San Fernando Valley

Pimp Beat 14-Year-Old Prostitute For Failing To Bring In Enough Cash

You hear about pimps and underage girls, but they rarely seem to come out of the shadows. This week the LAPD was shining a spotlight on the war against sex trafficking. Cops say Charles Bland, a 26-year-old from Lancaster, used social media to recruit a teenager before abusing, assaulting and pimpi ... More >>

Snow In Sherman Oaks?

A cozy layer of white stuff on the ground in Sherman Oaks (see photo on the next page) had some Angelenos asking if we got a rare dusting of snow right in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley. The answer, says the National Weather Service in Oxnard, is no. What you see on the ground is only a mirage of fro ... More >>

Burbank Moves To Ban Dog, Cat Sales At Retail Shops

The city of Burbank appears to be joining the movement against retail pet sales. The local City Council gave its initial approval this week to a ban that would cover the retail sale of dogs and cats. The aim, of course, is to prohibit ...

I Was Sick of L.A. Traffic. So I Took a Plane to Work

I am flying westward over the Angeles Crest Mountains, the morning sun shining down over the San Fernando Valley as it spreads out below me and we bank south. The Cessna 152, aptly named "the Commuter," cruises at just over 3,500 feet as we travel from the Agua Dulce Airpark toward Santa Monica ... More >>

What Happened to the Reseda Country Club?

The San Fernando Valley doesn't come to mind when you think "iconic clubs," but in the 1980s the West Valley was the place to see acts like Tom Petty, Merle Haggard, Metallica and U2. See also: What Makes the Hollywood Bowl So Perfect? The Reseda Country Club, located on Sherman Way near Reseda B ... More >>

Al Amir: Lebanese Cuisine in Valley Village

10 Best Ways to Get in Shape in L.A.

See also: *Our Best of L.A. issue and our Best of L.A. app *Top 10 Gyms in L.A. *Top 10 Bars With the Hottest Women in L.A. You see the flab. You want the flab gone. You want it gone now. There's no New Year's resolution. There's no wedding dress to fit into. It's just getting in shape time. Becau ... More >>

Michelle Jordan: LAPD Take Down of Woman in Foothill Area Caught on Video

We changed the headline after finding out more, with additional details, including video and the woman's ID, at the bottom. First posted at 7:34 p.m. Police tonight said they're investigating a videotaped beat-down "use of force" by two LAPD cops in its San Fernando Valley Foothill Divison. The of ... More >>

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: L.A. Food and Wine, Sunland Watermelon Festival, Lucques Rib Roundup Ecuadorian Parade

2nd Annual L.A. Food & Wine Festival With nearly 40 events over four days in Santa Monica, Hollywood, Beverly Hills and downtown, the LAFW looks to be one of the city's most ambitious food festivals. More than 150 chefs, including David Myers, Michael Voltaggio, Mark Peel, Michael Mina and Charles P ... More >>

The Bank That Looks Like a Del Taco: 6348 Sepulveda Blvd., Van Nuys

You can walk in and ask for a "Del Fargo" burrito at this Wells Fargo branch in Van Nuys but, sadly, you probably aren't gonna get one. Built in 2007 where a Mobil gas station used to sit at the corner of Victory and Sepulveda Boulevards, this fairly new, ketchup and mustard-colored building could ... More >>

Marijuana Plants Discovered by LAPD, Returned to Owners

While police have been busy seizing the cannabis and cash of marijuana dispensaries in the San Fernando Valley (both on 4/20/2012 and at 4:20 p.m. recently), cops on the Eastside found themselves giving a pot shop's plants back to its operators. The LAPD taketh away? The LAPD giveth! Those must h ... More >>

CicLAvia Route Map: Restaurants, Bars, Tips and Points of Interest

CicLAvia takes places on April 15, 2012; on that Sunday, ten miles of streets will close to cars--from Melrose to Boyle Heights--cutting three ways through the heart of Downtown. It's a perfect occasion to sample the fruits of our fair city. To aid that pursuit, we've compiled a map cross-referenc ... More >>

Francisco Rodriguez Murder: Cops Search for Gun in Calabasas Landfill

Updated at the bottom with the search completed. First posted at 9:06 a.m. on Wednesday. Cops think they know who killed El Camino Real High School soccer player Francisco Rodriguez: Calabasas residents Jason Schumann, 24, and Elizabeth Ibarra, 19, have been arrested in connection with the Jan. 1 ... More >>

Marijuana Dispensaries in L.A. Magnets For Robbers, Violence, Organized Crime -- Report

Fox 11 NewsRobbery in progress.​Only weeks after RAND took a controversial study of marijuana dispensary crime off the shelf following questions about its validity, a Fox 11 News report gives at least anecdotal evidence that some pot shops are dangerous places (especially for people who work t ... More >>

Alleged O.C. Shoplifter Leads Authorities On Car Chase To Sherman Oaks

KCAL9​A woman alleged to have shoplifted at the Shops at Mission Viejo mall led authorities on a freeway pursuit all the way to Sherman Oaks Wednesday afternoon. KTLA News picked up the chase about 1:40 p.m. as it headed north on the 405 passed LAX, through Culver City and West L.A. and into t ... More >>

Fear Of A Latino District Appears To Fuel Haim Saban's Support Of Prop. 27, The Nov. Initiative That Would Reverse Redistricting Reform

​Los Angeles business journalist Mark Lacter takes a look at little-known Prop. 27, which would reverse reforms that took responsibility for redistricting away from state legislators and put it in the hands of a citizens' commission. Lacter notes that one of the reasons billionaire Angeleno ... More >>

State Advisory Panel Considers Mandatory Condoms For Porn Industry

​The Aids Healthcare Foundation is hailing the first meeting of a state advisory panel Tuesday that will weigh whether condoms should be required in adult video shoots. The California's of Department Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) advisory panel on the matter was meeting at the Cal ... More >>

L.A. River Goes Corporate: Land To Be Developed For Beautification

Friends of the Los Angeles River​The concrete jungle that is the Los Angeles River just got its own corporation this week. According to the Associated Press (via KPCC, 89.3 FM) the Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation will get to buy, sell and develop property along the river from the ... More >>

'Valley-wide Outbreak' Of H1N1 Happening Now

Hospitals in the San Fernando Valley are experiencing a spike in patients reporting H1N1 "swine" flu symptoms, leading one administrator to call it a "Valley-wide outbreak" of the virus. Three Providence hospitals in the valley -- Holy Cross, Tarzana and Saint Joseph -- are reporting a 10 percent i ... More >>

Pre-election fornicating? A land speculator throws his weight around in Council District 2 Election

By Paul TeetorA small-scale blueprint of everything that's wrong with L.A. City Hall politics will be on display tonight at a Catholic church in Valley Glen, a community near Victory Boulevard and Laurel Canyon Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley: Tonight, a land speculator who is pushing for a hu ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: Kosher Credentials; Nu, Does It Have To Be Trayf?

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menuDear Mr. Gold: My son would like to go a kosher restaurant for his birthday. Do you have any recommendations? --Michael, Northridge Dear Michael: The local universe of kosher dining is better than it used to be, when nine-tenths of my meals with ... More >>

Villaraigosa Trades Gift Cards for Uzis

On Saturday, the city of Los Angeles and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa were trading Visa and Ralph's supermarket chain gift cards for hand guns and Uzi submachine guns, with Villaraigosa declaring that the gun buyback program was making L.A. a "safer city." Uzi submachine gun"I want to thank the L.A. r ... More >>

Little Rock School Rumble: The Agony & the (Bad) Ecstasy

A quarter of a century ago they were flocking to the Antelope Valley -- Los Angeles residents, particularly those from the once safe and relaxed San Fernando Valley, who saw the High Desert as a haven of low-priced homes and good public schools. Over the years reality set in during successive waves: ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Prop 8 Donors Fear Outing Today's N.Y. Times looks at nervous supporters of the California measure banning same-sex marriage, now that a final report revealing their addresses  is due out.Lost in Space Actor Dies Bob May, the man inside the Robby the Robot suit in the 1960s TV series, Lost in S ... More >>

Rider on the Storm: The Best and Worst of L.A. Buses, Subways and Light Rail

Scenic journeys to hell, on wheels

Villaraigosa Density Hawks Vs. Angry Valleyites

A Valley smackdown is brewing for tonight's 6 p.m. density Town Hall at the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn in Studio City, with scores of pissed-off San Fernando Valley residents from five different Neighborhood Councils in the Valley confronting Antonio Villaraigosa's administration over its quiet pla ... More >>

Stop the Music!

In search of a quiet place to eat in L.A.

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