Michael Krikorian

LITTLE UNSHKINS CAN FLY. Not a transatlantic flight, but short trips of 10 feet or so. Last week, Unshkins made one of those flights and helped save his owner. ...

IT’S HARD TO MISS the dramatic contrast between the way the nation dealt with returning Vietnam vets more than three decades ago and the reaction to soldiers to...

HISTORIC. HISTORIC. HISTORIC. At a news conference crammed with media members last week, the word “historic” was invoked 21 times. Was this press gathering ab...

The Rémy Martin Louis XIII Cognac is $1,549.99, but with your Ralphs Club Card it’s only $1,499.99. The Opus One is sold out, but the Dominus Estate Red is available for $139.99. There’s organic fruit and a dozen different pasta sauces, including Rao’s and Silver Palate. Need a dry cleaner?......

WHEN THE STORY HIT the nightly news on July 16 that four local teenagers had been arrested for numerous attacks upon the homeless, it sounded like another senseless urban crime of human upon human. Local media dutifully reported the arrests, but because children under 18 accused of crimes are granted......

IT’S 1:30 P.M. ON FRIDAY and a blue-gray 2007 750Li BMW tooling along Clinton Street in the Hollywood flatlands pulls up to the southwest corner of Clinton and La Brea Avenue. Suddenly, three children from the nearby Bais Yaakov school begin frantically knocking on the Beemer’s passenger window — startling......

Last year, the City of Los Angeles removed more than 27 million square feet of graffiti, enough to squirt a 1-foot-wide swath of Rust-Oleum from Hollywood Boulevard to Fifth Avenue in New York City, then double back to State Street in Chicago.Against the backdrop of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s big, bold......

Some think releasing the list could result in even more bloodshed. Jose Ramon, a barber in Gardena, worried that the list could inspire gangs to “go on a killing spree” just to get on the list. “I think the gangs that weren’t nominated might try to do something crazy so......

“They shot my cousin in the head. They shot my cousin in the head.” Two more times, Bennie Barrow Jr. repeated this aching refrain, a mixture of disbelief and horror. As he stood last Friday at the podium of the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in South Los Angeles, his......