Emily Lerman

The 2008 Thanksgiving sunset in Silver Lake | Photo by sesshin via LAist Featured Photo pool on Flickr It's that wonderful time of the year again. Door-busters, pant-busters, wallet-busters. We've included some ideas for some Thanksgiving volunteer opportunities. You know, so you feel less guilty after eating 14 pounds... continue reading on LAist

So that odd shaped flower-painted tower sticking up behind Beverly Hills High School is not some weird sculpture - it's actually an oil well. And there is one behind the Beverly Center as well. And at the Farmer's Market. And inside a building on Pico. And numerous others. VBS.tv,... continue reading on LAist

Thirty Seconds To Mars - Kings + Queens - HD30 Seconds to Mars | MySpace Video Jared Leto and hundreds of Midnight Ridazz bikers take over the streets of LA in the new 30 Seconds to Mars video, "Kings + Queens". We like watching as they head over the... continue reading on LAist

Photo by Atwater Village Newbie via via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr In 1993, after reading a book about homelessness, LA-resident Agnes Stevenson started teaching kids in a park in Santa Monica. From this book she learned that hundreds of thousands of children in the US do... continue reading on LAist

I hate crowds. Rather, I hate being in the middle of them. At most shows, I prefer to be the boring one who likes to hang in the back and just listen. Unfortunately, at last Friday's Glitch Mob show, this was not the case. I wanted nothing more than to... continue reading on LAist