Gardeners have already been getting their hands dirty with warm-weather veggies and herbs, since we've been in peak spring planting season in Los Angeles lately. At Baldwin Hills' Post & Beam restaurant, the winter crops have just been taken out from the on-site garden, and replace with new seedlings that will feed diners in the coming weeks and months. more ›

Ballona Creek runs west into the ocean, starting almost ten miles inland. Near the mouth of the creek, it widens and forms both freshwater and saltwater marshes. Runoff from the nearby Baldwin Hills fills the basin. Spring is a particularly attractive time to visit the wetlands, although it’s a nice place to take a break during any season. more ›

A violent smash-and-grab style jewelry heist at a local department store last night was witnessed by a woman who suffered a heart attack during the robbery. The victim was inside the Macy's at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza Monday night when at least four armed robbers barreled into the jewelry department a few minutes shy of closing time. more ›

Bubba Smith, a former NFL player for the Baltimore Colts, Oakland Raiders and Houston Oilers, who segued successfully into an acting career, has been found dead in his Baldwin Hills home. He was 66. Smith, known by many as Moses Hightower in the long-running "Police Academy" movie series, also appeared on television, including in a couple episodes of "Married...With Children." more ›

The simple lesson in the case of Kenneth Lucas II of Los Angeles is don't post videos of your pot growing operation on YouTube. For many who make their moola off marijuana, growing is one part of their weed-focused set-up. Lucas, however, has just been sentenced to 13 years in prison because what this video ultimately unearthed was that his pot op was just his seed money for "an even bigger moneymaking scheme," according to CBS2. more ›

The Los Angeles Police Department have announced the locations of two sobriety and driver's license checkpoints scheduled for this weekend. Tonight, from 8 p.m. to Saturday at 2 a.m. the LAPD will be set up in the Baldwin Hills area on La Brea Avenue between Coliseum Street and Rodeo Road. On Saturday, a checkpoint will be operating from 8 p.m. to Sunday at 2 a.m. in Chatsworth on Topanga Canyon Boulevard between Devonshire Street and Chatsworth Street. more ›

The Los Angeles Police Department have released information regarding two planned Sobriety and License checkpoints for this weekend. Tonight they will be set up in Pacoima near the I-5 and 118 Freeway interchange on Van Nuys Boulevard between Laurel Canyon and Remick Avenue from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. more ›

Five bicyclists learned early this morning there is such a think as the crime of drunk riding as they cruised through Baldwin Hills among a group of 15 riders, and wound up being arrested on suspicion of riding under the influence, according to LA Now. more ›

Eddie North-Hager is a man with a mission, and he is not alone. The communities of Leimert Park, Baldwin Hills, West Adams, and surrounding areas have dedicated themselves to the redevelopment of The Santa Barbara Plaza, often referred to as "Marlton Square." The Plaza has become a blight in the center of a vibrant community. Just a block away jacaranda trees shade a picture-perfect neighborhood more ›

A 3.0-magnitude earthquake rumbled through Los Angeles early this morning. The quake, centered in Baldwin Hills, struck at 4:33 this morning. more ›

Come April, a new 50-acre park adjacent to Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area will open offering 360 degree views of the LA Basin and Pacific Ocean. The Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook will host a visitor center with exhibits and small trails featuring a rehabilitated coastal sage scrub plant community. more ›

The name "Baldwin" shows up here and there around the City and County of Los Angeles, like in Baldwin Hills, or on Baldwin Avenue, which runs from El Monte through Temple City and into the foothills in Sierra Madre. Well the Baldwin in question is Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin, a man who made a name for himself as a real estate maven and as a bit of a wild card in the late 1800s and early years of the 20th Century. His name--and some, say his ghost--still lingers, as do some of the places he built over a century ago. more ›

I wake up every morning with the weather and traffic reports on ABC7 Eyewitness News. (My boyfriend and I love to share a fresh pot of coffee every morning and gently guffaw at Garth Kemp's goofball antics and shameless puppy-promotion.) more ›

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For the last ten years, state representatives from Los Angeles have dominated the role of Speaker of the Assembly, including Mayor Villaraigosa, LA City Council Herb Wesson and Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle. Today, Karen Bass, the assemblywoman who represents neighborhoods from West LA to Culver City to Baldwin Hills, had enough votes to become Speaker of the Assembly up in Sacramento. more ›

The Los Angeles Fire Department is reporting a five-car pileup on the 101 north freeway at Barham over the Cahuenga Pass. Luckily, the three injuries are minor, but that means three blocked lanes and a Sigalert. more ›

A Metro bus collided with two cars this afternoon, injuring twelve. "Four patients transported to area hospitals with minor injuries, eight were treated and released at the scene," Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman d'Lisa Davies said in a text alert. more ›

New Year's Day, most in LA seemed to be up in Pasadena watching either the Rose Parade or the Rose Bowl, or getting over their New Year's Eve hangover at home watching TV. Why do I think that? Because the roads were EMPTY! It seemed that no one was on the roads. My goal was to head out with a friend, with cameras in hand and hit the roads and drive around LA on the one day in the year that you can get from one end of the city to the other in 20 minutes. The city seems almost small and quaint when you can get from Silverlake to Santa Monica at a constant MPH and without going under 45. more ›

Last night I was casually checking out what various travel websites had to say about the neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Most of the summaries in Frommers sounded like this: Silver Lake, a residential neighborhood just north of Downtown and adjacent to Los Feliz (home to the Los Angeles Zoo and Griffith Park), just to the west, has arty areas with unique cafes, theaters, graffiti, and art galleries -- all in equally plentiful proportions. The... more ›

Here are some of my favorite LAist stories from this week: Anti reviews a cd that was sent to him, he gives it a "Good", but someone from the band writes in to complain that it wasn't a good enough Peggy Archer showed us that Malibu is finding that whoring out their best beachfront homes to corporations isn't all they hoped it would be Charles Bukowski is my favorite writer, so I liked this... more ›

There is so much more to Baldwin Hills than meets the eye. Home to the largest middle and upper middle-class African American community in Los Angeles, this hillside neighborhood ties together one of the most important strongholds of black culture in town, forming the residential nexus of the Crenshaw area. Baldwin Hills has gone through many permutations over the decades, and has been the site of some of the most significant events in the... more ›

LAist Editor Tony Pierce has blogged here non-stop for more than a year deserving a well-earned vacation (and did he ever earn it). While out of town, we decided to have a little fun and bring some guest day editors in from around the blogLAsphere. Monday we had Green LA Girl and Tuesday saw Fred Camino of MetroRiderLA. Yesterday was Zuma Dogg and today is the official nerd him/her/itself, the LA City Nerd. 1.... more ›

Good grief, BET. First, the Black Entertainment Television network embarrasses black college students across the country with College Hill, a show that proves a house full of black college co-eds can be as useless as a house full of white ones. Now the MTV-show-dipped-in-chocolate experiment kicks into overdrive with last night's premiere of Baldwin Hills, a new single-camera docudrama that proves that when it comes to effortlessly reinforcing stereotypes, BET still reigns supreme. Promoted... more ›

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• Yari More and his Orchestra perform at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza at
  7:30 PM. (323) 290-6636.


• The Chapin Sisters and I
  See Hawks wrap-up their dual Monday night residency at the
  echo. The show starts at 8:30 PM. For details, call (213) 413-8200.


• Circus Minor finish
  their residency at
  Spaceland.
  The doors open at 8 PM and the show begins at 9 PM. Call (323) 661-4380.


• Fielding take
  the stage at the
  Silverlake Lounge at 11 PM. Other featured bands include Division
  Day,
  Great
  Northern and Wizard Poetry. Call (323) 666-2407 for details.
  

See a complete list of free, local gigs.

(Unless otherwise noted, all shows are free of charge. Dates and lineups are subject to change without notice.) more ›

Unless otherwise noted, all shows are free of charge. All show lineups and times are subject
to change without notice.


SUNDAY, 11/27



• Cellist
  Armen Ksajikian and Pianist Brian Pezzone perform for LACMA's Sunday
  Live series. The concert begins at 6 PM in LACMA's Leo S. Bing
  Theatre. For info, call (323) 857-6234.


• Part-Time Punks present:
  Japanese Motors (Rough Trade), Group
  Sounds and
  Guest DJ Jimi Hey at the echo.
  The show starts at 10 PM. Call (213) 413-8200.

MONDAY, 11/28

• Yari More and his Orchestra perform at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza at
  7:30 PM. (323) 290-6636.

The election of Antonio Villaraigosa as Los Angeles mayor continues to have a "musical chairs" effect through city politics, as the players jockey for better seats to get their issues heard. This time it's the unions aiming for the political equivalent of floor seats at Staples Center. more ›

Theme Building, Los Angeles International Airport, Pereira & Luckman, Welton Becket & Associates, Paul Williams, 1961. My first love. When I first touched down in L.A. in the late '80s and set eyes on this Space Age classic, I knew this city was my spiritual home. more ›

The West Hollywood "Fall Into Reading" Book Fair is this Sunday on October 3rd. Avid readers can visit with their favorite local and national authors at West Hollywood Park, 647 N. San Vincente Boulevard from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM. more ›