Lindsay William-Ross

The company that owns nine Los Angeles-area newspapers, including the Los Angeles Daily News, Long Beach Press-Telegram, The Daily Breeze and the Pasadena Star-News will be filing "a pre-packaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy" according to the OC Register. Affiliated Media Inc. announced their plan to reorganize yesterday, and that "the holding company’s lenders have agreed to swap debt for equity." As part of the deal their debt will be reduced "from $930 million to $165...

Jimmy Shaw's Loteria! Grill will expand once again, this time to Studio City, as The Original Farmers Market gets the addition of Little Spain (Photo by Foodwoolf via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) Merril Shindler of ZagatBuzz, the blog from the influential Zagat guide folks, has published his picks for the most-anticipated Los Angeles restaurant openings of this year. Among the selections are Delphine, one of the eateries in the highly-anticipated W...

Chef Kerry Simon Consider it confirmed after weeks of speculation: Chef Kerry Simon of SimonLA will head up the downstairs eatery at the soon-to-open JW Marriott/Ritz Carlton hotel at LA Live. The announcement came late this morning as part of an AEG/LA Live press event held on the downtown entertainment campus, and validates rumors that began to swirl in November when the info was overheard on a DC-to-LA flight then reinforced by a series...

Free coffee or ice-blended bevs, anyone? The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is hosting another "open house" later today because they are "bringing back" some beloved menu items. The freebies are available at participating area stores (not including Ralph's locations). From 4-7 p.m. guests can receive one free 12 oz. heritage drink, which includes three options: the original Café Mocha, Sunrise Ice Blended or Berry’s Treasure Ice Blended. (One per customer, mmmkay?)...

Photo by Ross Reyes via LAist Featured Photos Pool on Flickr For its first year in 2008, Santa Monica's all-night arts and music event on the beach Glow drew 200,000 revelers--although its planners had anticipated only 25-50k attendees. Now plans are in motion for Glow 2010, a second attempt at the dusk-to-dawn party which the City's Cultural Affairs Manager Jessica Cusick hails as an opportunity for us to celebrate [the] community’s unique attributes as...

Street eating is about to get a freshly-hatched addition. The Monsieur Egg cart is gearing up for a February 3rd debut, and will focus peddling their wares in the DTLA vicinity. They describe themselves as "a customized push cart operating mostly out of downtown los angeles. We are bringing the finest eggs, scones, croissants coffee and more to the street for the downtowner on the go," according to their Facebook fan page. A short...

If you love the Veggie Grill, you'll love bringing a newbie to dine there tomorrow night! (Zach Behrens/LAist) With their Hollywood location open since late September, The Veggie Grill is hoping to bring in fresh and hungry diners to surrender their "virginity." Okay, before you get the wrong idea, to explain: The Veggie Grill's "Virgin Night" is when someone who has dined there before brings someone who has never eaten there before in for...

Commuters attempting to travel in the Universal City area early this morning were faced with rail and road closures due to police activity. During a routine traffic stop conducted around 3 a.m. authorities discovered what they labeled a "suspicious device" inside a Scion being driven by a motorist pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving, according to KTLA. A search uncovered the device that "appeared to be a pipe bomb" and "described as a...

The Supreme Court has just announced they are blocking the video recording and broadcast of the controversial same-sex marriage trial set to begin later today in San Francisco, according to an AP report. The court has said they will not permit video to be broadcast on YouTube, even with a tape delay, because the justices need more time to consider the matter. The blocking holds until at least Wednesday. Those opposed to the video...

Photo by banspy via Flickr With the help of the public, the LAPD was able to take into custody the suspect they'd characterized as "desperate and reckless" whom they sought in conjunction with a crime spree Saturday morning that involved multiple attempted and successful car thefts and other criminal activities in the West Valley area. According to a release issued by the authorities, it was a call from a Van Nuys resident Sunday afternoon...

Genser (Press file photo/City of Santa Monica) Santa Monica's mayor Ken Genser died yesterday as a result of "multiple complications" stemming from his October 30th 2009 admittance into the hospital, explains the city's official website, noting that Genser, 59, "passed away peacefully [...] with family and close friends by his side." Genser was a lifelong Santa Monica resident, who described himself on his 2008 campaign website as "an advocate, working to improve Santa Monica"...

The black BMW 650 whisking actress Lindsay Lohan out of the area behind the Hotel Cafe last night struck one of the members of the paparazzi swarming the vehicle, then fled the scene, according to KTLA. The incident occurred around 1 a.m. on the 1600 block of North Cahuenga Boulevard, when Lohan and her two assistants entered the vehicle that then exited from "the narrow alley behind the club." Witnesses report seeing the car...