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Bong, Rat Poop, Non-Working Toilets at Daycare House, Glendale Cops Say

A 2-year-old girl was acting strange and appeared to be "lethargic" after she was brought home from daycare in Glendale Wednesday. Her parents took her to Verdugo Hills Hospital, where a battery of tests was performed. The diagnosis? Marijuana. That, of course, attracted the attention of police, wh ... More >>

Tiny Glendale Water & Power Shows L.A. How To Tame DWP Union Boss Brian D'Arcy

Scott Ochoa had never met Brian D'Arcy, the head of the powerful electrical workers' union, when D'Arcy called him up in a rage last year. Ochoa, the Glendale city manager, was trying to work out an agreement on behalf of Glendale Water & Power, the city utility. D'Arcy didn't like how the negot ... More >>

30-Minute Lunch: Rayhun Gourmet Sandwiches & Salads in Glendale

Place: Rayhun Gourmet Sandwiches & Salads in Glendale. Vibe: Rayhun Gourmet Sandwiches & Salads is in a convenient location, across the way from the Americana and rows of offices alongside Brand Blvd. There are no shortage of options with Porto's and Carousel within close walking distance; then ag ... More >>

Cadillac Ends Up On Glendale Rooftop (PHOTO)

Seems to us driving while elderly (DWE) is almost as dangerous as some of the other behind-the-wheel influences out there. But a Glendale man in his 60s told cops it wasn't age that plopped his Cadillac atop a neighbor's roof over the weekend:

Peter Murphy Of Bauhaus Arrested For Alleged DUI, Meth Possession

Updated at the bottom: He says he didn't do it. First posted at 7:01 a.m. Peter Murphy, the "Godfather of Goth" and the vocalist for legendary group Bauhaus, was in jail this week after he was arrested based on an alleged felony in Glendale, according to L.A. County Sheriff's Department inmate data ... More >>

Mini Kabob in Glendale: The Best Hole-in-the-Wall Restaurant in Los Angeles

Although Mini Kabob in Glendale looks like a modest house repurposed into a commercial restaurant, describing it as like dining in someone's living room would be far too extravagant. You're basically eating at Ovakim and Alvard Martirosyan's modestly decorated kitchen counter. Mini Kabob meets all ... More >>

Halloween In Glendale: Cops Flood Trick-Or-Treat Street Looking For Teen Miscreants

Halloween just got a little spookier in one L.A. area community. That's because these people dressed as police will be haunting you around every corner. No, really, they're police. (The handcuffs are genuine, unfortunately). Yeah, Glendale cops are cracking down on teen mayhem on that city's Kenne ... More >>

Where The Chefs Eat: Public Kitchen's Vartan Abgaryan

Where The Chefs Eat will be an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite spots for everyday or cheap dining options. This week, chef at Hollywood's Public Kitchen Vartan Abgaryan tells us his favorite spots in L.A. On eating and cooking with his family: "I grew up i ... More >>

Bryan Duncan, Glendale Cop, Recognized For 100 DUI Arrests in 2012

While some beat cops don't like to make DUI arrests if they can help it because they require a lot of paperwork and, sometimes, court time, there's one officer in L.A. County you don't want to run into if you've had one too many: Glendale's Bryan Duncan. He's not afraid, apparently, of the slow wh ... More >>

Epic Glendale Wedding Brawl Sweeps 100 Into Fracas: Karpis Termendzyan Arrested

Wedding brawls are, unfortunately, not that unusual: Booze, bridesmaids and boys in tuxedos always seem get the violence started. But you haven't seen anything like this: Cops in Glendale say as many as 100 people were involved in a grand ruckus last weekend that put at least one party-goer, identi ... More >>

Neat Bar's Tequila and Sangrita

Glendale's Neat Bar, a bare-bones watering hole located in the shadow of the Verdugo Mountains, serves what could be best described as the anti-cocktail. Sure, the bar's well-lit back wall is filled with an impressive selection of spirits -- the variety of single-malt scotches alone is enough to mak ... More >>

Kim Kardashian Ponders Politics And a Return to Her Ancestral Homeland, Glendale: VIDEO

Kim Kardashian, ribbed on Saturday Night Live over the weekend as a non-acting, non-dancing, non-singing "zero threat," says she's going to run for mayor. Mayor of Glendale. Add one more non-skill to that plate. On an unaired clip from her sister's reality show, Khloe & Lamar, Kardashian says she ... More >>

Giant Black Bear Roams Streets of Glendale, Scares Crap Out of Texting Pedestrian (VIDEO)

The notorious black bear of northern L.A. County reportedly spent some quality time in the Glendale suburbs last night, trolling for tuna and meatballs as he's been known to do. But this time, he stuck around until morning -- causing an L.A. media frenzy we've not seen the likes of since Caltrans s ... More >>

John Puncel, Former Women's Volleyball Coach, Allegedly Took Upskirt Video at Glendale Galleria: Cops Say Underage Victims Possible

Dearest perverts: Try not to take "upskirt" videos of women going up or down escalators ... while cops are watching you! Doing so while everyone else is watching you is bad enough. But Glendale police this week said they had their peepers on Sylmar's John Puncel as he whipped out his cellphone c ... More >>

Top 5 Places to Eat Piroshki in L.A.

L.Aghajanian​On the post-Soviet streets of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, the piroshki is the fast food of choice. A fast fried doughy bun stuffed with warm, savory fillings like potatoes, meat or mushrooms, the piroshki boasts just the right amount of dough-to-filling ratio for your eating and h ... More >>

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Goodie Girls: Cupcake Wars Winner Annette Starbuck to Open L.A. Store

Goodie Girls​Los Angeles needs another cupcake shop like we need another stretch Humvee limo, but they keep littering the city, all the same. Goodie Girls, the first storefront from Cupcake Wars winner Annette Starbuck, opens November 20th in Glendale. She'll be offering over a dozen flavors i ... More >>

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Q & A With Aidan Demarest: Neat, Kate Mantilini, Guest Bartending The Bottom Line

Caroline on CrackAidan Demarest with his award-winning Mai Tai at the Spare Room.​ Barman Aidan Demarest has managed some of the best cocktail bars in town, opening up downtown's whiskey bar Seven Grand and the Hollywood Roosevelt's bowling alley/lounge Spare Room, while also introducing a uni ... More >>

Glendale Police Officers Out of a Job After Using a Marked Patrol Car For a Trip to Las Vegas

Chris YarzabA Glendale P.D. Crown Vic.​Hey, guys: Let's take a patrol car to Vegas. No way. Way! That conversation, or something like it, was the likely beginning of the end for a trio of Glendale police officers, who this month are out of a job after the reportedly took a cop car on a Vegas ... More >>

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Women Surprised to Find Bed Bugs at $62 Glendale Motel, Sue

At $62 motels, they call this 'concierge.'​A trio of women who stayed at a Glendale motel are suing for medical bills and mental anguish after claiming they were attacked by blood-engorged bed bugs. Here's the thing, ladies: When you stay at a place called the Rodeway Inn-Regalodge Motel (ave ... More >>

[UPDATED] Rick Caruso vs. Ray Patel: Glendale Redevelopment Agency Eager to Flip Mom-and-Pop Hotel Into 'Americana at Brand'

Americana at Brand: No place for a $60 sleepover​The Golden Key Hotel is officially SOLD to Rick Caruso! Details after the jump. As if California lefties needed another reason to side with Governor Jerry Brown on wiping out redevelopment agencies across the state of California once and for al ... 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 >>

Rick Caruso's Greedy Land Grab

A Glendale family must sell him its motel near Americana at Brand or face eminent domain

Tonight: Delorean, Nitzer Ebb, Brian Wright, Brandon Flowers, A Perfect Circle, Useless Keys

Delorean​Delorean's chipper set of dance music was one of the highlights of September's FYF Fest in downtown L.A. -- the Barcelona-born quartet's four-on-the-floor beats proved an exhilarating finish to what, for some, was a frustrating festival experience. With its layered vocals, keening sy ... More >>

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Here Comes Another Taco Truck: Free Tacos That Taste of Tequila A Recipe

​Ho hum, another taco truck is rolling out. But wait until you hear what this one has to offer -- free tacos and taco fillings that are laced with tequila. The truck will travel all over Los Angeles and environs, starting with a launch in Glendale today, June 1st. During the next two months it ... More >>

Heal Thy Patient, Heal the Planet

Lila JavanUCLA Hospital Food Today​ Looking to hitch their food carts to the popular trend of sustainability, a growing number of Southern California medical centers have done away with canned goods and processed foods in their cafeterias and are making meals from scratch from locally sourced ... More >>

Missing Ex-UCLA Student Left Under Pressure, Made Up Story Of Abduction, Police Say

Glendale Police Department​A onetime UCLA student who went missing Wednesday apparently fled because of pressure she felt: She was expected by family to graduate this spring but declined to tell her kin she dropped out of school in 2008, police said. Nancy Salas, 22, took a bus to Merced, whe ... More >>

Missing Ex-UCLA Student Might Have Led Double Life

Nancy Salas.​The case of that missing, 22-year-old Glendale woman took a strange twist Thursday after UCLA revealed that she hadn't been enrolled there for about two years -- a fact that was news to her own family. Nancy Salas' family reported her missing Wednesday after she failed to return ... More >>

Missing Ex-UCLA Student Found Safe In Merced

Google Maps​That missing 22-year-old woman who was once enrolled at UCLA has been found safe in Merced, Glendale police reported Thursday afternoon. The circumstances behind Nancy Salas' disappearance were not immediately known. "Nancy Salas has been located,'' said Glendale police Sgt. Tom L ... More >>

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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 >>

Weak Economy Kills Love Ride 26

Glendale Harley-Davidson/Buell​While you can't say that Bernie Madoff killed Love Ride 26, but the cancellation of the annual motorcycle ride benefiting the Muscular Dystrophy Association is part and parcel of a collapsing economy whose victims include once-secure charities. The L.A. Daily News re ... More >>

Glendale City Council: No to 710 Tunnel

One of L.A.'s great communal imbroglios is the extension of the Long Beach Freeway, also known as State Route 710. Years ago construction ended at its Alhambra terminus, so that it currently connects Long Beach directly to -- Valley Boulevard. Caltrans wants to complete it so that the highway will c ... More >>

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