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February 18, 2013
Now Open: Cafecito Organico in Burbank
It's not too often that a locally-owned, independent coffee roaster manages to take over a space formerly inhabited by a giant corporate franchise, but such was the case when L.A.-based Cafecito Organico opened up its sixth Southern California location Thursday in what used to be a Starbucks in Burb ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2013
Burbank Moves To Ban Dog, Cat Sales At Retail Shops
The city of Burbank appears to be joining the movement against retail pet sales. The local City Council gave its initial approval this week to a ban that would cover the retail sale of dogs and cats. The aim, of course, is to prohibit ...
Blogs
January 17, 2013
Draft Magazine Names America's Best Beer Bars
Draft Magazine has put out its list of the country's 100 best beer bars, and Los Angeles has six spots on the list (if you include Burbank).
Blogs
January 8, 2013
Your iPhone Food App of the Day: Rocio's Mole de los Dioses
For those of us who have spent WAY too much time lost near the Burbank airport, driving down one street or another in the concrete tangle of one-way streets chasing Bob Hope's ghost, searching, often in vain, for Rocio Camacho's latest mole palace and maybe a stack of bright green tortillas made in ... More >>
Blogs
December 17, 2012
Massage Girl Steals iPad, Laptop From Guy In Burbank Hotel Room When He Turns His Back
After a guy got his iPad Mini and MacBook Pro laptop stolen by a massage girl he called to his hotel room, Burbank police are warning folks to use only reputable masseuses. Um. Yeah. We have out doubts that the "victim" was searching for a real legit muscle-stroker at 4 o'clock in the morning. (Or ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2012
Lee Morris, Pilot Whose Body Was Found Near Burbank Freeway, Died Of Heart Attack
The investigation into the strange death of Lee Morris, an Alaska Airlines pilot whose freeway-adjacent body was found during a layover in Burbank in October, is today a closed case, police said. The L.A. County Coroner's office says he died of natural causes, Burbank police announced today. Corone ... More >>
Blogs
October 10, 2012
Topless Maids Van Goes Viral Via Ellen DeGeneres; Sami Ammari Defends Eyesores
A "topless maid" service has been under fire for advertising its business on hot pink vans in Los Angeles and Burbank. But with headlines galore and even a bit on The Ellen DeGeneres Show with Matthew Perry this week, the operators appear to be laughing all the way to the bank. A rep for the serv ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2012
Lee Morris: Body of Alaska Airlines Pilot Discovered Near 5 Freeway in Burbank
Updated at the bottom with the coroner's initial thoughts (hint: no foul play is suspected yet ... ). First posted at 12:22 p.m. Wednesday. Burbank police had a mystery on their hands after the body of an Alaska Airlines pilot in town on layover was found next to a freeway offramp. There are no "o ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2012
Old Lady Pepper Sprayed in Face at Burbank Metrolink Station; A-Hole Sought
A grandmotherly old woman was pepper sprayed in the face this week as she waited for a Metrolink train to take her to work, police said. A man in his 50s walked up to the 73-year-old, said something "unintelligible," then started spraying, Burbank police Sgt. Darin Ryburn told the Weekly. The winn ... More >>
Blogs
July 31, 2012
Stephan Ivans, FBI Agent, Might Have Been Found Dead in Burbank
The body of an FBI agent feared to be suicidal appears to have been found in the foothills above Burbank, police said this morning. Stephan Ivans was a 35-year-old L.A.-based lawman said to be despondent when he went for a walk in the Verdugo Mountains in spring. KNX 1070 Newsradio reported that a ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2012
8 Craft Beer Bars in the San Fernando Valley Happy Hour Specials
The glorious San Fernando Valley. Spatially vast, heavily populated, and wildly lacking in proper places to drink. Or so we thought. Today, it's time to put your ignorance to bed and minimize the attitude long enough to see the truth -- that from Burbank to Agoura Hills you can always find a decent ... More >>
Blogs
May 23, 2012
Otto Jensen, Legendary 101-Year-Old Burbank Photographer, Killed While Crossing Street
Updated on Page 2: Jensen, a former Danish boxer, meets Manny Pacquiao. A living piece of Burbank history was killed while crossing Olive Avenue around 8:15 p.m. last night. Otto Jensen, who was still running his nearby photography studio at the ripe age of 101 years old, has shot everything from ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2012
Stephen Ivans, FBI Agent, Goes Missing With Gun in Verdugo Mountains
FBI special agent Stephen Ivans went off the reservation, gun in-hand, prompting a massive search for him in the Verdugo Mountains east of Burbank over the weekend. Authorities fear he's suicidal. What's more he's an avid hiker who knows the area well. According to a statement from the Burbank p ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2012
Valentine Comes Early for Wife Who Gets $1 Million Winning Scratchers Lottery Ticket From Burbank Hubby
Awwww. We think. After a million-dollar lottery winner realized his fortune he called his wife. She ordered him home ASAP. This was spun as a pre-Valentine's Day love story by the California Lottery folks. But we think it sounds a little like he's-scared-of-his-better-half coercion:
Blogs
January 30, 2012
Gun-Wielding 10-Year-Old Arrested After Scaring Wits Out of Burbank Grandma, Telling Her 'You Suck' -- Police
Colt semiautomatic.Bad boy. Allegedly. Police say a 10-year-old went to a rival's home to threaten him after he got into a fight with the door-knocker's friend. Except a grandmother answered. And she got a eye full of what appeared to be a real, Colt semiautomatic handgun, Burbank police tol ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2011
Smart Meter Resistance Spreads to SoCal: Are New Wireless Meters Spying on You, Making You Sick?
Burbank ACTIONOver 100 worried residents packed into the disco-themed ballroom of Moose Lodge in Glendale last night -- summoned by a growing base of health, privacy and consumer advocates lashing out against California's sketchy new method of measuring household energy use. The new wireless ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Here's Tasting You, Burbank
Burbank ACTIONOver 100 worried residents packed into the disco-themed ballroom of Moose Lodge in Glendale last night -- summoned by a growing base of health, privacy and consumer advocates lashing out against California's sketchy new method of measuring household energy use. The new wireless ... More >>
Blogs
September 6, 2011
Wal-Mart Plans to Sneak 15 New Stores Into SoCal, Including Burbank, via Permit Loophole
"No Wal Mart in Burbank" via FacebookTry as it might, looks like L.A. County can't keep scandalously low Wal-Mart prices out of its strip malls forever. After almost a decade of resistance from local governments and small businesses throughout California, Wal-Mart has found a loophole in the ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2011
Briefcase Filled With $20K Stolen From Burbank Home by Fake FBI Agents in Ski Masks
Really?Early this morning, just after midnight, a home-invasion robbery to make Steven Soderbergh proud went down near Burbank's Debell Golf Club, in a super lavish slice of suburbia: Three dudes outfitted in ski masks -- and gloves, and guns, and FBI badges, because they just that Hollywood ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2011
Carmageddon: Bicycle Crew Wolfpack Hustle Plans to Race JetBlue Flight From Burbank to Long Beach
wolfpackhustle.comWolfpack Hustle.Update: Yo! Venice! reports that Wolfpack won with a speed of about 24.8 miles per hour and a time of one hour, 34 minutes. (We assume this includes boarding and taxiing for JetBlue). Twitter users who followed the race also claim that a rollerblader who app ... More >>
Blogs
July 13, 2011
[Updated With $4 JetBlue Flights!] Carmageddon Countdown: Fly Over Empty 405 Freeway on $400 Helicopter Tour, or $150 Air-Taxi Alternative
Executive HeliSharesEven cooler without the cars.Updated after the jump: JetBlue just announced it'll be offering $4 flights between the Long Beach and Burbank airports on Saturday. Yes, $4. Originally posted July 12 at 4 p.m. Only in Los Angeles (hate that saying, but it's true) would an e ... More >>
Blogs
July 13, 2011
RIP: Influential Guitar Maker Travis Bean Is Dead
Guitarmaker Travis Bean died earlier this week at his home in Burbank. His guitars were played by everyone from Jerry Garcia to Steve Albini to Slash, and were known for their sustain and durability. You just can't break one of them. Born in San Fernando, his eponymous Valley-based company was fo ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2011
Underage Drinking Ends Burbank High School Baseball Program For Year; Police Said to Be Looking Into Teens' Spring Break Partying
Burroughs High School.A young assistant coach at a Burbank high school allegedly gave some of his baseball players beer during a spring break team trip to Arizona. Now he's out of a job, along with two other assistants and the head coach at Burroughs High School. Not only that, but the rest ... More >>
Blogs
February 27, 2011
Snow in Los Angeles: Burbank, Universal City See Flurries (Photos)
bowtothecrownSnow in Burbank.Updated after the jump: There seems to be some debate about whether the white stuff is snow or "graupel." Snow in Los Angeles? Looks like it. The National Weather Service told us there was an outside chance as the snow level for metro L.A. fell to 1,500 Saturday. ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2011
Drive-By Paintball Gang Launches Yellow 'Shooting Spree' on Unsuspecting Pedestrians in Burbank
Creative NerdsPaintballs to the face in BurbankThe neighborhood hooligans must have been getting restless out in Burbank last week. In a span of two days, they launched a whopping 11 paintball-gun attacks on innocent sidewalk people in the Hillside and Valley areas of the suburban city [Burba ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2011
Mainstream Cancer Center in Burbank Gets in Touch With Inner Hippie, Offers Patients Acupuncture, Chinese Herbs
Eastern medicine: Now to be practiced at big scary cancer facilities with normal sign fontsLooks like the big boys in cancer treatment are finally realizing patients would rather get an exotic massage from their hot young attendings than a scratchy blanket and a bedpan. The Roy and Patricia ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2011
LAX Pilots Plagued by Frigging Lasers (Are Ravers to Blame?)
James at UniNot what you want to see on approach to LAX.Turns out LAX is the top airport in the nation for laser crime. That's right, the Federal Aviation Administration says it investigated 102 reports of lasers being - illegally, we might add - pointed at planes above our fair international ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2011
Glendale Man Who Stole From Church's Haiti Donation Box Arrested At Mother's House
Glendale Police DepartmentEnemy of the church Peter Manuel GalindroMight as well steal a one-way ticket to hell. Glendale police have proudly announced their capture of the L.A. County Church Bandit: 52-year-old parolee Peter Manuel Galindro (he also calls himself Paul sometimes... being the ... More >>
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April 8, 2010
WHO'S YOUR MONSTER?
Glendale Police DepartmentEnemy of the church Peter Manuel GalindroMight as well steal a one-way ticket to hell. Glendale police have proudly announced their capture of the L.A. County Church Bandit: 52-year-old parolee Peter Manuel Galindro (he also calls himself Paul sometimes... being the ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2010
America's Next Great Restaurant: Casting Call Today in Burbank
America's Next Great Restaurant America's Next Great Restaurant, the new reality food show from CBS set to hit your TV screen this fall, is holding an open casting call today, Monday, April 5th, in Burbank. The new series, brought to you from the producers of Project Runway and Top Chef, wil ... More >>
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October 29, 2009
THAT'S SO BURBANK
America's Next Great Restaurant America's Next Great Restaurant, the new reality food show from CBS set to hit your TV screen this fall, is holding an open casting call today, Monday, April 5th, in Burbank. The new series, brought to you from the producers of Project Runway and Top Chef, wil ... More >>
Blogs
October 28, 2009
L.A. Loses Out on Federal Money for Water and Power Improvements
DWP's downtown headquartersOnly two cities in L.A. County will receive a portion of the White House's $3.4 billion stimulus funding for energy efficiency programs. Los Angeles is not one of them. Burbank and Glendale will each get $20 million in federal funding to help them develop "smart grid" p ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2009
Lights, Camera, IKEA! Burbank Store Attracts Filmmakers
Today's L.A. Times' biz section touts a new and improbable addition to Burbank's media studios -- the IKEA store on San Fernando Road. After listing some odd and varied appearances that IKEA made in the news during the past year from China to Scotland, writer Dan Neil looks at the role of IKEA's Bur ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2009
Today in Photographs: May 17, 1952
Backlot fire burns through Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank.LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL
Blogs
December 8, 2008
What's Not in a Name?
Burbank was not named for horticulturalist Luther. Stanton was not so called in honor of actor Harry Dean. Nor was Carson dedicated to late-night talk-show host Johnny. These are just some of the disillusioning facts one learns over the course of living in L.A. According to William Bright's ever-hel ... More >>
Blogs
November 12, 2008
Last Supper Lunchbox for Dire Economic Times
How about those layoffs? Those of you who still have jobs, do you still have lunch at restaurants or buy takeout? Magazines and various lifestyle segments on TV "news" programs are saying that to save money, people are brown bagging their lunches more these days rather than eating out. It's probabl ... More >>
LA Life
August 21, 2008
The Breast of Times: Go Topless Protest Day
And other things to do in L.A., August 22-28
Calendar
August 21, 2008
Beautiful Downtown Magnolia Park
And other things to do in L.A., August 22-28
LA Life
July 10, 2008
Abandon 405!
What to do in L.A., July 11-17
Columns
July 12, 2007
Where's the Duff?
Burbank gets a Kwik-E-Mart, minus Apu
Film+TV
June 7, 2007
Master Mizoguchi
Life, love and loss in the films of a cinematic giant
LA Life
November 9, 2006
Zen and the Art of the Muzzle Blast
Local firing ranges � yoga for sharpshooters
News
October 5, 2006
Best-Underappreciated Comic Shops
Local firing ranges � yoga for sharpshooters
Stage
July 7, 2005
Shopping the ’Bank
Bring your own parking meter
Columns
May 26, 2005
Mezmerized
Bring your own parking meter
News
March 3, 2005
Peter Torres, City Council District 9
Bring your own parking meter
News
May 29, 2003
It Ain't Pretty
Art and commerce clash in the NoHo Arts District about auto-body shops
News
February 28, 2002
Pet Shop Murder
It looked like a simple shooting, but the Pets R Us killing exposed an organized-crime network running credit-card and recycling fraud. And one of its leaders, Sarkis Antonyan, a.k.a. Little Al Capone, had two bullets in his head.
News
November 1, 2001
Next Time, They Might Be Women
It looked like a simple shooting, but the Pets R Us killing exposed an organized-crime network running credit-card and recycling fraud. And one of its leaders, Sarkis Antonyan, a.k.a. Little Al Capone, had two bullets in his head.
Music
March 30, 2000
Nice Work If You Can Get It On
It looked like a simple shooting, but the Pets R Us killing exposed an organized-crime network running credit-card and recycling fraud. And one of its leaders, Sarkis Antonyan, a.k.a. Little Al Capone, had two bullets in his head.
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