Week of April 26, 2009

Chivas USA Extends Lead

Get Out: Book Fest Continues, California Impressionism, Cowboy Festival, Theatre, Garden Tours

Starlet's Beachfront Estate Now Open as Community Beach House

Stoked Sessions Art Show Fundraiser May 2-3

This Week's Most Popular

Throbbing Gristle @ Ricardo Montalban Theater 4/21/09

Tonight In Rock: The Faint, The Mae Shi, Eulogies, Grouper

The Greg Proops Chat Show with Greg Behrendt, Rhys Darby, and Josh Homme 4/21/09

Condor - It's What's for Dinner! The Carnivore Panel

Classical Pick of the Week: Chamber Music!

Interview: The Weather Channel's Jim Cantore Talks About 'Storm Stories' and Assesses SoCal

Seven Questions with Jason 'Mayhem' Miller, Mix Martial Arts Fighter and Host of MTV's 'Bully Beatdown'

Week Around the Ists

Extra, Extra

Box Office Review: America is Obsessed

LA, OC Still Swine Flu-Free, Residents Urged to Take Precautions

Weather Check: A Chill Monday

2009 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach

SUV + Bicycle Incident Leaves All Parties Not-Guilty

6.0 Earthquake Strikes Mexico City

Photos from First of Two Great Los Angeles River CleanUps

The Queen Mary to Set Sail Again?

Annenberg Community Beach House Opens With a Big Splash

Healthcare for Illegal Immigrants Cut in Some Counties

Map of the Day: Where Swine Flu has Struck

Tonight In Rock: The Faint, Fool's Gold, The Henry Clay People, Olin & the Moon

Feds' Photo Op With Low-Flying Jets Scares NYers

Clinton Kelly of 'What Not to Wear' Brings 'Make Over America' to SoCal

Pencil This In: Poetry @ The Geffen, Green Tamale Season Opens

Ooey, Gooey & a Little Naughty: Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational

Rattlesnakes in Los Angeles: What to do?

Dig In, Reach Out, Get Involved: This Weekend is Big Sunday

TV Junkie: Olyphant in New FX Series; 'Chuck' & 'Heroes' Season Finales

Possible Swine Flu Case Prompts School Closure in Claremont

How to Be a Budget Wino, Fresh & Easy Style

LAst Laugh: This Week in Comedy

Local Cinematographer nominated for Africa Movie Award

LA County Sheriff Nixes Endorsement of Jack Weiss

Local 'Top Model' Wannabe Not Helping Palos Verdes' Rep

'America's Sheriff' Sentenced to 5.5 Years in Prison

Extra, Extra

LAst Night's Action: Bring on the Rockets and Octopus

Largest Solar Panel in LA Debuts on Metro Bus Facility

Proposed for Demolition, Century Plaza Hotel Gains Historical Significance

Petition to Stop Sunset Junction Festival Making its Rounds

Getty Raises Parking Fee to $15

Obama May Fund More Santa Monica Mountains Open Space

Interview (Part Two): Multi-Instrumentalist/Producer Jon Brion Talks About Dylan, Davies, Largo and Los Angeles

Two Local Deaths Suspected as Swine Flu Related

Bring the Thunder, Taste the Fire, Get Free Chicken

Trails Cafe: Feast on Homemade Food, Take a Hike in Griffith Park

New Cupcake Company Sets up Shop in the Valley

Tonight In Rock: Bob Log III, The Parson Red Heads, The Pinker Tones, Lucky Dragons

Schwarzenegger Declares Emergency Over Swine Flu

Bread, Butter, Cheese, Victory!

Pencil This In: Bollywood Film Music Seminar @ LACMA, Music of Mingus @ Zócalo

One of Recent Deaths in LA County Not Swine Flu Related

Century Plaza Developers Fight Back

DVD Tuesday: Uhhh....Bride Wars......WTF?

A Pilates Gem in Pasadena

TV Junkie: Supreme Court Rules on %$#@!s; FOX Says 'No' To Obama Press Conference; Dr. Bishop, I Presume

Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach Supplement

Sebastien Tellier with Chairlift @ The Independent, 04/17/09

Ammo's Small-Batch Social: Tequila Ocho

A Better Dialogue Between Cyclists & LAPD Starting Today?

Extra, Extra: Surgical Masks Are 'In'

LAst Night's Action: Dodgers, Angels Prevail

American Lung Association's Grade of LA's Air: Big Fat 'F'

405 'Over the Hill' Car Pool Lane Runs into Funding Problems

First Confirmed U.S. Swine Flu Death in Texas

Ouch! 2nd Quarter in a Row with Steep Economic Decline

Rodney King: 17 Years After The Riots

City to Study Privatizing Parking Meters. Price = $500,000

Morning After Report: 90210 Episode 21 'The Dionysian Debacle'

Sneak Peek: Beaux-Arts 1913 Building Preps to Open Again

It's a Regular Sausage Fest at Wurstkuche!

Tonight In Rock: Franz Nicolay, Jesca Hoop, Carina Round

Villaraigosa Celebrates! LA is the 4th Air Polluted City in U.S.

Pencil This In: Gardens of Life, Jewish Film Festival

Quote of the Day: Obama on Obama's 100 Days in Office

LAist Goes Shopping: CB2 at 8000 Sunset

Interview: Singer/Songwriter Vienna Teng Explores a Vast 'Inland Territory'

Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Skullphone, Space Invader & More Art Coming to WeHo Next Week

TV Junkie: It's Time To Waterboard Hannity; Get Tix For Conan; 'Lost' 100th, 'Diggnation' 200th

Airline Announces $18 Roundtrip Fares from LA to Monterey, CA

Your Weekly LAist Film Calendar

Zodiac Killer Allegedly Named, Lived in Orange County

City to Declare 'Depeche Mode Day'? An Interview with Eric Garcetti

Vivaldi's Four Seasons + Ballet + The French = Amazing

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Swine Flu Around Town: 30 Marines Quarantined, CSULB & Oxnard

Harman Hires Crisis Consultant, Having Fun with Controversy

'Westside Rapist' Arrested, Blamed for 30 Murders

Are Crime Rates Back down to 1956 Levels? Nope.

'Dine Out For Life' Today, Support Project Angel Food

Lenora Claire on her 'Bettie Page: Heaven Bound' Art Show

Recession Obsession: Tacomiendo's Meaty Tacos

A Trip to Manzanar: One of California's Japanese Internment Camps

Tonight In Rock: Wye Oak, Xu Xu Fang, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, The Company of Thieves

Video of the Day: Swine Flu Ad from 1976

Pencil This In: LA Comedy Festival, CA Budget Propositions Panel

Meet Nathaniel Fregoso: Lead Singer of The Blood Arm Talks About His Next Album, Grilled Cheese, and Franz Ferdinand.

Photo Essay: Coachella Dances

Map of Where Southland Strangler/Westside Rapist Hit

TV Junkie: Redstone Disses Leno

Movie Review: Black Devil Doll

Lebowski Fest LA 2009: May 7 - 8

Hollywood Wax Museum Auction: Would You Buy Jesus or Mr. T?

More Open Space Preserved in Malibu

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LAst Night's Action: Dodgers Perfect at Home

The California Swine Flu Hotline

At Least 7 May Day Marches Today

Weekend Weather Check: A Little Rain, A Little Sun

Tony Jackson Out at Daily News

California's Population: Now 38.3 Million

Shopping, Food and Beer: Sonja Rasula Brings Cool and Community to the Masses at this Weekend's UNIQUE LA

Support Independent Booksellers! Today is Buy Indie Day!!

RIP, Danny Gans

BarCampLA 7 This Weekend

Tonight In Rock: Wolfmother, Starsailor, Black Lips, Winter Gloves

Guerilla Sunflower Plantings to Happen All Over the City Tonight

Santa Monica Wins Bicycle Friendliness Award

Pencil This In: First Friday @ NHM, Dublab @ Silent Movie Theater

Arrested Teens Planned to Open Fire at Covina High School

Dan Deacon @ Troubadour 4.22.09

Weekend Movie Guide: The Origin of Wolverine

U2's The Edge Claims his Malibu Development is the World's Greenest

TV Junkie: Hasbro/Discovery TV; Disney/Hulu TV; Web Series News

Thanks to This Week's Advertisers

Umm... About Your Texts From Last Night...

'Southland' Touches on Rape Kit Backlog, Homicide Blog

Mates of State and The Black Kids @ The Henry Fonda Theater, 4/23/09

4.4 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes in Santa Monica Mountains

Extra, Extra

Fountain Community Garden Work Day This Morning

May Day! Photos from the Echo Park March

Galaxy Back at Home, Chivas USA Goes North

Get Out: Buy Your Bowl Tix, LA Garden Show, Screening, Arts Advice, Carnivale Inspired Art

LAistory: The Pan Pacific Auditorium

LAist Interview: Director Sarba Das on Karma Calling

Tonight In Rock: Robin Thicke, Yann Tiersen, Megapuss, William Elliott Whitmore

Sneak Peek of 'CANceptual' Exhibit @ Crewest Gallery

Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer @ The Grove 4/23/09

Assume The Position 3, Tonight and Tomorrow @ The El Portal Theater

2K by Gingham: Artist-Driven T-Shirts

Found in LA: On the Skids in Style

Tinted Windows @ The Troubadour, 4/28/09

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Midnight Movie: Just Bea-in' Sexy