Wall Street

America's Priciest Real Estate List Almost Shuts Out Los Angeles

The East Coast media has robbed us again. Forbes magazine seems to think the nation's priciest real estate is in New York, when we all know that, despite the crazy gulf between rich and poor here, some L.A.-area land is as good as gold and California has more billionaires than just about anyplace o ... More >>

Barbarians in the Ivory Tower

America's for-profit colleges use students in their greedy quest for federal bucks -- then leave them holding the debt.

The Sleeper

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Food Newspaper 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 >>

Handsome Coffee Roasters Officially Opening Next Month

Handsome Coffee Roasters hoped to open their Downtown coffee bar right before the holidays, but what was supposed to be an early holiday present to coffee fiends is now a Valentine's Day gift to their fellow coffee lovers instead. According to Handsome Coffee's press release, their coffee bar will ... More >>

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Screws Over L.A. With $100 Million Credit Bubble That Could Burst Once He Leaves Office

Los Angeles city leaders are apparently no more responsible or accountable than the self-serving Wall Street banksters who set up America to fall with an impossible Jenga tower of home loans. A new Los Angeles Times expose outlines a series of politically motivated, built-to-fail budget decisions b ... More >>

The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16

See also: *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #15-11 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #10-6 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #5-1 *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 l ... More >>

Kamala Harris, California's Top Cop, Pressured by Occupy Movement to Fry Big Banks Over Bad Home Loans

Kamala.​An activist platform that supports Occupy Wall Street is telling California Attorney General Kamala Harris to hold fast against pressure to make nice with major banks that allegedly committed fraud in their drive to sell home loans to folks who couldn't afford them. That, of course, l ... More >>

Occupy L.A.'s Dilemma

Protesters share enthusiasm and disenchantment, but need unity to survive

Jeffrey Ross, Comedian, to 'Roast' Occupy L.A. at City Hall Tomorrow

roastmastergeneral.comJeffrey Ross will occupy your gut.​The Occupy movement has received wide-ranging endorsements, from Democrats to Communists, Green Party leaders to Alec Baldwin. But what the campers on the lawn of L.A. City Hall really need is an endorsement that will help them endure t ... More >>

Five Fashion Street Styles of Occupy L.A.

Occupy L.A., the Hooverville-like protest that surrounds Los Angeles City Hall, is not just an anti-Wall Street movement -- it's also a fashion showcase for a street style that is far different from the stiletto and Ugg boot-loving crowd so often seen in L.A. From the aging hippie to FIDM hipsters ... More >>

Powerful Unions Back Occupy L.A.'s Class Warfare Downtown

Those rabble-rousers that have been stirring things up downtown L.A. in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement just got some powerful backers. The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO) said hell yes to Occupy L.A. in a statement released last night. Lest you forget the federatio ... More >>

Class Warfare Reaches West Coast: 'Occupy L.A.' Demonstrations Over The Weekend

Occupy L.A. Facebook​The push-back on the economic crisis from the working class and the left has now reached the West Coast. The nearly two-week-strong movement called Occupy Wall Street -- a call to arms to point fingers at bailed-out investment bankers for the real estate meltdown and subs ... More >>

Los Angeles City Officials Quit S&P Rating Service After Bond Downgrade (Payback's a Bitch)

City Hall dumps S&P.​The city of L.A. booted its bond-rating service after S&P gave us another downgrade recently. Its one of three cities that have done so in the wake of S&P giving even the old United States of America a downgrade. The Bond Buyer broke the news today. L.A. has $7 billion wo ... More >>

Richard Rudy Aragon, Teen Son, Face Robbery Charges After Allegedly Using Pit Bull That Bites Off Ears of Victim

Get ready/This ain't funny/I'm a pit bull/And I'm about to get money.​There are all kinds of ways scumbags try to get your money (right, Bank of America?). But having a pit bull bite your ears off is a new potential revenue stream even for Wall Street. Authorities allege that, after his 17-ye ... More >>

LETTERS: MINKOW STINKOW

American Apparel's Stock Price Looking Up

americanapparel.net​Maybe investors are onto something. Hipster clothing brand American Apparel is looking up on the New York Stock Exchange. Shares of the Los Angeles-based clothing maker rose more than 8 percent today over Tuesday's closing price--to $1.19. That's almost double it's value of ... More >>

Villaraigosa Can't Impose Three-Day Work Week; City Credit Gets Another Wall Street Downgrade

​It turns out Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was more bark than bite Tuesday when he announced that he would pursue putting most city services on a three-days-a-week schedule to take a bite out of Los Angeles' deficit. The city's chief legislative analyst, Gerry Miller, said Wednesday that the ma ... More >>

Cops Seize Illegal Easter Bunnies Downtown

LAPDRabbits seized by police.​Los Angeles police say it's not unusual to find vendors selling illicit animals in the Fashion District before holidays. This year is no different: Police on patrol in the area over the weekend and came up with 35 miniature rabbits, apparently being marketed for E ... More >>

There Go the Zeros

The passing of the first decayed

Back When Quentin Was Behind the Counter

UCLA Student Gabriel Buchmann Believed Dead

By Joe Eskenazi,Online News Editor, SF WeeklyGabriel Buchmann​The international effort made by family and friends of Gabriel Buchmann to track down the lost Fulbright scholar in Malawi came to a somber conclusion, as a body believed to be that of the Brazilian and French citizen was discovered yes ... More >>

Friends of UCLA Student Lost in Malawi Plea for Funds to Continue Searching

By Joe EskenaziGabriel Buchmann, missing in Malawi​Family and friends of a Brazilian Fulbright scholar last seen on July 17 on Mount Mulanje in Malawi have hastily started an e-campaign to raise funds necessary to continue sending large search and rescue operations into the African mountains and f ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Facing East, Insanity, Farragut North

Also, St. Joan of the Slaughterhouses, The Voysey Inheritance and more

The Voysey Inheritance

They Say the Lights Are Bright Off Broadway

Hop, Skipping and Jumping around Gotham

Cliche Watch

Among the hundreds of times the expression "Chickens have come home to roost" appeared in American newspapers this year, the following subject categories, gleaned through a Nexis-Lexis search, caught our attention. Government: 236 timesRepublican Party: 51Bailouts: 34Islam: 6Immigration: 5OJ Simpso ... More >>

Barack Obama's Slippery Fund-Raising Slope

Small donors aside, he's awash in cash from big labor and business. Can he say no?

Wall Street Crisis Begins to Hurt Media Moguls

Be afraid. Be very afraid

Villaraigosa's Fiscal Folly

The ant (L.A. County Board of Supervisors) and the dung beetle (City Hall)

Banking on Disaster: A Day in the Life at the End of the World

What do you do when it seems as though you're the last man on Earth with a savings account?

John Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves: Renewal at the Mark Taper Forum

Is it all skin deep?

Election '08: Happy Days Are Here Again!

BY MARC COOPER Let's see Lehman Brothers goes bust, Merrill Lynch auctions itself off to B of A, WaMu circles the drain along with countless other banks, Wall Street itself is in the balance and with it the entire global economy teeters on the abyss. Other than that... Alan Greenspan, former Fed C ... More >>

Straight Men Who Have Sex With Men

Inside the secret world of the straight guise

The mysterious case of the Microphones who climbed away to Mt. Eerie

Our newest musical voices who, a decade a ago, might have been tempted to call themselves Moon Flower or Dog Park proudly go by their given names: Sufjan Stevens, Joanna Newsom, Neko Case, Devendra Banhart. Not so with the mysterious Mr. Phil Elverum...

After the Fall

Oliver Stone at ground zero

Hey, Donald, You Should Be Fired

The Apprentice’s host, like so many big-shot CEOs, is a big, fat fraud

Martha and Barry’s Big Britches

Supersized Celebrity Crimes

Two Guys Walk Into a Bar . . .

Has the CIA Unmasked Daniel Pearl’s Killer?

Once again, the U.S. is covering up for Pakistan’s mistakes

Dumb and Dumberer

Why the FCC shouldn’t consolidate without concessions

After Gore, the Deluge

The morning-after line on the candidates

The Untold Story

How corporate takeovers make the media less curious

A More Honest Gamble

Let the casinos take over Wall Street

Memento Mori

Stocks, post cards and T-shirts

The Big Heist

Bush plan taxes decency, candor and virtue — but lays off the rich

Hacking the Future

Why code crackers will lead the digital age

War Without Borders