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  • Blogs

    February 7, 2013

    Christopher Dorner: Cops Shoot Newspaper Delivery Ladies In Similar Truck

    Cops looking for disgraced LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner fired on two women who were in a pickup similar to the one the suspect was believed to be driving. It happened in Torrance early this morning, police told the Weekly. The pair were delivering newspapers. But throwing stuff out the window a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2013

    Alpine Village Shooting Takes Life Outside Aggression, Circle One Punk Show

    A Torrance-area punk rock show featuring regional bands Aggression, Circle One, Dirty Rebels and others ended in violence, with one man fatally shot and another injured from a stabbing, authorities said. It happened at Alpine Village in an unincorporated part of L.A. county next to Torrance about 1 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2012

    Holiday DUI Checkpoint Cheat Sheet: Massive Drunk Driving Crackdown Starts Friday

    'Tis the season to be jolly, yes, but try not to do your fa-la-la-la-laing in a jail cell. Not fun. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department this week previewed the anti-DUI can of whoopass it's unveiling for the holidays, starting this weekend. It's massive:

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2012

    Gas Prices Could Reach All-Time High in L.A. as Some Stations Expected to Shut Down

    Southern California is an island of gas-price hell this week. One station in Calabasas is charging nearly $6 ($5.89 to be exact) a gallon for high-octane fuel, the Costco in Simi Valley has run out of regular-grade gas (with other stations expected to follow suit), and one expert tells us that all-t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2012

    46: Edomae Tendon Bowl at Hannosuke

    Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 46: Edomae Tendon Bowl at Hannosuke. The saying goes that good tempura should last about as long as a snowball in August (or September, if you happen to be ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2012

    Manny Castro's Chick-fil-A Vandalism Avoids Felony Prosecution

    Manny Castro, the gay artist and provocateur who proudly publicized the work he did on the side of a Torrance Chick-fil-A (he painted "Tastes Like Hate" in response to the chain's stance against same-sex marriage) is getting off. Sort of. The L.A. County District Attorney's office late yesterday d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2012

    Manny Castro's Chick-fil-A Stunt Gets Him Arrested by Torrance Police

    Manny Castro, the self-described street artist who admitted he painted "Tastes Like Hate" on the side of a Torrance Chick-fil-A last week in response to the chicken empire's anti-gay-marriage stance, has been arrested, Torrance police tell the Weekly. Sgt. Steven Jenkinson said Castro was collared ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2012

    Chick-fil-A Tastes Like Hate, Apparently (PHOTOS)

    It didn't take long for a guerilla activist to put a very public spin on Chick-fil-A's huge gay marriage FAIL. Only two days after conservatives flocked to the chain's outlets to support the stance of its CEO, who said he doesn't support same-sex marriage, a Torrance Chick-fil-A was hit with graffi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2012

    The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

    You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2012

    Jong Huh, Torrance Real-Estate Agent, Charged With Literally Gambling Clients' Money Away

    A warrant has been out for the arrest of Torrance real-estate agent Jong Hwan Huh since late April, when the L.A. County District Attorney's office filed 17 felony counts against him -- including grand theft, forgery, issuing bad checks and "enhancements for aggravated white collar crime." Accordin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2012

    The 4 Things You Need to Know About This Week's Review of Ramen Hayatemaru

    This week's restaurant review is of Ramen Hayatemaru in Torrance. We encourage you to read the review, but offer this bullet point synopsis to whet your appetite.

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2012

    Soba Sojibo: The Slick Noodle

    Soba -- those delicate, earthy strands of pasta you find floating in a bowl of hot broth or piled onto flat bamboo trays -- is one of the most difficult creations in a Japanese noodle chef's repertoire. Since the ash-colored buckwheat flour from which they're made contains almost no gluten, soba noo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2012

    Mitsuwa Torrance Hosts Four-Day Special Japanese Food Fair

    This weekend Mitsuwa Market locations in Torrance and Costa Mesa are hosting the chain's 7th annual "Umaimono Gourmet" food fair, which flys in specialist chefs to feature specific dishes you probably won't find in the U.S. another time of the year. It's sort of like the "Comic-Con" for Japanese cui ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Gottsui: A Review A Brief History of Okonomiyaki

    That new metro stop whose opening you've been awaiting: not complete. Those suspension-shredding chuckholes on your street: not filled. But there is still good news. It's not as hard to find good Japanese okonomiyaki in Los Angeles these days as it once was. Even a hardened cynic must admit that's s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    April at L.A. Farmers Markets: Your Virtual Grocery List

    It's April at Los Angeles farmers markets, which means more citrus, Fava beans and sugar snap peas, asparagus and radishes -- and yet more citrus. Check out our virtual grocery list, taken at the Tuesday Torrance Farmers Market. Torrance, by the way, has an enormous farmers market, with many prepare ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    Yamadaya Word Cloud: Pig, Pig, Noodle Opening in Sherman Oaks

    If this does not make you hungry, well, then there's not much we can do for you. The ramen -- they also have rice bowls and gyoza and tsukemen -- at Yamadaya is of the kind that won't leave you needing more food for some time. It is a study in pork more than noodles, although the noodles are excelle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2012

    Everything Must Go: Final Ishibashi Farm Sale Ends a 60-Year Legacy

    Writing about the closure of a farm within city limits has echoes of microfiche readings from the 1920s when L.A. invented the suburbia that swallowed up our giant orange groves. One farm -- the Tom T. Ishibashi Farm in Torrance -- had managed to survive the evolution from rural to urban until now, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2012

    Naked Murder Suspect Arrested After Mother, Daughter Fatally Stabbed in Torrance Area

    Google Maps​Updated at the bottom: The suspect was identified. First posted at 6 a.m. A nude man fatally stabbed a mother and her daughter and injured a man in a home in unincorporated Torrance last night, according to authorities and reports. Authorities responded to the residence about 8:1 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Capriotti's Opens in Torrance

    Torrance has a new sandwich shop. Las Vegas-based sandwich chain Capriotti's today opened its first South Bay location -- in Torrance. The chain already has two locations in San Diego, one in Encino and one in Beverly Hills.

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Elephant's Foot, Sea Turtle Boots, Leopard Pelt Found For Sale Online: Feds Make Busts

    This is news that will surely send PETA members into kiniptions that will require the aid of first responders. The U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A. today announced they've filed charges against a dozen people for selling endangered animals and related clothing, including boots made out of sea turtle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Guy Fawkes Mask, 'Anonymous' Milieu, Used in Teen YouTube Threat That Got SoCal High School Shut Down, Cops Say

    Shepard Fairey​A threat against Bishop Montgomery High School made very publicly via YouTube landed a 16-year-old suspect in handcuffs, police said today. Torrance police Sgt. Steven Jenkinson tells the Weekly the video featured an Occupy-style Guy Fawkes mask and the graphic stylings of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Ton of Marijuana Found After West Adams Traffic Stop in L.A. by Torrance Cops, They Say

    ​A strange, one-ton pot post went down following a traffic stop in the West Adams District last week by Torrance cops with a drug-sniffing dog, police said late Wednesday. It all started at Adams and Hauser boulevards Friday. The sequence of events is a bit confusing to us, but we're guessing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Brian Matayoshi of Torrance Killed in Yellowstone Bear Attack: Animal, Given Reprieve, Was Said to be Protecting Her Cubs

    The site of the Yellowstone bear attack.​A mama grizzly bear that was looking after her cubs in Yellowstone National Park was startled by a husband-and-wife pair of L.A.-area hikers and mauled the man to death this week. The Torrance victim was ID'd today as 57-year-old Brian Matayoshi of Tor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Andrew Garton, Hawthorne Police Officer, Dies in Motorcycle Collision With Another Cop in Torrance

    Torrance PD​Updated at the bottom: Witnesses described the scene before crash as "chaotic." The death of Garton is reported in an update on the next page. Two motorcycle police officers were "badly hurt" when they collided during a funeral procession for a late Manhattan Beach cop in Torrance ... More >>

  • News

    May 26, 2011

    Rich Fireman Named in Shoplifting

    In El Segundo, where firefighters make $210,000 a year, anger spills over

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    Don't Look Down, Kids: This Torrance Man Is Probably Naked

    Torrance Police DepartmentThe perv with the Mona Lisa smile​There's a man with no pants on the loose in Torrance, and he could be coming to an elementary school near you. Torrance police just released this sketch of the suspect, who exposed himself to two young girls at an intersection in fro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    L.A. Area Suspects Paul Thorington, Anthony Albano, Ray Joseph Laranjo Held in Miami Spring Break Gang Rape Case

    the undergraduateMiami Beach.​Three suspects arrested last week in the alleged gang rape of a college student in Miami Beach are from L.A.'s South Bay, police tell the Weekly. The trio is from Torrance, Rancho Palos Verdes and Torrance, Miami Beach Juan F. Sanchez told us. They were arrested ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    Pork Belly Futures to Go Belly Up?

    Guzzle & NoshBelgian Bacon at Alpine Village in Torrance.​Could it be the end of bacon as we know it? Pork bellies, once the iconic commodity of the futures market, are now barely a blip on the trading radar. According to Consumer Affairs: In the 1950s, 60s and 70s, pork bellies were one of t ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    September 30, 2010

    All in the Family

    Izakaya's Korean Brethren

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Ask Mr. Gold: All in the Family, or Izakaya's Korean Brethren

    Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: We only have one night in town, but we were hoping to do an izakaya crawl. Suggestions? Not in Torrance, please. If we've drunk as much as we hope to drink, it's a bit far to drive. --Lisa, San Francisco Dear Lisa: I know that there's so ... More >>

  • Music

    September 2, 2010

    Q&A: The FYF Fest

    Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: We only have one night in town, but we were hoping to do an izakaya crawl. Suggestions? Not in Torrance, please. If we've drunk as much as we hope to drink, it's a bit far to drive. --Lisa, San Francisco Dear Lisa: I know that there's so ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 5, 2010

    Plant Talk

    Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: We only have one night in town, but we were hoping to do an izakaya crawl. Suggestions? Not in Torrance, please. If we've drunk as much as we hope to drink, it's a bit far to drive. --Lisa, San Francisco Dear Lisa: I know that there's so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2010

    200 Pounds Of Meth And Heroin Seized In SoCal

    Yuma County Narcotics Task ForceThis is your face on meth.​What does 119 pounds of meth look like? Oh, about yay-high, lives in a trailer park, missing some teeth. But seriously, that's a lot of country crack, and it was seized right here in Southern California. Attorney General Jerry Brown, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    Who Builds The Electric Car? Possibly Torrance

    GMThe Chevrolet Volt.​In a strange reversal for Southern Californians who lamented the death of General Motors' EV1 electric car more than ten years ago, the car company announced it will invest $6 million in its Torrance Advanced Technology Center as it gears up to help the car maker produce ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    Doctor Used Other Physicians' Names To Perform Nip/Tucks On Insurance Companies' Dime

    Frances McDormand's character in 'Burn After Reading' was desperate to have insurance cover plastic surgery.​A Torrance-based doctor was convicted this week of charging insurance companies for medically unnecessary procedures that included facelifts and tummy tucks, according to the U.S. Depta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    LA Oktoberfest This Weekend: Lederhosen, Barmaids, Bavarian Music, Oh And Beer

    Katherine Sacks​There's no better way to celebrate the arrival of cool autumn days then by walking around downtown L.A. in a pair of lederhosen and drinking a strong German beer. This year, instead of paying for the expensive flight to Munich (or driving to Alpine Village in, umm, Torrance), c ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    October 1, 2009

    Best of L.A.: Food and Drink

    Katherine Sacks​There's no better way to celebrate the arrival of cool autumn days then by walking around downtown L.A. in a pair of lederhosen and drinking a strong German beer. This year, instead of paying for the expensive flight to Munich (or driving to Alpine Village in, umm, Torrance), c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    The L.A. Fathomiers: Under Water Hunting & Diving Since 1957

    L.A. FathomiersThe L.A. Fathomiers have a long and glorious history.​Sure, you could take bait, stick it through a hook attached to a fishing line, then wait around to see if anything bites. Or you could just dive right in and go get the fish yourself. The L.A. Fathomiers, who have been around ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2009

    Pot Pharmacies Raided, Dog Shot

    The L.A. Times reports that federal and local law enforcement agencies raided a pair of Westside medical marijuana pharmacies today, along with the homes of their owners. In one of the raids a pit bull was shot although, according to the Times report, it is expected to fully recover. It's unclear wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    Squid Ink Food Fight: Cold Summer Noodles, Japan Vs. Korea

    It's summer. The heat is turning up and sometimes the best best way to beat it is with a bowl of cold noodles. So in this edition of Squid Ink Food Fight, we pit two ethnicities against each other that actually have a long history of battling: Japan and Korea. In the Japanese corner, we have cold so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    Today in Photographs: July 27, 1963

    ​The Rev. Herbert Yates is arrested during a sit-in protesting racial discrimination at a new Torrance housing subdivision. LA Times/UCLA

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    The Emptying Sky Both LAX and LA/Ontario airports are experiencing substantial decreases in their numbers of travelers, despite a wave of fare reductions. L.A. TimesFreeway With a View Rows of noise-break trees have been cut down by the side of the 405 Freeway in Sherman Oaks, and by an apartment co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Today in Photographs: February 10, 1975

    When aerospace was king in L.A. Striking members of the International Association of Machinists demonstrate in the rain at the McDonnell Douglas plant in Torrance.Photo: LA Times/ UCLA Collection

  • Eat+Drink

    May 1, 2008

    Fry Daddy: Well-Oiled at the Thousand Cranes Tempura Bar

    When aerospace was king in L.A. Striking members of the International Association of Machinists demonstrate in the rain at the McDonnell Douglas plant in Torrance.Photo: LA Times/ UCLA Collection

  • Eat+Drink

    January 25, 2007

    Noodles With Attitude

    Ramen as high art at Santouka

  • Stage

    November 9, 2006

    SOLA Contemporary Dance Festival 2006

    Ramen as high art at Santouka

  • News

    October 6, 2005

    Big Fun in Little Bavaria

    Alpine Village without tears

  • News

    May 10, 2001

    Barking for Change

    Torrance wants more say over its pets

  • Eat+Drink

    February 17, 2000

    From Spaetzle to Saimintosoda

    The world on a string

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