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Photo by jakerome via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The grassroots movement to encourage Manhattan Beach city officials to re-open Sand Dune Park continues to push forward ahead of an April 13th meeting where the recreation site's fate will be discussed. LAist Featured Photos pool contributor, and "Free the Dune" campaign leader Jake Rome shared this image with us that maps out just how "community" oriented this campaign is. Rome explains: Almost...

First she was secretly videotaped in the nude, now ESPN's Erin Andrews has been the target of death threats sent via e-mail, according to an AP report published on cbs2. Andrews' attorney, Marshall Grossman, reveals the blonde sports reporter and current "Dancing With the Stars" contestant has been getting sexually explicit and threatening e-mails since September. The e-mails reference Andrews' convicted secret video-taper, Michael David Barrett, and include details about where and how the...

"Sexy Tripod - Cory Kennedy, Steazie, Henry" (Photo by toastycakes via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) Fold up your skinny jeans and ironic t-shirts, kids. While it doesn't get much more hipster than to be known for your Tumblr blog, comedian Joe Mande has turned his snark into payday with the release of his book Look At This Fucking Hipster. Now that hipster is interchangeable in our lexicon with "young person," is...

Honoring the work done to preserve Los Angeles' landmarks and architectural treasures, the Los Angeles Conservancy revealed yesterday the projects and places that are recipients of their 29th annual Preservation Awards. Earning the President's Award is the resurrected Bob's Big Boy Broiler in Downey, which returned on the site of the late Johnie's Broiler thanks to the hard work of community activists, the City of Downey, and a Bob's Big Boy Franchisee who built the new restaurant using old designs.

Photo by casualtimetravel via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Police are investigating anti-Christian slurs vandals left on a Lutheran church in Tarzana. A study finds that 4 out of 10 babies born in Los Angeles County are the result of unplanned pregnancies. Residents of South Bay communities of Redondo Beach, Hawthorne, El Segundo, and Hermosa Beach can now keep track of crime via Facebook pages set up by their local police departments....

Photo by www.voteJoeC.com via Flickr Karine Hakobyan "was shot in the head and slashed in the throat with a knife," according to the LA County Coroner's office, who have released information regarding the murder of the woman whose body was found in an SUV in Little Armenia last week. Now the LAPD is looking into a possible "romantic triangle" gone sour that might be behind Hakobyan's killing, and the 2008 deaths of her husband...

Photo by Jennifer Lynn Photography (honeybeejen)/LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The love people have for SoCal's In-N-Out burgers is no joke, but the notion of the chain opening up a location right in the heart of New York City is. "Some sick bastard is toying with the bellies of burger lovers in Manhattan this morning by putting up signs at various shuttered storefronts announcing that beloved In-N-Out Burger will be opening soon," bemoaned...

Photo by Alberto Cueto via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr They called it the Arroyo Seco Parkway because of its meandering curves ideal for driving at the more moderate speeds of the era, and taking in the verdant landscaping and communities through which it passed. But that was 1940, and now the 110 is known as the Pasadena Freeway, with dangerous turns and narrow lanes connecting Downtown to northern neighborhoods. Work that...

Reports started coming in around 8 last night regarding a disturbing noise heard in the Highland Park area, according to cbs2. Described by some as "an explosion" or a "loud boom" coming from approximately North Ave 52 and Monte Vista Street, authorities went out into the neighborhood to try to determine what produced a sound that was heard by those at a fire station to residents a half-mile away. "20 firefighters have combed the...

Photo by Open Air Control Testing Ground via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The man who led police on a car chase from San Bernardino County to Universal City is a suspect in an attempted murder case in his Indiana hometown. Serial killer Rodney Alcala was sentenced to death today for the 1970's murders of a pre-teen girl and four women. The MTA has boosted security on our commuter rail lines, though...

Although a temporary measure was put in place last week to help ward off impending closure of nine LA arts centers due to budget shortfalls, two of the nine at-risk facilities have been officially given a reprieve, according to the Daily Breeze. Both Charles Mingus Youth Art Center and the The Watts Tower Arts Center "have been removed from the list of city cultural facilities slated for closure or handover to a nonprofit institution,"...

Pillow Fight Day 2009 (Lindsay William-Ross/LAist) For pretty much no reason except silly fun, people in cities all over the world will meet up on Saturday April 3rd to take part in International Pillow Fight Day. Part of the "urban playground movement," this is a non-commercial event aimed at having people take part as participants, not consumers, and to give people the chance to do something playful in public space. Okay, and it's really...