This one is for those transplants from the Midwest, especially the ones who moved out here and have never experienced an earthquake. Well, the place you left, whether that be Chicago, or even in Ohio, got a shaker early this morning, leaving your friends and family from home an earthquake experience before you here in "earthquake county." more ›

Update, 5:32 p.m.: SFist reports that the bridge has reopened and the crash site has been cleared. Overall, nine people were injured, two of them with life-threatening injuries, including the infant. Check SFist for continuing updates to the story

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Did you know there's a medical/psychological condition called trichophagia -- where someone is compelled to eat his or her own hair. Could this the next big celeb dysfunction? Move over meth and anorexia. Here comes hair eating to help with your weight gain... more ›

A bigass hole in the street in a posh neighborhood in La Jolla has victimized one home and forced families from four other homes to evacuate.

Power lines fell, and at least four homes were evacuated. Gas and power supplies are shut off. more ›

The TelePromTer-readers and out-of-touch-hate-mongers of the mainstream media thought that they were being super-cool by discussing/bitching about the presidential candidate debates that were posted on YouTube. So since that new, interesting, and youth-vote promoting aspect of the next election has been talked to death by the talking-heads, I have found these candidate related webpages to occupy me during my early in the ante meridian down-time: At SuperBook.com, you can go to their "Exotic Lines"... more ›

Nearly 12 years after his infamous acquittal in the criminal trial in which he was charged with murdering his ex-wife and her beau, OJ Simpson is locked up on multiple felony charges. View Simpson's in-custody status / charges (.pdf). This time there was no Brentwood stakeout, no Ford Bronco, and somewhere in heaven Johnnie Cochran isn't the least bit surprised. Friday he was questioned, earlier today he was booked, and tonight, ordered "held without... more ›

With such a groundswell of support for Ron Paul, why isn't the GOP embracing the most conservative congressman on the hill? According to this video, seen on Capitol Annex, Paul delegates who arrived on time at an event in Texas were not allowed to vote. Why wouldn't the GOP be interested in a candidate who could get a lot of Democrats to vote "this one time only" for a man who wants to get... more ›

The top e-mailed story from the Los Angeles Times website today was "Mythical Chupacabra Found in Texas?" Some of us know exactly what a chupacabra is thanks to a 1997 X-Files episode "El Mundo Gira." Sort of: It's a creature that supposedly either looks like a weird wild dog or a lizard-like alien. First reported in Puerto Rico, there've been spottings in Mexico and the U.S. The name translates to "goat sucker," and it... more ›

Stop the presses. The horror story unraveling in central Utah just lost the plot. Tragically. The doomed efforts to assess the fate of six miners missing after a cave-in was the daily go-to lead for news outlets of all media for nearly two weeks. The "race to save trapped Utah miners" [LA Times, August 9] never quite seemed real -- a human interest spectacle rivaling that of serial programs such as "Lost" -- with... more ›

This is hilarious... and weird. Back in 1998, my family took my grandmother out for her 89th birthday to a restaurant that fused French and Asian. The quaint little restaurant in Chicago's suburban North Shore village of Wilmette was appropriately named Chinsoiserie. The seven of us were seated and we immediately ordered fifty dollars worth of delicious appetizers. When it came time to order our meals, half of what we desired sent the waitress... more ›

We didn't know how lucky we had it when the White Stripes came to Hollywood last month and took over the location formerly known as Tower Sunset and turned it into Icky Thump Records. OK, yes we did. But we had no idea how much more White Stripes love we were going to get compared to the other parts of North America in regards to these "secret shows". For example on their tour across... more ›

Daily Show devotees will remember a recent episode in which special correspondent Rob Riggle was sent to Anaheim to report on a local dispute pitting a coalition of Anaheim business owners and residents against the almighty Disney over an affordable housing initiative in the Resort District (which the company firmly opposes). Allegations of possible gang-related violence, mugging, drug-dealing (and even fellatio) abounded in the hilarious report as Riggle questioned a befuddled Councilwoman Lorri Galloway... more ›

Yesterday we were reading Digg and we saw a post by a gentleman who has an autistic son who was trying to order off the menu when the waitress blew a fuse and shook and mocked the young boy. The father said that he had written a letter to the local paper, but since we didn't see it posted on line, we contacted him and told him that we would post the letter: To... more ›

Tanzania -- A bat demon called Popo Bawa is blamed for a series of sex attacks. - BBC more ›

A classic commercial for Illinois-based grocery store chain and wholesaler, Moo & Oink. more ›

It was really hard to explain to our friends in the midwest about how cold it's been here over the last 3-4 weeks. One of our friends from Portland emailed us about this video, above, and asked if it was true that the Grapevine was closed after two inches of snow. We told our friend that if they continued to tease us we would move to Oregon. They shut up.... more ›

10) While LA's Silversun Pickups can't seem to shed the Smashing Pumpkins comparisons despite releasing a record -- "Carnavas" -– that tops anything Billy Corgan's done since Siamese Dream, the only think rockin' in Chicago these days is the back seat of R. Kelly's stretch Benz. more ›

Biggest difference between Boston and LA? When we ask politely for things we get them. Sadly things aren't so genial in beantown and the "poor college student" with the high rent got popped with cornucopia of tickets despite her plea for mercy. Second biggest difference between Boston and LA? Nomar doesn't get booed here. photo by mylogicalharm... more ›

With the passage of the Santa Monica smoking ban, I thought it was time to write a how-do-ya-do from my new home on the road, Buenos Aires. Yeah, I'm still officially an LAist correspondent (I slept my way out of getting invited to the parties, so they don't know I'm gone) but for the time being, my party's taken a drift southbound, and I can't say I'm sorry. more ›

You may (we may) hate LAX, but Fodor's doesn't. They really don't love the strip mall(esque) airport either: Yesterday, Fodor's released Airports We Love (and Hate) and gave Amsterdam, San Francisco, Vancouver, Honolulu and other airports some 'love' rankings. Gee, we wonder why... And who are the lousy losers? LaGuardia and JFK. Those were the only US airports listed. Those outside of country nominated for being bad ass: Charles de Gaulle, Heathrow, Moscow Sheremetyevo,... more ›

- Howard Stern has more listeners than TiVo has subscribers - Gizmodo - Google keeps gobbling up start-ups - Tech Crunch - Pats are 6-1 and still the cops arrested the son of the Head Coach for weed. - Boston Herald - A list of companies who don't want to associate themselves with the Democrats - media matters - Happy Halloween: The Anna Nicole tease for her interview with ET should win some sort... more ›

Wonkette is reporting that the next Republican "Pagefucker" (ahhh, Wonkette) who will be outted will be Jerry Weller from Illinois, who recently tried to blow hot air up the asses of a delegation of students from Olivet Nazarene University (Bourbonnais, IL) who visited him in DC to ask him what, as a member of the house international relations committee, he was doing about the 20,000+ children abducted each year in Uganda's civil war and... more ›

"The success of biological systems in general is due not to homogeneity but to heterogeneity: they depend critically on the existence of differences in the elements which make them up." more ›

Rare that the 4:20 Video Time finds itself being political, but thats what we get for reading Metafilter after a late lunch. Today they found a story about a Massachusetts teenager who sold the equivalent of a joint's amount of weed to an undercover cop. His punishment: two years in jail. He never had a criminal record, and never even thrown a beer at at basketball player who was laying on a scorer's table.... more ›

The AP and local news are reporting that MTV star Don Vito, the bigass lazy-eyed uncle of skater/tool Bam Margera, is being held in Colorado without bond for sexual assault on a child. Vincent "Don Vito" Margera, the cartoonishly rotund 50 year-old co-star of "Viva La Bam", was at the Lakewood Mall Friday afternoon for a skateboarding event when he allegedly inappropriately touched a minor. One can only hope that this is just another... more ›

Almost exactly 10 years after her death, it looks like the killer of JonBenet Ramsey has finally been caught. And with his steely eyes, perfectly groomed hair, and polo shirt buttoned to the top and tucked into his khakis, we the mob who once tried and convicted Ramsey's parents now judge John Mark Karr to eternal damnation for doing what he did to that cute little 6-year-old beauty queen. Published reports are saying that... more ›

This LAist poster made a trip earlier this week to Richmond, VA, for a family thing. more ›

Good Morning America film critic Joel Siegel could only stand forty minutes of Kevin Smith's "Clerks II" yesterday at a screening in NYC, and made a fuss about it. more ›

Hooters Chairman Robert Brooks, who helped steer the franchise from a simple place to have wings served to you by pretty girls into an airline venture and now a hotel/casino, was found dead in his home. He was 69. Stop giggling. - AP more ›