Allison Margolin is a 28-year-old, Columbia (woo!) and Harvard-educated criminal defense lawyer based out of Los Angeles. She’s perhaps most famous her assurance that she will work to clear you of anything from “marijuana to murder.” Which we figure...

California! Where every job is done by someone prettier and more waxed than you. And if there’s one thing your editors know about visiting Los Angeles it’s to turn on Fox 11 in the morning for the latest in...

Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was one of the many Americans who showed up at Join The Impact’s nationwide protests Saturday against California Proposition 8. The proposition, which passed two weeks ago, overrode a recent state supreme court decision...

Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was in Chicago Friday to participate in Barack Obama’s Transition Economic Advisory Committee despite LA being hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. Not to mention the fact that he was an ardent Hillary...

A rally is happening right now outside a Mormon temple in West Los Angeles to protest large financial contributions by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Proposition 8 campaign supporting a measure that bans same-sex...

In our perfect town the person who introduced us to nachos would get a parade, so perhaps we should move to Los Angeles where that person gets their obituary on the home page of the Los Angeles Times. Carmen...

Take a look at America’s perception of Mexican immigrants in “Caras vemos, corazones no sabemos/Faces Seen, Hearts Unknown: The Human Landscape of Mexican Migration,” a new exhibition at the UCLA Fowler Museum consisting about 80 works of art by...

While the local news is going crazy with coverage of today’s Southern California blaze that has, so far, incinerated more than 3700 acres, claimed the life of a homeless man and his dog (sad!) and caused a mandatory evacuation...

East L.A. has fucking had it up to here with you telling them where and when to erect light poles. The area, popularly associated with Latinos, wants to become its own city: “We’re a nationally branded area,” said Diana...

If you’re going to be in L.A. during September 12-19th, check out the International Latino Film Festival, where 132 films from Latino directors will be played on the big screen at several city theaters. The buzz this year is...

Downtown L.A. just redefined “Boho” by choosing goats as the new weed-whackers. A community development agency released a herd of 100 South African goats yesterday onto a contained plot, citing their increased efficiency, environmental friendliness and cheaper cost. Goat-keeper...

Like dogs? They’re delicious, right? Apparently people in Los Angeles like them, too. Especially chihuahuas, especially named Princess: “L.A.’s Top Dogs,” a new database compiled by the Los Angeles Times and launched this week on its website (latimes.com/dogs) provides...

The Los Angeles Times ran a story on the gentrification of Echo Park Friday that we still can’t figure out the point of, but that hasn’t stopped it from getting 101 comments from concerned citizens so far. Nothing brings...

VBS.TV, the official online video network of people in baggy skinny jeans, oh and of Vice magazine, recently took a look at the complex issue of immigration for their Mexico issue. The result? Listening to stoned sounding skater illegals...

If you live in Los Angeles, you might know Tu Ciudad magazine, but then again, maybe not. They closed on Thursday due to lack of readership. A tipster forwarded us this email from founder Jaime Gamboa which went out...

Some Los Angelenos are up in arms about a New York Times story from Los Angeles bureau chief Jennifer Steinhauer on the new restrictions for L.A. taco trucks that go into effect next week. According L.A. blog Metromix, (and...

The Los Angeles Times ran an interesting story last month acknowledging that Mexican-Americans with money do exist and have taken over Richard Nixon’s former town of Whittier, California. Whittier “is where the heart of the Latino bourgeoise wants to...

Kat Von D and Nikki Sixx attend an event for Heatherette while holding tight to one another’s genitals. Tammy Faye Baker would like her face back now, kthnx. [dlisted] Have you heard? There’s a “Beverly Hills 90210” spin-off in...

In order to fight the terrible budget crisis currently plaguing the City of Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took a furlough day yesterday. This means that he worked for free. All in an attempt to encourage other city employees...

LA Weekly snapped André Leon Talley, Vogue American editor-at-large, at Los Angeles Fashion Week either silently judging this poor girl’s outfit, or falling asleep. Either way, not good news. We just watched The Devil Wears Prada on television and...

Hi babies. I’ll be in Los Angeles this weekend, hopefully contracting melanoma and doing things I will come to regret once the hangover wears off. If you have any suggestions for things I should see, do or take great...

Mexican director Alejandro Monterverde and wife, “Doritos Lady” Ali Landry were on hand to pose with actor Eduardo Verastegui’s eyebrows at a benefit hosted by Bacardi in Los Angeles, benefitting The National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts. Landry, Monteverde...

Thrillist LA’s list today suggests you stuff your pinche face full of tacos at “Pinches Tacos” in West Hollywood. Eat: Pinches Tacos 8200 W. Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood; 323.650.0614 Named after the word that Spanish speakers use around you...

The city of Los Angeles is trying a new program in an attempt to cut down on transnational gangs: Last week the federal government and Los Angeles County undertook a joint attack on transnational gangs by charging 23 incarcerated...

What the fuck’s going on with the Writers Guild of America strike? We don’t know, but it’s on TV like every fucking day. Which is why we thank God for the DVR. Who knew people that write such terrible...

Los Angeles blogger Chanfles says he’s tired of “gabachos” via blogging.la or LAist saying Echo Park and Silver Lake are the eastside of LA. According to him, this is a recent hipster trend that little white children say to...

The LAPD is searching for a couple involved in a lottery scam targeting Spanish-speaking people in predominantly Latino neighborhoods. The man and woman approach their intended victim, all who have been Spanish-speaking women, and ask them to cash in...

Tired of another Wednesday night spent singing into your hairbrush in front of the bathroom mirror? Us either. But we suggest you left coasters check out NaCo Nights in Hollywood anyway. Because people will gossip less if you drink...

Los Angeles’ Petersen Automotive Museum recently opened “La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels,” an exhibit featuring lowrider cars, bikes, photos and other historic memorabilia relating to lowrider culture. Like our virginity? Kidding: Lowering the bodies of old,...

We don’t watch MTV Tr3s because the use of numbers as letters makes us a little trigger happy, but their new series “Karlifornia” seems like it has some potential. In that it can potentially also make us hate the...

El Dia de los Muertos is a Mexican holiday that celebrates the lives and the memory of those who have passed on by spilling Bufi Limon sauce all over your grandmother’s gravesite and eating a human skull made of...

Hey Los Angelenos, want to live inside Britney Spears’ Malibu home? Surprisingly it’s suddenly available to lease for a steal! (Okay, $9 million.) There’s an option to buy in 6 months, but considering the current situation in that area,...

While perusing the Southern California Craigslist “rants & raves” boards in an effort to find out what “the people” are going through during this state of emergency declared by Governor Chacherneggar, we found not everyone is upset by the...

In our minds, L.A. is one loc’d out, “Mad Max” adventure of road rage, asshole parkers and cracked out car jackers. How does a homie protect his ranfla? This dude in South Africa has a take no prisoners answer...

On the internet, everyone’s an expert, but the original experts have been driving around behind the wheels of cars for decades. Like George Carlin said, (and we paraphrase), “When you’re in the car, everyone going slower than you is...

We’ve never heard of this joint, “Junta Hispana,” but luckily blogger Chanfles! in L.A. covered it for us: Happening today at the park as well was this Junta Hispana, some sort of festival that tries to highlight the different...

Looks like a Los Angeles judge finally grew some cojones. Michelle Rodriguez has been spanked with a 180-day jail sentence by a Los Angeles court judge after violating about a trillion different probation statutes. Her negligence ranged from not...

The last time we considered ourselves middle class was when we stayed at the Venetian suites in Las Vegas and drank Glenlevit all day while sucking down oyster shooters that were half off. Now we blog for a living...

We’re always down for great causes, so when we heard that PADRES—a nonprofit organization committed to improving the quality of life for Latino children with cancer and their families—had scheduled it’s Gala for the year, we immediately checked the...

Looks like Morrisey’s come to terms with the fact that he is a beloved deity amongst the brown kids over in SoCal. This video of him wearing a Chivas jersey was captured at a concert in Tijuana. Pretty cool,...

We’ve been scouring the web to find out what people are saying about the recent announcement that Telemundo anchor Mirthala Salinas is not returning to the network. Fortunately for us, a lot of people are still enamored enough with...

It’s been awhile since we wrote about our favorite mayoral mistress Mirthala Salinas. We hadn’t heard too much about the seductress since she was smacked with a two-month suspension by her employer Telemundo for having an affair with her...

Life is hard out there for a day laborer. Until recently workers in towns like Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, had plenty of landscaping and construction jobs to choose from, but lately those jobs offers are being replaced...

• A very scary man analyzes Penelope Cruz’s cousin’s boobs. [Drunken Stepfather] • Cycle nine (what happened to seasons?) of “America’s Next Top Model” premieres tonight and we don’t see any Latinas on the roster. Guess we’re out of...

In its ongoing effort to placate the Hispanic masses, PBS is dedicating tonight’s prime time slot to “Made In L.A.,” a documentary following the turn-of-the-millennium labor rights campaign waged against Forever 21 by Los Angeles nonprofit advocacy group, the...

We haven’t turned into the weather channel or anything, but these are the headlines, people: Los Angeles has been bitching about 100 degree weather all weekend as if this is something to cry about. We have a hard time...

According to LAist, this T-shirt, snapped at last weekend’s Sunset Junction Street Fair in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, contained the cheapest food offer they saw all day. Sunset Junction 2007 Bonus Photo Essay [LAist]...

Excuse the desktop presentation of the above clip, but we figured boardroom scenes from “The Apprentice” don’t need that much definition and dazzle to get across. (Also, bear with our complete ignorance of the show in general and this...

Even though Elvira “Sweet Tee” Arellano’s saga ended with deportation in Los Angeles yesterday, we won’t relish the opportunity to say we told you so. (It was obvious what would happen to the undocumented immigration ‘activist’ when she left...

Jamie Foxx has landed the lead role in “The Soloist,” a movie about the rapport built over the course of twelve newspaper articles between a burnt-out Jiulliard violinist living on the streets of Los Angeles and L.A. Times columnist...