Lisa Brenner

End of the day links: Hot weather gets hotter, "Cottages in the Sun" Venice, CA coffee table book, Bundy Village to go Smurf Village?, Beekeeping at night in Elysian Valley, Westlake shooting heard in Guatemala, murder conviction in Angels pitcher death...

Ready to leave your Brokedown Palace and start living living like a rock star in a piece of musical real estate history? Good news my little L.A. Woman, the legendary homes of Jim Morrison and Jerry Garcia are on the market in your neighborhood (-adjacent)....

Welcome to the center of the sun. It might look like Southern California but it's not. It's the sun. And you live here now. But despite the ungodly hotness of the 100+ temperatures expected today, the DWP is urging people to conserve energy.

Photo by ashleigh290 via Flickr Federal agents seized three shipments of fake designer sunglasses with an estimated retail value of more than $12 million at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the 78,600 pairs of sunglasses arrived in three shipments from China looking "confusingly similar" to designer brands Coach, Gucci and Emporio Armani. Shall we sing it together? "She had a west coast strut that was as sweet...

If you're on the way to the Forum, a funny thing is happening there -- American Idol tryouts. Registration wraps up at 8AM and wristbanded hopefuls will start auditioning later today. But who's going to judge their outpouring of tired anthems, screeching bird calls, limp falsettos and heinous pitch problems? Simon and Kara are out, and speculation points to Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler as possible AI X contenders. Ryan Seacreast will be making...

Vhhat's all dis taulk about Garryshandling? Huh? Garry what? Gerrymandering?? Oh. Our soon to be ex-Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is the featured interviewee in October's GQ. The seven year politician (he prefers "public servant") discusses his upcoming departure from office, his featured finale in the soon to be released Gerrymandering documentary, California's Proposition 11, bodybuilding (gasp!), and that his future plans include not being a loser....