Matt Vannucci

"This Road Leads Downtown" Photo by Alberto Cueto via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr WeHo residents, a heads up on upcoming power outages & road closures. If we build it, they will come, I tells ya. The City of Industry unanimously passed a ballot proposing the building of the new football stadium. What recession??? LA Metblogs asks us, "Can We Learn From New York?," and their plan on transforming Broadway in Midtown...

"Miami Vice in LA" Photo by Ca-los! via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr It's Fat Tuesday! Get FAT for Free. Free pancakes today at IHOP until 10 pm and Free tacos at Jack in the Box until Midnight. The Hills star Audrina Patridge had her house broken into last night and released the surveillance video. Any tips call (213) 972-2971. I'm sure they haven't gotten any prank calls... A small 240 home...

"Feb 09" Photo by Lord Jim via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr More taco talk. Wahoo's turns 20 on Sunday. If you want some $.20 tacos, show up at the Costa Mesa location between 10am - 3 pm, meet Ryan Sheckler, and celebrate cheap, great tacos! In "Laughable" News - Octo Mom is shopping for a $1.25 million house. LA Metblogs might be onto something with - "Is LA closer to an...

"Water Wings" Photo Ron T by via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Liquidation at Neverland! Everything must go, even the "painting showing Michael Jackson as a bona fide royal in Elizabethan dress." Yikes. Congratulations to our fellow bloggers, LA Metblogs, they have spawned and spread to San Diego! We have "Koreatown," "Miracle Mile," and now, possibly.. the "Sign District?" LA based developer CIM has proposed to create the "Sign District" at Pico/San...

"I crush your head like a grape!" Photo by A.C.Thamer via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr KCRW is now your one stop for Oscar coverage. Head over to their Oscar page for Director interviews, movie reviews, nominee lists, and polls. If you're not a member already, sign up so we can continue to have their great programming. We don't want any more radio casualties... Gweneth has been dishing the "goods" on her...

"He enjoys his politics" Photo by Renee Rendler-Kaplan via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Eric Garcetti launched a new campaign blog. You can find it here. Don't forget to add it (and LAist) to your RSS feed. Rihanna is cooperating with Police to build a case against her abusive boyfriend, Chris Brown. Now that the deluge of reports on this issue have died down, look for some professionally tailored statements to be...

"Flying Fish" Photo by Renee Rendler-Kaplan via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Please welcome me (and LAist) in Congratulating our Editor, Zach Behrens, for being named one of the "40 Under 40", by the San Fernando Business Journal! The award recognizes young working business professionals to watch out for in the Valley. The article runs next week, and in case you're wondering, yes, Zach rules! Talkin' bout a Revolution!!! Counties are lining...

"Football" Photo by jakerome via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Desperate times call for desperate measures. A San Diego man posted his kidney for sale yesterday on Craigslist for $100k. The post was removed because posts that contain “blood, bodily fluids or body parts" are banned on the site. Who says there's not interesting (and affordable) living spaces out there. Pasadena's Water Tower could be yours, if the price is right. B-List...

Tell your grandparents; the Senate has voted to delay the DTV transition to June 12, 2009... Great headline of the day comes from LA Snark - "There’s a MotherF’n chance I might talk to Samuel L. MotherF’n Jackson tonight." Help Jon out at LA Snark by suggesting questions to ask SLJ!... An LA woman is missing and Police need your help finding her. Susan Szegedi was last seen on January 20, 2009 and could be driving a Honda Civic

Photo by phot0matt via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr US Airways flight 1549 crashed into the Hudson River this afternoon. Gothamist has the full details. The City's recent transportation committee meeting ended with a moratorium on bicycle licenses and the increase of speed limits on some Valley streets. Ding-Dong, here's that 30 lbs. of weed you ordered. Do all of your resolutions to get slimmer and spend less mean that we're going...

"Benjamin Page's Pasadena and Los Angeles" Photo by Benjamin Page via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Jobseekers who like to "stroll the white sands, soak up the sun, snorkel the reef, "maybe clean the pool" -- and report to a global audience via weekly blogs, photo diaries and video updates," have we got an opportunity for you! Australia is looking for someone to lay around a beautiful tropical island for six months....

"4 eyes" Photo by kpe II via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr How bad do you want a free Whopper from Burger King? Enough to delete 10 friends from Facebook? C'mon, it's not like you need to see the narcissistic status updates from those kids you never even talked to in high school. LA Stories Blog has begun a daunting and tedious (but really fun) task. They are going to document every...