More Than Red Cars, a blog examining "the obscure, offbeat and half-forgotten transportation history of Southern California," recently ranked L.A's Metro Rail stations by their Walk Score, a number assigned to a location illustrating its proximity to amenities like grocery stores, coffee shops and eateries. more ›

A backpack left inside a planter in the foyer of the Los Angeles Police Department's 77th Street Division Station contained something other than homework or hiking gear, according to KTLA; it contained a pipe bomb. more ›

A suicide attempt landed a 45-year-old man on the Gold Line tracks after he struck the back of the train, reports the Pasadena Star-News. The man leaped from an overpass at Arroyo Parkway and Holly Street near the Gold Line's Pasadena Memorial Park station at around 6:26 this morning. more ›

Rome counts as the Mediterranean, right? Because the press meal held at Delphine last week held such an embarassment of riches I felt as if we should have been eating reclined on one elbow wearing crowns of laurel. more ›

Metro is sure putting on a good number of community meetings in October. From the Wilshire Bus Lanes project to the Crenshaw Line to LAX and now another one is set for a plan to overhaul the pedestrian experience at the second busiest rail station in the system (Metro/7th in downtown being the busiest) where the Blue and Green lines converge. more ›

A man at a station in downtown Los Angeles has died after being hit by a Metro Subway train in an apparent suicide this evening. more ›

I love standing at the front of the Orange Line bus looking out the front window, my eyes being massaged by the passing by landscaped medians, surrounded by Valley apartments and industrial buildings on the outside. Take a ride, here, from the NoHo Arts District station to Laurel Canyon Blvd. Video by Zach Behrens/LAist... more ›

KCSN 88.5 FM, the radio station run out of California State University, Northridge (CSUN), is actually not classical station 24/7 like K-Mozart was or KUSC is. The Valley based station runs classical from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. surrounded by BBC Radio in the early mornings and an eclectic mix of music including folk, roots, musicals, blues and Hawaiian at night and on the weekends. KZMT always felt a bit stodgy and KUSC feels... more ›