Flash mobs need to stop. In fact, they needed to stop about five years ago. We've all been there, walking through the grocery store alone on a Saturday, perusing the natural foods aisle looking for someone to make fun of in our heads. "Oh man, that dude's not gonna lose weight eating organic fudge ... More >>
This family restaurant in Van Nuys delights with northern Thai dishes — as long as you ask for the special menu
So you believe that, with all this Carmageddon business, many folks will just end up staying off the road altogether -- and the LAPD will back off on its weekend drunk-busting. Hah. Wishful thinking. As the weather starts to cook for an impending post-summer blast of warmth, the department is turn ... More >>
Zester Daily: The sweet, peppery bite of ginger-infused summer drinks. MSNBC Bites: Food Network Chef Cat Cora's DUI mugshot. Good Food: A recipe for lemon meringue tarts with canned lemon curd. L.A. Foodie: Vicious Dogs in North Hollywood is Ben and Drew's number one favorite hot dog place in ... More >>
A North Hollywood personal trainer who called himself Dejon "Danger" Miller has been in jail since the middle of December for allegedly torturing, beating and sexually/emotionally abusing at least two women he met on Craigslist. (The suspect's real middle name is Allan; not quite as sexy.) Detecti ... More >>
Updated below: The department says staffers like Moton are issued vans "to transport children." We recently learned what L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services employees aren't doing on the job -- namely, protecting kids from harm -- and now we might have a better idea of what they' ... More >>
Thugs like 'em too.Times are hard and it's turning into the Wild West on the streets of L.A. We told you recently about a rash of smash-and-grab jewelry store robberies in downtown and Koreatown. What is this, Las Vegas? The Los Angeles Times says the high value of gold has been a major facto ... More >>
Guzzle and Nosh"Nothing ever happens in North Hollywood"? The NoHo Taco Cook-Off is the third in a series of events -- the NoHo Food Truck festivals in March and June being the first and second -- that brings together local music, dance performances and food in an effort to show off this part ... More >>
ABC7The NoHo fires.Updated at the bottom with the suspect being held in lieu of a quarter million bail. First posted at 4:11 p.m. Those scary arson fires in North Hollywood -- at least 18 in all -- might be over. Authorities this morning arrested a man in North Hollywood who was in allegedly ... More >>
VIP Showgirls.A strip club patron was fatally shot over the weekend, police said. It happened about 10 p.m. Saturday inside VIP Showgirls Gentlemen's Club at 12147 Victory Blvd. in North Hollywood's struggling Valley Plaza shopping center, according to the LAPD. It's not clear what set off ... More >>
Green = green.Officially -- and that's the key word here -- only about 100 pot shops in L.A. are supposed to eventually survive. That's what would remain from about 550 or so that existed in the city last year. The dispensaries, eligible to stay only if they were opened before a failed, 2007 ... More >>
west.mPolice were searching for a young man they say met a girl on Facebook and MySpace, kidnapped her, and raper her over the weekend. KTLA News reports that the man drove to he 14-year-old victim's North Hollywood home Sunday and kidnapped her before raping her. The girl was rescued by a ... More >>
Quaint little CarpenterUpdated after the jump: Police nab the suspect. Second LAUSD lockdown of the day: Carpenter Elementary in Studio City, which police felt was too close for comfort to the location they last saw suspected murderer Luis Solano on the run. Laurel Canyon Boulevard has also ... More >>
KTLAA similarly packed North Hollywood home that went up in flames two years agoAn 80-year-old woman who had been living in her Van Nuys home since the 1960s died in the hospital this morning after a house fire burned 80 percent of her body, according to KNX news radio. Her dog was also a v ... More >>
There are so many great uses for clean waterThe 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 >>
Flickr user Thomas HawkTom's BurgersMultiple news outlets are reporting that late yesterday morning, around 11:30, a man crashed his car into North Hollywood restaurant Tom's Burgers. The driver -- who was suspected to be under the influence of an aerosol substance -- drove his car through a ... More >>
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call of a burning car on Radford Street under the 101 overpass in Studio City just after 3 this morning. The car, some sort of sedan, was engulfed in flames when they got there. Firefighters discovered human remains in the trunk of the car, ac ... More >>
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call of a burning car on Radford Street under the 101 overpass in Studio City just after 3 this morning. The car, some sort of sedan, was engulfed in flames when they got there. Firefighters discovered human remains in the trunk of the car, ac ... More >>
LAPD officers began the crackdown at the intersection of Victory Blvd and Satsuma Ave.An alarming increase in pedestrian deaths over the year spurred a crackdown by the LAPD Tuesday in North Hollywood. The operation is part of the Valley Division's "Pedestrian and Child Safety Campaign." Acco ... More >>
A woman who was found fatally shot in the chest in a vehicle in North Hollywood April 13 has been identified as 37-year-old Anel Juarez. View Larger Map The shooting occurred at 10:09 p.m. Tuesday in the 12200 block of Gault Street.
The four men who were killed in an assassination-style attack at a cafe in North Hollywood have been identified as Harut Baburyan, 28, Sarkis Karadjian, 26, Vardan Tofalyan, 31, and Hayk Yegnanyan, 25. View Larger Map Two other people were wounded in the April 3 attack that occurred around 4:30 p. ... More >>
A fight between three men on Valentine's Day, left one dead in North Hollywood. According to police reports, the physical altercation began around 1:15 a.m. on Vanowen Street near Lankershim Boulevard. View Larger Map During the struggle, one of the men pulled out a handgun and shot and killed 18- ... More >>
One man was killed and another wounded in a gang-related shooting in North Hollywood January 23. The double shooting occurred around 10:30 p.m. Saturday in the 11000 block of Califa Avenue. View Larger Map According to police reports, the victims were strolling through a rival gang neighborhood wh ... More >>
Don't get a DUI on NYE. That would be, like, WTF, OMG. (Plus we don't want you injuring anyone we know or love. And, as a California Highway Patrol officer told KTLA News, a drunk-driving arrest will cost you about $13,000 over the course of a case). The Los Angeles Police Department has sob ... More >>
Deputy Chief Michael Downing.Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief backed away from comments published in an Israeli newspaper last week indicating that be believed the North Hollywood synagogue shooting Oct. 30 was "a stern warning linked to a criminal organization." Two men were wounded in the a ... More >>
A man who was fatally shot in the parking lot of a North Hollywood Sears department store has been identified as 19-year-old Gombert Wepremyan. The 8:45 p.m. shooting took place in the 6400 block of North Laurel Canyon Boulevard close to Victory Boulevard on November 18. View Larger Map Lt. Bryan ... More >>
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83ALL CAKE, NO FILE Photo by Jonathan KalanDonna Jo Thorndale's Johnny Cash tribute with live cooking, All Cake, No File, continues this weekend as part of the WTF? Festival at the Actors' Gang/Ivy Substation in ... More >>
Police today were questioning a 17-year-old boy in the shooting of two men at the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue in North Hollywood early this morning, police told LA Weekly. The attack, which wounded the men, was being investigated as a possible hate crime, and area synagogues and temples ... More >>
Police seemed dumbfounded by Thursday morning's shooting of two men at a North Hollywood synagogue. Officers at the scene of the shooting at the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue in the 12400 block of Sylvan St. picked up a 17-year-old boy who loosely matched the description of the shooter. B ... More >>
The shooting that shook L.A.'s Jewish community Thursday and provided flashbacks to the hate-fueled North Valley Jewish Community Center shooting a decade ago was likely a personal attack, according to reports.Google MapsThe site of the shootings. ABC7 and KTLA News state that police say the ... More >>
The Los Angeles Police Department is searching today for two men involved in a fight that killed a Pacoima man outside a North Hollywood nightclub. According to police reports, Juan Guijarro-Ramirez, 44, got into a fight with the two men at the Hacienda Corona nightclub at 11700 Victory Boulevard, ... More >>
The Los Angeles Police Department is reporting that two women in their 20s were found dead today at a vacant house in North Hollywood. Their throats had been slashed. A third woman, who was described to be in her 40s, was taken to the hospital with apparent knife wounds. View Larger Map One fatall ... More >>
Sergio Ramirez, 19, was fatally wounded August 11, in a shooting at a gas station convenience store in North Hollywood. View Larger MapThe incident happened at an AM/PM store located in the 6700 block of Laurel Canyon Boulevard, near Vanowen Street, about 8:50 p.m. Tuesday, police said. According t ... More >>
Photo Credit: Nguyen TranBefore the restaurant, even before the food truck, there is the home kitchen, the starting point for most culinary businesses. One North Hollywood couple has opened theirs up to the public. Husband-and-wife team Nguyen and Thi Tran are now operating Starry Kitchen fr ... More >>
The latest NEW REVIEWS are embedded in this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, this week's STAGE FEATURE on two plays set beyond the end of the word: Henry Murray's Treefall and Eugene Ionesco's The ChairsCLOSER THAN EVER is Lodestone Theatre Company's musical revue, opening this weekend, ... More >>
THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedHELL'S KITCHEN ABLAZE by Tommy Carter is being reviewed this weekend Check back here Monday afternoon for the latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS seen over the weekend ... More >>
A 46-year-old man was shot multiple times following a verbal argument with another man in North Hollywood on July 23. View Larger Map According to police reports, Akop Aduryan was arguing while standing on the sidewalk in the 7500 block of Goodland Avenue around 11 p.m. when a suspect opened fire, ... More >>
THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSMR. MERKIN BECOMES TONY AWARD VOTER! Mr. Merkin's father, also named Mr. Merkin, ruminating upon why his son is such an idiot. His dog, Scrapper, feels exactly the same way. Our guest blogger-critic Mr. Merkin reports ... More >>
A Hispanic teen was stabbed to death at her residence in the 7000 block of Whitsett Avenue near Sherman Way in North Hollywood on June 26. View Larger Map Crystal Zaldivar, 17, was found dead inside her apartment 3 p.m., Friday, by maintenance personnel. According to police reports, Zaldivar, who ... More >>
A Hispanic male in his early 20's was killed in the early hours of June 8 in a possible attempted robbery gone bad. View Larger Map According to preliminary police reports, the victim was staying at the Corona Motel at 11727 Saticoy Street in North Hollywood when he was hit over the head with a bo ... More >>
Today's L.A. Daily News identifies the exotic dancer who was set ablaze yesterday as a Brazilian-born single mother of two named Roberta Abdue Dos Santos Busby. The 27-year-old Simi Valley woman had recently lost her bill-collector job and returned to dancing at Babes 'n Beer Sports Bar in Tarzana. ... More >>
Today's L.A. Daily News identifies the exotic dancer who was set ablaze yesterday as a Brazilian-born single mother of two named Roberta Abdue Dos Santos Busby. The 27-year-old Simi Valley woman had recently lost her bill-collector job and returned to dancing at Babes 'n Beer Sports Bar in Tarzana. ... More >>
Check back on Monday after noon for New Theatre Reviews of Babes in Toyland presented by the Pasadena Playhouse; Smokey Joe's Cafe at the El Portal; Cy Coleman's The Life presented by Jaxx Theatricals at the Stella Adler; It's Just Sex at Two Roads Theatre; the West Coast premiere of Charles B ... More >>
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