Dennis Romero

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Last Night: The Crystal Method Performs Surprise Live Set

Dennis Romero
View more photos in Colin Young-Wolff's "The Crystal Method Secret Show @ Echoplex" slideshow. If electronic dance music ever gets its own This Is Spinal Tap-like parody, The Crystal Method would have to be the film's hard-partying, amplifier-past-10 inspiration. Not that there's anything wrong with that: Since the mid-1990s Ken......
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Will Mayor Be Emboldened To Dive Into Gov's Race?

Dennis Romero
A Los Angeles Times/USC poll over the weekend stated that California Democrats are not happy with having only one major gubernatorial candidate, Jerry Brown, who has not even officially announced his intent to run in 2010. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's withdrawal from the race last month made the Attorney......
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Bad Lieutenant? Man With Badge Shakes Down Victims

Dennis Romero
Talk about your cops and robbers. Police say a man with a badge and wearing "plain clothes" has been approaching victims cop-like and shaking them down for cash. They say the man is not a real cop, but rather an impersonator. A scary one at that. He's walked up to......
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Sashay Mayor V: Hizzoner Hits 'Runway'

Dennis Romero
In between solving a $500 million budget shortfall, choosing a new Los Angeles Police Department chief and making sure those potholes get filled, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa found time to appear on this week's season finale of Bravo's Project Runway. They had a little fun with the city's political leader, letting......
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Swine Flu Deaths Covered Up In California

Dennis Romero
Neon Tommy, the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism publication, has been rebuffed by several counties in California in its attempt to obtain records of swine flu deaths. Only after some persistence did Los Angeles County allow the USC journalists to take a peek at its H1N1-related death certificates......
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Is Oprah Moving To L.A.?

Dennis Romero
First, Conan, and now Oprah? Entertainment industry journalist Nikki Finke is reporting that Oprah Winfrey could be moving from her base of Chicago to Los Angeles to be closer to the home of her OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) channel, which would carry her namesake show in 2011. Finke reports that......
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Shootings Rock The Westside (Updated)

Dennis Romero
UPDATED: Whomever says the Westside sees no action hasn't been paying attention this week. On Tuesday night a 20-year-old man was fatally shot in Santa Monica and early Thursday morning Los Angeles police opened fire on a robbery suspect, wounding the boy in the Sawtelle neighborhood of West Los Angeles......
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1974 Called: It Wants Its Magic Bus Back

Dennis Romero
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced that they just recovered a Volkswagen van that had been reported stolen in 1974. The 1965 Bus was found in at the Los Angeles/Long Beach ports, in a shipping container bound for the Netherlands, Customs authorities said. They ran the van's vehicle identification......