Christine Pelisek

The first meeting of the newly elected Historic Cultural Neighborhood Council (HCNC) did not begin with a tribute to democracy. After all, some community members believe the Chinatown-area election was, to put it mildly, a farce. “If you want to sit there and lie, this is your choice,” an angry......

Workers at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel scored a major victory last week in their longstanding fight to organize a union. The hotel chain agreed to stop trying to defeat the union campaign and to allow employees to sign union cards instead of holding an election. For more than two......

War, it seems, is one of those things that the more you know about it, the less you want any part of it. With Iraq in the crosshairs, the leading voices to go to war belong to those who have no military experience. More often than not, those against a......

Some 600 ravers gathered on the lawn outside the Federal Building in Westwood last Friday to protest proposed federal legislation that could force raves underground. “It upsets me that this culture will die,” said 18-year-old USC student Sydney Katz, as she passed out Arrowhead water to the throng of mostly......

LAPD’s budget for the fiscal year 2000–2001: $835,934,537 Number of officers LAPD is below its budgeted size: 1,100 Number of LAPD officers as of June 13, 2002: 9,022 Number of LAPD officers in 1980: 6,752 Number of LAPD officers in 1893: 93 Number of officers on LAPD’s first police force:......

LOCKED ON: focused. As in, "Man that officer is really locked on." Or: That officer really knows procedure, policy and the law. GOOD TO GO: The officer is psyched, has all of his or her equipment together and is ready for action. OBS'D: observed. GAT: gun. As in, "We obs'd......

FOR TWO YEARS, GABRIEL PEREZ GALVAN worked as a box boy most Friday nights at Super Assi, one of Koreatown's largest supermarkets. Last Friday, the 27-year-old Galvan joined more than 60 of his fellow box boys, sushi cutters and cashiers in a demonstration outside the store to protest August 1......

Photo by Ted Soqui LAST SATURDAY AFTERNOON A STREAM OF HIKERS, joggers and dog walkers made their way through the Vista Street gate into Runyon Canyon, a popular Hollywood park. For more than 10 years, hikers have used this entrance to reach their scenic path, which stretches from just above......

Rebecca Gayheart. The actress-model pleaded no contest to misdemeanor manslaughter in the death of a 9-year-old boy she struck with her Jeep. Jorge Cruz Jr. was hit on June 13 in Hollywood and died the next day from severe head injuries. Winona Ryder. The star of Girl Interrupted was arrested......

Photo by Bill Smith “Mick, Mick,” Ashleigh Meyer, a 21-year-old blond shrieks as Mick Jagger takes the stage at the El Rey Theater. The guy in leather next to her grabs his face, hands jutting dramatically toward the ceiling, screaming, “Oh my God . . . Mick.” As touching as......