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Julie Wolfson/LAist Good morning, sunshine! Did you have your breakfast today? We're big fans of breakfast here at LAist (remember our Wake Up LA month-long series covering breakfast eats?) and sometimes even bigger fans of pictures of breakfast. That's how this plate wound up here in our Eye Nosh series today. It's from Downtown's Bottega Louie, an eatery that not only wins our hearts for their food--like their delicious panini offered up at the...

Photo by staceyviera via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A study conducted by Central Connecticut State University takes a look at literacy in major US cities and aims to present a portrait of the country's "cultural vitality," and it's not-so-great news for Los Angeles. Of the 75 cities ranked, Los Angeles comes in down towards the bottom at a rather unhealthy number 62. The study uses 6 key indicators of a city's...

The autopsy conducted on Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan has been ruled "inconclusive" by the Orange County coroner's office, "and more tests will be performed to determine the cause of death," reports KTLA. Sullivan, 28, was the drummer for the band Avenged Sevenfold, and appears to have died of natural causes on Monday at his Huntington Beach home. Now the "coroner has ordered toxicology tests on Sullivan's body, the results of which could take several...

When the sun goes down in Marina Del Rey on 12/31 the sky will light up again (Photo by craiglkirk via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) Marina Del Rey has a surefire way to light up New Year's Eve...Fireworks! The waterfront community's New Year’s Eve Fireworks Spectacular is a five-minute display that starts at the 30-second countdown to midnight. Although you can see them throughout the Marina, the official word on the...

Jonathan Gold & Chef Ludo Lefebvre: Mutual admiration society? (Elise Thomspon/LAist) With the end of the year comes the inevitable wrap-ups, reflections, and predictions, and in the world of food this is no exception. Here in Los Angeles our Patron Saint of Dining Out, Pulitzer Prize-winning LA Weekly columnist Jonathan Gold, offers his take on the eating year that was in the LA Times' Opinion section today, noting how many high-profile restaurants our city...

Photo by KingoftheHill via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Singer-songwriter Vic Chestnutt died yesterday in Georgia. The LAT notes a close friend speculates he was in a coma following a suicide attempt and that he had over $70k in debt. Vandals went on a spree in the Valley Christmas Eve shooting out the windows of several stores and cars on major boulevards. Authorities searching the area where a hiker found a human...

This morning at around 10, a man on the tracks of the Metro Blue Line at the intersection of Long Beach Boulevard and East Vernon Street was struck and killed by a train, according to abc7. "Emergency officials said it is unclear why the man was on the tracks, and have not ruled out the possibility of suicide." The man was declared dead on scene. There were no injuries reported aboard the train, but...

Once upon a time, LAist ate our way through Thai Town, and that included a stop at Sapp's Coffee Shop, which is not exactly a coffee shop in the traditional American sense, but rather a place known for its spicy, authentic, Eye Nosh-worthy Boat Noodles. This is what LAist Featured Photos pool contributor stutefish found. The one-sentence review: "They were nothing short of spectacular." Submit your own Eye Nosh food porn photos and mini-review...

Photo by soulchristmas via Flickr With Hanukkah and Christmas 2009 now behind us, another major December holiday begins today: Kwanzaa. Created in 1966 by a man named Maulana Karenga, now a CSULB professor, Kwanzaa honors the Seven Principles during its 7 days: "unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith," as explained by an article by the CNS published by abc7. Celebrants light a candelabrum called a kinara, and some...

In the Tujunga area during the Station Fire (Photo by Lynn.... via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) Thursday evening a hiker in the Angeles National Forest reported finding a human skull on a hillside near mile marker 19.36, according to the Daily Breeze. The area in which the remains were found "near Lucas Creek, a steep drainage that feeds Big Tujunga Canyon above the Big Tujunga Dam," and was part of the...

The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call for a Greater Alarm Structure Fire reported shortly after 1 o'clock in the morning at 1014 N Highland Ave [map], the address of LA Dogworks, a kennel self-described as "Los Angeles’ first exclusive dog Mecca," boasting a "state-of-the-art, 10,000 square foot retreat," with year-round full-time care and other amenities. It took 95 firefighters 32 minutes to extinguish the blaze, according to e-mail alerts issued by...

Photo by highervision via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr There's the flowers, the catering, the venue rental, the dress, the music, the suit, and about a zillion other things that cost couples and their families cash when it comes time to putting on a wedding. Now, starting January 21 "the price of tying the knot will get a little more expensive" in Los Angeles County, reports LA Now. "The Los Angeles County...