In February L.A. Weekly was on set for the making of the music video for Definitive Jux rapper Chris “Cage” Palko's newest single, “I Never Kne
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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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Today jurors in Phil Spector's murder trial got the case and began deliberations, after six months of testimony. Actually, for a while this week it seemed as tho
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For some of us, he was the embodiment of cool. The way he crawled, the way he climbed the speaker cabinets like a panther, the way that Poison Ivy, his wife and co
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A Merry Garvey Xmas!
The hair! The profiles! The collars! Cyndy and Steve Garvey capture the Los Angeles zeitgeist, circa 1974. They're seen here with daught
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Before you turn in tonight, check out this video from the Courage Campaign portraying Governor Schwarzenegger as as a budget-slashing Scrooge. It's not a spot
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The murder shocked the conscience of a crime-scarred community.
The arrest of two suspects showed the far-reaching influence of a notorious street gang.
But revelati
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The answer to the question, Is Bernard Madoff good for the Jews? has become painfully obvious during the past week as Jewish charities and individuals take stock of
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Over the next two weeks, myself and a very talented cadre of contributors will be emulating the book above. Unlike said tome, it won't cost money and you'
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The day before Thanksgiving, Zuma Dogg, an outspoken community activist who has a comedian’s sense of the absurd, stands in the far back of the thinly attended Cit
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IN 2006 THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES posted an announcement in the tiny Metropolitan News-Enterprise paper. It proclaimed that anyone who wished to fight the transfer of
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It doesn’t exactly seem like yesterday afternoon but pretty close to it, when I stood in an LAX cocktail lounge that erupted in cheers as jurors in O.J. Simpson’
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