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Swatting Celebrities Could Cost Pranksters $10,000 Under Proposed Law

See also: SWATting, a Deadly Political Game. Swatting has hit the homes of Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Ashton Kutcher, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and others. And, while it probably is pretty funny to the braces-wearing little buttheads who dial 911 with app-enabled masked numbers to report that their fa ... More >>

The Dudes' Brewing Co. in Torrance Debuts First Four Beers Cans Coming in June

Usually when a room full of people are chanting "Dudes! Dudes! Dudes!" it's a bachelorette party in a Vegas hotel suite. But last week, when the refrain erupted inside Hot's Kitchen in Hermosa Beach, it was not for male strippers. It was for L.A.'s newest microbrewery --The Dudes' Brewing Company. ... More >>

10 Best Carne Asada Fries in Los Angeles

Carne asada fries don't travel well, practically and ideologically speaking. They're increasingly hard to locate as you drive north from San Diego county, and surprisingly rare in Los Angeles, a city teeming with Mexican food, college students and medical marijuana cards. Piles of freshly fried spud ... More >>

Donald Vincent: Ice Skating Coach Suspected Of Molestation Worked Throughout SoCal

An ice-skating coach who has worked at rinks in Culver City, Anaheim, Riverside and more, was charged this week with lewd acts on a minor. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department announced that 29-year-old Donald Vincent was jailed in lieu of $1 million bail after a 17-year-old boy came forward and cl ... More >>

Top 5 WTF Stories Of 2012

It's been a banner year for WTF stories, a category we helped define a few years back with "Today In WTF" headlines. If you enjoy head-scratching stories, you really couldn't ask for a better front-row seat than the one journalists get in Los Angeles. We have it all -- victims set on fire (accide ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Market: Chinese Dates, a k a Jujubes

Each year the arrival of the jujube -- the small, date-like Chinese tree fruit -- surprises us. People have been growing it in the U.S. for almost a century now. It was once fruita obscura, treasured in Asian markets but not much elsewhere, as recently as five years ago. Now we add a new farmer t ... More >>

Torrance Panhandler Bites Woman in Neck for Refusing to Give Him Money

Bums of southwestern L.A. County, gone wild! Torrance police say a panhandler waiting outside a small hospital called Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center assaulted a female employee early Saturday morning as she walked into work. "He initially asked for money," says Sergeant Steven Jen ... More >>

Ramen Hayatemaru Beckons the Noodle-Obsessed to Torrance

Drink This Now: Strand Brewing's Ito-Weisse

Cloudy, tart, fizzy, and slightly funky -- there aren't many styles of beer that can compare to a proper Berliner Weisse. Legend has it that Napoleon's troops referred to it as "the Champagne of the North," while more contemporary imbibers have described it favorably as the "lemonade of beers." Sure ... More >>

Steven Almeida, Alleged Hacker, Cut Off Power to Homes of Four 'Justice Officials' -- D.A.

Steven Grant Almeida was one angry hacker. At least if you ask the L.A. County D.A.'s office, which today announced he was facing 71 counts for alleged ID theft and "cyber attacks" that, among other things, cut off the power to the homes of four "justice officials," prosecutors said. Now, sure, a ... More >>

Top 10 California Pale Ales

Jake OgleThe Classic American Pale Ale​ American Pale Ales, arguably the most popular beer style for craft brewers, tend to range between 5-6 % alcohol by volume (abv). That makes them what some beer geeks call "sessionable," meaning you can enjoy quite a few of them in a single sitting witho ... More >>

Meet Joyce Manor: "Scream Along" Music From South Bay

Manny Mares​When it comes to music in Los Angeles these days, all you hear about day in and day out is "this band from Silver Lake" or "that venue over on the East side." It's easy to feel neglected for those on the West side, but thanks to Joyce Manor, the feeling of being the last kid picke ... More >>

Top 10 American Craft Beers for Summer

Daniel DrennonOmmegang Hennepin​ Traffic. Air pollution. Earthquakes. So why, at your local sports bar, are seemingly half the patrons transplants from New York, Boston and Chicago pulling for their hometown teams and lamenting "how great it is back home?" Four words. Bikinis. Board shor ... More >>

The Technicolor Dessert: Hawaiian Paradise Cakes from King's Hawaiian

D. GonzalezHawaiian paradise cake​ When it comes to some food items, there can be too much of a good thing. However, this rarely applies to dessert. At King's Hawaiian Bakery & Restaurant in Torrance, the signature dessert is their Hawaiian paradise cake, so popluar that the cake's colorful ... More >>

1321 Beer Bar Opening in Torrance in May

Courtesy of EB Design and Dmar InteriorsA rendering of 1321's exterior.​Chef Greg Paul, known for creating the fantastic burger at The Oaks (dry-aged beef topped with thick Black Forest bacon, buttery taleggio and a smoked jalapeno and pineapple compote) is heading south -- to 1321, an upscale ... More >>

Sex Crime and Violence During DJ-Driven 'Ultra Weekend' in Miami -- And, Yes, Californians Were in the Thick of It

YouTubeHeadquarters, we have a wedgie.​The just-wrapped "Miami Music Week/Ultra Weekend" in South Beach was marred by violence, and allegations of rape. Our sister publication Miami New Times reports that three Californians were arrested on suspicion of gang raping a college student at the Fon ... More >>

Los Angeles Spring Storm Fells Trees, Floods Streets, Darkens Homes

MuscleNerdTree down in L.A.​Update: PCH was reopened, and so was the Grapevine. Record rainfall was recorded around Southern California, with downtown Los Angeles seeing 2.42 inches Sunday compared with 1.48 inches on the date in 1943. See more records after the jump. The first week of spring ... More >>

Top 9 Now-Defunct L.A. Fast Food Restaurant Chains The Return of #3

Del Taco Corp.​With the further expansion of Chick-fil-A in Los Angeles, the recent announcement of Papaya King coming to Hollywood and the arrival of Australia's Oporto to the Southland, we at Squid Ink thought it was an opportune time for a trip down memory lane. Here, in no particular orde ... More >>

BP Puts Monster SoCal Refinery -- 25 Percent of All L.A. Gas -- Up for Sale

terrapsych.comBP Carson Refinery: officially on the market​It's easy to hate BP. Those jerks made the glistening Gulf of Mexico into a goopy seafood dish that lined our nightmares in black slime and swallowed helpless baby animals whole. And that was just the view from unaffected California, ... More >>

Skinny Shirataki: Are Zero-Calorie Noodles Too Good to be True?

Nichole O'Connor​At first we were repulsed by the bizarre feed bags that arrived in LA Weekly's mail bin, addressed to no one in particular, looking like they were ready to board a spaceship in some astronaut's lunchbox. We weren't really in the market for zero calorie, low-carb, low sodium, ... More >>

Ramen Yamadaya Opens In Torrance

N. GalutenYamadaya's tonkotsu ramen​ Do we need more good ramen shops in Los Angeles? Always. Thanks to another opening tip from the appropriately named Rameniac, we learned of Yamadaya, which began service in Torrance at the end of July. Yamadaya is not a trendy noodle vendor with a sleek in ... More >>

Best Evening Farmers Market: South Pasadena

A. ScattergoodSouth Pasadena farmers market​ Sure, there are farmers markets with more high profile chefs trailing carts and, often, camera crews (Santa Monica Wednesdays); there are markets with stalls featuring more Asian or Hispanic produce (Torrance); or markets scheduled early enough and ... More >>

Quentin Tarantino at LAX: Rolling Roadshow Hits Town for 'Jackie Brown'

Read Karina Longworth's article "Tarantino's Angst" from L.A. Weekly's print edition. Nicole Campos​ When Texas's Alamo Drafthouse comes to town to unleash their special brand of bad-ass cinema experience, they mean business. No one's going to stand in their way, not even the entire city of T ... More >>

This Weekend's Good Deed: Rising Songwriter Rocco DeLuca at "White Light White Night" Fundraiser

​[West Coast Sound's Lily Borghi points out this very special fundraiser happening this weekend:] "Rocco DeLuca will be headlining this Saturday's summer party, White Light White Night. It's the big annual fundraising event for Walk With Sally, a local non profit that provides mentoring progr ... More >>

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Sunshine on a gloomy day

Toyota Suffers Another Blow As SUV Deemed A 'Safety Risk'

ToyotaLexus GX in L.A.​Toyota's having a bad 2010. A week after learning that 200 lawsuits over so-called "sudden acceleration" and other alleged Toyota defects would be heard here in Los Angeles, the carmaker's North American leaders in Torrance woke up to the headline that Consumer Reports m ... More >>

Toyota Suspends Sales Of SUV That Failed 'Consumer Reports' Test

Toyota​Toyota late Tuesday announced it was suspending sales of its 2010 Lexus GX 460 SUV after Consumer Reports magazine reported it was prone to rolling over and declared the vehicle a "Don't Buy: Safety Risk." "We are taking the situation with the GX 460 very seriously and are determined t ... More >>

'Sudden-Acceleration' Lawsuits Against Toyota To Be Heard In L.A.

​It looks like Los Angeles will be ground zero for the debate over Toyota's problems with alleged "sudden-acceleration" in its vehicles as about 200 lawsuits against the carmaker will be consolidated and heard in federal court downtown, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation annou ... More >>

Now Open: Gonpachi Torrance

The Tokyo-based Global Dining, Inc. opened their fourth U.S. Gonpachi Restaurant location last Thursday in the new Miyako Hybrid Hotel in Torrance. Situated close to LAX, near the corporate headquarters of Japanese corporate giants Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Honda, and Toyota, the Torrence ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Root Vegetables, Citrus, More Persimmons

In other parts of the country -- the parts with blustery, wintery, freezing weather -- the farmers markets are depressingly closed this time of year. Not so in LA, thanks to dozens of micro-climates that produce year-round artichokes (Suncoast Farms in Lompoc), asparagus (also Suncoast, plus a few ... More >>

New Culinary Historians Website, Jonathan Gold Podcast, Free Root Beer AND A 1894 Trifle Recipe

Any residual high school class-cutting guilt can now been assuaged by a fantastic modern invention: podcasts. The Culinary Historians of Southern California (CHSC) has launched a new website that includes podcasts of recent lectures. That means you can catch Jonathan Gold's recent talk on regional c ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/12 - 9/18

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Hard to believe it was only five weeks ago I tweeted: Why doesn't someone start a pancake truck? " Eating L.A.'s Pat Saperstein on her wish come true. "Really, we have to rethink USDA." Marion Nestle finds hope that t ... More >>

Back When Quentin Was Behind the Counter

ABC Rhubarb Farm's Fresh Herb Stand: Like Water for Chocolate, Only With Lemon Verbena and Rosemary

Every week, crowds of farmers market regulars gather at the herb stand of ABC Rhubarb Farm to bury their noses in the fresh lemon verbena, rosemary, oregano and thyme. Spend a few minutes watching customers at Lily Balthazar's herb stand and you might think you're watching a remake of "Like Water fo ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Look Homeward, Antonio In his Wednesday inaugural speech, a humbled Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa pledged to recommit himself to serving Los Angeles, promising to focus on "deadlines over headlines." L.A. Daily NewsSouthwest Headed South? The Autry National Center of the American West's proposal to tra ... More >>

The Baseball Bat Peppermill: Who Needs Cork When You Have Tellicherry Peppercorns?

Here's the perfect summer grilling accessory: a baseball bat that's actually a peppermill. Imagine the langorous backyard, the coals glowing in the firepit, Vin Scully broadcasting on a radio propped against the sweating keg, a tray of burgers and steaks and links that would make any self-respecting ... More >>

"Man Bites World" Writer Running Out of Cuisines, Asks Mr. Gold

Is it the end of the world?

The Bastard Question

A former Blood explores the roots of our nation’s longest-running war

Beautiful Game

Porto Alegre

Ask Mr. Gold: Fiery Ramen

Ask Mr. Gold: Cinammon and Spice

Kicking the Buckets

Aerospace janitors strike

The Sex Files

When you find yourself in one and can’t get out

If It Happened Here

A bioterrorism attack on Los Angeles might look a lot like this

The Day the Sky Fell

This time, it was impersonal

Animal Nature

Can Marcia Mayeda save county animal control?

Looks Like Chicken, Tastes Like Chicken . . .

Okay, it is chicken.

Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam. . .

Hawaiian musubi in Monterey Park

Griddle Me This

Japanese pizza in Torrance