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• Posted Playa Vista is all Wet to LAist
  Developers will finally have their way with the Ballona Wetlands, as the Los Angeles City Council has given the go ahead to plans to construct a second phase of the Playa Vista mixed-use development (click on the project web site just for the corny flash intro and mind-numbing Muzak soundtrack. Priceless schmaltz!). City officials who backed the expansion, which would be everyone besides Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa, presented it as the sort of smart-growth, high-density,...
• Posted Sometimes a Cigar Isn't Just a Cigar to LAist
  The Governator has had a busy week, terminating bills that would raise the state minimum wage and help local communities stave off the invasion of big-box retailers, amongst others. Unfortunately for the Big Guy, he won't be able to have the California Chamber of Commerce or Wal-Mart officials over to the Capitol for a fat celebratory Cohiba. Seems the smoking tent he had built on the Capitol lawn was blocking a storm drain, which...
• Posted Red Flag Warning to LAist
  Ah, the first day of fall is upon us. The leaves are starting to change. A brisk, cool breeze from the north presages winter's chill. Pro football is in full swing... Sorry. For a minute there we thought we were back East (yes, we admit it, LAist is a transplant). Not that we want to go back. We love LA. Hell, we moved out here with a dream to be a weblog, and LA...
• Posted Locked and Loaded to LAist
  If happiness is a warm gun, there's a gentleman in Simi Valley who was chuckling like Buddha on a lotus blossom jag - until the LAPD pinched him for possession of 388 illegal firearms, more than the total number of guns seized citywide in 2003. After Wayne Wright was busted for selling a gun to an undercover officer (out in Porter Ranch, of all places), the police searched his home and discovered a cache...
• Posted Monster Truck to LAist
  Overcompensating studio executives and the contractors who build their home theaters will soon be clogging our roads with the latest iteration in America's obsessive desire for the biggest, most wasteful vehicles possible. This behemoth, the International Truck Corporation CXT, weighs a whopping 14,500 pounds and would hog roughly (we were never too good at math) 1548 cubic feet of precious LA roadway. That's a big truck. Oh, did we mention this diesel-powered beast gets...