Lisa Brenner

Eat a jar of Nutella, don't slip into a diabetic coma, win. Today at noon, Orange County's famed food truck Crepes Bonaparte is holding a Nutella eating contest. The winner will receive FREE crepes from the truck for a month. It's $5 to enter (and the fee includes a crepe!) with all proceeds benefiting the OC United Way. The event will take place at Sycamore and Civic Center Drive in Santa Ana. May the...

Turns out, when iconic landscape photographer Ansel Adams wasn't off in the wilderness, he was hired for commercial jobs, like documenting Los Angeles' aviation industry for Fortune magazine and capturing street scenes of 1940s life. According to NPR, Adams donated the collection to the Los Angeles Public Library in the 1960s estimating the value at $100 stating, "The weather was bad over a rather long period and none of the pictures were very good."...

The Halloween hijinx keep coming with today's installment of TMZ celebrity pumpkin stencils! The gossip goblins are offering downloadable images to trace and cut and illuminate this day of candy-filled fear. Slash-o-lanterns! Ozzy-o-lanterns! Chuck Norris-o-lanterns! Ice-T-o-lanterns! Really, who among us wouldn't like to carve up Paris Hilton's face into the side of a tufted gourd? Angelenos, ready your scalpels. Previously Good Gourd! The Greatest Pumpkins Of Los Angeles And Beyond LAist Crystal Ball: Top...

The fine folks of The Rundown made a list of new n' noteworthy Los Angeles drinking and cavorting establishments for you. The nightlife circuit begins with 1616, a new, non-nudie spot from the Spearmint Rhino family and Premiere, a two-story, Spanish-themed club with flamenco girls and celebrity clientele. A "'70s lumberjack erotica" vibe from The Falls (complete with tree stumps and digital waterfall) is happening on Spring St., while a Dublin's redux finds the...

You say it's your birthday. It's my birthday too. Well, not really. But LA's ultra caffeinated landmark, Kings Road Cafe is giving us all a gift anyway. In honor of the grind's big 2-0 anniversary, both locations -- West Hollywood and Studio City -- are offering $.20 lattes today. That's twenty cents for a late afternoon latte kick in the pants. Bless you, KRC....

The Huffington Post released today a Los Angeles Magazine list of get-down joints in Downtown for outbound bar and club goers in their 20s and 30s and 40s (for example: Villains Tavern and Bottega Louie and Rivera, respectively). Why does the list only go to 40s? Because this is Los Angeles and at 50 you turn into a pumpkin, see a surgeon, spray on some money and start telling people you're 32. It's the...

An armed gunman forced his way into a couple's Koreatown apartment on the 700 block of Kingsley Drive early Monday morning where he received $120 from the woman's wallet and two blunt force blows to the head from her golf club. Which subsequently broke in half. And caused brain swelling and bleeding that sent the burglar to the hospital. Koreatown is already on crime watch with 50 reported property crimes in the seven days...

Jonesy's Jukebox is back. 55-year-old, former Sex Pistol and loved DJ of defunct terrestrial Indie 103.1 Steve Jones will be back on the LA airwaves every Sunday night at 7 p.m. on 106.7 KROQ starting this week. Jonesy is taking it to the modern mainstream but keeping his nontraditional style alive. The LA times quotes Jones, "Wherever I go, I will still do my show the same; I wouldn't change it."...

Take some time to chill out during your drive home tonight, literally. There's a CHP travel advisory due to icy conditions and delays on Interstate-5 in Gorman. The National Weather Service is not getting reports of snow but rather pea-sized hail related to the thunderstorm moving through the region. There may also be some gusty winds headed toward Lancaster ahead of the front. Bye bye Summering. Hello Autuminter....

So fresh, so delicious, so plastic? Hooray!! Silver Lake's unflashy shopping center jewel, Alegria on Sunset, is now accepting credit cards (Visa and Mastercard). No longer will the cash-less be deprived of tacos a la crema, cafe de la olla and mole with a soul at this 15-year restaurant resident. Also this month, creator and owner Nadine Trujillo will unveil a new menu. On October 15, breakfast, lunch, and dinner will meet their new...

Vdara, one of the newest hotels on the Las Vegas megastrip of dreams, has an unusual, um, amenity... a "death ray!" The curved design of the MGM Mirage-owned hotel appears to be focusing a severe amount of sunlight at the pool area with strong rays causing serious burns and melting plastic cups and wrappers. Dress accordingly. Because what spontaneously combusts in Vegas, stays in Vegas....

Allegations of unknown explosiveness are expected at 11 a.m. today when Meg Whitman's former maid, with the assistance of Gloria Allred, hold a press conference about the California gubernatorial candidate and one-time eBay CEO. High-profile attorney Gloria Allred recently represented the ex-girlfriend of Illinois lieutenant gubernatorial Democratic candidate Scott Lee Cohen....