It's hard to imagine someone surreptitiously making off with something that's 7 feet tall and made of bronze, but it seems that's what has happened in a park located in the Mid-City neighborhood of Carthay Circle. Last week, residents discovered that the statue honoring a miner that had stood in their small neighborhood park had gone missing. The initial fear of the community was that the statue was snatched for scrapping, since currently there is......

While it is hard for most to understand or imagine, once you have become entrenched in the archipelagic enclave of skyscrapers and bona fide mass transit that is Manhattan Island, it is difficult to leave. For a New Yorker, geographic displacement can fester into a self-induced internalized affront (even if just for a few short days). But the compelling lure of a free trip to Los Angeles to accompany my aunt on a business trip......

Your pets want the house to themselves today. Some of yesterday's festivals like Detour, NoHo Scene and the Eagle Rock Music Festival are over with. Yet Sunday, here in Los Angeles, is still a busy day. Events continuing from yesterday's Weekend Festival Guide: Brewery Art Walk and TarFest Jazz at Drew 10:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.: In it's 17th year, the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science's popular music and charity event......

You want a little more variety in your life? How about checking out the diverse theater scene around town? Here are just five of the shows opening this weekend: Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical Yes, you read that right. The ’70s porn classic comes to the stage at the Key Club. Key Club. 9039 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. 310-274-5800. Tickets are $35-$55. Opens tonight at 8 pm. Runs Thursdays in August. Godislav A young......

True Football David Beckham to join the Los Angeles soccer scene? Vote Tomorrow There's some confusion over voter trouble tomorrow. CBS2 helps you prepare. Over at City Hall Zuma Dogg over at Mayor Sam is following the medical marijuana dispensary story. The City disses their own Godfather of blogging. The City also disses the killing of animals for a weekend: In an demonstration of commitment to lifesaving for the homeless animals of Los Angeles,......

In order to provide more space for drag queen street races, and due to the Annual West Hollywood Halloween Parade, the following streets will be closed from 1pm to 6am: -- Santa Monica Boulevard between La Cienega Boulevard and Doheny Drive. -- Robertson Boulevard between Melrose Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard. -- San Vicente Boulevard between Cynthia Street and Melrose Avenue. From 6 p.m. through 6 a.m., La Cienega Boulevard will be closed between......

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......

Who said running was a loner sport. Niketown has been sponsoring jogs-about-town from its mammoth Beverly Hills location for years. When a race is upcoming, it sponsors group runs at other locations throughout the city and South Bay, as well. The sneaker seller has just launched a new batch of training runs ahead of the Brentwood 5k/10k Run on Sunday May 28th, Memorial Day weekend. They're all free. As a lure, Nike is offering......

Color us confused on this one, but is that some sort of an Italian or French chef popping out of a covered wagon with a freshly cooked chicken on his hand? And he's one tough guy, because he's not even using a plate or a potholder. Ah yes, it brings to mind the long and arduous journeys that the settlers undertook to come out West, bringing with them the joys of international cuisine and......

LAist is going on a delicious spree around LA from A to Z. This week, we are on F. Today, we visit Fioretto Trattoria, a Tuscan trattoria in Culver City. Unassuming strip mall dining is no stranger to us, especially here on the Westside, so it was no big surprise to find Fioretto Trattoria in the second spot from the street in a small plaza on Culver Boulevard. For some reason though, we were......

It used to be that fiction writers came to Los Angeles to live out their remaining days as screenwriters. Like most LA "truths," this is no longer the case. More and more screenwriters and other creative professionals are turning to fiction to satisfy their expressive urges. Seth Greenland's career has taken a similar turn. Greenland is a screenwriter and playwright who uses the Los Angeles stand-up comedy scene as a backdrop for his first......

According to the LA Times Food section's focus on Italophilic gastronomy in Los Angeles, our new Little Italy is located in... Brentwood? Valli Herman’s article notes: It happens in Hollywood, it happens in real estate and now it's happening in Brentwood. It's a kind of copycat syndrome. In movies, they're called sequels. In real estate, it's called gentrification. In Brentwood, it's called an explosion in Italian restaurants. We understand the market for high-end cuisine......

Today, 1/17, 7 PM, Troy Reed signs his book "Troy’s Summer" at Dutton’s Brentwood Books: 11975 San Vicente Blvd. Tuesday, 1/18 Leander Kahney, author of forth coming book, "The Cult Of Mac," will discuss the Macintosh/Apple subculture and display his photos on 1/18 at the W Hotel Westwood in Los Angeles (930 Hilgard Ave., in the VIP Room)7-9 PM. You must reserve a spot so call 888-718-4764 before you arrive. Carrie Fisher appears at......

If reports from Defamer.com's Hollywood Privacy Watch (TM) are true, Suge Knight may have been strutting around Koi like he owned the room on Thursday night, but come next Wednesday he'll be minus one asset when the IRS sells the Beverly Hills headquarters of Death Row Records, a rap label Knight founded before heading off to prison for parole violations in 1996. The Los Angeles Business Journal gives us the scoop: The building at......

The Los Angeles Press Club co-hosts a "Free Open Government Forum," an all-day law and policy conference, on Saturday, January 8 at the Le Bel Age Hotel, 1020 N. San Vicente Blvd from 9:30 AM to 6 PM. Join activists, journalists, attorneys and public officials to discuss the new government transparency initiative approved by California voters in the November 2004 elections. LA's political cognoscenti will be pondering deep questions such as "how will the......

November 22 at 7:00 Dutton’s Brentwood Patti Davis signs "The Long Goodbye" Ronald Reagan’s daughter writes about losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease. Monday, November 22 at 7:00 Dutton’s Brentwood Dutton’s Brentwood Books: 11975 San Vicente Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90049 Perhaps Ms. Davis can educate all of us about the effects of this horrible disease and inform us exactly when her father was diagnosed with the affliction.......