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Could L.A. Become a Honeybee Mecca? The Backwards Beekeepers Are on It

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including the Iconoclastic Urs Fischer at MOCA

This week, haunting films about cold-war America play for 15 hours straight on Alvarado and an artist sells cellphone holders that make your phone as unwieldy as one from landline days. 5. Holes in the walls Urs Fischer, the Swiss artist who stuck a fake tongue out of a hole in the New Museum's wa ... More >>

The Pain and Glory of Competitive Stair-Climbing

See also: *10 Best Ways to Get in Shape in L.A. *10 Best Workouts in L.A. for People Who Hate Working Out Competitive stair-climbing, its devotees like to say, is the hardest sport that no one's ever heard of. That there is such a thing as an elite stair-climber probably comes as a surprise to an ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

A Warrior's Heart Review

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 >>

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 >>

CIM Group's Bitter Lesson to Mid-City

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

Lowe's Home Improvement Fiasco

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

Los Angeles CRA Creates Blight

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 >>

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 >>

CITYWALK MAY GET SMOKY

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 >>

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 >>

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

Girl Scouts Follow the Dough at Auntie Anne's Pretzels

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Brick's Picks: Blue Note Specials

What not to miss this week

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.

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 >>

Prop. S: The Revolution May Be Taxed

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

Pen Pals

Bullock and Reeves make love in the twilight zone

Eye of the Storm

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

Capital News

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

Surf Report

Rolling Back Gay Rights

Initiatives attack same-sex marriage and domestic partnerships.

Renaissance in the Barrio

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

A Think Tank for Gays

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

Eastside/Westside Story

Rockie Horoscope

The Beat That Kills

It’s About More Than Sodomy

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

Planet Bakersfield

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

The Forgotten Woman

Revelations from a plus-size life

Tilt, Roll Over, Play Dead

Plastic Americana

Good News About the New Season

Seriously

Justice

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

Wal-Mart Knocks on Crenshaw’s Door

But the news inspires catcalls as well as cheers