Eagle Rock, which just turned 100, has a national reputation as being the "college town" for Occidental, and is known locally as a historic hot bed of counterculture and the arts, and a contemporary evolutionary tale of the upwardly mobile hipster-esque family. Now residents are up in arms about the proliferation of erotic massage parlors that are inundating Eagle Rock Boulevard, and taking over where pot shops left off as the scourge du jour, according to the LA Times. more ›

Apparently, not everyone loves a Happy Ending. In what could have been an upbeat tale sprung from Hollywood, a popular watering hole and eatery had their hopes up for a new life on Culver Boulevard in Playa del Rey...only to find out that they are not welcome there, according to the Daily Breeze. more ›

The Happy Ending is the perfect place for your bachelor party to grab a bite to eat on the way to the strip club. more ›

Surf's Up was actually better than Happy Feet but, as my grandpa used to always tell me, the second Penguin-themed animated movie never does as well as the first. 28 Weeks Later may lack the novelty of 28 Days Later, but it's just as tense and terrifying. The fate of Robert Carlyle is truly awful. Amazingly, even Steve Carrell can be unfunny sometimes. YHWH is truly powerful. John Dahl never gets the rich praise... more ›

We here at LAist may not want to rule the world (though from time to time we fantasize about running this city for a while), but that doesn't make the lyrics of Tears for Fears any less true. Almost twenty years after their best-known hit, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," they've moved on to make a new generalization about the entirety of humanity. Now they're insisting that Everybody Loves a Happy Ending. And in this case, at least, we do. more ›