Lisa Brenner

Photo by playonthefreeway via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr This summer, the hipster beer mothership, Pabst Brewing Co., will move operations of her silver cans from Woodridge, IL, a Chicago suburb, to the bosom of Southern California. The decision to relocate headquarters to Los Angeles comes following the company's purchase last year by billionaire investor C. Dean Metropoulos for for about $250 million. There was no immediate word on speculation that tax incentives...

(Photo by larawarren via Twitpic) Up to four acres (based on varying reports) are in flames in La Cañada-Flintridge as Los Angeles County fire crews on the scene work to contain the situation near the Jet Propulsion Laboratory after receiving the call from the 4800 block of Oak Grove just after 12:30 p.m. on Monday, reports CBS Local. According to authorities, the blaze is travelling uphill burning light brush and grass as a "fuel-driven...

(Photo by Samuel M. Livingston via Flickr) A 300-pound hallucinating man detoxing from pain medication drove head-on into another car around noon on Sunday, stabbed the driver, tried to stab the passenger, fled to a nearby residential garage, and then stabbed himself repeatedly in the neck with a cordless drill, reports the LA Times and Temecula Patch. The suspect, 38-year-old Menifee resident Garrie Aspengren Jr., who reportedly had not slept in several days, was...

Photo by MoneyBlogNews via Flickr Several hundred titles from the Miramax film library will be instantly watchable beginning in June according to a multi-year agreement announced today by Netflix and Miramax. It will be the first time Miramax titles will be available through a digital subscription service. Notes EW: Once a massive independent studio with corporate backing from Disney, Miramax has essentially shuttered its film production. However, it still possesses a tremendously valuable film...

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For tonight's burger history lesson, prepare to be covered in orange grease and chili-induced shame. A Los Angeles mainstay, the Original Tommy’s at 2575 Beverly Boulevard and Rampart is celebrating over six decades of Tommy Koulax's original burger stand with a 65-cent chili cheeseburger and Coke special until 10:00 p.m. on Sunday night.

An 8-bit Mario designed from a stack of cans at Chicago’s South Loop Whole Foods. (Photo by Anthony Todd for Chicagoist) It was a bad week for hipsters at Chicagoist. A hipster post-grad map of inhabitable U.S. cities inexplicably omitted Chicago; a flyer demanded "white hipsters" leave the predominantly Mexican Pilsen neighborhood; and they obtained an email from Pabst announcing they were leaving suburban Woodridge for Los Angeles. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the ist-a-verse... There...

Photo by Deborah Fitchett via Flickr Who ya gonna call? Holebusters! 'Operation Pothole' is back, so put your spirit fingers to work and start dialing 3-1-1 to report those car-breaking, neck-aching, swerve-making potholes (or submit a request online). By order of the Mayor, crews will be fanning out across the city over the weekend of June 4 and 5 with a mission to repair 20,000 potholes in two days. Residents can help improve our...

Wanted for his alleged involvement in the armed robbery of a Kohl's department store around 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, a suspect was shot by police around 10 p.m. that evening inside a local Ralphs, reports the L.A. Times. The suspect, who is listed in critical condition, pulled out a handgun and ran into the store, according to authorities, as a Glendora police officer was attempting to detain the suspect in the parking lot.

To be noted in the bloody annals of opportunistic franchising, The Walt Disney Company filed trademark applications on May 3, 2011 for “Seal Team 6,” the name of the Navy SEAL special forces team that killed Osama Bin Laden on May 1, 2011, reports Fishbowl NY. The trademark applications came on May 3rd, two days after the operation that killed Bin Laden… and two days after “Seal Team 6″ was included in thousands of...

Bug Out: "One of the most popular Museum events, Bug Fair is held on the second weekend of May each year! The two-day Bug Fair is an insect extravaganza with hundreds of things to see and do," says the Natural History Museum. 70 Exhibitors, Governmental agencies, educational institutions, entomological societies, private companies, have on display and for sale thousands of items including preserved (and live) insect specimens, books, equipment, supplies, products, honey, silk, wax, art, toys, clothing, and more.

Photo by Bob B. Brown via Flickr California lawmakers are considering a bill that would make the Golden State the first to institute a full ban on restaurants and eateries serving food and beverages in Styrofoam containers, reports ABC Local. Sen. Alan Lowenthal of Long Beach, the bill's author, says "there are other biodegradable materials that could replace Styrofoam containers and they are not more expensive," notes ABC Local. 47 cities already have similar...