Bicycle activist Stephen Box made good on his annual tradition last Friday, taking a group of cyclists to the LADWP Festival of Lights in Griffith Park on a car-only night. He calls it the Festival of Rights because he contends that state law, with a few exceptions such as most freeways, allows bicycles to use any roadway a vehicle can. Somehow, the city of Los Angeles' has found the exception, but when Box challenges officials, he gets the runaround: more ›

Even with the new water conservation law, the city's Recreation and Parks Department was caught on video by the LA Times hosing down tennis courts (and not using a water broom). more ›