Andy Sternberg

Two-year-old L.A. burger phenomenon Umami Burger is OC bound. The sixth location of the gourmet burger bar is scheduled to open December 1 in the Anaheim Brewery complex, reports the OC Register.

This summer a portion of the L.A. River will be officially opened up for guided kayak tours for the first time. While kayaking tours have occurred in the past without legal permit, the current program, proposed by a coalition of groups is currently under an environmental review by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Lindsay Lohan arrived at the LAX Courthouse at 9:45 a.m. Thursday on a probation violation. The 24-year-old troublemaker reportedly tested positive for alcohol during a June 13th party at her Venice house. Will Lohan be sent to jail? To rehab? Or will she be locked up in a bathroom at her chic Venice pad with an ankle monitor and a bottle of Everclear?

A Los Angeles-based startup with a mission to enable multimedia storytelling in communities worldwide that otherwise lack the resources was awarded a $200,000 grant by the Knight Foundation on Wednesday. The Tiziano Project's Tiziano 360 project was one of 16 ideas to win a prestigious Knight News Challenge grant awarded to fund internationally relevant innovative media and digital news concepts.

Dozens of area knitters congregated at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica for an evening of yarnbombing last Saturday. The event, which took place around international yarnbombing day.

20-year-old Minh Kinh Dang was killed and three other men were jailed on suspicion of robbery and felony murder according to Brea police. while trying to steal marijuana from a medical marijuana deliveryman, and three other men were jailed on suspicion of robbery and felony murder.

Starting this week, when you purchase a kids combo meal at Jack in the Box, junior will reach inside the bag and feel a chintzy plastic bag full of Chiquita Apple Bites. And you can already hear the thud of the apple hitting Jack's round white face.

Bryan Stow, the Giants fan who was severely beaten outside Dodger Stadium on Opening Day, was upgraded to serious condition by doctors at a San Francisco hospital on Wednesday, according to the AP. Stow had been in critical condition since the March 31st incident.

In the middle of a tour that included sets before tens of thousands of fans at Bonnaroo and Sasquatch! festivals, My Morning Jacket set one night aside to give back to KCRW. A few hundred KCRW members were lucky enough to see one of today's finest live-performing bands in a rare intimate performance at Village Studios in West L.A. Tuesday night.

Facing massive budget deficits, some Southern California cities are unable to raise the money necessary to represent with a float in the 2012 Rose Parade.