As Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa spends his day in Washington D.C., asking along with peers from other cities for federal money to local entities and as the new State Legislature sits in their special budget session this afternoon, here's a sobering quote about how bad this recession has hit us: "California, the world’s eighth-largest economy, may pay vendors with IOUs for only the second time since the Great Depression." John Chian said that "we’re just barely hanging on right now... We need strong legislative action immediately.” more ›

We came across this interesting and yummy tidbit of information and had to share, it's National Doughtnut Day! What that means is you can through out all of your being good preparing for summer and kick off June right! more ›

Checking out with no idea what to expect was an interesting experience. This 1981 movie is not the minor comedy we'd vaguely anticipated, but an artsy quasi-musical whose dramatic turning point involves a tap-dance striptease by Christopher Walken. more ›