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Photo by A.C. Thamer via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Actor Andrew Koenig (he played Boner on Growing Pains) has been reported missing in Vancouver. He was last seen on 2/14, and didn't get on his scheduled flight back to the US. A young girl was abducted from an MTA bus early this morning, but was located shortly after and her alleged kidnapper arrested. Authorities in Riverside are working to determine how...

A view from the top (Zach Behrens/LAist) Definitely one of our favorite afternoon get-aways of last year, King Gillette Ranch is a fun and historic piece of land that's fun to explore. Next Saturday, weather permitting, enjoy "Walking on the Razor's Edge," a tour of a unique location that brings together the seemingly disparate worlds of a razor mogul, a famous movie director, and one of the largest Chumash Villages. Learn about the home,...

Photo by nanseela la land via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr An off-duty officer and a robbery suspect exchanged gunfire early this morning in Torrance. The Dalai Lama will make his first large-scale speaking appearance in L.A. since 2006 tomorrow at an event at Universal City's Gibson Ampitheatre. A peak in the Santa Monica Mountains has been re-named to honor its onetime settler in place of its former name--long-considered a racial slur....

Ferro on-air at KCRW/Flickr As many expected, Santa Monica College named and their Board of Trustees approved Jennifer Ferro as General Manager of 89.9 KCRW, the campus' public radio station and NPR affiliate. Ferro, the station's current Assistant GM, replaces Ruth Seymour, who announced her retirement last November. Seymour's last day on the job is February 26th, marking the end of her over 32 years at the station and an undeniable force in KCRW's...

Photo by djjewelz via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Okay, we can easily answer our own question in its literal sense: No, bacon is not Kosher. And yet, here it is, wrapped around the bastion of Jewish cuisine, the Matzo Ball. This is the irreverent pork-loving work of Ilan Hall, the Top Chef Season 2 winner, whose The Gorbals in DTLA pays homage to Scottish and Jewish food...all at once. So does...

Paula Deen Beloved Food Network personality Paula Deen's love of butter and rich home-cooked Southern fare makes her a perennial fan favorite and the entertaining chef was poised to share her culinary enthusiasm in a live stage show due to stop here in Los Angeles on March 4 as part of a tour of several US cities. However Deen's company has announced that the "Celebrity Chefs Tour; An Evening With Paula Deen and Family"...

Silver Lake's hip coffee boutique Lamill has a liquor license, and they're ready to use it. They've debuted a new menu of beer, wine, and sake drinks, some of which are offered in combination with their specialty coffee brews and drinks. Included on the menu are two signature cocktails of which the Alhambra-based coffee emporium is particularly proud...

During a test drive with a prospective buyer, a woman in her 20s crashed her Corvette into a tree and died, according to the OC Register. The victim was driving her 2003 gray Corvette in Laguna Hills at around 8:15 this morning when she lost control following a turn onto Mill Creek Drive, when the vehicle "skidded sideways, its driver's side door slamming into a tree. The car then apparently spun around before banging...

Is the LA Food Truck market too saturated to handle some...pudding? We'll soon find out, as Nana Queen's has begun to spread the word that they'll be rolling out soon. They say they are "the first mobile catering company to specialize in Banana Puddin and Wings" (we'd wager the only, too) and plan to offer 10 varieties of banana puddin(g) along with chicken wings. Their promo material says it's "Guaranteed You'll Scrape Your Bowl,"...

Photo by nailmaker via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Doctors who work in emergency rooms and in private hospitals will receive less compensation from Los Angeles County for their work with the uninsured, reports CBS2. Yesterday the County Board of Supervisors "voted to reduce the reimbursement rate from 27 to 18 percent as of July," which is the amount "the county pays to doctors who treat uninsured patients at private hospitals for their...

Photo by sfxeric via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A study published recently indicates that Angelenos who live near freeways " experience a hardening of the arteries that leads to heart disease and strokes at twice the rate of those who live farther away," according to the LAT's Greenspace blog. In an endeavor embarked upon by a team comprised of researchers from USC, UC Berkeley as well as Spain an Switzerland, ultrasound...

Photo by filmerp via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Four homes in an Anaheim Hills neighborhood that are at risk of sliding are set to be demolished; Caltrans bought out the owners of these and 8 other previously demolished homes. An Apple Valley woman allegedly stabbed her male roomie in his face with a butcher knife yesterday. A fire in a strip mall at Olympic and Main damaged a restaurant, but there...