LA CityBeat was available every Thursday at more than 1,500 distribution locations throughout the Los Angeles area, with an initial circulation of 100,000 (dropping to 65,000 in its final year).
Southland Publishing, which published a group of newsweeklies that covered counties, cities and neighborhoods in Greater Los Angeles – the "Southland" – also owned Valley Business Printers in the neighborhood of Sylmar, Los Angeles.
[3] Other unanimous membership votes have included New York City's The Village Voice and Halifax's The Coast.
Graphic artists who contributed regularly included Jordan Crane, Tony Millionaire, Ted Rall, and Brian Stauffer.
Photographer Gary Leonard's "Take My Picture" (a long-running photo feature that originally debuted in Los Angeles Reader and then New Times LA) appeared weekly in LA CityBeat for more than five years.