Sun Valley

Rocio Camacho: The Goddess of Mole

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. The spirits of ancient Mexican deities may soon reside in Los Angeles, enticed across the border by chef Rocio Camacho. Camacho's two San Fernando Valley restaurants, both name ... More >>

Now Open: Rocio's Mole de los Dioses in Tarzana Community Garden Sourcing

After a soft-open this past Saturday, Rocio's Mole de los Dioses will officially open in Tarzana to the public today, joining locations in Bell and Sun Valley in offering moles of various traditions. "We believe in keeping traditions alive. We focus on moles because it's one of the more traditiona ... More >>

LAPD DUI Checkpoint Location Info Is Back; Silver Lake Hipsters Targeted

We noted in last week's LA Weekly DUI checkpoint cheat sheet that the LAPD wasn't giving us exact locations as it had done for years. We wondered aloud if Chief Charlie Beck's own reservations about giving potential drunks detailed warnings about where his officers would be finally trickled down to ... More >>

5 Essential Mexican Restaurants in Los Angeles

Our 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants issue came out last week, and we're highlighting a few categories drawing from the list. Today: Mexican restaurants. This isn't every single Mexican spot on the list (there are a ton!), so make sure you check out the whole thing, but here are five of our favorites ... More >>

Rocio's Moles de los Dioses: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Marijuana Plants Found Following Sun Valley House Fire

We've said it before: Be careful not to attract attention when you're (allegedly) growing weed. In today's case we have a guy in Sun Valley fortunate enough to be the proud owner of five marijuana plants, cops say, but unfortunately enough to have them burn in a garage fire that brought out the aut ... More >>

Your iPhone Food App of the Day: Rocio's Mole de los Dioses

For those of us who have spent WAY too much time lost near the Burbank airport, driving down one street or another in the concrete tangle of one-way streets chasing Bob Hope's ghost, searching, often in vain, for Rocio Camacho's latest mole palace and maybe a stack of bright green tortillas made in ... More >>

6. Mole de los Dioses at Rocio's Mole de los Dioses

Celebrating this year's Best of L.A. issue -- now out in print and online -- we're counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 6. Mole de los Dioses at Rocio's Mole de los Dioses. This colorful Sun Valley restaurant, tucked into a small strip mall off of I-5, has many menu i ... More >>

Richard Alarcon Faces Perjury Trial Over Squatter House Saga

They say when you buy a vintage car, you don't want one with a "story." You know -- if it requires too much explanation, there's trouble ahead. And frankly, Richard Alarcon's story about the Panorama City house he was supposed to be living in to qualify for his City Council district election is one ... More >>

Gunfire Erupts at Mayor's Anti-Gang Program 'Summer Night Lights' in Sun Valley; Two Shot

Amid proud statistics from the mayor's office on the effectiveness of his anti-gang program Summer Night Lights since it began five years ago, a shooting at the Sun Valley Park location has "set the bar back," a member of the neighborhood council tells the LA Daily News. Last Thursday night, a crow ... More >>

Dana Corleto, 'Pregnant' Pacoima Teen, Killed in Crash; Boyfriend Arrested for Vehicular Manslaughter

A Pacoima teenager who friends say was pregnant died yesterday morning when her boyfriend veered into oncoming traffic. Dana Corleto, 19, was riding in the passenger's seat of a silver VW Passat when Jesus Felix, her 18-year-old boyfriend, reportedly lost control of the vehicle, crossed over the ce ... More >>

LAPD Catches Child-Services Employee Trolling for Whores in County Car

Updated below: The department says staffers like Moton are issued vans "to transport children." We recently learned what L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services employees aren't doing on the job -- namely, protecting kids from harm -- and now we might have a better idea of what they' ... More >>

Rocio Camacho's Latest: Mole de los Dioses

F. FriesemaJonagold apples​Mole -- we've all had mole. Los Angeles may be the best place to eat mole outside Oaxaca and maybe the D.F., a bastion of both Oaxacan and Poblano styles of the ultracomplex sauce. If you can't find the famous seven moles of Oaxaca here, you're not looking. But ever ... More >>

The Five Most Furious Reactions to the Redistricting of Los Angeles

As insanely boring -- and incomprehensible to the average voter -- as the redistricting of Los Angeles may be, it's kind of a big deal. We understand the apathy. In a city where only a little over 10 percent of eligible voters turn out for municipal elections at all, they can hardly be expected to ... More >>

Rocio's Mole De Los Dioses: Now Open in Sun Valley

Just a couple of months after opening up her own first restaurant, Rocio Camacho, the J. Gold approved Mole'ra formerly of Mole's La Tia and La Huasteca, has opened up a second locale. The Sun Valley extension of Rocio's Mole De Los Dioses officially opened last Saturday, Jan. 14 in a strip mall ne ... More >>

Samuel Mendez Guerra: Valley 17-Year-Old Shot Outside El Castillo Night Club at 2 a.m.

Police today say the victim of a fatal shooting outside a Sun Valley club is a 17-year-old boy, identified as Samuel Mendez Guerra. What was the teen from North Hollywood doing at 2 a.m. at El Castillo when the club closed Saturday night? It's not clear. Here's what cops say happened:

Devin 'Thor' Dickey, Young Valley Tagger, Arrested by Burbank Police for Vandalism -- 'Just the Start' of Crackdown on Graffiti Crew

pixiecanfly via Tumblr​Burbank police announce today that two young taggers they arrested on November 3 -- Devin Dickey, 20, and an unnamed 16-year-old girl -- are possibly facing felony charges after they allegedly vandalized multiple pieces of property across the San Fernando Valley. Invest ... More >>

Jennifer Logan, Sun Valley 25-Year-Old, Was Murdered in Her Car Last Night

FacebookJennifer Logan​Jennifer Logan was delivered a fatal bullet at about 6:30 p.m. yesterday, the sun still shining to the west. The 25-year-old white woman hails from North Hollywood but lists herself on Facebook as a current resident of Sun Valley, where she was riding in a car with a 22 ... More >>

Cinco de Mayo Drunk Patrol in Full Effect Tonight Through The Weekend, Says LAPD

Horia Varlan​Updated after the jump with the sheriff's department and the CHP jumping in on the fun. A victory over the French is like saying you beat Andy Dick only using your left hand. Too easy. Still, any excuse is a good excuse to party, and, to be fair, Cinco de Mayo has become America' ... More >>

Operation 'Lost Boy:' Feds Bring Down Child Porn Ring That Had L.A. Ties

The "Lost Boy" ring was shut down.​The alleged pervs apparently thought they had outwitted the long arm of the law. Federal authorities say they set up an almost mob-like system of membership where each new man who wanted to partake had to bring an original photo of a sexually exploited child ... More >>

L.A. City Councilmember Richard Alarcon Begs Judge To Dismiss Charges Of Perjury And Fraud

Mayor SamJoke's on you, District 7​L.A. City Councilmember Richard Alarcón has been on uneasy street since the beginning of August, when he was charged with 18 counts of felony indictment, including perjury and voter fraud. His wife racked up six more. This morning, fed up with all the guilt ... More >>

The Monkey's Paw: Dapper Cadaver Oddity

​ If you go to a store called Dapper Cadaver in Sun Valley here in Los Angeles, you will see many weird things. Of the weird things, this monkey's paw is perhaps one of the weirdest. The monkey's paw, of course, is infamous for bringing bad luck to those who use it to make their wishes come t ... More >>

Gang Suspect Extradited From Mexico For Murder Of 16-Year-Old

​The long arm of the law this week reached down into Mexico and grabbed 20-year-old purported gang member David Aranda Hernandez for his alleged 2008 killing of a 16-year-old innocent in North Hollywood. Members of the Los Angeles Police Department and the FBI's Fugitive Task Force brought He ... More >>

Web Surfing: A Roundup of Posts from LA Food Blogs

-- Food GPS goes for goat at Bulrocho [Food GPS] -- Pat Saperstein takes a tour of Latin American desserts [Eating LA] -- Zach Brooks tries Ciudad's lunch special [Midtown Lunch LA] -- Bill Esparza finds the real food of Baja in Sun Valley [Street Gourmet LA] -- ExileKiss dips into the sakes at ... More >>

D.A. Investigating Claim That Councilman Alarcon Has Been Living Outside Own District

Councilman Richard Alarcon.​The Los Angeles District Attorney's office is investigating a claim that City Councilman Richard Alarcon has been living outside his district, which would be illegal, the office confirmed to L.A. Weekly Thursday. On Tuesday the D.A. served search warrants on two re ... More >>

L.A. Council Rejects Home Buffer Zone For Pot Shops

​Considering its long-awaited ordinance to get a grip on 545 largely unregulated medical marijuana retailers in L.A., the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday rejected a proposed 500 foot buffer zone between the shops and homes and instead drafted language that would prohibit the businesses f ... More >>

Eddie Haskell, We Hardly Knew Ye

Wikipedia​Those of us of a certain age can never get enough of Eddie Haskell -- even if, as Ralph Keyes wrote earlier this year in Editor & Publisher, "Journalists who lace their copy with such retro terms or names risk alienating those who are too young to get the allusions." (Keyes was refer ... More >>

Can an Activist Crack L.A. City Hall's Machine?

In the riled-up S.F. Valley, a struggle pits regular folk against big money

Mysterious Bounty Hunter Shooting

It was a story that captured people's attention this morning because it conjured images of Dog the Bounty Hunter in a reality TV episode gone wrong. The Associated Press reported that a Sun Valley man had been shot in the leg last night during an altercation with three bounty hunters who had come to ... More >>

Ninth Circuit Court Retreats to Idaho

Legal insiders point everywhere but at themselves during a sun-filled non-examination

Bone for the Holidays

Who’s ruffing it when you leave town? Not your pooch

Moguls Will Be Moguls at Camp Allen

Shareholders get burned around the Big Media campfire

Super-Manly Makeovers, Slackers and Perkbusters

It’s gonna be a long, hot summer in Hollywood

How to Cure Hollywood’s Summertime Blues

12 Steps to better box office

Citizen Forester

Andy Lipkis speaks for the trees. Now he wants to solve our water problems too.

The Rain Catchers

The Defibrillator

Richard Alarcón tries to jolt the mayor with a campaign about saving the middle class, Latinos and the Valley

The Great Wet Hope

Will Measure O remake Los Angeles? Only if voters know it exists

Not in My Neighborhood Council

What can save L.A.’s broken neighborhood councils?

Dawn in L.A.

What were 12,000 people doing at the Convention Center?

Valhalla on a Tank of Gas

The Fahntahstic Transition

Arnold’s embrace of the right and the left is not that strange

Hollywood's Dude

Keeping an eye on the ball

Letters

Like Water for Concrete

From flood control to watershed management

Hang On

Let’s not do away with the summer ritual of drag racing

Hailey's Comet

How Bruce Willis Romanced and then Jilted a Small Idaho Town

Is It Boris or Is It Memorex?

Trouble In Paradise

They Say You Write What You Know