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Photo by Silent Stutter via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Though all around the country, backyard BBQs are being fired up today, every day in Los Angeles' Koreatown Korean-style BBQs get fiery hot and draped in meat for customers to gobble up. Today's Eye Nosh is a nod to great KBBQ. Tell us in the comments which restaurant is your favorite!...

A few folks have been posting images on social media and photo-sharing site they snapped this afternoon of what looks like a great big treasure hunt in the sky. Anyone know what this "x" factor sky writing is all about? Could it be a little marketing for the X-Men: First Class movie, which comes out next week?

Piñatas (Photo by delara-photos via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) An early morning fire at a piñata and party supply factory in Downtown's Wholesale District has left one LAFD firefighter injured. The blaze, ultimately deemed a Greater Alarm Structure Fire, was reported at around 1:25 a.m. Sunday at the two-story building at 1171 East 10th Street. The fire was reported by security guards, who spotted the flames from outside. They heard a...

"Philosophy Presenting the Seven Liberal Arts to Boethius," about 1460-1470 by Coëtivy Master (Henri de Vulcop?) (French, active about 1450 - 1485); Image courtesy The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 42, leaf 2v What we wear every day has meaning--just ask any host of all those reality shows about fashion, makeovers, and style. "Fashion in the Middle Ages," a manuscript exhibit at the Getty Center opening Tuesday, May 31, focuses on how...

Photo by Shawn S. Park via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr 12:12 Song @Actual Size Los Angeles (Chinatown) If you're up and raring to go, and happen to be headed Chinatown way, pop in Actual Size Los Angeles to see the conclusion of a 12-hour-long "improvisatory sound work" that got underway at midnight. Over 40 artists and musicians will be taking part, and the public (some who might still be slumbering) were...

Two men in their thirties were found shot to death inside a vehicle on the side of the 405 Freeway just north of the Long Beach Boulevard on-ramp. The victims have been identified as Reginald Watson Sajonas, 37, of Anaheim, and Derek Alexander Pouono, 36, of Long Beach, according to the Press-Telegram. The bodies were found inside a Honda Pilot bearing "several bullet marks" at around 9:30 Saturday. The California Highway Patrol handed over...

Screenshot via CBS An elderly man nicknamed the "Geezer Bandit" has allegedly robbed his 14th bank in California. The suspect has been tied to a Friday afternoon robbery at Heritage Oaks Bank in Morro Bay, according to ABC7. The robber "pointed a revolver at two tellers," in the branch, and "threatened them and demanded money." The suspect is a white male, between 60 and 70 years old, and is about 190 pounds and approximately...

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Photo by Non Paratus via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Due to Monday's Memorial Day holiday, Metrolink will be offering limited service. Additionally, service will be curtailed on Sunday due to scheduled signal maintenance. The schedule changes are as follows:On Sunday, there will be no Metrolink Service between L. A. Union Station and Fullerton. During this time, Metrolink will provide no transportation alternatives; the Amtrak schedule can be viewed here. Metrolink's Memorial...

Photo by Salina Canizales via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr "Vertigo" at Cinespia See this 1958 Hitchcock classic under the stars at Hollywood Forever. Gates are at 7 p.m., movie at 8:30. $10 donation tickets available at the gate, or you can buy ahead online. Parking is $10. Bring food and drink, but no tall chairs. [Info] Street Art Exhibit Opening tonight at Maximillian Gallery is “What Graffiti is to New York...

As part of a Memorial Weekend campaign to tackle drivers who hit the road under the influence, the LAPD is running several checkpoint and a saturation patrol over the holiday long weekend. Earlier this week, the LAPD noted: "Unfortunately, Memorial Day weekend has become an excuse for many to party and drink irresponsibly. As a result, a driver driving under the influence (DUI) is a tremendous public safety concern over the Memorial Day weekend."...

Photo by Nuno_Oliveira via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich sought an injunction against the tagging crew known as the "Metro Transit Assassins" in 2010, and today his offices have announced that a judge has "has rejected a challenge" to the injunction. CBS2 reports that the defendants' arguments were centered on the group members' First Amendment rights as artists, however Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Deirdre Hall...