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Sears Holding Corporation

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    Raul Ortega: The Truck Stops Here

    One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. The most remarkable clue that you have arrived at Mariscos Jalisco, a lonchera parked on Olympic Boulevard in Boyle Heights, is in the air. A few blocks away, the climate is no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Awkward: L.A. Man Detained for Humping Sears Mannequin From Behind

    A middle-aged man lurking in the Burbank Sears yesterday morning took things a little too far with a mannequin in the women's section, according to the Burbank Police Department. Sergeant Darin Ryburn says a female loss-prevention officer was watching 55-year-old Mateo Garcia, who's from the Valley ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    Alejandro Gamiz, North Hollywood Sears Employee, Admits to Videotaping Women in Dressing Rooms -- for 3 Years

    Have you tried anything on in the women's dressing room (or gone to the bathroom) at the janky old Sears in North Hollywood, anytime in the last three years? If so, bad news: You might have been on candid camera. While inspecting their fitting rooms, Sears security personnel recently discovered th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    11 Craziest Nude Scandals in L.A. in the Last Year (Photos NSFW)

    Lots of crazies get in trouble in our fair city, and lots of those crazies are also nude. Just this week a naked man (above) climbed a radio tower in downtown L.A. and threatened to jump. Do they have this problem in, say, North Dakota? What is it about L.A. that brings out the unhinged unclothed? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2011

    Top 11 Fashion Trends of 2011

    Lina Lecaro ​The barrage of blogs tallying the year in trends and fashion has begun, and of course, we are totally participating. We do it every year, after all. And while we try to note the obvious, we also strive to call out the stuff you're not likely to see on the other blogs, stuff we no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    Antonio Montejano, U.S. Citizen and L.A. Dad, Detained for Days on 'Immigration Hold'

    Jailed for being brown?​It's one thing to deport undocumented immigrants for non-crimes like selling ice cream or driving with a headlight out, even though they've lived here since they were kids. Awful, and inhumane, but technically allowed, under the Obama Administration's harsh federal immi ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    December 1, 2011

    A Warrior's Heart Review

    Jailed for being brown?​It's one thing to deport undocumented immigrants for non-crimes like selling ice cream or driving with a headlight out, even though they've lived here since they were kids. Awful, and inhumane, but technically allowed, under the Obama Administration's harsh federal immi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    Cosplay Karaoke at Meltdown Comics' Nerdmelt With Dr. Strange, Lana Kane of Archer, Nicki Hunter as Lara Croft and More

    For the debut evening of Cosplay Karaoke last month, the promo literature asked, "What would Harley Quinn sing if she had a chance? What would Peter Parker belt out? You have a chance to find out as NerdMelt hosts COSPLAY KARAOKE!" and warned "YOU MUST BE IN COSTUME IN ORDER TO SING!" The rules we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Martin Olson's Encyclopaedia of Hell: Phineas and Ferb/Penn & Teller Writer On His New Book, a Satire of Satan

    ​Ever had questions about Hell, Satan or various and sundry demons? Then TV writer Martin Olson's Encyclopaedia of Hell: An Invasion Manual for Demons Concerning the Planet Earth and the Human Race Which Infests It will prove most edifying, as it sheds some much-needed comedic light on the da ... More >>

  • News

    August 18, 2011

    CIM Group's Bitter Lesson to Mid-City

    Neighborhoods must sue L.A. City Hall to avert Lowe's-like disasters

  • News

    July 14, 2011

    Lowe's Home Improvement Fiasco

    A ruined working-class neighborhood in Mid-City demands answers

  • News

    June 30, 2011

    Los Angeles CRA Creates Blight

    A ruined working-class neighborhood in Mid-City demands answers

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Loew's Home Improvement Builds Gigantic Wall in One Day, Blocks Neighbors' City Views

    Top picture before "the wall," bottom picture after "the wall," with blocked views of Hollywood Hills​"The wall went up in a day. I went away in the morning, and I came back later and couldn't see the city." So says 16th Place Neighborhood Association member Robert Portillo, who's now fightin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    Q&A With Patricia Tsai: LA's Only Bean-To-Bar Chocolaterie (Part 1)

    J.KoslowWorking hands​ Your first thoughts may be indelibly linked with nostalgia when asked about chocolate. Perhaps the blame falls on that popular silky, milk chocolate bar that's either snacked on directly from its brown and white packaging, or broken and inserted between a well-toasted ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 4, 2010

    CITYWALK MAY GET SMOKY

    J.KoslowWorking hands​ Your first thoughts may be indelibly linked with nostalgia when asked about chocolate. Perhaps the blame falls on that popular silky, milk chocolate bar that's either snacked on directly from its brown and white packaging, or broken and inserted between a well-toasted ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Consumer Reports Tells You How to Store Produce: They'll Rate Appliances AND What's Inside Them

    ConsumerReports.orgAutomatic coffee makers, 1958​I don't know about you, but when I was a kid we read the Sears, Robuck catalog, the Farmers' Almanac and Consumer Reports like kids now read Harry Potter or Manga comicbooks. Okay, the windswept prairie circa 1960-whatever was not a cultural Mec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    American Apparel: Made in East L.A.?

    L.A. Garment and Citizen's Dot Dot Dish column (spotted by the Eastsider L.A.) recently reported on rumors that American Apparel may move its operations from the gritty industrialscape just east of downtown and into the old Sears store on Olympic and Soto. The Sears locale makes sense, given AA's r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2009

    Rocky Delgadillo Dreams of Being California Attorney General?

    City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo got slammed by voters in his last run for California Attorney General, losing to the "old man," as twenty-somethings call Attorney General Jerry Brown. Now, City News Service says he is thinking of trying again. Brown, of course, was a comeback king who pulled the crap ... More >>

  • LA Life

    April 23, 2009

    LA People 2009: Baby Cakes — Elizabeth Belkind and Lisa J. Olin, Cake Monkey's Tiny Cake Queens

    City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo got slammed by voters in his last run for California Attorney General, losing to the "old man," as twenty-somethings call Attorney General Jerry Brown. Now, City News Service says he is thinking of trying again. Brown, of course, was a comeback king who pulled the crap ... More >>

  • Columns

    April 9, 2009

    Girl Scouts Follow the Dough at Auntie Anne's Pretzels

    City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo got slammed by voters in his last run for California Attorney General, losing to the "old man," as twenty-somethings call Attorney General Jerry Brown. Now, City News Service says he is thinking of trying again. Brown, of course, was a comeback king who pulled the crap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    Expo Line's Fantasy Future Stop

    The other day Dakota at Curbed L.A. noted that, in this sketch of the Expo Line's proposed Santa Monica terminus, "even the sea gulls are happy." It's not only the sight of contented seagulls that lends an air of whimsy to this scene, though, nor even the fact that the "Subway to the Sea" may not ac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    Bank Robbers Who Make Us Laugh

    Forget Willie Sutton's famous reply to the question about why he robbed banks. If it were up to alleged stickup man Robert Varela, the answer would be, "Because that's where the dye is." This afternoon the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports that Varela is accused of botching a Whittier heist during ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2008

    Scenes at the Mall: Angry Black Friday

    America did its patriotic duty to stimulate the national economy at the malls this past Thanksgiving weekend. Black Friday sales, you may have heard, were up 3 percent from last year, topping out at $10.6 billion. Shoppers spent $372 over the Black Friday weekend. Nevermind that nasty little busine ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2008

    Queer Town: "No on 8" Leadership on the Hot Seat

    For weeks, activists and political observers in the gay community have been calling for a post-Prop. 8 town hall meeting, where "No on 8" staffers can take, and hopefully answer, tough questions about the Proposition 8 loss. Tonight at 6 p.m., the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center will host a "vi ... More >>

  • Music

    October 23, 2008

    Brick's Picks: Blue Note Specials

    What not to miss this week

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2008

    Construction Site on Santa Monica and Wilton

    That windowless brick of a Sears store may be closed, and a lot of the old auto repair spots are being torn down for who knows what, but there's some cool graffiti going up within the fences. All photos by Mark Mauer. More after the jump.

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2008

    Another Tastes Like Gold

    Here's a stunning new wall up on Santa Monica near the recently closed Sears store. There were at least four spots along there that had some new writing on them, but this one had to go up right away. The Tastes Like Gold! phrase and those freaky bats also showed up along a couple of walls on ... More >>

  • News

    January 24, 2008

    Prop. S: The Revolution May Be Taxed

    L.A. City Hall wants to tax your air. After all, it's an emergency

  • Film+TV

    June 15, 2006

    Pen Pals

    Bullock and Reeves make love in the twilight zone

  • News

    April 20, 2006

    Eye of the Storm

    Mike Andrews: Making sad and beautiful music for grown-ups

  • Eat+Drink

    January 19, 2006

    Capital News

    Mike Andrews: Making sad and beautiful music for grown-ups

  • Columns

    September 29, 2005

    Clitoris Envy, or What I Learned in Female-Orgasm Class

    Mike Andrews: Making sad and beautiful music for grown-ups

  • Film+TV

    August 25, 2005

    Surf Report

    Mike Andrews: Making sad and beautiful music for grown-ups

  • News

    August 4, 2005

    Rolling Back Gay Rights

    Initiatives attack same-sex marriage and domestic partnerships.

  • News

    November 18, 2004

    Renaissance in the Barrio

    Will mixed-income housing revitalize Boyle Heights? Or just chase out the poor?

  • News

    June 17, 2004

    A Think Tank for Gays

    The Williams Project is at the center of sexual-orientation law

  • Art+Books

    June 10, 2004

    Eastside/Westside Story

    The Williams Project is at the center of sexual-orientation law

  • LA Life

    March 11, 2004

    Rockie Horoscope

    The Williams Project is at the center of sexual-orientation law

  • Music

    January 29, 2004

    The Beat That Kills

    The Williams Project is at the center of sexual-orientation law

  • News

    July 10, 2003

    It’s About More Than Sodomy

    Supreme Court sends gay sex and gay rights out of the closet

  • LA Life

    May 29, 2003

    Planet Bakersfield

    So far from heaven, so close to L.A.

  • News

    January 16, 2003

    The Forgotten Woman

    Revelations from a plus-size life

  • News

    November 1, 2001

    Who She Took With Her

    . . . The husband, the son, the boyfriend . . . a drunk's tale

  • News

    December 28, 2000

    Tilt, Roll Over, Play Dead

    . . . The husband, the son, the boyfriend . . . a drunk's tale

  • Columns

    November 9, 2000

    Plastic Americana

    . . . The husband, the son, the boyfriend . . . a drunk's tale

  • Film+TV

    October 26, 2000

    Good News About the New Season

    Seriously

  • News

    October 5, 2000

    Enhancing the Scanner

    Can Digital Convergence stop hackers from making the CueCat useful?

  • Film+TV

    August 26, 1999

    Justice

    Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, Dorothy Dandridge and lawman Bill Tilghman

  • News

    July 22, 1999

    Wal-Mart Knocks on Crenshaw’s Door

    But the news inspires catcalls as well as cheers

  • News

    October 15, 1998

    Standing on the Corner

    Day laborers get organized

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