Andy Sternberg

We caught up with TOMS founder and CEO Blake Mycoskie after he revealed the next chapter in the five-year-old company's unique one-for-one business model on Tuesday. In the video below, find out how the eyeglasses idea, which had festered in Mycoskie's head since 2007, finally became reality, more on the one-for-one concept, and why there's no TOMS logo on the sunglasses -- only three distinctive stripes.

Acoustic guitars made from cigar boxes, shower drains, old-school keyholes and other found parts make sweet Appalachian folk sounds. Meet two local cigar box guitar makers in this video sent in by Lisa Rau.

Paramount partnered with Twitter to offer not-so-secret screenings of "Super 8" in over 300 theaters nationwide this Thursday -- one day before its official release. Fueled by the promoted trend #Super8Movie (i.e. ad) on Twitter, anyone who wishes to see the J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg flick on Thursday can purchase advance tickets now. The movie officially opens nationwide Friday.

A solar panel array proposed by Occidental University that would cover a Northeast Los Angeles hillside was approved by Eagle Rock neighborhood council on Tuesday night. The council board voted unanimously to approve the proposed 1-megawatt solar array project which could provide about 11 percent of the university's annual energy.

With the snip of a lock and the opening of a "mystery box" that had been sealed since SXSW, TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie revealed the next chapter in the Santa Monica-based company's one-for-one mission: Eyewear.

Officials opened a 7-mile stretch of Angeles Crest Highway on Friday that had been closed for nearly 18 months. Much of the 66-mile highway that extends north from the 2 freeway in La Canada-Flintridge through Angeles National Forest to Wrightwood had been closed after January 2000 mudslides in the Station Fire area badly damaged sections of the road.

A six-count indictment was filed against 2008 Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards by a federal grand jury Friday morning and it ain't pretty. An arrest warrant was issued charging the former senator for conspiracy and false statements in association with illegal campaign contributions and he's expected in U.S. District Court in North Carolina Friday afternoon.

Rape. Murder. Regret. It all happens on top of a Caribbean beat in the latest video from 23-year-old Barbados-born pop sensation Rihanna. Since its premiere on Wednesday, "Man Down" has drawn ire from the likes of the Parents Television Council and others for its suggested violence.

Kevorkian, who spent years campaigning for the legalization of euthanasia, spent eight years in prison for second degree murder after personally administering a lethal injection rather than allow the patient to do it themselves. He gained the nickname "Dr. Death" after claiming to have helped more than 130 patients commit suicide between 1990 and 1998 using a combination of injections, gas, and his famous suicide machine, which he built from scraps for $30.

The L.A. Times made a big step toward boosting its bottom line without laying anybody off today. In fact, Los Angeles Times Media Group announced a significant hire, naming Emily Smith its first ever Senior Vice President of Digital.