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Instagram's Most-Popular Photo Locations? Los Angeles Dominates

Last month we told you about how Southern California locations dominated the year-end list of top Facebook location check-ins. Along comes Instragram with its own year-end list of "most popular locations" for photos uploaded to the social-networking service. Once again ...

Endeavour Delay For Los Angeles Flyover Means Hour Later Showtime

The Endeavour show over the skies of Los Angeles will be delayed by more than an hour this morning. The Los Angeles Police Department says that instead of the original 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. window, with an 11 landing time at LAX, the space shuttle will get a piggy back ride above Los Angeles more than ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Food Stamps at Farmers Markets, Disneyland's Club 33 Eater L.A.'s Pizza Week

The Philadelphia Inquirer: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that a $4 million grant will help supply the technology for farmers markets to accept food stamps. (The Electronic Benefit Transfer card has largely replaced paper coupons.) Eater L.A.: Chinese pizzas, most expensive pizzas ... More >>

Disneyland Offers New Super-Pricey Cakes for Your Little Princess

disneytravelbabble.com​We always suspected Cinderella was just a golddigger. How much would you be willing to fork over for a birthday cake for your little princess? How about $112.05 for a 6-inch cake at Disneyland? (To be fair, that includes a "princess" balloon centerpiece, crystal-adorned ... More >>

Fela Kuti's Lover and Mentor Sandra Smith Talks About Afrobeat's L.A. Origins, as Fela! Musical Arrives at the Ahmanson

Sandra Smith and Fela Kuti, when they were together in 1969-70​At the time of his death in 1997, Fela Anikulapo Kuti was known by many names: Afrobeat pioneer, a political instigator, husband to 27 wives, just to name a few. The Nigerian musician had spread his fiery brand of African party mus ... More >>

LinA In LA Party Picks: Death By Dance

Something Fish-y this way comes ...​The Halloween hangover is just about gone and it's time to be a boogie man (or woman) again with a new array of themed soirees; some you can even dress up for if you didn't get to (or want to) last weekend. Funky, freaky, gloomy and groove-y, this week's DJ- ... More >>

West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval's Project Masquerade Costume Contest Winner Revealed

Andy KeownThe Winning Costumes: Northcutt, left, with Hirsch ​Daniel Hirsch loves all things Halloween and last night he got one more reason to do so. At West Hollywood's world famous Halloween Carnaval, he and his partner, Amy Northcutt, won the best costume prize at WeHo's first annual Proje ... More >>

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30 Scoops in 30 Days: Manhattan Beach Creamery (Day 14)

Manhattan Beach Creamery is a pleasant neighborhood ice cream store, stocked with as much candy as it is ice cream. The white leather, half-shell chairs, halfway between Louis XIV and Philippe Starck, are a good spot to watch surfers trudge to and from the pier or Saturday Night or Saturday night ... More >>

NorCal Teen Does Time in O.C. Juvenile Hall for Dirty Dancing at Disneyland's ElecTRONica

Watch it, buddy.​If only we'd known, through the many excruciating grind seshes of youth, that we had the power to send those randy 17-year-olds -- boners pressed painfully into our backsides -- straight to juvie for one long, cold weekend of regret. Alas. At least now we can live vicariously ... More >>

DUI-Crashed Car on Display in San Fernando Valley For High Schoolers to See

A wreck.​It's almost high school graduation season. It's time for the prom, trips to Disneyland, ditch day and ... looking at a mangled car. A San Fernando Valley towing company is putting a DUI-wrecked car on display for high schoolers to see as a reminder of what can happen when the teen pa ... More >>

Eat This Now: Churros at Churros Calientes

T. Nguyen​ We love Salina's Churro Truck and Mr. Churro and other wonderful places that offer Mexican-style churros, but every once in a while, our sweet tooth gets a hankering for the type of churros you'd find served in parts of Spain and Venezuela. These are a smaller, a bit more delicate ... More >>

Diane Arbus Proves That All the Freaky People (Still) Make the Beauty of the World

Diane Arbus: Miss Venice Beach, Cal., 1962. © The Estate of Diane Arbus. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.​ "Diane Arbus: People and Other Singularities" opened last night at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, and, whether due to the allure of several photographs that had never been exhibited before ... More >>

12 bizarre finds from The Last Bookstore's giant weekend warehouse sale

​ The biggest event in Los Angeles this last weekend, of course, was The Last Bookstore's enormous warehouse sale on West 15th, a two-day orgy of some 70,000 used and donated books, and all of the dry fingers, dust-irritated sinuses, and entire boxes of Dan Brown and The Lovely Bones that you ... More >>

Disneyland Trip From Hell: Quadriplegic Stuck on 'It's a Small World' Ride for 40 Minutes

Satan's little helpers​We're pretty sure we had a nightmare about this. But for quadriplegic Jose Martinez, who made the mistake of taking a nice, relaxing trip to Disneyland in November 2009, there was no waking up from the terror: Due to a computer glitch, his "It's a Small World" boat got ... More >>

Feds Sweep Lennox 13 Gang Near LAX, Allege Drug Sales, Mexican Mafia Ties

Welcome to Los Angeles.​Orange County has Disneyland. San Diego has Seaworld. And L.A. has ... Drugland, conveniently located just east of LAX. This according to federal authorities, who on Wednesday swept the Lennox 13 gang, including some members named in an indictment that alleges the set ... More >>

(Video) 'Toy Story 3' Anti-Oscar Campaign Waged By Disney Resort Workers

DisneyCowboys are an invention of Latin America. Irony?​Update: Our friends over at OC Weekly have photos of Monday night's protest here. First posted at 7:05 a.m.. Disney's Toy Story 3 ended up on some critics' year-end Top 10 lists, but now a labor union wants to put it back in the toy ches ... More >>

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Caught On Tape: Bell Salary Scandal Suspect Robert Rizzo Snoozes, Smirks In Court

Robert Rizzo.​So you're the guy almost everyone thinks is the mastermind, the Bernie Madoff, the Dr. Evil of the Bell salary scandal, the guy who reportedly pulled $1.5 million in salary and other take-home from a struggling, working-class city, the former Bell city manager who allegedly made ... More >>

Katy Perry Parody "California Dorks": In-N-Out Burgers, Mountain Dew, and Star Wars Toys

​You may say Katy Perry's "California Gurls" video gives an unrealistic image of the Golden State. Most of us don't spend our days traipsing around a 3D version of the board game Candyland trading quips with a cupcake-suit wearing pimp and avoiding menacing gummy bears (most of us who know bet ... More >>

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New Year's Eve in Los Angeles: A YouTube Snapshot at Midnight

Lord knows West Coast Sound can't cover everything, but why should we even have to when God YouTube is doing the heavy lifting. A lot of stuff went down in LA this weekend, for sure. Some crazy shit, actually. All that gunfire had to come from somewhere. The sirens, the tire squealing, the horns. Th ... More >>

A Survivor's Guide to Food Festivals: Hydrate, Recycle, Pace Yourself & Don't Stalk The Chefs

Between the Gold Standard, Taste of the Nation L.A., and the Grilled Cheese Invitational, Los Angeles has hosted enough themed foodie conventions to provoke Christopher Guest's next mockumentary. Next weekend, the first annual Korean BBQ Festival and Cook-Off kicks off in K-Town, and on August 20th, ... More >>

Roxo Port Cellars: Don't Pass Paso without Pausing for Port

What started as a tipsy 4th of July fireside chat four years ago between nextdoor neighbors Aaron and Erin Culp, both 1999 Cal Poly wine program graduates, and Jeffrey and Kimberly Steele, more seasoned business types, turned into one more fortified American business. As the Atascadero couples nib ... More >>

How to Trick "Ask a Ninja" with One Stupid Question, or Maybe More

Shannon CottrellAnyone who thinks that cosplaying is just about posing in costume is wrong. Much like characters at Disneyland, it's about illusion and interaction. So when we caught faux "Ask a Ninja" dude in line for the Masquerade Saturday afternoon at Comic-Con shouting for passers-by to ask him ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

School Board to Cut $1.6B The LAUSD has voted to make deep cuts in a three-year budget, almost guaranteeing further layoffs and the elimination of summer school. L.A. TimesHollywood Denies Murder Former pot dealer and fugitive Jesse James Hollywood told a Santa Barbara jury he did not order the murd ... More >>

Last Night: The Marijuana Policy Project Party at the Playboy Mansion--The Dandy Warhols, Playmates, and Pinball

Laurie ScavoI don't need to explain the Playboy Mansion. You've probably seen Girls Next Door, the E! Entertainment show that managed to successfully de-mystify the estate like the channel did Saved by the Bell, Puff Daddy, and Fabio. But despite the camera's depiction of Heff as goofy and groping g ... More >>

We Smell a Cover-Up: DJ Paul V's Thursday-Night Party at Stinkers, Plus More Thematic Atmospheres

Mathew Cullen and Javier Jimenez

Heart and soul

Charles Phoenix

Kodachrome king

Day for Night

The annual goth gathering at Disneyland

It's Wonderful to Be Here

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Apocalypse, Sweet Apocalypse

Ask Mr. Gold: Corn Dogs at Disneyland

Absolutely Nothing About St. Patrick's Day

Mall Ratting

R. Crumb in Heaven

On Earth and otherwise

Down on Main Street

A guide to living among the crack addicts, mentally ill, homeless and young-pros-on-the-go in a changing downtown

Foul Territory

Mr. Phoenix's Wild Ride

The Light Stuff

The Day the Sky Fell

This time, it was impersonal

Who Wants To Be a Popsicle?

Work: Part 2

Ballerina Bon Voyage

Futurama

Post-millennial déjà vu at Luckman Fine Arts

Automatic Rounds

The Krispy Kreme Doughnut invasion

On the Mediterranean

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