Emma G. Gallegos

Elizabeth Taylor's famous jewels and threads are set to be auctioned off to some really rich people this December, but for four days this October they will be on display for you to gawk and admire in West Hollywood.

Disney announced this week that they're teaming up with James Cameron to recreate the world of Pandora at their amusement park in Orlando Florida.

Who can resist Schweddy Balls? It turns out One Millions Moms can. The conservative Christian group complains that Ben & Jerry's new SNL-referencing ice cream flavor "Schweddy Balls" is not appropriate for the little ones.

North Hollywood will be playing host to what organizers promise will be a totally free, big ass water balloon fight this Saturday.

A San Dimas man made the ultimate sacrifice for his pet bird. The man Russell Bennett, 60, dashed into his burning condo yesterday to save his pet bird from the flames.

A new study shows that shutting down pot dispensaries could actually increase crime in neighborhoods — a finding that flies in the face of conventional wisdom. Local politicians have created laws to limit dispensaries, argue that they are magnets for crime. But the RAND Corporation's study pokes holes in that argument.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, Zooey Deschanel wears a dress with pockets, negotiations with grocery workers get down to the wire and the test scores for 22 schools in California were thrown out. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.

While our roads are getting safer, the number of Americans are dying from drug overdoses has doubled in the last decade. That means more of us are dying from overdoses than traffic accidents for the first time since the government started keeping track of drug-related deaths in 1979, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Check out links from around the other -ists: Willow the Cat gets lost in Colorado and shows up in Brooklyn, Chicago is the first city to get its own Foursquare badge and an artist's dog-snuff film past rouses controversy in San Francisco.

Once upon a time, donkeys were beasts of burden that carried sugar cane, coffee and other crops on Hawaii's Big Island. Then Jeeps leftover from World World II put the beasts out to pasture. Eventually, the donkeys were seen as a nuisance. Yesterday, a nonprofit started by a Hawaiian couple airlifted 120 unwanted donkeys from the Big Island to the mountains of Tehachapi.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, Aaron Sorkin's dialogue is dangerous, grocery stores say they will shutter stores during a strike and that one girl from that Rebecca Black video is coping with fame somehow. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.

Alec Baldwin is going to skip out on the Emmys tonight, after Fox axed his joke about Rupert Murdoch that might have hit too close to home. Baldwin was slated to use his low-talking charms to play a fictional TV executive in the opening video for the Emmys tonight. But News Corp-owned Fox didn't like his joke about the company's phone-hacking scandal, according to Deadline Hollywood.