With 268,138 millionaire households, our county, the largest in the nation, holds 3% of the nation's millionaires, or 23% of the state's. And California, that's just for starters: 1. L.A. 2. Cook (Chicago) 3. Orange 4. Maricopa (Phoenix) 5. San Diego 6. Harris (Houston) 7. Nassau 8. Santa Clara 9. Palm Beach 10. King (Seattle) From CNN Money Photo by Kristo via Flickr......

Horse racing season has just begun at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, and from now until April 22, SoCal hopefuls (with $5 for general admission fee) can step up to tellered windows and pick the ponies to win, place or show. But there’s a lot of history behind them horses: Santa Anita opened on Christmas Day in 1934, and still now traditionally opens on Dec. 26 each year. Seabiscuit brought the park more notoriety,......

Speaking of Starring LA, Constantine opens this weekend with Los Angeles, Sunset Boulevard in particular, as it's major backdrop (well when Keanu Reeves isn't spending time in Hell). Hank Steuver in his review of the film says, "Hollywood really believes it's got a lock on the infernal...in the Goth mind-set of who-knows-how-many screenwriters, there can apparently be nothing creepier than a dive/dance bar populated by the demonic undead, in which you'll find your Lestats,......

Los Angeles Times's staffer David Pierson reports that county officials closed 80% of the Angeles National Forest on Sunday, forcing canyon residents to evacuate: "It's [the evacuation] a predicament dozens, maybe hundreds, of residents living full- or part-time in the remote mountain areas found themselves in after officials announced Friday that 80% of the 680,000-acre forest would be closed today [Sunday] at midnight. Residents say they need more time and would prefer to stay to......

Thursday, the California Supreme Court overturned a felony conviction of student who wrote a "violence-laced poem" at the age of 15. The teenager was sentenced to 100 days in Juvy for the "threatening" nature of his writing. The ACLU said the ruling was a "resounding victory for students' 1st Amendment rights of creative expression," and a Santa Clara Law Professor who helped prepare the teen for court hopes that the ruling will prevent similar forms......