LA Weekly

These are the kinds of relationships the subway was built on. Neil Papiano, the sort of downtown attorney people describe as "well-connected," counts among his longtime clients both the Nederlander Organization, operator of the Pantages and Greek theaters and one of the largest landowners in Hollywood, and Richard Alatorre, city......

We are surprised not at all that Santa Monica, that seaside haven of better-living do-goodniks, has taken the lead on enforcing the California Smoke Free Workplace Law, which on January 1 prohibited smoking in every bar in the state. Last week, a Santa Monica municipal judge found Elaine Pollock, owner......

Lest we had any nagging doubts about the sincerity of L.A. Times publisher Mark Willes' promise to "break down the wall" between advertising and editorial at the paper ("with a bazooka, if necessary," he vowed), last Wednesday's Times reassured us. Wednesday, you will recall, was the day after the election,......

In a world inured to shock-jocks and Jerry Springer, it's hard to imagine something new stirring outrage. But that is more or less what KTNQ 1020 AM, a local Spanish-language radio station, managed to do with its new billboard campaign. Promoting the station's talk-radio format, the ads feature such images......

Two years after catapulting into the presidency of the Sierra Club, environmental wunderkind Adam Werbach, known for his love of Pez and MTV, is moving on. In a soybean-inked farewell to the club's half-a-million-plus members, the 25-year-old ticks off the requisite list of "special places saved" during his tenure, but......

Our friends with the Church of Scientology scored a major legal victory last week in their ongoing campaign to suppress dissemination of internal church documents on the Internet. A federal jury in San Jose ordered Keith Henson of Palo Alto, an outspoken Scientology critic, to pay $75,000 in damages to......