Christine Pelisek

Would someone please calm the religious zealots so that we all could observe a moment of richly deserved silence for Terri Schiavo — along with the hundreds and thousands of lives lost or threatened by some of the dangerously boneheaded policies of the Bush Administration? As the Bush record attests,......

Kelly Bullwinkle always wanted to see the play Bang, Bang, You’re Dead — William Mastrosimone’s examination of school violence — performed at her high school. It finally was last weekend, nearly three years after Bullwinkle’s graduation, but Bullwinkle didn’t live to see it. Two days earlier, a San Bernardino County......

Ever wonder why a leg of the Red Line ends at Wilshire and Normandie, miles short of the museums and office buildings that would make it worthwhile to thousands? His name is Henry Waxman. Back in 1986, a year after a methane explosion at a Ross Dress for Less, the......

“Can you see anyone?” asks 33-year-old Elson Trinidad, slowly sliding his silver ’92 Saturn to the curb near Cypress Recreation Center in Cypress Park, about three miles north of downtown L.A. “Yeah, finally!” responds Monica, as she points toward a dark form beneath a down comforter next to a concrete......

Seventeen-year-old Boulder High School student Travis Moe admits that most teenagers his age just want to get drunk and get laid. "I have been really cynical lately," said Moe, a dreadlocked senior who wears flip-flops in blizzards. "No one talks about politics or the world." He did, however, find some......

Twenty-eight-year-old Ben Ainsworth was a part-time soap-opera actor, a personal trainer and an aspiring rapper in his native Australia. Given his skill set, Ainsworth did what many young aspiring actors/personal trainers/rappers do: He packed his bags and moved to Hollywood. He also changed his name to Jake Adams, the handle......

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On November 27, LAPD officer Mario Cordona gunned down Jeremy Andre Cervantes, 19, after he shot Cordona and wounded three partygoers inside a flier party at an old pool hall at 84th Street and Broadway attended by 200 people. Officers were arranging with the party crew to shut down the......

On a recent Saturday night, the "party car" gets word from an undercover officer that a flier party with local gang members attending is about to start on Norris Avenue in Pacoima. Foothill Division Senior Lead Officer Jose Torres, who coordinates the Friday- and Saturday-night party detail, is worried because......

A CORONER’S REPORT CONCLUDED that the 24-year-old son of renowned defense attorney Robert Shapiro died last month from an accidental overdose of Ecstasy two days after he had to be carried from a Hollywood party.Brent Edward Shapiro attended the USC-Arizona football game on October 8 and that evening went to......