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June 8, 2012
Thank You For Coming Launches Restaurant Residency Program
Atwater Village's Kickstarter-funded "restaurant project" Thank You for Coming announced yesterday that it had finally received its approval from the L.A. County Health Department and plans to host its first open house on June 21, from noon to midnight. Thank You For Coming aims to become L.A.'s f ... More >>
Blogs
June 6, 2012
92: Thai Boat Noodles at Pa-Ord
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. 92: Thai Boat Noodles at Pa-Ord. You ask a friend with a reputation for never traveling beyond Sepulveda if she wants to join you for Thai food. She tells you, ... More >>
Blogs
June 5, 2012
Farmers Market Watch: Altadena and Monterey Park Markets Reopen
It looks like 2012 is quickly becoming the Year of the Farmers Market for many L.A.-area communities. Along with new markets opening at Griffith Park and the Sunset Strip, two more markets will be reopening this summer.
Blogs
May 31, 2012
Scientists Decode the Genome of the Tomato
In what gives us high hopes for the future of the tomato, Reuters reports that scientists in the Tomato Genome Consortium have decoded the entire genome sequence of a domesticated tomato breed named Heinz 1706 that, yes, is the same breed used to make Heinz ketchup. The genome of its closest wild r ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2012
97: Tsukemen at Tsujita L.A.
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. 97: Tsukemen at Tsujita L.A. Since opening last August, Little Osaka's Tsujita L.A. has quickly become the most serious purveyor of Hakata tonkotsu in town, a ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2012
Nong Lá Café Brings Bun Bo Hue to West L.A.
Nong Lá Café, the latest addition to the strip of Sawtelle Boulevard often known as Little Osaka due to its concentration of Japanese eateries, is offering something a bit different than most of its neighbors -- instead of ramen and yakitori, diners will able able to get a taste of Vietnamese spec ... More >>
Blogs
May 18, 2012
Jet Crashes Near Camarillo Airport
Updated at the bottom with more information about the plane, which was being used by the military. Headline has been changed. First posted at 12:49 p.m. A private jet crashed near Camarillo Airport this afternoon, according to authorities and reports. A Ventura County sheriff's captain told the We ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2012
14 Essential Items to Bring to Every Fan Convention
It's that time of year where it seems like there's at least one big fan convention going on every weekend somewhere in the country. Whether you're planning on heading to New Jersey for The Steampunk World's Fair later this month or counting down for San Diego Comic-Con in July, there are a few esse ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2012
6 Phrases That California Started Using Before Everyone Else
The Southern California vocabulary, as endearing or maddening as it can be, doesn't exactly have a reputation for erudition. And we're totally chill about that. The Dictionary of American Regional English, which you may have heard of recently, is an ambitious lexicographical project that recently r ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2012
626 Night Market Organizers Respond To Community Feedback
For many, the 626 Night Market was a logistical nightmare. Tens of thousands of people poured into Oakland Avenue between Colorado Boulevard and Union Street on Friday evening. Lines for vendors were impossible to maneuver through and many compared the turn-out to that of Coachella and the Pebble Be ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2012
PHOTOS: Armored Vehicle Dangles off 5 South Overpass, Spills Gas Onto Freeway Below
Wondering why you're stuck in a traffic jam from hell during what should be a breezy Good Friday rush hour? The hold-up has everything to do with a mysterious armored vehicle (Bruce Willis, are you in there??) dangling off the 5 South overpass in Boyle Heights, glaring down menacingly at the 10 Wes ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2012
Project X-Style Party in Holmby Hills Swarmed by 500 Teens, Busted by Riot Cops
A massive, Project X-style teen party in Holmby Hills was busted by police over the weekend. The Twitter account LAScanner reported that as many as 500 people gathered at a home in the 1300 block of Holmby Avenue Saturday night, drawing officers from across the LAPD's western divisions. Arriving ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2012
Top 10 Strip Clubs in Los Angeles
So you're curious to go to a strip club, but unless your buddy is a regular and brings you along, how are you going to pick which one? Yelp? Give me a break. Thankfully for you, our L.A. Weekly experts have compiled the top ten strip clubs in L.A. But don't get too excited -- save it for the girls.
Blogs
March 23, 2012
Happy (Belated) Birthday, Twitter: 10 of Our Favorite Food-Related Tweets
Twitter turned six years old this past Wednesday, which means six years of communicating via intermittent bursts of 140-character sound bytes and six years of convincing ourselves that even the most mundane of thoughts are worthy of a megaphone. According to the official Twitter blog, there are now ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2012
Tweet-A-Beer: Buying Your Idiot Friends Drinks Has Never Been Easier
At South By Southwest last week, Fiona Apple took the stage outside of L.A. for the first time in five years. Bruce Springsteen referenced "blue balls" in his keynote speech. In other news, the Tweet-A-Beer Twitter app also made its official debut, which is fitting considering many SXSW attendees ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2012
PHOTO: Car Shears Fire Hydrant, Unleashes Epic Geyser on Northeast L.A.
Just as Los Angeles was breathing a sigh of relief this afternoon that the rainstorm had finally passed, some terrible driver had to go and shear off a fire hydrant in the Rose Hills. That's all it took for an epic, 10-storyish geyser...
Blogs
February 28, 2012
The Great Los Angeles Hailstorm of 2012, in Instagrams
Los Angeles and its outskirts got the closest thing SoCal gets to snow yesterday: a hailstorm of epic (or at least dime-sized) proportions. But we're going to put aside the "L.A. weather wussies" jokes for now, so dumbstruck are we by the gorgeous, hail-themed Instagrams that inundated Twitter on M ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2012
Earl Sweatshirt Is Home!
Earl Sweatshirt, the lost member of Los Angeles collective Odd Future, is back home. How do we know? Less than an hour ago, Tyler, the Creator, tweeted that Earl has a Twitter account, @earlxsweat. So far, the mysterious rapper only has three updates -- the first simply says, "home," and the last ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2011
Bree'Anna Guzman-Ruiz Is Missing: Young Lincoln Heights Mom Went Out for Cough Syrup, Never Came Home
Bree'Anna Guzman-Ruiz via FacebookLAPD detectives are trying to track down a 22-year-old mother of two who went missing Monday night in Lincoln Heights. Bree'Anna Guzman-Ruiz, as she spells her name on Facebook, told her family on the evening after Christmas that she was going out to buy cou ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2011
Best L.A. Twitter Beefs of 2011 (and Who Won)
Like most news bloggers, we probably spend too much time on Twitter. Tips arrive in real time -- quicker than on news television, or over the wire -- and Twitpics open us up to a world of witnesses. In effect, we might also talk about it too much. (Online celebrity rags are guiltiest of all: ... More >>
Blogs
December 12, 2011
John Atterberry, Music Exec, Died Today Following Friday's Sunset & Vine Shooting Spree Caught on Video
Tyler Brehm on Facebook.Updated at the bottom with victim John Atterberry dying today. First posted at 11:12 a.m. Friday. A suspect was dead this morning after at least one LAPD officer responding to a "man-with-a-gun" call at the iconic intersection of Sunset and Vine opened fire, police to ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2011
L.A. Wind Fans Occidental College Fire as Students Evactuated: Power Outages Reported Across Region
Updated at the bottom with the fire out. First posted at 1:24 a.m. Among the wind-related calamitous happenings overnight, including trees into homes and power outages far-and-wide, was a grass fire on and around the Eagle Rock campus of Occidental College, President Obama's alma mater. You gotta ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2011
Pasadena Closes All Schools, Declares 'State of Emergency' -- Insane Winds, Downed Trees, Power Outages
Updated at the bottom with water issues in Northeast L.A. Also, photos of Oscar De La Hoya's driveway. Not pretty. Meteorologists say the storm will be back in full force tonight. Originally posted at 9:35 a.m. This is the closest Pasadena kids will ever get to a snow day: KNX news radio is report ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2011
Occupy L.A. Raid: LAPD Moves In To Clear City Hall Camp [Live Video]
With reporting from Dennis Romero. Occupy this awesome Ted Soqui slideshow of the night's festivities here.Tonight's the night for the LAPD raid of Occupy L.A. Updates from the top. Images and live video after the jump.1:05 p.m. [Wednesday] LAPD Officer Bruce Borihanh says there were 292 tot ... More >>
Blogs
November 21, 2011
Beverly Hills-Adjacent Smoke Shop Robbery Ends in Death For One Suspect
Google MapsLooks like bad guys robbed the wrong place in more ways than one. Not only did they hit a Pico-Robertson smoke shop next to a marijuana dispensary (?), but the shop owner defended his business with a a gun. One suspect was killed and another was wounded before an apparent retreat ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2011
Occupy L.A. Pitches Mini Tent City at Bank of America Plaza; Riot Police Move in for Arrests
TwitterStandoff at Occupy Bank of America Plaza.Update, 4:20 p.m.: Occupiers aren't leaving. Police look unsure of what to do. Watch the impending clash on the Occupy L.A. live stream, which has almost 1,000 viewers right now. Update, 4 p.m.: Occupiers have 10 minutes to clear plaza, or face ... More >>
Blogs
November 15, 2011
Ghostface Killah Changes Mind About Online Impersonator Ghostfase: 'Shout Out to My Mini Muse.... Funny Ass Ninja'
Internet junkies earned a new respect for Ghostface Killah back in March, under the illusion it was he who had conjured the brilliant and hysterical (to the point of tears) "Top 10 Softest Rappers In The Game." But when West Coast darling Wiz Khalifa and the other teddy bears on the list sta ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2011
The Worst Rapper Names Of All Time, Besides Shorty Shitstain
Why not Royce Da 5'9" 170 pounds, 10 shoe size?See also: *Top Five Worst Ironic Indie Rock Band Names, Besides Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. *There's Three Of Us, But We're Not The Beatles: The Ten Most Illogical Rap Lyrics In History In the tarnished annals of rubbish musician names, rappers have ... More >>
Art+Books
October 20, 2011
An Xiao, Man Bartlett and Petra Cortright Make Avatars the New Self-Portraits
Why not Royce Da 5'9" 170 pounds, 10 shoe size?See also: *Top Five Worst Ironic Indie Rock Band Names, Besides Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. *There's Three Of Us, But We're Not The Beatles: The Ten Most Illogical Rap Lyrics In History In the tarnished annals of rubbish musician names, rappers have ... More >>
Blogs
October 12, 2011
UNTAPPD: New Beer App Makes Drinking (Virtually) Social
A little late for last year's check-in app rage, but just in time for the third annual LA Beer Week comes another new Android and iPhone app for beer geeks and casual macro-enjoyers alike. UNTAPPD started out last year as a web app that allowed users to share their current beer choices with ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2011
Leisha Hailey Scolded For Girl-Girl Kiss While Aboard Southwest Flight: Actress Says Airline is Anti-Gay, Calls For Boycott
Leisha.Hollywood actress Leisha Hailey, formerly of Showtimes "The L Word," launched a boycott of Southwest Airlines via Twitter this week after she says she was scolded for a girl-girl kiss while flying with her girlfriend from Baltimore to St. Louis Monday. The airline says it wasn't about ... More >>
LA Life
June 9, 2011
Best Twitterer: Alyssa Milano
Leisha.Hollywood actress Leisha Hailey, formerly of Showtimes "The L Word," launched a boycott of Southwest Airlines via Twitter this week after she says she was scolded for a girl-girl kiss while flying with her girlfriend from Baltimore to St. Louis Monday. The airline says it wasn't about ... More >>
Blogs
May 23, 2011
Spaceghostpurrp on Being Compared to Odd Future, Not Dissing the Taylor Gang, and Why Miami is Satan's Playground
Spaceghostpurrp's spaceship just dropped him offTwo months ago, Miami rapper and producer Spaceghostpurrp's YouTube channel registered a few hundred views. But one dip into the then-nineteen-year-old's world of viscous sound waves had us hooked: It sounds as though he's sunk a creaky, abando ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2011
[UPDATED, Again]: Pink Taco's Pink Donkey Angers Animal Rights Activists
[Update (May 11th, 1:30 p.m.): Through May 15th, the Pink Taco in Century City will be featuring a special margarita, the "PETA-rita," with 100% of the proceeds from going to PETA. And Friday, May 13th is "bring your pet to the patio day" from 3 to 7 p.m.] [Update (May 5th, 1 p.m.): Our sister bl ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2011
Revok, Famed L.A. Graffiti Artist, Arrested at LAX, Held on $320,000 Bail
Gregory BojorquezRevok.Updated after the jump: Revok gets 180 days for violating his probation. A "free Revok" campaign erupted on Twitter over the weekend after the Fairfax district street artist was nabbed at LAX. Sheriff's officials said the man born Jason Williams was arrested at LAX la ... More >>
Music
April 14, 2011
Lina in L.A.: Other Than Coachella ...
Gregory BojorquezRevok.Updated after the jump: Revok gets 180 days for violating his probation. A "free Revok" campaign erupted on Twitter over the weekend after the Fairfax district street artist was nabbed at LAX. Sheriff's officials said the man born Jason Williams was arrested at LAX la ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2011
What to Eat in the Desert: The Coachella 2011 Food List
Coachella 2011 starts tomorrow, so if you, along with a disproportionate number of other people in this town, are currently packing your car with permissible gear (no weapons, no drugs, no flags, no outside food, no stuffed animals) and all your Kanye and Arcade Fire and Interpol t-shirts, y ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2011
Alice Waters Joins Twitter: The Food World's Charlie Sheen Moment
Happy Follow Friday. And guess who's just opened a Twitter account, in time for thousands of food-minded Twitter people to follow her? Alice Waters (@AliceWaters). As of this morning, she has not tweeted anything yet and is only following two people (predictably, @edibleschoolyrd and @chezpanisse). ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2011
If You Can't Join 'Em, Block 'Em: "There Is No SXSW" Twitter App
Judging from the chorus of preemptive groans heard (RT!) round our Twitter timelines this weekend, many of you not going to SXSW are dreading the takeover of Twitter by those who are. But thanks to Lanyard, a directory of conferences, now you don't have to make like a kindergartener and squ ... More >>
Blogs
March 7, 2011
The Girl Scout Cookie Locator: Or, How to Find Your Nearest Box of Thin Mints
where we are now Thanks to LAist for the headsup on this one: The Girl Scout Cookie Locator, courtesy of the Scouts themselves. Now you have only to enter your zip code to find the nearest booth to where you are sitting right now, chugging bad coffee, loathing Mondays, wishing your hangover w ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2011
Alleged Drunk Driver Crashes Into Sober House in South L.A: First Step, Check
ABC 7Way to start that first step (allegedly).Twelve-steppers say you're invited to the program any time. Just crash the party. But not like this. Police report that at 12:55 a.m. Sunday a Ford Explorer careened into a sober living house, temporarily trapping the person behind the wheel and ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2011
Will Tweet For Fried Food: On The Road With A Hungry Kathy Griffin
Tiffany Rinehart What do you do if you're on the road all the time, have grimly chewed your way through way too many chain restaurant meals and have six hundred thousand social network followers? If you're comedian Kathy Griffin you turn Twitter into your personal Yelp or Chowhound, one tha ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2011
L.A. School Lockdown Kit: Where's the Cheetos?
Kayla via PlixiBet you thought that piss bucket students used at El Camino High yesterday (pictured, click to enlarge) was totally DIY, right? Not even. Los Angeles Unified School District officials tell the LA Times this morning that classrooms on lockdown during both the La Gardena shootin ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2011
L.A. School Police Officer Shot in Chest at El Camino High in Woodland Hills
The El Camino High shooter fired a semiautomatic handgun at an L.A. school police officerUpdate: "LAPD Chief Says Jeffrey Stenroos, L.A. School Officer 'Shot in Chest' at El Camino High, Was Lying." Updated after the jump: Did the LAPD overreact to the sort-of-on-campus shooting? Plus, there ... More >>
Blogs
January 12, 2011
Top L.A. Twitter Slang, According To Study: omw, tacos, raining, coo, bomb, papi, af, nada, MICKEY, #KOBE... And More
Getty Imageswyd Kim Kardashian? nada, omwAnd all this time we thought our Internet speak was universal -- connecting sea to shining sea for a big jolly Twittery universe. Nope, say researchers at Carnegie Melon University in Pennsylvania, who went totally 2011 on the linguistic community and ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2011
Top 8 Twitter Tools: Threatening Thugs, Homophobic Hip Hoppers and Musical Idiots Who Are Worse Than Courtney Love
8 Threatening Thugs, Homophobic Hip Hoppers and Twitter Idiots Worse Than Courtney Love
Blogs
January 3, 2011
I-5 Freeway At L.A. Grapevine Still Closed After Night From Wintery Hell
Bakersfield NowNot a good start for weather in 2011What a depressing way to start a brand-new year of the infamous Los Angeles commute. All those holiday stragglers who waited until Sunday night to drive home -- hoping to avoid the mass SoCal exodus/influx, not realizing it was really this z ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2010
Top 10 Bizarre and Awesome Musician Twitter Feeds of 2010 (Part 1)
Top Ten Bizarre and Awesome Musician Twitter Feeds
Blogs
December 8, 2010
Twitter Suspends Account Of Pro-Wikileaks Hackers, 'Anonymous' Opens New One
TwitterUpdate: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON. No, really. Can someone please tell us. Updated after the jump: Twitter claims it was an "accident." Right. The official Anonymous account is still down. The others appear to be fake. Also, Sarah Palin was a victim. Originally posted at 5:50 p.m.
Blogs
November 24, 2010
TSA Scanner 'Opt Out' Day Has Trouble Getting Off The Ground At LAX
Earth Hope NetworkInternet rebels get cold feet in the face of the big bad TSAAll major news sources this morning are clawing at whatever mangled corpse is left of the TSA hype. Today was supposed to be national opt-out day -- and still could be, of course, once the straight-laced early-morni ... More >>
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