THERE’S ALWAYS A LOT TO SAY about Harvey Weinstein, one of the most successful yet psycho movie producers of modern times. But the true measure of any man is not h
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About the same time Barack Obama did his frosh year at Occidental College, I was an undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, fresh from my largely African-American, Jefferson
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UPDATE: A Lifetime movie featuring LA Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek explores the DNA-based manhunt for the alleged Grim Sleeper. Suspect Lonnie Franklin Jr.
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LeChein Taylor took out a cell phone and called his brother Bo.
Bo Taylor, founder of the gang-prevention, intervention and life-skills program Unity One, didn’t p
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The doughnuts were first. A dozen of them appeared on Sarah Jo Marks’ dining room table one afternoon. They stared at her. They had eyes.
Honey, what did you do
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Nick Shields is sitting in a well-worn chair at the window of his two-bedroom apartment on a sleepy West Hollywood block. The 65-year-old former off-off-Broadway ac
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Early reports are calling the fire that gutted three acres of Universal Hollywood's back lot an accident. However, it is unclear what caused the June 1 fire and
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Inyo County sheriff investigators officially called off the dig for human remains Wednesday at remote Barker Ranch, the last known hideout of Charles Manson and his
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When you walk down a flight of steps to a basement off an alleyway behind Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, you leave the yuppie bustle of Old Town and enter t
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For kids growing up in the 1970s, Evel Knievel was a superhero. This had less to do with his real-life motorcycle jumps of double-decker buses, blustery canyons and
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The recently shuttered Old Spaghetti Factory on Sunset east of Vine didn't take long to get a new paint job. These pieces went up within the past week.
Oddl
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{mosimage}For Gabriel Goillen, night manager of Mel’s Drive-in on Highland Avenue in Hollywood, the events of May 13 still don’t register. Goillen was wo
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