Dennis Romero

The Museum of Contemporary Art on Sunday celebrates its survival after nearly going under (and temporarily closing its Geffen Contemporary branch) with a 30-year retrospective exhibition.Collection: MOCA's First 30 Years happens through May 3 and features 6,000 pieces of art from its permanent collection, including examples from Jackson Pollock, Jeff......

Environmentalists are suing to stop a 5,000-acre development at Tejon Ranch, a picturesque property 60 miles north of Los Angeles made famous by the Chandler family that once owned the Los Angeles Times. The suit claims that Kern County let the Tejon Mountain Village project go forward without regard for......

Los Angels Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and City Councilman Bill Rosendahl were on hand at LAX Thursday to break ground for a more than $13 million fire station. The state-of-the-art facility will offer 27,500 square feet of space for 14 firefighers scheduled to be on-hand 24 hours a day.The feds kicked......

In the wake of the bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler, a downsized Detroit auto show that saw the likes of Nissan, Porsche and Mitsubishi pull out, and a Tokyo auto show subsequently passed up by the Detroit three automakers, is L.A.'s own annual showcase next the place to be......

In the ever expanding times-are-hard news file comes another desperate story: An unemployed mother of five was arrested in San Diego in connection with a series of bank robberies. Roxanne Renee Pennock was arrested after she allegedly robbed a Chase bank in Temecula last week, authorities reported Thursday. She was......

Longtime San Fernando Valley observer and former Los Angeles Daily News editor Ron Kaye has found the recent process of choosing the new chief of the Los Angeles Police Department to be fishy, and he recently told us so. But this week he blogs that presumptive Chief Charlie Beck was......

As the county deals with an outbreak of swine flu, a lack of emergency rooms and a battered property tax base, the Board of Supervisors has been busy naming astronaut Buzz Aldrin Los Angeles' "consul general to the Moon."Good work. If ever Roman Polanski escapes to the lunar republic we......

The folks at Neon Tommy, the USC School of Communication and Journalism publication, have written an open letter to Dr. Jonathan Fielding, the county's director of public health, asking him to be more forthcoming about how the county is dealing with the 57-death swine flu outbreak here. So far they've......

A paparazzo escaped with his ear intact in a confrontation with Mike Tyson, but reports indicate Tyson knocked him out at LAX Wednesday.Tyson's camp, including a lawyer and spokesman, are saying the former heavyweight champion boxer was being harassed by a videographer and was defending himself and his 10-month-old daughter......