Zach Behrens

With L.A. Live in place and the recent opening of the J.W. Marriott (the hotel includes convention space inside), Los Angeles could be a prime candidate for Comic-Con's new home. That is, if rumors are true regarding the famous convention that draws some 126,000 people. The convention's contract with San Diego expires in 2012 and locals are scrambling to keep it from moving to Anaheim, Las Vegas or Los Angeles. The Comic-Con board is...

When Monday Evening Concerts organizer Justin Urcis told us that tonight's performance outside Zipper Hall was unique, he wasn't kidding. Mauricio Kagel's 1996 composition, Eine Brise (‘A Breeze’), is an avant-garde histrionic work for 111 bicycles. At about 8:40 p.m. during intermission concert goers will head towards the sidewalk outside of Zipper Hall on Grand Avenue to watch and hear the performance of cyclists whizzing by whistling and playing bells. Tickets are $27 for...

Another weekend, another two DUI checkpoints. Find one tonight in the Pico del Mar neighborhood in South L.A. and another one tomorrow in Harvard Heights around Vermont and Pico. Stay safe out there!...

Oh, where, oh where in Southern California is this? Try to guess in the comments section | Photo by Mike Chen aka MetalMan via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Here are 12 chances to see the space station between Saturday and Wednesday from Orange County (but it will pretty much work from anywhere in Southern California). Chef Kerry Simon sits down to talk about his new restaurant, LA Market, which is on the first...

"It was the longest I have ever waited for food in my life. And I'd do it again in a flash." That's LA Weekly's Pulitizer Prize winning food critic Jonathan Gold on last week's first annual L.A. Street Food Fest. It's about your personality, he says. "In my experience, you are either a festival guy or you are not..."

After complaints and concerns about plans to run place above ground in downtown, the option to put the regional connector underground was approved for study by a Metro committee yesterday, reports blogdowntown. The connector is a critical missing link for public transit commuters and would combine the Blue and Gold lines and the Expo and Gold Line Extension lines. To stay within budget, however, the underground option may mean one less station. The study...

About 200 La Canada Flintridge residents in a high-risk mudslide area were warned last night of evacuation orders that would go into affect this afternoon. Two storm cells are expected to hit this weekend, with the first one intensifying this evening. A second storm is expected to hit this Sunday night....

Laguna Beach | Photo by preparsed via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Like walking and exploring L.A.? Metblogs' Will Campbell is organizing a 15 mile walk along Jefferson and Adams boulevards in early March. Join him! A new El Cholo is slated to open in downtown's South Park neighborhood. Can the Gay Press Maintain Objectivity (and Should It)? asks LGBT reporter Karen Ocamb. Their third location: Loteria Grill in Studio City officially debuts tomorrow....

A UC Berkeley study released earlier this week has found that a gradual decrease in fog over the last one hundred years could put redwood trees in danger and make summers warmer and longer. Researchers, however, are not concluding that this...

Photo by MaplessInSeattle via Flickr As expected, San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has reintroduced his bill to legalize marijuana after it failed to meet legal deadlines during the last legislative session. Like before, "the Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act (AB 2254) would create a regulatory structure similar to that used for beer, wine and liquor, permitting taxed sales to adults while barring sales to or possession by those under 21," according to Ammiano's...

It's been nearly a week of shaky ground out in the San Bernardino County city of Redlands. Since Wednesday, when we counted around 75 small quakes since the previous Saturday, there's been around 40 more quakes of varying, but inconsequential sizes, including a few over 3.0, which the USGS takes slightly more seriously on their listings by marking them in a bolded red. A 11:53 a.m. there was a light 3.4 earthquake, followed by...

Conan supporters during the I'm With Coco Rally in January (see more photos here) | Photo by Zach Behrens/LAist Conan O'Brien is verboten from appearing on TV until September, per his ousting contract with NBC. That doesn't mean he still can't entertain us. In a sneaky workaround, word on the street is that Coco and friends are planning a live stage show tour, says The Wrap. "Shows such as 'Family Guy' and 'It's Always...