Wildfire season is off to a troubling start in Ventura County, California, where a wildfire raged all day Thursday and burned at least 10 square miles, including a very toxic pesticide plant.
Last night the Rolling Stones played the ideal show that everyone wants but no one ever gets to see. They played a short set of their best hits and favorite covers at a small, "surprise" gig at the Echoplex, a 700-person Los Angeles club. Be jealous, because you weren't there.
Los Angeles is a great city for a lot of reasons. Traffic is not one of them. So, over the past three decades, the city's spent nearly half a billion dollars creating the "the Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control system."
On April 3, 1988, the Los Angeles Times Magazine produced a special issue predicting what life would be like a family all the way in the distant future of 2013
In what would be a big change in the Los Angeles art scene, the Los Angeles Times reports today that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art made a "formal proposal" to merge with the beleaguered Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
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Health officials in Los Angeles have issued a do-not-drink order on the water at Los Angeles's Cecil Hotel after a missing tourist was found dead inside the building's water tank.
What do Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, the ladies of the Baby-Sitters Club, Nancy Drew, and R.L. Stine’s various goosebumps-inducing cohort have in common? They were art for your childhood bookshelves, and also, now, art for your grownup walls.
Vivid Entertainment is one of the biggest producers of pornography in the U.S., and most of their operations run out of California. They're mad about a new law requiring porn performers to wear condoms during scenes because, they say, it violates their freedom of expression.
People lined up around the block in Los Angeles on Wednesday, some waiting hours to exchange their unwanted guns for grocery store gift cards as the city tries to get the weapons off the street.
That's the eye-popping stat in a new LA Weekly investigation, which takes a look at the hit-and-run epidemic and its repercussions.
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Discovered: The smoking maggot; closing the 405 freeway in Los Angeles reduced pollution; measuring the edge of a black hole; benzodiazepines connected with dementia.
PR folks: If you have a list of items that don't belong in press kits, add "alarm clock" to it, or just remember, don't send promotional packages with alarm clocks in them. They can be mistaken for bombs.
Los Angeles smells, and not in the usual 'big city smog' way. Los Angeles smells like rotten eggs. No one knew why for the first few days, until Tuesday when the mystery was finally solved.
Do you remember the anarchy that took over the streets of Los Angeles last summer when they closed down a stretch of the 405 and the whole city was upended into complete and uncontrollable chaos? Okay, it wasn't that bad. But it's going to happen again.
Thanks to a perfect storm of court orders, legislation, and high demand, the Los Angeles Times reports that illegal beer vending has become the industry du jour in an area where addicts are trying to rebuild their lives.
The crackdown on marijuana dispensaries in California reached a new level on Tuesday when the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in the city. There's still hope, though. Not all of the pot stores are closing.
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Twelve people were arrested and several others hurt after a clash involving the LAPD, Occupy protesters, and art fans writing chalk messages on sidewalks.
Rodney King, victim of the police brutality that spawned the 1992 L.A. riots, was found dead in his home on Sunday morning. He was 47.
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Today, the American Lung Association released its State of the Air 2012 report, on the quality of the air in the U.S., and as these things tend to go, the good news is always tempered with some bad.
It's big -- really big -- and it's the new centerpiece of the L.A. art world.
The Los Angeles City Council approved a city ordinance Tuesday requiring porn peformers to wear condoms while filming sex scenes, but the measure is unlikely to make the industry or its workers any safer.
Police arrested a German national they suspect was responsible for the string of arson across the Los Angeles area over the weekend, who may have been upset with the government over his mother's pending deportation.
The LAPD arrested a man they suspect helped set fire to at least 55 cars in the Los Angeles area in the past three days, and since then no new arsons have been reported, the police say.
California's system of local ballot initiatives sometimes has voters weighing in on odd things but we're pretty sure they haven't ever voted on whether people wear condoms, nor on the specifics of pornography production.
Residents on the West Coast are expecting another day of fierce hurricane-force winds after powerful gusts tore up homes and trees and knocked out power lines across California.
Police in Los Angeles have started arresting protesters as they crack down on an Occupy Wall Street demonstration there in which a large but peaceful crowd gathered to protest an order for the encampment to leave a city park.
Eviction will bring an end to nation's largest remaining Occupy camp.
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Michael Heizer's latest installation requires moving a boulder 100 miles across L.A.
A former Los Angeles dealer allegedly painted over signatures and signed Monet's
Jon Lovett wants to be a television comedy writer even though there are no funny people in D.C.
The owner of 19 naked lawn ornaments is putting his house on the market
48 hours in southern California produced plenty of photo opportunities
On regulating the global media, Chicago's approach to global warming, and immigration
Department turns to an old technology to get its message out
Moby goes Hollywood
Scientology will now use the historic KCET lot to produce their own broadcasts
A crime reporter can barely conceal mocking disdain for a "doe-eyed" gangster
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