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'Every Lane Is A Bike Lane'

Did you know that bicyclists are entitled to a whole traffic lane, all to themselves? Yes. In an effort to make L.A. urban traffic slow down even more, Metro, the folks behind the bus and the subway, remind you that bicyclists have the same right to hold up traffic as any little old lady driver fro ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan: 5 Easy Steps To Get Your Life Back On Track

Gosh, Lohan, you're so inept at life you can't even take your luck at not having to do serious time for two DUIs and a jewelry theft and just lay low and run with it. (As friend Lalo Alcaraz said via Facebook, "If Lindsay Lohan was brown she'd already be doing 4 years in Chino."). No. In one day yo ... More >>

California Science Center Has Only Half the Money It Needs to Display Space Shuttle Endeavour

When Mayor Villaraigosa told Angelenos, "Moving the Endeavour will be a marvel of wonder and ingenuity," he wasn't kidding. And all that ingenuity -- and jet fuel, and tree trimming, and overtime paid to police and engineers -- didn't come cheap. Back in 2011, the California Science Center began ... More >>

Claire Rose: Friends Say Santa Monica Woman Was Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver on Her Birthday

In Santa Monica's third serious hit-and-run in as many weeks, a 30-year-old woman was killed by the driver of a dark Toyota sedan just after midnight on Monday morning. Friends on Facebook and Twitter identify the victim as Santa Monica resident Claire Rose. They say she was celebrating her birthda ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/11 - 6/15

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad." "Foie gras masquerading as Singaporean street food? Why not? Time is fleeting." 10 Best Foie Gras Dishes in Los Angeles. "It could be a scene from Portlandia." Mother Dough: Thursday, June 14, 8:14 p.m. "It looks like a ... More >>

89: Live Santa Barbara Spot Prawns at Providence

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 89: Live Santa Barbara Spot Prawns at Providence. Providence is the sort of place where you expect to be impressed, perhaps even astonished. Michael Cimarusti' ... More >>

Car Talk

Top 10 Live Music Venues in L.A.: The Complete List

Timothy Norris​California knows how to party. -"California Love" It's the unofficial state motto. But not only do we know how, we know where. Los Angeles is home to a wide spectrum of live music venues, from the teeniest Echo Park hole-in-the-wall only you and five friends know, to grand ol' ... More >>

Top 10 Best Live Music Venues in L.A.: #5-1

For all the best of L.A. music, download our free Best Of Mobile app. See also: Top Ten Best Live Music Venues in L.A.: #10 - #6 5. Music Box See also: R.I.P. the Music Box? Legendary Hollywood Venue Shuttered [UPDATE: Short-term?] News of the Music Box's overnight shuttering this month was met wi ... More >>

Winning the Future: Car Thieves Prefer Domestic Makes for First Time Since 2002

​President Obama should be damn proud of the 2010 car-theft report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau, craftily titled "Hot Wheels": Nationally--and for the first time since 2002--thieves preferred domestic makes over foreign brands. Ford took three spots, Dodge two and Chevrolet held o ... More >>

Carlos Ibanez, L.A. Homicide No. 4: Young Partygoer Gunned Down in Valley Glen Drive-By on New Year's Day

Google Maps​A Latino man who died January 4 after suffering multiple gunshot wounds at a New Year's Day house party in Valley Glen has been identified as 28-year-old Carlos Ibanez. According to the Los Angeles Times, Ibanez had no gang affiliation; however, LAPD detectives think the shooters ... More >>

Terrorist Dry Run at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Complex in Southern California? Three Middle Eastern Men Try to Drive on Base

The Daily MailAhmad Rahmani Naeem, Vahik Petrossian and Sengekdi Avanosian.​A scary situation unfolded at Southern California's Camp Pendleton, one of the nation's largest military bases, over the weekend. Marine Corps officials are downplaying the events, but what happened at the San Diego ... More >>

'Battle Los Angeles' Video Game Will Allow You to Fight Aliens From Home (Instead of the 405)

ColumbiaBattle Los Angeles.​As if Angelenos don't have enough to worry about -- the big one, some of the worst roads in the nation, Lindsay Lohan refusing to leave -- we have an apocalyptic scenario to enjoy next month. In the March 11 film Battle Los Angeles aliens invade our fair city. Stat ... More >>

Today in Grassroots Marketing: How to Promote Your Band with Only a Sharpie and a Truck

Gustavo TurnerHow to promote your band on the cheap​ It's getting harder and harder for musicians to get noticed these days (memo to local bands: if you hire an unprofessional, annoying PR hack who can't even write an email subject line spelling out the what/where/when--we won't name names--it ... More >>

Toyota Suffers Another Blow As SUV Deemed A 'Safety Risk'

ToyotaLexus GX in L.A.​Toyota's having a bad 2010. A week after learning that 200 lawsuits over so-called "sudden acceleration" and other alleged Toyota defects would be heard here in Los Angeles, the carmaker's North American leaders in Torrance woke up to the headline that Consumer Reports m ... More >>

Toyota Suspends Sales Of SUV That Failed 'Consumer Reports' Test

Toyota​Toyota late Tuesday announced it was suspending sales of its 2010 Lexus GX 460 SUV after Consumer Reports magazine reported it was prone to rolling over and declared the vehicle a "Don't Buy: Safety Risk." "We are taking the situation with the GX 460 very seriously and are determined t ... More >>

Toyota Blames Some Customers Who Report Sudden Acceleration

​In one of the more anticlimactic communiques from corporate America this week, Torrance-based Toyota Motor Sales USA announced that it has formed "SMART" teams to spin claims of sudden acceleration in its vehicles and blame the victims help local law enforcement uncover the causes of sudden a ... More >>

'Sudden-Acceleration' Lawsuits Against Toyota To Be Heard In L.A.

​It looks like Los Angeles will be ground zero for the debate over Toyota's problems with alleged "sudden-acceleration" in its vehicles as about 200 lawsuits against the carmaker will be consolidated and heard in federal court downtown, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation annou ... More >>

U.S. Seeks $16 Million-Plus Fine From Toyota

​The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is seeking the maximum fine of more than $16 million against Toyota Motor Corporation for remaining silent about acceleration problems four months even though it allegedly knew about its "sticky pedal" issues, the U.S. Department of T ... More >>

Figuring Out Toyota's Acceleration Problems IS Rocket Science

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood.​As smug as Toyota has been in declaring recent allegations of sudden-acceleration in its cars unfounded, it's wild to see U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announcing Tuesday that none other than NASA will be helping federal officials find th ... More >>

L.A. Could Be Ground Zero For Toyota's Legal Woes

​Torrance-based Toyota Motor Sales USA has asked that 200 sudden-acceleration lawsuits be consolidated into one case to be heard before a federal judge in Los Angeles. According to Associated Press, Toyota lawyer Cari Dawson argued before a U.S. Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in San Diego ... More >>

After SoCal P.R. Victory, Toyota On Counteroffensive (But Still Secretive)

​We're hard-pressed to think of any other facet of life where a company that might have caused accidents worth possible millions in liability and lost sales is able to investigate itself. But that seems to be the case as Torrance-based Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. gets another crack at a runaway ... More >>

U.S. Rep. With Auto Industry Ties Blames Victim In Toyota Acceleration Case

U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa.​The office of U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa expressed doubts over the weekend about a San Diego's man's report of a harrowing, out-of-control acceleration experience in his second-generation Toyota Prius, stating that tests attempting to recreate the ride proved that the vehic ... More >>

Toyota Poised To Blame Driver In San Diego Sudden-Acceleration Case

​No surprise here: Toyota's stance on the out-of-control acceleration famously experienced by a Prius driver earlier this month will mirror that of U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, the auto-industry-backed congressman who's been meddling in the case (on behalf of whom?) and practically attacking the ch ... More >>

Toyota Says Nothing Wrong With Runaway Prius, Questions Driver's Story

​As expected, Toyota on Monday said its tests of an alleged runaway Prius showed that there is nothing wrong with the car. The company stated from its Torrance-based U.S. headquarters that "these findings suggest that there should be further examination of [driver James] Sikes' account." As w ... More >>

Murder was the Case: LA Homicide No. 288, Man Killed in South Los Angeles Drive By Shooting

A man was fatally shot in what appears to be a drive by shooting in South Los Angeles on December 12. Rayshawn Boyce, 31, was shot in the leg and stomach in the 1400 block of 115 th Street. The suspects were driving a dark-colored Toyota or Nissan, according to police. Boyce was transported to a ne ... More >>

Industry Titans To Discuss Fossil Fuel Alternatives For Auto Industry

Ahead of this week's Los Angeles International Auto Show, a select group of industry titans is gathering at the Hammer Museum in Westwood Tuesday to discuss alternative fuels and new technologies for the auto industry. Scheduled attendees include Henrik Fisker, CEO of Fisker Automotive, John Krafci ... More >>

Cars You Should Steal (Why Do Burglars Always Target The Good Ones?)

Car burglars have been stripping BMWs of pricey parts on the Westside, Miracle Mile and Mid-Wilshire in recent months, prompting cops in the Los Angeles Police Department's Wilshire Division to be on the lookout. Authorities say about 50 BMW 3 and 5 series cars have been burglarized, mostly for airb ... More >>

Petra Haden Sells Out

A singer lets her love flow in a quirky series of Toyota Prius commercials

Sunset Junction: Corner of Mellow and Sparse

Crazy Happenings in the South Bay

Party Alert: Bloc Party and Free Bowling Tonight!

As anyone who read our Nightranger columns about the recent Toyota Antics events featuring Squeak E Clean at the car wash and Ladytron in a bowling alley is aware, these bashes are bananas. If you're reading this Monday afternoon, you still have a shot at attending tonight's sure-to-rollin' event, ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off

Car wash, yeah; pole-dancing queen; photo Zone at Drkrm

Buying Billboards, Bugging Bloggers

Wired got someone from Clear Channel on the line to confirm that their annoying electronic billboard was not hacked. Clear Channel's Tony Alwin is unhappy about the hacking rumors. "The advertisement was bought under the assumption that it was art that was in an art show," he says. "Any claims abo ... More >>

Arnold and Edward, and Their Morning at Disney Hall

Life without basketball

Rather Ripping

Urban Outfitters in Santa Monica, July 21

Mexican Time

My New Radio Crushes

Indie 103.1FM is officially on my shitlist. I've had enough of retarded Toyota of Huntington Beach ads and Suicide Girls talking about making out with their girlfriends. And most disturbingly, I discovered that morning host Joe Escalante/Dr. LegalDouche is, apparently, an amateur toreador. Ole! ... More >>

Commencement Exercises

Tom O'Day, Louis Hock, Fantasy Islands

Let’s Go for a Ride!

Car culture on Pacific rims

JC Superstar

Yogis for Kerry

The Capital of Car Design

L.A. is, once again, where the action is

Hijacked by Hybrids

Who unplugged the electric car?

Man vs. Machine: My Miracle Worker Drives a Harley

Chicks Dig Phones

Early Times With Julie Andrews in Fishland

Chop Shop Guys