Just like yesterday, when we announced that while the federal government can rob medical marijuana dispensaries, citizens can't, we find that LAPD officers are not allowed to rob drug dealers. In a separate case from the widely known Rampart Division Scandal, a group of rogue officers held up at least 30 drug dealers in a two year period ending in 2001 according to CBS2 News. After the robberies, which included taking the drugs, money......

Tucked into one of the ubiquitous strip mall enclave of business on Hollywood Boulevard in Thai Town, Sapp's Coffee Shop is barely noticeable (and not to mention not terribly attractive as a lead photo--my apologies). I first got a peek at the tiny no-frills joint earlier this year, when one of my favorite (and adventuresome) foodies, Anthony Bourdain, stopped by with a local food blogger to try their authentic Thai Boat Noodles. This dish......

Did you know today is the 226th birthday of El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles -- aka L.A.? The old bitch is looking pretty good for her age! Although the city did not incorporate until 1850, September 4th, 1781 is the date that 44 Mexican pobladores set out from San Gabriel with a military escort to settle alongside a great river -- then called the Rio de Porciuncula, later to......

How does the idea of hilltop vistas, the quiet charm of tree-lined streets, and a quick and easy one mile trip on public transit to Downtown grab you? Well, it certainly proved an effective lure for the fresh-off-the-train Midwesterners settling in Los Angeles who flocked to our city's first suburb in the late 1880s. A real estate boom in 1887 saw the construction of numerous majestic Victorian homes in the new neighborhood, but a......

A few days before Christmas, 9-year-old Charupha Wongwisetsiri of Angelino Heights was hit in the head with a stray bullet while she was in the kitchen of her home with her mother. Two alleged gang members were taken into custody but were later freed. So the City Council, in an effort to persuade anyone who has any information on the person who killed Wongwisetsiri announced yesterday that they are offering a $50k reward for......

Franklin Avenue noticed that 2006 is LA's 225th year. They asked City Council President Eric Garcetti "where's the party?" — and he answered: We certainly will be doing our usual celebration on Labor Day, when we re-enact the Walk of the Pobladores from the Mission in San Gabriel to Olvera Street. We always have a party there afterwards. I'll check with Tom LaBonge to see if there is anything beyond that scheduled, but a......

The film crew shooting "Running with Sissors" finally left our Angelino Heights neighborhood this weekend and we can't say we're sorry to see them go. We tried to be forgiving when arrogant production teams swarmed our street and sectioned off more than 2/3 of the neighborhood's parking with orange cones and "Restricted Parking-Tow Away Zone" signs so they'd have room to park their equipment trucks. We foolishly believed all those media stories about how......

We've been away on vacation so we're just getting caught up on LA doings. We've just learned from the the always amusing Celia at her blog, called 5th and Spring, that Golden Gopher Liquor now delivers. We hope that their delivery range includes Angelino Heights...Now we're curious, what other eastside liquor stores provide home delivery?......