San Marino

Summer DUI Crackdown: Checkpoints in Hollywood, South L.A., More

An end-of-summer drunk-driving crackdown is in full swing. The LAPD, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, and nearly 100 other local police are on the hunt for motorists under the influence. And they'll be on it until the end of the Labor Day holiday weekend Sept. 2. Here's what we know about this ... More >>

Murder in San Marino

A Janis Joplin Musical Boosts the Pasadena Playhouse Box Office

One Night With Janis provides some nostalgic comfort food

Christian K. Gerhartsreiter, Fake Rockefeller, Convicted In SoCal Murder

The man who paraded around the nation as Clark Rockefeller but was really, as one witness said, just a "creepy" guy, was convicted today of murder. Christian K. Gerhartsreiter, 52, was nailed for the 1985 murder of 27-year-old John Sohus, a San Marino man nice enough to give the poseur a place to s ... More >>

Million-Dollar Home Sales In California At 5-Year High; Somebody's Ballin'

This economy's got you down, you say? You're still worried about buying that next house, car or even smartphone? Ah, if you were a rich man ... While the rest of us suffer, the wealthy have just added to their cash piles during the Great Recession and its aftershocks. Proof that the upper crust fe ... More >>

Holiday DUI Checkpoint Cheat Sheet: Massive Drunk Driving Crackdown Starts Friday

'Tis the season to be jolly, yes, but try not to do your fa-la-la-la-laing in a jail cell. Not fun. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department this week previewed the anti-DUI can of whoopass it's unveiling for the holidays, starting this weekend. It's massive:

Assembly District 49: Chau's Video Featuring Lin's Wife's Social Security Number Still Up Online, Despite Suit and Restraining Order

The San Gabriel Valley showdown pitting two successful Asian-American professionals, a doctor and a lawyer, against one another is getting cutthroat in the dwindling hours to election day--with accusations of tax evasion, lawsuits and a restraining order to boot. Joy Lin, wife of candidate Dr. Mat ... More >>

Le Fugly: The Hideous French Pastiche of the Versailles Apartments, 918 S. Oxford Street, Koreatown

Finally a building style that will please everyone: Rapunzel, her prince, Dracula, the Wicked Witch of the West and Pepe Le Pew (but maybe not his lady cat friend). The Versailles apartments at 918 S. Oxford between James M. Wood boulevard and San Marino Street are sort of like that castle you pay 8 ... More >>

Mara Salvatrucha Gang Turf Targeted in Spate of Deadly Koreatown Area Shootings

Updated at the bottom with a report stating there's a gang truce. First posted at 7:07 a.m. Monday. A spate of gang-related shootings have broken out in and around Koreatown in recent months, most happening in a neighborhood known as the epicenter of the global El Salvadoran Mara Salvatrucha gang. ... More >>

Dr. Matthew Lin to Sacramento, Stat?

GOP surgeon may beat Dems for first time since '70s in San Gabriel Valley

Caltech Asks Pasadena Residents to Host Mini Seismometers for 'Crowd-Sourced' Earthquake Prediction

Do you live in Pasadena, South Pasadena or San Marino? Do you keep your computer on 24/7, against the pleas of Southern California Edison? (Or are you willing to start keeping it on in the name of "crowd-sourced seismology"?) Then Caltech wants very much to come to your home and install a creepy li ... More >>

Shaoyan Almazan, Bicyclist Run Down And Fatally Shot, Was Riding in M.S. Gang Turf

On a warm and breezy afternoon over the weekend a bicyclist was run off the road by an SUV in Koreatown and then gunned down. It remains a whodunnit for the LAPD, which named the victim of Saturday's attack as 19-year-old Shaoyan Almazan. A friend who was also on a bike was shot in the hand and sur ... More >>

Backyard Chickens, Once Scourge of Latino Ghettos, Hip in Upscale Neighborhoods

In San Marino, one of the most upscale communities in Southern California, you can have a five-car garage, an Olympic-size pool, tennis courts and houses larger than some office buildings. One thing you can't have is chickens. Long associated with the backyard barrios of Pacoima and East L.A., the ... More >>

Amtrak's Ancestors: The Huntington's Exhibit on the History of the Transcontinental Railroad

Long before studios, hippies, method actors and reality-show wannabes headed out west, the Pacific Coast was a destination for farmers, miners, prospectors and other wagon-wheeling homesteaders who were looking for a new way of life. Two years after California struck gold in 1848, it became a part o ... More >>

The Huntington's Orange Marmalade The Citrus (Recipe) Quarantine

The Huntington Library may be best known for its botanical gardens and art collection, but in the museum's kitchen, the citrus trees on the property are the main draw for the onsite chefs, who make some pretty fantastic marmalade from the fruit. If you're a Huntington regular, you probably already ... More >>

Allan Munnecke's Charges Lifted by D.A. -- Rose Parade Official Arrested for Murder of Parade Volunteer Goes Free

L.A. County Sheriff's DepartmentMunnecke.​Richard Allan Munnecke, the ex-Rose Parade director suspected by sheriff's investigators of murdering a Rose Parade volunteer almost a decade ago, won't be prosecuted for the crime, says the L.A. County District Attorney's office. (At least for now.) ... More >>

Pasadena's PST Shows Make Everyday Things Into Art, Like Porn and Furniture

It's high time to brave the Pasadena Freeway, thanks to four landmark Pacific Standard Time shows with ambitious curators, catalogues, and historical reach in Pasadena. Pasadena/San Marino has its PST "focus" weekend this Saturday and Sunday, which means lots of extra events. Michael Duncan's "LA R ... More >>

Top 5 Overlooked Architecture and Design Venues in L.A.

Courtesy of Materials & ApplicationsA view of the front yard: Food Pyramid (2010), by Didier Hess.​ Great architecture is everywhere in Los Angeles, even if you have to drive along the mostly unscenic 405 and past the run-down auto body stores in order to get there. Most Angelenos have a few t ... More >>

Senna Review

Ching Chong Ling Long Takeout at UCLA Decried by L.A. Area State Assemblyman Mike Eng (Who Has Nothing Better to do)

Mykl Roventine​If you were a state leader, what would you tackle first? The multibillion-dollar, perpetually red-ink plagued California budget? The U.S.court-ordered release of more than 30,000 Golden State prisoners? Carmageddon? Well, if you're Monterey Park Assemblyman Mike Eng you bear hu ... More >>

Clark Rockefeller, a.k.a. Christian Gerhartsreiter, Coming to L.A. to Face Charge in 1985 Murder

This guy (right).​Yeah, that whole Casey Anthony thing didn't go so well for you fans of 48 Hours Mystery. But now another seen-on-TV case is just starting up its prosecution phase in L.A. as the man who once reportedly paraded around upper-crust social circles under the guise of Clark Rockef ... More >>

Pie 'n Burger Truck Launching, Probably Next Week

Courtesy of Michael Osborn.The Pie 'n Burger truck, ready to roll.​Some vendors, like Flying Pig and Komodo, expand from a food truck to a sit-down restaurant. Others, like Pie 'n Burger, do it the other way around, bringing their restaurant to the street. The iconic Pasadena burger joint is l ... More >>

Cheerio, Magna Carta: Nine Important Historical Documents in L.A Right Now

Magna Carta​ A document can make a big difference, as the Birthers are currently proving in all the wrong ways. The Magna Carta -- a document whose Madonna-level status requires you to drop the "the" and refer to it simply as "Magna Carta" -- reframed the relationship between royalty and us re ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews the Olive Garden

Fusion Without the Pretension

Daisy Mint aims to please all lovers of Asian food

Smoking Rates Up In West Hollywood, South L.A., South Bay

​Despite nationwide efforts to curb smoking, a recent study released by the county Department of Public Health has revealed that rates of lighting up in Los Angeles have remained steady since 2002, though some areas, including West Hollywood, South Los Angeles and the South Bay have seen incre ... More >>

Torture, Lies and Louis XIII Cognac

A tale of falling home prices

Kitchen Chinese: Author Ann Mah in Town for A Book Reading

Ann MahKitchen Chinese​If the Chinese New Year festivities this past weekend left you with an appetite not only for more dim sum but for some fictional discussion of it, you might want to head to Book Soup this Wednesday, February 17th, where author Ann Mah will be reading from her debut novel ... More >>

Stage Raw: Leonard Nimoy Treks into Local Theater History

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSThe latest NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Annette Bening in Medea at UCLAINTERVIEW with Medea's director, Lenka Udovicki, and UCLA's David SeftonLEONARD NIMOY TREKS INTO LOCAL THEATER HISTORY​Leonard Nimoy (right) in a 1953 production of Sholom Aleichem's It's Hard to Be ... More >>

Scott Baio, Nanci Griffith, Secret Policeman’s Ball and Other Signs of Aging

What to do in L.A., June 5-11

It's High Time!

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

DiFi Says No to Alt-Energy Desert Corridor California Senator Diane Feinstein is readying legislation to keep a large swath of the state's desert region off-limits to solar- and wind-power projects. L.A. TimesKeach Returns to Do Nixon Actor Stacy Keach, whose mild stroke last week removed him from t ... More >>

The Talented Mr. Rockefeller to Plead Insanity to Kidnap Charges

Call him crazy as a Rockefeller, but in May the multiple-alias man formerly known as Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter will use a temporary insanity defense when he first surfaces in court . That will be in Boston, where he will face charges he kidnapped his 7-year-old daughter from her mother last year ... More >>

Best of L.A. 2008: Credits

Girl, Interrupted: Denise Hamilton's The Last Embrace

Eat, Like, a Pig

Where to go for the whole hog

Mr. Wilson's War

Former ambassador Joseph Wilson warns the country-club crowd about the “theo-con” threat

Best Message in a Bottle

Broguiere’s Dairy

The Chandlers' Last Gasp

Their L.A. Times era ends not with a bang, but a trust-fund transaction

Do As We Say, Not As We Do

Smart growth’s biggest boosters still love suburban living

Face Off

After all these years, David Henry Hwang finally sees himself

In Hot Water

Where to spend teatime in L.A.

Hand Jobs and Handouts

Deputy Mayor Troy Edwards became Leland Wong’s go-to boy

#1 Combo

A full serving of Rauschenberg, with a side of Youngblood and Hundley

On Native Ground

Gardening in the asphalt jungle

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

The Smog Doctor

John Peters and the science of children and dirty air

The Nutty Professors

Ingenious schemes to wash, pipe and blow away our worries

An 'A' in Fraud

It was too good -- and too bad -- to be true. For three years, investigators conclude, Manual Arts High School administrators graduated ineligible students and tampered with students' grades

White Glove Hamburgers

A San Marino patio experience