'Tis the season for shredding the slopes, and 'tis the month for leap day. February 29 finds its place on calendars every four years, and this leap year, as leap day babies celebrate their long-awaited actual birthdays, they can also shack up on Mammoth Mountain for free. more ›

Long Beach is embracing its bicycle culture, and with more LBC-ers hopping on two wheels to navigate city streets, there's an increased need for bicycle safety education. To help get everyone riding smart and safe, the City of Long Beach is offering free bike safety clinics. more ›

Spoons up, and wallets away: It's time to celebrate National Frozen Yogurt Day! You can score some FREE froyo at all Los Angeles locations of Yogurtland today. Sweet! more ›

If your New Year's resolutions happened to include "go to more museums," then this weekend your minimal budget is no excuse. It's a "Museums Free-For-All" weekend, sponsored by the Museum Marketing Roundtable, and 18 area venues will be free of charge Saturday and/or Sunday. more ›

For all the best burgers is Los Angeles’ talk that gets thrown around the Southern California blogosphere, you’re not likely to hear about many spots outside the city limits. But if The Lab Brewing Company in Agoura Hills has their way, that’ll change soon enough. more ›

If a lack of money was your excuse for refusing a hiking invitation this weekend, you'll have to use your backup reason. In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, which falls on Monday, January 16, the Angeles National Forest will waive fees for visitors. more ›

If you are headed out to celebrate the arrival of 2012 tonight, and your starting and end points offer convenient access to the Red, Blue, Purple, Gold, Green, or Orange Metro lines, you pretty much have no excuse to not take public transit tonight. more ›

Headed out tonight? Don't forget that Metro is giving free rides on all Metro bus and rail lines tonight into the wee hours of Christmas Day, 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. more ›

If you can get out of work (or your jammies) NOW you may still have time to hit the road, or, better yet, catch a flight, up to the Sacramento area, where in a town called Orangevale, one medical marijuana dispensary is giving out free pot today. more ›

Break out the bubbly! Metro is once again offering free rides on bus and rail lines operating on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. more ›

The dance studios, theatres, and galleries of the NoHo Arts District will be opening their doors up Saturday for a free multi-arts festival. Experience NoHo is a combo art walk and festival, with the streets closed down to make way for a stage and booths featuring artists and other vendors. more ›

Need a complimentary lift? TV host Leon Logothetis will give you one should you connect with him and his Kindness Cab. Starting today, Logothetis will drive from NYC to L.A. in a vintage cab, hitting 11 cities along his national route. And he's not just cruising the states for fun. He's offering free rides to strangers for charity. more ›

Beginning in 2014, millions of uninsured Californians will be eligible for Medicaid, the healthcare program for the poor, under President Obama's controversial healthcare overhaul. L.A. County is setting the stage for this massive revamping. more ›

Laguna Beach transforms into an outdoor studio every year during the Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational. Hosted by the Laguna Art Museum and the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association (LPAPA), the event returns in 2011 to showcase 50 of the nation's top plein air landscape painters. more ›

The tacos served up at the seasonal weekly hilltop farmers' market at Hollywood's Yamashiro have attracted a fanatical following, and now its time for those tasty bites--and the chef behind them--to step out on their own. Komida, the off-shoot storefront project of Yamashiro Executive Chef Brock Kleweno, is opening as-planned October 6th. more ›

No, this is not a sponsored post, and yes, we checked to make sure this isn't a stunt. It turns out the response to the film Senna has been so profound that people are doing crazy things to show their love, like getting a "Senna" tattoo, or, like Angeleno Laurel Miller, buying 100 tickets to give away so you can go see it with her this weekend. more ›

There is most definitely such a thing as a free lunch once a year at the Atwater Village location of India Sweets & Spices. Owner Kumar Jawa has made the celebration of his son Raj's birthday a present to all of us by welcoming customers to enjoy a free lunch buffet. The party is on this Sunday, August 7th from Noon to 7 p.m. more ›

As of July 1, patrons of the Original Pantry restaurant in Downtown Los Angeles have been asked to pay for a cup of coffee with their breakfasts for the firs time in the cafe's 87-year history. Now the cuppa joe runs 50 cents, says the L.A. Times, a price change "ordered by the Original Pantry's current owner, former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan, to offset increased food costs." more ›

HotHouse is a different show altogether. No velvet rope, not a square inch of advertisement, and no tickets at the door. You won’t find show reviews, photos, tweets, texts, sexts or anything else, from the audience or the performers. Just a stand up venue that comics know well and love to get booked on, because for once there’s an event in town that’s not built on hype. Go figure. more ›

One day, a beach shovel and a drinking straw fell in love and had a baby. The moral of the story? It's FREE SLURPEE DAY tomorrow, July 11, at participating 7-Eleven locations!! more ›

As temperatures climb outside the cinema, it's high time to relax with one of the coolest actors out of the past. For those unfamiliar, Robert Mitchum excelled at icy antiheroes & haunting psychodrama over a 50 year career that included Night of the Hunter, Cape Fear & Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man more ›

Metro is beefing up their freebie options on the upcoming Carmageddon weekend of July 16-17 by adding select bus routes to a list of no cost transit rides for the traffic nightmare. In addition to free rides on the Metro Orange, Red and Purple Lines, Metro will make 26 bus lines free for riders. more ›

KCRW and the Hammer Museum are rekindling their warm weather romance to present the 2011 Summer Night's Music Series Also I Like to Rock beginning July 7 and continuing every Thursday this month. more ›

In recent weeks, we've covered our fair share of festivals. This Father's Day, make room for the daddy of them all: the Los Angeles Film Festival. It's an epic reminder that LA is the best movie city in the world, as Hollywood industry, independent film makers & reel fans come together for a ten day celebration of all things cinema. more ›

A bit of good news for JetBlue passengers departing from and arriving at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank: Your boarding pass for your flight is also your ticket to ride a Metrolink train to or from the airport, free. more ›

It's 6:20 on a Thursday evening, and you're supposed to meet a friend for a drink at one of the restaurants on Ventura Boulevard in Studio City. So, uh...where is there a free parking spot? As of today, iPhone and Android users can tap into vacant spaces in Studio City with Parker, the real-time parking app. The launch of the app in Studio City was marked at an event featuring the participation of City Councilman Paul Krekorian, along with city officials and tech leaders. more ›

What is it about springtime that inspires the giving-away of chilly treats? This afternoon and evening, both the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and Haagen-Dazs are in the spirit of generosity, as participating locations are giving out free samples, and ice cream is the theme. more ›

Free Comic Book Day is exactly what it sounds like. On the first Saturday in May, participating comic book shops across country and around planet Earth will "give away comic books absolutely FREE to anyone who comes into their stores," notes the official site. Enter your zip code here and find the closest participating shops. more ›

Pierre Boulez talking about Sur Incises, which you can hear this Tuesday with Boulez himself conducting the LA Phil. The Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group is putting on a free concert on Tuesday at 8 PM at what is soon to be named the "Ernest Fleischmann Square". The naming of the square takes place at 1 PM at 1st and Grand, between the Disney Hall and the Music Center. more ›