Emma G. Gallegos

Tickets are on sale for the 3rd annual LA Vegan Beer & Food Festival next month. The event sponsored by Quarrygirl, Tony's Darts Away and The Roxy combines vegan food and suds. It will be held May 12 from 1pm until 5 pm across the street from The Roxy. Tickets are $45.

The NCAA bracket-style contest for the title of Best Taco in Los Angeles ended with a tie (and thankfully, there are no hanging chads to worry about in online voting). The votes between Mariscos Jalisco, which had come close to taking the title in previous years, and Guisados split down evenly down the middle.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, animal rights activists are facing off against Kim Kardashian (again), the Razzies are tonight and scientists study "beer goggles." Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports. You can also find us on Pinterest, Storify, Foursquare, and Instagram (laistpics).

This week's round-up includes snippets of overheard conversation from Nordstrom, CVS but sadly not Runyon Canyon. Our Overheard in L.A. feature relies on you to send us the strange conversations you overhear in this city.

Yesterday marked a year since Giants fan Bryan Stow attended the opening day at Dodgers stadium and ended up being brutally beaten in a parking lot. His family used the anniversary as an opportunity to reflect on the last year in a recent blog post.

A 26-year-old man was shot to death at a strip club in Harbor City early this morning, and now police are trying to figure out how it might have been connected to a shooting that happened at the same time next door.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, Keith Olbermann wasn't into Current TV either, crushed bugs make your drink pink and a funeral is held for the Iraqi-American victim of a brutal beating. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports. You can also find us on Pinterest, Storify, Foursquare, and Instagram (laistpics).

A bunch of kids tried to have a party on the Westside last night, disturbing the efforts of (at least) one Holmby Hills resident trying to curl up with a biography of Steve Jobs. We're going to admit that yes, the story sounds like a brilliant April Fools' prank.

Don't be a fool! Get out so you can see fabulous post-war art, see a performance about the future or hang out with some artists.

The aging West Hollywood studios where Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth Taylor and many other luminaries once worked are set to be demolished and replaced with glass-and-steel structures. But tomorrow protesters will be rallying to stop the already-approved demolition.

Tonight the Month of Photography in Los Angeles kicks off (in case you were having withdrawals from the end of Pacific Standard Time!).

The day Nadya "Octomom" Suleman promised would never arrive is here: she's on the dole. The mother of 14 qualifies for welfare in the state of California, because she is pulling in less than $119,000 a year.