The collective of street food vendors who used to operate as the Breed Street Food Fair were forced to close down in 2009, but several of the vendors are hoping to resume operations legally in Boyle Heights at a planned evening farmers' market. more ›

Richard Parks' short film "Music Man Murray," premiering this weekend at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, opens on a vast warehouse of record albums, with one little old man smack dab in the middle of them, surrounded and barricaded, somewhat happily, in the claustrophobia. more ›

If you shot video of every day of your life in 2011, would you be able to find an entertaining second, a memorable clip, daily? L.A.-based artist and photographer Madeline Schichtel tackled said project, and her result, "2011," chronicles a local lady who gets out and seizes the countless opportunities L.A. presents as often as a working woman can. more ›

Last week there were three stabbings on Skid Row within four days. The good news was that they occurred under a surveillance camera. The bad news was that the camera wasn't working. more ›

He has been enthralling LA foodies for years, then he took his show on the road and charmed the rest of America via his television show Ludo Bites America, now Chef Ludo Lefebvre is tackling the tiniest of tastebuds via his new online series Ludo Baby Bites. more ›

Lindsey Miller, 26, is among the millions of us living in Los Angeles who never seems to run into celebrities--especially the one she has a crush on. Miller, a cancer patient, says on her blog that she recently saw the film 50/50, and has a message for its star, Joseph Gordon-Levitt: She wants to go on a date with him. more ›

Is Justin Bieber really a fan's baby daddy? Mariah Yeater says yes, and the Biebs says... well, he'd rather focus on music and not the gossip. Okay, fine. So it's no wonder Jimmy Fallon took a musical approach to the Bieber Baby Mama Drama last night, and came up with this spoof song "(It's Not My) Baby." more ›

Same-sex marriage supporters have been advocating for the public release of the Proposition 8 trial video recordings to show the evidence behind former Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker's ruling that overturned the 2008 ballot measure. A federal appeals court placed a temporary hold on the decision to go public on Monday. more ›

LA Clippers star Blake Griffin has received all kinds of accolades in his career so far. The 22-year-old was named the NBA Rookie of the Year last season, and won the Slam Dunk contest after jumping over a Kia Optima. But some of his lesser-known talents are just now being recognized. After announcing that he would take on an unpaid internship at comedy website Funny or Die, Griffin now appears in a bunch of videos for the site. more ›

Sometimes scrubbed from view entirely, Dan Meth has created a montage of the Twin Towers' 40-year run on the big screen. more ›

Miguel Ruiz Fabian, a 24-year-old Santa Ana public works intern, faces his arraignment today for charges of creatively using his cell phone to record video of men in the City Hall bathroom. more ›

Waifish women diving into pools under moonlit skies, a chopper hovering over the Hollywood sign, getting wacky in a fast food parking lot, and daytrippin' in the desert. You know, a slice of life in L.A. Boston-born band The Dead Trees have made a video for "Back to L.A." that serves as a "love letter" to their adopted home city. more ›

Jason Lassen, 40, works as a seismic retrofitter in Los Angeles. Originally from New Hampshire, he spends his days crawling under houses. He's discovered some "outrageous" objects in the dirt, and thanks to a video interview with Lassen on The Working Actor's blog and a tipster, we've got the skinny on what's concealed below Angeleno dwellings. more ›

Steve Jobs has $76 billion dollars burning a hole in his black mock turtleneck. Apple's value has skyrocketed more than 300 percent in the past couple years owing much to growing iPhone sales and the success of the iPad. But Apple's future success rides not just on product but on content -- specifically audio and video downloads and paid streaming content. more ›

Come one, come all, come enjoy L.A.’s Wednesday offerings! Dub Club brings Reggae Meets Africa to the ears. Mindshare LA brings enlightenment to the mind. NewFilmmakers LA brings short film, and Gallery 825 brings conversations in art. First Wednesdays in Downtown Culver City brings it all, so pick one, primp and bring yourself out and about. more ›

Sony Creative Software and America's State Parks have teamed up to introduce America's State Parks Filmmaker Challenge, a video competition created to provide funding to not only California State Parks, but other state parks across the nation. Participants will produce two-minute (or less) videos showcasing their favorite state parks. Amateurs welcome. more ›

Day One's highlight is the sneak preview screening of Vegucated, a guerrilla-style documentary that follows three carnivorous, dairy-loving New Yorkers who adopt a vegan diet for six weeks. During their trial they uncover the horrors of animal agriculture and fight to expose an industry which they recently supported. more ›

Beginning at 7:00 p.m. tonight, ramps on the 405 freeway will be shut down in preparation for the weekend's full closure of the interstate, to allow the Mulholland Drive Bridge to be demolished. Known as Carmageddon, the closure promises to turn the westside and surrounding areas into a clusterfuck for any cars that choose to drive during that time. more ›

We already took you swimming for your video lunch, so why not stay in the water with this video from Los Angeles band Warpaint, which was shot in portion in the Echo Park Deep Pool. The pool is one of the few indoor year-round pools operated by the City of Los Angeles. more ›

A brief cellphone video obtained and published by celeb gossip site TMZ shows San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow in a confrontation with at least one Los Angeles Dodgers fan while in his seat inside the stadium. more ›

Vesta is coming into focus. Scientists working with The Dawn mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena have created a new, Twilight Zone-looking video showing the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta as "the spacecraft approaches this unexplored world in the main asteroid belt," reports NASA. more ›

June 15th is the day the State Budget gets voted on by our legislators, and as that day nears, Governor Jerry Brown has taken to YouTube with a video message about what he wants to do, and what he needs to happen to get it done. more ›

LA's unique brand of gridlock madness grips Dave Grohl in the Foo Fighters' new video "Walk," a re-imagining of the 1993 Michael Douglas freakout classic, "Falling Down." Beginning with a shout-out to the 110 freeway, the 101 freeway, and everyone's favorite nightmare, the soon-to-be-shut-down-for-more-than-two-days 405 freeway, the video tracks Grohl on a city wide rampage that culminates, as some things do, in a taser-filled arrest at band practice. more ›

From beautiful Canoga Park, California comes this timely release about the coming together of current events and, well, porn. I mean--it's Canoga Park, after all. In what we would surely hail the "Press Release of the Day" if we were to do such a thing comes word from Hustler that "This Ain’t Bin Laden XXX" is coming to DVD this summer. Get out the lube! (Okay, that last part was our addition.) more ›

Half of all fixed-line internet traffic delivers video, audio and other real-time experiences from websites and applications such as Netflix, YouTube and iTunes, displacing good ol' web browsing for the first time as bandwidth leader during peak internet hours in North America, according to a new study. more ›

Did you know that May was Zombie Awareness Month? The Zombie Research Society says that it's because "[m]any films important to the evolution of the modern Zombie are set in the month of May, from the original Night of the Living Dead, 1968, to the well received Dawn of The Dead remake of 2004," and that "because Spring naturally brings with it a sense of renewal and hopefulness, May is the perfect month to emphasize continued vigilance in the face of the coming Zombie Pandemic." Zoinks, what? Today's video lunch will help you survive. more ›

All hail the mighty tuba! Today is International Tuba Day, and while you might not play the tuba, that doesn't mean you are left out, and our video lunch aims to prove it. The observance "was created for both tuba players and non-tuba players alike," Tuba Day explains, and "was created to recognize tubists in musical organizations around the world who have to go through the hassle of handling a tuba." more ›

A full investigation is officially underway by the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation after a video surfaced of two uniformed officers allegedly appearing in an adult video, said LADOT Interim General Manager Amir Sedadi in a statement on Sunday. more ›

Los Angeles, where were you 19 years ago today? If you were in Los Angeles, you might remember this day well. Today's video lunch comes courtesy Sublime, whose song immortalizes April 29th, 1992 and its part in our local history. There is no official video, but this is among the amateur efforts using footage from the riots and surrounding events to illustrate Sublime's song. more ›

In which the everyday folly of saying "I agree" to all those Apple iTunes user agreements without reading the fine print becomes actual folly via "South Park." Your video lunch today might be funnier for Android or BlackBerry uses...unless you are an Apple user with a sense of humor about possibly being tracked down by "Business Casual G-Men." more ›