Sarah Fenske

It's not just your imagination: The rent really is too damn high. In the last year, in fact, rental prices in the Los Angeles area increased a shocking 10 percent. That's according to Venice-based startup RadPad, which analyzed the data from multiple rental services in August 2013, including its own,......

This just in: Your commute tomorrow is going to blow. That's according to the good people at INRIX, who use complicated but oh-so-precise forecasting to explain what's happening on L.A.'s roadways (and, OK, sell their traffic app, too). See also: Los Angeles Reclaims Title as America's Congestion King Spokeswoman Chryst'l......

The L.A. Weekly's 2013 Web Awards honor the best of what's online. Check out the complete list of winners. As an undergrad at DePaul University, Ben Welsh had a work-study job answering phones at the school's College of Communication. He was bored. But because he was charged with posting new......

There's a new biography of Charles Manson out this month -- which seems like the last thing America needs, in light of the reams of print that have already been devoted to the wannabe pop star who led his "family" to commit nine murders in the summer of 1969, terrifying......

A new video shows the final moments before journalist Michael Hastings' Mercedes Benz exploded into flames -- with the grainy footage revealing the car's fiery end on Highland Avenue June 19. The video was obtained from Weekly contributor Michael Krikorian, whose girlfriend, Nancy Silverton, owns Pizzeria Mozza, which is located......

Nine months ago, we kicked off a tournament to determine the greatest L.A. novel of all time. As the months passed, we read all the greats: Chandler and Cain, Bukowski and Fante, Didion and Dunne. We read L.A. Confidential. We read Devil in a Blue Dress. We read The Day......

The L.A. Weekly's Gene Maddaus was named Print Journalist of the Year at last night's L.A. Press Club's banquet, while a half-dozen Weekly staffers took first-place honors in other categories. Of Maddaus' work, the judges wrote, "Maddaus' investigative stories were thorough and interesting. He knows how to write a story......

The final tally is in: By 3:16 a.m., with 100 percent of precincts reporting, newcomer Ron Galperin had decisively beaten City Hall veteran Dennis Zine, getting elected L.A.'s new controller with 56.2 percent of the vote. Galperin's victory is arguably the biggest upset of this city's municipal elections -- the......