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Black Ice and Frozen Bird Baths in Stunned Los Angeles -- Could Recode Cold Snap Bring Snow?

Commuters whose cars piled up in Beverly Glen Canyon today had no idea the dark smear on the road wasn't sprinkler water -- it was black ice, not seen in decades by most Los Angeles urbanites. Residents of the San Fernando Valley were baffled today to see birds pecking at water in birdbaths -- unti ... More >>

Confession: We Went A Little Loco For El Pollo Loco's Chocolate Dessert Nachos

El Pollo Loco, you've got some explaining to do. For starters, we know some kind of mind game is going on. How else to explain the fact that late Saturday night we pulled off the 101 in Agoura Hills and sped to the chain's store on Kanan Road. "We'd like an order of Chocolate Dessert Nachos," we a ... More >>

Santa Barbara Pistachio Co.: Pistachio Flour Fire Sale A New Nut Butter

Yet another buy local bonus: bumper crop discounts occasionally extend to secondary products like Santa Barbara Pistachio Company's pistachio flour. "It's crazy price!" says David Bomer, the company's enthusiastic Ojai sales manager, handing over a bright green $6 bag of cold-pressed pistachio meal. ... More >>

Fox News Suicide Video Nothing New; Shootings on Live TV Not Uncommon in L.A.

Fox News broadcast a suspect's suicide live today, setting of a firestorm of criticism, as well as viral views of the video (warning: the disturbing, graphic clip is posted after the jump). The motorist was being chased by police in the Phoenix area when he got out of a vehicle, ran away, stopped, ... More >>

Lois Ann Goodman, U.S. Open Tennis Ref, Murdered Husband With Coffee Cup -- Cops

A 70-year-old woman was arrested in New York today after she was charged with beating her 80-year-old husband to death with a coffee cup in Woodland Hills. The suspect, Lois Ann Goodman, is a tennis referee who had gone to the Big Apple to work at the U.S. Open, according to the LAPD and the L.A. C ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Sequoia Cherries USDA SNAP Access

The big news at farmers markets this week had little to do with actual fruits and vegetables as much as our access to them. Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan announced $4 million in awards to help states expand availability of wireless technology in farmers markets so they can particip ... More >>

Bicycle Theft Ring Targeted High-End Bikes on Craigslist, Used Facebook For Personal Info

As evil as cops paint these guys to be, you gotta admit, they were scary sophisticated in their use of Craigslist, Facebook and social manipulation -- if the story's true. Here's the deal, according an announcement by L.A. County Sheriff's officials this week: A crew of bike thieves targeted victi ... More >>

Christmas in Los Angeles: Why Do Our Xmas Lights Suck so Bad?

It's not always easy being a New York transplant in Los Angeles. I defend you a lot, LA, to everyone back home who hasn't eaten at your taco trucks, felt your gleaming afternoon sunshine or appreciated the sweeping vistas mid-hike through your urban mountains. But this holiday season I chose to stay ... More >>

Adi Zinder -- Undocumented Israeli Immigrant With U.S. Citizen Wife, 'Clean Record' -- Has Been in ICE Custody for Over a Year

Adi Zinder via Facebook​Updated after the jump: Zinder's family says he has been shipped to El Paso. The distraught family of 32-year-old undocumented immigrant Adi Zinder says he's been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since fall of last year, when ICE officers swarmed their Wo ... More >>

The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #10-6

​See also: *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time: #15-11 ​10. Warrant Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich (1989) RIP Jani Lane. Warrant's lead singer, who was found dead in Woodland Hills this summer, didn't have the strongest voice, ... More >>

Novy Ranches Grass-fed Beef: Farmers Markets Aren't Just For Apples Anymore A Roasted Cow Head Recipe From Ray Garcia

At the Novy Ranches grass-fed Angus beef stands that have been popping up at various farmers markets the past few months -- Topanga, Woodland Hills, Sherman Oaks and several others) -- you'll find an assortment of steaks, roasts and ground beef, as well as plenty of "off" cuts like oxtail, beef chee ... More >>

Warrant Singer Jani Lane Found Dead

​Jani Lane, the lead singer for Hollywood glam metal band Warrant, was found dead last night at a Comfort Inn in Woodland Hills. Police responded to a 911 call around 5:30 pm, and fire department officials pronounced him dead shortly thereafter. The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office is inves ... More >>

Keith Hasson, Most-Wanted Kingpin of $20 Million Drug Ring, Busted by U.S. Marshal in Woodland Hills

Blacky.​These larger-than-life crime bosses, man -- they sure love to play house among the L.A. gentry. Whitey Bulger, before last week's big FBI bust, chose to spend post-mafia life strolling Santa Monica's Promenade, scaring off nice old ladies in his sunny retirement community. Now the fed ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Wild, Moaning, Screeching Jazz

L.A. Resident Jose Gutierrez Tased Into Coma by Arizona Border Agents, Threatened With Deportation While Still Unconscious

UnivisionGutierrez' skull had to be removed after a tussle with CBP agents, who won't provide surveillance or specifics​Forty-one-year-old Jose Gutierrez has lived in the U.S. since he was a kid. Until three weeks ago, he shared a house in the affluent Valley neighborhood of Woodland Hills wit ... More >>

Los Angeles Spring Storm Fells Trees, Floods Streets, Darkens Homes

MuscleNerdTree down in L.A.​Update: PCH was reopened, and so was the Grapevine. Record rainfall was recorded around Southern California, with downtown Los Angeles seeing 2.42 inches Sunday compared with 1.48 inches on the date in 1943. See more records after the jump. The first week of spring ... More >>

Big, Fat Tuesday for Little City of Bell: Residents Get to Elect Whole New Slate of Leaders

New tenants desired.​Big day for the small Southeast L.A. County town of Bell: It gets to replace its entire City Council if voters so wish. And while there are two distinct factions of candidates running for office -- a police-union-backed slate versus one that wants to disband the Bell P.D. ... More >>

Snow, Record Cold Possible For L.A. This Weekend: Thank God It's Freezing

johnwilliamsphdSnow could be en route to L.A.​Update: L.A. County announced mountain road closures, after the jump. East Coasters like to make fun of us for complaining about brisk winter temps in the low 60s this time of year. But we do get real "weather," and this weekend is about to prove ... More >>

Honda Civic Owners, Better Check Your Brakes; Class-Action Lawsuit Claims it Could Save Your Life

Honda​A little more than two years ago, Rivella Dunner of Los Angeles bought a new 2009 Honda Civic at a dealership in Woodland Hills. She, like most Civic owners, was psyched that the car was both affordable and supposedly reliable. Thirteen months and 10,433 miles later, however, Dunner was sho ... More >>

Valentine's Day Round-Up, Part 1: Prix-Fixe Menus

Flickr/Bakerella​ These days, every time we walk into a supermarket, pharmacy or even drive past certain intersections of town, we're faced with an explosion of red and pink, well, everything: "Be My Valentine" cards, heart-shaped boxes of chocolate, fake long-stem roses, and endless tins of ... More >>

LAPD Chief Says Jeffrey Stenroos, L.A. School Officer 'Shot in Chest' at El Camino High, Was Lying [UPDATED WITH PHOTO]

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, who announced tonight that the officer-involved shooting may have been a farse​Updated after the jump with a PHOTO of Jeffrey Stenroos, who has admitted to shooting himself in the chest. Update: Word on the street is Stenroos probably shot himself. He's out of jail af ... More >>

El Camino High Police Shooting: Did LAPD Overreact? And Did Gardena High Shooting Receive Equal Attention?

Los Angeles Police DepartmentA composite of the El Camino cop shooter​Update: "LAPD Chief Says Jeffrey Stenroos, L.A. School Officer 'Shot in Chest' at El Camino High, Was Lying." The vast majority of media and community reaction to Wednesday's police shooting at El Camino High -- an unexpect ... More >>

L.A. School Lockdown Kit: Where's the Cheetos?

Kayla via Plixi​Bet 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 >>

L.A. Rainstorm Causes All Hell To Break Loose, Will Wreak More Havoc Christmas Day

Tricia via PBaseCHP: Don't even think about blaming the weather​We were still kind of making fun of the impending Los Angeles "weather" last Friday, when the shower head was set to wimpy sprinkle and L.A. drivers were farting around at their always hilarious (except when we have to get somewhe ... More >>

Woodland Hills Rotary Arts & Crafts Fair: Food Trucks, Photography & More

Flickr/Rios-EnriquezLake Street Creamery, one of the food trucks at this weekend's Rotary Arts & Crafts Fair​ L.A. is chalk full of holiday events this weekend -- from downtown's Artisanal L.A. to Bond Appetit: James Bond, Foodie event -- and now the Valley is getting into the mix. On Saturda ... More >>

A September To Remember In The Weather Record Books For Los Angeles: Did Your Community Hit A New High Temperature?

Chris Kantos via Flickr​Those crouching TV weather guys and girls in nice, shiny suits told us summer would finally be coming this week. But they failed to grasp the ferocity of this particular high pressure system. They didn't tell us hell was taking over. We spent much of the day converting ... More >>

National Weather Service: 'Dangerous Heat Expected' For Much Of L.A.

NASA​Hot enough for you yet? Still complaining about that cool summer? Didn't think so. And it looks like Madre Nature is about to turn it up a notch. The National Weather Service has issued a notice that states, in part, "dangerous heat expected" for Wednesday. The usual suspects should be o ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Up the Wazoo

Ken Jeong: Doctor on the Set

Earl Krugel, Irv Rubin: Silenced?

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Common Cause Different segments of L.A.'s huge Iranian community are uniting to protest their homeland's presidential election results. L.A. Times, L.A. Daily NewsSpecial Order 40 Upheld A state appeals court upheld the LAPD rule banning officers from seeking information about suspects' immigration ... More >>

You'll Never Be Vice President: A Letter to My Daughter, the Community Organizer

Why didn't I nip all this in the bud and buy you a well-oiled Remington 12-gauge?

Anti-Billboard Activists Gear Up for Fight

Anti-clutter, anti-billboard activists are gearing up for a fight tomorrow when a hearing will be held on a proposed, hyper-bright electronic billboard on Ventura Boulevard in Encino. The Coalition to Ban Billboard Blight has been fighting to stop the bright billboard on Ventura Boulevard since l ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Staying Local

Jazz in L.A., June 6-12

Singleton's "Small-Town L.A." Papers Nosedive

Suburban coverage hit hard as the Press-Telegram, Daily News, Daily Bulletin, others, falter

Body Count

Some of the unsolved, mostly prostitution-related deaths

Ask Mr. Gold

Dirty Prices

Governor and Barbara Boxer push ethanol

Lu Leonard, 1927–2004

In Living Color

Letters

Letters

Selling the Ranch

Massive project brings home the issue of open space

Too Much To Dream

East Is South

Cheb i Sabbah’s divinity dance

The Notes Between the Notes

Letters

Trashing Cheap

Janitors make progress on health insurance, but many still go without

Letters

Jersey West

Why create a Garden State in the Golden State?