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Photo by sulalala via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Two Moreno Valley locations of a restaurant are helping raise funds today for the family of Norma Lopez. Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband says the 93-year-old actress is a little bit better, but still in critical condition following surgery. "Bling Ring" member Alexis Neirs was released from County Jail today due to overcrowding after serving less than month of her 6-month sentence. A fire...

Angeleno's "Best New Chef" Michael Voltaggio is among the honorees and participants in the Chef's Night Out event (Elise Thompson/LAist) This year, Angeleno Magazine's national Food and Travel Editor, Brad A. Johnson, used Twitter to post his picks for the publication's 8th annual Restaurant Awards. The suspense built up 140 characters at a time, but next Sunday the teasing and the excitement will pay off for the honorees and their fans at Chef's Night...

Weho Daily is reporting on a stabbing that took place early this morning that has caused confusion, possibly because the victim crossed from Los Angeles into West Hollywood after being injured. A 3:01 a.m. call was logged at Sunset and Fairfax in L.A. regarding "a stabbing victim who tried to board a city bus there." However, at 3:13 a.m. a call was placed to the West Hollywood Sheriff's Station regarding a stabbing victim at...

Seating for a panel took a nasty turn yesterday at the annual Comic-Con event in San Diego when one adult male stabbed another near the eye with a pen, according to KTLA. In a video interview with NeonTommy, a San Diego Police officer notes that the incident resulted in one arrest, but did not affect the security levels at the popular event and the "show will go on" as planned. The victim's injuries were...

Ricky's Fish Tacos (Caleb Bacon/LAist) Some of L.A. best street food comes indoors, takes a seat, and pours you a beer starting this Monday. It's part of a new series of pop-up events at Angeli Caffe, brought to you by restaurant owner and KCRW "Good Food" host Evan Kleiman and Street Gourmet LA blogger and adventurer Bill Esparza. The series kicks off this Monday with an evening with Ricky's Fish Tacos (Twitter). We've obsessed...

The LAPD will be running a Sobriety & Drivers License Checkpoint tonight from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. in Hollywood, on Sunset Boulevard between Genesee Avenue and Spaulding Avenue. This is part of their ongoing effort to remove alcohol-impaired drivers from the road and to educate the public about the dangers of driving while intoxicated. The summer months are particularly dangerous for motorists; the LAPD says that in 2008 "law enforcement statewide reported that...

Marijuana plants removed earlier this month from the Angeles National Forest (LASD) As part of an ongoing effort to rid public lands of illicit marijuana-growing operations, members of the Narcotics Bureau Marijuana Eradication Team (MET) and Aero Bureau, in a joint operation with members of the U.S. Forest Service, California Department of Fish and Game, California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP), and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) removed 17,493 marijuana...

If you see multiple helicopters flying low in the skies over Los Angeles today, don't panic. The LAFD has sent out an e-mail notice to explain: "A large contingent of military and public safety helicopters will be seen flying over Los Angeles today. More than three dozen aircraft, at times flying in low altitude formation, will be gathering for today`s American Heroes Air Show at the Hansen Dam Recreation Area in the northeast San...

Abrams on a walk in 2007 (Photo by lauren/pagni via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) Marc Abrams, known as Silver Lake's beloved "Walking Man" has died, according to NBC. He was 58. The LAFD were called to the scene of what was first described as a "near drowning" at 2452 N Moreno Drive just after 6 this evening. There they found a man in a hot tub "beyond medical help and pronounced...

Photo by California CPA via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr What's more important to the City Council: Boycotting Arizona or having the LAX SuperShuttle running? Bad news if you get your heroin in The OC. (Besides the fact that, hello, you're buying heroin.) A Sheriff's Department spokesperson said Lindsay Lohan is behaving well inside her temporary new home at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood. She'll ultimately serve only 13 days...

Produce at the Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market in South L.A. (Lindsay William-Ross/LAist) Access to fresh, healthy food was ostensibly at the core of the plan to open Fresh & Easy grocery stores in the Los Angeles area, and now they are working with local growers to bring more local fruits and vegetables into their stores. Their "Farm to Store in 24" program gets just-picked seasonal produce from vetted local growers into the market,...

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Ramon Cortines has announced that "it's time to retire," according to cbs2. Cortines has worked in education for six decades, the last of which has been spent in Los Angeles, where he has served as the Interim Superintendent of Schools; Deputy Mayor for Education, Youth and Families; and has been the head of the LAUSD since 2009...