Ok look, when aliens land in your back yard and eat all your Reese's Pieces and dress up in your sister’s clothing and break your favorite Speak and Spell, they don’t give you any notice either. My apologies nonetheless for not finding this sooner... Atwater Movie Night proudly presents: E.T., The Extra Terrestrial TONIGHT @ 7pm Red Car River Park Atwater Village Free On their website you’ll find a helpful map and some info......

Overheard at the Robert Rauschenberg: Combines exhibition at MOCA, spoken by a rather loud, scruffy, (MFA candidate?) docent leading one man around the galleries: "But you see that parachute there? It's a toy parachute." How do you get a job like that? He was clearly just making stuff up. If you didn't go see the Rauschenberg exhibition downtown, you're too late. The last day was yesterday, and the show is now on its way......

A report released last month by the California Climate Change Center at UC Berkeley says that global warming presents California with valuable business opportunities. "Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in California" says that "climate action in California can yield net gains for the state economy, increasing growth and creating jobs." In more simple terms, that spells ECONOMIC BENEFIT. If California is smart, our state could easily become "a leader in the new technologies and industries......

So you want to live in a gracious vintage apartment in the Mid-Wilshire or Koreatown or Hollywood area. It has hardwood floors, a built-in, non-functioning icebox, cool tiles, and you can take the subway downtown. So it was built during the Red Car era when Los Angeles had really good public transportation, before most people had cars, and so it doesn't come with a parking space. You can deal, right? Here are the pros......

Martini Republic's editor, Joseph Mailander, claims to be the "first person to use the Trolley." LAist can verify that: we trailed behind him to be the second official passenger on board at Monday's preview of the new transit service that will serve Hollywood nightlife, Thursday through Sunday morning, 8 p.m. – 4 a.m. That service begins tonight. The Holly Trolley is more of an experience than just a hunky-dory bus ride. Besides the contemporary......

The oft-lamented, much eulogized Red Car trolley may be about to emerge from gauzy nostalgia and faded memories to roll down the streets of the central city once more. Los Angeles Downtown News reports that the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA/LA) is funding a study to examine the viability of a trolley loop that would circle downtown with stops near the Staples Center, Disney Hall, and other business district attractions. The proposed 5-mile route would......