Leif Garrett's arrest for drug possession Monday morning at the
Metrolink station in downtown Los Angeles is a good excuse as any to revisit Dave Wielenga's great 1999 article, “Shakin' Like a Leif: Kicking Smack With Leif Garrett.”
What's the deal is with the 48-year-old former teen idol and commuter trains? He was arrested for possession of
heroin and Quaaludes while riding a Metro Red Line train
in LA without a ticket in 2006.
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.