J. Patrick Coolican

Sure, when your formerly inexpensive and sleepy neighborhood becomes a hipster haven, you get the obligatory American Apparel and better quality coffee. Plus, beautiful people who take hours trying to make themselves look greasy. But there's downsides: Lots of new development and everything that goes with it -- traffic, noise,......

Paul Richardson, Shaquille Richardson and Josh Shirley were arrested last week for allegedly stealing a student's purse near a UCLA dining hall. They're all tossed from the summer classes they were taking and kicked off the team. The status of the student-athletes for winter quarter is up in the air,......

The LAPD continues shutting down pot shops in violation of the medical marijuana ordinance that went into effect June 7, though with a special emphasis on neighborhoods making the most noise. This time it's Eagle Rock. As the Weekly noted last week, neighborhood activists have complained, sometimes bitterly, to city......

You know what a bar really needs? Free parking! Although drunk driving fatalities have been on the decline for decades, someone still gets killed by a drunk driver every 45 minutes or so. So why on earth do cities such as Long Beach require that bars provide off-street parking?......

Feel LA Weekly's power. No, not really, but it's true that hours after the Weekly reported that KFC was still operating as a medical marijuana dispensary, LAPD raided the famous Palms pot shop and shut it down......

Embarrassing. That's what Jay Handal, West Los Angeles neighborhood council chairman, calls the city's failure to shut down pot shops that are out of the compliance with the medical marijuana ordinance, which took effect June 7. Handal, who owns San Gennaro restaurant in Brentwood, said he has no problem with......

But it wasn't just a headless goat last week. Also a "bird of prey" -- this according to The Eastsider LA blog, which is all over the Elysian Park mutilated animals story. Apparently, last week two woman found what appeared to be a recently deceased baby goat and bird of......