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In Redondo Beach | Photo by Jacwee via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr How Conan changed one random woman's life by only following her on Twitter. "I've decided to follow someone at random," he tweeted last Friday. "She likes peanut butter and gummy dinosaurs. Sarah Killen, your life is about to change." The first city of Los Angeles layoff (of the thousands expected to be laid off to solve a massive budget gap) is...

Shut down in 2001 after a fatal accident, Angel's Flight in downtown has sat unused for some time now. News came yesterday that the short funicular railway is coming back, possibly as early as next month, thanks to a passing grade...

Well, looks like the rumors were true. Conan O'Brien is touring and he's bringing his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour to Los Angeles, which is described as "a night of music, comedy, hugging, and the occasional awkward silence (the buzz about this is huge and the website has appeared to crash)." He'll be hitting up the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal CityWalk on Saturday, April 24th for an evening of fun and many, many laughs. Universal is, of course, where his old Late-night NBC studio is.

With roof damage caused by rain, the Fairfax Theatre on Beverly Boulevard was shut down by city building inspectors in January. Now owner Alex Gorby has proposed developing a 71-unit condominium complex with street-level retail space and subterranean parking. Although he had 30 days to comply, the roof remains unfixed and Regency Theatres, which operated the space showing independent and foreign films, was unable to continue business as usual. "We simply cannot allow this...

Spring Quarter, '08: This was probably the biggest we've ever seen. It took 10 minutes for the thousands of students to make it through the Strathmore Ave. tunnel. (Photo: Ryan D. Night) Despite a ban on the final's week celebration that is UCLA's Undie Run, over 1,500 students are already signed up on Facebook for next Wednesday's event. And it seems UCLA officials aren't going to stop it from happening, save for having campus...

Hahn Will he or won't he run for Lt. Governor? That's the big question San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, a former candidate for Governor, has to answer by Friday, which is the deadline to finish filing for the campaign. Today he paid a $2,600 filing fee to submit initial paperwork, but a spokesman tells KCBS not to read too much into it. Newsom must turn in signatures needed to enter the race by Friday....

Six UCLA students were robbed early this morning when several assailants entered an unlocked door of an apartment a half-mile from campus, according to the LA Times. It happened around 1 a.m. when the students were studying in an apartment on the 500 block of Midvale Avenue. The apparent four masked men made the students lie on the ground while items and money were reportedly stolen. There were no injuries and the suspects got...

Photo by Franco Folini via Flickr California currently has a $22.3 billion cash deficit, but the latest cash flow report from the State Controller's office today revealed that revenues are $480 million above budget estimates. Translation: this is a good sign, but we're not out of the water yet. “Revenues came in above projections for the third month in a row, continuing a positive trend that shows California is on the road to recovering...

The investigation of Oscar-winning documentarians and federal officials has prompted the U.S. Attorney's Office to charge Typhoon Restaurant, Inc.--the parent company of The Hump restaurant--and Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, a 45-year-old chef who resides in Culver City, for the illegal sale of a marine mammal product, specifically, Sei whale, for an unauthorized purpose. “Someone should not be able to walk into a restaurant and order a plate of an endangered species,” said U.S. Attorney André Birotte...

It "seems broad-brush and unsubstantiated," says Friends4ExpoTransit about the lawsuit (.pdf), which has been expected since last month, filed by Neighbors for Smart Rail (NFSR), a group that doesn't want the a light rail train cutting through their neighborhood at street level. The second phase of the Expo Line was approved in early February, allowing for the eventual construction of track between Culver City and Santa Monica. The first phase between downtown and Culver...

A sharrow in Hermosa Beach | Photo by Dan Gutierrez via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Plans to pilot bicycle sharrows on Los Angeles streets are beginning to solidify, a city bicycle official said today. A working group between the city's Department of Transportation and L.A. County Bicycle Coalition hope to announcee five to ten sharrow locations by the end of the month (a list of possible locations were announced in January). Paint could...

Possible routes included skirting the borders of Joshua Tree National Park and Mojave National Preserve. All routes would terminate in the San Bernardino National Forest. A controversial plan to bring Los Angeles renewable energy from the desert has been shelved by Los Angeles Department of Water & Power officials, it was announced today, according to the San Bernardino Sun. Green Path North was a proposal that included seven possible routes to carry geothermal, wind...