Several hundred people squared off in Pershing Square yesterday to help celebrate International Pillowfight Day. LAist brought you a wonderful photo essay on the event last night. And since about 500 of the 300 people at the pillowfight had cameras, I suspect these aren't the last photos you will be seeing from the event.......

In celebration of World Pillow Fight Day, hundreds of spring-fevered revelers duked it out in Pershing Square 'til they were "ankle-deep in feathers." All photos by Dan Tentler for LAist......

Photo by Dave Schumaker via SFist via Flickr Yes, as warned a couple weeks ago, the weekend of outlandish events that will turn heads all around have come. These events are no UCLA Undie Run, but you don't need to strip down half naked to have fun. Here's what's going on: Tonight, 10:00 p.m.: Mobile Clubbing @ Hollywood/Highland Red Line Station Grauman's Chinese Theater. Get ready to jam to your own iPod in a......

O'Doul's was not their choice beer today | All Photos by Zach Behrens/LAist It was a beautiful day downtown this afternoon for the St. Patrick's Day Parade and Pershing Square celebration. Because most of the city has a job and today was a Monday, here is what happened, virtual style.........

Photo by Dave Schumaker via SFist via Flickr Update: For the most recent info on the Pillow Fight, they made a dedicated webpage for it. Check pillowfightlosangeles.comBYOP(illow) to Pershing Square on Saturday afternoon, March 22nd because it's time to have some fun. It's World Pillow Fight Day and the LA Burners are hosting the downtown, transit accessible, event. And yes, there are rules: Soft pillows only! Swing lightly, many people will be swinging at......

It's hard to imagine someone surreptitiously making off with something that's 7 feet tall and made of bronze, but it seems that's what has happened in a park located in the Mid-City neighborhood of Carthay Circle. Last week, residents discovered that the statue honoring a miner that had stood in their small neighborhood park had gone missing. The initial fear of the community was that the statue was snatched for scrapping, since currently there is......

These neighborhood projects are a heck of a lot of work. All of the writing, research, fact-checking, map-making, walking around, metro-riding, photographing, uploading, downloading, sun-block wearing, and image re-sizing is not easy. Trying to maximize my lazing potential, I volunteered to document the Jewelry District figuring that the neighborhood's mere six square blocks shouldn't be too much work. I got off the Metro thinking "I've been here a million times, I know where the......

A reader submitted a question last week about pigeons in Downtown: pigeons droppings are a major nuisance and a health hazard here in downtown LA, where people keep feeding the birds. Please let me know if there is an ordinance against that, and as a private citizen where does one go to enforce it. Thank you. So, to answer this question, we turn to the Los Angeles Municipal Code (that pesky LAMC that is......

1. Go to the beach, all bundled up, and see how beautiful the water is when it's gray and white. 2. Check the weather and say things like, "WTF? I live in Southern California for a reason, dammit." 3. Go ice skating downtown in Pershing Square and see good bands. 4. Slather cream over my cracked hands and bitch about paper cuts. 5. Freak out when my Studio City street floods in the rain due......

Take note as Spaceland produces two great concerts tonight. One, a free concert downtown at Pershing Square featuring clean and well orchestrated story telling sounds of the Mezzanine Owls. It's the Spaceland On Ice series, so go skate and listen to music! At Spaceland itself, The Airborne Toxic Event is in residency this month starting tonight where they will place with the Henry Clay People, Natural Disasters and Frankie Palmer. Getting a little more wordly,......

Why aren't you ice skating this weekend? All right, fine, so it's close to 60 degrees fahrenheit out today, but it's crisp and sunny, and it's the holidays. Why not grab a friend, your family, or a special someone and try some footwork on ice? There are a couple of popular outdoor rinks to check out, including Downtown on Ice--Outdoor Skating at Pershing Square (schedule) which is $6 per session plus skate rental, and......

MUSIC: The Los Angeles Master Chorale performs Handel's Messiah tonight at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. But the audience has a part in this fun sing-along. So get your "hallelujah" ready. 7:30 pm // Walt Disney Concert Hall // 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles // $16-$69 (Cheaper tickets are getting scarce). OUTDOORS: Santa Monica pretends its Pershing Square with an ice rink of its own. It’s a stone’s throw away from the Third Street......

ExperienceLA.com and Lonely Planet are running a community based Downtown photo contest. If you win, you're photo will be on the cover of the free guide that will distributed around LA and all over the world. And while you're Downtown shooting photos, drop by Pershing Square to go ice skating through the holidays. The tunnel on the 5 Freeway where a fiery crash killed three, shutting down the tunnel for over a month, reopened......

If you see a litter and pack of puppies and dogs walking around Pershing Square tonight, it's a Downtown Dog Walk. Maybe you're downtown right now with your dog... Go, go, go! Speaking of non-humans, the state is considering a special path for animals on the Skirball Center Drive bridge. Environmentalists cheer, residents complain it's a waste of transportation funds. On that note of big spending, California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez is still not......

They are the rock stars of the string quartet. They've played with everyone and everything (such as 'Purple Haze' to the left). And they, the uber-famous and sometimes over-popular Kronos Quartet, are playing for free this Thursday night Downtown. You can't beat that. There are not many Grand Performances left for the summer. If you've never had the chance, pack some food and alcohol (no red wine allowed, it stains the granite), find a spot......

We all have heard Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral"), mostly in sound bytes, mostly the 'Ode to Joy' theme. But have you really heard it? Have you sat through the whole thing sucking in the craziness? Have you been there live? Have you? Have you? Simply put, it's simply amazing. This is rock and roll folks. Beethoven's 9th! Tuesday, July 31, 2007, 8:00 PM Hollywood Bowl 2301 N. Highland Avenue......

The Fresh - "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley Marina del Rey Summer Symphony @ Burton W. Chace Park Ten Years After @ The Canyon Bob Dylan @ Pacific Amphitheatre Lyle Lovett, k.d. lang @ Greek Theatre Chris Trapper, Craig Range, The Fresh @ Genghis Cohen Jesca Hoop, Laura Jansen, Lissie @ The Hotel Cafe Kiss or Kill @ Alex's Bar Bodies of Water @ Pershing Square The Whirling Dervish, Matador, Guppies @ Relax Bar Sea......

You’ve heard it already, “Wow, they’re like 13 years old and in a band!” The Jack Bambis have gotten a lot of attention for their ages – guitarist Indio, bassist Jasper and singer Lia are all 13. Cash, the drummer, shies a few years behind. But the Jack Bambis sound better than a whole lotta crap on the radio being made by people 21 and up (i.e. old enough to know better). Cash graduated......

Beginning at 10 a.m. on Tuesday morning, the May Day immigration march will begin at Olympic and Broadway, heading towards City Hall on Spring St. According to Metro, "Rail service will be increased on the Metro Blue and Metro Red lines to handle the extra patrons expected to participate in the march. The Metro Green and Metro Gold lines will have extra trains ready for deployment should the need arise. The Metro Red Line......

At the LA Times building this morning, we were invited to speak to a group of arts organizations on Web 2.0, which, of course, includes blogging (this was not a Times sponsored event, rather they gave the use of their community room). It was fun and dandy and lots of people were still getting accustomed to the world of blogging. However, we found it funny and odd that internet access in the building was hard......

- LAVoice is looking for a new editor - LAVoice - Darin Erstad goes to the Chicago White Sox - LA Times - 2 bodes and 3 dead dogs found in Granada Hills house fire - CBS2 - Gehry building torn down - CurbedLA - Press Deputy for the Mayor, Matt Szabo, gets poked at - LAO - $75,000 for leading to the capture of the Ski-Mask Bandits, who have robbed more than 200......

Sepultura, Sworn Enemy, Diecast @ Whisky X-Clan Toy Drive @ Temple Bar Ozomatli @ House of Blues Tigra @ Silverlake Lounge Los Abandoned @ Pershing Square (free, 8pm) Smegma, Nels Cline, Polar Goldie Cats, Dinosaurs With Horns @ The Echo The Woolly Bandits, Sons and Lovers @ Knitting Factory The Bolides, Forcefield On @ Alex's Bar The Watkins Family Hour @ Largo The Cave Singers, Moonrats @ Spaceland Naked & Shameless, Evil Maria @......

The Key Club gets top billing tonight because The Bronx headlines a benefit for Wheels for Humanity, which supplies wheelchairs. Also on the bill : Chuck Ragan (ex-Hot Water Music) with members of Flogging Molly, and some rock star karaoke. Everyone will probably be there for either the ice skating or Great Northern, but The Submarines came out with a haunting CD that we played all summer long. Go downtown and ice skate from......

Pershing Square has once again transformed into a frozen wonderland of twisted ankles and bruised tailbones. This lovely, downtown park spends most of the year as a grassy knoll and concrete potty, but for a few brilliant weeks during the deep freeze of our LA winter, it becomes a glorious, outdoor ice skating rink for the entire city to enjoy. Hockey clinics, open-air movies, community and family events and live music make this a......

LAist picked up this interesting tidbit in the Los Angeles Downtown News about four high-tech toilets coming to Downtown LA -- at a cost of about $1 million dollars. But just look what these babies, called Automatic Public Toilets, will do: Each APT's oval-shaped kiosk contains a small toilet and a sink. After every use, the door shuts and the toilet retracts into a behind-the-scenes cleaning area, where it is pressure-washed, disinfected and dried.......

Yes, we know it's not even Thanksgiving yet and it's a little difficult to feel holiday cheer in the sweltering 80-degree weather, but Christmas has already begun in the mind of retailers across Los Angeles. In our family the Christmas season always 'officially' started the day after Thanksgiving, when we would put up the lights on the outside of the house. The Grove, however, has dictated the start of the season as tomorrow, November......

Your phone is tapped. Your news is suppressed. You fund a war but you can’t afford gas. Your President lies and embarrasses you. Your country is making enemies. And your planet is frying. Now might be a good time to protest. No one will call you a hippie. At this moment, 234+ nationwide protests are planned for tomorrow, October 5th. People will be walking out of school, walking out of work and freakin’ in......

by Debbie Long For three years I worked in the upper floors of a downtown LA skyscraper. Each day I would eagerly wait for the two 15 minute breaks and 45 minute lunch when I could leave my windowless cubicle and find somewhere outside to regroup. There was something about being around all of the glass, concrete and steel buildings that made me seek out water. Fortunately, downtown Los Angeles is filled with fountains,......

323.603.6312. Now you can stalk our editor Tony Pierce. Just kidding. That's not his phone number, but between 11 and 12 this morning, you can reach him there at Ring My Bell. Boo hoo! Nissan is forcing the city of Pasadena to give back their electric cars! "They were like chickens running around with their heads cut off..." The L.A. Times looks into the behind-the-scenes politics of what the heck is going on with......

All the world's creatures... It's too late for the $1 tickets, but $12 ones are still available for tonight's powerhouse performance of Beethoven's 9th at the Hollywood Bowl with the LA Phil under the baton of Leonard Slatkin. If you haven't heard this from start to finish, you're really missing out. He is Alive! Skirball +AFI = Oliver Stone screening the 1969 political thriller, Z. The movie was not directed by Stone, but there......