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Lisa Brenner

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Former Associate Editor, LAist

Stories by Lisa Brenner

  • (Photo Credit: Riverside County Sheriff) Comedian Andy Dick has been arrested again in Southern California, this time for being "drunk and disorderly in public" after an incident at a Temecula restaurant, say authorities, reports the Associated Press. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department website says the 45-year-old comic actor was arrested Monday night at a Temecula restaurant and booked for investigation of disorderly conduct involving drugs with alcohol. He was released after posting $500 bail....
  • "This year marks both the 65th anniversary of the verdicts at the first Nuremberg trial, a defining moment in international justice, and the 50th anniversary of Adolf Eichmann’s trial, where the world heard firsthand testimonies from those who had suffered the horrors of the Holocaust. From this tragedy we see the cost of allowing hatred go unanswered in the world, but from this justice we also see the power of holding the perpetrators of genocide accountable"
  • 32-year-old white supremacist plumber Jeff Russell Hall, the Southwestern regional director of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement group who last year ran for a post on the Riverside Municipal Water District board, was shot to death on Sunday by his young son.
  • Photo by red.dahlia via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Bodhisattvas likely do not care much about football, however, USC officials are saying it looks like Nobel Peace Prize #winning Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will rally to make it to campus on Tuesday for two speaking engagements despite Monday's health-related cancelation at a UCLA symposium on Buddhism and Neuroscience. His first-ever visit to the university, the Dalai Lama is scheduled for two...
  • Photo by STERLINGDAVISPHOTO via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr With the Sacramento Kings at "the brink of relocating" to the Honda Center in Anaheim, the Maloof family, team owners since 1999, announced Monday after months of negotiations, that plans to move to Orange County have been "at least temporarily abandoned" because of "opposition to the move by the NBA," notes the OC Register. The Maloofs thanked Sacramento fans for their loyalty in a...
  • Step 1) Get a laser pointer. Step 2) Point it at an aircraft. Voila! In addition to last month's North Hollywood laser showdown four more people around the southland have been arrested on suspicion of pointing lasers at L.A. County sheriff's helicopters, "imperiling the aircraft and their crews," in similar incidents, said the Sheriff's Department on Sunday.
  • Tonight in Extra Extra! The future of smoking in Burbank, sexual assault at Arclight parking lot, Disneyland AIDS march, suspect sought in Angeles Forest murder. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.
  • Photo by David Kimbrough via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The body of a deceased man was discovered by a hiker in the Chantry Flats area Monday around 8:30 a.m., according to a report by Sheriff’s Homicide investigators. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office has not yet identified the remains. The hiker reportedly "saw a male in the Chantry Flats area who he thought might be sleeping. However, he remembered reading in the...
  • Photo by Mr. T in DC via Flickr The boys are back in town. Ben and Jerry, that is. Today the Ben and Jerry's truck rolls into Los Angeles for six weeks of scoops and freebies. Follow them on Twitter to find out where they'll be chilling. The Vermonters are making their debut, appropriately, on Vermont (at Wilshire). They'll be there until 4:00 p.m. The free-ness stops at 10:00 a.m. for those seeking breakfast...
  • (Photo by James Calder via DCist) DCist normally would have spent some time analyzing the Washington Redskins’ draft class, if only we hadn’t been so distracted by Redskins owner Dan Snyder’s continuing legal tantrum against the Washington City Paper or defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth’s claims that a woman he allegedly sexually abused “was just upset [he] had a white girlfriend." (Who are we kidding? Any draft analysis would have just ended up taking a...
  • Motocross (Photo by Geraint Warlow via Flickr) Jeff 'Ox' Kargola, a Southern California freestyle racer, died Friday from injuries sustained in a crash on day two of the"Desert Assassins' 2011 Rip to the Tip" motocross competition in Mexico, an event that takes riders along the length of the Baja Peninsula in an eight-day, 1,300-mile race to Cabo San Lucas over mountains, beaches and deserts, reports the LA Times. He was 27. Kargola who lived...
  • Photo by Ryan Resellar via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Git Along Lil Doggies: Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival, featuring a roundup of Western gear, food, clothing, and living history exhibits, returns to Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio and other venues around Santa Clarita. "Saddle up and step back to a simpler time of chaps, saddles and old-time saloons. This year’s festival will include a mix of new attractions and returning favorites, including dutch...