Lindsay William-Ross

Actress Jane Russell, a sex symbol on the silver screen in Hollywood's golden era, has died. She was 89. Russell was born in 1921, and grew up in here in the San Fernando Valley, getting an early taste of the acting bug performing onstage at Van Nuys High School. Russell's breakout role came in 1941 with the controversial Billy Wilder film The Outlaw, which saw a limited release in 1943. The movie faced censorship...

Photo by i_hate_my_screen_name via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Los Angeles' Broadway Historic Theatre District has been enjoying a revitalization of late, and this year, to observe the centennials of the three oldest remaining historic theatres (The Arcade, The Cameo, and The Palace) in the district, a series of special events under the banner Broadway 100 has been announced. At an event held this morning, attended by Councilmember José Huizar (CD14) and...

Shrove Tuesday is March 8th, and while that's usually the weekday on which we make room for a plate full of pancakes, the International House of Pancakes is partying down a week earlier, and is running their National Pancake Day celebration on Tuesday, March 1st. What this means to you: Free Pancakes. How do you get a free short stack? Just show up at a participating IHOP tomorrow between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m....

The heavyweight Hollywood mogul and talent concentration of power was so tremendous last night that the earth gave way, and opened up, and nearly swallowed Tinseltown. Okay, we are totally kidding. There was, however, a sinkhole in Hollywood last night, caused by a water main that was first reported broken at around 9 p.m. last night, just minutes after the Academy Awards ended. The rupture happened south of the Kodak Theatre, on Highland Avenue,...

The body of man who was shot to death was found early this morning in the Rose Bowl parking lot, according to CBS2. "Police responded to a call about a man down, possibly from a gunshot wound," explains KTLA. No one has been arrested. Investigators are on the scene, and have not released further information about the victim's identity or his death....

Photo by johnwilliamsphd via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The City of Los Angeles will save a projected $62 million this fiscal year by implementing mandatory employee furlough days, and while these furloughs mean a successful short-term solution to our budget woes, they won't help much in the long run. City Controller Wendy Greuel released a report today detailing the second quarter savings from each of the City's departments as a result...

Photo by McBLG97 via Flickr Despite the inclement weather, it's likely people will still be headed in or out of, or just passing through, Sherman Oaks tonight, and the Los Angeles Police Department will be there to check the sobriety and driver's licenses of those who motor up to their checkpoint tonight. They'll be on Ventura Boulevard between Noble Avenue and the San Diego Freeway from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., and, as usual,...

The National Weather Service says we're getting "a very cold storm system" today and tonight, and it's packing "significant and low level snow." In the mountains, they're due for steady snowfall, and when that very cold air mass settles, the snow level will drop to between 500 and 1500 feet tonight and tomorrow.

Three 18-year-old Bellarmine-Jefferson High School students are now facing felony charges after being connected with a rash of paintball attacks in Burbank, according to 818Now. The three young men were arrested in early February, along with two teens also affiliated with the case. "Eric Monson of Tujunga faces 12 felony counts for assault with a deadly weapon, Kevin Yuenyongsakul of Los Angeles faces five and Julian Stephens of Studio City is facing two, including...

Photo by bedzine via Flickr A woman is raising a ruckus about a flight she took from Los Angeles to London's Heathrow, claiming that while on board, she was attacked by bedbugs. Zane Selkirk, 28, says that the spotted the critter on the blanket British Airways had provided her for the first leg of her flight, reports KTLA. Selkirk attests that once she checked herself out in the airplane lavatory, she spied "bite marks...

Glenn Allen (via LAFD) Tomorrow, the funeral for Los Angeles city firefighter Glenn Allen will be held Downtown at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. The Los Angeles Police Department have advised that there will be hard and soft street closures in effect starting at 6:00 a.m. on Friday, February 25th to accommodate the funeral. The procession begins at 8:30 a.m. from City Hall, and services are scheduled to begin at 9:30...

Photo by Guillermo via Flickr 22-year-old Chapman University grad student Alex Eylar loves movies and Legos, and saw a unique opportunity to bring those two worlds together. He has built models of scenes from each of the 10 films up for Best Picture Academy Awards this year, reports the OC Register. Eylar, who predicts "The King's Speech" will take the big prize, says the hardest of the 10 for him to build was "Inception,"...