South Gate

Opening Soon: Tierra Mia Coffee in Echo Park

Because surely you could use a horchata frappe on a warm winter day: Tierra Mia Coffee, the specalty coffee shop and roastery that started in South Gate, is expanding into Echo Park. It will take over Echo Lake Coffee Company's space, so if driving up Alvarado towards the 2 freeway and/or Taco Zone ... More >>

Darnell and Tania Washington, Bonnie and Clyde of L.A. County, Wanted for Wild Crime Spree in Carjacked Minivan

An attractive Southern California couple is wanted in two counties this morning for the jailbreak and joyride of a lifetime. San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials say that 24-year-old robbery suspect Darnell Washington escaped from county jail on August 28 with the help of his wife, 25-year-old ... More >>

Marijuana Crackdown on 36 L.A. County Pot Shops by Feds

Federal authorities today announced a crackdown on 36 medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles County, including raids on two shops in Santa Fe Springs and warning letters to 34 businesses and property owners. Interestingly, the actions did not involve any pot shops in the city of Los Angeles. ... More >>

California's Confusing Food Taxes: Why You're Paying Extra For That Breakfast Sandwich

Have you ever wondered why a sandwich that has been zapped in a convenience store microwave is taxed at a higher rate than one that isn't? Or why you pay a different price based on your answer to the question "For here or to-go?" (...Oh you didn't notice the difference? Well, that's probably why Cal ... More >>

Roxy Borboa, South Gate 16-Year-Old, Reportedly Shot Dead While Waiting in Car Outside Party

A shootout in South Gate last night took the life of an apparently innocent 16-year-old sitting in a car nearby. Friends identify the victim on Twitter as Roxy Borboa-Galindo. (The L.A. County Coroner cannot confirm her identity at this time.) And Mike Perez, a family friend, told NBC Los Angeles l ... More >>

Ska Still Rules in L.A.! Just Ask Viernes 13

Viernes 13​Local eight-man ska band Viernes 13 started out playing backyard shows in Whittier and South Gate in the mid-90s. It makes sense, since those were the days when Reel Big Fish and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones ruled the airwaves. But as ska faded from top 40 radio, its popularity only ... More >>

'Anonymous' Hacks Into L.A. County Police and Sheriff Databases; Posts Contact Info, Nude Pics

Anonymous offshoot CabinCr3w has set its sights back on L.A. law enforcement. The hackers first targeted the LAPD in the angry aftermath of the massive, allegedly violent raid of the Occupy L.A. encampment downtown. And they're back for more Internet payback this week, getting revenge on the cops ... More >>

Carmageddon Junior This Weekend as 710 Freeway Closes Overnight in Southeast L.A. County

NoiseCollusion​We're sensing a little Westside bias. Shutdown the 405 for less than a weekend and all other news must cease: The world is coming to an end. But over on the Eastside they're going to have a little Carmageddon Jr. going on this weekend. That's right, the 710 will be shut down ... More >>

Art Sex Crime Tagging Crew Targeted in L.A. County Sweep: 8 Alleged Graffiti Vandals Arrested

MySpaceArt Sex Crime has a MySpace page.​Cops fanned out across the L.A. area in pursuit of members of Art Sex Crime, an 8-year-old tagging crew they say is responsible for more than 1,600 acts of vandalism: 11 people were arrested yesterday in eight different SoCal cities -- mostly in the sou ... More >>

South Gate Groper on the Loose: Latest Victim is an 8-Year-Old Girl

Google MapsCops say the South Gate groper works this neighborhood, where Street View shows school kids walking.​When the weather warms up, the creeps seem to come out like clockwork. Police say this one has been working the northwest section of South Gate, where a 15-year-old girl on her way ... More >>

Two Dead After Head-On Collision With Mercedes-Benz Speeding Wrong Way in 91 East Carpool Lane

eurotuner.comA 1996 Mercedes C220 like the one that plowed into oncoming traffic last night​Updated after the jump: The victims were 24-year-old Vanessa Cease of Long Beach and 26-year-old Alan Reyes of Diamond Bar. Friends say they were a couple. The driver who sped into oncoming traffic was ... More >>

The Damage, Halloween 2010: Three-Year-Old South L.A. Trick-Or-Treater Slammed By Hit-And-Run Driver, Boyle Heights 22-Year-Old Kills Girlfriend And Child In SUV

Sow There!​The night of October 31/morning of November 1 are inevitably rough on the crime front -- something about unlimited Skittles and slutty schoolgirls brings out the evil in any community. This year was no exception in L.A., with a slew of messy shootings and even more deadly road rage ... More >>

Los Angeles County Cities Have Highest Sales Taxes In The State, Including 10.75 Percent In Pico Rivera And South Gate

Slices of Light via Flickr​Updated after the jump with comments from the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce's CEO, who says high sales taxes could hurt car sales. Originally posted at 1:38 p.m. Eleven cents on the dollar in sales tax? Believe that. As five California cities, including two in Sou ... More >>

Bubble Wrap Bandit: Hey Police Agencies, Better Nicknames For Bank Robbers, Please

Bubble wrap​Police say a man with a history of alleged bank robberies hit a Bank of the West Tuesday at Valley View Boulevard and Imperial Highway in La Mirada. He's been dubbed the "Bubble Wrap Bandit." So does he wrap his face in bubble wrap to disguise himself or something? Or perhaps he ... More >>

The Chosen One

How the labor-Latino political machine decides who serves in Sacramento

Voodoo Car Dealer Convicted In Real Estate Fraud Case

Google MapsDowney Motorcars.​A South Gate used-car dealer who allegedly used voodoo to help him in a fraud case brought against him by authorities was convicted on Thursday of filing false papers and grand theft as part of a real estate fraud scheme, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's ... More >>

The Mexican Binge

When a visitor wants nothing but

HOLY SEVERANCE PAY, BATMAN!

Good money after bad: Should L.A. taxpayers pay $40,000 to steal $20,000 jobs from South Gate?

Evacuations Ordered For Several Foothill Communities (UPDATED)

National Weather Service​Authorities ordered 64 households in the Paradise Valley area of La Canada-Flintridge to evacuate as storm-caused mud flows threatened a neighborhood above 2524 Ocean View Boulevard. Evacuations of 83 residences in the Riverwood Ranch, Alpine Village, Zachaou Canyon, H ... More >>

When White Writers Do “Latino” Issues

Eastside Bakeries After Dark

Have your cake and eat it late

Sticker Shock Treatment: Fake Governor to Pay Real Sales Tax

At the stroke of midnight Angelenos will get hit by a double dose of sales-tax increases that will bring our county's up to 9.75 percent -- tying us with Alameda County for having the state's highest countywide tax. (Some individual cities, such as Pico Rivera and South Gate, will be even higher -- ... More >>

What's Not in a Name?

Burbank was not named for horticulturalist Luther. Stanton was not so called in honor of actor Harry Dean. Nor was Carson dedicated to late-night talk-show host Johnny. These are just some of the disillusioning facts one learns over the course of living in L.A. According to William Bright's ever-hel ... More >>

Tierra Mia Explores Coffee for the Latino Palate

A journey through the world's best beans

A Federal Case

Eating D.F. style on both sides of town

Mario Beltran’s Strange Bedfellows

A political brouhaha erupts as LAPD seizes documents from a Bell Gardens councilman and the city’s towing company

Un Pueblo Olvidado por la Ley

A Spanish translation of “The Town the Law Forgot”. Pandillas, carteles y políticas al estilo “sur de la frontera” enlodan la reputación de un suburbio de L.A.

Schooling the Schools

At South Gate, and elsewhere, ambitious students demand more from LAUSD

South L.A.

Regional Mexican

D.A. Man and Me

Encounters with the many sides of Steve Cooley

We Endorse

L.A. Weekly’s recommendations in the major contested races of the March 2 primary

Endorsements

Our recommendations in the March 4 Los Angeles municipal election

Ask Mr. Gold

Original Sinaloa

An Exquisite Scar

Life and commerce along the Alameda Corridor

Senseless Steve

The D.A.’s rampage at a tiny downtown newspaper

The Erotic Arts

The South

From Downtown to Long Beach Harbor

Idle Plan

South Gate power plant could rise again

Lights Out

Proposed power plant flames out in South Gate

Ecocide

Heating Up

Coming out against South Gate’s proposed power plant

Downey to Power Plant: Drop Dead

Power Play

South Gate is already one of the most polluted cities in California. Does it really need a massive new electric plant?

No Vacancy

The school district's space crunch is much worse than you know. And no one has a plan that will fix it.

Spacing Schools

Uh-oh! L.A.’s grand plan for creating classrooms won’t work

Come to Order, Class

Whoever’s running L.A. Unified deserves high marks in chaos, struggle and discontent

Generation XX

20 years of covering the unheard music