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10 Great Stores in L.A. For Goth Gifts

See also: *Clockwork Couture, L.A.'s Premiere Steampunk Fashion Spot You've reached the holiday shopping homestretch, but there's one final gift that's driving you mad. Maybe it's for your sibling, or the co-worker whose name you pulled in Secret Santa. Regardless, it's for someone whose known inte ... More >>

Enrique Medrano: Graffiti Tagger Got City Gig To Clean Up Own Vandalism -- Cops

This is perhaps the greatest street racket ever ... ... until someone allegedly got caught. Burbank police say 53-year-old Enrique Medrano was employed by a city contractor to handle graffiti removal. Except that some of the graffiti was his own!

The Real Meaning of Halloween

Big Rig Crash on the 5 Causes Nightmare Traffic Jam for Friday Drive Home

Could the big rig that just smashed through the concrete divider on the 5 freeway in Burbank have picked a worse possible time to bring traffic to a standstill? Just after 5 p.m. this afternoon -- smack-dab in the middle of the Friday rush -- a big rig heading southbound somehow lodged itself into ... More >>

Irma Zamora: Two Good Samaritans Fatally Electrocuted at Scene of Chaotic SUV Crash in San Fernando Valley

Repeated attempts to lend a hand at a hectic accident scene in the San Fernando Valley went south last night, City News Service reports. After a big white Chevy SUV lost control while trying to make a turn at Magnolia Boulevard around 8:25 p.m. -- knocking over a street lamp, downing power lines, s ... More >>

Burbank Airport Is Cheapest in U.S. (Boo Ya)

Of all the hyper-local secrets that hardcore Angelenos love to keep in their arsenal -- hidden parking lots, shifty food trucks, shortcuts through Marina del Raaaey -- the best-loved is, without doubt, the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. LAX is for tourists and noobs, duh! And without fail, every time ... More >>

Chuck Palahniuk

Devin 'Thor' Dickey, Young Valley Tagger, Arrested by Burbank Police for Vandalism -- 'Just the Start' of Crackdown on Graffiti Crew

pixiecanfly via Tumblr​Burbank police announce today that two young taggers they arrested on November 3 -- Devin Dickey, 20, and an unnamed 16-year-old girl -- are possibly facing felony charges after they allegedly vandalized multiple pieces of property across the San Fernando Valley. Invest ... More >>

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 >>

Stage Raw: Year Zero

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Jez Butterworth's Jersusalem, on BroadwayMichael LamontYear Zero​Productions that garnered high praise this week are David Wiener's Extraordinary Chambers at the Geffen, about Americans in Cambodia, which Mayank Keshaviah describes ... More >>

Stolen SUV Turned Clown Car: 7 Women, 1 Man Detained in Freeway LAPD Chase

KTLAThe Big Eight​There was a bona fide party on the 110 South this chilly morning, when an SUV with stolen plates was pulled over after an LAPD chase on the 5 from Burbank. Guess who tumbled out?

Lessons learned from a '77 science book for Christian schools

​ "We know the bible was not written as a science book, although whatever it says about science is true," state the authors of 1977's remarkable Science for Christian Schools Grade 5. The book -- discovered in a Burbank junkshop and the subject of this week's Studies in Crap post on our Style ... More >>

Los Angeles Spring Storm Fells Trees, Floods Streets, Darkens Homes

MuscleNerdTree down in L.A.​Update: PCH was reopened, and so was the Grapevine. Record rainfall was recorded around Southern California, with downtown Los Angeles seeing 2.42 inches Sunday compared with 1.48 inches on the date in 1943. See more records after the jump. The first week of spring ... More >>

$3 Million For More Water: Glendale, Burbank, North Hollywood Included in Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Site

There are so many great uses for clean water​The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces two settlements -- for a total of over $3 million -- with companies believed to be responsible for "industrial" chemicals in the soil and groundwater in areas including parts of Glendale, North Hol ... More >>

69 Things for Music Lovers to Do In L.A. on Valentine's Day

Timothy Norris​ Don't sacrifice your Monday night music excursions into our fair city of Los Angeles, just to be a slave to the grueling whip of commercialized love. You can have your cake and eat it too, especially if that cake comes with a plethora of "ingredients" that help you get your ro ... More >>

While We Were Thawing Our Toes This Morning, We Noticed That Unemployment Benefits Had Been Terminated For 2 Million Americans

ZastavkiWhad'ya say we all just move to Antarctica​What a bone-chilling way to slide into December. Not to mention the holidays. We woke up this morning after a night of visible breath and twinkly lights to the news that unemployment benefits will likely terminate for 2 million people by th ... More >>

I-5 Road Rage Leads To Mercedes-Benz Shooting Off Alameda Exit In Burbank

The West Ranch BeaconThe I-5 can make us do crazy things​It was a Monday on the I-5 North, right around rush hour. You know what that means: time for some ROAD RAGE! Typically, the rage boils off after a couple honks and a middle finger. Two of yesterday's ragers, however, took it to the next ... More >>

Gun Ammunition Discovered On Southwest Flight Out Of Bob Hope Airport In Burbank

Transportation Security AdministrationLicensed to peep​Good thing we've been submitting ourselves to full-scale security rape at TSA checkpoints the nation over, all in the name of the War on Terror. God knows it's the only way to stop dangerous weapons in their tracks. With the exception of, ... More >>

Which former child star painted this busty nude?

​ Yes, a former famous kid dreamed up the spectacular bosoms of this golden nude, which is one of eleven amazing and/or unfortunate Los Angeles thrift-store and junk-shop paintings compiled for this week's Studies in Crap on our Style Council blog. Click on through and you'll not only find ... More >>

Take Note Roman Polanski: Teacher Gets Two Years For Sex With Minor

Amy Beck.​Take note, Roman Polanski: A Burbank middle school teacher who had sex with a 14-year-old student was sentenced to two years in prison Friday. The woman, part of what seems like a wave of female teachers arrested for having sex with male students in recent years, had pleaded on cont ... More >>

Corey Haim Overdosed; No Foul Play Suspected

​A county coroner's official says actor Corey Haim had "normal prescription meds" at his home when he died early Thursday in what authorities are saying was an apparent overdose that did not involve illegal drugs. The 38-year-old onetime child film star and subject of the defunct reality TV s ... More >>

Balloon Boy Family 'Weird' Says Former L.A. Landlord

As new doubts have been raised about the veracity of the Balloon Boy saga, the family in question's former L.A. landlord says the Heenes skipped town in 2007 owing $6,000 in rent and damages.Photographer Carrie Cavalier describes the family of 6-year-old Falcon Heene, who was believed to be adrift i ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Shopping

Stage Raw: August: Osage County

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the current NEW REVIEWS and this week's STAGE FEATURE on The Night Is a Child at the Pasadena Playhouse, and Not to Be, at ZJUNEW REVIEW GO AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY ​Photo by Robert SafersteinTracy Lett's 2007 Great American Family Drama, or so we'd believe from ... More >>

Ambulance Becomes Man's Hearse

The L.A. Daily News and other sources report that a "criminally insane" man jumped out of an ambulance that was heading southbound down the 101 Freeway near Universal City last night. He was struck and fatally injured by a Volvo driven by a Van Nuys man. The mental patient was being transported to a ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Redemption of Mrs. Satan

The latest NEW REVIEWS are embedded in the COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the current STAGE FEATURE on Troubadour Theater Company's Oedipus the King, Mama! and the Chekhov Studio's The SeagullJULIUS CAESAR​Shakespeare's history play is being performed at Theatricum Botanicum, and is one o ... More >>

And You Can Take That to the Burbank

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 >>

Best Saints for Sinners: The God Shop Gallery

High-Energy Street Dance: Groovaloo's Moving Stories

Mixed with personal dramas, show heads down to OC

Theater 2007: Listing Toward the Valley

Here’s to the memories

Happy Trails

Getting back in the saddle

Yuca Mountain

La Maria’s picada, extreme eating Colombian style

Groovaloo

Beauty Bar Superstar

Bell, Book and Casket

Curiosity shopping for the adventurous

Bad Night for the Vineland Boyz

Huge raid could be a mortal blow to notorious Valley gang

NBC’s Nasty Secret

What’s behind the network’s refusal to pay domestic benefits for its gay and lesbian employees?

Urbanities: Frank O. Gehry Has a Gripe

The Valley

From Canoga Park to Griffith Park

Sanctuary

Days and nights at the King Edward Saloon

Swept Up in a Cause

This time Sandoval works a swing shift for her future

The Egg and I

That's a yolk, son

Sierra’s

Meltdown Money

A Bit of Exercise?

....sport

Consume Part II:

[Mostly] Not Food

Wrap Party

Thai duck calzones? Turkey, sweet potato and cranberry sauce tacones? Mango chicken burritos in Gorgonzola-chive tortillas? No, thank you. Around here, we’re into old-school wrap.