Paul Davidson

Aaah, lucky number thirteen. Well, here on LAist, there's no such thing as an unlucky number, although there is such a thing as a coffee shop that's famous. You know, in sort of a trendy, wannabe, Paris Hilton kind of way. Coffe Bean & Tea Leaf #13 8793 Beverly Boulevard West Hollywood, CA 90048 Hours: Monday - Friday 6:00 AM - 12:00 AM Saturday - Sunday 7:00 AM - 12:00 AM If you watched...

Beverly Hills has 'em. So does Pasadena. They are the confusing and hardly-ever used diagonal crosswalks — something that locales still fear using for some unknown reason. LAist couldn't help but wonder what is keeping most of our locales from using such groundbreaking, extremely-advanced crosswalk technology as the diagonal crosswalk. Saving valuable time by allowing pedestrians the opportunity to walk right through the center of an intersection without having to cross horizontally and then...

It's fortunate that, when a National Election doesn't go your way, there are a myriad of other entertaining things to get your mind off the fact that the country is going to hell in a handbasket. And today, LAist is proud to get you obessive-compulsive Bush-haters off that bandwagon and onto another obsessive-compulsively sad one. Star Wars. Thanks to The Force dot Net, LAist is happy to announce that today marks the World Premiere...

Los Angeles citizens spoke this morning, albeit in hushed tones, about their thoughts on President Bush winning the 2004 election even more legitimately than in 2000. Him: Oh well. Her: Yeah. Him: Nothing we can do about it. Her: Yup. Him: I hear Jamie Foxx is great in that Ray Charles movie. Her: Yeah, me too. We should see it. Him: Totally....

John Kerry has conceded in the Presidental Election. George Bush has given his acceptance speech. And all the while, cable news channels like MSNBC are getting lazier and lazier. LAist remembered when there used to be a time when the graphics and scrolling news at the bottom of the television screen used to be fresh, exciting and new. But lately, cable news channels have apparently hired chimpanzees who are really fast typists as their...

They were the words as spoken by an Elections Official, sitting behind a card table, in a small garage, on a small street somewhere in the San Fernando Valley. Welcome to Democracy, U.S.A. It didn't matter that the polling location was in a tiny space, with garbage bags draped along the walls to give it a "more professional" look. It didn't matter that citizens stood in a line that snaked its way into the...

Sometimes Los Angeles may be Los Angeles but doesn't feel like Los Angeles, which is totally the case for the wonderful town they call Pasadena. Nice and far away from the hustle and bustle of downtown, the self-entitlement of the Westside and the Hip-Factor of Hollywood, Pasadena and the coffee shops that reside there feel normal, comfortable and relaxing. And yes, that's even the case when there's a bomb scare. Coffee Bean & Tea...

We here at LAist applaud Los Angeles' many diverse people, activities, restaurants, history, cultural icons, art, music, entertainment and much much more. We enjoy the quirkiness of a town where people appear to work less than in any other city. We enjoy the drama, the celebrity and the chaos. But there is one thing that is starting to get on our nerves. Over the course of the last month, while out and about at...

Yahoo! reports this morning that "in a new step for crime fighting in Los Angeles, the Police Department plans to start installing surveillance cameras on city streets, beginning with Hollywood Boulevard." Their goal, which includes ambitions to roll out 64 cameras on Hollywood, Santa Monica and Sunset Boulevards (and Western Avenue), will be to deter crime and questionable activities through their "Big Brother-esque" techniques. LAist thinks it's a really bad, creepy, freaky idea. Sure,...

Let's face it. People in California have pretty much resigned themselves to the fact that come November 2nd, the electoral votes from this great state will most likely be piling up for Mr. John Kerry. It's the result of having a very liberal state which almost always ends up voting for the Democratic candidate. That's the reality, and that's fine. But lately, LAist has come in contact with (if you can believe it) a...