While the toxicology report released in March laid the world's speculation about the cause of Whitney Houston's death to rest, the mystery still remained: Where was the cocaine? Initial reports found no evidence of illegal drugs in the late singer's Beverly Hilton hotel room where she died, but reports of "white, powdery remnants" found in her room surfaced in late March. more ›

After the toxicology report on Whitney Houston's body laid to rest speculation about how the singer died on February 11, attention then turned to how the drug that contributed to her death disappeared from the Beverly Hilton hotel room where she was found dead. more ›

An 18-month-old boy has been placed in protective custody with San Luis Obispo County's child welfare department after ingesting cocaine. Priscilla Tabarez, the toddler's 20-year-old mother, called police on Wednesday morning to report that her son had eaten some cocaine. more ›

In an effort to impress their Jewish customers, Ralph's Market at 3rd and La Brea got crafty with their Coke display. And it's a good deal too! Tonight is evening #5 of 8 of the latke-filled, festival of lights. Here's to a happy (and carbonated) Hanukkah.
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Here in California, we call soda, well...soda. But in other parts of the nation when we want a sweet, carbonated beverage, we need to change our tune and ask for a "pop," a "coke," or any one of a dozen other regional nicknames for the drinks. more ›

Coca-Cola worked out a deal yesterday where they will pay off four plantiffs $500 each plus lawyers fees because two of their soft drinks - Fanta Pineapple and Vault Zero - were discovered to contain ingredients that can form cancer-causing benzene. And Coke will give them newer versions of the soda that now has less of the cancer-causing chemicals. Mmmmmm. While we're grateful to the plaintiffs for suing the sugar water giant, the incredibly... more ›

Dear LAist, In order to properly celebrate Cinco De Mayo, we'd like to drink real Coke. You know, the kind produced with real cane sugar and bottled in glass bottles. What mom used to serve ya. Where do you think I might be able to find a couple six packs (eight packs?) before Cinco De Mayo is over? signed, New To L.A.... more ›

Girls think my Chicago 'pop' in lieu of saying 'soda' is cute. That's cool, too bad I don't drink pop anyway. I hate it! It tastes so nasty. That was until I visited Galco's Old World Grocery in Highland Park, otherwise known as the Soda Pop Stop on the web. The difference in the soda pop here is the use of real sugar and real flavors. This place has over 500 kinds of sodas... more ›

We get a lot of cheesy people trying to get their hands down the proverbial pants of LAist every day. You know, those who try to get their crap on our crap so that you THE EYEBALLS will see and love and salivate and consuuuuume. Even though that's not really how it works. How do we know? Well, watch: Be nice to each other. Give $20 to the most shady homeless person you see... more ›

10. Coke - Grand Theft Auto Parody Major companies paid $2.6 million per each 30-second spot during yesterday's Super Bowl. Overall, we'd have to say that the commercials were pretty damn good. Because the Coke ad above ran for a minute, it means that that thing up there is a $5 million commercial. Meanwhile, we kept noting that we didn't remember seeing a Pepsi commercial. But then halftime came and we saw that Prince's... more ›