AltWeeklies Wire
Zen and the Art of Cougar Huntingnew
They practice picking up young men at the grocery store, these older women who have never been married, or whose husbands have left them for younger stock, or whose soul mates have died of heart attacks or in car accidents. On a balmy Thursday at a hotel in Pasadena, life coach Zen Kern, simply Zen to his clients, instructs the ladies in his Cougar Class to pretend they've just spotted a cute guy contemplating the cereal at Ralphs.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
07-07-2008 |
Culture
Tags: Los Angeles, dating, Sex, cougars, relationships, older women, cougar class, life coaches, Zen Kern
The Death of Raven, a Hollywood Beautynew
LA's noir streets made her the star of her own tragedy, then took it all away.
L.A. Weekly |
Christine Pelisek |
06-20-2008 |
Culture
Sunny and Mild: Getting to Know L.A.'s TV Weather Friendsnew
Few of us realize that a tremendous amount of both science and communication skills goes into forecasting the weather.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
06-13-2008 |
Media
Brendan Mullen Revisits the Burn-hot, Burn-fast Punk Life of L.A.new
As he did in his earlier books, We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk and Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs, Mullen documents, with hundreds of photos and fliers and memento mori, the history of the Masque.
Willamette Week |
Nancy Rommelmann |
05-28-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
L.A. Underground vs. the Copsnew
The LAPD has been leaning on the downtown party scene hard this year, with several recent events raided on unknown or specious pretexts. The latest casualty was Phoenix Projekt's pyrokinetic party.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Ron Garmon |
05-16-2008 |
Music
Here Comes Hollywood's First-Ever Mega-Skyscrapernew
A community thrown into shadow and vistas of the Hollywood sign could be destroyed.
L.A. Weekly |
Patrick Range McDonald |
05-02-2008 |
Housing & Development
4,000 Illegal Billboards Choke L.A.'s Neighborhoodsnew
The mayor and Los Angeles City Council have let the billboard industry flout the law -- in this case, a flat-out 2002 ban on new billboards -- so openly that activists in other big cities laugh out loud when they hear the latest tales.
L.A. Weekly |
Christine Pelisek |
04-25-2008 |
Media
CBS and Clear Channel Lose Billboard Secrecy Bidnew
The judge says L.A.'s thousands of billboards are hardly a "trade secret."
L.A. Weekly |
Christine Pelisek |
04-04-2008 |
Media
Ailene is 11 and Homelessnew
Where will she and 13,000 others go to school today?
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Matthew Mundy |
04-04-2008 |
Children & Families
L.A.'s Transit Crisisnew
How hard should it be for politicians to ask Angelenos to pay for a world-class transportation system?
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Alan Mittelstaedt |
01-18-2008 |
Transportation
The Secret Sins of Father Kelly at Our Lady of Guadalupenew
The Catholic Church has been embroiled in sex-abuse scandals for more than a decade, and July's $660 million settlement by the Los Angeles Archdiocese brought legal closure, if not spiritual consolation, to Father Matthew Kelly's victims.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Nick Welsh |
09-11-2007 |
Religion
Drivers Seek Support for Clean Trucks Programnew
The program calls for the ports to replace or retrofit all trucks older than 1994 models, and would require trucking companies to make employees of all 16,000 drivers working in the Long Beach and Los Angeles ports.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Daniel Harju |
08-17-2007 |
Business & Labor
Resisting Reformnew
A judge extends federal oversight over the LAPD for three more years, but the department shows little willingness to change.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Tom Hayden |
06-16-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Detroit Leaningnew
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's plan to take over the county’s public schools might be more complicated than it seems.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Ryder Palmere |
04-14-2006 |
Education
Roses Are Greennew
Money talks -- loudly -- when it comes to the Rose Bowl, but those who gave the most to the NFL ballot bid remain secret.
Pasadena Weekly |
Joe Piasecki |
04-14-2006 |
Sports
