Like, um, so, uh, OMG, tonight is the, like, premiere of the the last season of MTV's The Hills, can you like believe it? more ›

As part of Los Angeles magazine's contest soliciting three-minute videos capturing Los Angeles, Screenwriter Glenn Camhi decided to give it a try. "I thought of a couple getting married as the theme," he told Culture Monster. "They need to recite one line from the ceremony at each site along the way and they have to make it to the Griffith Park Observatory to kiss at sunset or everything is off." more ›

The past weekend, the LAPD conducted two DUI Checkpoints. One in Echo Park, another in Woodland Hills. That's nothing unusual as the LAPD conducts these almost weekly. But as these checkpoints increase across the California, the heat is turning on. more ›

In which one of our favorite TV shows, Current's InfoMania, pays tribute to one of our favorite TV show guys, Huell Howser. This clip is a little 3 minute bite of Howser's long-running career as California's PBS everything-enthusiast, complete with the requisite compilation of "Oh my gawsh"-es and "that's amazing"s, including a nod to Howser's recent cameo on The Simpsons. more ›

Bargain shopping at Out of the Closet, Sizzler, Jumbo's Clown Room, frequent conflation with neighboring Thai Town, a burning couch, singing cats, and a love gone wrong. It's Christmas in LA's Little Armenia. more ›

"It's Christmas Eve in L.A." begins the 1988 trailer for the Bruce Willis action flick Die Hard. That's right: Die Hard takes place at Christmas, and for some, it happens to be their favorite Christmas movie. Forget Bing Crosby's crooning and Ralphie's BB gun when there's Officer John McClane's "Yippee-ki-ay, mother--" uh, well, you know the rest. more ›

We're always moving, moving, moving here in Los Angeles, and mostly in our vehicles. Here's a look at how we move, set to soothing music by Erik Satie, and shot around Silverlake, Echo Park, Los Feliz, Griffith Park and downtown by Clark Vogeler. It's your moment of zen on a sunny day on LA's east side...and for the sake of the calm nature of this video, let's not re-hash the ages-old "what's east/what's west side" debate, mmmkay? Just enjoy. more ›

Earlier today, we told you about the Gibbon Research Center up in Santa Clarita (they're having a vegan breakfast fundraiser on Sunday morning) where every morning, they sing--it's a territorial thing. On a recent visit to the center, we were very lucky to hear them for about 20 minutes and got a little of it on video. more ›

It rains and all of the sudden there are crashes everywhere. In fact, there were 186 between midnight and earlier this morning. All this ridiculousness means fodder for comedians and the like, and, no doubt, a couple humorous ones surfaced yesterday on local blogs. Above, via Curbed LA, Conan O'Brien teases his new home and below, via the LA Now and LA Observed, a mock movie trailer for yet another Los Angeles disaster flick. more ›

Park[ing] Day LA returns for its third year, when on September 18th metered parking spaces all over the city will be taken over by temporary on-the-fly green spaces where anyone is invited to sit down, relax, play, grab a bite, or chill out. With the aim of promoting the value--and in turn, the lack of--safe, accessible, and plentiful green spaces in Los Angeles, the event is an opportunity to break with convention and bring communities together. more ›

The movement to save the axed Film Program, chiefly its Weekend Film series and much of the museum's film-related endeavors, has been taking place swiftly where most movements do their work these days: Online. There is a Save Film @ LACMA blog, Twitter, Facebook fan page, and online petition. Now add this video to the list of efforts underway to urge the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to keep their film program alive. more ›

If you mention that at age 51, you still do a handstand everyday, as did Bart Conner in this 710 ESPN Radio interview recorded at Morton's Steakhouse in Downtown LA, you just might feel the urge to take off your jacket and show, not just tell. And you just might be joined by fellow '84 Olympians Peter Vidmar, Mary Lou Retton and even Greg Louganis in some handstands of their own. more ›

Here's that baby gray whale we mentioned earlier this week. He's been hanging out in Marina Del Rey, showing off bits of his 20-foot long body when he surfaces, creating quite a spectacle for locals and tourists. more ›

KCRW's Good Food offers a mini taco truck tour in this video podcast. First stopping in Highland Park (home to recent LAist Recession Obsession taco crawl,) this colorful segment ends by getting their Kogi on. We dare you not to salivate. more ›

Racing WiFi controlled cars around the Museum of Contemporary Art sure sounds like a fun thing to do on a Friday night, which is how the blogger behind Things to do in LA wound up at the museum trying to get a good race going. It seems the bottom line for this event was A for innovation of idea (racing WiFi controlled cars around an art museum does sound like a quirky, cool thing to do) but an F for execution. Apparently there were many technical glitches that kept the races from running smoothly. All in all, though, despite the delayed signals, it was, according to the blogger, a lot of fun. Here's one piece of the race captured on the video (the rest are on his blog). more ›

In less than two weeks, we all go back to the polls again--some of us for the 3rd time this year--for the May 19th special election. The bulk of the ballot will include six budget based propositions that Governor Schwarzenegger hopes you pass. more ›

It's food versus footwork in this video promo for Susan Feniger's newest food-venture STREET--an opening many folks have been looking forward to. Watch the famous LA-based Chef battle it out "street" style against the Instant Noodles Crew. Does Feniger dance away with a victory? Or will your tastebuds? There's only one way to find out... more ›

Local music legend, artist, and colorful character Allee Willis was recently feted at Silver Lake's Ghettogloss gallery, where the eclectic songwriter launched her latest video, "Hey Jerrie," which features Jerrie Thrill, a 91-year-old female drummer on an oxygen tank. Thrill first hit the music scene in the 1930s, and has headed up several all-girl bands in the decades since. The video is doing its viral thing, but in case you haven't seen it, take a second and enjoy the trip. (It's suggested you view the vid in HD.)
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When LAist first got word of the Kogi BBQ Korean BBQ-styled tacos served up on their truck, mouths were watering. Not only is their fare fantastic, but they are savvy enough to use social media tools like Twitter to keep followers up to speed on where they'll be parking on any given night. To document their pursuit of the "elusive Kogi BBQ" truck, these food fans put together a video they call "Chasing the Dragon." How do you say "Bon Appetit" in Korean? more ›

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The California State University (CSU) system is facing enrollment limits for the next academic year, and because of this, many CSU campuses are now having to limit the application period. Whereas once upon a time a prospective student could apply year-round to a CSU school for admission to an upcoming semester or quarter, now at least 9 campuses will be enforcing a November 30th application deadline for Fall 2009 starts, with many of the remaining campuses to follow shortly thereafter. more ›

"When I first moved to Los Angeles, people from the east coast warned me that I was going to get so frustrated with the car culture that it would drive me crazy. What I discovered was something else," Damien Newton at LA Streetsblog opines, talking about the Los Angeles bicycle community. He deems this Streetfilms video as "required viewing." more ›

Heather from the US Army Corps of Engineers was dismayed to hear that her own office had called the LA River not really a river because it wasn't completely navigable. So she got on board the group of folks determined to say it wasn't so by taking a 3-day kayak trip down the river from Canoga Park to the beach. This is Heather's story. more ›

Word spread like wildfire yesterday online about the arrests of Mark Oshiro and Rich Flores, who may be better known to you as Panasonicyouth and formerme--their online IDs for Twitter and other websites. more ›

In this clip, Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse of the Yes on Prop 8 campaign, which seeks to end gay marriage in California, is questioned by Assemblymember Dave Jones who is unclear at the odd answers he is hearing about the reasons Proposition 8 was written in the first place. Is she trying to say that marriage for elderly should be outlawed too or is she dancing around the issue? more ›

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Artist Shepard Fairey talks about the evolution of his artwork from tagging to the visual centerpiece of Barack Obama's Presidential campaign. Recently LAist captured the installation of a series of Fairey's posters at TenOverSix on Beverly, which will be put up for auction this week. more ›

We've never watched Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel, but since they're coming to Los Angeles we'll definitely be checking out this episode next Tuesday at 10:00 p.m. more ›

The first ad for opponents of Prop 8 was calm and cool--it had this sense of peace about it. But after proponents of eliminating gay marriage launched their first and second ads touting alleged facts, opponents got together and made a second and more direct ad that was launched today. Buzz phrases used are "scare tactics," "that's a lie," and the best, a good one for Republicans--"keep government out of all our lives." more ›

The murder of 17-year-old high schooler and football player Jamiel Shaw made headlines and had reverberations not only in his community, but city-wide. Now rapper Ice Cube has voiced his heartbreak over the death of a young man with a promising future--a death caused by senseless violence. His video for "Why Me?" uses the Shaw case a reference point for this kind of tragedy. The Daily News explains that "Cube says the Shaws are a powerful illustration of the pain that remains after a murder." The video "also features photographs of dozens of other crime victims blowing from a tree then across the sand in the desert north of Los Angeles. The video also depicts a young man in a football jersey being gunned down on a street. As he lays dying, he asks, 'Why me homie, why me?'" more ›