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Volunteers, including Jerald Kent, Chairman & CEO of Suddenlink Communications (in the middle) prepares and serves meals during Hunt.Fish.Feed - a part of CableCares 2010. (The Cable Show via Flickr) Recipients of meals at Skid Row's Union Rescue Mission has some unusual options for dinner last night thanks to a large donation, according to LA Now. 250 pounds of game meat, including elk, deer, antelope, bear, sheep, and wild pig, was donated by The...

A 50-year-old Los Angeles County Department of Health inspector has been charged with one misdemeanor count of sexual battery against the female owner of a Pomona donut shop. Magdy Tawadros allegedly groped the business owner in the back room of her shop during a routine health inspection visit on March 24th; the woman claims he "used his position to intimidate her and tried repeatedly to hug her" during the encounter, which was captured on...

Lindsay William-Ross/LAist The June 8th Primary Election is less than a month away, however voters who wish to submit their ballot by mail may now do so. County elections officials began mailing ballots to the millions of Californian voters who have opted to vote by mail, and as an email sent out by the office of Secretary of State Debra Bowen notes, it has become "an increasingly popular choice" here. Once only an option...

Dark since February of this year, the historic Pasadena Playhouse has announced they have filed for bankruptcy, and hope to reorganize and re-open, according to the SGV Tribune. Despite having a $1-per-year lease from the city of Pasadena, the theatre, open in 1917, has been in dire financial straits in recent years. When they reached their breaking point a few months ago and closed up, all the staff except "[Executive Director Stephen] Eich, Artistic...

15-year-old George Flores was running around at Westmont Park Community Center in Pomona on Sunday afternoon "when suddenly he saw [a] spear go through his body," according to LA Now. That spear was a 9-foot-long javelin, one of two Flores and his friends found lying in the bushes at the Community Center. The boys were throwing the javelins, and one had gotten stuck in the ground. Flores says he was running near the stuck...

Photo by Mehgan Murphy, courtesy Smithsonian's National Zoo DCist went nuts over some new glamour shots of the National Zoo's adorable clouded leopard cubs. Torontoist has something for your architecture nerds: a look at the very best and very worst new buildings in their city, all of which are nominees up for public praising or shaming in this year's Pug Awards. Bostonist mixed it up with our nemeses Regretsy and Joe Lieberman. Shanghaiist mourned...

Photo by Nuno_Oliveira via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Did you catch Betty White on SNL last night? (And did you drink along?) See what sketches were cut out before the live show. Hold on to your hats, etc. SoCal is expecting some gusty winds tomorrow and Tuesday. Mashable has 5 Ways you can get free stuff on Twitter. More about Reggie the Alligator and his new gator girlfriend: Turns out Reggie...

Fixing the sidewalks of Los Angeles is a $1.2 Billion problem for the City, and this week the Council will consider repealing a 1974 ordinance that says the City must be responsible for the repairs, LA Now is reporting. Said Councilman Bernard C. Parks, chairman of the council's budget and finance committee: "We have no ability to perform these repairs. The money ran out in the mid-1970s, yet the city has continued to hold...

Yesterday Mayor Villaraigosa, in partnership with the LAPD and several faith-based community groups, hosted a Gun Buyback program that offered gift cards in exchange for the voluntary surrender of firearms. The event is being lauded as a success, with about 2,000 guns swapped out for $100 or $200 gift cards from Visa and Ralphs grocery stores. One item, however, wasn't such a clear-cut trade-in. A man arrived at the Hollywood event location with a...

It was a tense couple of hours in North Hollywood yesterday afternoon while LAPD officers waited for a suspect to come down from his perch on a pole, according to abc7. Responding to a call that a man was armed with a knife, the police pursued the suspect, who opted to climb a telephone pole on Camarillo Street near Lankershim Blvd. in order to evade capture. He spent about 2 hours up there, at...

Photo by rchiba via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Another example of an LADOT employee abusing their privileges: Here's video of someone parking illegally in their official vehicle to go shopping. Learn how the Mormon Church got mobilized for a cause in California. Nope, it's not to oppose same-sex marriage. 2 young men were wounded in a car-to-car shooting in El Monte in the early morning hours. How is LA's Chinatown working...

Folks in the RNC still paying for that trip to Voyeur (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) It's not just the guy who dropped the big bucks in February at an after-hours gathering of the Republican party's Young Eagles at West Hollywood's bondage-themed nightclub Voyeur who is paying for the controversial non-sanctioned outing. Now the Republican National Committee has given the boot to two high-level officials involved in the group's finances, according to LA Now. RNC...