Did you know that February is Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month? It's not exactly a holiday, but it is a month-long campaign to get the carts off our sidewalks and apartment buildings and back to the stores to which they belong. For some reason, the wikiHow (a how-to wiki resource) provides instructions on how to observe the festivities ("1. Return your cart to a designated 'cart rack' or aisle. These can be......

It's not like the Los Angeles Business Journal is out to get us. It's just that some media outlets outsource their online advertising to affiliate programs and some of those programs have malicious ads snuck into them by evil spammers posing as advertisers. That said, Google and StopBadware.org have now joined together to bring their internet neighborhood watch to your web block:What is this page? You landed on this page because Google's independent testing......

Maybe it’s because of its residents' blogginess, but these days everyone seems to know that downtown LA is booming. However, flying way below the radar is Koreatown. Yes, you already know it’s the place to go for your late night barbecue and karaoke needs, but the boozin’, beef-eatin’ hood (best known to those outside LA as one of the places ravaged by the 1992 riots) has quietly been getting a $1 billion makeover that......

One of LAist's favorite blogs is Kevin Roderick's LA Observed. His news and media posts and LA insights are always straightforward and right on. Today we found out that LA Observed is expanding its universe -- and Roderick's recruited some heavy-hitters as contributors to offshoot Observed blogs. For example, former Los Angeles Business Journal editor Mark Lacter takes a look at LA business in LABizObserved; the new SoCal Sports Observed features sports writer David......

Los Angeles Business Journal looks at the approval of six new construction plans along Miracle Mile. Five of the six are new residential complexes with first floor commerce space. The rents are expected to be $1500 to $3000. Residents are concerned about the increased congestion all the new housing and commerce will cause and that residential streets are going to become thoroughfares for high volume traffic. Nevermind that, though, there is money to be......

The Los Angeles Downtown News reports that the Figueroa Corridor Partnership Business Improvement District (FCPBID) has added permanent banners to light poles lining Figueroa Street, ultimately gracing poles on Figueroa Street, Vermont Avenue, Flower Street, Jefferson Boulevard, Washington Boulevard, 23rd Street and Exposition Boulevard. This news also answers a question we've always harbored about the banner system in LA. Apparently, the the traditional canvas banners that usually grace city light poles have to be......

The Los Angeles Business Journal posted a story on 1/11/05 about the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors plans to explore the idea of creating a separate health authority to run the county’s entire hospital system, acting on a scathing report on its management of troubled Martin Luther King Jr. Medical Center. The near-unanimous vote at Tuesday's supervisor's meeting, opposed only by Supervisor Mike Antonovich, calls for a task force led by the Chief Administrative......

If reports from Defamer.com's Hollywood Privacy Watch (TM) are true, Suge Knight may have been strutting around Koi like he owned the room on Thursday night, but come next Wednesday he'll be minus one asset when the IRS sells the Beverly Hills headquarters of Death Row Records, a rap label Knight founded before heading off to prison for parole violations in 1996. The Los Angeles Business Journal gives us the scoop: The building at......

The Los Angeles Business Journal reports that Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has filed suit against a dozen hotel booking service Web sites including Hotels.com, Priceline.com and Travelocity.com, alleging they’ve failed to pay as much as $10 million a year in occupancy taxes to the city. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, the city claims online hotel operators are collecting taxes and fees from hotels guests – but are......

The Los Angeles Business Journal reports that delays at major Southern California ports have frustrated so many shippers that they are diverting freighters to other West Coast ports. David Greenberg writes, "A major South Korean shipping company, fed up with delays at the Port of Long Beach, will begin diverting its biggest freighters to Portland, Seattle and Vancouver as shippers continue searching for alternatives to congested facilities in Southern California. Hanjin Shipping Co. Ltd.......