Mike Risner looks like a cross between the Brawny paper towel guy and a leprechaun on steroids. He's a respected film industry professional with a long list of credits. And thanks to a free ad on Craigslist, he's the unlikely guardian of an L.A. legacy. Risner admits to being slightly......
IN THE BILTMORE HOTEL'S TIFFANY ROOM, waiters bearing trays of fresh fruit weave skillfully through the crowd, which is staring at the big-screen TVs. Tele...
When California voters passed Proposition 5 in 2000, allowing the creation of Indian casinos, few foresaw the replacement of card parlors with huge resorts, sh...
WHEN MODERNHUMORIST.COM CREATED a widely seen poster proclaiming, “When You Pirate MP3s, You’re Downloading Communism,” the line spoke for a whole generation. T...
IN 2001, THERESA DUNCAN was on top of the world. She had a two-picture deal with Fox Searchlight, and came to Los Angeles confident in her ability to conquer Hollywood. In July 2007, she was dead by her own hand, having washed down an overdose of Tylenol PM with bourbon......
In the aftermath of the Long Beach hate-crime trial, with nine convicted teen felons heading back to school — and in some cases warmly welcomed into top positions on sports teams — some of the victims and their families are bitterly lashing out at the high schools and the judge......
WHILE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MEDIA weren’t eager to cover the Long Beach Halloween hate-crime trial, they were more than ready for the January 26 verdict — and any subsequent violence — as requests by camera crews flooded in to Judge Gibson Lee, who denied them all. Even as journalists and spectators......
LAST HALLOWEEN IN THE Bixby Knolls neighborhood of Long Beach, where neighbors put on a lavish fright fest each year, three young women left a haunted house and found themselves caught in a street brawl with a crowd of teenagers. By melee’s end, one woman’s face was fractured in 12......
