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Blogs
March 29, 2013
Noz Parties Return As L.A. Authorities Crack Down On Nitrous Distribution
Following its crackdown on alleged distributors of rave drug nitrous oxide last week, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department today said local "noz parties" are on the rise and frequently end in violence. The department says there have been 350 "illegal raves" featuring nitrous and advertised via soci ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2013
Girls Targeted By Scary, Would-Be Serial Kidnapper In Whittier, Cops Say
Cops in Whittier were on the lookout for a creep in a red convertible they believe has been trying to kidnap girls all month long. The latest attempt happened yesterday when an 11-year-old was grabbed and put in the backseat of the car near a park, police said: Also in the backseat? A girl who appe ... More >>
Blogs
January 2, 2013
Juan Manuel Ramirez Shot Man, Buried Him In Concrete In Santa Fe Springs, Authorities Say
A 45-year-old Santa Fe Springs man who authorities say fatally shot an adversary and then buried him in concrete will face the the music in court today. Juan Manuel Ramirez, a.k.a. Juan Alberto Galviz, was charged with one count of homicide with a special allegation that he fired the murder weapon, ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2012
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:
Blogs
October 25, 2012
Melvin Walker: L.A. Marijuana Dispensary Operator, 11 Others, Arrested By Feds
The federal crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries in Southern California continued today as the U.S. Attorney's Office announced the arrests of 12 people associated with a chain of pot shops. John Melvin Walker operated 9 dispensaries in L.A. and Orange counties, feds say, and he topped the l ... More >>
Blogs
October 17, 2012
Los Poblanos Cemitas: More Fun With Tacos Arabes
If there's a better way to spend a warm evening sunset than cruising down East L.A.'s Whittier Boulevard, armed with an appetite and a pocketful of dollar bills, I haven't found it. The night might start with a few suadero tacos served on freshly made tortillas and end with crunchy churros fried to ... More >>
Blogs
August 24, 2012
DUI Crackdown For Late Summer Includes Hollywood Checkpoint Tonight
We're not sure why the end of summer is DUI crackdown season, what with all the other wonderful times of year to find drunktards on the road -- St. Patrick's Day, Cinco De Mayo, New Year's Eve, at. al. It just is. We've got a boatload of info for you in our latest edition of LA Weekly's DUI checkp ... More >>
Blogs
June 6, 2012
The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food 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 >>
Blogs
April 24, 2012
Bizarra Capital: Beyond the Border
Uptown Whittier can sometimes feel deliberately hidden -- a small stretch of mom 'n' pop businesses sequestered from any nearby freeway or convenient access. It's a fine example of late-'80s public planning, too -- a time when a penchant for Spanish Revival and mismatched pastels gave way to its no ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2012
The Bottle Room's 3rd Anniversary
Been to Whittier lately? Been to Whittier ever? Well, this is your chance if you are a beer fan. For the third anniversary of the comfy, brick-walled Bottle Room, chef/owner Tony Alcazar and his L.A. City firemen co-owners Patrick Best and Brandon Ibrahim will offer a beer list worth driving to Veg ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2011
Video: Nude O.C. Thief Jumps From Smoking Hummer Limo, Fends Off German Shepherd
Worth it? (Doubtful.)Tustin resident Ahmad Mabrok, 29, may have just set a new standard for worst Saturday night ever. Or best, we suppose -- if you're into jumping from fiery stolen vehicles and getting your junk licked by ferocious police dogs. (And, uh, spending the rest of your life tryi ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
May 23, 2011
Smash-And-Grab Invasions at Whittier Pot Shops Involved ... Police?
Medical marijuana is legal in California. But what happens when a pot shop isn't following the local rules? Is it a matter for a threatening letter, or should the cops move in and treat the retailer like a street-corner dope peddler. Some pot shop owners in Whittier are claiming that the lat ... More >>
Blogs
May 19, 2011
Whittier Stolen-Goods Suspect Inadvertently Calls Cop, Who Comes to Make Arrest
Not the alleged caller.Ring-ring. Who is it? It's me, man. Got the stuff. Good work. We'll pick you up. Something like that conversation happened this week and, unfortunately for the suspect with the alleged stuff, he was talking to a cop, and not the friend he thought he was ringing. That's ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2011
James Hudson -- Naked, Bloody Man Tased by Whittier Police -- Dies in Hospital Directly After
webcastr.comA Whittier man is dead after being Tased on SaturdayA bizarre officer-involved death in Whittier last weekend combined the worst of L.A. resident Jose Gutierrez' violent tasing and Playa Vista man Reggie Doucet's fatal LAPD shooting, both in the news this week. The San Gabriel Va ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2010
Los Angeles County Introduces Its First Green Library
SGVN Keith BirminghamThe Sorensen Library goes green Eco-friendly LA County dedicated its first full-fledged green library in Whittier today. About 40 percent of the newly constructed Sorensen Library is made with recycled materials and features sun-absorbing roofing material, absorbable pa ... More >>
Blogs
September 23, 2010
L.A. Suburbs Get What's Coming To Them: West Nile Virus Has Been Detected in Mosquitos
West Nile virus has been found in mosquitoes who can transmit to humans in Cerritos, Whittier, Rowland Heights, Encino and Reseda, making 47 cases in Los Angeles County in 2010. Of people who get West Nile, one in five get symptoms. Of those, one in 150 end up in the hospital. Hopefully the su ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2010
East L.A. Meets Napa at Union Station a Gazpacho Recipe
Barbara HansenMary Carmen Salas of La Parrilla at East L.A. Meets NapaAll the Mexican food you could ever dream of eating will be yours for the taking at AltaMed's 5th annual East L.A. Meets Napa benefit July 9. That evening, Union Station's huge courtyard will be jammed with tables where lo ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2010
4.4 Earthquake Strikes L.A. Area; No Injuries Reported
USGS(UPDATED) A 4.4 shaker woke up the Los Angeles region about 4:04 a.m. Tuesday. The epicenter was about one mile east-northeast of Pico Rivera (map), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A sheriff's official from the county's Pico Rivera station told ABC7 news there were no reports o ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2010
Ask Mr. Gold: Pangs Of Industry. Where to Eat in a City Without Residents?
Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menuDear Mr. Gold: I'm in the City of Industry. And I'm starving. --Evan K., Los Angeles Dear Evan: There are worse places to be hungry than Industry. But while there are a lot of decent restaurants in the area, it's generally too f ... More >>
Blogs
December 11, 2009
Marijuana Dispensary Shut Down By County
While the Los Angeles City Council has been sitting on its hands for the last three years and still has yet to produce a law governing local pot dispensaries, the county government of Los Angeles put regulations on the book in 2006 and this week moved to close a marijuana shop in Whittier. C ... More >>
Eat+Drink
November 26, 2009
Fried in East L.A.: Antojito’s Carmen and the Breed Street Band of Mexican Vendors
While the Los Angeles City Council has been sitting on its hands for the last three years and still has yet to produce a law governing local pot dispensaries, the county government of Los Angeles put regulations on the book in 2006 and this week moved to close a marijuana shop in Whittier. C ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2009
Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup
Maywood RFD California Attorney General Jerry Brown is seeking a court order to impose and monitor reforms on Maywood's troubled police department. L.A. TimesGetting the Lead Out The Department of Toxic Substances Control has discovered San Fernando warehouses containing jewelry that has higher than ... More >>
Blogs
April 17, 2009
National Record Store Day in LA and at Coachella: Celebrating Brick, Mortar, Mom, Pop
Patrick O'DellFatbeats' DJ Rhettmatic Celebrating record stores as part of the second annual National Record Store Day, which is tomorrow, should be a no-brainer for Southern Californians. After all, the region is the undisputed center of the vinyl industry, with RTI, Rainbo and Erika all pressing ... More >>
Blogs
February 26, 2009
Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup
Dodgers Offer Stimulus Package to Manny Club owner Frank McCourt is offering the Scott Boras-repped Manny Ramirez a $45 million deal over two years. L.A. TimesShowdown on Sunset Drive Nadya Suleman's Whittier neighbors are fed up with the invasion of their street by cigarette-butt-flicking paparazzi ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2009
Where Are Our Landmarks?
A new L.A. Conservancy report card (actually, an update to its 2003 survey) scolds San Gabriel Valley cities -- not only for not having ordinances to protect historical landmarks, but for not even having any landmarks to protect. While giving A's to Pasadena, South Pasadena, Long Beach and Whittier ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2009
Octuplets' Mom: No Welfare -- Just $2M for My Story
Several sources are reporting that Nadya Suleman, the Whittier mother of octuplets born in a Bellflower Kaiser Permanente hospital last week, is hoping to rake in $2 million from TV interviews and product sponsorships. The 33-year-old woman has been under increasing fire by letter writers to newspap ... More >>
Art+Books
August 28, 2008
Wading in the Waste Stream With the Center for Land Use Interpretation
On the bus to the dump
Calendar
August 7, 2008
Sets and the City
On the bus to the dump
Eat+Drink
January 10, 2008
Burmese Underground
At Jasmine Market, picking up the scent of Muslim Myanmar
News
December 27, 2007
L.A. Architecture: What We Lost in 2007
In a tear-down city, bulldozers and redesigners reigned
News
October 4, 2007
Best Diversion Strategy
Game Empire
News
June 7, 2007
Taming the Wild 740 Club
City investigating politically connected nightspot that draws 1,000
News
April 12, 2007
Politics Meets Street
Why are politicians and civic leaders bellying up to the eyebrow-raising 740 Club?
Music
January 18, 2007
Cold (Weather) Kids
Why are politicians and civic leaders bellying up to the eyebrow-raising 740 Club?
Music
October 19, 2006
Deaf & Dead
Why are politicians and civic leaders bellying up to the eyebrow-raising 740 Club?
News
October 5, 2006
Best Lost East L.A. Cinema Gems
Why are politicians and civic leaders bellying up to the eyebrow-raising 740 Club?
Music
June 22, 2006
Summer Songs, Blues Hollers and Genre Actions
Why are politicians and civic leaders bellying up to the eyebrow-raising 740 Club?
Eat+Drink
May 18, 2006
Ask Mr. Gold: Live-Poultry Markets
Why are politicians and civic leaders bellying up to the eyebrow-raising 740 Club?
Eat+Drink
May 4, 2006
Ask Mr. Gold: Lap Ped Thoke
Burmese fermented-tea-leaf salad
Eat+Drink
March 23, 2006
The $14 Burger
Burmese fermented-tea-leaf salad
News
June 30, 2005
Blight Makes Right?
Is eminent domain being abused in Alhambra?
News
November 11, 1999
Dialogue of Slurs
Ethnic insults have no place in school district�s power struggle
Eat+Drink
September 30, 1999
In Search of Lost Tortas
Is Chroni's the place?
Eat+Drink
September 30, 1999
Reds
Post-communism with knife and fork
News
August 26, 1999
Where the Man Began
The Nixon birthplace at resignation-plus-25
Supplement
November 26, 1998
1987 Timeline
The Nixon birthplace at resignation-plus-25
News
October 1, 1998
Tightwad City
80% free, 20% cheap
News
October 1, 1998
Early Morning Sunset Smells
Suzy Beal sniffs the boulevard from downtown to the 405, then gives up.
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