The results are in for the Honest Tea's social experiment, Honest City, conducted yesterday in twelve U.S. cities. Up thirteen percentage points from 2010, L.A. scored a proud 88% this year. The results are in for the Honest Tea's social experiment, Honest City, conducted yesterday in twelve U.S. cities. Up thirteen percentage points from 2010, L.A. scored a proud 88% this year. Evidently, Chicago, who scored an impressive 99%, is the most honest city in America, with Boston, Seattle and Dallas trailing closely behind at 97%. more ›

Los Angeles finished "dead last" in the honesty department during last year's Honest Tea Honesty Test. The test is back, and our (hopeful) redemption will be televised as this year's entrapment streams live online, according NBC LA. more ›

Garnering around 6,000 hits a day, a webcam set up by the National Audubon Society's Starr Ranch Sanctuary in unincorporated Orange County, lets people around the world keep an eye on the owlets born last month while living in their natural habitat, according to the OC Register. more ›

Firefighters working to combat and contain the over 140,000-acre Station Fire have managed so far to keep the flames from scorching the historic Observatory and the communications towers that serve many of L.A.'s television and radio stations, as well as law enforcement and telecommunications. more ›

One major concern when it comes to the Station Fire is its proximity to Mount Wilson, which is home to a renowned 105-year-old Observatory, as well as communication towers for many local television and radio outlets ("relay broadcasting"). Although there are no personnel currently allowed on Mt. Wilson, they are monitoring the fire as best they can via the news, and posting updates to their website. They also operate a live webcam from one of the towers, which you can look at here. This morning they noted: "Towercam images during the night showed Red Box area flaming dying down, which is good news, but current Towercam scenes are obscured by smoke." more ›