Sherman Oaks

Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's

It's Free Cone Day at participating Ben & Jerry's across the nation. From noon to 8 p.m., customers can get a free cone of ice cream in the flavor of his or her choice, including classic, Greek Frozen Yogurt and newer flavors.

Snow In Sherman Oaks?

A cozy layer of white stuff on the ground in Sherman Oaks (see photo on the next page) had some Angelenos asking if we got a rare dusting of snow right in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley. The answer, says the National Weather Service in Oxnard, is no. What you see on the ground is only a mirage of fro ... More >>

Trader Joe's Wine Thief Takes Fire From LAPD

A wine thief at the Sherman Oaks Trader Joe's nearly lost his life after cops shot at him last night. We hope he wasn't just boosting a case of Two Buck Chuck. Two LAPD officers were outside the store investigating a traffic incident when out comes Senor Boost-A-Vino with a case in-hand, according ... More >>

Pizza Party: 20¢ Slices at Mulberry Street Pizzeria

Beverly Hills pie slinger Mulberry Street Pizzeria is celebrating 20 years of business tomorrow, Oct. 3, with a pretty spectacular deal on its New York-style slices, marking them down to a mere 20-cents each. Even better, all proceeds from the day's sales will be donated to the The Michael J. Fox Fo ... More >>

Yamadaya Word Cloud: Pig, Pig, Noodle Opening in Sherman Oaks

If this does not make you hungry, well, then there's not much we can do for you. The ramen -- they also have rice bowls and gyoza and tsukemen -- at Yamadaya is of the kind that won't leave you needing more food for some time. It is a study in pork more than noodles, although the noodles are excelle ... More >>

New Jazz Bakery In Jeopardy; West Side Jazz Scene Hurting

Tom MeekThe Ron Jones Orchestra at the Jazz Bakery, 2008​The Jazz Bakery, L.A.'s major jazz non-profit organization, is in turmoil because of the pending shutdown of the Culver City Redevelopment Agency. Jazz Bakery president Ruth Price had been working with the agency to reopen Jazz Bakery's ... More >>

This Is What Happens to Your Mansion When You Keep Your Christmas Tree Too Long

We've all heard the warnings: No matter how it pains you to say goodbye to the holidays for a long, loveless January, do not leave your Christmas tree up as a symbol of denial. L.A. County and City officials go to great lengths, each year, to make the disposal process as painless as possible, offeri ... More >>

L.A. Arson Fires: Suspect Under Arrest, LAFD Says

Updated at the bottom with an official arrest (the third since Thursday). Fire officials now count 53 blazes in the arson spree. First posted at 2:48 a.m. Monday. The L.A. arson fires have sated the city's everlasting expectation for the criminally bizarre, but so far there's no Michael Connelly en ... More >>

DUI Checkpoints in South L.A., Sherman Oaks

Cliff​We like to rib the LAPD for staging DUI checkpoints in communities that seem to have easy pickins. The department has been accused in the past of using its checkpoints to impound the cars (for cash) of illegal immigrants, who can't get licenses and are thus subject to such reaming. But ... More >>

Brian Posehn's Perfect Day In The Valley: Food, Toys More Food

Brian Posehn is a comic, writer, actor, and food-eater. The Comedians of Comedy, Sarah Silverman Program, and Mr. Show alumnus is also a dedicated San Fernando Valleyite and gastronome. Squid Ink recently asked Posehn to describe what his most perfectest day in the Valley with his wife and baby wo ... More >>

Feds Sue Rogue Debt Collectors in the Valley, Reveal Horrifying Tactics They Used to Collect

mymajicdc.comWhatever it takes.​Ever had the grave misfortune, over the last five years, of receiving a call from Forensic Case Management Services in Van Nuys? You'd definitely remember. (Though the company may have called itself Rumson, Bolling and Associates, Commercial Recovery Solutions ... More >>

L.A. 'Helicopter Noise Relief Act' Proposed After Valley, Hills Residents Finally Discover What It's Like to Live in Chopper Hell

SZONE via FlickrYeah, we know. It sucks.​The national media is in a tither this week over the concept of "helicopter traffic" in Los Angeles -- an offshoot of the ridiculous amount of buzz we received for Carmageddon. Though the big 405 closure turned out to be an anticlimactic breeze, the m ... More >>

Free Comic Book Day Events in Los Angeles

Liz OhanesianYou can get your Free Comic Book Day Dark Crystal book signed at Meltdown Comics tomorrow.​May 7 is the first Saturday of May and, as many comic book lovers know, that means it's Free Comic Book Day. The annual event encourages people to support their local comic book shop with lo ... More >>

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Drunk Driver Checkpoints Tonight, Saturday in Valley, South L.A.

Alex Thompson​It's late in the day, but we didn't forget about you potential drunk drivers. The LAPD will be out in force this weekend looking for you. They actually want you to know this in hopes that you'll just decide to take a cab or let your momma drive you home. Here's where the cops a ... More >>

Oak Fire Pizzeria & Pub Opens in Sherman Oaks Tonight More From Greg Morris

L. Balla​Sherman Oaks, get ready for your slice of West Hollywood: Greg Morris' Oak Fire Pizzeria & Pub finally opens to the public tonight. The original Oak Fire opened on La Cienega in 2007, keeping partygoers sated with wood-fired pizzas, salads and afternoon happy hours. With a brick oven ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Spherical Pies, Chefs go Animal House Marco Pierre White Disses Jamie Oliver

-- Celebrate Pi Day (3/14) with a spherical pie. [Boing Boing] -- Dude, Those Candied Walnuts Go Great at a Kegger, or the movement of trained chefs to frat houses. [The Wall Street Journal] -- Suzanne Goin Hosts New York Chef Gabrielle Hamilton For Book-Signing Dinner, or more reasons to go to ... More >>

Sorry L.A. Hookah Hipster: That Pipe is Dirty, and Could be Bad for Your Health

Stay back, Charlie Sheen: It's hook-ah.​Hookahs are everywhere in L.A., second only, perhaps, to the city's ubiquitous pot shops. (Maybe people are practicing). There's Ali Mama Cafe in Silver Lake and Up In Smoke Hookah Lounge in Sherman Oaks. They're not hard to find. One of the allures o ... More >>

Sherman Oaks Residents Want T-Mobile Cell Phone Tower, Erected In The 'Wee Hours,' Taken Down

NBC4Some Sherman Oaks residents want to disconnect this call.​Another day another cell-phone tower controversy in Los Angeles, this time in Sherman Oaks. We recently told you how neighbors at a tower site near Beverly Hills became enraged by what they saw as an un-permitted move by AT&T at 1 ... More >>

LudoBites 6.0: Coming to Max Restaurant in Sherman Oaks

LudoBites​ For everyone who has been pining for LudoBites, chef Ludovic Lefebvre's moveable feast of a restaurant, since the last edition at Gram & Papa's ended, you can start your emailing and tweeting again now. The next edition of LudoBites -- this is now 6.0, if you and Sam Sifton are cou ... More >>

"My associate has a wife whose submissiveness is unparalleled": The only self-published love guide blurbed by the producer of Saw

​Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. Spread Some Love: Relationships 101 Author: John A. Andrews Date: 2008 Publisher: Books That Will Enhance Your ... More >>

Alleged O.C. Shoplifter Leads Authorities On Car Chase To Sherman Oaks

KCAL9​A woman alleged to have shoplifted at the Shops at Mission Viejo mall led authorities on a freeway pursuit all the way to Sherman Oaks Wednesday afternoon. KTLA News picked up the chase about 1:40 p.m. as it headed north on the 405 passed LAX, through Culver City and West L.A. and into t ... More >>

City Of Los Angeles To Open 'Cooling Centers' To Beat The Heat

​In response to a summer heat wave that has seen temperatures above the hundred-degree mark in the San Fernando Valley, the city of Los Angeles on Thursday announced it's opening "cooling centers" on the weekend. The centers will include libraries, senior citizens' facilities and park-and-rec ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/3-5/7

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Romance and Mount Washington don't necessarily go together. I mean, they do, but not in restaurants, unless you want to re-enact the Lady and the Tramp spaghetti scene at Casa Bianca, which you don't."

Dive Bar Report: The Barrel in Sherman Oaks

N. GalutenAn afternoon with your friend Jameson at The Barrel in Sherman Oaks​ The Place: The Barrel Sports Bar, 4547 Van Nuys Blvd. Sherman Oaks, 818-990-2095. The Hours: Every day from 10am to 2am. ​The Digs: Close your eyes and imagine a Sherman Oaks dive bar at 2 o'clock on a Monday a ... More >>

L.A. Firefighters Ponder The Possibility Of An 8.0 Earthquake

​Can you imagine what a magnitude 8.0 earthquake would do to urban Los Angeles? It's a scenario being seriously considered by the Los Angeles Fire Department Monday as it stages a "full-scale" exercise to train and prepare for just such a calamity. For three-and-a-half hours Fire Station 88 i ... More >>

Hate the Holidays? Here Are a Few Alternatives If You're Not In the Thanksgiving Mood

Thanksgiving is tomorrow and already streets are getting lit up with glitzy holiday decor. But for some people, this is not the most wonderful time of the year. Whether your family lives too far away to visit, your friends aren't exactly "Thanksgiving material," or you just straight up hate the holi ... More >>

Meals On Wheels: A Brief L.A. Food Truck Update

Buttermilk Truck launches the evening of November 11th at The Brig in Venice (via LAist). The Grilled Cheese Truck, which launched last week, just posted this week's schedule on their website. Today, Brentwood. Tomorrow, on KTLA. Flying Pig Truck, which hit the streets in mid-October, is on Cahuen ... More >>

Fresh Cutt Carving Grill, and the New Fast Food (Hopefully)

Fresh Cutt​Recently there've been a number of new fast food restaurants opening, not just affordable but environmentally- savvy and health-conscious. We're talking about restaurants like Veggie Grill and Bawarchi, and now Fresh Cutt Carving Grill. For the sake of comparison, if Bawarchi is an ... More >>

LA Chocolate Salon: Chocolate Mustaches, A New Fudge Operation, A Cupcake Shop Coming to Sherman Oaks, and Chocolate Bars with GPS Coordinates

A. Scattergoodchocolates from Neapolitan Printing & Co.​This past weekend's Luxury Chocolate Salon, in which 35 chocolatiers and confectioners and bakers--and a lot of chocaholics--gathered at the Pasadena Convention Center, was more fun than you'd think you'd have under glaring fluorescent li ... More >>

Will Van Nuys Secede From Itself?

Following today's L.A. City Council vote, Van Nuys upholds its reputation as the incredible shrinking town. Over time bits of the largely blue-collar, Latino community have either broken off to form Valley Glen or simply thrown in the towel completely and joined Sherman Oaks -- when Sherman Oaks wou ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

He-e-e-r-re's Eddie! Ed McMahon, the sidekick's sidekick, who for 30 years suffered and shone as Johnny Carson's foil, straight man and MC, has died of undisclosed causes at the age of 86. L.A. TimesSheriff Stops DNA Search Blaming budget woes, L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca has halted his department' ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

The Last Roundup Kevin Kachikian, the final defendant in the Anthony Pellicano RICO trial to be sentenced, is scheduled in federal court Monday morning. See story here later today.Mini-Madoff Fallout A $10 million contribution to the ailing Children's Museum may turn out to be a financial mirage, th ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

The Emptying Sky Both LAX and LA/Ontario airports are experiencing substantial decreases in their numbers of travelers, despite a wave of fare reductions. L.A. TimesFreeway With a View Rows of noise-break trees have been cut down by the side of the 405 Freeway in Sherman Oaks, and by an apartment co ... More >>

Today in Photographs: February 16, 1943

Cahuenga Pass, before the freeway. Note landscaping and railroad tracks. The picture brings to mind Raymond Chandler's famous road revelry in The Little Sister, that begins with Philip Marlowe recalling: "I drove east on Sunset but I didn't go home. At La Brea I turned north and swung over to Highla ... More >>

Torched Dancer and Bikini Club Profiled

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 >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Oscar Nominations Announced The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leads pack but, Dude, where's my Gran Torino?Van Nuys Community Seeks Asylum -- In Sherman Oaks L.A. Daily News' Rick Orlov reports on an another group of Van Nuys residents who want to break away from V.N. and be rebranded as part of S ... More >>

Global Disorder Takes Center Stage at DocuWeek

Lights, camera, reality

Dog Days of Summer: Seeking Sausage Satori

Along the hot-dog trail, stops at Jeff's Gourmet, Brats Brothers, the Infield and Yaki's

Best Place to Get Nailed (Safely)

Best Spots You're Sure Not to Get Shot by Mark the Cobrasnake

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Jewish Resurrection

A deal’s within reach to save community centers in Silver Lake and Sherman Oaks

Undone by Debt and Negligence

Bills, not bullets, killed the community center that survived a racist attack. Other centers are trying to hang on.

In Service to the Patron Saint of Cirrhosis

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Keba-ba-ba-bin Along

Lebanese food in Sherman Oaks