LAPD Releases Video: Knife-Wielding Man at Van Nuys Church Grabs Woman as...
The Los Angeles Police Department released a body-cam video Tuesday that shows the killing of an innocent hostage by LAPD officers, this time at a homeless outreach center at a Van Nuys church, where...
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Photos: Lucha VaVoom’s Summer Lovin’ at The Mayan Theater
The wrestlers pulled out all the stops last Thursday night at the Mayan Theater for Lucha VaVoom’s Summer Lovin’ night. Event photographer Erwin Recinos was on assignment covering this event. The night...
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Tune of the Day: E Arenas ‘Mar Iguana’ Director Lorena Endara Explains How...
There’s a type of feeling you get when watching director Lorena Endara’s Super 8mm music video for É Arenas stoner anthem Mar Iguana. It’s sort of like eating an edible and throwing on Pink Flamingo....
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With Seizure and a Suicide, Redevelopment Struggle Takes Ugly Turns at Ports...
L.A. Taco Investigates Depending on who you ask, the Ports O’Call Restaurant either stood in the path of inevitable progress for 20 years, well past its time, or it was the crown jewel of the San Pedro...
View ArticleL.A. Taco on KCRW: Los Angeles Is ‘Oaxacalifornia’
In our latest installment of LA. Taco on KCRW, editor Daniel Hernandez revisits his feature story on Poncho’s Tlayudas, and speaks about the diversity at large of “Oaxaca California” — or...
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Apple to Open Downtown L.A. Store in 91-Year-Old Tower Theater
Apple is opening a store and “event space” in 91-year-old theater in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, the world’s first trillion-dollar company announced Thursday. The new Apple store is set to...
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‘Back to the Future II’, Brews at L.A. Zoo, Dia del Salvadoreño and more ~...
Welcome back to GTFO LA!, your guide to the very best stuff to do in Los Angeles every weekend, designed to get you out of the f*cking house. Summer may be half way through, but the parties keep going...
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My 20-Minute Career as a Pro Wrestler: Training Day at Santino Bros in Bell...
My lungs are begging for every sip of air after only two laps down the alley when I begin climbing into a pro wrestling ring for the first time since in my childhood dreams. Yet instead of The Rock,...
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‘Shameful’ Chapter of Los Angeles History: County This Week Apologizes for...
More than 200 women, most of them Latinas, were sterilized between 1968 and 1974 by a Los Angeles County medical center, a little-known eugenics incident that took place in postwar United States and...
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Bird Battles: Cities, Rental Shops, and Vigilantes Take Aim at Dockless...
A man enters a crosswalk on La Cienega, following the walk sign. A step in, he’s blindsided by a speeding vehicle — one of thousands of accidents that plague Los Angeles pedestrians each year. Except...
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Photo Gallery: Finnish Black Metal Band Sargeist, Void Omnia and Icon of...
The Elegy Ensemble and Church of the 8th Day did it again. On a blazing hot July night at fairly new DTLA venue 1720, Finnish black metal band Sargeist performed their exclusive West Coast appearance....
View ArticleTaco Truck Robbery Video Shows Brazen Pistol Whipping; Police Searching For...
Three men in hooded sweatshirts boarded a taco truck last month brandishing handguns and harassing line cooks. The suspects jumped on looking to rob the till after 3 am when late-night food trucks...
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L.A. Artist Billy Kheel’s Taco Truck Scores a Win on Crafting Show ‘Making It’
Los Angeles-based artist and L.A. Taco favorite Billy Kheel is competing and scoring some big wins on NBC’s new arts and crafts competition show, and he’s doing it with tacos! In the NBC crafting...
View ArticleNew LAPD Chief Received a $1.27 Million Retirement Payout Before Being Rehired
Michel “Mike” Moore, who is 58 years old, received a $1.27 million retirement payout in January before being appointed six months later as the new chief of the Los Angeles Police department, an L.A....
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‘What Are We Going To Do With Our Wednesdays Now?’ ~ A Long GoodBye For Low...
The club night Low End Theory was a rip in the city’s overdeveloped musical matrix. It did for underground music in Los Angeles what Jonathan Gold did for its food. It had the same impact and lifespan...
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These TSA-Level Scanners Will Be Checking You For Weapons In L.A. Metro Rail...
Portable TSA-level body scanners will be used throughout Los Angeles Metro, Metrolink, and Amtrak stations to randomly scan commuters for nefarious objects in a “pop-up security screening” system,...
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A Project to Revive Southeast L.A. by the River Draws a Line Between...
It’s a scorching hot, dry summer day in Lynwood and the Los Angeles River is roaring with the kind of exuberant music-making perhaps not seen since the Tongva built life along the L.A. basin. More than...
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A Fully Stocked Supermarket Made Entirely of Felt ~ Lucy Sparrow’s L.A. Debut...
British artist Lucy Sparrow made her West Coast debut this month with Sparrow Mart, a fully-felted supermarket that is currently open to the public until the end of August at The Standard, Downtown LA....
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‘Naturally, There Will be Food Trucks’: Public Memorial for Jonathan Gold Set...
Fans of the late Jonathan Gold will have a chance to remember the acclaimed writer Sunday at a public event hosted by Los Angeles Times staff writer Carolina A. Miranda. The free event will start at...
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Tune of the Day: ‘I’ve Never Been’ by Astronautica (Exclusive Premiere)
Los Angeles native Astronautica has created the new soundtrack to your life in the city. Press play on her new album Death Valley, and you’ll instantly feel as if you’re rolling through the desert in a...
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