Whittier

Kevin Lives on Our Couch:"Aged out" of foster care, L.A. teens are put on the street, expected to be instant adults

DUI Checkpoints Tonight, Tomorrow For L.A., West Hollywood, Long Beach

As a small warm-up for the massive DUI crackdown scheduled to harsh your mellow New Years Eve, police around the L.A. area are planning DUI checkpoints. Locations include West Hollywood, Long Beach and the San Gabriel Valley. Think of this as practice for Monday, the ultimate amateur night. We'll ... More >>

L.A. Beer Week Event Picks: Ballast Point, Bacon and Beer, Beer Floats 'Beer University'

In the last four days, LA Beer Week has brought a Stone Brewing takeover to Old Town Pasadena, run brewery tours to every corner of the county and treated drinkers at beer bars citywide to rare selections from Dogfish Head, Kern River and Russian River breweries. But now that we've survived opening ... More >>

Happy Birthday, M.F.K. Fisher: Celebrate by Reading the Alphabet

Today would have been M.F.K. Fisher's 104th birthday, an occasion she may have celebrated, as she liked to do over the course of several days -- today, tomorrow, the next day and all the way up to Bastille Day on July 14th. She spent a good portion of her life in France, but grew up in Whittier and ... More >>

Marijuana Crackdown on 36 L.A. County Pot Shops by Feds

Federal authorities today announced a crackdown on 36 medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles County, including raids on two shops in Santa Fe Springs and warning letters to 34 businesses and property owners. Interestingly, the actions did not involve any pot shops in the city of Los Angeles. ... More >>

Bicycle Theft Ring Targeted High-End Bikes on Craigslist, Used Facebook For Personal Info

As evil as cops paint these guys to be, you gotta admit, they were scary sophisticated in their use of Craigslist, Facebook and social manipulation -- if the story's true. Here's the deal, according an announcement by L.A. County Sheriff's officials this week: A crew of bike thieves targeted victi ... More >>

Ska Still Rules in L.A.! Just Ask Viernes 13

Viernes 13​Local eight-man ska band Viernes 13 started out playing backyard shows in Whittier and South Gate in the mid-90s. It makes sense, since those were the days when Reel Big Fish and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones ruled the airwaves. But as ska faded from top 40 radio, its popularity only ... More >>

Where to Find Breakfast Tacos in L.A.?

Dear Mr. Gold: As a former resident of South Texas, I often miss the unique Texas-style breakfast tacos so ubiquitous there. (I like mine with machacado.) I'm sure you know that these are not the same as breakfast burritos, and are defined well in this article about how New York has "discovered" th ... More >>

Juan P. Garcia-Machado, Illegal Immigrant and SDSU Student, Is Reportedly Employed by State Capitol, Has Advised Politicians

LinkedInJuan P. Garcia Machado​Looks like the California government can now be added to the list of employers who have hired illegal immigrants. The employee's name is Juan P. Garcia-Machado, a San Diego State University student set to graduate in 2012. And from the looks of his NBC LA profil ... More >>

Sergio Osuna -- Drunk, Half-Nude Intruder -- Sneaks Into Signal Hill Home, Crawls Into Bed With 10-Year-Old Girl

Sergio Osuna, ghetto Goldilocks.​Nude intruders are weird. Drunk nude intruders are weirder. But drunk, (half) nude intruders who crawl into bed with 10-year-old girls and sort of just lay there, all silent and creepy, are the stuff of Guillermo del Toro's nightmares. One traumatized little gi ... More >>

Is This Salad Illegal? The (Semi-)Illicit Thrill of Laphet Tote

Yoma Myanar's tea leaf salad​Up in San Francisco, the signature dish at the popular network of restaurants called Burma Superstar is a tangy, nutty salad so uniquely delicious, it should be illegal. In some Asian countries, it is.

Worst Legislator in California, Part II

Charles Calderon lets special interest groups ghostwrite his laws

WTF: Whittier Narrows to Be Converted Into $22 Million Museum for Kids, Possibly Sponsored by -- and Named After -- Miller Beer

PHOTO BY TED SOQUISoon-to-be Beer River?​The original proposal was weird enough: Spend $22 million to erect a water museum atop a perfectly lovely strip of wetlands -- one of the only natural wildlife sanctuaries left in Los Angeles County (near the intersection of the 605 and 60 freeways in S ... More >>

Bill Moyers Says Sorry to Whittier College Grads For Leaving Them a Crap World

Whittier CollegeBill Moyers in SoCal.​Longtime TV journalist Bill Moyers, now of PBS, addressed the kids at Whittier College over the weekend. And while other commencement speakers have scolded the class of 2011 for being spoiled or lacking that ever-necessary sub-gluteal fire, Moyers just sai ... More >>

Edgar Velazquez, L.A. Homicide No. 9: 18th Street Gang Member Killed in Walk-Up Shooting

streetgangs.comVelazquez allegedly ran with 18th Street​A Latino man found dead on the sidewalk in the 7400 block of South Normandie Avenue on January 10 was later identified as 36-year-old Edgar Hometo Velazquez of Whittier. LAPD criminal gang and homicide Detective Lyman Doster told the Los ... More >>

David J's Black Dahlia

The brains behind Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, conjures up his own L.A. noir

30 Burgers in 30 Days

Five of the best (... so far)

Richard "Scar" Lopez, Founding Member of Pioneering East LA Chicano Rock Combo Cannibal and the Headhunters, Dead at 65

Richard "Scar" Lopez, founding member of pioneering East LA Chicano rock group Cannibal and the Headhunters died last July 30 of lung cancer, the LA Times reports. Most obituaries about Lopez's life and career (and the band's monster hit "Land of 1,000 Dances") are drawing from a great 2005 artic ... More >>

East Los Angeles Hit Man Trained by Mexican Cartels

A cunning American boy grows up to execute his friends and family

Carne Asada Sundays Will Continue at Dodger Stadium, Even Without Nomar

Juan Ocampo/LA DodgersNomar Garciaparra serves himself a plate of food at Carne Asada Sunday​Nomar Garciaparra, the 6 time All-Star infielder who spent much of his 14-year career with the Red Sox and a few memorable years with the Dodgers, retired Wednesday. During his three years wearing Dodg ... More >>

Pangs of Industry: Earthen

Where to eat in a city without residents

EXCLUSIVE MP3!: "Chicano Power," Scorching Vintage RnB by East LA's Thee Midniters

"They became our Beatles: all the stuff that was going on in Beatlemania, we translated into Midnitermania. In this microcosm which is East Los Angeles, this is something that belongs to us. It gave young kids who would eventually become musicians like myself inspiration to pursue a career in music, ... More >>

Food Dude -- NOTE NEW VENUE!!

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Social Insecurity A federal "desktop raid" that exposed false Social Security numbers of 260 undocumented workers has left a Vernon food processing plant devastated. L.A. TimesEvicted for Following Orders Residents of a North Hollywood apartment building that was foreclosed upon were told by a bank ... More >>

West of La Brea, East of the Moon: Where the Hell Is West L.A.?

MapQuestAn L.A. Times squib about a stolen-car chase caught our attention Saturday, but for all the wrong reasons. The L.A. Now blog focused on snarled traffic that resulted in a 16-block shutdown around the LAPD's bomb-squad's search of the vehicle, though both events seem to be part of L.A.'s ever ... More >>

OctoPorn: Will Octuplets' Mom Suck It In for Vivid Entertainment?

Octuplets' Mom and the Public: Where's the Love?

An Associated Press story indicates that Nadya Suleman, the Whittier mother of octuplets, shouldn't hold her breath waiting for the kindness of strangers. While parents of multiple-birth babies are usually showered with gifts from an adoring public, it seems that the nature of these particular birth ... More >>

Octuplets' Mom Named

A mother of eight newborns who remain at a Bellflower Kaiser Permanente hospital lives in Whittier, and her name is Nadya Suleman. Late Friday afternoon, the City News Service revealed, "Although the woman has asked that her identity not be released, she was identified in various media reports as Na ... More >>

Getting Stuffed at Arturo's Puffy Taco

The air in there

Burmese Underground

At Jasmine Market, picking up the scent of Muslim Myanmar

Brick's Picks: Big Band Blowout

Jazz picks around L.A.

Oshun's Fruit

A taste of Santería

Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza

Port in a Storm

Off the MAP

Letters from our readers

Marie Thibeault, Leigh Salgado

The End Of Murder

If New York can slash homicide by 76 percent, can Los Angeles contemplate a vanishing point?

Mark Kostabi, Barbara Strasen, Hung Liu

I Love L.A.

Viva los Dodgers theme songs!

Ask Mr. Gold: Tacos al Pastor

Satan Loves You

Cuddly moments in new-millennium metal

C'mon, Dodgers, WTF?

6 meditations on the Blue Sox

C’mon, Dodgers, WTF?

6 meditations on the Blue Sox

This American Life

Insane Clone Posse

Check This Out

Libraries quietly sound alarm against PATRIOT Act

A Draining Problem

Cleaning up the ocean pits environmentalists against local cities

Clifton’s Brookdale Cafeteria

Fast Track

I got railroaded and now I’m hooked

Hot Stuff

Incendiary Sichuan in Pasadena

Trapper's Delight

Big meat in the north woods of San Gabriel