Callie Miller

Photo by jimmy bones via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr GET LOONEY The Hollywood Heritage Museum will have author Jerry Beck on hand to give you a history of the Looney Tunes and a screening of a selection of Looney Tune Cartoons in celebration of his latest book, The 100 Greatest Looney Tune Cartoons. Tickets for Hollywood Heritage members are $5, non-members pay $10. Tickets sold at the door. Event starts at...

The next time you head out to one of LA County's 33 Animal Shelters or one of the hundreds of pet adoption and rescue organizations in LA, The Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control would like you to remember that it's National Adopt-a-Senior Pet month and that old dogs (and cats and rabbits) need love too.

LAUSD took to the streets in protest in January. Photo by bryanvillarin via LAist Featured Photos A new "value-added" teacher evaluation method is in the works for LAUSD and two contracts, totaling $4.5 million, have been awarded to look at the best ways to evaluate teachers based on the test performance of their students from year-to-year and to establish "best-practices" for teachers. The proposed method has been deemed unfair by some union and education...

The Carnival Splendor cruise ship once headed to Puerto Vallarta from Long Beach for a seven-day luxury cruise that suffered an engine fire that knocked out power and stranded guests 200 miles off the coast of San Diego is now being tugged ever-so-slowly to shore. The 4,500 passengers and crew have experienced a different kind of luxury than they signed up for: no air conditioning, no hot water, no cell service, no internet connection,...

Grief-stricken family members and angry Riverside residents might be one step closer to getting some answers in the Sunday slaying of Riverside police officer Ryan P. Bonaminio, 27, as a suspect was arrested outside a Target Store at about 8 p.m. last night, according to the LA Times. Earl Ellis Green, 44, was picked up by police and FBI agents and booked on suspicion of murder and a parole violation. Green has a criminal...

Photo by Lucyrk via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Travel + Leisure is at it again, with their America's Favorite Cities survey that ranks 35 urban U.S. cities on a variety of cultural, shopping and restaurant criteria. On the surface, the results are all business as usual. Los Angeles comes in at #4 for best luxury stores, #6 for big-name restaurants and a respectable #8 for big-name luxury hotels and weather. These...

Photo by delara-photos via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr For the thousands of daily commuters stuck in morning traffic jams on the I-5 near Magic Mountain, a proposed solution to add two truck lanes and a HOV lane to north and southbound routes at the HWY 14 interchange would offer much-needed relief. The Santa Clarita Valley Signal reports the three-phase $500M project that would begin in the fall of 2011 has been...

UCLA's campus. Photo by _Gene_ via Flickr Cal State University (CSU) students are preparing to protest as a vote this week to set next year's academic budget for the CSU system could result in an increase in tuition and enrollment fees. The Daily Sundial reports that faced with a difficult budget year and without a clear idea of what possible legislature help could look like for the CSU system, a proposed 5 percent increase...

Opening Ceremony Tops GQ List of Independent Men's Stores (Photo via Opening Ceremony) Never let it be said that men in Los Angeles don't have access to the best in independent designer duds, at least not now. GQ just published their Top 10 Best Independent Men's Stores in America and Opening Ceremony on La Cienega took the top spot while Confederacy on Hollywood Blvd. secured the fifth spot on the much-vaunted-among-fashionistas list. Opening Ceremony...

Screens from DCBID's Downtown LA SCVNGR Gift Hunt app taken by Callie Miller for LAist If all those late night Wurstküche Foursquare shout-outs and Staples Center Gowalla check-ins are beginning to feel passé, Downtown LA just got check-in worthy again. Downtown's Center Business Improvement District (DCBID) has launched a holiday scavenger hunt that highlights eight downtown locations. At each check-in, participants are presented with a challenge that requires a correct answer to earn points,...