Worklife

5 Great L.A. Restaurants for Lunch When The Boss is Paying

It's rare, but sometimes the planets align and your chakras are glowing (or whatever), and your boss steps out of her office and asks you where you'd like to go eat for lunch. Maybe she really screwed something up and she knows it, so she'd like to make it up to you with a mea culpa and an appetizer ... More >>

Home Is What the Art Is

'Gangnam Style' Lifeguards Were Already On Thin Ice in El Monte; Rehiring Seems Unlikely

The 13 lifeguards and one pool manager fired over making a "Gangnam Style" spoof at El Monte city Aquatic Center want their jobs back, and they're headed to the City Council tonight to plead their case: The YouTube video with nearly 1.5 million views was made on their free time. But it's not so sim ... More >>

Water Enhancers Make Water Better: By Reminding You What it Shouldn't Taste Like

The lounge. The smell of chalky beans in a microwaved burrito. Cold Chinese leftovers. A squashed tuna sandwich. Most of your co-workers wash their food down with water from the cooler or a diet Coke. However, one guy pulls a plastic vial from his pocket and waves it over his cup of water. Red ... More >>

Williams Institute Says Gays and Lesbians Still Vulnerable to Job Discrimination

In a new article for the Loyola Law Review, researchers at UCLA's Williams Institute, the premiere gay think tank in the United States, say that gay folks are still highly vulnerable in the workplace. "Well-researched and documented patterns of discrimination highlight the need... of a federal ban ... More >>

Arjun Neuman and Kestrel Burley

As If There Isn't Already Enough Sex in This Issue

Chromeo

Lawsuit: Another Savage Beating in the Visitor's Room of Men's Central Jail

Gabriel Carrillo days after being beaten​The visitor's area of Men's Central Jail near Downtown LA is looking more and more like a scary place. Earlier this year, we brought you the story of Gabriel Carrillo, who claims he was visiting his younger brother when he was thrown into a refrigerator a ... More >>

Sex At Work: LA and Other California Cities Lead Nation in Gender Equality

​Sure, California may be a terrible place to find work these days, with the third worst job market in the nation. But for women looking to be treated equally in the workplace, there's apparently no place like the Golden State. U.S. News & World Report recently compiled a list of places with ... More >>

Human Resources Re-Opens Performance Art Space with Daniela Sea, Staring Contests, Shoe on a Rope and Ryan Heffington's Disco Boys

Carol ChehAsher Hartman's play The All Stars of Nonviolet Communication​ Saturday night was the grand re-opening of Human Resources, an eclectic collective of artists, musicians and aficionados who organize one of the few spaces in L.A. dedicated to showcasing performative art practices (they ... More >>

Porn Film Captures On-Duty L.A. Parking Enforcement Officers Getting Spanked, Fondling Breasts

NBC Los AngelesParking porn!​Times are tough, especially for City Hall, which faces a huge, $400-million-plus deficit this summer. Some public employees are having to work longer hours and take on extra tasks. Like a pair of parking enforcement officers, who NBC Los Angeles says were filmed, ... More >>

Meet Your Waiter: Laurel

Graphic by Samrod Shenassa​ [This is the second installment in a series.] Laurel*, 27, was a short-timer in the restaurant industry. She spent eight to nine months working at a lively neighborhood restaurant and bar while studying for her college degree. She worked part-time -- everyone work ... More >>

Medical Marijuana Creates Sticky Situation For Employers

​As 13 other states have followed California to approve medical marijuana, and another 12 are pondering similar laws, employers -- especially those in this pot capital -- are faced with a quandary: What to do about workers stoned on the job who have doctors' approval for pot? According to Cra ... More >>

Inessential Beauty: Writing and Reading Emma Dial

ALF: We Warned Lab

ALF fliers on Phenomenex doors. Today the North American Animal Liberation press office distributed a communique, dated July 21, which it said it received anonymously from the Animal Liberation Front. In the message, ALF claims responsibility for a July 18 "visit" to a Torrance animal-lab suppl ... More >>

Paramount's Black Friday

Lesher out, Weston out, Goodman In

White-Headed Stranger: Evil Lurks in Broad Daylight in Rare Selznick Noir

What's That Saying? Behind Every Pink Slip, There's a Cheap Margarita

Queer Town: Obama Insider Tells Gays to See 'The Big Picture'

Last Friday, Obama insider and spokeswoman Linda Douglass called Frontiers News Editor Karen Ocamb out of the blue, telling the longtime lesbian journalist that gays need to see the "big picture" when it comes to the Rick Warren invitation.  Right: Linda Douglass(Photo: HuffingtonPost)Ocamb wro ... More >>

How Mayor Villaraigosa Spends His 16-Hour Days

The Tights Club

When it comes to Mexican superheroes in Spandex, look to lucha libre

Women Firefighters: The Gender Boondoggle

City Hall's dream of recruiting more females is a multimillion-dollar disaster

Late Night's Reluctant Hosts

Must the show go on?

Los Angeles Improv Dance Festival: Opening the Gates

Welcome to Boondoggle Unified

One man's five-year odyssey to expose waste in L.A.’s $10 million quake-proofing program

Given to Flier

DWP’s Power Surge

Mystery surrounding troubled contract points to mismanagement of L.A.’s giant utility

Filtered: Bill’s Gone Wild!

Quick guide to the O’Reilly sexual-harassment lawsuit

Dirty Laundry

DWP’s deep cultural problems get a public airing, but who will fix them?

Strike Supplies

L.A. stocks up for hotel workers

The Black Avenger

Milton Crawford exposes the DWP’s big whitewash... racism, intimidation and harassment

Trouble in the D.A.’s Office

Whistleblower’s case alleging retaliation moves closer to trial

Expert Advice: Dress To Impress

Event planner Gary Levitt of Sequoia Productions deciphers dress codes

Working Girl

The Real Nanny Diaries

Nobody asks about the circles under Rosa's eyes, and no one will. Her bosses think she disappears the second she leaves their home

Failing a Generation

How to fix California’s broken Foster-Care system

Mommy, Ltd.

Bridget Jones, meet Kate Reddy

Drive-by Reporting

Mayor Hahn’s new press aide comes in with a bang

Jokes, Not Jizz

Jerry Zucker’s Rat Race

Crazy/Dutiful

Johnny Romoglia at your service

Testing in L.A.

Tainted Thinking

Drug tests: A class ritual

Power Consciousness

Diversions in the dark

Introduction

The Latino Metropolis

Mike Davis on the new, revitalized Los Angeles

Leave the Woman Alone

Little good and some harm will result from the latest fit over sheriff’s pension

B.S. on Campus

USC food workers fast for new contract

School Board Fires Hamid Arabzadeh

But questions remain over his allegations of wrongdoing and safety hazards