The city seems to have gone completely mad. From a 16 year-old shot in Northridge to a 70 year-old stabbed to death in Hollywood, Sunday was just another day in what is starting to feel like an out-of-control crime wave. In just the last few months, a man stabbed people in a movie theater while they watched a horror movie, a woman stabbed her own mother, and a man dressed as a skeleton terrorized......

When police arrived last night to a call, the suspect was standing in the middle of the street holding a handgun. Luckily, no struggle occurred. Unfortunately, moments before it was not so good:Two women and a 4-year-old girl were killed and two other children were wounded in a shooting Monday night in a Baldwin Park neighborhood, police said. The slayings occurred after a man argued with his mother and then shot her with a handgun,......

I am thankful for… Thanksgiving - even though I think it’s a stupid holiday, and I pretty much hate all the food associated with it - for giving me the opportunity to spend the day with family that I love and actually enjoy being around. I am thankful every day that I am able to make a living being creative and doing something I love. (Except for when I’m on strike) I am thankful......

While most Angelenos will urge their visitors to try a meal at In N' Out (the best to capture that classic sunshiney L.A. drive-through burger experience), they often forget about the other local fast-food burger phenomenon: Fatburger. Both establishments boast excellent burgers and a fool-proof menu, but there are some major (and delicious) differences that make it almost impossible to decide which is better (kind of like the Pink's versus Skooby's debate -- but......

All fireworks in LA are illegal. Any time you drive over the speed limit, that's illegal too. Any time you drink a few more beers than you should and get behind the wheel, that's illegal. And any time you lie under oath and obstruct justice when a Special Prosecutor is trying to figure out if the Vice President of the United States authorized a leak of classified information so this administration could continue to......

Sea Wolf, The Bird & the Bee, The Little Ones, Dengue Fever @ The Echo MXPX @ Avalon Ima Robot @ Natural History Museum Ima Fucking Gymnast @ Pehrspace Kinky @ El Rey The Autumns, The Sugarplastic @ Spaceland Elini Mandell @ Malibu Performing Arts Center 8-Bit, Bark Bark Bark, 8-Bit Weapon @ The Scene Agnostic Front, U.S. Roughnecks, Viva Hate, Hold My Own @ Knitting Factory Mother Tongue, Maryandi, The Sixth Chamber, The......

On Friday, the world lost one of its culinary giants: Esther Snyder, 86, matriarch of In-N-Out. Back in 1948, she and husband Harry founded their first – and California’s first – drive-thru hamburger stand in Baldwin Park, off the 10 freeway. The Snyders expanded their operations slowly to Arizona and Nevada, and we’re happy they did. How much longer would that long drive back from Vegas on Sundays be without stopping at the In-N-Out......

Rose Bowl's 80th Anniversary of Fireworks starring the Pasadena Pops - 6pm Disneyland's "Remember... Dreams Come True" - 9:25p Hollywood Bowl - Hollywood Bowl Orchestra - with special guest Kenny Loggins - 7:30p Marina Del Rey - Burton Chance Park - 9pm Magic Mountain - "Come nightfall, Six Flags will light up the sky with one of the largest and most unparalleled firework extravaganza in Southern California" Baldwin Park - 9pm - Sierra Vista......

penny for your thoughts More like a nickel. For the first time, it costs more than a penny to produce a penny. It's partly due to the rising costs of metals and partly because of hedging about the future rising costs. So far no news about penny-melting profiteers, tho. Train vs. SUV SUV loses. Luckily, no one was killed in the accident, which happened at East Ramona Boulevard and Downing Avenue in Baldwin Park......

So how did a decade old piece of art become the center of California illegal immigration activism over the weekend? By Save Our State finding some of the quotes on the Judith Baca piece that stands at the Baldwin Park Metro Station offensive. Along with the quote featured in the picture is a quote by Gloria Anzaldua This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is, And will be again. and quotes by......