Andy Sternberg

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.

The California Coastal Commission on Thursday rejected the guitarist's proposal to build a five-mansion development on 156 hillside acres along the Malibu coast. The 8-4 vote by the commission put to rest years of contentious debate between city officials, residents and the beanie-wearing rock legend legally known as David Evans.

In the wake of the Anthony Weiner Twitter tragidramedy-turned-political-scandal, all of a sudden it's like OMG(!) anyone who's ever sent illicit texts or posted boner pics may someday lose their job as a result. But sometimes it seems those in the media -- with their "exclusive" yet unverified reports -- are the real perverts.

The seemingly neverending 360 Tour brings U2 to Angel Stadium on Friday and Saturday night. With fans expected to come from all corners of Southern California, traffic will be a mess, especially coinciding with Friday rush hour. If you're going to the show, try to carpool or -- better yet -- take the train.

Descendents, Guided by Voices, Death From Above 1979 and Broken Social Scene are among the dozens of acts performing at FYF Fest on September 3 in downtown L.A. The one-day festival is moving from the L.A. State Historical Park near Chinatown to City Hall -- or more specifically the streets outside City Hall at 1st and Main.

A 35-year-old Palmdale woman admitted to authorities after her arrest on Tuesday that she had sex multiple times with a 13-year-old boy whom she was tutoring. Holly Polson, a teacher's aide at Shadow Hills Middle School, had intercourse with a student she was tutoring multiple times in an empty classroom over the past couple weeks.

Look out James Franco! Disgraced former democratic vice presidential nominee, presidential candidate and ex-Senator John Edwards looks like a shoo-in to play Jack Tripper in the Three's Company stage/screen adaptation that Franco spread rumors about at Sundance.

All lanes on the eastbound 60 Freeway was shutdown just past Diamond Bar Blvd. at 8 a.m. Wednesday morning after a shooting victim's vehicle crashed into the center divider.

Turns out those bodies we so often find buried in our backyards are not necessarily those of murder victims or Jimmy Hoffa but, more likely than we'd think, centuries-old remains of the L.A. basin's pre-European invasion inhabitants. While gardening in her backyard last month a South Pasadena woman dug up a skull with a few teeth still intact. She called authorities, certain it must have been a homicide victim, only to find out it was just another Native American skull.

We didn't win an LA Weekly Web Award this year and we're thrilled about it... because our readers did! Among the most important assets to LAist are the photos and stories contributed by our eclectic and perceptive community of readers. Many of the photos we use with our stories every day are sourced from the LAist Featured Photos Pool on Flickr, a crowdsourced archive of photos relevant to Los Angeles which now includes nearly 70,000 photos shared by a community of more than 1,500 readers.

Frankie C takes iconic photos of the people he encounters on the streets of Skid Row and surrounding neighborhoods against a black backdrop. An L.A. native, he likes to "keep it street" but now he has an opportunity to show his photos in a gallery and is looking to raise $1,000 to fund the exhibition using Kickstarter. Check out his work in this video.

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake was reported at 8:22 a.m. Thursday along the California-Mexico border between Calexico and Mexicali, according to the U.S. Geological Service. The quake was followed by a half-dozen aftershocks measuring up to 3.0 over the course of the morning.