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Lil Wayne 'Sitting Up, Drinking Water'

By Ben Westhoff, reporting from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Reports of Lil Wayne's demise have been exaggerated, it would seem. The rapper tweeted tonight that he's fine. He was indeed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center near Beverly Hills. But reports that he was in a medically induced coma after a s ... More >>

Brain-Cooling Human Trials at Cedars-Sinai Help Prevent Crippling Brain Damage and Paralysis from Strokes

A groundbreaking clinical trial to prevent paralysis and death right after a stroke by cooling the brain is underway, led by Cedars Sinai, that researchers say could change everything.The trial has been boosted from 50 to 400 patients with FDA approval, and used both "controlled hypothermia" and a " ... More >>

Ron Jeremy, Porn Legend, Hospitalized For Aneurysm Near Heart

Of all the things that could sideline the great Ron Jeremy -- STDs, jealous suitcase pimps, too much sex -- we were sad to hear that it was an aneurysm near his heart. The 59-year-old porn legend was hospitalized in critical condition after driving himself to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center last night, ... More >>

Hit-and-Run $10,000 Reward Turns Sour

Marvin Rinnig gets stiffed after catching man who left Ben Zelman for dead

Cialis Boner Pills Might Help With ... Muscular Dystrophy?

It's always wonderful when you find out that a previously devious drug has benevolent uses. Like marijuana. Researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute have come up with a doozy involving a miraculous flip-side for some boner pills. Really:

Hollywood Halloween Shooting: 3 Hit As LAPD Responds With Crowd-Control Measures

Three people were shot on Hollywood Boulevard tonight as crowds gathered for Halloween celebrations, bringing the LAPD out en masse. According to City News Service two of the victims were male teens and one was an adult in his twenties: All three were expected to survive. [Added at 11:25 p.m.]: Act ... More >>

Hollywood Self-Stabbing Victim Tased by LAPD Near Popular Clubs (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

A bloody man who might have stabbed himself put on a crazy show for clubgoers along Hollywood Boulevard near Las Palmas Avenue last night, and some of it was captured on video and in photos (more after the jump). Because he resisted arrest, officers had to subdue the guy using a taser before lettin ... More >>

Lance Everett Wyatt, Beverly Center-Area Plastic Surgeon, Videotaped Nude Female Patients -- Cops

Updated at the bottom with news of alleged "touching" as well as taping. Prosecutors say they have video of the suspect in action. First posted at 1:57 p.m. A Beverly Center-area plastic surgeon was charged today in a case that accuses him of secretly videotaping nude patients during exams. Forty- ... More >>

Cedars-Sinai Borrows Space Camera From NASA for More Precise Tumor Extraction

Two of L.A.'s most prestigious institutions come together, today, for some cutting-edge teamwork: Cedars-Sinai is announcing that it has borrowed a special space camera from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to get a better look at patients' complex tumors. Hospital to the stars, indeed! If you're ... More >>

Carmageddon Baby Boom? Cedars-Sinai Says 405 Closure Could Account for April Due-Dates

NBC LA just dropped the hottest expose of 2012 (besides maybe the "teen Twitter party" epidemic in the Hills): a possible baby boom resulting from the 405 shutdown last summer. Otherwise known as Carmageddon, or the apocalyptic traffic forecast that never happened -- instead turning L.A. into a sere ... More >>

Mom Shot in Head, Children Taken in Studio City

Cops today were looking for a man who they say shot the mother of his children and took off with their two young kids. Police said the shooting happened about 4:50 a.m. at the 50-year-old Sportsmen's Lodge hotel, which is at 12825 Ventura Blvd. in Studio City. We asked the LAPD if an Amber Alert w ... More >>

R.I.P. Don Cornelius; Soul Train Creator Dead of Apparent Suicide

​Don Cornelius, creator of Soul Train, is dead from a reportedly self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He was 75. As our news blog The Informer reported this morning, Cornelius was found in his Sherman Oaks home and taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center around 4 a.m. Investigators from LA ... More >>

Glass of Red Wine a Day Could Keep Breast Cancer Away, Says New Cedars-Sinai Research

RadarOnlineDoctor's orders.​Does drinking wine affect a girl's odds for breast cancer? Battle of the studies! Just a couple months ago, Harvard University released some buzz-killing stats showing that "women who drink just four small glasses of wine a week increase their risk of developing br ... More >>

John Atterberry, Music Exec, Died Today Following Friday's Sunset & Vine Shooting Spree Caught on Video

Tyler Brehm on Facebook.​Updated at the bottom with victim John Atterberry dying today. First posted at 11:12 a.m. Friday. A suspect was dead this morning after at least one LAPD officer responding to a "man-with-a-gun" call at the iconic intersection of Sunset and Vine opened fire, police to ... More >>

Beverly Hills-Adjacent Smoke Shop Robbery Ends in Death For One Suspect

Google Maps​Looks like bad guys robbed the wrong place in more ways than one. Not only did they hit a Pico-Robertson smoke shop next to a marijuana dispensary (?), but the shop owner defended his business with a a gun. One suspect was killed and another was wounded before an apparent retreat ... More >>

Marijuana Smoker Norman Smith Booted From Cedars Sinai Hospital Liver Transplant List: Medical Pot Advocates Outraged

​Medical marijuana advocates are getting behind the plight of a cancer patient who says he has been kicked off a liver transplant list at Cedars Sinai Medical Center because he smokes medical marijuana. The California-based group Americans for Safe Access has sent a letter to the Beverly Hill ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: The Big Lebrewski, Whole Beast Feast, Septemberfest, Pesto Madness, Social Sundays

The Big Lebowski, where the White Russians never stop flowing.​We've already mentioned the three-day Precious Cheese Feast of San Gennaro (think: Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Carolla, food and carnival games), and in case we forget, Jar is also celebrating its 10th anniversary with a special dinner bene ... More >>

Bobby Jones, L.A. Homicide No. 50: Man Fatally Shot in Chest After Fight

Google MapsThe street where Bobby Jones was killed​On March 4, Bobby Jones died of a gunshot wound in the 4100 block of Palmwood Drive in Crenshaw. The 28-year-old black man got into an argument with the alleged shooter in the street of a residential neighborhood. Jones was then shot in the c ... More >>

Cedars-Sinai Heart Transplant Recipients Play the Doctors Who Saved Their Lives...in Softball

Brought together by softball and heart transplantsPhoto courtesy of Cedars-Sinai​ Talk about a game with heart. Once a year, a bunch of cardiac transplant patients and the Cedars-Sinai doctors who saved their lives get together to play a friendly game of softball. The patients usually win. The ... More >>

L.A. Freshman Shot in Butt on Way to School

PanoramioWalking near L.A. High: bad idea?​Los Angeles High School was on lockdown this morning after a 15-year-old boy from the ninth grade "suffered a penetrating wound in the buttocks" on the walk to school, as the Los Angeles Times so classily puts it. After being whisked to Cedars-Sinai ... More >>

LAPD Officer Shoots Man Outside 'A Day to Remember' Concert at Hollywood Palladium After Being Stabbed in the Hand

Jeffree Star via Twitter"ADTR are slaying LA..." Tweeted drag diva @JeffreeStar at last night's concert​The real punk shit went down outside the mosh pit at last night's A Day to Remember concert (opened by Bring Me the Horizon) at the all-ages Hollywood Palladium. Though Tweeters told of ten ... More >>

Elizabeth Taylor Dies at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles at 79: Her Children Were at Her Side

Elizabeth Taylor in 'Father of the Bride.'​Updated at the end with church wackos planning to protest her funeral because Taylor was a friend of the gay community. Check out our slide show of 12 of Taylor's most iconic roles here. Check out our piece about reaction from the HIV/AIDS activism ... More >>

Elizabeth Taylor, R.I.P.

​ Elizabeth Taylor died last night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She was 79. We don't even know where to begin eulogizing the woman, and we'll have more to say soon, but we'll start by recommending Michael Musto's obit in our sister paper Village Voice.

Party Bus Shooting in Hollywood: Suspect on Bus Fires Into Crowd of 'Wonderland' Clubbers

The L.A. party-bus controversy just got a whole lot heavier​Updated after the jump with new details and Tweets from the scene. Just after the top-40 Hollywood club Wonderland had ushered its patrons out onto the sidewalk of North Cahuenga Boulevard last night -- at about 2 a.m., or 3 a.m. und ... More >>

Glenn Allen, L.A. City Firefighter, Becomes Grandfather One Day After Dying in House Fire

Glenn Allen, former L.A. firefighter and soon-to-have-been grandpa​Here's a bittersweet hero's story to begin what's shaping up to be one downright chilly President's Day in Los Angeles. As we reported last week, L.A. city firefighter Glen Allen died around noontime Friday at Cedars-Sinai Med ... More >>

L.A. Firefighter Cut From Beneath Collapsed Roof of Dane Cook's Former Hollywood Mansion With Chainsaw; Now 'Fighting for Life'

Virtual GlobetrottingDane Cook territory, in better days​Update: The firefighter, Glenn Allen, was declared dead at 12:15 p.m. on Friday, February 18 -- a tragic end to a heroic 38-year career. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa lowered city flags to half-staff and said, "My thoughts and prayers are w ... More >>

Security Guard Shot, Wounded Inside Hollywood Club Kress

thekress.netA file photo of club-goers at Kress.​Crazy nights in Hollywood and West Hollywood have set 2011 off to a wild start. Following that fracas between deputies and punk-rock fans outside the Key Club on the Sunset Strip Thursday, the LAPD reports that a security guard was shot in an un ... More >>

Woman In Mercedes Fatally Shot In Beverly Hills Near Los Angeles Country Club

​Updated after the jump with additional details. First published at 8:18 a.m. See an update with some Hollywood reaction here. It's the third homicide in the small, gilded city of Beverly Hills this year: A woman in her 60s behind the wheel a late-model Mercedes E350 was found to have been sh ... More >>

Metro Red Line Swallows Morning Commuter At Hollywood Station

The Red Line​Mother always said not to play on the tracks. It seems an undisclosed Hollywood commuter wasn't listening this morning, when he found himself wedged between a train and a platform at 7 a.m., CBS Los Angeles reports. Rescue workers quickly shut off the Metro Red Line near Hollywoo ... More >>

Valet Killed: West Hollywood Club Shooting Caught On Video

​A valet at a West Hollywood nightclub was fatally shot early Monday after two groups of party-goers got into a fracas. The man was apparently not the target of the gunman. KNX 1070 Newsradio reports that two other people were wounded in the attack. The shooting outside Guys & Dolls in the 87 ... More >>

Brittany Murphy Autopsy Inconclusive

​The county coroner's office completed its autopsy on the body of actress Brittany Murphy on Monday but came to conclusions and deferred its decision on the cause of her death until a battery of tests, including "toxicological tests and tissue studies" come back, according to a coroner's state ... More >>

International Media Camped Out At Cedars-Sinai (Outside Beverly Hills)

​Media crews from around the world were camped outside Cedars-Sinai Medical Center this week as they kept tabs on the man we call the "French Elvis," 66-year-old Johnny Hallyday. We're not sure what's stranger -- that Americans don't know the first thing about Hallyday, or that the media keep ... More >>

Murder was the Case: LA Homicide No. 268, Victim Identified in Domestic Violence Dispute

File this under the Department of WTF: A woman who was being watched by police because of threats by a former lover was fatally stabbed -- apparently by said lover -- as cops sat in a patrol car outside, according to KTLA News.LAPD​ The attack happened about 11:40 p.m. Wednesday in the 1300 b ... More >>

Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 190 and 191, Victims of Horrible Hollywood Homeless Stabbings Identified

View Larger MapThe man suspected in a series of stabbings in the Hollywood area that left two dead and two others injured was charged today in court with murder and attempted murder in connection with the attacks. Domingo Linares Rodas, 53, was earlier incorrectly identified by officials as 54-year- ... More >>

Mayo Clinic Scores Over Cedars-Sinai

The lesson for Los Angeles residents from a recent Rochester Post Bulletin story, carried by AP, might be, "Don't hold the Mayo Clinic." When President Obama touted the nonprofit clinics as a health-care provider he'd like to imitate nationwide as part of his health-care reform plans, the Post Bulle ... More >>

Author Harris' Death: Heart Disease

Amazon.comE. Lynn Harris​The L.A. County Coroner's office announced that successful author E. Lynn Harris, who died suddenly last week at the age of 54, was stricken by heart disease aggravated by high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries, according to Associated Press. Harris, who lived i ... More >>

Author Harris Dies at Cedars-Sinai

E. Lynn Harris, a onetime corporate executive who turned to fiction to explain the lives of  closeted black professionals like himself, collapsed last night at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. He died shortly afterward, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to Associated Press. Harris, ... More >>

Ludo Bites at Breadbar

Ludovic Lefebvre Brings Post-Molecular Gastronomy to Third Street

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

May Day Cops Dodge Bullet No LAPD officers involved in the 2007 May Day melee in MacArthur Park will be fired, although Chief Bill Bratton had called for four terminations. L.A. TimesCut the Comedy Birmingham High School administrators will be disciplined for allowing Sacha Baron Cohen to use the sc ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

For Whom the Road Tolls L.A. County is considering charging solo drivers for the right to use high-occupancy lanes on the 110 and 10 freeways. Tolls would range between 25 cents and $1.40. L.A. TimesDowntown Protest The Coalition of L.A. City Unions, an umbrella group representing some of L.A.'s 22, ... More >>

Chris Brown & Rihanna: A Bruising Story

L.A. Observed carries a roundup of dish from TMZ and RadarOnline on the beating R&B singer Chris Brown allegedly gave chanteuse girlfriend Rihanna in Hancock Park this past Saturday evening. The word is that Rihanna was treated and released at Cedars Sinai.Backseat driver: Chris Brown in attorne ... More >>

Dogtown Days: Memory of a Skateboarding Youth

A Differing Opinion

Cathy Seipp, 1957–2007

Lunch in This Town

Midday’s guilty pleasures

Men Are Fleeting

Chicks are forever

Brent Shapiro’s Final Hours

Brent Shapiro’s Final Hours

Coroner’s report details bad advice given to son of O.J.’s lawyer

A Photographer's Notes

Health Services

Liver

And the end of being hip