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#FortHernandez #CouchRaid: LAPD Hauls Off Sofas And Signs From Anti-Foreclosure Encampment

The LAPD showed up in force before dawn this morning at #FortHernandez, the foreclosed Van Nuys house where Occupiers have been camped out since late August.Turns out, the cops didn't come to evict anybody. Instead, they confiscated five couches, impounded a car and took protest signs, desks and oth ... More >>

INSTALL: WeHo, an Interactive Queer Art Festival, Took Place on U-Hauls in a Parking Lot

As quickly as it appeared, it was gone again. On Sunday, the El Tovar parking lot in West Hollywood was transformed for twenty four hours into INSTALL: WeHo, a pop-up, interactive art festival highlighting emerging LGBTQ artists in Los Angeles. Conceived by openly gay performance artist Mark Cramer, ... More >>

Marijuana Plants Discovered by LAPD, Returned to Owners

While police have been busy seizing the cannabis and cash of marijuana dispensaries in the San Fernando Valley (both on 4/20/2012 and at 4:20 p.m. recently), cops on the Eastside found themselves giving a pot shop's plants back to its operators. The LAPD taketh away? The LAPD giveth! Those must h ... More >>

Pearl Jam's "Jeremy": Why This Song Sucks

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] See also: *Pearl Jam Are the Most Boring Band in 20 Years *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List Song: Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" History: Pearl Jam was ... More >>

Top 10 Live Music Venues in L.A.: The Complete List

Timothy Norris​California knows how to party. -"California Love" It's the unofficial state motto. But not only do we know how, we know where. Los Angeles is home to a wide spectrum of live music venues, from the teeniest Echo Park hole-in-the-wall only you and five friends know, to grand ol' ... More >>

Top Ten Best Live Music Venues in L.A.: #10 - #6

Timothy Norris​California knows how to party. -"California Love" It's the unofficial state motto. But not only do we know how, we know where. Los Angeles is home to a wide spectrum of live music venues, from the teeniest Echo Park hole-in-the-wall only you and five friends know, to grand ol' ... More >>

Peanut Butter Wolf, Gaslamp Killer, Jason Bentley -- 11/11/11/ Party -- Eagle Rock Center for the Arts

Lainna FaderGaslamp Killer​Peanut Butter Wolf, Gaslamp Killer, Jason Bentley, Hyasynth and others 11/11/11/ Party Eagle Rock Center for the Arts Since 2006, Stones Throw label head Peanut Butter Wolf has specialized in numerically-aligned calendar day parties. Last night's party, which went f ... More >>

Mary J. Blige, Larry Carlton, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

Also, Peanut Butter Wolf, Lucy Woodward, Chromeo and others

The Great Wall of L.A., Legendary L.A. River Mural, Restored to Former Glory

Sam BlochThe Great Wall of L.A.'s collaborative spirit of muralmaking on display at its restoration ceremony Saturday. Video cameras were everywhere.​ Ernestine Jimenez is gazing over a chain link fence at a painting of a pachuco in his underwear. It's a depiction of the Zoot Suit Riots of 194 ... More >>

[Updated With $4 JetBlue Flights!] Carmageddon Countdown: Fly Over Empty 405 Freeway on $400 Helicopter Tour, or $150 Air-Taxi Alternative

Executive HeliSharesEven cooler without the cars.​Updated after the jump: JetBlue just announced it'll be offering $4 flights between the Long Beach and Burbank airports on Saturday. Yes, $4. Originally posted July 12 at 4 p.m. Only in Los Angeles (hate that saying, but it's true) would an e ... More >>

Good Morning, Venice: Best Buy Heist in West L.A. Leads to Massive Helicopter, K-9 Pursuit

Aliens!​Promise we're not just bitter because we were ripped from sleep at 6 a.m. by what we still kind of believe to have been the alien army from "War of the Worlds." By any standards, the three-hour LAPD operation to catch a pack of Best Buy heisters on the run in their overstuffed U-Haul ... More >>

'Parent Trigger' Plan B: Charter School to Open 2 Blocks From McKinley Elementary, Draining Students and Forcing Back-Door Takeover

Google MapsChurch of the Redeemer in Compton: It's no Hogwarts, but it'll do for now.​You'd be hard-pressed to find a school district as opposed to the new-age charter-school movement as Compton Unified. Not once have district officials accepted an application from a charter hopeful, despite t ... More >>

Arabella Bradford and New BF Murdered by Her Ex-Fiance -- a Former Riverside Prison Guard Who Lived Across the Street

FacebookArabella Bradford's profile picture​A twisted love triangle within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ended with all three players dead Tuesday night. Thirty-eight-year-old Arabella Bradford, a current parole agent in the Riverside department, lived across the ... More >>

The Secret Day Jobs of Indie Musicians

Have guitar, will work

Uncomplicated Casual Sex? Not Easy to Find on Craigslist

There are always strings attached, no matter the venue

Van Lines Say More People (Who Can Afford Movers) Coming To California

Welcome to California, Oklahomans.​If you agree that California knows how to party, perhaps you're not alone. America's major moving van lines, United, Atlas and Allied, report that the Golden State, despite its subprime-housing crisis, a state government that's billions underwater and a rece ... More >>

Stage Raw: Loveland

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on La Razon Blindada and A Wolf Inside the Fence and NEW REVIEW GO LOVELAND ​Photo by Leland Auslender What a rare experience it is, when a character that's as maniacal, sexually overheated and as transparently off the rails as a ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Titus Andronicus, Debbie Reynolds: Alive and Fabulous

Also, The Phantom of the Opera, State of the Union and more

Stage Raw: Take Me Out

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on Tim Robbins' Break the WhipNEW REVIEW GO TAKE ME OUT ​Photo by Michael Calas Baseball star Darren Leming (Ary Katz), the central figure in Richard Greenberg's provocative 2002 comedy-drama, is a paragon of talent, skill and vi ... More >>

Terror Suspect Arrested In New York; L.A. Authorities Beef Up Studio Patrols

​As federal authorities announced late Monday that a suspect in Saturday night's attempted car bombing in New York's Times Square was arrested, Los Angeles-area authorities said they have beefed up patrols of area movie studios as a precaution. It's not clear if the terror attempt targeted th ... More >>

Did An Episode Of 'South Park' Inspire New York Car Bomb?

South Park Studios​Authorities are looking into the possibility that a recent episode of Los Angeles-based animated comedy series South Park that was deemed insensitive to Islam by some Muslims could have inspired the failed car bomb in New York's Times Square over the weekend. "This vehicle ... More >>

Slayer’s Bloody Template

More tales of serial murder and psychosis, state oppression, snuff films and endless war over oil

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Deputies Shoot Machete Man A young man said to be under the influence of drugs was discovered in a Rosemead back yard by sheriff's deputies. Ernesto Castaneda was shot when he threatened them with a machete and baseball bat. He later died. L.A. TimesMolina Slams Obama on Saenz According to Superviso ... More >>

Box of Broken Dreams: In Search of a Soul Lost and Found in L.A.

A young photographer's belongings are abandoned on a Hollywood street, leaving our writer to piece together the fragments of his life. Video extra: excerpts from a life on DVD

Go, Greased Lightning! F Yeah Fest Tours U.S. on Veg-Fueled Bus

Is this the future of touring?

Getting Stuffed at Arturo's Puffy Taco

The air in there

Angelenos Sue City Hall Over Prodensity "Affordable Housing" Pretense

Coming Back From Iraq

And all they want are normal jobs

Children of the Revolutionary

Former black revolutionary Watani Stiner turned himself in to San Quentin so his children could come to America. Was it worth it?

Color Theory

“Fade” to black

Welcome to L.A. — Now Get Out!

From Cheese to Backyard Wrestling

Prodigal Son

Aaron Rose is back, and he's brought his merry band of art-world outlaws with him

Good Samaritan: Clean It Forward

With a Little Help From Her Friends

How The Politics of Fur got made in my driveway

Fertilizer

The Face of Pirate Cat Radio

Screwing the Airwaves Since 1997

Going to Kansas City

The virtues of boredom

Congressman Jim Rogan

The Myth of the Flush