Name	Los Angeles
Official name	City of Los Angeles
Settlement type	City
Nickname	L.A., the City of Angels, the Entertainment Capital of the World
Website	lacity.org
Imagesize	250px
Image seal	Seal of Los Angeles, California.svg
Map caption	Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California
Pushpin map	USA
Pushpin map caption	Location in the United States
Coordinates display	inline,title
Coordinates region	US-CA
Subdivision type	Country
Subdivision name	United States
Subdivision type1	State
Subdivision name1	California
Subdivision type2	County
Subdivision name2	Los Angeles County
Government type	Mayor-Council
Governing body	Los Angeles City Council
Leader title	Mayor
Leader name	Antonio Villaraigosa
Leader title1	City Attorney
Leader name1	Carmen Trutanich
Leader title2	City Controller
Leader name2	Wendy Greuel
Area magnitude	1 E8
Unit pref	Imperial
Area total sq mi	498.3
Area total km2	1290.6
Area land sq mi	469.1
Area land km2	1214.9
Area water sq mi	29.2
Area water km2	75.7
Area water percent	5.8
Population as of	July 1, 2009
Population total	3,833,995
Population note	(2nd US, 45th World)
Population urban	14775000
Area urban km2	4319.9
Area urban sq mi	1667.9
Population metro	15,250,000
Population blank1 title	CSA
Population blank1	17786419
Population blank2 title	Demonym
Population blank2	Angeleno
Population density km2	3168
Population density sq mi	8205
Timezone	PST
Utc offset	-8
Timezone dst	PDT
Utc offset dst	−7
Latns	N
Longew	W
Elevation m	71
Elevation ft	233 (city hall)
Postal code type	ZIP code
Postal code	90001–90068, 90070–90084, 90086–90089, 90091, 90093–90097, 90099, 90101–90103, 90174, 90185, 90189, 90291-90293, 91040–91043, 91303–91308, 91342–91349, 91352–91353, 91356–91357, 91364–91367, 91401–91499, 91601–91609
Area code	213, 310/424, 323, 661, 747/818
Established title	Settled
Established date	September 4, 1781
Established title2	Incorporated
Established date2	April 4, 1850

Los Angeles ( ;

History

, shown here in 1931, was built in 1928 and was the tallest structure in the city until 1964, when height restrictions were removed.]] saw heavy development from the 1980s to 1990s, including the construction of some of the city's tallest skyscrapers.]] The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva (or Gabrieleños) and Chumash Native American tribes thousands of years ago. The first Europeans arrived in 1542 in an expedition organized by the viceroy of New Spain and commanded by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese-born explorer who claimed the area of southern California for the Spanish Empire. However, he continued with his voyage up the coast and did not establish a settlement. The most recent earthquake felt was the 4.4 2010 Pico Rivera earthquake on March 16, 2010. Parts of the city are also vulnerable to Pacific Ocean tsunamis; harbor areas were damaged by waves from the Valdivia earthquake in 1960. Temperatures are subject to substantial daily swings; in inland areas the difference between the average daily low and the average daily high is over 30 °F (17 °C). |date=August 2010 }}

Flora

The Los Angeles area is rich in native plant species due in part to a diversity in habitats, including beaches, wetlands, and mountains. The most prevalent botanical environment is coastal sage scrub, which covers the hillsides in combustible chaparral. Native plants include: California poppy, matilija poppy, toyon, Coast Live Oak, and Giant Wildrye. Many of these native species, such as the Los Angeles sunflower, have become so rare as to be considered endangered. Though they are not native to the area, the official tree of Los Angeles is the Coral Tree (Erythrina caffra) Other significant industries include media production, finance, telecommunications, law, healthcare, and transportation. The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area (CSA) has a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of $831 billion (as of 2008), making it the third largest economic center in the world, after the Greater Tokyo Area and the New York-Newark-Bridgeport CSA. If counted as a country, the surrounding CSA has the 15^th largest economy in the world in terms of nominal GDP. According to the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, "there are more than 1,100 annual theatrical productions and 21 openings every week." The Los Angeles Music Center is one of the three largest performing arts complexes in the nation.

The age distribution was: 26.6% under 18, 11.1% from 18 to 24, 34.1% from 25 to 44, 18.6% from 45 to 64, and 9.7% who were 65 or older. The median age was 32. For every 100 females there were 99.4 males. For every 100 females aged 18 and over, there were 97.5 males.

The median income for a household was $36,687, and for a family was $39,942. Males had a median income of $31,880, females $30,197. The per capita income was $20,671. 22.1% of the population and 18.3% of families were below the poverty line. 30.3% of those under the age of 18 and 12.6% of those aged 65 or older were below the poverty line. Los Angeles has had a high degree of income disparity as compared to the rest of the country. Recently, however, income disparity has declined. The median household income of the wealthiest neighborhood was $207,938, while in the poorest it was $15,003.

Los Angeles is home to people from more than 140 countries speaking 224 different identified languages. Ethnic enclaves like Chinatown, Historic Filipinotown, Koreatown, Little Armenia, Little Ethiopia, Tehrangeles, Little Tokyo, Little Italy, and Thai Town provide examples of the polyglot character of Los Angeles.

Government

The city is governed by a mayor-council system. The current mayor is Antonio Villaraigosa. There are 15 city council districts. Other elected city officials include the City Attorney Carmen Trutanich and the City Controller Wendy Greuel. The city attorney prosecutes misdemeanors within the city limits. The district attorney, elected by county voters, prosecutes misdemeanors in unincorporated areas and in 78 of the 88 cities in the county, as well as felonies throughout the county.

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) polices the city of Los Angeles, but the city also maintains four specialized police agencies; The Office of Public Safety, within the General Services Department (which is responsible for security and law enforcement services at city facilities, including City Hall, city parks and libraries, the Los Angeles Zoo, and the Convention Center), the Port Police, within the Harbor Department (which is responsible for land, air and sea law enforcement services at the Port of Los Angeles), the Los Angeles City Schools Police department which handles law enforcement for all city schools, and the Airport Police, within the Los Angeles World Airports Department (which is responsible for law enforcement services at all four city-owned airports, including Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), LA/Ontario International Airport (ONT), LA/Palmdale Regional Airport (PMD), and Van Nuys Airport (VNY).

Neighborhood councils

in L.A.]] Voters created Neighborhood Councils in the Charter Reform of 1999. First proposed by City Council member Joel Wachs in 1996, they were designed to promote public participation in government and make it more responsive to local needs.

The councils cover districts that are not necessarily identical to the traditional neighborhoods of Los Angeles.

Almost ninety neighborhood councils (NCs) are certified and all "stakeholders"—meaning anyone who lives, works or owns property in a neighborhood—may vote for members of the councils' governing bodies. Some council bylaws allow other people with a stake in the community to cast ballots as well.

The councils are official government bodies and so their governing bodies and committees must abide by California's Brown Act, which governs the meetings of deliberative assemblies.

The first notable concern of the neighborhood councils collectively was the opposition by some of them in March 2004 to an 18% increase in water rates by the city's Department of Water and Power. This led the City Council to approve only a limited increase pending independent review. More recently, some of the councils petitioned the City Council in summer 2006 to allow them to introduce ideas for legislative action, but the City Council put off a decision.

The neighborhood councils have been allocated $45,000 each per year for administration, outreach and approved neighborhood projects.

Crime and safety

during May Day 2006 in front of the new Caltrans District 7 Headquarters]] Los Angeles has been experiencing significant decline in crime since the mid-1990s, and reached a 50-year low in 2009 with 314 homicides. Antonio Villaraigosa is a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition.

In 2009, Los Angeles reported 314 homicides, which corresponds to a rate of 7.85 (per 100,000 population)—a major decrease from 1993, when the all time homicide rate of over 21.1 (per 100,000 population) was reported for the year. This included 15 officer-involved shootings. One shooting led to the death of a SWAT team member, Randal Simmons, the first in LAPD's history.

Organized crime

The Los Angeles crime family dominated organized crime in the city during the Prohibition era and reached its peak during the 1940s and 1950s as part of the American Mafia but has gradually declined since then with the rise of various black and Hispanic gangs.

According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the city is home to 26,000 gang members, organized into 250 gangs. Among them are the Crips, Bloods, Hoovers, Sureños, Maravilla, 18th Street, Mara Salvatrucha, and Asian street gangs. This has led to the city being referred to as the "Gang Capital of America".

Sister cities

points to the sister cities of Los Angeles]] Los Angeles has 25 sister cities, listed chronologically by year joined: Eilat, Israel (1959) Nagoya, Japan (1959) Salvador, Brazil (1962) Bordeaux, France (1964) Berlin, Germany (1967) Lusaka, Zambia (1968) Mexico City, Mexico (1969) Auckland City, New Zealand (1971) Busan, South Korea (1971) Mumbai, India (1972) Tehran, Iran (1972) Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China (1979) Guangzhou, People's Republic of China (1981) Athens, Greece (1984) Saint Petersburg, Russia (1984) Vancouver, Canada (1986) Giza, Egypt (1989) Jakarta, Indonesia (1990) Kaunas, Lithuania (1991) Makati, Philippines (1992) Split, Croatia (1993) San Salvador, El Salvador (2005) Beirut, Lebanon (2006) Ischia, Italy (2006) Yerevan, Armenia (2007)

Los Angeles also has a cultural exchange partnership with Tel Aviv, Israel.

London and Manchester, United Kingdom, and Łódź, Poland are "friendship cities".

See also

1992 Los Angeles riots

East Los Angeles (region)

Largest cities in the Americas

Largest cities in Southern California

List of people from Los Angeles

List of tallest buildings in Los Angeles

Los Angeles in popular culture

References

Further reading

Allen J. Scott and Edward W Soja (1996) "The City: Los Angeles and Urban Tjheory at the End of the Twentieth Century," Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press

Reyner Banham, Los Angeles: The Architecture of the Four Ecologies, University of California Press, 1971.

Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Vintage Books, 1992

Robert M. Fogelson, The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles 1850–1930, University of California Press, 1967

Lynell George, No Crystal Stair: African Americans in the City of Angels, Verso, 1992

Paul Glover, "Los Angeles: A History of the Future", Eco-Home Press, 1989

Norman M. Klein, The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory, Verso, 1997

Torin Monahan, , City & Society XIV (2): 155–184, 2002

Leonard Pitt & Dale Pitt, Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County, University of California Press, 2000

Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water, Penguin Books, 1986.

Peter Theroux, Translating LA: A Tour of the Rainbow City, Norton, 1994

David L. Ulin (ed), Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology, Library of America, 2002

Richard White, It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West, University of Oklahoma Press, 1991

External links

City of Los Angeles Official Website

ExperienceLA.com

Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce

Los Angeles Convention & Visitors Bureau

Los Angeles magazine

Los Angeles website

Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils

Los Angeles Online Magazine LA2day

Historic Bridges of Los Angeles County

Los Angeles Then and Now – slideshow by Life magazine

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Name	Black Francis
Landscape	yes
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IVBoston, Massachusetts He is best known as the frontman of the influential alternative rock band Pixies, with whom he performs under the stage name Black Francis.
Name	Thompson, Charles Michael Kittridge, IV
Alternative names	Black, Frank; Francis, Black
Short description	Alternative rock musician
Date of birth	April 6, 1965
Place of birth	Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Category:1965 births Category:4AD artists Category:American male singers Category:American rock singers Category:American rock guitarists Category:Songwriters from Massachusetts Category:Living people Category:Pixies (band) members Category:Pigface members Category:People from Boston, Massachusetts Category:Musicians from Massachusetts Category:Musicians from Oregon Category:People from Eugene, Oregon Category:People from Portland, Oregon Category:University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni Category:American alternative rock musicians

:This article is about the musical group. For The Simpsons reference, see List of fictional characters within The Simpsons#Malibu Stacy. Malibu Stacy is a Belgian band from Visé (between Liège and Maastricht).

Their style, difficult to define clearly, lies between power-pop and rock, and is sometimes describe as being some kind of pop-punk.

Members

David de Froidmont (Dave) : singer

Michaël Goffard (Miike or Mickey) : guitar

Salvio La Delfa : drums

David Halleux (Dave Ash) : guitar

Jérôme Gierkens (J) : keyboard

Christophe Levaux (Paulie Lee) : bass guitar

Former members :

Sebastien Peters : drums (2003 - 2004)

Jean-Christophe Olivier : bass guitar (2003 - 2005)

Biography

The band started in 2003 from the now disappeared Cash Converters, with the aim to take part to the Belgian music competition Concours Circuit, lead by the organization Court-Circuit (between others, the band Sharko and Hollywood Porn Stars were prize winners of this competition). Malibu Stacy won the final in November 2004 in the Brussels venue Le Botanique.

Following this, the band got a contract with the indie label 62TV Records. At this time, they recorded their second try (the first one being a self-produced demo consisting of 3 songs written in 2004), an EP of 5 titles produced in 2005, and then quickly, their first album entitled G, recorded in Italy under the direction of Francesco Donadello, and out in 2006.

After several other concerts during the winter 2007, Malibu Stacy moved to New York City in April 2008, in the Headgear studio to record a second EP entitled Marathon, out in September of the same year.

Their song "Los Angeles" stands on the FIFA 07 video game.

Discography

2004 : Self-produced demo

# Peniche Praia # Grasshopper Green # Christmas

2005 : EP

# Sh Sh # Peniche Praia # Grasshopper Green # Sex In Malibu # Morning Trouble (In A Coffee Cup)

2006 : G (album)

# Intro # Killing All The Young Gods # Come On Commons # Los Angeles # The Fever # Saturday Night Fisher # Sex In Malibu # Soda Pop # Sh Sh # VHF UHF # Runaways # Feck This (1985) # I-Naked

2008 : Marathon

# Hotel de Police # I Was Spartacus # Ladies Can't Drive # Bonadona # Join The Glenwood Army # Flashdance # Troublemakers # Maria # Older Bolder (and stuff like that...) # Duck and Cover # Black Shoes # White Teeth

External links

Official site of Malibu Stacy

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Name	Arlo Guthrie
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Bob
Birth date	July 10, 1947
Birth place	Coney Island, New York, U.S.
Instrument	guitarharmonicapiano
Genre	Folk, blues
Occupation	Singer-songwriter
Years active	1967–present
Label	Rising Son Records
Associated acts	ShenandoahPete Seeger
Url	Official Website

Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American folk singer.

Despite its popularity, the song is not always featured on the set list of any given performance.

Popular and critical reception

In 1972 Guthrie made famous Steve Goodman's song "City of New Orleans", a paean to long-distance passenger rail travel. Guthrie's first trip on that train was in December 2005 (when his family joined other musicians on a train trip across the country to raise money for musicians financially devastated by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, in the South of the United States). He also had a minor hit with his song "Coming into Los Angeles," which was played at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, and success with a live version of "The Motorcycle Song." Guthrie's 1976 album Amigo received a 5-star (highest rating) from Rolling Stone, and may be his best-received work; unfortunately that milestone album, like Guthrie's earlier Warner Brothers albums, is rarely heard today even though each boasts compelling folk and folk rock music accompanied by top-notch musicians such as Ry Cooder.

Shenandoah

In the fall of 1975 during a benefit concert in Massachusetts, Arlo Guthrie performed with his band Shenandoah in public for the first time. They continued to tour and record throughout the 1970s until the early 1990s. Although the band received good reviews, it never gained the popularity that Guthrie did while playing solo. They did play many of Guthrie's most famous songs, which were most requested. By this time, Guthrie had developed his own sound in versions of "talking blues" songs. A number of musicians from a variety of genres have joined Guthrie on stage, including Pete Seeger, David Bromberg, Cyril Neville, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Judy Collins, Wesley Gray, Josh Ritter, and others.

Acting

Though Guthrie is best known for being a musician, singer, and composer, throughout the years he has also appeared as an actor in films and on television. The film Alice's Restaurant (1969) is his best known role, but he has had small parts in several films and even co-starred in a television drama, Byrds of Paradise.

Politics

Guthrie endorsed Texas Congressman Ron Paul for the 2008 Republican Party nomination. He said, "I love this guy. Dr. Paul is the only candidate I know of who would have signed the Constitution of the United States had he been there. I'm with him, because he seems to be the only candidate who actually believes it has as much relevance today as it did a couple of hundred years ago. I look forward to the day when we can work out the differences we have with the same revolutionary vision and enthusiasm that is our American legacy."

Select filmography

Alice's Restaurant (1969)

Renaldo and Clara (1978)

Baby's Storytime (1989)

Roadside Prophets (1992)

Notable television guest appearances

Beat Club (episode # 1.52) February 28, 1970

Byrds of Night Club Massacree (1994)

Relativity Nuclear December 29, 1996

Renegade Bomb Shell in episode: "Top Ten with a Bullet" (episode # 5.14) January 24, 1997

The tenth season of "The Muppet- Pupptt Dupe Show".

Film and television composer

Alice's Restaurant (1969) (song "The Alice's Restaurant Massacree")

Woodstock (1970) (song "Coming Into Los Angeles" - the song heard on the movie's soundtrack was not played in Woodstock, but is a recording of a previous live presentation)

Clay Pigeon (1971) also known as Trip to Kill (UK)

Baby's Storytime (1989)

Producer

Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal (2004)

Writer

Mooses Come Walking (2004) (Children's Book)

In Fiction

Arlo Guthrie is mentioned in Tim Winton's novel The Riders - shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1995. A character in the novel overhears locals in the small Irish town of Shinrone, recount the night Arlo Guthrie came to play. The actual event occurred in February 1988, when Arlo played the local gymnasium in Shinrone, County Offaly. The concert was organised by a local postman, Tom Stapleton.

Appearances as himself

Hylands hörna (episode # 4.4) January 31, 1970

Woodstock (1969) (also known as Woodstock 25th Anniversary Edition and as Woodstock, 3 Days of Peace & Music)

The Dick Cavett Show September 8, 1970

Arthur Penn 1922-: Themes and Variants (1970) (TV)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson playing "Himself" August 17, 1972

The Muppet Show (episode # 4.8) June 19, 1979

The Weavers: (1982)

Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin' (1984)

Farm Aid '87 (1987) (TV)

A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly (1988)

Woodstock: The Lost Performances (1990)

Woodstock Diary (1994) (TV)

The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1994) (TV)

The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 6 (1995) (TV) (also known as My Generation)

This Land Is Your Land: The Animated Kids' Songs of Woody Guthrie (1997)

Healthy Kids (1998) (TV series)

The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack (2000)

Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955–1970) (2000) (TV)

Last Party 2000 (2001) (also known as The Party's Over)

Pops Goes the Fourth! (July 4, 2001)

NPR's Talk of the Nation radio broadcast (Nov. 14, 2001)

*St. James Infirmary and The City Of New Orleans

Singing in the Shadow: The Children of Rock Royalty (2003)

Get Up, Stand Up (2003) (TV series)

From Wharf Rats to the Lords of the Docks (2004)

Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal (2004)

1968 with Tom Brokaw (2007)

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (2008) (American Masters PBS TV special)

References

Lee, Laura, Arlo, Alice & Anglicans: The Lives of a New England Church (Berkshire House Publishers, 2000; W.W. Norton, 2000 paperback ISBN 1-58157-010-4)

Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities' Mass Moments: "Arlo Guthrie Convicted of Littering," November 28, 1965"

"Youths Ordered to Clean Up Rubbish Mess": contemporaneous news article reprinted in This is the Arlo Guthrie Songbook p. 39 (offline)

Footnotes

External links

Official Website

Arlo Guthrie's Rising Son Records

Audio 2007 Interview on the Horace J. Digby Report, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Audio from April 2007 interview

The Guthrie Center

World Music Central "Arlo Guthrie"

YouTube video of Alice's Restaurant

YouTube video of the Motorcycle Song

Clark Center Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 7:30pm

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