Jill Stewart

Veteran L.A. Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek has been awarded the finalist prize by the globally prestigious Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. for that organization's highly coveted Tom Renner Award, which honors outstanding reported on organized crime or other criminal acts.Christine's amazing scoop and followup work on the Grim Sleeper serial......

President Barack Obama's Town Hall meeting with Los Angeles residents came off smoothly today, based on the live feeds I saw, with the president covering familiar ground and showing a lot of verve. One issue that seemed to be an undercurrent leading up to the Town Hall was why he......

A heated hearing unfolded earlier today before the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, which wants to create yet another complicated, exception-filled plan to try to control street clutter in Los Angeles, the capital of the illegal billboard industry.Details of today's hearing will come from ace reporter Christine Pelisek, who previously......

If you're thinking of getting a glimpse of President Barack Obama, here's his itinerary from City News Service, and Yo! Venice offered a link to the signup sheet for attending the Town Hall (but alas, the seats are now all gone). It will be interesting to see whether the President......

Until yesterday, the most common keywords on Google linked to Bob Dylan were probably words like folk singer, blues, and songwriter. Now the words are "poo," "defecation" (New York Magazine)," "crap" (TMZ), "stinky" (Hollywood Rag), and "stank" (Celebitchy).One thing the non-Malibu crowd should remember is that the very rich and......

While Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa won, as expected, his poor showing, and the humiliating possible defeat of solar Measure B, was a repudiation by Los Angeles voters and indicates tough sailing if he decides to run for governor. While surprisingly biased cheerleading for the mayor continued today from the LA Daily......

These are the early returns from absentee ballots only. The showing for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is so low, given that he outspent all his competitors by orders of magnitude that are positively Hubble Telescopian, and got gushing, glowing free media coverage from both the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles......

Nobody is ever sure how closely absentee voters match the views of the voters who actually trek into the polls, but here is the first wave of election returns released by the City of Los Angeles elections division about 45 minutes after the polls closed tonight.In the four hottest races,......