Matt Vannucci

"Chinatown" Photo by [Kwasi B.] via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Arcadia High's prom is being edited. The school's Women's Health and Issues Club has gotten 20 songs banned from being played at prom because they are degrading to women - referring to them as "'bitches' and 'hos.'" Only 20 songs? Looks like the Electric Slide will finally get its 3-hour solo. Green LA Girl is challenging you to a week-long-eco-challenge. Can...

Photo by Lord Jim via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr You can run, but you can't hide from swine flu. The piggy virus is supposedly able to survive for a few days on dollar bills. Conspiracy theory or fact? A big shout out goes to Tustin today for scoring #21 on Forbes list of places to live well. Congrats! That incentive plan that gives $10k for first time home buyers in California...

UCLA just got hit yesterday with $31,000 in fines for 3 safety violations in a lab mishap that left one woman dead....

"griffith observatory" Photo by hyperbolation via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr StylistLA survey: Wear or not wear a surgical mask when traveling through LAX? Twitter is fun and all the rage these days (of course you're following LAist, right?), but are you twittering too much? We consumers are a funny breed - using then abusing every new trend until they're left lifeless on the ground, then we're off to feed again. "If...

Taste has a reputation in this city. A huge, girthy reputation that must be lived up to when opening a second location in addition to their almost famous spot on Melrose. Their new Pacific Palisades location opened about two months ago and is well aware of who they are, where they've come from, who their new clientele is - and with the same chef at the helm, their second location is guaranteed to be a...

"Hustling to the creek, Soldier Ride, West Los Angeles" Photo by alexbcthompson via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A 3.8 magnitude earthquake shook Yorba Linda shortly before 5 p.m. There were no reports of damage or injuries. George Oldfield, 72, a longtime Riverside resident will compete this week at the 36th annual International Whistlers Convention in Louisburg, North Carolina. This is his sixth convention and the fourth time competing (last year he...

"Celebratory Splash" Photo by playonthefreeway via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr It's friggin hot and you don't have A/C - here's a few ways to keep it cool. Some mannequin's have nipples and that's not okay with grandmothers. A mannequin in the window at Tilly's in Huntington beach left one grandmother "outraged" by the obvious areola. Tilly's was quick to apologize and give her a 20% off-one-item coupon. if you got picked...

"Top "o" the world Ma!" Photo by A.C.Thamer via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Steve Rocco, was found guilty today for stealing a ketchup bottle from a Chapman University cafeteria. Rocco stated,"this is not over," as he left the courtroom. Let's hope that it is over, because it has already cost taxpayers thousands of dollars! LAist's own "Recession Obsessed," Caleb Bacon, explained his motives for finding eats on the cheap to The...

"The Orpheum Theatre" Photo by STERLINGDAVISPHOTO via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr You can't call it "chicken," and now you can't call it "fried." KFC is now grillin' up the "C" in KFC. There's only one thing holding up the banishment of plastic bags from the land - plastic legal tape thrown on the cause by... the plastic industry. Yeah.... so you're paycheck to paycheck and it's getting old. Consumerist presents some...

"low. ride. er." Photo by brinegaj via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Los Angeles - we keep our surplus of fossils in covered crates outside. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wants you to trade in your guns for groceries. Manhattan Beach just got a little more exciting. A sculpture garden will be added beginning this summer and "some with moving parts, are the first batch to be included in a garden that city leaders...