Lisa Brenner

Linear time is just like, your opinion, man. The 'second annual' Kush convention is rolling into the Anaheim Convention Center this weekend, a mere eight months after the first (a third expo has also been booked for Nov. 18-20), according to the OC Register.

SoCal icon Jackson Browne will be surprise headlining the Satellite tonight joined by local foursome Dawes and Jonathan Wilson. This special show is a warm up of sorts -- Dawes and Wilson will be joining Browne this month in Spain. Tickets are $25 and go on sale at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday through Ticketfly BUY THEM HERE.

Photo by GarySe7en via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Southbound lanes of the 405 Freeway were closed through the Sepulveda Pass Tuesday afternoon when a big rig caught fire, officials said, according to LA Now. The California Highway Patrol was notified at 1:17 p.m. that a big rig on the right shoulder of the freeway near Skirball Center Drive was “fully engulfed” in flames. Firefighters and officials responded on the scene closing a...

Keroppi at Sanrio's 50th Birthday Bash at the Barker Hangar (Photo by Lisa Brenner / LAist) Anaheim-based frozen yogurt chain Yogurtland has announced it will partner later this month with Sanrio, home of Hello Kitty, Keroppi, Chococat, Badtz-maru, Deery-lou and pretty much everything else cute in the universe. Expect Hello Kitty spoons and cups in stores later this month in some Yogurtland's 130 locations as well as featured Hello Kitty merch, according to the...

Photo by VeryBadLady via Flickr A new Los Angeles tour business opened last week offering crime scene tours led by law enforcement personnel who "offer personal perspectives on the crimes," according to Studio City Patch. Crime Scene Tours creator Lonnie M. Levine worked with the LAPD for eight years as a civilian detective and wanted to offer people a view of police work that is "rarely presented." Los Angeles Police Officer Ramon Muniz led...

Opening statements in the first-degree murder trial of Brandon McInerney begin Tuesday in Los Angeles for a Southern California accused of "gunning down a gay classmate" in front of other students at a Ventura County middle school in 2008, according to the Associated Press. McInerney, who was 14-years-old when 15-year-old classmate Larry King was killed, is being tried as an adult "on charges that include lying in wait and a hate crime." If convicted,...

Man Arrested for Using Car as 'deadly weapon' Against Cyclists on Angeles Crest Highway / Read the story here. Prompted by the deaths of three motorists killed in unrelated incidents within weeks of reopening of the lower portion of Angeles Crest Highway in June, state transportation officials have launched a safety investigation, according to the Glendale News Press. Officials will take a closer look at the factors involved in those deaths, including speed, location,...

Photo by VoodooDahl via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The nationality of the one fatality was not known, however seven of the eight people missing after a tourist boat capsized off Mexico's Baja California peninsula are American, according to CNN. U.S. and Mexican authorities were scouring the seas Monday for eight people -- seven of them Americans -- missing more than a day after their tourist boat capsized off the east coast of...

KCRW and the Hammer Museum are rekindling their warm weather romance to present the 2011 Summer Night's Music Series Also I Like to Rock beginning July 7 and continuing every Thursday this month.

Tonight in Extra, Extra! LA Dodgers guide to personal finance, adieu to Decepticons, unemployment fraud, flood in Sherman Oaks, & DUI weekend arrest tally... so far. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.

Elsewhere in the ist-a-verse... Art was banned in SF for being "too serious", bartering virginity for iPhones in Shanghai, DC examines their status as a tattoo mecca and Austin considers the proposed confederate license plate.

Photo by East of West LA via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr With performance opportunities down more than 50 percent in the last two years and competition at Mariachi Plaza so ferocious that it devolves periodically into fighting, a group of plaza veterans have joined forces to form a type of labor union in an effort to stop "what they call 'mariachi pirates' from slashing prices to half the going rate," according to...