Lisa Brenner

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...

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...

Tonight in Extra, Extra!! Snow, measles, bears, drugs, taxes, 100-miles of trails, a baby is born in a closed library, and three arrests in a gruesome cockfighting ring. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.

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.

(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 sfxeric via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Two people were reportedly struck and killed by a big rig early today on the eastbound 60 Pomona Freeway as they stood outside their disabled vehicle, according to the California Highway Patrol, reports the Daily Breeze. The crash occurred around 3:15 a.m. shutting down eastbound lanes between Reservoir Street and the 71 Chino Valley Freeway for hours. The coroner's office and CHP confirmed two...

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...

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...

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.

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 GarySe7en via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A 405 Freeway construction-awareness campaign is gearing up to prepare summer drivers for the impending, grinding, halt that is the Mulholland Dr Bridge Demolition & Reconstruction. All lanes of the 405 Freeway will be shut down in both directions for more than two days in July, according to officials, with closures beginning Friday night July 15 and and reopening 53 hours later at 5:00...