U.S. Postal Service

L.A. Is Dog-Bite Capital For Postal Workers

Among our many fine distinctions, smog capital, traffic capital, douche capital, is a new one: The U.S. Postal Service this week ranked Los Angeles number one among big cities where carriers are attacked by dogs. The USPS released the list of top dog-attack cities, based on the number of incidents, ... More >>

Washington and 10th: Fried Catfish, Supreme Tacos Repeating Chinese Takeout

You know you've found a great strip mall when it's almost entirely obscured by a carnival that's setting up in the parking lot. The Washington Market Square is an eight acre strip mall just west of Crenshaw on Washington Boulevard, directly across the street from the Johnnie Cochran Middle School an ... More >>

Is Le Creuset's Lifetime Warranty Legit? After Several Cassoulet-Free Weeks, We Find Out

We love our Dutch oven. Really love it. It never argues over $85 billion budget cuts or sends Kardashian-sighting Tweets. And it makes one hell of a cassoulet. But we recently wondered, by sudden necessity: Is that Le Creuset lifetime warranty that we've all heard so much about really legit? "Defect ... More >>

Daniel Villasenor: Postal Worker Chokes 11-Year-Old Girl At Eastside Park, Cops Say

Updated at the bottom with the U.S. Postal Service launching it's own investigation. Also, charges have been filed. First posted at 6:09 a.m. Vying to prove that postal workers are well-adjusted, mellow human beings, a mailman in Commerce was unsuccessful. Allegedly. Cops say 55-year-old Daniel Vi ... More >>

#FindTesla Hashtag Mobilizes Hundreds in Silver Lake to Search for a Lost Dog

In a city where no one walks, hundreds of volunteers took to the hilly streets of Silver Lake this past week in search of Tesla, a 25-pound Terrier/Poodle mix, who bolted from her home in search of her owner, Alex Berg, just before New Years Eve. Berg, the artistic director of the L.A. branch of the ... More >>

9 Silicon Beach Office Buildings and What They Say About Their Companies

See also: *More tech stories from L.A. Weekly *Fugly Buildings: Our Series on the Most Hideous Buildings in L.A. Since the arrival of Google in Venice last year, westside beach communities like Santa Monica, Playa Vista and others have seen an influx of tech companies, startups, investors and soft ... More >>

Eva Restaurant Rallies for Help to Solve Parking Debacle

In an unique move, and in light of recent parking related issues, Mark Gold, chef/owner of Eva restaurant, made a plea via his newsletter and Facebook fan page, asking friends of the restaurant to help them raise money towards appealing to the city for a variance on their parking situation. The vari ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Miles Davis, Cool on a Postage Stamp

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Miles Davis Celebration and Postage Stamp Unveiling - Hollywood Bowl - 6/27/12 Abo ... More >>

Miles Davis Celebration and Postage Stamp Unveiling - Hollywood Bowl - 6/27/12

A Celebration of Miles Davis Hollywood Bowl 6-27-12 Better than...celebrating Garfield creator Jim Davis Last night, under a vivid half moon, this year's Bowl jazz series kicked off with a tribute to Miles Davis. It was largely a hit and as eclectic as the great trumpeter's game-changing career. E ... More >>

[Updated:] Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive: This Saturday

Update: 5/14 3:52 p.m. Did opportunistic thieves help themselves to some of the Stamp Out Hunger donations in Los Angeles? Unfortunately, yes. There were isolated reports on Saturday of unofficial vehicles driving down streets and taking off with the food bags, which were intended to be donations fo ... More >>

Paul Rogers' Name That Movie, a Hipster Hollywood Puzzle Book

Paul Rogers is a Pasadena-based illustrator and graphic designer who has worked on everything from USPS stamp lines to posters for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He's also illustrated children's books such as Bob Dylan's Forever Young. His new book, Name That Movie, features 100 sets of six drawings. Eac ... More >>

California Strawberry "Berry Blast Off" Contest Wants Your Recipes

Do you have a good idea for a terrific strawberry dish that doesn't involve turning on the oven? We're gonna assume the answer's yes. Lucky you, because the 2012 California Strawberry "Berry Blast Off" recipe contest is now up and running. The competition is open to anyone who has a strawberry recip ... More >>

Twelve Tales of Sexual Mortification

Angelenos cough up their most embarrassing sexual moments, and a whole lot of blood, puke and piss

Sandra Bernhard at REDCAT

Steven GuntherSandra Bernhard: I Love Being Me, Don't You?​Sandra Bernhard performs I Love Being Me, Don't You? this weekend, and through August 21. Check out Amy Lyons' review on Tuesday.(Here are the latest capsule NEW THEATER REVIEWS and this week's  Theater feature on Melissa James Gi ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Federal Doping Inquiry Gaining Momentum, According to Report: His Lawyer Says B.S.

lancearmstrong.comLance.​Looks like U.S. authorities are building a doping case against champion cyclist Lance Armstrong, and the whole thing could come to a head right here in L.A. That is, at least, according to a report today. The Associated Press reports today that U.S. investigators have ... More >>

Statue of Liberty on U.S. Postage Stamp Is Actually Newer, Hotter Vegas Version From 'New York-New York'

​​Everything's sexier in Vegas! Even New York's world-famous Statue of Liberty, apparently. Her likeness stands over the Las Vegas strip, torch raised...

Cookbook Review: Maida Heatter's Cookies Ladybird Johnson's Moonrocks Recipe

​Though some may call Maida Heatter "The Queen of Cake,"and her revamped Maida Heatter's Cakes is certainly at the top of our weekend baking list, after flipping through her companion cookbook, Maida Heatter's Cookies, we would argue that royal title is best bestowed on the octogenarian (or ol ... More >>

Former Marines Alleged To Have Sold Assault Weapons To 'Florencia 13' Gangsters In The San Fernando Valley

Guns like this, sold to gangsters -- allegedly.​Three former marines suspected of selling assault weapons to members of L.A.'s notorious Florencia 13 gang have been arrested in Southern California, federal officials announced Tuesday. The arrests by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firear ... More >>

L.A. County Supervisor Gloria Molina Wants To Know Why Sheriff Won't Release Ruben Salazar Documents

Ruben Salazar.​Updated with Sheriff Lee Baca saying he'll go through the documents and determine which ones can be released. Originally posted at 3:29 p.m. After Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina on Tuesday asked for a report on why the sheriff's department won't release eight boxes ... More >>

Representing Mother******s

Keeping it realist at the old boys club

World's Smallest Postal Service: How Small Can You Write?

​ Lea Redmond of Leafcutter Designs runs the World's Smallest Postal Service. She turns your regular-sized sentiments into very tiny letters. She says she has no plans yet to come to Los Angeles, but would certainly love to. If you'd like to see her here, send her an email. Or write her a lett ... More >>

Airport Police Union TSA Pronouncement

​The organization representing Los Angeles airport police says the attempted attack on an airliner over Detroit Christmas day highlights the need for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration to get a new permanent leader. Marshall McClain, president of the Los Angeles Airport Peace Off ... More >>

Are 19 L.A. communities losing their U.S. Post Offices?

By Donna BarstowThe U.S. Postal Service, hammered just like government postal services throughout Europe and North America by a massive drop-off in snail mail caused by the Internet and email, is deciding the future of 19 Post Office branches in Los Angeles. No word which ones will get shuttered. Bu ... More >>

GO LA: The Man Who Sold the Brangelina Air

Plus lots more to do, see and inhale in L.A., May 15-21

MR. WILSON AND HIS PROFANE COPS

Queer Town: The Life and Spirit of Genevieve Florence Range

On Monday morning, a day after her oldest daughter celebrated her seventieth birthday, Genevieve Florence Range passed away at the age of 95 in New Jersey. She was my grandmother, friend, and one of the major influences in my life. Grandma, as her eight grandkids called her, was everything you want ... More >>

Hoisted by His Own Petard

Stephen Yagman’s outsize arrogance, not his politics, done him in

Chief Greedovich

One of the most powerful Indians gets his way — again

Compton's Crash Course

Connecting the doubts about the failure of a community college

Rockie Horoscope

Andy’s Band

Former Factory-ite Susan Pile on the people who made Warhol

Wheels of Steal

Pet Shop Murder

It looked like a simple shooting, but the Pets R Us killing exposed an organized-crime network running credit-card and recycling fraud. And one of its leaders, Sarkis Antonyan, a.k.a. Little Al Capone, had two bullets in his head.

Bush Web Intrigue

Art & Commerce

At an intersection near you

Loving and Leaving the Phonograph

Why Napster, extraterrestrials, Southern hillbillies and Dick Clark mean more to the future of music than copyright and the Recording Industry Association of America

Stamps.com

Is there an easier way to send snail mail -- online?

Quack-in-the-Box

How did the U.S.'s biggest mail-order health-remedy peddler find my mailbox?

Y2K: Now, With Fewer Cranky Christians!

Bible-thumpers scale back doomsday predictions

Loose Cannon

Buford Furrow stops, shops

Box Busters

Post office puts squeeze on private mail service

Doggin' It

The life and legend of Bill Pickett