San Pedro

Sex and the City Meets Some Like It Hot: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Friday, Feb. 15 Five days after Chinese New Year comes the first Asians on Film Festival at J.E.T. Studios, showcasing the work of up-and-coming Asian filmmakers. The red carpet begins at 6 p.m., and the winner of the Best Comedy prize, Starting From Scratch from writer-director-actor James Huang, ... More >>

Skateboard Bombing to be Banned in Los Angeles; Law Awaits Villaraigosa's Signature

The L.A. City Council really tackled the big non issues today. Besides declaring this Bob Marley Day, the body voted to ban high-speed downhill skateboard cruising known as "bombing." Of course, the city is underwater financially, our roads suck, and you're essentially seeing your local taxes raise ... More >>

Fort MacArthur Reenactment Combines Vikings, Nazis, Confederates and Other Armies Through Time

"Bloody hell, men!" Boom. Pop-pop-pop-pop-pop. Boom. Three men in tan uniforms lie inert on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Their remaining comrades radio for help and cower behind their jeep, trying desperately to shoot the Germans hiding in the bushes. The canon sounds again, causin ... More >>

The Big Squeeze

Your 2012 Summer Movie and Food Truck Roundup

Rolling out a blanket under the stars, taking in a movie project on a big outdoor screen while snacking on some kalbi tacos or pulled pork sliders is quickly becoming a L.A. summertime tradition. Last weekend marked the debut of two new weekly festivals: Street Food Cinema, which is being but on b ... More >>

Joe Buscaino Beats Warren Furutani for Los Angeles City Council District 15: A Humiliating 2012 Thumping of the Party Establishment

By Hillel Aron It seemed as if half of San Pedro packed the Crowne Plaza Hotel ballroom late last night for a blowout victory party for local boy Joe Buscaino who won the Los Angeles City Council District 15 race. Things got wild as newcomer Buscaino beat dull lifer politician Warren Furutani. Furu ... More >>

Joe Buscaino or Warren Furutani for L.A. City Council District 15? Vote Now in Historic Race Between Underdog Cop, Career Pol

Can a humble police officer from San Pedro become a historic wrench in the well-oiled Los Angeles political machine? That's up to you, residents of City Council District 15. You can go with candidate Joe Buscaino, the former LAPD officer who's netted endorsements from local police unions and the Lo ... More >>

Drunk Driving Checkpoints in Venice, Hollywood Tonight, Silver Lake Tomorrow

daytondui.comDon't do this dance.​Some critics have pointed out that LAPD DUI checkpoints are few and far between on the Westside. They've even argued that the department targets immigrant-filled neighborhoods where license-free drivers will automatically get their cars, later sold by the city ... More >>

L.A. Beaches Are Dirtier This Year, But a Surf Spot Called 'Shitpipe' Gets an A For Water Quality (Go Figure)

Heal the Bay​We know our friends at the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau are always hard at work thinking of new ways to attract tourists to our fair city. Heal the Bay's latest L.A. Beach Report Card suggests some new attractions, such as lumpy water, waves you can smell, and, of ... More >>

TGIF: LAPD DUI Checkpoint, 'Saturation Patrol' Planned for the Weekend

LAPD comin' at ya.​Didn't the LAPD just saturate the city with checkpoints and DUI "saturation patrols" during Super Bowl weekend? They did. And New Year's Eve? Ditto. The holidays? Yep. The thing is, they don't stop: Even as you're thanking God it's Friday, the boys and girls in blue are pla ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Red-Carpet Blues

Los Angeles Battles Bay Area for Right to Host USS Iowa Battleship

Will the USS Iowa rest in the City of Angels?​The age-old battle between L.A. and "the Bay" might be getting a little more tense this year as the two metropolitan areas duke it out over the retired battleship USS Iowa, a.k.a. "the Big Stick." The Historic Ships Memorial at Pacific Square in t ... More >>

Harbor City Man Commits Suicide Off 12-Story Retirement Home After Allegedly Strangling Wife And Daughter

RHF.orgNguyen jumped off this Harbor Tower retirement home​Bach Xuan Nguyen, the 60-year-old Harbor City man who jumped off a 12-story retirement home in Harbor City yesterday, is now the main suspect in the murders of his wife and daughter. The two women were found and declared dead from blun ... More >>

Raymond Bailey, L.A. Homicide No. 156: Teenager Killed in Drive By Shooting Identified

​Los Angeles Police Department detectives recently released the name of a 16-year-old male who was killed in a drive by shooting on July 10. Raymond Bailey was shot on June 23 around 3 p.m. as he was standing in the area of 60th Street and San Pedro in South Los Angeles. He died from his injur ... More >>

San Pedro Mom Allegedly Kills Daughter Then Turns Knife On Herself

​A 49-year-old San Pedro woman allegedly killed her 10-year-old daughter and then turned the weapon she had used, apparently a knife, on herself early Friday, police said. The mother survived. The suspect, whose name has not been revealed, is a retired Navy reservist's wife who lives on the F ... More >>

Water Quality At L.A. Beaches Improving

Heal the Bay​Heal The Bay's 20th annual Beach Report Card showed "significant improvement" in the water quality of L.A.'s coastal spots from March, 2009 to April, 2010. Nearly eight in 10 of the 86 beaches tested received A or B grades verses seven in 10 last year. "After all these years of p ... More >>

Brick's Picks: For All Sizes

Cultural Wars, Debacles

Brick’s Picks: Thelonious Assault

Cal State Long Beach Closed Due To Storms, Flooding

​Campus officials closed Cal State Long Beach at 3 p.m. Wednesday as a result of flooding and hazardous road conditions that would greet many of its students. The closure is in effect through Thursday, officials said. "The determination was made because of the impact of flooding on campus and ... More >>

Sound the Horns

Roy Hargrove Quintet, Azar Lawrence, and the Retro Jazz Quintet

Helen Money Covers the Minutemen's "Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing"

This arrived in our inbox yesterday: a cover of the Minutemen's great "Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing." If you don't know the song by San Pedro's finest, you should hear it first, to see what exactly Helen Money did to it: If you don't know Helen Money, it's the brainchild of Alison C ... More >>

Jessica Koslow Guest Chefs Tomorrow Night for Friends Cook at Canelé

Can too many friends spoil the broth? Canelé, the beloved Atwater Village restaurant, invites a guest chef into their kitchen once a month for the popular Friends Cook at Canelé. Tomorrow Jessica Koslow, of the artsy food blog eatsipchew.com, will be curating a meal. The three-course menu is $35 p ... More >>

Brick’s Picks: Bands on the Run

FRINGE BENEFITS AND OTHER ODDLY REWARDING CHOICES

Kurt Elling, Frank Marocco, Bob Sheppard

Theater Reviews: Eve's Rapture, Half of Plenty, The Country Wife

Also, Trafficking in Broken Hearts, Setup and Punch and more

Stage Raw: Touch the Water

This latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded within this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; also, see this week's THEATER FEATURE on El Ogrito (The Ogreling) and Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad ZooHALF OF PLENTYHalf of Plenty Photo by John FlynnThe West Coast premiere of Lisa Dillman's play "on le ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Taco Slay Arrests Two men and a woman have been arrested in connection with a Wednesday night rifle-shooting at a Lennox taco truck that left one man dead and five other people wounded, including two boys. Associated PressMission Accomplished? Three brothers from Hong Kong hoped their plans to expan ... More >>

"Multicultural Man" Missing No More

Curbed L.A. has located a statue gifted a year ago to San Pedro from an Italian sister city, after there'd been some question as to its current whereabouts. The statue, bearing the oddly 1980s-sounding name, Multicultural Man (a more contemporary moniker might be Diversity Dude), is sitting in a Wil ... More >>

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

Scenic journeys to hell, on wheels

Brick's Picks: Running Hot and Cold

Jazz in L.A., May 2-8

Brick's Picks: Three-Horn Circus

Sanders, Garrett and Lloyd blow into town

It's About Term Limits, Stupid

A fight over a Home Depot exposes the true intent of Proposition R

Best Place to Party Like a Pirate

The New Urban Frontier: A User’s Guide

The Swinging Door

A new council, rich lobbyists and a sheriff who doesn’t want to leave

The (Minor) Agony on the Ecstasy

When you cruise, you schmooze — with people who don’t necessarily think like your friends back home

If It Happened Here

A bioterrorism attack on Los Angeles might look a lot like this

Once Is Not Enough

Sound and Beyond

The music of art, the art of music

The Unelected

. . . and to spend more time with their families . . .

Rip-Rolling Blackouts for Your Summer Calendar

Distant Port

The far-flung 15th District draws its most-progressive-ever roster

Endorsements: Part 2

Our recommendations in the April 10 Los Angeles city election

Sweet Surrender

Chemistry 101

Virgin Territory

Who's Defacing Our Lady of South-Central

Us and Them

The Code of the Cop Bar

Ecstasy-in-a-Can

Hot Dates

A guide to summer fetes and flights of fancy