What will Hike The Geek do?!?! In order to face up to budget-balancing woes and a state-wide financial crunch, Governor Schwartzenegger has proposed to close 48 different national park sites, as well as cut funding to many school, health care, and criminal justice programs. Parks in the L.A. area like the Will Rogers State Historic Park, Topanga State Park, and Pio Pico State Historic Park in Whittier will all be shut down, affecting many......

Beaudry Avenue doesn't do much more than provide a quick driving getaway from downtown to Echo Park, but since we travel that way a lot we're quite familiar with it. So driving home one nght, we were compelled to stop short and get a photo of the new pedestrial signals at Beaudry and 1st. These new countdown signals feature the classic walking guy then switch to ye ol' blinking red hand when you're running......