Zach Behrens

Mount Lee, home to the Hollywood Sign at Sunset | Photo by Mark Luethi via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr It got a bit crazy in Hollywood last night when a club was closed due to overcrowding, prompting trouble on the streets and the LAPD to put on their riot gear. Labor Day: UCLA today released a study showing that union jobs in Los Angeles are disappearing faster than anywhere else in the country....

Air Force One landing in Los Angeles in August | Photo by tara_photos via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Remember when President Barack Obama last month came to town for a fundraiser, prompting the ultimate rush hour traffic hell? Traffic is bad in Los Angeles -- we all know that -- but that was just ridiculous. A couple days afterwards, westside L.A. City Councilmember Bill Rosendahl said he wanted a report on how the...

In the Angeles National Forest | Photo by Jennifer Gaillard via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr How long does it take a criminal to notice something in your car, break in and get away? It's only a matter of seconds. Watch this video of it happening in Venice. Have you visited the new Jew-food fusion taco truck, Takosher? They have brisket tacos, a latketaco and much more fun. A man who "apparently won several...

Photo: Lucyrk in LA Angelenos, think about this the next time you're on a date. A recent study published in the journal "Social Psychological and Personality Science" finds that looks, obviously, are not everything. There's something else heightens the attraction and it's just not your shared taste in music: we are more attracted to people who have meaning in their life. As GOOD Magazine puts it, "the moral of the story, perhaps, is that...

A new study that compared Calfornia-grown organic strawberries to conventional ones found that organic ones win. That is to say, organic ones "were more nutritious, had a longer shelf life, and left the soil in healthier condition compared to the conventional crop," says KPCC. The upside is the higher concentration of antioxidants and vitamin C, the downside is the smaller size and less potassium and phosphorus. Strawberries are a $1.6 billion industry in California,...

It's now an annual tradition at KCRW. Evan Kleiman of Good Food last summer baked a pie a day. This year, she's having guests share their pie recipes and today is none other than LAist's very own Co-Editor Lindsay William-Ross! Although she knows Los Angeles like no other, she's representing her Canadian roots in her holiday recipe of "ground meat, seasoned with herbs and spices." All that combined, along with some kitchen savvy, will...

Just in time for the Labor Day weekend, a union that represents Hyatt workers across the country is highlighting their labor contract problem with the hotel company. In July they held a major demonstration that shut town traffic on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood outside the Andaz Hotel, which led to over 60 arrests. Yesterday they went back, but reportedly stuck to the sidewalks. And today it's the Hyatt in Century City....

The 134 Freeway in the Glendale/Eagle Rock area | Photo by melissssaf via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Demand for food from pantries is up. Here's by how much: 21% more than last year, 48% more than two years ago. A court has ruled that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown do not have to defend Prop 8, which banned gay marriage in California. Rumor has it that the billionaire Russian --...

We've had two days of record low temperatures this week, but that trend is quickly dying. High temperatures are forecasted for Friday and Saturday in, not just the Valleys, but the L.A. Basin. Expect temperatures there to be in the high 80s. Valleys will see mid 90s and some may get close to 100. As always, L.A. County's Department of Public Health is asking everyone to take precautions, especially those who are sensitive to...

Two men apparently breaking into a Lancaster store on Wednesday afternoon came face to face with the store's armed owner, according to officials. Responding deputies to the 3:30 p.m. burglary call arrived to the shop on the 200 block of East Avenue K-8 to find a man outside suffering from a gunshot wound. 28-year-old Robert Summers of Lancaster was taken to the hospital where he died shortly after. Detectives found property from the store...

Neighbors gather around a memorial set up in front of the Kings Road Arms Apartment in West Hollywood on Saturday afternoon | Photo by Zach Behrens/LAist Detectives investigating the Thursday night slaying of three men inside a West Hollywood apartment are calling it "a drug deal that didn’t go well." That's Homicide Lt. Pat Nelson speaking to the LA Times about motive in the murder case. “He came for the drugs and decided he...

Although some reports are indicating that a bill to ban plastic and other single-use bags in California has failed in the State Senate, ultimately killing the bill, that was not the case as of 11 p.m. Tuesday night. An e-mailed update from the office of the bill's author, Assemblymember Julia Brownley (D - Santa Monica), explained the technical details...