"Space exploration events are like the Olympics; everyone just feels good," Inglewood Mayor James Butts said at a triumphant press conference on the September 20 arrival of the space shuttle Endeavour. And the spacecraft's 12-mile trip from LAX to the California Science Center on October 13, added L.A. Mayor Antonio......
An attractive Southern California couple is wanted in two counties this morning for the jailbreak and joyride of a lifetime. San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials say that 24-year-old robbery suspect Darnell Washington escaped from county jail on August 28 with the help of his wife, 25-year-old Tania Washington. And once......
The star of L.A. Weekly's current cover story -- a talented and gentle young man named Bryant Mangum, aka UPN member "Sight," fresh out of four years in state prison for scratching up the L.A. bus system as a teenager -- has been suspended from his job as a result......
In this week's cover story, "Los Angeles' War on Street Artists," we reveal that the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, with the help of city and county prosecutors, figured out how to try all graffiti artists as gangsters in court. In short: For the last five years or so, the sheriff......
The last possible moment for California's bumbling state senators and assemblymen to nudge their pet bills onto Governor Jerry Brown's desk is this Friday, August 31 at midnight. Needless to say, the state Capitol is in a state of fluttering papers/utter mayhem right now. It's hard enough to know what's......
See also: How the City of Gardena Turns Every Piece of Graffiti Into a Felony CrimeThe Secrets of L.A. Street Art: Bumblebee, Sharktoof and Linelinedot Discuss Their WorkFuck New York: Street Art Began Here in L.A. Back when L.A. graffiti artist Sight was a teenager, he began slipping out of his......
See also: "The Los Angeles River Is A 'Navigable Waterway?' Indeed, According To The EPA." No more jokes about how the Los Angeles River is more just a soggy trash chute than a place of nature, OK? Got it? Because as of yesterday, according to Friends of the Los Angeles......
Update, 1 p.m.: Gerber's suicide was just confirmed in a post on his Facebook profile. Headline and story have been changed to reflect this fact. Another well-loved member of the L.A. film industry -- documentary producer and digital-tech pioneer Brian Gerber -- took his life this week by driving his......
Not even a bike helmet could save 25-year-old Michael Ray Vega, the Norco resident killed in Rancho Cucamonga yesterday evening by a hit-and-run driver who left him to die along Foothill Boulevard. "You were a great dude," his friend Lacey LeBlanc wrote on Twitter. "No one deserves the fate you......
See also: LA Weekly's print profile on Phil Pavel, "ringmaster of the Chateau Marmont." On July 31, Lindsay Lohan was given until noon the next day to gather up all her crap from Suite 33 at West Hollywood's luxurious Chateau Marmont -- the Elizabeth Taylor jewels, the Sam Magid jewels,......
