It was a huge, huge night for LA Weekly at the Los Angeles Press Club's awards gala in Universal City a few hours ago. Staff writer Christine Pelisek triple-swe
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Louis Woo Lee was charged on June 8 with murder and assault with a firearm for the slaying of an Anaheim Hills man at a local Korea Town Karaoke Bar.
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One never knows what to expect when entering the madhouse that is the Anand Jon courtroom – known more formally in Superior Court directories as Department 1
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According to TMZ, Long Beach rapper Snoop Dogg chivalrously stepped into a potentially awkward situation at a Norfolk, Virginia hotel, when he claimed that a package
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If L.A.'s unions feel they have a champion in the form of a single politician, that person is Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Under the Mutual Gains process establis
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Skip Engblom was in trouble for being a surfer long before he ever owned a surfboard. At age 10 he spotted a man on Santa Monica Beach paddling out into the ocean on
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Forget crazy-colored hair and aggressive pierced/tattooed punk looks. Corporate America has a new alternative-culture darling: the quirky-cool nerd. These days gawk
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Update: Claudia Cabrera pleaded not guilty to the charges during her arraignment. A May 4 hearing has been set to decide whether she will be remanded to trial.
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“I'm not a warm fuzzy type,” Judge Dale Fischer told Kevin Kachikian at his sentencing today. As an understatement, the icy jurist's comment rank
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[Editor’s note: We get submissions. Most of them, for a variety of reasons, are not right for L.A. Weekly. The following is one of those submissions. It arrived in
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Rebecca Schoenkopf, aka Commie Girl, tried her hand at making pies recently on FourStory and found, in the process, an American idyll. Balking at the $7 price of sto
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Today's L.A. Daily News identifies the exotic dancer who was set ablaze yesterday as a Brazilian-born single mother of two named Roberta Abdue Dos Santos Busby.
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