To help educate the public on the drastic decline of the honeybee population due to colony collapse disorder, Häagen-Dazs is giving away free samples of their Vanilla Bee Honey Flavor today from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. They have also set up an informative site called helpthehoneybees.com to explain their concern. "We rely on honey bees for one-third of our our food supply, so when honey bees are in danger, we're all in danger," the company......

Photo by Jonathan Alcorn (aka Sundogg) via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr An update on last night's Midnight Movie (you really need to watch this): Curbed has the rendering of the proposed development and for five-stories, it looks a bit... out of proportion. Authorities are on the hunt for the killer of a 25-year-old homeless man whose body was found Sunday night in Venice. The victim was apparently beaten to death. Another......

Lauren Bon's, Not a Cornfield Project, created quite a stir in the art community. Saturday night her new exhibit "Bees and Meat" is bound to generate more talk. Bon will fill the vast Ace Gallery with sculptural pieces created from honey, bees, and lamb carcasses. The "Bees and Meat sculptures involve the following items: 90 miles of irrigation stripping 33,000 pounds of dried “Not a Cornfield” corn kernels Two working wild hives and over......

Dear Laist, I'm loving this warm weather (it reminds me of Phoenix, where I'm from) but OMG I HAVE BEES! What do you recommend? Help, Sun Devil Dear SD, We recommend that you don't email blogs about something like this. We recommend that you call a professional extermination company, like one who wears lab coats and will arrive in a truck filled with chemicals to throw at the problem. And we don't recommend that......

You may already be aware that there is a major bee die off going on right now, threatening the bulk of the US fruit and vegetable supply. Let's hope that this awesome video was made during happier times for the honey bee, and that no bees were harmed during the making of the video. Using a complex system of live insects, models, droplets of liquid and lots of pies, director Richard De Aragues has......