Photo by Lord Jim via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Mayor Villaraigosa is totes down with the gays: the mayor praises today's court ruling and says "he would officiate over as many same-sex weddings as possible." Props to him!!! The Guvnuh has a blog? Um, sort of... "Zis is not the Austria I remember! I remember a beautiful Austria where tall, tanned, buxom, lederhosen-clad Amazonian maidens would frolick about the countryside, yodeling,......

Photo by delara-photos via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Police were on the lookout today for the gunman who opened fire at the Super Sal Market on Ventura Boulevard in Encino. One man was injured in the incident and taken to a local hospital. The manhunt led to the lockdown of two nearby schools. Your education will now cost more: CSU approved a 10$ tuition hike today for undergrads, and the UCs......

Photo Veeyawn by via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr No, the UCLA Undie Run did not happen this afternoon. A truck carrying women's underwear spilled onto the northbound 5 Freeway near the 134. KNBC noted that the stream of clothing did not affect traffic. No longer a Giant, Barry Bonds is just another Beverly Hills fuckup. "The U.S. attorney's office filed 14 counts of perjury and one count of obstruction," reports ESPN.......

Photo by neonspecs via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Ed Fuentes at View from a Loft reports that as the LAPD preps for an appeal "to the community at large, Councilmember Ed Reyes' staff asked if bloggers can help get the word out as well" regarding a 21-year-old suspect blamed for a rash of recent hot prowl and sexual assault incidents in Lincoln Heights. "As many as 600 students at Locke High......

Photo by susan catherine via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Robert Nudelman, Director of Preservation Issues for Hollywood Heritage, has passed away. Councilman Eric Garcetti reflects on his blog. Next week is Bike to Work week. You ready? Los Angeles Fire Department + Boy Scouts of America does not equal a good partnership. If the department's youth Explorer program is found to be tied to the Scouts, the program will have to......

Photo by davehodg via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr KAPOW! A pipe bomb exploded today near the front entrance of the federal courthouse in downtown San Diego. Authorities are still investigating the blast; thankfully no one was injured. BANG! A 16-year-old boy was killed in a drive by shooting Saturday night in Baldwin Park. OUCH! An alleged drunk driver who went the wrong way on the Harbor Freeway got what some might......

'A False Sense of Security' | Photo by ~db~ via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr May Day, RSS Day, what the hell next? Oh yeah, it's Taco Truck Night! Never been eaten at one? Try LAist's basic guide to taco trucks. Former NBA star Dennis Rodman was arrested Wednesday night at a Century City hotel for allegedly hitting a woman after a night of drinking. Rodman's manager said he grabbed her arm......

Photo by consiglieri80 via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Have you been talking about anything else this week? Grand Theft Auto 4 is set to break all kinds of records today. Not only are they ugly, they are hazardous to your health! New safety warnings are being issued for Mario Batali's signature footwear, Crocs. More first-person reports from the Los Angeles Times Book Festival over at LA Observed. Some badass large-scale guerrilla......

Surfing on the Wall, by Carlito_Brigante via LAist Featured Photos Pool on Flickr. In the wee hours of the morning, a cop driving west on Victory Boulevard in Van Nuys crashed his patrol car into a tree in order to avoid a collision with another driver who was believed to have been under the influence. The suspected DUI driver allegedly was driving away from a bar, and got away after the cop's crash. A......

It's almost the weekend... | Photo by Kim Shattuck via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr See, I prefer the silent treatment to the stabby treatment: "A woman was in custody today for allegedly fatally stabbing her boyfriend during an argument at their South Los Angeles home." Watch out, flight-goers: get drunk and mean on a plane ride, and your fellow passengers might just duct-tape you to your seat! It happened to one......

Photo at Joshua Tree by Lush.i.ous via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Want to read an article by somebody who actually doesn't have their head up their ass re: the whole "eating sustainably" thing? Get thee over to NY Times, where Michael Pollan tells you why you should bother about the whole Green problem. Hey guys? When she says "I'm dating someone else" or "It's getting late, I should go," that means......

Photo by hinducow via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Over 300,000 troops returning from campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering from some sort of mental illness, including PTSD. Over half admit they are not seeking medical treatment. "Trainwreck"? More like "how many college students can we fuck in the ass?" The answer is pretty much all of them: Sallie Mae, the largest student loan company in the United States, says the......

Photo by kpeII via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The elderly women known as the 'Black Widows' have been found guilty of murder conspiracy. Partial verdicts were read today against 77-year-old Helen Golay and 75-year-old Olga Rutterschmidt for their roles in two murders. A 27-year-old man from Sherman Oaks jumped to his death this morning from an overpass on the 210 Freeway at Sierra Avenue in Fontana. He had left his car......

Photo by WishByNight via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The Screen Actors Guild began contract talks today with one of the issues being new media. Will there be a strike or will this go through? Answer: A large natural gas leak. Question: Why was San Fernando Road closed this morning in the Atwater Village/Glassell Park area? Ollie Johnston, an animator and one of Walt Disney's "Nine Old Men," died today in Sequim,......

Photo by Tyler S. Andrew via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr President Bush announced today that deployments to Iraq are being reduced to 12 months, down from 15 months: "The move was recommended by the Pentagon, concerned that the longer deployments were placing too much stress on the force." LA Now asks, are supergraphics fugly? Councilman Jack Weiss is making the case for legislation to restrict how many of those super-huge billboards......

Photo by James Herman via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Some countries shun and abhor the strange and grotesque. Some countries take two-faced babies as a sign from god! Be like India! Worship the two-faced baby! Maybe they'll get some William Carlos Williams and Hart Crane into the mix...Metro is presenting poetry readings during rush hour at Union Station on April 10th. The Maltman Bungalows in Silver Lake get recognition from Architectural......

Photo by mpurciel via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Death by blogging? The Gray Lady sounds a warning. The blogosphere ponders the death of the Sunday newspaper. Can the Bourdain regime be overthrown? A Hezbollah Tofu splinter group hits the web. David Greenwald rocked out at Bamboozle Left this weekend. Read his reviews at LATimes' Soundboard blog. Could Ferran Adria be closing his revered temple of molecular gastronomy, El Bulli? (Scroll down......

Photo by Try Hank via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A SWAT standoff in Glassell Park ends peacefully: "About 11:30 a.m., the man who was the object of the search warrant was found hiding in a vehicle outside the home and arrested....The identity of the man, who is in his 40s, was not immediately released." Wherefore the taco trucks? The latest in STUPID legislation: the LA County Board of Supervisers may be......

Photo by ellwoodite via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Yeah, you read that headline pulled straight from KNBC. Extreme health food junkies have a new name disorder to classify themselves by: orthorexia. "Urban birds are changing their tunes. It's hard for them to communicate over the cacophony of the city, so they're adapting by ditching their 'rich mix of enchanting melodies and calls' in favor of 'a strangely depleted music – abrupt,......

Photo by Try Hank via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The "severely decomposed" body of an infant has been found in Santa Ana. An area resident saw a dog playing with something unusual, which turned out to be the baby, whose body has been taken to the Orange County coroner's office for an autopsy. Police may now be ruling yesterday's 101 freeway death a suicide, reports the Daily News. Initial reports intimated......

Photo by Tom Andrews via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr 45-year-old murder suspect Hovik "John" Mankyan, who engaged police in a lengthy standoff on Good Friday in Palmdale, is reportedly "clinging to life" in the hospital. Mankyan, who is wanted for a 2004 North Hollywood homicide "ingested poison and severed arteries" prior to surrendering. Honors on Ice: The Anaheim Ducks will honor SWAT officer Randal Simmons, who died in the line of duty,......

Photo of the Watts Towers by cyrenakh via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Gas prices have gone down in California... two-tenths of a penny. W00t! A Villaraigosa/Yaroslavsky mayoral slugfest in next year's election? Nope, sorry. Zev wants to stay County style, at least for now. A longtime Beatles friend and business associate, Neil Aspinall, has died of lung cancer. Earlier today, LAist visits Ruttlemania, a Beatles lover's dream. Updates have been added......

Music Center fountain, by ellwoodite via LAist Featured Photos Pool on Flickr 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......

Photo by Tom Andrews via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr We teased about Bill Clinton earlier today in the earlier UCLA Undie Run post, but in all seriousness, he will be speaking at UCLA's main commencement ceremony this June. Would you eat crunchy Chinese fortune cookies filled with peanut butter? It must be good because the very young Samuel Sosa of Riverside won $25,000 in scholarship funding in a creative food contest......

Photo of Century City at dusk by Jonathan Alcom (Sundogg) via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The big news this evening is out of Bakersfield. An Amber Alert issued this morning has been canceled after 9-year-old Zane Newton was found dead. Have a moment to spare and a MySpace account? Locally based, Why Tuesday? is a nonpartisan grassroots effort to increase voter participation, doing away with the barriers of voting and they're......

At Joe's Pizza in Santa Monica | Photo by kristi.nicole via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Dominic Monaghan, or as the world knows him, Charlie from LOST, is having a photography show that's currently on display at Hamilton-Selway Fine Art in West Hollywood. There's lots of nature, blurry portraits and the eerie scene at the crash site of Oceanic flight 815. Metro bus vs. bicycle rider. Never a good time (at least......

X, a punk rock band from Los Angeles, playing at SXSW. For shows here in LA, check out tonight's listings | Photo by Andy Sternberg There's an update to the story about "Kristen," or Ashley Dupree, the girl who was New York Governor's mistress. Basically, she got a $1-million porn movie offer and she has now sold around 2-million songs online. Britney Spears' curiosity killed the cat. 13 UCLA Medical Center Employees were caught......

A view of the Valley from Sherman Oaks | Photo by Dan Wuh via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr So apparently in Kansas there's this lady who decided to sit on the toilet for two years -- this story is so bizarre I can hardly fathom it. How's this for shocking: remember that Downtown housing boom that was luring so many buyers to all those cool new lofts? Well, it's not so......

"Sister Cities" | Photo by Stephanie Asher via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr An update on yesterday's Harbor-Gateway shooting of a 6-year-old in a car. LAPD Chief Bratton announced: "We are very confident that we have the people who were involved in the actual shooting in custody." For the Lakers fans out there, LA City Councilman Bernard Parks declared today as "Derek Fisher Day." 1,817. That's the number of teacher layoffs so......

Remember the strike? | Photo by Kim Shattuck via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr It's all about last minute campaigning for the Democrats in Ohio and Texas; as of this writing, both primaries are still too close to call (Obama & McCain have taken Vermont). More updates on this morning's story about Margaret Seltzer, the author who fabricated a "memoir" about growing up as a white, female gangbanger in L.A.'s South Central.......