Animal care officials in Orange County are trying to figure out why someone would abandon dozens of domesticated white rabbits at a Huntington Beach park over the weekend. more ›

Police are trying to find out why a 21-year-old man was shot to death in Angelino Heights early this Easter Sunday morning. Family members found the victim Etsael Cardenas unresponsive in his car around 1:40 am. more ›

For some, Easter serves as more of an excuse to shamelessly overindulge in one of life's most guilty and delicious pleasures -- SWEETS -- than a religious holiday. There's the standard yellow Marshmallow Peep, the Cadbury Creme Egg (for those who like surprises), the jelly bean and the ever-addictive Reese's Peanut Butter Egg. But wouldn't you rather tickle your tongue, expand your waistline and spend more money with something a little different, a little more local this year? more ›

UCLA's Student Chapter of the Association of Moving Image Archivists inaugurates a new 35mm screening series, Something Old, Something New, at the New Beverly. Elsewhere, local high schoolers reinvent Shakespeare and the first alt-Easter line-up. more ›

If you were planning to attend the Hollywood Bowl Sunrise Easter Service this Sunday, plan again. Due to general maintenance work at the venue, the non-denominational celebration, which has been a tradition for decades, has been canceled. more ›

It's Easter, and for many that means time with family and other special celebrations. If Easter's not your bag, there are still a few things going on around town that you might want to check out, including the Thai New Year Festival of Songkran which goes on all day today in Thai Town. more ›

Polkatots Cupcakes in Pasadena is a little girl's fairyland of pink walls and jars of rainbow-colored candies. We love their supermoist cupcakes, especially the adorable little mini cupcakes that satisfy that sweet tooth with minimum guilt. more ›

As soon as the Valentine's Candy went into the 50% off bin, the aisles of your local grocery and drug stores were stocked with colorful bags and boxes of egg and bunny shaped chocolates and candy, as has become the commercialized standard for the upcoming Easter holiday. more ›

Chances are, if you were planning on doing something for Easter, your plans are nailed down already, underway, done, or family-only. Hey, it happens. Unfortunately, because it's Easter, there's a lot fewer events taking place today besides the usual mix of museum exhibits, bands playing, and plays running. If you're looking to get in on something hippity-hoppity, may we suggest the LA Zoo's Big Bunny's Spring Fling, grabbing at bite at Royal/T and seeing what they have up their sleeves for Easter, pigging out at the Biltmore (Easter Brunch 11:30-2:30), or taking a stroll around Descanso Gardens. Of course, you can always wait outside your favorite grocery or drug store for the Peeps and Cadbury Eggs to get marked down to 50% off and celebrate that way... more ›

Move over Easter Bunny, 'tis the season for Peeps. Those little marshmallow treats (eaten fresh or stale, your choice) had their day in the sun today. Literally. more ›

Stephanie Rosenthal, exhibition curator and chief curator at the Hayward Gallery, London, discusses Allan Kaprow—Art as Life, a new show at the MOCA. The exhibit is opening today and runs until the end of June. more ›

Lynda Barry has a comic that pokes fun at the ubiquitous use of paper plates as craft fodder for every possible holiday. more ›

• A bomb scare closed the short-term parking structure at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank this morning after a small suitcase was found without its owner, according to officials at the airport. The suitcase was detonated by the bomb squad and the parking lot re-opened after being closed for an hour.
• An inert World War II-era grenade left on top of a vehicle parked in front of a bar in Santa Fe Springs prompted sheriff's deputies to evacuate the area Saturday and call for a bomb squad, NBC is reporting. What the hell is wrong with people today?
• If you heard screams around 4 p.m. today it might have been some angry NCAA Tournament watchers. With 44 seconds left, and a six point differential between #6 Purdue and #3 Xavier, CBS cut away to the beginning of the #1 Kansas vs. #8 UNLV game. Inexplicably, they returned to the Purdue game with 10.5 remaining, further stoking the flames of CBS discontent.
• Your car wash might be dirty, according to an LA Times investigation that found half or more of Southern California's car washes pay their workers below minimum wage, plunging some workers into even deeper poverty. I wanter if Snoop was also underpaid when he worked at a car wash.
• Why was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar so angry when he played basketball? Apparently the former UCLA great was asked that repeatedly by white people and never by blacks. Whites may have interpreted his speaking out against racial injustices during the 60's as anger, but we all know how he felt when Jimmy asked him about being lazy in Airplane!.
• Kathleen Soliah aka, Sarah Jane Olson aka, former Symbionese Liberation Army commando who did six years for blowing up LAPD patrol cars was re-arrested today after she was apparently released a year early. The corrections department blamed it on a "computational error," but her lawyers are calling bullshit, saying they got a letter that assured them Soliah would be paroled March 17.
• Tomorrow's Easter may in fact be "the earliest Easter any of us ever has or ever will see. The next time the holiday will arrive this early in the year will be in 2228." Thank God I, as a Jew, don't have to worry about holidays that have rotating dates.

After discussing the various available Easter cupcakes yesterday, we just had to check them out for ourselves at Yummy Bakery. more ›

Yummy Cupcakes in Burbank is serving up Easter specialties this week - Carrot Cream Cheese, Easter Bunny, Easter Basket, and the somewhat unusual Egg Hunt. This LAist favorite bakes up an irresistible "Old School" cupcake, a riff on Hostess Cupcakes. The "Old School" will be featuring a pastel palette of curliques this week. (Open 10am to 3pm Easter Sunday) more ›

But Jesus thinks you're ok. more ›