Zach Behrens

Photo by polaroid-girl via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr The storms last week aided in eroding of the westbound lanes of Mulholland Drive just east of Coldwater Canyon Avenue, shutting down lanes between the avenue and Laurel Canyon Boulevard. Now the cash-strapped city of Los Angeles is seeking an estimated $600,000 for emergency repairs, says the LA Times. The question is where will that money come from? While there is the option of dipping...

A new state law allowing parents to reform schools themselves that went into effect last week is already being used in L.A.'s Sunlund-Tujunga neighborhood, finds the Daily News. Mount Gleason Middle School could see all its teachers and administration fired and have it turned over to a charter operator, if a majority of parents sign a petition. "Parents are the ones who pay taxes, they are the consumers and they cannot wait for manana,"...

Looks like the Stadium to Sea route is a popular one. The L.A. Marathon, which can hold 25,000 runners, is 80% sold out, officials announced today. With over a month before race day, it's likely to reach 100% in just a few weeks. We’re confident we’re going to sell out and strongly encourage those who are training for the race but have not yet registered to do so immediately so they’re not turned-away,” said...

With SAVE THE PEAK replacing the Hollywood Sign temporarily over the next few days, it's a good time to bring up a list of where to best view it from. We're big fans of staring at it from Hollyridge Drive, but...

If you decide to drive drunk this weekend, make you're only drunk on love. As usual, the LAPD is out looking for the overly inebriated and they often set up checkpoints to spread that message. Tonight, a sobriety and drivers license checkpoint will be found on Vermont Blvd. between Hollywood and Sunset from 8 p.m and 3 a.m. (yes, right near the Red Line subway). The LAPD Northeast Area endured 116 driving under the...

The Getty Center at Sunset | Photo by morgan.arnold via LAist Featured Photos Now we're going to have to eat out seven days a week: "From street food to upscale dining, LA is the best place in the world to eat now," says Jonathan Gold (via LA Observed) The less-talked about, yet threatened Santa Clara River between Santa Clarita and Ventura just got a boost in protection from development. It's not just the Chinese,...

As The Hollywood Sign transforms to read "SAVE THE PEAK," an awareness campaign to bring attention to the pending sale of 138 acres next door (will it stay open space or become a development?), the sign is temporarily reading funny things like "SALLYWOOD." In the meantime, the LA Times has a nice photo gallery of unofficial transformations like "CALTECH" and "HOLLYWeeD."...

Word quickly spread on Twitter this afternoon after a person committed suicide in front of the Kodak Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center. At 3:10 p.m., police were notified of someone attempting to commit suicide by jumping from the...

There's nothing wrong with encouraging and supporting your local farmers markets and community supported agriculture programs, but urban foraging can be harmful, sometimes deadly, if you don't know what you're doing (if you do, you can make a wonderful salad). Apparently, students at Marshall High believe a local, yet poisonous, flower called Angels Trumpet has hallucinogenic properties and are eating the flower while walking to and from school, reports The Eastsider LA via the...

Photo by R. E. ~ via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Talk about bad timing. The day the city-at-large learned that the owner of Phillipe's died was the same day health inspectors responded to complaints of a cockroach investigation and closed it for 48 hours. William "Bill" Binder, 94, died of natural causes on January 28th, but word didn't surface until this past Wednesday when his obituary popped up in the news. Inspectors told...

Along the PCH | Photo by Anthony Bevilacqua via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr LAUSD Superindentent Ramone Cortines made $150,000 last year from a company that has profited $16 million from the school district. The inventor of the Frisbee, originally called the "Whirlo-Way" and "Pluto Platter," died on Tuesday. A "first of its kind in the world," the L.A. County Sheriff's Department have bought a ship for screening cargo vessels at the L.A and...

As far as we can tell, no action on the anticipated Hollywood Sign change for today has happened yet (we're hearing around 3 p.m.). However, Eric Spillman at KTLA shared a photo on Twitter of graffiti on the first "L" of the Hollywood Sign. "Noticed it this morning," he said before tweeting out the photo (biggify here, you can see it on the bottom corner of the "L"). We're curious how it got there,...