Scott Garner

LAist has a question for our readers: What's not fun about jacking a car and driving around LA robbing, killing, and generally causing mayhem? The answer? Nothing. Nothing is not fun about that. It's awesome! Our friends to the north (no, not Fresno), don't see it the same way for some reason. The Canadian government has issued a warning to parents that "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" is, among other things, "vile and violent"....

LAist has a question for our readers: What's not fun about jacking a car and driving around LA robbing, killing, and generally causing mayhem? The answer? Nothing. Nothing is not fun about that. It's awesome! Our friends to the north (no, not Fresno), don't see it the same way for some reason. The Canadian government has issued a warning to parents that "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" is, among other things, "vile and violent"....

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, proving once again that he never met a photo-op he didn't like, tooled up to the brand new BP station just down the road from LAX and topped off his Hummer's tank the other day. Ho-hum, just another day in the life of our action-star-turned-girlie man-exterminating head of state, right? Not really. This fill-up cost a cool $10 a gallon, and the Hummer in question was a custom-built hydrogen-powered SUV of...

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, proving once again that he never met a photo-op he didn't like, tooled up to the brand new BP station just down the road from LAX and topped off his Hummer's tank the other day. Ho-hum, just another day in the life of our action-star-turned-girlie man-exterminating head of state, right? Not really. This fill-up cost a cool $10 a gallon, and the Hummer in question was a custom-built hydrogen-powered SUV of...

LA has a crime problem. Or, rather, LA has an endemic gang problem, and gangsters breed crime. It was true in Prohibition-era Chicago, and it's certainly true in current-day Los Angeles. Sometimes it seems that gangs operate with near impunity in LA, a condition which has led to an unbearable homicide rate in some areas of our city, with each murder of an innocent seemingly more callous and brutal than the last. The LAPD...

LA has a crime problem. Or, rather, LA has an endemic gang problem, and gangsters breed crime. It was true in Prohibition-era Chicago, and it's certainly true in current-day Los Angeles. Sometimes it seems that gangs operate with near impunity in LA, a condition which has led to an unbearable homicide rate in some areas of our city, with each murder of an innocent seemingly more callous and brutal than the last. The LAPD...

LAist was driving down Melrose the other day, thinking about how we probably weren't going to be able to get another year out of our windshield wiper blades, when the curtain of rain parted and a silver leviathan emerged from the drizzle. Its metallic flank blotted out the damp cityscape as it passed, and inside could be seen a handful of people, looking very smug and dry in the belly of the beast. What...

LAist was driving down Melrose the other day, thinking about how we probably weren't going to be able to get another year out of our windshield wiper blades, when the curtain of rain parted and a silver leviathan emerged from the drizzle. Its metallic flank blotted out the damp cityscape as it passed, and inside could be seen a handful of people, looking very smug and dry in the belly of the beast. What...

Yesterday, we lauded the cleansing properties of the rain that has been falling on our fair city for the last few days. This welcome precipitation washes our streets, lawns, buildings, and cars of all the accumulated pollution and grime our city can pile up over the long dry season. It renews and reinvigorates us, and our built environment. Our city shines like polished stone. We fall in love with her all over again. This...

Yesterday, we lauded the cleansing properties of the rain that has been falling on our fair city for the last few days. This welcome precipitation washes our streets, lawns, buildings, and cars of all the accumulated pollution and grime our city can pile up over the long dry season. It renews and reinvigorates us, and our built environment. Our city shines like polished stone. We fall in love with her all over again. This...