You might have to wait and be agonizingly teased for an additional three months until those LCD, screens telling you the arrival of the next train, start to work. Curbed LA reported it would be by May and now Streetsblog LA reports by the end of June the latest and tells us how they will work: Until the train is close to the station, the screens will update information based off the schedule. Once the......

Eli Broad and Antonio Villaraigosa at the Grand Avenue announcement Almost two years ago, Frank Gehry, Eli Broad and the big developer folks from Related Companies announced the Grand Avenue Project. A blocklong development of housing, a hotel, retail & greenspace -- all designed by Gehry -- would complement Disney Hall. Getting the development together was tremendously complicated, and it probably wouldn't have happened without Broad's power and support. Since the exciting, fancy unveiling......

Curbed LA is reporting that Silver Lake Meadow will open as a park, likely this summer. The compromised plan opens a portion of the meadow--three and half acres--to the public, while the remainder of the meadow, another three acres, will be reserved for wildlife and native plants: coyotes, blue herons, gnats, ladybugs, etc. The whole opening/not fully opening of the meadow has been a touchy subject for some Silver Lake residents, who worry hordes of......

Yesterday our friends at Curbed LA told everyone that the Fox Hills Mall was going to be renovated all Westfield-like, and because they rule, they had lots of nice pictures after the jump. The very last image was the incredibly creepy food court of the future. In the artists' rendition not only wasn't there much food, but where are the types of people who actually frequent the Culver City landmark? Sure ain't those yuppies......

George Bush issued the fourth veto of his presidency today, nixing a bill that would have provided insurance to poor children. Bush said the program was too costly, apparently cool with the fact that the Iraq war now costs over $455-billion. That's B for billion. And B for Bitch. Curbed LA takes a gander at a new development planned for West LA. In as much as the structure looks like a monument to cubism,......

- Green LA Girl takes her show to the LA Times via The Emerald City - congrats Siel! - LAT - Laker center Kwame Brown gets popped for Disorderly Conduct in Georgia on Saturday after his cousin was charged with drunk driving after going the wrong way down a one-way street. Laker fans would like to see that sort of effort in the paint - AP - Even though it's only 56-years old, and......

Of course Supervisor Yvonne Braithwaite-Burke lives in her district. Or maybe not. (Los Angeles Times) Nicole Richie appears at the Glendale courthouse, reporter gets elbowed in the head (East of the 5/Daily News). As for Nicole, she gets 4 days in jail. (KCAL) Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out, Paris. The Hilton heiress' Hollywood home is for sale. (Curbed LA) How much do you love your botox?......

Guest Day Editor LA City Nerd will be joining LAist with a few posts throughout the day. Read the introductory interview here and check out the nerd's blog. As the LA City Nerd, we have to consult many sources to stay up on the latest news and issues facing the City. Besides reviewing the Council File Index regularly, we have to also consult websites to stay up on the latest issues facing the City or......

- Two Long Beach teens are heroes after rescuing two kids in apartment fire - CBS2 - The LAFD and the FBI are investigating a tip that animal rights extremists placed a bomb under the car of a UCLA eye doctor - LAT - The LA Times has a new managing editor? Yes, no, maybe so? - FishbowlLA - Heck of a job, BushCo - Milk could cost $5 a gallon by end of......

+ Rumors of the new Beastie Boys cd being all-instrumental are starting to come beautifully correct - Stereogum + Hey, our favorite Wilshire Blvd. Mason Hall is up for sale - Curbed LA + They put an Effiel Tower in Japan? - The Cobra Snake + Earthlink's plans to make for a wi-fi Anaheim are being foiled by the thickness of the walls in Starbucks; only 72% reliability in the 20 spots that should......

- To boost ridership, WiFi has been proposed to travel with riders on the Gold Line - Curbed LA - Dogs in Echo Park as a hot issue - Chicken Corner - Nevermind. Thomas Mauk has decided to stay with Orange County instead of moving to LA County as Chief Administrative Officer - LAO - Kobe = suspended. Lakers will still win tonight against the Knicks - NY Times - The city council race......

- Bikes + Ditty Bops = Love - bitchinspin - Two microearthquakes in the Valley today and counting... - USGS - Meet Thomas Mauk who will be, for all purposes, the new CEO of LA County - Daily News - Updates on the body found on the wheel well of a British Airways jet at LAX - LA Times - Brandy may be charged with manslaughter per the CHP's recommendation - CBS2 - Ari......

- Toys for Tots was offered 4,000 Talking Jesus dolls by the Valencia company who manufacturers them but the charity declined the gift in fear of accidentally giving a doll to a little Jewish or Muslim child (even though Jesus was a Jew and the Muslims consider him a prophet) - KSAT - The defense attorneys of SM Farmers Market killer George Weller berated by judge for being "very inappropriate, very offensive, and very......

A news tidbit last week spotlighted the shocking revelation that Surfas, the globally revered restaurant and cook's supply mecca in Culver City, is being forced to closed down after over sixty years of operation. Foodies, fans, and even some foes of the longstanding retailer hashed out the known details peppered with speculation on the net, springboarded by a news piece on the Surfas website that has since been pulled. It seems that Culver City......

Lotus Festival Congratulations to team blogging.la for winning in the media category at the Lotus Festival's dragon boat race! They beat the wussies over at KTLA. In the end, all of that doesn't matter 'cause LAist is going to kick everyone's ass next year (that means you too Mack Reed). It's on! Your Commute If there is one article you read in the news today, read Gridlock, schmidlock: When it comes to automobile travel,......

What could get Paris AND Nicole to attend the same party? Us Weekly cover-girl appreciation day? George Clooney casting for a new film about heroin? Or was it such a huge event that if you didn't show up nobody would notice? T-Mobile Sidekick threw a bash at the Hollywood Palladium that Mischa, Jessica Simpson, the Duff girls, Travis Barker, Christina Milan, Taryn Manning, and Rachel Bilson waltzed into. Ten bucks they all walked out......

The locals who have been farming for the last 14 years on the land now known as the South Central Farm don't want to move; but the man who owns the property wants to turn it into a warehouse. What to do? A brilliant idea popped into the head of a reader of a blog called sustainablog which is crazy and simple enough to work: put the farm on the roof of the damn......

Sales of new homes dropped nationwide more than 10% last month, the biggest drop in nine years. And in the West, the numbers were even bigger: a drop of 29.4%. Yea, maybe the market is finally softening in LA! But not so fast, lusty real estate kittens. Southern California new home sales were up 9.5% from the month before; it's the biggest gain in 18 years. CaBoom! That's not the sound of the real......

Capitol Records doesn't want to move back into its iconic building: instead, it hopes to go condo. Not so fast! LA has been throwing money at the company to get it to stay in Hollywood and the LA Times reports that critics are displeased. Curbed LA doubts city leaders will let the lucrative sale go through. We'll never know if there are enough condo buyers who recognize that the building is meant to evoke......

Yesterday, Curbed LA ran their first Where the Hell is...? column with Castaic. Since we have some experience with Castaic (cold shudder), here are some fun tidbits: Next door (and some claim it's part of Castaic) is Val Verde. Literally translated to Green Valley, local newspaper The Signal references its history as the "Black Palm Springs." Nowadays, the beautiful dirt road community is predominantly populated by orchard laborers and CalArts students (Paul Reubens, a.k.a......

Los Feliz's Sowden House, designed by (son-of-Frank) Lloyd Wright, is now for sale. It's one of two Lloyd Wright properties up for grabs, Curbed LA says. We've always been fascinated by the Mayan-ish mansion that looms, grandly, at 5121 Franklin Avenue. The house was built in 1926 by architect Lloyd Wright. For a while, it was kind of party central ... and the parties were rumored to be wild, with lots of hot guys,......

Yesterday an eagle-eyed LAist reader wondered why we were salivating over the Buena Vista Lofts while the developer is in bankruptcy. We followed up with the folks at Curbed LA and they got a curt response, which boils down to the fact that the company's assets exceed their debts. Sigh. Looks like the developer's Chapter 11 filing was in the last days before rules governing bankruptcy changed. Our lofty heaven is earthbound after all.......

We hate to do this, we really do, because it is letting el gato right out of the bag. Curbed LA has the skinny on lofts in development that may be the coolest in the city, in the East LA community of Boyle Heights. The Buena Vista Lofts will have views of Hollenbeck Park and downtown LA. The building, a former hospital, is a recently-designated historic landmark. There will be actual greenspace. Sigh. We're......

This just in: Tom Delay abandons his bid to return as House Majority Leader. In more local, salacious news, Sarah Bench-Salorio will spend 6 years in prison — the maximum sentence — for sleeping with three boys at the middle school where she taught. She was 27; they were 12 and 13. Also local, but much better for you: the Little Tokyo Farmers Market moves to a new spot today: it'll be at 2nd......

In the battle of the Thursday Home sections, the NY Times smacks the LA Times down without even breaking a sweat. Just look at those web pages: the NY Times has a gorgeous photo that will make you drool, even if a cedar-sheathed house with a copper tower doesn't sound like your thing. The LA Times, on the other hand, starts with a jumble of text that's not been copy edited for the web,......

Gothamist talked about Sony and their corporate marketing graffiti invading New York a couple weeks ago then Curbed LA had to harsh our vibe by revealing that the cookie cutter cutesy psp stencils had shown up locally. Well, we won't stand for it. Instead we'll point to this excellent photo set by a friend which features some of the last shots of the soon to be demolished LACMA graffiti garage. There was a Chalk-In......

Curbed LA is cringing at the idea that the City of Santa Monica didn't even know Google has an office in town, one that they've had for at least the past few years. What's even more curious is that the low profile building that the small local Google team has occupied also housed (and maybe still does?) LivePlanet which brought many a Project Greenlight camera crew to the location and aired the scenes regularly......

After 10 years since it's last bath, LA's most prominent landmark is getting all gussied up. It seems no one heard our pleas to tear it down. We also recently gazed at it lovingly from Runyon Canyon. We've never taken the Hollywoodland stairs but would assume you can see the sign pretty well from there as well. Curbed LA points out the illegal name changes it has had over it's 80 year history. LAist......