Dennis Romero

If you're like us, you'll be enjoying your turkey with some gravy, stuffing and maybe a side of beer on Thursday. But two of our feathered friends are scheduled to spend the day living it up in Pacific Palisades. That's because animal-rights activist Karen Dawn is embarking once again on......

This is the LA Weekly edition of Really!? On Wednesday we learned that a Swiss court freed film director Roman Polanski in lieu of about $4.5 million while he fights extradition in courts there. Los Angeles authorities want Polanski back in town for the 1977 unlawful sexual intercourse sentencing that......

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lance Ito on Wednesday issued a statement confirming reports that courtroom-door placards baring his name have been stolen so many times that he stopped replacing them and has decided to leave the entrance to his chambers incognito. "About five of them have disappeared," he said......

Okay, we're not sure what the first clue would be that this suspected perv was not, as it would seem, legit: That he claimed to work for a magazine that no longer exists, or that he was posing as a big-time photographer ... while riding the Metro Blue Line train?!......

UCLA often spins itself as the smarter, higher-GPA-having school in town, but by the looks of its Bruin bear sculpture, you'd have to chalk one up for the wit and fortitude of USC: Despite an annual student "security force" that's supposed to protect the bear and despite a tarp covering......

An investigation into the collision last month between a Los Angeles Police Department cruiser and a young woman who died concluded that the officer behind the wheel was speeding, but only slightly. The "black-and-white" was going between 41 and 45 miles per hour in a 40 45-maximum-speed zone on Venice......

As part of LA Weekly's investigation into the largely unregulated nature of the city of Los Angeles' medical marijuana business, the paper looked into each an every one of the more than 800 pot shops registered with City Hall and found that only 540 were actually operating (PDF). The paper......

As the City Council worked out a compromise to come up with an pot-shop ordinance that they and City Attorney Carmen Trutanich can agree on, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took a stance against the kind of over-the-counter medical marijuana sales that that mark the city's several hundred dispensaries. "The sale of......

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday urged the U.S. Forest Service to allow nighttime air attacks on brush fires. The board cited damage done and momentum gained in the first night of the deadly Station Fire in August, which ended up as the largest wildfire in county......

The Los Angeles City Council today came up with an ordinance that might just please its desire to continue to allow cash sales of medical marijuana while creating a legal loophole to appease legal eagles who believe cash-for-pot is not allowed under state law. The proposed rule, which could see......