Wall Street

Robber Targets Market Steps From LAPD Station, Is Fatally Shot

If you rob a store -- and we don't recommend it -- make sure it's not around the corner from a police station, because this is what happens: You get shot at not by one officer but by as many as three. Then you die. That's the story from the LAPD this week after man allegedly robbed a market on Skid ... More >>

Occupy, The Musical? Mr. Satan Goes to Wall Street Gets L.A. Reading

A highly ambitious theater performance dropped Wednesday night in L.A., one that has the aim of helping to revitalize the Occupy Wall Street movement. Performed in a reading by members of the Sacred Fools theater company, Mr. Satan Goes to Wall Street is a full-blown musical satire that's a wistfu ... More >>

Skid Row Funk Finally Gets Cleaned Up

Skid Row lives up to its name, despite the decade's long, loft-dwelling gentrification just to the west. Drug dealers deal, homeless call it home, and trash grows tall. The city of L.A. has tried to battle all of the above with cops, cash and, now, clean-ups. Until today, City Hall was reluctant to ... More >>

Magic Johnson and Stan Kasten Buy Dodgers from Frank McCourt -- But Uh Oh! Frank May Not be Gone

Update on next page: Bidder Joey Herrick on the importance of local owners. Magic Johnson, beloved spots icon in Los Angeles, and his group of investors including former Atlanta Braves president Stan Kasten, essentially wrote a $2 billion check Tuesday evening to buy the Dodgers, pre-empting a fina ... More >>

Black Friday: How the Feds Shut Down Online Poker

$2.5 billion industry cut off, taking livelihoods with it

Adderall Shortage of 2011: Los Angeles Feels the Pain at Year's End

The media has dubbed this year's dry spell of ADD meds as the Great Adderall Shortage of 2011. And for Angelenos, at least, it looks like the drought may carry over into the new year. (Don't worry, the hopeful bit comes later.) Venice Beach advice columnist Amy Alkon, known for roasting L.A. city d ... More >>

Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: The Complete List

​See also: *Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums One day I was sitting around thinking I want to write a song about ménage a trois...and the line 'love in stereo' came into my head. Inspiration can happen anywhere at any time. -Jani Lane, Hit Parader magazine History has not been ... More >>

L.A. Housing Authority Scandal Blows Up: Mayor Villaraigosa Knew About CEO Payout, Despite LA Times Report

HACLA"We're blessed to have a [mayor] that cares about Watts," ousted Housing Authority CEO Rudy Montiel once said of Villaraigosa.​KCET should sweep every journalism awards ceremony for 2011, in our opinion. The station's ball-busting coverage of the L.A. Housing Authority has completely unra ... More >>

Occupy Affiliated ReFund California to March on Cal State Trustees, Wells Fargo in Long Beach Today

ReFund California​Updated at the bottom with blood, pepper spray and a clash between protesters and police. First posted at 7 a.m. The Occupy-affiliated protesters who scared the UC Board of Regents into cancelling their big meeting this week will be at the Cal State Board of Trustees meeting ... More >>

Occupy UCLA Sparks Small Campus Movement, But Bigger Backlash Could be Against Bruin Football (Really)

VideogameVisionary.comOccupying undies at UCLA.​Trojans could muster about 2 protesters to join what seemed to be a wholly tongue-in-cheek movement to Occupy USC recently. Perhaps the private schoolers identify more with the "1 percent" of America's elite billionaires. UCLA, on the other han ... More >>

President Obama to Get Occupied During L.A. Visit Today: Occupy L.A. Takes to Streets Near Hancock Park Fundraisers

Nanette GonzalezOccupy Obama.​Updated at the bottom. Occupy L.A. says police are threatening to make arrests. First posted at 12:41 p.m. President Obama will be officially occupied during his fundraising/Latino-hobnobbing visit to L.A. this afternoon. Well, maybe. Protesters probably won't g ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Occupy America

​[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.] My editor contacted me the other day and asked if I had an opinion on the Occupy protes ... More >>

Battles - Mayan Theater - October 17, 2011

Lainna FaderBattles​Battles Mayan October 17, 2011 For most bands, losing a lead singer is a disaster, sometimes causing the act to cease to exists. It's particularly rare for a rhythm section to continue on as an instrumental act, as is the case with Battles, who played the Mayan last night ... More >>

Joel Schumacher Interview

On Trespass as a sign of the times

Kristen Chrstian: L.A. Gallery Owner Behind Bank Transfer Day Talks About Her Inspiration to Take Her Cash to a Credit Union

Courtesy Kristen Christian​She says it has nothing to do with Occupy L.A. and its Occupy Wall Street sister movement. Class warfare? Meh. Yet the timing of L.A. gallery owner Kristen Christian's idea couldn't have been better for those fed up with corporate banks that took billions in taxpaye ... More >>

Film-School Students Try to Start 'Occupy USC' Movement on Campus

Online USC paper Neon Tommy isn't without a tinge of sarcasm today when it blogs of one student and his "solitary vigil" for Occupy USC: When asked if he was attempting to encourage others to join him in his protest, he responded, "I'm not telling people to come here, but if people, any friends or ... More >>

Culture Clash Enterprise: Will Anyone Buy a T-Shirt That Shows Images of Gay Sex?

​"To put these images on a t-shirt seems taboo, but tomorrow it's going to be completely normal," says 26 year old native Minnesotan Melissa DeBlieck, one half of business venture Culture Clash Enterprise, which she started with her boyfriend. Recently the company launched the very racy "S Co ... More >>

Cocaine Flows Through L.A. Despite Drug War, Border Beef Up

Max Sparber​If the celebrity nightlife scene seems as giddy as ever and your favorite party girl remains quite chatty, you know why: Cocaine is economical and plentiful in these here parts. And despite a build up of more than 40,000 of agents along the U.S.-Mexico border, bloody Latin America ... More >>

Tim Hetherington, Director of Oscar-Nominated War Doc 'Restrepo,' Killed in Libya

Tim Hetherington on the set of "Restrepo"​Update: Chris Hondros took these stunning photographs just hours before he died. More after the jump. Tim Hetherington, a wartime photographer and documentary filmmaker -- along with his associate, Chris Hondros, also a war photojournalist -- were kil ... More >>

Future Shock

Community Watchdog Cary Brazeman Fights Villaraigosa's Crusade to Allow Development Everywhere

L.A.'s postwar zoning code on the chopping block

Phil Angelides' Financial Crisis Panel Is In Crisis

Phil Angelides can't catch a break​Remember Phil Angelides? He ran a "Revenge of the Nerds" campaign for governor in 2006 and got shellacked by a then-still-popular Arnold Schwarzenegger.You'd think that experience might have soured him on public service. But no. He's back, and he's chairing the F ... More >>

L.A. Bankruptcy Inevitable, Though Probably After Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Leaves To Become A Male Spokesmodel

See ya suckers! Have fun cleaning up the mess. ​Marc Lacter's column in Los Angeles magazine looks at whether the city of Los Angeles is headed for bankruptcy, and it's not pretty. His diagnosis: We're headed there, though probably not until after Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa leaves office.

We Are the Mods, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead

Also, Inception, Predators, Kisses

City Hall's 2010 DWP Debacle

How Beutner, Carr, Carson, D'Arcy, Freeman, Greuel, Raj, Santana, Szabo, Villaraigosa & Co. pushed L.A. to the cliff edge

Was Rolling Hills lawyer Jeffrey Tidus, who repped failed New Century Financial, murdered?

Rumors gripped the Los Angeles legal community today after the shocking fatal shooting Monday, in posh Rolling Hills Estates, of attorney Jeffrey A. Tidus. He was killed just hours after top executives at a firm Tidus represented, New Century Financial, were accused of fraud by federal regulators.Th ... More >>

Hollywood: Local Incentives Trump Creativity

​The trend of local tax incentives luring filmmakers to shoot everywhere from Toronto to Tuscany is nothing new. And it's costing the Los Angeles film industry hundreds of millions of dollars a year. What is new is that producers are increasingly willing to rewrite scripts in order to fit a cost-e ... More >>

Why You Leavin' (News Corp.), Peter Chernin?

And what you earnin', Chernin?

JOHN PINETTE's Humor Buffet

Election '08: The Terrorists Strike, the Markets Crumble . . . Plus, McCain's Radical Dance

BY MARC COOPER We had been told since the beginning that the Taliban, al Qaeda and jihadists in general worked on what was called a "biblical calendar." None of this faster, quicker B.S. They would take their time in restoring the Caliphate. Fair enough. But who knew the Weather Underground had ... More >>

The Wages of Greed

Patti Stanger

Match game

Movie Reviews: The Fall, I for India, Mister Lonely

And other May 9 releases

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid

The Sopranos-like takeover of Tribune Co. could mean cement shoes for employees

The Passion of the Cash

Da Vinci Cannes the world

The Gathering Storm

Judith Regan, the world’s most successful publisher, heads for the coast

Before The Fall

What made James Forrestal jump?

The Shrimp Factor

Did disappearing mangrove forests contribute to the tsunami’s severity?

Brat Brawl

Disney and Comcast fortunate sons need therapy more than this takeover

Stark Naked

Remembering a notorious show-biz son of a gun

Reign of Chaos

What a mess faces California politics and finances

Feel the Glow

Headlong Into a Tar Pit

Peace movement rumbles on while Bush plans for a long stay in Iraq

The New Boss

Wall Street could have big say in balancing state budget

The Sundance Suckers

They've got to be stupid to be smart

Letters

Women Don’t Carry Machine Guns

A conversation with Walter Mosley

Pete Wilson in Gray Pinstripes?

A River Should Run Through It

Repairing downtown, riparianly