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Emma G. Gallegos
Stories by Emma G. Gallegos
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In tonight's Extra, Extra, Halle Berry gets hitched, John Lennon's "Happy Days" and a very German invention. 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).
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Six hospital workers were fired for snooping into Kim Kardashian's medical records at the hospital where she recently gave birth to her daughter North. Employees of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where Kardashian had a birthing suite, were fired for breaching the private records of 14 patients.
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We were excited when a beautiful, sparkling Echo Park Lake reopened last month after some intensive rehab. Turns out that the pedal boats will be returning and the boathouse cafe will be reopening, too.
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Lindsay Lohan's attempt to kick her career back into gear once she gets out of rehab will be televised for the world. First, Lohan will be getting the Oprah treatment.
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Eighteen students at a San Diego elementary school were hospitalized Thursday after drinking milk stuffed with all sorts of disgusting foods. "A group of kids, on a dare, said, 'How many things can you put in your milk and keep it down?' So in went the salt, pepper, hot sauce, carrots and whatever they could find."
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No matter how much craziness was happening on screen—a chick in a bikini stabbing a shark with a cue stick, our hero escaping a shark's intestines with a chainsaw, Tara Reid trying to act—we couldn't help but pay attention to the bizarre, strangely condensed geography of the movie. If only the ocean, our skyline and most iconic landmarks were all in one place!
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Bob Filner has only been the mayor of San Diego for a little over six months, but it's been a bumpy ride. This week things got even bumpier for the 70-year-old former congressional representative, as some of his biggest supporters have defected.
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A woman sued a psychic who allegedly promised to lift a curse on her love life. In her lawsuit, Klarissa Castro of North Hollywood says that she was told that she was cursed during her consultation with the Westside Psychic Readings By Yana according to City News Service.
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This week's edition of Overheard in L.A. features bits of overheard conversation from spurned actors, Runyon Canyon hikers and Whole Foods shoppers.
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California has a dark history of sterilizing at least 20,000 people who were deemed too poor, too drunk, too promiscuous, too criminal or too feebleminded to reproduce between 1909 and 1964. But a recent investigation finds that even in the 21st century, some female inmates are still being pressured to undergo tubal tubal ligation.
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A man was killed after colliding with a pick-up truck at a Chatsworth intersection late last night. Samuel Martinez, 47, of Chatsworth was pronounced dead at the scene of the intersection of Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Lassen Street.
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What a gentleman! Multimillionaire art collector Charles Saatchi's response to pictures showing him putting his hands around the neck of his wife chef Nigella Lawson wasn't to apologize or promise never to lay a hand on her again. Instead he gave an interview with The Daily Mail explaining that he is the one divorcing his wife because she had the nerve to not publicly defend him after those disturbing pictures came out.