold: Esteban Nunez.​We called them the "Bad Little Suburban Boys," the foursome accused in the brutal, beer-fueled stabbing of a San Diego State University student in the fall of 2008. And, true to form, bad little suburban boys, especially ones who are the sons of powerful state po ... More >>

Marijuana Legalization Backers Claim California Youth Vote Is Turning Out To Back Prop. 19

Are young people turning up at the polls?​Updated after the jump with confirmation that some polling places near college campuses in San Diego did run out of provisional ballots. First posted at 2:17 p.m. Organizers of the campaign to legalize marijuana on Tuesday claimed that the youth vote ... More >>

Tonight: Natalie Merchant, Odeum Guitar Duo, Wild Beasts, Lone Wolf

​Natalie Merchant at the Orpheum Theatre "Natalie Merchant manages to make what would seem to be a stuffy premise -- putting new melodies to the classic words of dead poets -- into the most sonically adventurous project of her career. Known more as a singer and lyricist, she proves to be uncan ... More >>

GET YOUR "COMBUSTIBLE ENERGY" WITH ODEUM, NOT IMODIUM

​Natalie Merchant at the Orpheum Theatre "Natalie Merchant manages to make what would seem to be a stuffy premise -- putting new melodies to the classic words of dead poets -- into the most sonically adventurous project of her career. Known more as a singer and lyricist, she proves to be uncan ... More >>

The Chosen One

How the labor-Latino political machine decides who serves in Sacramento

Son Of Fabian Nunez, Esteban, Makes Plea Deal In Murder Case

Esteban Nunez.​By Christine Pelisek, reporting from San Diego Esteban Nunez, the 20-year-old son of former state Assembly Speaker and Los Angeles political powerhouse Fabian Nunez, took a plea deal on Wednesday in the case of a stabbing death at San Diego State University in the fall of 2008. ... More >>

Anatomy of a Murder

Esteban Nunez.​By Christine Pelisek, reporting from San Diego Esteban Nunez, the 20-year-old son of former state Assembly Speaker and Los Angeles political powerhouse Fabian Nunez, took a plea deal on Wednesday in the case of a stabbing death at San Diego State University in the fall of 2008. ... More >>

J'Accuse: the Trial for Luis Santos' Murder

Bad suburban boys break ranks, and Esteban Nunez and pal Ryan Jett are fingered

Esteban Nunez murder trial lyrics: "Gangsta rap made us do it"

By Christine PelisekAt a key hearing today in San Diego, defense attorneys for the "bad suburban boys" accused of plunging a knife into the heart of an unarmed, college kid, Luis Santos, during a drunken brawl, sought to paint a picture of Santos and his buddies as the aggressors. latinopoliticsb ... More >>

Esteban Nunez's Friend Admits Destroying Evidence; Will Testify Against Former Assembly Speaker's Son

Just two weeks before the first anniversary of the death of 22-year-old San Diego college student Luis Santos, one of the four men charged with his fatal stabbing pleaded guilty September 16. Rafael Garcia, the son of a respected Sacramento administrative law judge, also agreed to testify against t ... More >>

Justice for Luis Santos, and the Prop. 8 Aftermath

Just two weeks before the first anniversary of the death of 22-year-old San Diego college student Luis Santos, one of the four men charged with his fatal stabbing pleaded guilty September 16. Rafael Garcia, the son of a respected Sacramento administrative law judge, also agreed to testify against t ... More >>

Esteban Nunez Case: Bad Little Suburban Boys

The son of Fabian Nunez, and his friends, face the music in Lu Santos’ killing

Harry Partch's Boxcar Revelations

(As conveyed on instruments like cloud chamber bowls, blow boy, the harmonic canon, boo, the marimba eroica and spoils of war)

“But for Craigslist, Donna Might Be Alive Today”

Guilty plea this week in Southern California’s own Craigslist-connected tragedy

Judge: Fabian Nunez's Son and Three Friends Will Go to Trial in Fatal Stabbing Case

San Diego Superior Court Judge Cynthia Bashant ruled today that former California  Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez's son, Esteban, and three friends must stand trial for the stabbing death of an allegedly unarmed 22-year-old college student outside a fraternity party.Esteban NunezBashant made her ... More >>

DOES ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S SON HAVE GANG TIES?

Esteban Nunez, the son of former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez who was arrested in the stabbing death of a 22-year-old college student, may have possible gang ties, according to search warrants released Wednesday. Nunez,19, and three of his friends -- all of whom live in the Sacramento ar ... More >>

Fabian Nunez's Son Arrested in Slay Case

Luis Santos

From Silver Lake to Suicide: One Family's Secret History of the Jonestown Massacre

A cache of letters hidden in the basement brings to life a house, a family and the tragedy that would change everything

The Tights Club

When it comes to Mexican superheroes in Spandex, look to lucha libre

Murder On the Last Turn

Mickey Thompson was a renowned race-car driver and promoter. Mike Goodwin was the brash, egocentric creator of motocross. They became business partners. Then all hell broke loose.

Colors of Optimism

The immigrants’-rights movement energizes a nation

Terror Logic

The immigrants’-rights movement energizes a nation

Drag Princess

Mendy Fry, the nitro-burning CPA

Beheading on Mount Baldy, Part II

Mendy Fry, the nitro-burning CPA

Dealing With Druggies

New platitudes from the people who stopped the vote counting in Florida

404, Host Not Found

The end of the Web as we know it

The Missing Graduates

Four seniors barred from ceremony over underground newspaper