Matthew Fleischer

It was months before the ’92 riots and Gregory Everett was upset. The estranged son of a Black Panther, Everett was attending a community meeting in South Los Angeles organized by a collection of old-time Pan-Africanists. It was the first such meeting Everett had ever attended, and he expected righteous......

For Los Angeles political junkies, November 9, 2008, is the day Antonio Villaraigosa won the 2009 mayoral election. That’s the day Rick Caruso announced he would not run. Aside from depriving us of at least a dozen ridiculous wire stories about which candidate has the better hair, the election is......

It’s been nearly six months since L.A. Weekly revealed that South L.A.’s newest playground was built on top of an open sewer line. Do kids still have to hold their noses to go on the jungle gym? “Actually, the park has worked out well,” says Ted Thomas, president of the......

Subscribe to Wil Wheaton's L.A. Daily RSS feed.   It’s three o’ clock on a weekday afternoon and I’m in an Old Town Pasadena bar having drinks with a former child star. Were this person a faded pop tartlet, or perhaps named Corey, we might be planning a trip to......

Culty Goodness digg_url = 'https://digg.com/odd_stuff/L_A_s_Five_Most_Powerful_Cult_Leaders'; What could be better than starting a cult? The power, the accolades, the idolatry, the ritual suicide… At the very least you get the chance to have sex with lithe young vixens who would otherwise be way out-of-your-league. And nowhere are the vixens more lithe......

Click here for Matthew Fleischer's Down and Out at the Americana.  It’s dusk in downtown Glendale, and as is quite often the case these days, the sound of ...

Click here for main feature, Rick Caruso's Aria: L.A.'s Mall King Mulls a Mayoral Run, by Matthew Fleischer. View photographs of Fleischer's underc...