On August 28th at 2:58AM PDT, just as the moon disappeared from the shadow of the earth, David Paul Addis fired a flare at The Man resulting in a premature burning of the festival's icon. The San Francisco man faces a felony arson charge in connection with the fire. Addis claims that he is the sole surviving member of the satirical group, Black Rock Intelligence, or "the CIA of Burning Man". Addis plans to......

Gift of Gab is the MC for the legendary rap duo Blackalicious. I've seen Blackalicious at the Glass House in Pomona Many years ago, and watched Gab keep a packed house in awe as spit out the hits, and took time outs to showcase his incredible freestyle abilities. Since then he's put out some solo stuff, has continued to be critically acclaimed, and remains a fan favorite. On August 15th (aka this Wednesday) Gift......

We heard last week that Netflix was setting up a summer travelling roadshow. Now the details: Netflix is showing classic American movies around the country at locations the films made famous. On tap are some very cool locations. They're screening Jaws at State Beach on Martha's Vineyard; Clerks at The Quick Stop in Leonardo, NJ; Field of Dreams in the field in Iowa; and Escape from Alcatraz on Alcatraz Island -- to name a......

While perusing LAPD logs, we came across a story that shows that crime doesn't pay cause most criminals are stupid. On August 17, 2004 officers were summoned to a Comfort Inn on W. Sunset Blvd. A hotel manager tracked down the suspect at the second hotel after discovering that he'd stolen a painting when he was asked to leave the first hotel. The irate hotel manager recognized the thief's vehicle in the Comfort Inn......

On August 6, 1945, Allied Forces in World War II dropped the first atomic weapon used in wartime on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The blast instantly destroyed four square miles of the city and at least 80,000 human beings. Tens of thousands more died of wounds, burns, and radiation in the following weeks. How fitting, then, that the Los Angeles stop of the "September 11: Bearing Witness to History" exhibition is located at the......