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How Undercover Animal Rights Activists Are Winning the Ag-Gag War

First It Was Charlie Sheen. Now Antonio Villaraigosa Is Hanging With... Mitt Romney?

Remember the presidential campaign? Feels like forever ago, but you may recall that L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was out of town a lot rounding up votes for President Obama.Cable news bookers grew to rely on him whenever they needed someone to trash Mitt Romney's "extreme" views on immigration. A ... More >>

Antonio Villaraigosa Grabs the Third Rail; Embrace of Social Security Cuts May Complicate Future Campaigns

Who knows what Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa plans to do after he leaves office on July 1. Corporate board member? Professional speech-maker? Aspen festival goer?But if he intends ever to run for office again, his comments this week on the federal budget may come back to haunt him."We can strengthen th ... More >>

Architect Gerhard Becker Faces Manslaughter Charges After a Firefighter Died Trying to Save His Home

Raven Furlong, Aspiring Teen Model Gone Missing, Spotted In SoCal, Might Be With Man

An aspiring underage model from Colorado has gone missing after spending time in Venice, but folks in the know say she might have been spotted in Southern California today, not long after her car was found in the beach community yesterday. A source close to the family of Raven Cassidy Furlong told ... More >>

Kevin Lives on Our Couch:"Aged out" of foster care, L.A. teens are put on the street, expected to be instant adults

Protesters Deliver Petition Urging Antonio Villaraigosa To Quit Fix the Debt

Protesters delivered a petition to City Hall today calling on Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to step down from the Committee to Fix the Debt.Angela Garcia Combs, who launched the petition last week through MoveOn.org, printed out about 14,000 signatures and dropped them off at the mayor's office at ... More >>

Antonio Villaraigosa Joins Committee to Fix the Debt, Completing Plutocratic Conversion

Update below: Online petition calls for mayor to resign from Fix the Debt. Villaraigosa responds.Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has joined the Committee to Fix the Debt, thus completing his transformation from firebrand Chicano organizer to servant of the plutocracy.Fix the Debt wants lawmakers to addre ... More >>

Assembly District 49 Election Results: Chau Defeats Lin

Democratic Attorney and Montebello school board member Ed Chau was able to stave of an upset by Republican Dr. Matthew Lin last night. Chau beat his opponent in the race to represent voters of newly-drawn Assembly District 49 by a healthy margin.

Henry Rollins: The Column! Our America

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Today: I am in Oklahoma City. Outside the tour bus, the wind is blowing nonstop, hair-dryer ho ... More >>

Stop Sign Camera Tickets in L.A. Lead to Demands to See Drivers' Bank Accounts

Mountains Authority takes money-grubbing to a new low

Henry Rollins: The Column! Obamacare vs. the American Death Machine

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] The fallout from SCOTUS upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act has been a ... More >>

A Santa Monica Trailer Park — and Its Senior Residents — Face Off With Fancy New Development

Comments: Aliens Among Us

Murder on Montana Ave.

Was LAUSD teacher Sasha Merman slain to hide Daniel Becerril's greed?

Are Los Angeles Police Officers Disrespectful To Senior Citizens? Betty Pleasant Thinks So

Do Los Angeles police officers need sensitivity training for talking with elderly citizens? According to longtime Los Angeles Wave columnist Betty Pleasant, the answer is a resounding "yes!" Pleasant, whom we love for her pull-no-punches journalism, complains in a May 2 column that while the LAPD h ... More >>

Biggie Smalls' Mom Wants Grand Jury on Murder

Venice Homeless Being Pushed off the Boardwalk, Advocates Say

Advocates for the homeless are steaming over what they say is a homeless crackdown in one of L.A.'s last bastions of free living -- Venice. The last two nights along the boardwalk and beyond LAPD officers have been contacting homeless people, warning them they can't sleep there, according to David ... More >>

Meatballs of Comedy, the East Coast Comedy Crew, Rallies for a Terminally Ill Friend

Joey Sorice -- pronounced sore-eess -- greets people just inside the showroom door at the snazzy Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank. "That guy right there," he says, pointing to Vince Secere, a handsome yet comically visaged character expert and martial arts expert, "was in Analyze This. He was the ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! My New Year's Resolution: To Rock Out

​[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] For many years I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great ... More >>

In Debate, Brad Sherman Attacks Howard Berman On Iraq War, Trade and Super PACs

Brad Sherman: Throwing punches​The battle is now underway to determine which bald, Jewish Democrat who voted for the Iraq war will continue to represent the San Fernando Valley in Congress.At their first debate on Thursday night, Reps. Brad Sherman and Howard Berman eagerly tore into each other, s ... More >>

Illegal Immigrant Sentenced to 1.5 Years For Claiming 20 Nonexistent Children on Tax Returns

It wasn't her.​Now, if you read this particularly author you know we have defended the undocumented as a necessary and sometimes-abused cog in our unjust economic system. You can't diss 'em and still get your car washed, eat out for dinner, or even buy lettuce. Just can't. Well, for all you i ... More >>

Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day in West Hollywood

Siran Babayan​It was raining men in West Hollywood Saturday night as the city organized its first Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day. Leave it to WeHo to declare a Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day and Motley Crue Day in the same year. And only in WeHo will you find a scantily clad dancer outside a yog ... More >>

Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour

Countering the right wing's fury with humor

Obamaggedon in Near Future? President's Visit to WeHo Could Cause Major Traffic Jams

WeHo DailyIf only L.A. had some good public transportation options for Obama to take​Update: Side-line information from left-wing group press officer after the break. Update: Street protests happening now from left-wing group outside Obama's first stop at the House of Blues Sunset. Also, upda ... More >>

Clamor Over Venice 311

Col. Sanders Has a Website And a Legacy

Col. Sanders, in all his advertising glory.​Colonel Harland Sanders apparently has a legacy, something other than making mediocre fried chicken. To promote it, Kentucky Fried Chicken has launched www.colonelsanders.com, a site designed to collect photos, videos and stories that will cement the ... More >>

Antonio Villaraigosa Does His Best Michael Bloomberg Impression on "Meet The Press"

Antonio Villaraigosa on "Meet the Press"​Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa made his debut on "Meet the Press" on Sunday, appearing in his newest incarnation as a transpartisan truth-teller.Doing his best impersonation of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Villaraigosa bashed Republicans and Democrats alik ... More >>

Jamie Court: Browser Beater

Arnold's Love Child Saga Means He Won't Be Back in Movie Theaters For Now

I won't be back.​Following this week's love child revelations, Arnold Schwarzenegger said today through his lawyer that he's putting his Hollywood comeback on hold. That put to rest speculation that, while bad for political aspirations, sleeping around and getting mad headlines for it, even w ... More >>

Zachariah Timothy Lehnen, Accused in Double Murder of Culver City Pair, Could Have Been in Prison Until 2013 But Was Released Early

Patrick HealyZachariah Timothy Lehnen.​The transient accused of killing two people in Culver City this month was let out of prison late last year -- with three years cut off his time -- via a controversial early-release program. Thirty-one-year-old Zachariah Lehnen's parolee information sheet ... More >>

California Immigrants and Job Seekers Will Have to Wait to Use Federal Government's New Employment Eligibility Website

​People living in California may have to wait until April 2012 to use the federal government's new website that allows users to check on their own employment eligibility. The new program, called E-Verify Self Check, was launched Monday and for the first time ever enables potential workers to see ... More >>

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