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You see them weekend upon weekend in sunny Los Angeles: Bounce Houses (or Bouncy Houses, or Bounce Castles or Moon Bounces) set up in parks, at festivals, in backyards and in drive ways. Who would imagine that letting kids jump around inside an inflatable structure could be dangerous (insert eye roll)?

From clever street art to spectacular sunsets in Santa Monica, here are 7 moments worth taking a second look at in our 7 Reasons to Love L.A. series.

It's hard to go back to work after a long holiday weekend, so if you get home tonight and feel like unwinding with a stiff drink in front of a roaring fire in your fireplace, you might want to double check to see if a "No-Burn Alert" is going to dampen your plans.

Did you know that transit agencies around the globe make their data streams available to the public via a Google-developed platform called General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)? Among those are Los Angeles agencies like Metro and Metrolink.

Several employees of Los Angeles-area Walmart stores are taking part in a walkout today as part of a nationwide union-organized protest.

Things got a little heated over at Halle Berry's Hollywood Hills house on Thanksgiving, and it wasn't from the turkey in the oven. Berry's ex-boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry, got into a fistfight with Berry's fiance outside Berry's home.

Service in both directions on the Metro Blue Line between Del Amo Boulevard and Willow Street was disrupted midday Friday after a passenger indicated he had a bomb and was going to blow up the train.

A 68-year-old man stands accused of killing his 73-year-old wife, then freezing her severed head and cooking her body parts in their Oceanside home.

It's Thanksgiving Day, and we here at LAist would like to take a moment to say we are thankful for so many things, including our readers and the amazing city in which we live and write.

In a second and deciding vote taken today, the Los Angeles City Council has approved placing a half-cent sales tax hike on the March ballot. Aimed at countering a $216 million deficit in the 2013-14 fiscal year city budget, the proposed tax increase is anticipated to bring in up to $215 million in revenue.