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Coffee Commissary Opens This Weekend in Burbank

After some four months of renovations and repainting, Coffee Commissary will officially open this weekend in Burbank. Located right on the busy corner of Alameda and Olive Avenues (which, if you ever got lost on your way here, channel your inner Liz Lemon and remember that, yes, Olive just turns int ... More >>

Car Show Flash Mob Feared Tonight in Burbank

Updated at the bottom with what happened. First posted at 2:55 p.m. The last time a flash mob of car aficionados came to the area, Burbank police had to shut down the southbound 5 freeway. It was, true to its name, a mob scene, cops say: More than 1,200 cars showed up and allegedly shut shoppers o ... More >>

We Lurked Outside the Rolling Stones' Rehearsals in Burbank

Last week, the center of the rock & roll universe was located in an industrial part of Burbank. In one room at CenterStaging studios, Paul McCartney was rehearsing with his band for their upcoming world tour. Next door, his old pals and supposed rivals the Rolling Stones were preparing for their fir ... More >>

Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's

It's Free Cone Day at participating Ben & Jerry's across the nation. From noon to 8 p.m., customers can get a free cone of ice cream in the flavor of his or her choice, including classic, Greek Frozen Yogurt and newer flavors.

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 >>

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 ...

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).

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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:

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 >>

Smart Meter Resistance Spreads to SoCal: Are New Wireless Meters Spying on You, Making You Sick?

Burbank ACTION​Over 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 >>

Here's Tasting You, Burbank

Wal-Mart Plans to Sneak 15 New Stores Into SoCal, Including Burbank, via Permit Loophole

"No Wal Mart in Burbank" via Facebook​Try 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

[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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Drive-By Paintball Gang Launches Yellow 'Shooting Spree' on Unsuspecting Pedestrians in Burbank

Creative NerdsPaintballs to the face in Burbank​The 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 >>

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 fonts​Looks 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 >>

Glendale Man Who Stole From Church's Haiti Donation Box Arrested At Mother's House

Glendale Police DepartmentEnemy of the church Peter Manuel Galindro​Might 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 >>

WHO'S YOUR MONSTER?

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 >>

THAT'S SO BURBANK

L.A. Loses Out on Federal Money for Water and Power Improvements

DWP's downtown headquarters​Only 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 >>

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 >>

Today in Photographs: May 17, 1952

Backlot fire burns through Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank.LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

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 >>

The Breast of Times: Go Topless Protest Day

And other things to do in L.A., August 22-28

Beautiful Downtown Magnolia Park

Abandon 405!

What to do in L.A., July 11-17

Where's the Duff?

Burbank gets a Kwik-E-Mart, minus Apu

Master Mizoguchi

Life, love and loss in the films of a cinematic giant

Zen and the Art of the Muzzle Blast

Local firing ranges — yoga for sharpshooters

Best-Underappreciated Comic Shops

Shopping the ’Bank

Bring your own parking meter

Mezmerized

Peter Torres, City Council District 9

It Ain't Pretty

Art and commerce clash in the NoHo Arts District about auto-body shops

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.

Next Time, They Might Be Women