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Westsiders Slam Villaraigosa's Push for Apartments Citywide
Is slow growth back, or is this the eve of construction?
By STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
SENIOR CITY PLANNER Jane Blumenfeld must have known something was up when about a dozen “observers” at a “workshop” about the city’s plans to create more housing kept leaving together and re-entering the conference room in the Henry Medina Parking Enforcement Building on April 24. The “observers” were actually members of a nascent activist… Keep Reading »
Westsiders Slam Villaraigosa's Push for Apartments Citywide
Is slow growth back, or is this the eve of construction?
By STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
SENIOR CITY PLANNER Jane Blumenfeld must have known something was up when about a dozen “observers” at a “workshop” about the city’s plans to create more housing kept leaving together and re-entering the conference room in the Henry Medina Parking Enforcement Building on April 24. The “observers” were actually members of a nascent activist… Keep Reading »
Is Antonio Lying About Taxes?
The mayor says he allowed a record deficit, not knowing the economy had soured
By D. HEIMPEL
With City Hall this month looking to tax, charge and assess new fees on 4 million residents to make up for the biggest budget debacle in Los Angeles history — $406 million in the red — Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is seeking to duck blame by claiming that he had no clue last year that… Keep Reading »
Doomscraper? Here Comes Hollywood's First-Ever Mega-Skyscraper
A community thrown into shadow and vistas of the Hollywood sign could be destroyed
By PATRICK RANGE MCDONALD
A few weeks ago, on a chilly Thursday evening, Chris Shabel, a gray-haired woman with a quick smile, slowly shuffled into Studio 3 at the old CBS TV-and-radio complex at 6121 Sunset Boulevard, with the help of a high-end stroller that doubled as a portable chair. Over the years, the longtime Hollywood community activist… Keep Reading »
Pellicano Verdict Watch
Will he be a free bird or a jailbird?
By STEVEN MIKULAN
IT’S TAKEN ME HIS ENTIRE NINE-WEEK trial to realize that Anthony Pellicano looks less like his marine-bird namesake than the Vlasic-pickle stork — an elderly-looking fowl with spectacles whose appearance inspires laughter. The former Private Eye to the Stars who, with four co-defendants, faces 78 counts of racketeering, has acted as his own attorney… Keep Reading »
Clinton Defeats Clinton: After North Carolina and Indiana, a Postmortem on Hillary's Campaign
It's all over now, Baby Blue, as Barack Obama wins the presidential nomination for the third or fourth time
By MARC COOPER
EXCEPT FOR THE PAPERWORK, it’s all over now. Barack Obama is now the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. He grabbed the brass ring on Tuesday night by crushing Hillary Clinton in North Carolina and coming within a whisker of surpassing her in Indiana. … Keep Reading »
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Westsiders Slam Villaraigosa's Push for Apartments Citywide
By STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Is slow growth back, or is this the eve of construction?
Eli Broad's Grand Avenue Follies
By TIBBY ROTHMAN
Mecca for the monied can't get a loan, but is likely to get City Council's nod
Is Antonio Lying About Taxes?
By D. HEIMPEL
The mayor says he allowed a record deficit, not knowing the economy had soured
Clinton Defeats Clinton: After North Carolina and Indiana, a Postmortem on Hillary's Campaign
By MARC COOPER
It's all over now, Baby Blue, as Barack Obama wins the presidential nomination for the third or fourth time
Eric Garcetti Responds to "Doomscraper?"
By L.A. Weekly readers
Early Doom In my seven years serving on the Los Angeles City Council, I…
Dissonance
Clinton Defeats Clinton: After North Carolina and Indiana, a Postmortem on Hillary's Campaign
By MARC COOPER
It's all over now, Baby Blue, as Barack Obama wins the presidential nomination for the third or fourth time
Hillary's Afterlife
By MARC COOPER
She lost the race weeks ago, but the Clintons keep haunting Obama
Deadline Hollywood
What's Hot: Talks Between Actors and Producers Look DOA
By Nikki Finke
Meanwhile, pilots are vibrantly alive
Daniel Hernandez
The creeping march of narco violence in Mexico
The war between Mexico's cartels and law enforcement agencies reached a chilling new height this week. Assassins ambushed the acting chief of Mexico's federal police, Edgar Millan Gomez, as he walked into his apartment in Col. Guerrero in Mexico City...
Immigration check-points, while driving, yes, south
That's right. As immigrants are leaving the country, federal agents have been staging check-points and rounding people up. The L.A. Times, reporting from the San Diego-Tijuana border, says that ICE is actually defending this policy. In the article by Richard...
Lurid advertising: 'That's why she's my mommy'
This is a billboard that shows a beautiful young mother shielding the eyes of her child from something awful, maybe a traffic accident, or a bloody crime scene. The image feels taut and in motion. It is clearly playing to...
Letters
Eric Garcetti Responds to "Doomscraper?"
By L.A. Weekly readers
Early Doom In my seven years serving on the Los Angeles City Council, I…
Features
New Fiction: "Sunday"
By JOE DONNELLY
Laura Branigan, Old Milwaukee and a tough angle on the eight ball: A short story
Doomscraper? Here Comes Hollywood's First-Ever Mega-Skyscraper
By PATRICK RANGE MCDONALD
A community thrown into shadow and vistas of the Hollywood sign could be destroyed
Billboards Gone Wild: 4,000 Illegal Billboards Choke L.A.'s Neighborhoods
By CHRISTINE PELISEK
Is City Hall corrupt, or just inept?
Jellyfish's Etgar Keret: The Wizard of Id
By ELLA TAYLOR
Writer/director shoots from the hip about his low-budget movie and his high-budget life
Why My Morning Jacket Is the Best Live Band in the World
By JEFF WEISS
In an age when certified rock stars are a dying breed, a Kentucky band stakes its claim
Bad Rap: How Aspiring Hip-hop Star Herbie Gonzalez Got Pegged as a Manhattan Beach Murderer
By PAUL TEETOR
Anatomy of a false confession
Continental Divisiveness: New York and L.A. Theater
By STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Separated by common values
Passing Strange: The L.A. Problem
By JUDITH LEWIS
His play is a Broadway hit, but don't ask Stew to come home again
Slideshows
March Month in Photos
Fashion Week, SxSW, Vampire Weekend, Scientology protests and more
Donald T. Sterling's LA Times Ads
A collection of Sterling's ads featuring waif-like children and glimmering apartment buildings
Mr. Fish
See No Point in Caring...
By Mr. Fish
Hear no urging for pacifism, speak no dissenting opinion for fear of disappearing
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