The Buzzcocks @ Spaceland Joe Satriani @ The Roxy Colin Hay, The Plimsouls @ Galaxy Theatre The Aquabats @ Henry Fonda Theater ALO, Culver City Dub Collective @ The Troubadour Maze w/ Frankie Beverly, Ashford & Simpson @ Gibson A for Attack, Sabertooth Tiger @ The Echo Raine Maida, The Veils, St James Inc. @ The Hotel Cafe Golden State, Emma Burgess, The Underwater @ Viper Room Earlimart, Castledoor, The Happy Hollows @ Santa......

If you love the ocean and want to support the people out there every day trying to protect it, you have no choice but to attend the party next weekend celebrating the reopening of Heal the Bay's Santa Monica Pier Aquarium. From the official site: Heal the Bay’s Santa Monica Pier Aquarium will celebrate the completion of a new roof with a reopening event on November 18th from 12:30 to 5:30pm at the Aquarium......

by Kevin McCollister A very accessible relic of the Cold War is to be found at the western end of Mulholland Drive. In 1954 the government considered the San Vicente Mountain, at an altitude of nearly 2,000 feet and with views in every direction, to be the perfect location for a radar site and observation post. If an enemy missile was spotted, a NIKE missile would have been launched from the Sepulveda Basin to......

Federal prosecutors begin their case against the scary-as-shit Aryan Brotherhood prison gang this week in Santa Ana. The lawyers declined to be interviewed by NBC-TV, probably because the gang is known for taking vengeance outside prison walls. Have we mentioned LAist is run from plush offices in the Flynt Building? The ugh, ugh, ugh story of the day: 10 people in OC were arrested for gang raping a 23-year-old woman because they disliked her......

What were they thinking? The LA Times Home Section's big feature this week is: Going Costal: The modest Southern Calif. beach cottage once ensured inlanders an outpost with an ocean breeze. Today, residents call their ramshackle charm an antidote to modern life. Elsewhere in the paper, there is continued news of the 2 million gallons of raw sewage that spilled into the Santa Monica Bay on Sunday. 11 miles of beaches remain closed. On......

Quick, where were you 12 years ago today? Here's a hint: at 4:31am, the Northridge Quake hit. The Daily News remembers and looks at new earthquake sensing technologies. Sewage is all over the Santa Monica Bay after malfunctions at a treatment plant. Apparently it started bubbling up through manholes in Manhattan Beach, and then things just got ickier. The LA Times tries to figure out what went wrong. Fellow bloggers the 1947 Project conducted......

The sky is blue. In most places, that sentence exemplifies a self-evident statement. Of course the sky is blue; what were you expecting, pink? Well, yes. Here in Los Angeles, the sky is nearly as likely to be pink, or violet, or, depending on the sun's heat on the ocean or fires in the hills, opalescent white or gloomy, smoky gray. There's a red sky at night on enough evenings that sailor's delight must......

LAist loves Thanksgiving. Food. Football. Giving thanks. More food. Midday naps. Leftovers. Also, Thanksiving is non-denominational. Everyone can enjoy it, from avowed Satanists, to Reformed Lutherans, to Godless Blue State Heathens like ourselves. There is nothing not good about Thanksgiving. Simply put, it rules. So in honor of Thanksgiving (and by way of tying this column into the city which gives us our raison d'etre), here is a list of the top ten bounties......

In the summer and fall of 1933, a Los Angeles mining engineer named G.Warren Shufelt was surveying the LA area for deposits of oil, gold and other valuable materials using his new invention, called a radio X-ray. Shufelt claimed he was able to locate gold and other precious resources at great depths using his invention, which operated based on a principle involving electrical similarities between matter, and was said to have worked even at......

Yesterday, we lauded the cleansing properties of the rain that has been falling on our fair city for the last few days. This welcome precipitation washes our streets, lawns, buildings, and cars of all the accumulated pollution and grime our city can pile up over the long dry season. It renews and reinvigorates us, and our built environment. Our city shines like polished stone. We fall in love with her all over again. This......

It's messy. It's dangerous. It sticks to your hair. It's silly string, and it's now illegal to possess the pressurized party favor on the streets of Hollywood, at least during Halloween celebrations. All the hubbub associated with this bold legislative stroke led LAist to launch an investigation into the pontential hazards posed by silly string. In other words, what the hell is silly string, and is it really dangerous? One Google search later, we......