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L.A.'s Flaunt magazine was never known for being free-flowing with its pocketbook -- not, at least, among journalists in town.
Flaunt has featured everyone from Beyonce to Selena Gomez on its covers. But for all its aspirational photo spreads and lu...
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Uber is one of the hottest tech companies around right now. The app-based ride-sharing service has been valued at $3.4 billion or so, and its gross annual revenues alone are projected to be a whopping $1 billion a year.
See also: Ride-Sharing Apps F...
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Could this explain the Bermuda Triangle at the Bell Gardens USPS?
Attention holiday shoppers: The USPS Sorting Facility in Bell Gardens puts the snail back in snail mail. Lost and undelivered packages have inspired frustrated customers to deem it ...
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A man the Village Voice calls "one of the most prolific television hoaxers in U.S. history" was charged today with felony eavesdropping for allegedly making prank job-offer calls to football coaches and capturing his end of the shenanigans on video.
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If a national online real estate broker told you L.A. was the best party house town in the nation, you might yawn. After all, this is the home of the Playboy mansion, many a hillside venue, and this place.
See also: Teens Do $1 Mil in Damage, Steal...
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Blame global warming. Or, if you're not a believer, simply point to the long-term ebb and flow of SoCal's stormy-or-mild winters.
But it's dry out there. And we're not just talking about the recent beach days we've seen in SoCal. (LAX tied 1985's re...
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Ah, the holidays.
Slack off a little, eat up and take a nip from that flask in your bottom drawer. It's the time of year when we appreciate loved ones, colleagues and even 'round-the-way faces just a little more. It's party time.
Beware the pitfall...
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Jordan Belfort dubbed himself The Wolf of Wall Street -- and is now being played by Leonardo DiCaprio in a new film by Martin Scorsese.
These days, Jordan Belfort is flying high again. Not only is the real-life "Wolf of Wall Street" living high on...
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The new Expo line that runs parallel to the 10 freeway from Culver City to Downtown is doing its job by getting some Angelenos out of their cars.
See also: L.A.'s Light-Rail Fiasco.
USC today unveiled a study that concludes that folks who live with...
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Some Santa Monica leaders and neighbors want to shut down the local airport or at least ban the private jets that have turned a small runway into a bustling, noisy destination for Hollywood millionaires and billionaires.
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Peace did not grace this small piece of earth near LAX overnight during a holiday toy drive and party hosted by a Cal State Long Beach fraternity.
Cops responded to a brawl involving as many as 1,000 people at the LAX-adjacent Radisson Hotel, accord...
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Robert Shearin of Manhattan Beach is planning to see Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street when it comes out next week.
But it's not because of the felonies-are-fun billboards or the total-testosterone trailers inviting moviegoers to join Leonar...
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Police might have fatally shot a car-chase suspect over the weekend after at least one cop mistook a fellow officer's actions for unfriendly gunfire.
That, at least, appears to be what Fox 11 News was reporting last night.
Citing an unnamed police...
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A 14-year-old girl riding a bike in Compton was fatally shot over the weekend, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department said.
The teenager was a gang member, cops said. Whoever shot her fled, and there's no good suspect description.
Here's what author...
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The El Chato Taco Truck
Occasionally, L.A. Weekly sees fit to publish stories extolling the virtues of this or that neighborhood. Echo Park is the best, we've heard. Or is it Highland Park? Venice?
Try Mid-City.The oft-maligned but centrally lo...
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The porn industry's L.A.-based trade group announced that production could resume today following an HIV scare that triggered a voluntary moratorium.
See also: Porn Industry to Shut Down After Star Turns up HIV+.
The Free Speech Coalition said in a...
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People on the streets of Capetown and Los Angeles will soon be looking at the same posters created to honor the memory of Nelson Mandela.
This week 4,800 copies of the tribute by L.A. street art laureate Robbie Conal were headed to a township outsid...
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Recessionary times always bring news of California's demise. No longer is the Golden State the hip destination for mobile Americans it once was, the story goes. Not even the undocumented want to come here anymore.
Well, as you're probably aware, tha...
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While the rest of the journalism world has been getting out of the print pool like swimmers in a lightning storm, the corporate owner of the Orange County Register has been diving in with abandon.
Following a 200-person hiring spree, the publication...
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It was one almighty party. There was music, vandalism and even a rare backyard snow leopard. Officials called it a "rave."
But in the end 16 teenagers were arrested for alleged massive party fouls, including breaking into the La Habra Heights mansio...
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