After months of living legal limbo, Redondo Beach Mayor Mike Gin’s marriage was finally declared legal several days ago by the California Supreme Court. But mar...
Is a 10 percent pay cut to the $178,789 salaries of the highest-paid city council in America really such a big deal? As the budget drama unfolded in City Hall...
Lt. Daniel Rosenberg hesitated as he pondered the question: Does he believe that Herbert Gonzalez was ever a gang member? After three hours of rhetorical rope-a-dope , Rosenberg was tired of waiting for the BIG question at the heart of the civil lawsuit. So he answered the question he thought......
Berdell Knowles set up shop under the basket, stuck his butt out, knocked back his defender, called for the basketball and put three quick fakes on the tall teenager towering over him, just waiting to swat his shit into the stands. Then Knowles, 5 feet 9 and 200 pounds of......
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s call for shared sacrifice was finally embraced last week by the Los Angeles City Council that, until now, has inhaled pay raises li...
The more things changed for Herbie Gonzalez this year, the more they stayed the same. Until his story was told in L.A. Weekly, Gonzalez was just another rapper who got out of jail after beating highly publicized charges of rape and murder. In that sense, everything changed for Gonzalez after......
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The cocktail buzz was loud and Cristal clear: The Wolf of Wall Street had an image problem with the young entrepreneurs of Los Angeles. “Frankly, I came here thinking this Jordan Belfort guy would be an asshole,” confided Robb Lejuwaan, a financial-services guy at a book signing for Belfort organized......
A 35-year-old voter-approved ban on low-income housing taller than two stories will be repealed if Proposition B is approved next week. While city officials insist the proposed changes will not increase density in any way, intense last-minute scrutiny of the ballot measure, which also ends a citywide limit of 52,500......
RITA PARDUE GETS TOO MANY e-mails and has too little time to read them all. But as she scrolled through her in-box on the morning of July 7, one subject line d...
Herbie Gonzalez glanced in his rearview mirror as he turned right from Normandie onto 35th Street. Sick with the flu, he barely noticed the white Dodge Ram lur...
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