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Doing Drugs at Coachella? Here's How to Avoid Trouble With the Police

Hate to say it, but some of you at Coachella (which starts today!) are going to be approached by police officers assuming you have drugs. Well, you just may, but guess what? You still have rights, man. See also: Everything You Need to Know About Coachella Cameron Bowman is here to help! As a music ... More >>

Los Angeles Traffic Sucks The Worst (Again)

From the Department of Tell Us Something We Don't Already Know we bring you Tom Tom's latest "congestion index" data. This particular breaking news involves the GPS company's round-up of North American cities with the absolute worst traffic at the end of 2012. And you know who the wiener is:

4 Los Angeles Brewery Kickstarter Campaigns: Invest in Your Beer Future

It's been a whirlwind start to 2013 for Los Angeles beer. The scene celebrated it's unofficial third birthday with the near-simultaneous anniversaries of Ladyface, Eagle Rock and Strand brewing companies and El Segundo Brewing Company released its first round of production bottles, which are now spr ... More >>

Los Angeles Has America's Most Congested Traffic -- Again

No big surprise here. Every quarter, it seems, new data supports the fact that Los Angeles is the absolute worst place in the nation for traffic. This time around TomTom's annual Congestion Index gives us the crown once more. Yay!

5 Dance Shows To See This Week, Including Dancing at a Bus Station

This week's list of dance shows to see includes one that locavores might enjoy and another set in an unlikely corner of Van Nuys.

Marijuana Grow House Bust Worth $6 Mil in San Gabriel Valley; Binh Ly Arrested

If you wonder where at least some of that fine kush at L.A.-area marijuana dispensaries comes from, we don't. There has been a rash of busts involving indoor grow houses in the Los Angeles area in recent years, including a three-house take-down yesterday in the San Gabriel Valley. (In the meantime, ... More >>

10 Raver Deaths in 5 Years: Ecstasy Often Blamed

A Canadian doctor who wants to legalize ecstasy says the drug is safe and that it's only the adulterated version of MDMA you find on the street that can kill you. But doctors at Los Angeles emergency rooms have told us that pure ecstasy can kill, including causing vital oxygen deprivation to organs ... More >>

Skinheads United: All Over L.A., Nonracist, Primarily Latino Skinheads Obsess on Classic Reggae and Soul

Latino Journalists Losing USC Office Space

America's first journalism group for Latinos will celebrate its 40th year in existence during its annual banquet June 1 at downtown's Biltmore Millennium Hotel. Unfortunately, this might also be its last year. The director of CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California (where this writer is a board me ... More >>

Thanks for Drinking: Craft Beer Sales Rise Despite Sluggish Overall Market

The Brewers Association has just released this year's numbers on U.S. beer sales. If you prefer Manifesto Eagle Rock Wit to Blue Moon (which is owned by MillerCoors) the news is good. Beer sales slowed overall, slipping 1.3% by volume. Within the craft beer industry numbers continued to rise with a ... More >>

The Elleven and Luma Towers, Downtown: A Double Shot of Fugly

There's a Waylon Jennings song called "Too Dumb for New York, Too Ugly for L.A.," and that goes for these twin towers, dubbed Elleven and Luma (yes, that's how it's spelled), in downtown's quickly developing and gentrifying Southpark district too.

Los Angeles Beats New York in Urban Density

Los Angeles is the densest metropolis in the nation, according to an analysis of the latest U.S. Census figures. What's really important here is that we beat New York! The U.S. Census today stated that the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim region has 7,000 people per square mile, beating out not onl ... More >>

$100 Billion Bullet Train

Democrats fray as cost skyrockets, feds bail, and Amtrak starts to look good

iPhone's Siri, a Virtual Assistant, Could Get You a Ticket if You Follow Her Directions While Driving

Siri's a bad girl.​Cops in California say using iPhone's new personal assistant feature called Siri on the road could still get you a traffic ticket even though she works through voice commands. That's because if you touch your phone to, say, explore a map of directions she brought up for you ... More >>

Men Caught Selling Guns And Meth Instead Of Hot Dogs

Anne Fishbeina Slaw Dogs hot dog​A U.S. District court arraigned two men last week for selling guns and methamphetamine to undercover officers at a San Jose hot dog stand. After multiple drug and weapon transactions, the feds finally arrested 58-year-old Jose Gilberto Ortiz on Sept. 2. His par ... More >>

Facebook 'Spam King' Sanford Wallace Has Google , Seems Like Kind of a Nice Guy

Sanford Wallace via Google We almost forgive you.​"Someone's sneakiness is only fun when the joke isn't on me," reads self-proclaimed "spam king" Sanford Wallace's Google status from July 29. Ironic, right? Considering Wallace turned himself into the FBI a week later (today) after being indic ... More >>

Ejen Chuang Brings Cosplay in America to Anime Expo

Shannon CottrellEjen Chuang at the book release party for Cosplay in America, May, 2010​Check out Ejen Chuang's photography in "Cosplay in America: Ejen Chuang's Portraits from Anime and Comic Book Conventions." In 2010, Ejen Chuang self-published Cosplay in America, a photography book filled ... More >>

Worst Legislator in California, Part II

Charles Calderon lets special interest groups ghostwrite his laws

Jonathan Gold Reviews Nha Trang

Like SXSW, but Gayer: Gay Bi Gay Gay Fest (Plus Saturday Chill Out with REM's Peter Buck and Steve Wynn, Meat Puppets and Roky Erickson and JEFF The Brotherhood)

photo by J. HettwerGayBiGayGay​ One last post about the 2011 edition of SXSW: In its 6th year, the SXSW spin-off Gay Bi Gay Gay Fest packs in enough merrymaking and debauchery to hold everyone over until Gay Pride in June.

L.A.'s Library Measure L

There's lots of hidden City Hall fat to fuel the 73 shuttered libraries

Proposition 19 Dreams of Legal Weed

Bruce Margolin has defended 25,000 pot cases and Timothy Leary. Now he's primed for ganja tourists and sensimilla spas

Joey Chestnut Eats 47 Burritos

Major League EatingJoey Chestnut​Maybe there's a special clause in President Obama's health care plan for competitive eaters. Let's hope so, for Joey Chestnut's sake. Chestnut, the competitive eater who won the hot dog title for the fourth year in a row in July, has now won the burrito title. ... More >>

Shocked Concertgoers' Dramatic Testimony of Man's Onstage Suicide at Swell Season Concert

Swell Season: Man commits suicide at their show in Saratoga​Our sister publication the SF Weekly offered a harrowing account of last night's public suicide of Michael Edward Pickels, 32, of San Jose, in the middle of a Swell Season concert in Saratoga, California. The Swell Season is best kno ... More >>

Birdemic: Ed Wood, Meet Al Gore

A hypersincere eco freak-out is the new so-bad-it's-good cult classic

L.A. Ranks Surprisingly Low Among Nation's Biggest Spending Cities

​Last week we told you how Los Angeles wasn't really a big city when it comes to the size of certain anatomical parts. Now comes word that Angelenos aren't really big spenders either. Despite the region being home to Rodeo Drive, the biggest Porsche-buying market in the nation and a large if ... More >>

Jesus Arrives At The Prop. 8 Trial; Bible Invoked

Prop. 8's backers probably wouldn't appreciate it if you called him Hey-soos.​It's nice to know where the anti-same-sex-marriage-law backers are coming from in the challenge to Prop. 8 being heard in San Francisco this week. Indeed, on Tuesday they seemed to put their cards on the table by inv ... More >>

Joey Chestnut Wins Hot Dog Eating Contest Again & The Debut of the Chew View Cam

America the Beautiful. Home of hot dogs, competitive eating and as of last weekend, the "chew view" camera.

Papercuts: The Sting of the New

Jason Quever’s new record on Devendra’s Gnomonsong label: “It feels honest. It’s not a put-on. It’s very scary”

Flyer of the Week: Sarcastic and Rong

Okay, the flyer itself ain't the best -- competing fonts, a non-sequitur collection of LAX, an astronaut and a zebra standing on the moon, faux-thrown-together vibe -- but the intent and the message more than make up for the design deficiencies. To wit: Rong Music, which has been releasing some of ... More >>

City Blights, City Flights, City License

Plus, the fight for public-access TV

Money Laundering

He Walks the Line

Chris Johanson finds the space between humor, hatred and love

Weekend Theater Reviews

Reviews of The Winchester House, Solomania!: Live From the Front and 1001 Beds.

Writing on the Walls

Judy Baca

Running Man

The Black Widow's Lunch

Taking on Anti-Gay America

Stonewall Democrats plot a 2006 strategy

One Nation Over God

Color Davis’ Energy Policy Green

Green as in high-cost power, not clean energy

Techno Prisoners

Fourth Right

Anti-Venom

This Is the End

American History 101

Magic Marker Dragoon

The Myth of Solid Ground

On The Science, Pseudoscience and Lunatic Logic of Earthquake Prediction

Change of Heart, Loss of Heart

The Coke Machine

The Story behind the Contra-crack cocaine story

Dog Fight

Fur flies over kill rate at LA animal shelters

A River Should Run Through It

Repairing downtown, riparianly