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Laptop: Check. Screenplay notes/freelance deadline: Check. Need for caffeine and WiFi: Check. Now, where to? The Huffington Post's LA site has a piece today giving their picks for the 10 best non-chain cafés or restaurants where writers can open up their laptops and tap away (mostly) happily. The list includes everything from Palihouse to the members-only Soho House, along with Larchmont's Bricks and Scones, Intelligentsia, Abbot's Habit, and Casa del Mar (home of LAist's...

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...

Artist and native Angeleno Gronk (nee Glugio Nicandro) will be creating a mural live at the Fowler Museum at the end of April as part of the temporary exhibit now running called "Art, Activism, Access: 40 Years of Ethnic Studies at UCLA." Gronk's piece, per a press release, will depict "current ethnic struggles." Visitors to the Fowler during regular hours on April 21-23, and 28-30 can watch Gronk paint the mural, as well as...

Photo by denisetaylor☼ via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Maybe Erik Brown should have checked out one of these instead? The Wrap talks about 5 of Hollywood's secret social clubs. The LAPD are exploring a family connection in the weekend death of a woman found shot in her car in Little Armenia. Is it possible that America's Most Wanted host Adam Walsh's son was the victim of Jeffrey Dahmer? USC will receive...

Using fake plastic to pay for fake plastic (body parts) didn't pan out quite as planned for one OC woman. 30-year-old Laguna Niguel's Yvonne Jean Pampelllonne was sentenced yesterday to six months in jail for "using a fraudulent line of credit to obtain $12,000 in cosmetic surgery, including breast implants and liposuction," according to the Daily News. Pampellonne had pleaded guilty to charges of "burglary, grand theft and identity theft." While the judge ordered...

Photo by Quarrygirl/Used with permission Lots of events bring several food trucks into one place, which allows diners to pick and choose bits from each menu to make up their meal. But this Saturday a handful of trucks are getting together at the Verdugo Bar for a Mobile Mashup, where the trucks themselves will pull from each others' menus, much like music mashups that mix songs up for a whole new taste. The Mobile...

Photo by dreamyshade via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr After months of pressure from Greenpeace, South Pasadena-based Trader Joe's has promised they will "green up their stores" by putting in place "sustainable seafood policies," according to the environmental group. As part of their campaign to push the supermarket chain to implement a program of sustainable seafood, Greenpeace set up the Traitor Joe website, which today declares "victory!" Greenpeace explains what Trader Joe's...

Erik Brown So RNC Chairman Michael Steele didn't spend $2k at Voyeur in West Hollywood, watching near-nude women dangle from the ceiling and simulate oral sex on each other--but someone who charged the outing to the RNC did. Meet Erik Brown, an OC-based political consultant who is the CEO of Dynamic Marketing, Inc. According to a biography available online, Brown is a UC Irvine grad (Political Science) who has participated in "The National Honor...

Photo taken at Rockwell VT(we love their brunch!) by polaroid-girl via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Today's sunshine and high temps will be a thing of memory by tomorrow and for the next few days as a rain system is poised to chill out the Southland, according to the Daily News. The wet weather, says the National Weather Service, will be "cold and vigorous" and will bring us drizzle on Tuesday, showers...

CBS may have to heed cautions issued by the FCC and unload one of their LA radio stations in order to "comply with federal restrictions on the number of stations that can be owned in a single market," reports LA Observed. This puts their floundering KFWB 980 AM station at-risk of being sold, since it has not done well since its switch to "a largely conservative talk format" (aka "The new home of Dr....

Photo by JayBanzia via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A Metro Blue Line train collided with an SUV, pushing the vehicle off the tracks this afternoon. The two occupants of the car were not seriously injured and the cause is under investigation. What can we learn from our neighbors to the east in Arizona about residents working to save our state parks? A viral video promotion for SFO might be taking a...

California recognizes March 31 as Cesar Chavez Day, in honor of the civil rights leader and founder of the United Farm Workers, although in Los Angeles the holiday is being observed today. Closed Monday City government offices Libraries LAUSD Schools Closed Wednesday State government offices DMV State colleges & universities L.A. Superior Courts The holiday, which is Chavez's birthday, will not impact federal government offices, banks, mail delivery, or retail in terms of service...