Zach Behrens

It's Ricky from Ricky's Fish Tacos! More about him here. | Photo by R. E. ~ via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Would you pay $25 a day to legally drive on state roads at speeds up to 90 mph? L.A.'s income from police tows has nearly doubled over the last year. After one year, Chief Deputy Mayor Jay Carson, who once was an aide to both Clintons, has resigned, but that was his...

Garcetti's beard and Reyes' mustache | via LA City View 35 After a two week break, the Los Angeles City Council went back to work on Tuesday. And it wasn't too long before there was a collective WTF going on around City Hall. It's apparently not unusual for the post-labor day facial hair game, but this year some are questioning Council President Eric Garcetti's approach. "Garcetti looks like he got gorilla masked," said one...

Sunset and Crescent Heights | Photo by Mark Luethi via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Hello, Rosh Hashana! KPCC today checked in with Michael Chusid, "an Angelino who has taught hundreds of people to blow the shofar." An Orange County fisherman has been sentenced to "three years' informal probation and 20 days in jail" for stomping on a California brown pelican. The Mount Olympus man who sued a production company for significantly inconveniencing him...

Photo by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging There may be no better way to get over your fear of spiders by entering a room full of them. Hundreds of them. And did we mention there were no barriers between you and the arachnids? Now in its sixth year, the Spider Pavilion at the Natural History Museum is gearing up to launch at the end of this month. Visitors can walk through the 3,200 square foot habitat,...

Photo by La Citta Vita via Flickr By November, a small car sharing program run by Zipcar could be up and running in Hollywood near Metro Red Line stations. On Wednesday, a city panel recommended the full City Council approve moving the concept beyond the campus neighborhoods of UCLA and USC and try to fully integrate into a community. The concept, however, is nothing new for Los Angeles. Car sharing, in which people can...

Photo by hinducow via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr So many of these top ten lists put Los Angeles in a bad light. Not today. The magazine Foreign Policy has named L.A. the 7th most global city, placing us in a club with New York City, Chicago, Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney. "So what makes a Global City? Not size alone, that's for sure; many of the world's largest megalopolises, such as...

Photo by bcmacsac1 via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Nationwide, traffic fatalities in 2009 declined by so much, it hit the lowest level since 1950. Still, 34,000 deaths on the road doesn't mean the problem is solved, but things could be heading in the right direction as more people buckle up, car safety features improve and roads receive better design, according to the federal government. But the question remains how much the recession affected...

Yesterday, a video showed that things on the 5700 block of Wilshire Boulevard were getting ugly, or at least in one instance where a Museum Square employee lashed violently out at a pro-food truck office worker (for background on the issue, read this story). Now, posted under the same anonymous YouTube account, comes this video that shows LaBonge with Museum Square management. The photos in the video were taken last week and LaBonge confirmed...

Photo by Lord Jim via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Burger Night Every Wednesday evening at the Larchmont Grill is Burger Night, complete with a specials for the weekly event only. Take a stab at their menu of 12 burgers, which includes salmon, kobe, carnitas jalepeno and veggie burgers. Mystery Beer Night Also on Wednesdays at Good Microbrew in Silver Lake, it's Mystery Beer Night from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. It's $3 for...

After two days of protests, the LAPD hopes to calm tensions by holding a meeting tonight to address Sunday's fatal police shooting that left a day laborer dead. Community members will be able to ask questions and hear speakers talk about incident, LAPD's Use of Force Policy and how it reviews use of force incidents. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck will be joined by Inspector General Nicole Bershon, other officers, Councilmember Ed Reyes and the...