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The real ping pong champion — and hustler — who inspired 'Marty Supreme' | LAist
2+ hour, 10+ min ago (908+ words) His game was electric. "Marty had a trigger in his thumb. He hit bullets. You could lose your eyebrows playing with him," someone identified only as "the shirt king" told author Jerome Charyn for his book Sizzling Chops and Devilish…...
Huntington Beach city councilmember files defamation lawsuit against school board president | LAist
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (341+ words) Huntington Beach City Councilmember Butch Twining has sued Ocean View School District President Gina Clayton-Tarvin for what he alleges is a "sustained and coordinated campaign to publicly brand" him as "a white supremacist and extremist." In the lawsuit, lawyers for…...
Justice Department releases more Epstein files and some mention Trump
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (450+ words) The Justice Department released a new batch of files Tuesday related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein which contain hundreds of references to President Donald Trump. Congress required the Justice Department to make all files available by last Friday. The…...
Immigrants now have fewer legal options to stay in the US under Trump
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (1233+ words) More than 1.6 million immigrants have lost their legal status in the first 11 months of President Trump's presidency. The staggering number includes people who applied for and were accepted to come to the country on a wide variety of immigration parole,…...
Trades worker union says CSU backtracked on contract, authorizes strike
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (268+ words) Teamsters Local 2010, which represents trade workers across the Cal State University system, last week approved a strike if negotiations with management continue to stall. The union says the system has reneged on paying previously agreed upon contractual raises and salary…...
How we investigated Los Angeles street takeovers
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (522+ words) What resulted was the most comprehensive reporting yet on street takeovers in Los Angeles. The two spreadsheets we worked out of gave us two distinct views of the street takeover landscape. The social media dataset featured short clips of takeovers…...
LA has a lot of great museums. Don't sleep on Norton Simon, Pasadena’s art gem
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (928+ words) There's a reason L.A. has so many art masterpieces in various museums: the region had a lot of industrialists and bankers in the 20th century who used some of their wealth to build large art collections. The Norton Simon is a prime…...
Holiday scams
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (1788+ words) Why it matters: Common schemes included fake shipping notifications, stolen packages and fake charity and donation requests. It's easy to lose our critical thinking skills around the holidays. In a frenzy of last-minute gift shopping and travel bookings, we can…...
Judge blocks HUD homelessness overhaul, rebukes agency for causing 'chaos"
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (747+ words) The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development cannot impose dramatically different conditions for homelessness programs for now,according to an oral ruling Friday by U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy in Rhode Island. McElroy granted a preliminary injunction to a group of…...
Love Hotel Café’s famous alley location? It's closing next year
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (776+ words) Walking down an alley in Hollywood might not be the typical way to watch a live show, but at the Hotel Caf" on Cahuenga Boulevard, it's what music lovers have done for 25 years. It's a storied music venue that's been…...