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In this Jan. 9, 2011 file photo, Lindsay Lohan attends the Los Angeles Lakers New York Knicks NBA basketball game in L.A.(AP Photo/Alex Gallardo, File) Lindsay Lohan loves accessories so much she sometimes wanders out of the store wearing some without paying. So how will she enjoy spending 480 hours donning rubber gloves and accessorizing with mops, sponges, and industrial disinfectant? The actress has a whole lot of community service to complete, per Friday's...

Photo of a Venice Drum Circle in 2008 by BinaryLA via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A man in his twenties was stabbed twice in the chest with an unknown object last night during a fight that erupted at the Venice Beach Drum Circle, according to the Daily News. The victim was one of those playing the drums, according to a Los Angeles Police Department sergeant, who said he did not know...

West Adams Prep (via Wikipedia) West Adams Preparatory is the MLA Partner School in the Los Angeles Unified School District where chef and "Food Revolution"-ary Jamie Oliver wasn't allowed to even peek in the cafeteria. However, it is also the school that employed 53-year-old Bradley Ratcliff as the head Varsity football coach and Dean of Discipline; Ratcliff, arrested in February, has just entered a plea of guilty today on a felony charge of possession...

"I'll have one 'Snickers' bar with with salted peanut caramel and vanilla ice cream, please!" (Photo of Obama at Sony Studios by Joey Maloney/LAist) As we know well, President Barack Obama came to Los Angeles yesterday and tied up our traffic, spoke to young campaign enthusiasts at Sony Pictures in Culver City, and then had dinner with his supporters at Tavern in Brentwood. While we know what he said during his speech at Sony,...

Photo by VeryBadLady via Flickr A man found shot to death in the Rose Bowl parking lot earlier this year was killed by his brother, allege LA County prosecutors, who are charging 56-year-old Clifton Cass of Duarte with the murder of 57-year-old Victor Cass, also of Duarte. The younger Cass, known to authorities in Temple City as Duroc Crips gang member "Shiloh," is accused of fatally shooting his older brother on February 28th in...

Photo by Thirteen of Clubs via Flickr Celebrate your love of planet earth and caffeine dependency* today with a free cup of brewed coffee or tea, hot or iced, from participating Starbucks. The catch: You gotta bring your own receptacle in which to catch the liquid. Okay, they aren't throwing it at you, they're pouring it into your reusable mug or tumbler, which you are bringing into a Starbucks to collect your freebie. Starbucks...

Garcia and his crime scene tattoo (Courtesy LASD) An interesting tattoo can definitely be a conversation starter, but for one gang member, it proved to be the key to determining he was the perp in a cold case murder. The tattoo, seen in 2008 by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide Detective Sergeant Kevin Lloyd in a photograph of gang member Anthony Garcia, depicted a shooting outside a liquor store. Recognizing the image as the...

Photo by eflon via Flickr After years of false starts and delays, finally some good news for NoHo Arts District residents: A 7-screen Laemmle movie theatre complex is going in at 5200 Lankershim Boulevard, according to NoHo Arts District.com. Ground breaking is scheduled for next week, and construction should be done by the end of the year. The eagerly-awaited movie theatre is the third phase of the NoHo Commons development, which includes the recently...

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Photo by djjewelz via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Because we are a town who can't get enough chances to throw down big bucks for fancy food festivals, there is another contender for your hard-earn ducats and calorie counts coming to town this fall. The Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival is a four-day event that will take place October 13th-16th at multiple locations around town, reports GrubStreetLA, and will feature a...

Starting tomorrow, DirecTV subscribers will be able to rent select titles at home just two months after the films make their theatrical debut. Not everyone is pleased with this new viewing option, including some big-name directors like James Cameron and Michael Bay, who say the offer will hurt ticket sales at a time when movie theatres are paying big bucks to upgrade to digital and 3D equipment, according to the AP. Cameron and Bay...

Another gloomy day at L.A. City Hall (Photo by houze via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) Today Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa revealed his budget plan for the City of Los Angeles, and while it did not include layoffs, it did include furloughs. "In an effort to close a $457.5 million deficit, the mayor is calling for 26 furlough days for city workers who will not get cost-of-living raises as part of their contracts,...