South Los Angeles recently implemented a ban on new fast food restaurants in an effort to quell obesity, especially in lower-income areas. However, one study says the ban won’t likely help South Angelenos drop inches from their waists or bacon-wrapped pork skins from their lips.
6 October 2009
New Fast Food Restaurant Ban In South Los Angeles Won’t End Obesity, Says Ronald McDonald
By Alex Alvarez at 1:20 PM.
18 September 2009
Jesus Catalan Sought In Murder Of LA Transgender Paulina Ibarra
By Cindy Casares at 1:29 PM.
Los Angeles police have named Jesus Catalan as a person of interest in the murder case of transgender woman Paulina Ibarra.
3 September 2009
7 August 2009
What Sort Of DEMON PEOPLE Rob Taco Trucks?
By Alex Alvarez at 5:31 PM.
East LA has been tragically torn asunder by a recent spree of taco truck robberies. At least 22 taco vendors have reported being robbed at gunpoint by a tagging crew.
7 July 2009
On LA’s Biggest Media Day EVER, Whither Antonio Villaraigosa?
By Cindy Casares at 3:15 PM.
The city of Los Angeles would love it if you gave some money to help pay for Michael Jackson’s Magical Mystery Funeral, but don’t ehspect the mayor to ask you himself. He’s in Africa. Presumably doing something more exotic. Perhaps little Ms. Lu Parker?
9 June 2009
Latino Politicians Have It Harder
By Cindy Casares at 3:00 PM.
Los Angeles is pissed off at their mayor Antonio Villaraigosa–with good reason–but does his ethnicity give them the right to be extra pissed?
2 June 2009
Lu Parker In Seven Revealing YouTube Videos
By Cindy Casares at 4:58 PM.
Now that the news is out about Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s second newscaster girlfriend, Lu Parker, it behooves us to ask who the hell she is. And what–besides her microphone– does she have that makes the Mayor go ring-a-ding?
20 May 2009
Los Angeles Suggests Finding Out If Your Child Is Likely To Be A Gang Member By Asking Him If He’s Ever Been In A Gang
By Alex Alvarez at 3:00 PM.
Social psychologist Malcolm Klein has developed a comprehensive quiz aimed at helping parents determine whether their little terrors will grow up to be vicious gang members. Among the 70 questions on Klein’s list is “Have you… Been a member of a gang?”
18 May 2009
16 March 2009
13 March 2009
Designer Raquel Allegra Brings Her Distressed, Jailbird T-Shirts To LA Fashion Week
By Alex Alvarez at 4:51 PM.
Designer Raquel Allegra’s comfy t-shirts and dresses are being featured in LA Fashion Week. Raquel’s clothes are unique not only because they seem really, really wearable, they’re also green. Her distressed, ruched and slashed tops are made from recycled LA County prison t-shirts. Nice!
6 February 2009
Rapist Hired Twice At Same Clinic, Management Struggles To Explain
By Camilla Rowan at 1:30 PM.
Gariner Beasley was fired from his job at an East L.A. health clinic after his employers learned that he was a convicted rapist and former LAPD officer who had committed his crimes by abusing the authority of his position, no less. Then they re-hired him.
