On scene photos by Roxanne Musterer, LAist Reader The Los Angeles Fire Department is reporting a two story apartment building with fire showing from the attic that began shortly before 2:30 p.m. at 5449 6th St. between Detroit St. and La Brea Ave. CBS2 reports:Flames engulfed a two-story apartment building near Park La Brea Tuesday, sending a thick plume of black smoke into the air and forcing residents to evacuate, but there were no......

As of 12:30 a.m. tonight, 10,300 LADWP customers went without power throughout the city, primarily due to downed wires from the weather, according to a press release from the city agency. Crews have been deployed to the scattered outages, affecting the following areas and number of customers: South LA 1,153 Cheviot Hills 1,442 Knollwood 151 Mid City 561 Granada Hills 12 Belair Estates 4 Country Club Park 29 Studio City 38 North Hollywood 3,257 Westchester......

Defamer: The Reno 911 men slipped on their shorts and offered their support to the striking writers today EatingLA: Everyone's favorite unbalanced chef Gordon Ramsay is going to have "a conversation" at the Paley Center in Beverly Hills on the 20th. Bite me. Sean Bonner: points us to a gift for the man or woman who has everything and would like less (and no it's not a Mike Huckabee mask, but close) Luke Ford:......

Citing high costs, length of time to build and other basic realities of building the "subway to the sea," Michael Balter calls for Wilshire Blvd. to be car free today in the LA Times opinion section: First, ban all automobiles from the entire 15-mile length of the boulevard. Second, beginning at its Western Avenue station, bring the Metro Rail to street level and run it to and from the sea on two sets of......

Angelenos in search of intelligent entertainment needn't look any further than LACMA's Friday night jazz series. Accessible, low-key and free, it is possibly one of L.A.'s best kept secrets (until now). Upon entering the courtyard, we could already feel our blood pressure drop. The smooth music provided an interesting contrast to the city and museum architecture. The audience was decidedly mixed, consisting of a post-work cocktails crowd, families and locals from Park La Brea.......

According to Heavy Trash, many things. Specifically:The problem is, gated communities do not increase people's trust in each other or the overall quality of life. They may in fact do harm to both. To combat this spirit of distrust in our local communities, the arts organization erected bright orange viewing platforms at three key locations throughout the city. We're sure the gated communities are working quickly to get them removed but, for now, you......

Well, we now have confirmation that the Park La Brea apartments truly anchor rainbows. Here's a picture taken from Wilshire Blvd, near San Vincente, of the rainbows that appeared around 2 PM on 12/29/2004. If you look carefully, you'll see 2 parallel rainbows.......

LAist has had occasion to be out and about the city more than usual this week, which has prompted the use of many nearly-forgotten shortcuts—because anything is better than the 101 during rush hour. With that in mind, LAist is including two favorite traffic manipulations that have saved us minutes while commuting: • Westside to Melrose: Venice Boulevard east to Hauser north (passing through Park LaBrea), which becomes Martel at 3rd. Sure, stop signs......

There are few things in LA we have such a love-hate relationship with as that Disney-fied shopping Valhalla known as The Grove shopping complex at Fairfax and Third. Therefore, we introduce a new feature, Good Grove/Bad Grove, to celebrate and bemoan the best and worst of the place that gave Century City an inferiority complex and bumped up property values around Park LaBrea. Today's entry: Pacific's The Grove 14 Theatres. There's no question this......