Simone Wilson

It seems just yesterday we were making fun of New York City for its lonely state of Four Loko-less-ness, while we sat around playing Edward Lokohands like we were untouchable. Oh, right -- that was yesterday. One fateful day later, the nation weeps united. Under pressure from angry parents, self-righteous......

Update from Nye's publicist: "Bill Nye is feeling much better after a good night's rest. He says he pushed himself too hard after a long day of an early satellite media tour combined with a late night speech." Originally posted at 7:15 a.m. Nineties science icon Bill Nye -- the......

Yes, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is as bad as you've heard. 1) Its overpaid suits proposed unwarranted 28-percent rate hikes on residents last spring while guarding a $73.5 million surplus like territorial dogs. 2) They only show up to meetings when their own power is at......

We know the texting generation is more comfortable using their letters -- and now, with new e-mail capabilities, Facebook can finally erase any lingering need for verbal communication -- but we had hoped at least bank robbers might keep it loud and old-school. According to Hermosa Beach police officers, who......

Update: 44-year-old Jackkqueline Pogue has been charged with murder. Details after the jump. Originally posted at 6:30 a.m. And here we thought subway rage was only alive in New York Shitty. Turns out the morning commute sucks no matter where you are -- even Little Tokyo on a temperate Sunday......

Self-proclaimed "family business" LR Services Plumbing -- an L.A. crew that prides itself on "giving back to the community" -- is apparently also interested in giving back to the city's healthy population of desperate housewives. President Leonard Redway (but of course, plumbers with presidents) put together the company's first wall......

The last of the L.A. City Council candidates have filed for the March 2011 municipal election. There are a lot of familiar smiles back for another round of budget-fondling and fun-killing, as usual, but also a few young guns we hope might put up a fight. (May we remind you,......

No one ever claimed we built the Los Angeles mall-topia on rock 'n' roll (except maybe Hot Topic). But here to erase all remaining illusions of quaint grunge in our sprawling "city" is the self-proclaimed global leader in massive outdoor LED displays: Daktronics. The company is poised to install 18-foot......