Lisa Brenner

Photo by Michael Zampelli via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Everything is going to pot. An additional 60 medical marijuana dispensaries have been ordered to shut down immediately as Los Angeles city officials expand their campaign against dispensaries that did not register in the Top 100 lottery to determine which establishments can keep operating, reports LA Now. The new letters went out earlier this week about two weeks after the city attorney's office...

(Photo by Dusty & Polly via Twitter) Sunset Blvd was closed for about 30 to 45 minutes in both directions last night while the Los Angeles Fire Department put out a small electrical fire at The Roxy, reports WeHo Daily. Smoke was reportedly spotted near the marquee out front, started by a neon transformer box. Everything was rock business as usual by 11:04 p.m. when The Roxy sent a Twitter message saying, “All is...

Photo by x-ray delta one via Flickr A video lunch collection for the ages, today we celebrate the 80th birthday of Studio City resident William Shatner!! From the Twilight Zone to the sexy reaches of Star Trek space, from dramatic readings of Elton John to musical covers of Pulp, from TV legal council to online negotiator, Shatner is as Shatner does and we love the $#*! you say. We salute you, sir. Live long,...

Photo by Lisa Newton via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Benedict Canyon residents are uniting against a mystery landowner who plans to develop 5.2 acres on Tower Lane into an 85,000-square-foot compound complete with megamansion, villa, guest house, gate house, staff quarters, and more. Neighbors believe the project "pushes the bounds of common sense and decency," reports the LA Times. If the owner continues as planned, his 90210 complex -- located in the...

Students are being asked to watch for suspicious activity after police at Loyola Marymount University received an email threat last Thursday about a "Virginia Tech style" mass shooting on the campus, reports KTLA. School operations are proceeding as usual, however the university is taking the threat seriously, alerting students and faculty and adding extra LAPD patrols on campus.

Photo by Jose and Roxanne via Flickr Capistrano Beach resident Forrest Lunsway celebrated his 100th birthday with a party on Saturday, surprising attendees by marrying his girlfriend of nearly thirty years, 93-year-old Rose Pollard, reports the OC Register. The couple met in 1983 while looking for dance partners after the passing of their significant others. Friends set them up on a blind date: It was a Christmas party at the Long Beach Senior Center...

Persistent heavy rain has overloaded Southern California sewage systems causing it to barf sewage in three locations around the region. Long Beach closed its beaches on Monday after 250,000 gallons of sewage spilled into the Los Angeles River near Studio City, an overflow that occurred on Sunday, says the Los Angeles County Bureau of Sanitation, notes the Long Beach Press-Telegram.

Photo by Andrew Meyers Photography via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr With all the bus and rail projects mandated by Measure R and all the bus and rail service changes currently being evaluated, Metro wants to make sure the public doesn't forget about its massive highway program of 18 new projects worth nearly $1.4 billion aimed to largely to improve commuting. While highway construction may seem to go against the mission of mass...

Photo by LA Wad via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr It's been five years since the federal consent decree alleging Metro "violated civil rights by favoring rail over buses" was lifted, and "ambitious" plans are underway to make the system more efficient, reports the LA Times. Combined with last year's changes, the latest plans "mark the most significant overhaul of L.A.'s bus system in more than a decade and would slash overall bus...

NOAA File: Waterspout off the Florida Keys photographed from an aircraft. (via NWS) According to the National Weather Service, police in Huntington Beach received a call just after 11 a.m. on Monday about a waterspout sighting about a dozen miles northwest of Newport Beach, reports the Daily News. ABC7 weather reports via Twitter that a waterspout was sighted off of Newport Beach according police. On Friday, a waterspout off of San Francisco's Ocean Beach...

Most of these aren't food. True. In fact, many are likely poisonous, so please do not rush out to your lawn and start mowing mushrooms with your face. The little fungi just seemed like a perfect rainy day food-ish phenomenon to feature. Promise you'll only eat the ones from the market. Or the ones you receive in a bag from a generous friend. Our take a cue from the (fun) guy who's been to...

Photo by conner395 via Flickr A few hundred demonstrators attended a Claremont for Peace rally this weekend at Memorial Park while a few hundred more immigration rights activists counter-protested on the scene of a neo-Nazi rally at Foothill and Indian Hill boulevards held by white supremacists affiliated with the National Socialist Movement. According to police, about 30 people attended the neo-Nazi rally, reports KPCC held by a group described by the Southern Poverty Law...