Gendy Alimurung

How much of the Nom Nom Truck's success is attributable to its owners being two gorgeous, brainy young Asian girls inside a food truck, and how much to the food? "I don't want there to be a misconception that the truck is about two girls on a truck," co-owner Misa......

The young, naked girls in Audrey Kawasaki's paintings may look different, but they are actually identical. "It's all the same girl," Kawasaki says. "It's one person." She always paints the girl in oils, always on wood panel. She sketches the face, the torso, the breasts, legs and gangly arms and......

Nelson Nio got beaten up by 2,200 women last year. They punched him, kneed him in the groin, clawed his eyes, kicked his face and tried to dislocate his shoulder. Nio is pretty happy about this. Teaching women how to fight — or fight back — is his raison d'être. Nio......

Sit in a tree. Go to jail. That's how they roll in Arcadia. The "Arcadia 4" tree-sitters are having a press conference April 19 at 10 a.m., (Criminal Justice Center, 210 West Temple Street), where environmentalists John Quigley and Camron Stone, and actors Daryl Hannah and Ed Begley, will speak......

One kid hopes to win the cheer competition. Another hopes her friend Mando doesn't get killed. Adriana hopes to attend UC Berkeley, and Manuel hopes to become a famous football player. Eddie, a dad, hopes that technology doesn't corrupt his children: "OMG. XOXO. IFLY. LOL. IDK. TTYL. LMAO. What happened......

Among the sounds the musicians of the Canadian band Twin heard while canoeing the Los Angeles River were chirping birds, lapping waves, rustling trees and the screeching of a police department helicopter siren. Musically speaking, the LAPD's Loud Hailer airborne siren leaves something to be desired. As it was blaring,......