| | | How the Hollywood Fault Made Millennium's Future Uncertain, and L.A. a Laughingstock BY GRACIE ZHENG  The Los Angeles City Council rushed through its approval of the Millennium skyscrapers in Hollywood amidst fiery opposition, ignoring an unusual warning from California's top geologist that a major earthquake fault study had to be undertaken before permits could legally be issued. Now, other killer fault–riddled California cities are marveling at the blunder that has prompted Hollywood residents to sue the city of L.A. and Millennium Hollywood LLC for knowingly planning 35- and 39-story towers atop a suspected "rupture fault" capable of opening the Earth, splitting buildings in half — and causing massive death. The Hayward Fault runs 50 miles through the East Bay, near the Oakla... more >>
| | | | | | Dom Kennedy: Reluctant Businessman BY KRIS EX  It's the last Friday in August and rapper Dom Kennedy's Other People's Money camp is throwing a promotional party at Little Tokyo's RIF consignment store; the suffocatingly hot half that's been cleared of merchandise is serving as a VIP area for the night. Outside are food trucks, and slinking around the corner a line that will barely let up over two hours. Inside is a mix of selfie-ready Tumblr ... more >> | | | | | | Bucato Review: Evan Funke's Helms Bakery Restaurant Triumphs BY BESHA RODELL  Is there a bread in the world more abused than focaccia? Spongy, leaden, heavily oily versions plague everything from fast-food menus to high-end restaurant bread baskets. Yes, the world is full of pitiful, floppy baguettes, and shameful sourdoughs crowd our supermarket shelves. But focaccia is one of those sad instances where the bad version has actually won — there's so much of it out the... more >> | | | | | | Rush Is Something Rare: An Action Movie for Grown-Ups BY STEPHANIE ZACHAREK  It's 1976, a year when all the groovy girls are traipsing around in tiny suede skirts and all the cool guys have Badfinger hair. One of those guys was English racing car driver James Hunt, the charismatic rapscallion who won that year's Formula 1 World Championship — the embroidered badge on his driving suit read "Sex, the Breakfast of Champions." His nemesis, Austrian-born Niki Lauda, was ... more >> | | | | | | | | The Informer Update: The LAPD today said only that "Choi has returned home to her family." First posted at 8:06 a.m. Tuesday. Headline has changed. Cops this week were searching for a missing Koreatown teena... West Coast Sound Did you know that there are people out there -- kids, mostly -- who can't tell Pearl Jam and Hootie and the Blowfish apart? No, seriously, we've witnessed it with our own eyes. ... Public Spectacle Thursday night at Central Library's auditorium, Ken Brecher spoke lyrically about the time "when Grand Avenue came to life" and "contemporary artists were celebrated for what they told us" about... Squid Ink Eat24, the food delivery app, is very, very proud of itself. Why? Because they figured out that Americans like porn. The app's marketing team is making a big deal of the fact that they are now... | | | | | | | | | | | | | Coupons >> |
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