there are some HOV-3 lanes in the Bay Area as well, fwiw. It's a trend in other sprawling cities as well, one which I like, in that it encourages carpooling as opposed to lane-widening, freeway expans...

Starting to bug me when people drive by some service station and remark, "wow, gas is cheap here." We just keep getting played like suckers. If gas went up to 8 bucks next year and then dropped to 6 w...

Friday is now sold out (hrrm, a little help pls?)...

"In other news, alcohol sales are up sharply in Southern California as apocalypse appears imminent...."...

of course, huskerlaw, tongue firmly planted in cheek. My own cheek. ...

happens to me too when it comes to companies fighting to reverse bans, etc. it's like a triple negative or something. I'm just glad one of these comments didn't have something to do with screwing in a...

Great, great shots, Koga! Tom -- I definitely dug seeing the Castledoor guy take the stage in sandals, Quicksilver shorts and some OP-looking shirt. They sounded great too....

What is it about TripPlanner that doesn't work for you? I agree, it could be better, and EVERYTHING would be more efficient if all of the busses/trains were tracked live with GPS. That said, I don't ...

my first quake. wowza...

Bottom line is: Detour is a great great event. downtown la -- a bigger party than you could ever have even if you rent out the roof of the LA Times parking garage....

at least the Times is doing its civic duty in promising to supply less fuel for this year's wildfire season. Although I bet if you were inclined to advertise your company on a matchbook insert in the ...

I wonder how much money they'd make if they actually put turnstiles in at the Metro stations. Or would it be so much money that they'd HAVE to just say F it and build subway tracks all over this b*tch...

60,000 pounds of beef, according to KNX this morning.... how come nothing useful to society ever blows up in these truck explosions.... like the trucks they use to raid the weed warehouses. Now there...

good catch, Zach. No respect for the many staircases of LA... where's the love, Google?...

I too reuse plastic shopping bags for garbage bags in the kitchen, and yes, they are a natural for anyone who walks a dog. But we've all heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, right? I should...

wait, a San Diego County politician who is not an immigrant-bashing homophobe? Oh, wait -- he is a gay-bashing immigrant hater who is shamed to tears that half the people he knows (incl. his daughte...

I think what K-Rod meant to say at the end was "What [the Times] doesn't report, the TV stations and the smaller papers usually don't report either. And that's just scary why I read LAist all the time...

My first reaction is: this sucks. Kevin Bronson turned me on to so many local bands in my first couple years in LA. Second reaction: He's one of the best in the business, surely his next opportunity ...

I'm appalled. This is NOT a joke. We WILL change this country one terrorist fist jab at a time. Seriously, though - it's nothing but good press for Obama. Nobody who reads the New Yorker believes he...

omg, it's the terrorist fist jab!...