Zach Behrens

An early morning in Venice | Photo by dogma623 via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Sunday is a big day for Los Angeles. CicLAvia will bring over seven miles of public space to city streets for the five hours. Here's your activity planner. See you on the streets! What's the difference between gantlet and gauntlet? LA Times readers get caught up in the non-error. Drivers who cut you off, tailgate and flip you the...

Those two logos will soon no longer be paired Los Angeles public television flagship station KCET is severing ties with PBS, it announced today. The station, which is located near Sunset Junction, will become the largest independent public television station in the country on January 1st, meaning PBS national content such as "Sesame Street," "Masterpiece," "Charlie Rose" and "NewsHour" will be cut from the schedule. “After four decades as the west coast flagship PBS...

A hit-and-run crash Wednesday evening in Burbank left actress and singer Juliette Lewis injured, according to the Associated Press. At about 10:15 p.m. a car ran a red light at Olive Avenue and Glenoaks Boulevard (map) and collided with a Lincoln Town Car carrying Lewis. She was bruised, but not seriously hurt and brought to the hospital after she complained of head, back and neck pain....

Actor Larry Wilcox celebrating 10-4 Day in Hollywood earlier this week | Photo by Tom Andrews/LAist On Monday, "CHiPs" actor Larry Wilcox was all smiles in Hollywood as he celebrated 10-4 Day, which honors and celebrates the work police officers do. Then came Thursday, when federal regulators went after and charged several penny stock promoters, including Wilcox, according to the LA Times. Promoters were caught in "various illicit kickback schemes to manipulate the volume...

At the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in Baldwin Hills | Photo by Mike Chen via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr This year's approved state budget looks very similar when it comes to state parks. What that means is the continuation of partial closures, reduced staff and hours and no end in sight for the $1.3 billion backlog in needed maintenance and repairs. "This budget simply puts another band-aid on the crisis that has...

There's a reason some call it Hollyweird. When it comes to peculiar, creepy, odd, bizarre and haunted stories, Hollywood is full of them. Now the publisher house behind the "Weird" book series has finally released a Tinsel Town version. Tonight "Weird Hollywood" will get its official launch at Boardners, which apparently has its own haunted history, at a free party from 8 to 10 p.m. tonight.

Via TAPCO, the company Santa Monica is working with on this project No, it's not a photo-enforced stop sign powered by the sun (but how appropriate would that be for those controversial signs only found in state-owned parks), but Santa Monica is experimenting with curbing close calls at a stop sign near city hall at Olympic Drive and Avenida Mazatlan. The city testing out a stop sign that has blinking solar powered LED lights...

With only 64,000 new private sector jobs last month, combined with 159,000 jobs cut in the government sector (about half of that is thanks to the U.S. Census Bureau letting go of 77,000 temporary employees), the national unemployment rate went...

You might not be going to the LA Phil's opening night concert and gala, but there's a way you can be there somewhat vicariously. KUSC 91.5 FM will carry the "celebración" live tonight at 7 p.m. Conductor Gustavo Dudaml and his friend Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez have put together a "special program of bel canto arias and popular Latin American canciones." Works to be played includes those from Italian composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini,...

Runway incursions were up at LAX in 2009, the FAA has announced. In 2008, there eight such incidents, four less than in 2009, according to the LA Times, which explains that "incursions happen when pilots fail to stop at hold lines on taxiways that lead to runways." 10 of the incursions were caused by pilot error with the remaining two to blame on the air traffic controllers. Although there was an increase, it's a...