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Meatless Mondays: BLD Chef Lewis Chan A Vegan Pâté Recipe

A vegan pate, or any charcuterie not reliant on meat either faux or real for that matter, is not commonly found as a regular menu item at restaurants Los Angeles. It may be why the smoked mushroom vegan pâté at BLD on Beverly Boulevard was met with wariness at first. "Initially, when we first la ... More >>

Marissa Lopez and Gil Gastelum: Latin Music Execs Share a Love of L.A. Nightlife

*Check out our entire 2013 Couples Issue here Marissa Lopez and Gil Gastelum's broad kitchen table, covered with a brightly colored oilcloth and set with a fresh basket of pan dulce, is the heart of their Arleta home. For one hour each night, it's also their refuge. "She doesn't allow phones when w ... More >>

Duane Van Tuinen: L.A. Times Subscriber List Used For $1 Mil Burglary Ring, Cops Say

It all started with a call of a suicidal woman in Monrovia. But when cops arrived, instead of a basket case, they found "a large cache of cameras and other electronics," according to Monrovia police. That led them to sniff around and obtain search warrants that included a storage facility cops say ... More >>

Holiday DUI Checkpoint Cheat Sheet: Massive Drunk Driving Crackdown Starts Friday

'Tis the season to be jolly, yes, but try not to do your fa-la-la-la-laing in a jail cell. Not fun. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department this week previewed the anti-DUI can of whoopass it's unveiling for the holidays, starting this weekend. It's massive:

Gay Happiness, the New Frontier

Are mental and physical health problems really a reaction to bigotry?

LA Weekly Web Awards 2012: The Winners!

So the center of the tech universe is still in Northern California. Big deal. Facebook's in freefall; the iPhone 5 is a snooze. Yes, innovation continues to matter, but these days, it's less about the platform and more about the content. On that front, L.A. is king. The top YouTube stars live here. ... More >>

Roti-Go-Round: Southeast Asian Roti from Gindi Thai, Simpang Asia and Penang Malaysian Cuisine

Somehow, food always seems to taste better when it's shared. And not just as it's passed around a table, but also when it travels across borders. The South Asian Subcontinent has passed down its plates far and wide, providing the inspiration for new dishes through its native ingredients like pepp ... More >>

Jose Castrejon, Valley Gangster, Gets 6 Years for Stealing Little Girl's Puppy

Least hard-core L.A. County criminal ever. (Close second: The escaped inmate caught riding a little girl's stolen pink bicycle down the street, knees akimbo.) Of all the debauchery that could have put known Bassett Grande gang member Jose Castrejon behind bars, he ended up being nabbed by Sheriff's ... More >>

Crossing The Bridge Noodles: Yunnan's Signature Dish Where To Find Them

Yunnan cuisine doesn't get the kind of respect accorded to the cuisine from other provinces. It isn't included in the "Eight Schools" of Chinese cuisine, instead being relegated to a subset of its neighbor to the north, Sichuan. Adding to that, there are only 11 Yunnan-style restaurants in the ent ... More >>

National Children's Study Seeks to Change Lives, But Will L.A. Politicians Take Notice?

Ted SoquiApartment building near a freeway in L.A.'s east side​Dr. Calvin Hobel, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, believes the National Children's Study has the opportunity to change lives. "If we can begin to improve pregnancy outcome," Hobel tells L.A. Weekly, e ... More >>

$9 Billion Subway-to-Sea Rip-off

War of words erupts when data show tiny ridership won't help jammed L.A. or Westside

Following Post-Rave Death Of Teen, U.S. Attorney's Office Cracks Down On Alleged Ecstasy Ring; $17 Million In Pills Seized

U.S. Attorney's OfficeTuan Vu, at-large.​Fifteen suspects were indicted this week following a federal investigation in the Los Angeles area that led to the seizure of 1.1 million tablets of ecstasy -- $17 million worth, the U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A. announced Thursday. The U.S. Attorney i ... More >>

The Runaways: Wild Thing

How Sandy West was lost

Manny Pacquiao: The Fight of His Life

Boxer goes for his greatest win yet — congressman

Self-Proclaimed SoCal Mosque Spy Sues FBI

John Gilhooley for OC WeeklyCraig Monteilh.​A man who has repeatedly claimed he performed counter-terrorism spy work for the FBI in Southern California mosques is suing the agency essentially for cutting him off and failing to pay him what he says he was promised. Forty-seven-year-old Irvine ... More >>

Man Who Attempted To Bomb Pasadena Condo Complex Pleads Guilty

​A man who claimed to working on behalf of the radical environmental group Earth Liberation Front when he attempted to bomb a Pasadena condominium complex that was under construction pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to commit arson. Federal authorities say sometime Los Angeles-area residen ... More >>

A Terrible Thing to Waste: Billy Cottrell, Part Deux

In ecoterrorism trial, court refuses leniency to brilliant physics student

Riding the Dreamwave with Binary Entertainment

The Binary Family​ It was only eight years ago that Josh Legg and Kyle Petersen moved to Los Angeles to attend USC. They met on a sailing trip and, after a few years of friendship and many discussions over the current state of the record industry, they decided to launch a management company/re ... More >>

Beautiful Loser, Tortured Killer

How Two Veterans of the L.A. Punk Scene Wound Up on a Collision Course, Until Only One Was Left Standing

60 Freeway Killer Pleads Guilty to Two More Murders

The "60 Freeway Killer" pleaded guilty today to killing two women, more than twenty years ago. Ivan Hill, 48, was already serving a death sentence for the strangulation murders of six women who were found dead along the Pomona (60) Freeway when DNA linked him to the two additional murders. 60 Fre ... More >>

When Cute Isn't Pretty: "Cute With Chris," the Web Show for Misfit Teenage Girls and Women in Their 30s Who Like to Knit

A ride-along on satirist Chris Leavins' Internet highway

Where To Eat Now

Antonio Remakes School Board

But with 43,000 kids fleeing LAUSD to charter schools, will mayor follow?

Where To Eat Now

A Terrible Thing to Waste

Convicted as an ecoterrorist, a brilliant young scholar nose-dives in prison Also, excerpts of Billy Cottrell's letters from prison

Hungry for Stink

Shooting the shit with Tenacious D

Welcome to Gentrification City

Teardowns. Evictions. Investment. Rebirth. And the significance of that new gelato stand. The perils and pleasures of gentrification

Where to Eat Now: New to the List

Earth to ELF: Come In, Please

Does the radical environmental group really exist?

Welcome to Inglewood — Leave Your Aspirations Behind

For Erin Aubry Kaplan, coming home has been a labor of tough love

Happy Balloons and Homicide

Entering the dangerous world of flier parties

Letters

The Song, Not the Singer

The dangerous twang of Double Naught Spy Car

East of the Sun, West of the 110

The politics of the big move

Letters

Less Than Zero

The new age of intolerance

Hardball

The really bad news Griffith Park Pirates

Fashion Victims

If you missed the Smithsonian's Sweatshop Exhibit at the Museum of Tolerance, or don't remember even hearing about it, you're not alone

Baca's Debacle

Sheriff Lee Baca Relied Heavily on two Controversial Campaign Supporters to Set up His Asian Crime Task Force. Now Both Men Have Drawn FBI Scrutiny, and the New Sheriff's Reputation is on the Line