One of my favorite food writers, Jeffrey Steingarten, once did an elaborate and methodical taste test of several different varieties of tap and bottled water. After much research and even more adjectives, he came to the shocking conclusion that New York tap water was most pleasing to the palate. And now Los Angeles tap water has every right to brag as well: it won the award for best municipal water at the 18th annual......

"Banksy phone booth crashes Downtown LA?" by xxjetlab via LAist Featured Photos Pool on Flickr Five are dead and one person was hurt in an apparent murder-suicide in Yorba Linda, close to the Richard Nixon Library. A 14-year-old called in to report that his father had shot him. Police later found that the gunman shot his wife and 3 of his children before turning the gun on himself. As we have pointed out before,......

Chicagoist is gearing up for this weekend's annual Air & Water Show along the lakefront. In what's becoming an annual tradition around there, staff member Todd McClamroch even got to fly with one of the participants. Chicagoist's decidedly opinionated readership was also appalled that one of their staffers found a popular local brewpub to be a great place to bring a kid. They also think that an unlikely activist for immigration rights should just take......

Unless you are stocking up on earthquake supplies or stuck at the O.C. County Fair, stop wasting your money on bottled water -- it's as good as a Los Angeles tap:A group called Corporate Accountability International has been pressuring bottled water sellers to curb what it calls misleading marketing practices. Aquafina is the single biggest bottled water brand, and its bottles are now labeled "P.W.S." The new labels will spell out "public water source."......

- Jacob Soboroff hunts the ground where Reggie the Alligator used to live. - CNG kills SuperShuttle driver in Carson. - Valley aquifer contaminated and shut down by DWP. - Still, tap water is the new bottled water at high-scale restaurants. - Here are your Holiday closures for tomorrow. - Was coke involved in Lindsay Lohan's crash? - Southern California Restaurant Historical Society gathered yesterday at Clifton's Cafeteria.......

Hey, we know that our constant nagging at you to get yourself some water to store away for that ominous future disaster that everyone thinks is going to happen can get exasperating -- we call it Chinese water torture. And we really shouldn't say 'think' either. Let's say, "we know it's going to happen." It's true; people are still out there living their lives day to day without any thought to preparing for a......

As summer nears end, so does the traditional picnicking at the Hollywood Bowl and other outdoor events such as Hollywood Forever and various Concerts in the Park series across the Southland. Tonight, as we pack our picnic basket full of Trader Joe's goodies, we share with you our unthemed Zero 7/Gotan Project supper and ask you what your ultimate picnic is. The Trader Joe's Zero 7 special: Mixed Greens Salad with Raspberry Dressing lightly......

We're as stunned as Laura Chick at the news that the LA DWP -- the tidy acronym for "Department of Water and Power" -- was buying bottled water for its offices, even as it spent a half-million dollars to promote how safe and delicious its tap water is to drink. We love it when the LA Times does local news like this. Just how much water does $31,160 buy over two years? Records show......

On a recent Wednesday night, we sat with thirty or so people in a dark room on Wilshire and watched a film called "fronterz" Directed by Courtney Jones, starring Reno Wilson, Garth Belcon and Dennis Pressy and featuring Henry Winkler and Ted Danson. That we were watching a movie was not unusual. It happens often. The unusual part, the astounding and amazing part was that we were watching this particular movie at all. Often......