Zach Behrens

When you need a jump, you rely on a friendly stranger or maybe AAA. When you've got nearly 65,000 Twitter followers and a full service kitchen, you can tweet for help and offer food in return. That's exactly what Kogi BBQ did last night when they tweeted "Roja out of battery @UCLA any1 can jumpstart us 4 some tacos?" The truck is back on the road today....

After the first L.A. Street Food Fest in February, many hoped the event would come back in the summer, rather than waiting a full year. That wish has come true. Last night organizers tweet-teased this little tid bit: "Our lips are sealed 'til next week, but take a guess on where our next July 24th event will be."

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) flew to Catalina Island today "to personally condemn an effort by the Mexican consulate to offer identification cards to undocumented workers there," according to the LA Times, which notes this interesting fact: up to 70% of the island's city are Spanish-speaking Latinos. Avalon, the largest and one of two cities, has a population of 3,000. “This community is a microcosm of the problems in the whole country," said the...

It's normal day on the job as a police officer until you pull a suspicious damaged car, lean into the window and realize it's your boss. Yes, your boss as in Riverside's Chief of Police -- and there is signs of drinking, fresh off a visit to a strip club mixed with drinking and prescription medications on Super Bowl Sunday. Now a 500-page report and video has been released, showing that officers gave Russ...

Cute moment under the Santa Monica Pier | Photo by zsumoz via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Oh, Apple. "Just in time for the release of a new iPhone, AT&T will stop letting new customers sign up for its unlimited Internet data plan for smart phones and iPads and charge more for users who hog the most bandwidth." Relief for Venice? Temporary oversize vehicle parking restrictions were approved by the L.A. City Council today...

Photo by Jonathan Alcorn Photographer Jonathan Alcorn shares Universal Studio's latest publicity stunt, which is actually pretty cool: huge footprints left in the sand on Santa Monica Beach, complete with a crushed lifeguard vehicle. It's all for the new King Kong 3-D attraction, which opens at the theme park this summer. The previous King Kong was destroyed in a fire in 2008. Also destroyed was the backlot, which just reopened. More photos from Alcorn...

A report from The National Survey of Family Growth finds that 17% of teens used the rhythm method -- you know, having unprotected sex based on some math and ovulation cycles -- from 2006 and 2008. That's up 11% from 2002. As the LA Times puts it in their story, "the method has a relatively high failure rate."...

Golden Girl and just all around classy woman Rue McClanahan has died, according to KCBS2. It happened around 1 a.m., with her family by her bedside, when she suffered a massive stroke. The 76-year-old had a long career, appearing in close to 300 movies and TV episodes, most notably as Blanche Devereaux in the "The Golden Girls," which aired around 180 episodes itself. For that role, she was nominated four years in a row...

Oh, gosh, it's not just Mayor Villaraigosa doing these?! A friendly wager between the two top cops of Boston and Los Angeles could mean an extra officer on L.A. streets for a night. The gentleman's bet between LAPD Chief Charlie Beck and Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis will have one from the losing team's city travel to their city on vacation time and do a patrol shift. “I’m not sure where I would...

Yes, an electric rate hike was recently approved, but now a water one is on deck. "The Department of Water and Power wants customers to pay up to 8 percent more for water to fund millions of dollars in improvements to the utility's aging water pipes and pumping stations under a budget presented Tuesday," according to the Daily News. Under the plan, customers who fall under Tier 2 -- that means you use a...

In a split decision, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors today approved a boycott of Arizona over its controversial immigration law, SB 1070. The 3-2 vote means county employees cannot travel to the state unless "the county’s chief executive determines it would seriously harm county interests," according to the LA Times. "The boycott also calls for a divestiture of Arizona’s state and municipal bonds by the county’s pension fund." Mark Ridley-Thomas was the deciding...

Earlier plans for the California's High Speed Rail called for two stations in the San Fernando Valley -- one in Sylmar and another in Glendale or Burbank. At first, HSR planners were looking at station locations in downtown Burbank, but city officials there balked, wanting consideration of a station at Burbank Airport. Now it appears planners are all about that airport station as the only station in the Valley, reported the Burbank Leader last...