San Pedro

We Love San Pedro, Surliness And All

We received a lot of hate mail after San Pedro topped our recent list of "L.A.'s 5 Surliest Neighborhoods." Let's get a few things straight. It was all in jest! We love San Pedro, from your Fish Market to your Lobster Festival, from Ports O' Call Village to the Maritime Museum. You're L.A. to the b ... More >>

What's With the Attitude? L.A.'s 5 Surliest Neighborhoods

We all know you think your neighborhood is the best, especially if you live in one of the hipster zones such as Venice's Abbot Kinney area. Yes, your grocery store is full-on organic, the local dog park is to die for, and Yelp lists a dozen hot foodie joints on your main drag. But is your 'hood tou ... More >>

Carmen Trutanich Concedes: Mike Feuer Will Be L.A.'s New City Attorney

Just before 11:30 p.m., while the L.A.'s mayor race remained much too close to call, Carmen Trutanich conceded to supporters that he'd lost his reelection attempt. It wasn't even close. With 22 percent of precincts reporting, plus mail-in ballots, "Nuch" was down 60 percent to 40 percent -- a humbl ... More >>

Getting Etsy With It

Michael Wieczorek Stole Christmas Cards, Presents, Mail In South Bay -- Cops

Sheriff's officials say Michael Wieczorek is a Grinch who stole Christmas. Literally. After busting him Wednesday for allegedly swiping a delivered package from the porch of a home on Redondela Drive in Rancho Palos Verdes, cops say they found more pilfered holiday goods in his possession, includin ... More >>

GABF Fresh From the Floor: L.A. Brewers and Friends a Beer Slideshow

DENVER -- Eight Los Angeles Co. brewers have entered the Great American Beer Festival competition this year. Doubling from last year's professional brewer entries, Beachwood, Eagle Rock, Ladyface and Rock Bottom have re-entered, joined by newcomers San Pedro, Golden Road, Haven and LAB Brewing. The ... More >>

Crafted, the $8 Million Crafts Market That Will Be the Biggest in the U.S., Opens in San Pedro

Collapsible Christmas trees, Barbie dolls and iPads -- a tidal wave of goods mass-produced overseas hits the Port of Los Angeles every day. Moving this bounty from ship to shore is the lifeblood of San Pedro. It may seem odd then, that the latest attraction at the port is a humungous marketplace of ... More >>

Pulp and Fiction

Skateboard Bombing Down Hills Banned in Los Angeles

Thanks to a few kids who like to fly down hills on their skateboards, as they've done since the dawn of the sport, the L.A. City Council today voted to ban such "bombing." Not only that but, essentially, in the city of L.A., skateboarders will soon have to obey traffic rules just as a driver or bic ... More >>

Steve Saggiani, Longshoreman at Long Beach Port, Crushed to Death by Container

A man died in a freak container accident while on the job at the Port of Long Beach yesterday evening, City News Service reports. The coroner has identified the victim as 47-year-old longshoreman Steven Nicholas Saggiani. A Facebook profile that appears to belong to Saggiani lists him as a San Pedr ... More >>

Joe Buscaino Has Momentum In City Council Race, But Could Unions Give Warren Furutani A Chance?

​Tuesday update: The L.A. County Federation of Labor endorsed Furutani on Monday night, sharpening the biz-vs-labor narrative. More below.Joe Buscaino came from nowhere to win the most votes in last week's primary in the 15th Council District. Since then, the San Pedro cop been racking up endorsem ... More >>

San Pedro's Ugly-Tank Cleanup is Finally a Reality: 136 Westway Tanks Will be Demolished at Port of Los Angeles

Good bye to these hideous Westway tanks in San Pedro​Way, way good news for folks in San Pedro living within breathable proximity of the abandoned, Westway tank farm, which the Port of L.A. will finally demolish. Locals hope that dirty industry on this fill-dirt pier will give way to beautific ... More >>

Skid Row L.A. Trash, Belongings Pile up Third World-Style After Court Tells City It Can't Take Homeless' Stuff

Courtesy Central City East AssociationDon't let the bed bugs bite.​The flurry of coverage about the horrific conditions on Skid Row started in 2004 with an LA CityBeat cover story and soon flourished with Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez's observations, which culminated in the movie The ... More >>

Joe Buscaino, Dark Horse

200,000 reasons why a cop is L.A. City Council District 15's sleeper candidate

'Navy's Guide to Scoring Drugs' Says San Pedro Is 'High Drug Use/Distribution Area,' Steers Marines to Long Beach Instead

Is San Pedro too street for the USS Abraham Lincoln?​A gutsy blog called "The Scoop Deck" on the Military Times' website seems to have caused a big enough stir this morning to get itself (and the whole site) shut down, presumably by U.S. Navy officials. Much in the tradition of our own "How t ... More >>

Go Fish: How to Fish With Local Chefs A Little More Japan Relief

Ladles and JellySpoonsSan Pedro harbor​ Want to go fishing? Want to go fishing with some Los Angeles chefs? Want some of the money you shell out for the ticket to go to Japan relief? Okay, then keep reading. Lucy Lean (formerly of edible Los Angeles, currently of the blog Ladles and JellySpoon ... More >>

How Lobbyist John Ek Gets His Way at City Hall

Sex Groper on the Loose in San Pedro: LAPD Says He Grabs Women Late at Night

LAPDThis guy.​A serial butt-grabber is on the loose in San Pedro, police announced today. They want to get the sexual-battery suspect before the crimes escalate, LAPD Det. Lou Paglialonga tells the Weekly.

Carmen Trutanich Reels 'Em In At San Pedro Fish Lunch

Carmen Trutanich (center) presses the flesh in San Pedro.​The Dalmatian-American Club of San Pedro has a strict rule against political speeches at its fish lunches. So it was a bit surprising last Friday when L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich was invited up to the podium to say a few words."I gu ... More >>

Lobsterfest Gets Cracking

Lobsterfest A lobster meal​ Set to go off tonight, tomorrow, and Sunday at Ports O' Call Village in San Pedro, the Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival is sure to be a polarizing affair. Committed locavores will lock up their bibs at the notion of celebrating New England's quintessential crus ... More >>

WHAT CHEW DOING THIS WEEKEND?

San Pedro Man Gets Three Years For Sending Opium-Filled Bull Statue To Himself

​A San Pedro man was sentenced this week to more than three years in federal prison for attempting to send four pounds of opium to himself in a statue of a bull, authorities said. The drugs were sent from Turkey and intercepted in Germany, where federal authorities mailed the man a replica wit ... More >>

San Pedro to Get Its Harbor Makeover

San Pedro's rotting tourist waterfront is now poised for a $1.2 billion makeover that, according to the L.A. Business Journal, includes "construction of an eight-mile promenade to downtown San Pedro, bike paths, parks, a pier and extension of the port's popular streetcar service." The L.A. Board of ... More >>

L.A. Lobster Fest Goes For Guinness Record

The lobsters at last week's Long Beach Lobster Fest won't hold a claw to the colossal crustaceans at our own Port of L.A. Lobster Festival in San Pedro this weekend. Although the festival is already recognized as the biggest event of its kind, this year they're looking to make it official: starting ... More >>

Today in Photographs: August 28, 1939

​Longshoremen and their supporters who back China picket a labor arbitrator's ruling punishing dockers who refused to load scrap metal onto Japanese ships in San Pedro.LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 169, Man Shot in San Pedro Identified

The man who was shot to death in San Pedro on July 21 was identified as 45-year-old David Medina. View Larger Map Medina was found fatally wounded about 10:45 p.m., Tuesday, in the 1700 block of South Mesa Street. He had been shot in the upper body and was taken to a local hospital where he died f ... More >>

Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 169, Man Shot in San Pedro

A man was shot to death in San Pedro on July 21.  View Larger Map The victim, who is believed to be a Hispanic male in his 40s, was found fatally wounded about 10:45 p.m., Tuesday, in the 1700 block of South Mesa Street. He had been shot in the upper body and was taken to a local hospital wher ... More >>

Union War Surplus Gets Ready to Close

For 63 years Union War Surplus provided a place where time (and fashion) stood still. As San Pedro searched for a new identity after its fishing and cannery industries collapsed, the big store  on Sixth Street offered something solid, traditional and reassuring: guns, mess kits and thermal unde ... More >>

John Mayer's Mayercraft Carrier 2 Cruise Sets Sail Tomorrow: Five Days of Karaoke, Trivia, Live Shows and Hangin' with the Mayer

VH1John Mayer boards his Mayercraft Carrier last year on the maiden voyage At first we thought this was a joke. John Mayer hosts a cruise that disembarks in San Pedro and takes a journey to Cabo St. Lucas; it sounded like one of his yuck-worthy pranks. Then we started getting more emails, and links ... More >>

Today in Photographs: February 13, 1937

Japanese steam freighter Tasuno Maru lies docked in San Pedro next to Soviet motorship  Batum,  the first naval vessel from the USSR to visit Los Angeles Harbor.Photo: Herald-Examiner/LAPL Collection

Today in Photographs: January 17, 1941

Last Call: A liquor control agent seizes unstamped alcohol bottles from San Pedro's Frisco Cafe.Photo: Herald-Examiner/LAPL Collection

Rock Picks: Scarcity of Tanks, the Walkmen, Chromeo

Also, the Ettes, the Dogs, George Jones and others

A Heavy Load

The ports say they have a plan for cleaner, safer trucks. But do they have a plan for the truckers?

Celebrate Dance 2007

I'll Believe It When I Breathe It

Residents question ports’ clean-air plan

Best of L.A. 2005: Encounters

Call to Order

Inside the messy democracy of a neighborhood meeting

Ask Mr. Gold

The Exterminatrix

Port in a Storm

Dealing with the polluting ways of world trade

Ports of Cash

Out-of-court settlement could force shakeup at Port of Los Angeles

Cruel Priorities

DHS's right paw doesn't know what its left is doing

Five Places To Eat Shrimp and Drink Heavily on a Sunday Afternoon

Panic in the Year Zero

Easy Writer

Sandro Meallet on basketball, boyhood and the simple joys of writing

Dock City

San Pedro has its own ideas of how to make itself new

Pity Poor San Pedro

So far from City Hall, so close to the Harbor Department

A Flight of Fantasy, Grounded

Land Deal Yields
No Land, No Deal

Planning czar Shambra’s biggest deal never happened

Fish Out of Water

Seafood on the San Pedro waterfront