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Memorial Day Weekend DUI Checkpoints For Los Angeles

Ready for summer? Ready to party? Be ready to have your ass busted if you drink and drive. The LAPD, the sheriff's department and Pasadena police are rolling out the troops this holiday weekend, hoping that you won't be dumb enough to be a DUI motorist. We're counting 7 checkpoints and two patrol o ... More >>

DUI Checkpoint, Drunk Patrol In Hollywood This Weekend

Now that the Christopher Dorner threat is in the past (thank God), the LAPD appears to be back to full strength and ready to bust your ass with renewed vigor. Some of the cops that assumed a low profile during Dorner's alleged anti-police reign of terror included motorcycle-based traffic officers w ... More >>

Flying Lotus' Nocturnal Visions

Once believing himself destined to fail, the DJ-producer returns triumphant on his new album

Abdul Arian: 19-Year-Old Leads LAPD on Crazy Chase, Shoots it Out With Cops, Dies: VIDEO

Updated at the bottom: The LAPD says suspect told a 911 operator he had a weapon and was "gonna have to pull out my gun on them." First posted at 11:38 p.m. Wednesday As L.A. watched it live on TV, a 19-year-old man engaged in a shootout with police in which he ultimately died. He appeared to be ... More >>

L.A. Storm Leaves Thousands Without Power, Interrupts 'Mad Men' Premiere

The weekend rain- and windstorm that tore through Los Angeles County left over 8,000 residents without power last night -- about half SoCal Edison customers and half L.A. DWP. And according to City News Service, thousands are still in the dark this morning, mainly in the Mid-Wilshire area. In resp ... More >>

Matthew Broderick's Ferris Bueller Superbowl Ad Tours L.A. in Midlife-Crisis Minivan

Thank you, Honda, for bringing to life Hollywood's wildest fantasy this Superbowl season: Ferris Bueller, our favorite high-school hooligan, playing hooky in our own backyard. Sure, we get a tired, squarish, middle-aged version of Bueller, who has morphed into a very mortal Matthew Broderick, the a ... More >>

Francisco Rodriguez Murder: Cops Search for Gun in Calabasas Landfill

Updated at the bottom with the search completed. First posted at 9:06 a.m. on Wednesday. Cops think they know who killed El Camino Real High School soccer player Francisco Rodriguez: Calabasas residents Jason Schumann, 24, and Elizabeth Ibarra, 19, have been arrested in connection with the Jan. 1 ... More >>

Francisco Rodriguez Murder: Suspect Arrested for Shooting El Camino High Goalie on 'Personal Motive'

FacebookThe young victim​The LAPD just announced that they've made an arrest in the shocking January 11 murder of 17-year-old Francisco Rodriguez, the star goalie for El Camino Real High School's soccer team. After reportedly being lured out of his house by a mysterious female, he was shot de ... More >>

Jason Schumann, Elizabeth Ibarra Arrested for Murder of El Camino High Soccer Star Francisco Rodriguez

Update: More dirt on Elizabeth Ibarra, who appears to have known both the victim and suspected gunman well. The LAPD just announced the arrests of two suspects in the murder of El Camino Real High soccer star Francisco Rodriguez. Calabasas resident Jason Schumann, 24, and San Fernando Valley resid ... More >>

Francisco Rodriguez, El Camino Soccer Player, Fatally Gunned Down When Girl Comes to His Door Following Game

Francisco Rodriguez, a 17-year-old soccer player for El Camino Real Charter High School who had just come home from a game, was gunned down last night after a girl came to the door of his residence and he went outside at her behest, according to cops and reports. Initial accounts indicated a female ... More >>

Master Food Preserver Program Application Deadline

With the resurgence in pickling and preserving, Los Angeles County's revived Master Food Preserver (MFP) program is all the rage. The MFP, which we first reported on back in January, is taking applications for the spring 2012 class. Open to L.A. County residents, the 12-week session covers canning, ... More >>

In Search of Curly Fries, Like They Have in Missouri

Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​Dear Mr. Gold: I have a hankering for some grease. I would like it to come in the form of a "brick" of Susie-Q french fries. I don't want any of these wimpy curly fries people talk about, looking like lost potato eyelashes on the plate. None of this ... More >>

Rare Medlar Ice Cream Now at Mother Moo

What the hell is a medlar? And why is it worth driving to Sierra Madre to find out? After getting her hands on a basket of the ancient, almost unknown and rarely commercially grown fruit, master food preserver and Mother Moo Creamery owner Karen Klemens turned it into a batch of über-rare medlar ic ... More >>

Malibu's Blood Alley on PCH

As bodies pile up, the Coastal Commission and Caltrans resist major fixes

SoCal DMV Gets a Teeny Bit Less Awful With New Self-Serve Kiosks (Video, Locations)

Self-serve bypass, sucka!​If there's a hell on Earth, we're pretty sure it's the California Department of Motor Vehicles. Not only does a simple license/registration errand eat up the better part of an afternoon, but a cacophony of cranky employees and crankier babies makes it the worst aftern ... More >>

Top 5 Reasons Why Flying Lotus' "Cosmogramma" is the Best L.A. Album of the Year

From Winnetka to the World: Flying Lotus' Cosmogramma​ The one album that defined The Sound of Los Angeles in 2010 came from a spiritually minded stoner from Winnetka with deep jazz connections. Sure, his Los Angeles album from 2008 might have already been a cosmic success, but Flying Lotus' ... More >>

Guy Jumping Roof To Roof To Escape LAPD On Drugs, LAPD Says

Not the actual guy, but a cool photo. ​ A guy was trying to run from police in Winnetka by jumping roof-to-roof until he got stuck in the 20500 block of Sherman Way, Jeff Collado of the LAPD's Topanga Station said. The cops say he was on drugs. You don't say.

Flying Lotus Rising

Could spiritual electronica be the next great California sound?

Destination Coachella

L.A. bands take to the desert for three days of music overload

The 10 Best L.A. Albums of the ’00s

From Beck and Dilla to Fiona, Jenny and Quasimoto, a mishmash decade of Southern California sounds

Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 302, Ex-Boyfriend Charged with Killing Winnetka Mother

The 24-year-old mother who was found shot in the rear of her car in the Winnetka area December 21 has been identified as Doris Salguero. Salguero was found by her brother who went out searching for her when she failed to return home from a company Christmas party in Carson on Saturday night. View ... More >>

Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 245, Man Shot in Winnetka

A male Hispanic was shot multiple times by two shooters in the 14000 block of Blythe Street in Winnetka, police say. Joaquin Navarro, 20, was shot around 3 p.m. on October 7. View Larger Map He sustained gunshot wounds to the upper torso and died a short time later in a local hospital. Anyone with ... More >>

The Mains Break Mainly on the Plains of L.A.

They're at it again -- L.A.'s latest water mains to break and flood are, according to the L.A. Times, at Corbin Avenue in Warner Center (2:30 a.m.) and at Burbank Boulevard in Winnetka (4:30 a.m.).The L.A. Daily News recaps that neither of today's two Valley ruptures has resulted in street closures. ... More >>

Valley Water Show Means Money Down the Drain

Why is it that water always gets wasted when it rains? Early on in last week's storm there was the image of a gushing fountain in Oxnard, created when a car, skidding in the rain, sheared off a hydrant.  Then, on Monday, a 12-inch main burst by MacArthur Park and shut down Alvarado Street for h ... More >>

Candy Cane Lane Light Insanity in Woodland Hills

'Twas the night after Christmas, and all through the hood, people were driving super slowly, but this was pretty much understood. Kinda. Candy Cane Lane is an eight block stretch in Woodland Hills where the neighbors put up a plethora of Christmas lights and pay massive electric bills. (For mo ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Be Kind Rewind, Men in the Nude, The Signal

And other Feb. 22 releases

Valley Shootout: SWAT Hero's Final Minutes

Why Randal Simmons stepped in harm's way

Movie Reviews: Just Sex and Nothing Else, Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show and more

Plus this week's film pick: The Band's Visit

San Fernando Valley Bloodbath

Mass Murder in Winnetka takes life of popular SWAT officer, a former Villaraigosa bodyguard An LAPD SWAT officer was shot to death and another was wounded last night in a horrific 11-hour standoff gone bad involving a 20-year-old unemployed furniture mover with a history of mental issues and suspec ... More >>

Welcome to Gentrification City

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

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A Scary Abundance of Water

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Corruptors

The rap on Styles of Beyond

Council Ousts Ostrich

A farewell to Valley farm life