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A new traveling party takes guests on a journey across L.A. with clues, activities and bars gradually bringing smaller groups of people together for a larger social gathering.

Nick Carr recently moved from NYC to LA, and he's brought with him his wildly popular Scouting NY site, now Scouting LA. He's sharing some of his posts on LAist, too, and below you can enjoy his latest, where he figures out what hotels around L.A. make up the Hollywood Tower of Terror ride at Disney. Last week, I was scouting the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles when I suddenly got the strangest...

Hundreds gathered at the French Consulate in Santa Monica with candles, flowers, and signs, to honor those killed in Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris.

This weekend we documented the fest through portraits of artists, our favorite costumes, and the truest beachy and gothy parts of the fest.

L.A. has stepped up its Halloween game. These haunts will send shivers down your spine.

Even though there was a downtown L.A. rally today where protesters called for L.A. County to stop building more jails, County officials went ahead and voted to build a new and bigger 'jail treatment facility.'

In a summer marked by disappointing returns to long-running franchises, 'Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation' is a welcome return to form.

This weekend is the appetizer. There are still three courses left.

We've still got months to go until it's Halloween, but ALONE, one of the biggest productions on the haunted circuit, returns to Los Angeles tomorrow for their first of four shows this year.

Attendees let their feline flag fly high and proud at the event.