Zach Behrens

A mac & cheese restaurant opens its doors, a recreation center in Little Tokyo, a cop accused of creepy stalking, torturing hamsters and bragging about it on Facebook, why it's colder outside and more...

Spotted on Earth Day along Hollywood Boulevard with no owner in site. A skateboard with various reusable bags precariously balanced, the top one with plants in it.

Photo by R. E. ~ via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr This weekend, the movement to serve the Los Angeles region with local food grows in the Valley and in Santa Monica. On Saturday, the group behind The Farmers Kitchen and farmers markets across town--Hollywood, Atwater Village and Leimert Park, to name a few--will open their newest market in Canoga Park. Beginning this Saturday, and every Saturday year-round (rain or shine), the...

Investigators into the Valley Village restaurant shooting say the suspect may have acted out because "he was fed up with being disrespected by the victims," the LA Times is reporting. Nerses Galstyan was allegedly with the group of victims inside the Hot Spot on Riverside Drive when an argument broke out. He then is said to have drawn his gun shooting six of them, killing four. “He was apparently tired of being downtrodden,” said...

An unofficial bicycle corral outside Bike Oven on Figueroa | Photo by ubrayj02 via Flickr [Update: The corral pilot program was approved on Tuesday, April 27. Read about it here] Portland has bike corrals, but will Los Angeles? Tomorrow the City Council will take up a motion by Jose Huizar asking for the city to implement a bike corral pilot program along York Boulevard between avenues 50 and 56 in Highland Park. "Without some...

As the idea to build a football stadium in downtown Los Angeles surfaced, more concern over the planned one out in the City of Industry have been raised. On Tuesday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said he was worried about how the 75,000-seat, $800-million facility would be built, the San Gabriel Tribune reported. However, that doesn't mean the NFL is resistant to Los Angeles. "We want to get back to LA. Hopefully it will happen...

Today's official announcement on the arrest of the suspect in the April 3rd restaurant shooting that left four dead gave some more details, but not many. "With information provided from the Los Angeles Police Department Robbery Homicide Division (RHD) detectives, the U. S. Marshals Service apprehended a man whom they believe is responsible for the shooting death of four men at a North Hollywood restaurant," an LAPD news release said.

In speaking with the LA Times opinion writers and editors Wednesday, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa shared his thoughts about the L.A. Department of Water and Power and it wasn't in defense of the utility's mired history. “For four years, I’ve battled a bureaucracy that just won’t respond to the policy direction” to go green he explained. “It’s been an absolute war."

Photo: Wendy McCormac/Flickr Every year Capitol Weekly releases a list of the 100 most powerful people that are not politicians. These include reporters, state employees and business people. The Weekly has released the second half the list today (first half here). Here are some local notables: Ed Roski: He's the guy who is trying to build a NFL stadium in the City of Industry. "Two years ago, we didn’t even know who Ed Roski...

Photo by maria gracia inglessis via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr It's Earth Day tomorrow and Your Daily Thread has put together a calendar of events (and a nice guide to recycling in LA) About all that smoke in Echo Park today: it was a pine tree fire on Sunset Boulevard. Design plans for the four-level freeway interchange downtown were released today 66 years ago. Big Raid: "Federal and state agents arrested 27 people...

Jovanna Janet Lugo A crash between an LAPD cruiser and a vehicle last night in the Northeast Valley left a 27-year-old woman dead. According an LAPD alert, Jovanna Janet Lugo was making a U-turn, mid block on Glenoaks Boulevard south of Dyer Street in Sylmar, when the collision occurred. A black and white cruiser with two officers were traveling northbound on Glenoaks when they hit Lugo's Corolla during her U-turn. The two officers suffered...

When California banned sugar-sweetened soda in public schools six years ago, there was a loophole: sugared electrolyte replacement beverages (sports drinks). SB 1255, legislation by Senator Alex Padilla in the San Fernando Valley, took another step today when the Senate Education Committee approved it in a 6 to 2 vote. “We have prohibited the sale of soft drinks at schools during the school day to improve both the health and academic focus of our...