The Beach Boys will be reuniting onstage at the Grammy Awards this Sunday, which makes now as good a time as any to have a chuckle at this map of the United States that breaks down young ladies by description and region. more ›

Get your bicycle bells tuned up, because CicLAvia is back on April 15, and today the route map makes its debut. more ›

Redistricting is going on in the City of Los Angeles, and today, quite literally, the political landscape of local government has been rocked by the proposed boundary lines for our 15 Council Districts. more ›

Are burgers the new cupcake? Los Angeles, I'm Yours posits that burgers are are burgeoning trend, and new burger-centric eateries keep popping up predominantly in one overall geographic area. "The area is totally accessible by Metro and what we are calling the Burger District, a little burgerhood in Hollywood," they explain. more ›

The Los Angeles Police Department say they have detained a "person of interest" in conjunction with the rash of dangerous arson fires set ablaze in Hollywood, West Hollywood, and North Hollywood in the past four days. more ›

A new map put out by the city of Los Angeles' Department of Transit (LADOT) gives riders the chance to see our current and planned bikeways. The bikeways come from the bicycle master plan. more ›

There's a geolocation site that will tell you where the fuck you should go for a drink based on the address you provide. more ›

What part of the pig is the San Fernando Valley? South Central? Echo Park? Map art by Etsy seller drywell, aka meat artist Alyson Thomas, shows Los Angeles for Meat Eaters as a pig ready for some geographic butchering. What part of the pig do you call home? more ›

Hitting the road? You're definitely not going to be alone. Ever wonder how many people have died in accidents along the same roads on which you're driving? Okay, so it's not the most cheerful thought, but between 2001 and 2009, 369,629 people died on America's roads. more ›

It sounds pretty heavenly: A 44-acre street level park "on top" of the 101 Hollywood Freeway. It's an idea that's been in the works since 2006 (though its roots trace back to nearly three decades ago), and, with the support of several politicians and organizations, is making progress on its timeline. more ›

Halloween revelry is about to hit West Hollywood with its usual force of costumed madness. The party is on Halloween proper, and to accommodate what will surely be city streets packed with fun-seekers decked out to the nines, WeHo will have street closures and special parking considerations on October 31. more ›

If you work or live between Westwood and Hancock Park, prepare for a commute nightmare this evening, courtesy President Barack Obama, who arrives in town just in time for rush hour fun. We list some affected streets (and share some Twitter bitching for amusement/comfort). more ›

Time to dust off your sturdiest pair of walking shoes and do a few training treks: The Great Los Angeles Walk 2011 is on November 19th, and will find walkers going from Downtown to the Pacific and exploring much of Hollywood along the way. more ›

Imagine climbing aboard your trusty two-wheeler and traversing the mountains, farmland, and largely-unspoiled landscape of California in 1896. To help "cyclers" do this, mapmaker George Blum made this map of California roads for cyclists, as published today by the Big Map Blog. more ›

The L.A. Weekly's Squid Ink blog says we're in the midst of a "ramen renaissance" around here, and what renaissance couldn't use a little modern day navigation assistance? more ›

Say what you will about the scope and purpose of the Occupy L.A. movement, but you've gotta give 'em this: They are organized. Now Occupy L.A. has released a map of their site to help participants and guests navigate their temporary living and protesting quarters. more ›

Tomorrow the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Triathlon will be taking over the streets from Venice to L.A. Live. The race starts in the ocean at 7:15 a.m., but not everyone will start at the same time. Some of the streets will be closed as early as 6 a.m. more ›

CicLAvia returns to the streets of Los Angeles on October 9th, and the organization has made just a few slight changes to their expanded route map. When it comes to the route, this time around they kept the same 7.5-mile route from the last two events, but added offshoots into Chinatown and the Fashion District. The Chinatown route had to be modified slightly after it was initially announced. more ›

If you notice several parking spaces around town being used as gathering places for plants, art, furniture, and people, you aren't losing your mind: You're witnessing the annual Park[ing] Day L.A. more ›

How many times have gotten behind the wheel, cursing the fact that if Metro had lines and service to go where you needed it to, you'd be among the ranks of the regular transit users in the city? Sometimes imagining a better city can help build one. One reader shares his map and vision for transit in L.A. more ›

Metro says they have cleared another hurdle in their current endeavor to (finally) put in place an efficient transit link to serve Los Angeles International Airport. Wednesday, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) gave approval to release the Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report (FEIS/R) for the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor, says the transit agency, and local politicians are already cheering the train's arrival. more ›

Historical transportation maps of Los Angeles are always intriguing to study, even if they cause eyes to cross and vision to blur. A high resolution scan from the David Rumsey Map Collection reveals intricate details of L.A.'s 1928 transit system pre-freeways. more ›

When CicLAvia returns this October, it will be bigger — and organizers hope better — than before. Organizers unveiled the new route this week that includes the same 7.5-mile route from the last two events and new offshoots into Chinatown and the Fashion District. more ›

The advocacy coalition Transportation for America has analyzed and mapped almost ten years of pedestrian death data across the country and released a report, Dangerous By Design 2011, that ranks Los Angeles the 27th Most Dangerous metropolitan area for pedestrians. more ›