It's exasperating enough when you're trying to cross the street and someone trying to make a right turn on red is hugging the corner blocking your way on a walk signal. This picture is of a guy completely blocking the whole pedestrian crosswalk. He was the first car to pull up at the red light during the walk signal. Legally, since he drove past the limit line during a red light, this is considered......

Twice this weekend I witnessed rather dramatic, inappropriate overreactions to people with unrealistic expectations of privacy in very public places, and it forced me to ponder why we in LA have so much difficulty playing well with others. Is it the car culture? Spillover of road rage onto walkways and other (rare) public spots in LA? The Interwebs? Whatever is to blame, we strongly suggest this character switch to decaf, save the rage for......

Worth Repeating has a story about how two gay dudes from West Hollywood got all uppity about a Fatburger poster. Here is an email from one of the gay dudes describing the events:When West Hollywood-based spouses and screenwriting team David A. Lee and Daniel Vaillancourt walked by their neighborhood Fatburger restaurant on Sunday January 14, 2007, they were shocked to see a poster introducing the company's new Baby Fat Deal in the window. Its tag......

Dear Hollywood Actors and Actresses: After we work all day and fend off LA's many arrogant and entitled drivers on our commute home, we sometimes find watching your television performances a pleasant way to unwind -- unless you make our blood boil by revealing in what you seem to think is a "charming" way that in fact you are one of those awful drivers. Last night on The Late Show with David Letterman, Alexis......

Checking out the rants & raves board on Craigslist, LAist found out that May 1 has been designated "A Day Without An Immigrant." The organizers are setting up a nationwide general immigrant strike and boycott. The website actionla.org gives details on the coordinated boycott which is being organized around four points: "No Work, No School, No Sales, and No Buying." According to ActionLA: We will settle for nothing less than full amnesty and dignity......

In a city that was built and planned for half, if not less, parking spaces than currently needed, using two of those spots to advertise your business does not make you friends. Pictured here on Woodman between the 101 and Moorpark, this part of Sherman Oaks is dense with apartments. At the time this picture was taken today, there was not one available space on the street. If this mobile billboard had some dual......

New Rule: If you build your house to be a castle in a nice and quaint residential neighborhood, your 3rd Amendment rights are stricken. This house on Hortense St. in West Toluca Lake (come on, it's really NoHo) just made our day. We wish we could live next door and tell our friends when giving directions, "Just look for the house to the left of the castle." Is this L.A. Insensitivity or just what......

LAist tipster Jennifer pointed out a Flickr photo series in two parts entitled Ridiculous Los Angeles. Imagine our delight when we found photo after photo of bad breast jobs, stupid boys wearing winter jackets and ski boots when it's 85 out and musclemen smoking cigarettes on the street. Basically, Malingering (the photographer) is a paparazzi, but he's chasing us regular schmucks instead of Brangelina. Part of us is appalled, but we can't decide who......

We thought we'd seen it all in this city where the auto is king, but we saw something we'd never seen before during our drive home last night. We were heading east on Wilshire Blvd, near Wilton, when we spotted a Toyota SUV pull up onto the sidewalk so that the driver could deposit a letter into the corner mailbox. It was pretty late so there was nothing to prevent the driver from just......

An anonymous source queued up at LAX Terminal One witnessed a little political theater Thursday. Ex-mayor Richard Riordan ducked around a barricade through a staff entrance in an attempt to cut ahead of 500 people who were patiently waiting at a security checkpoint. Presumably, Riordan thought that airport employees would recognize him. They didn't. He was chewed out by Southwest security and sent outside to the back of the line. People end-running up escalators......

We're sure there's a special ring of hell specially reserved for Angelenos and their crazy-making ways. In fact, we're certain there is. We're so sure that we're launching a new semi-regular feature called "The Intolerables" that reimagines these folks as mythic super villains, worthy adversary of any superhero, who are destined to populate Hades and every other mythic universe. Today, we're inspired by those folks who just cannot share. We're sure they were intolerable......

The hits just keep on comin' in the Metrolink disaster. But this time, such insensitivity could have been avoided. A brand-new commercial that was whipped-up quickly in the wake of the Metrolink train derailment by the law offices of Jacoby & Meyers informs viewers that, "If you have been injured in the Glendale train accident, you may be entitled to compensation and there may be insurance that covers your injuries... Our investigators are already......

Where are all your good samaritans, Sun Valley? Palm Desert's KESQ reports that "A severely burned woman who went door-to-door in [the] San Fernando Valley neighborhood asking for help has died of her injuries." No one seems to know how the woman actually caught fire but they do know that she left soot and blood on the doors she knocked on. No one opened their doors to help. One woman did call 911. It's......

We here at LAist have been through enough therapy to know that some of the most arrogant and entitled behavior you'll ever see is projected from parent onto child. Just because you gave birth to something doesn't give you the right to project everything you think, feel and want out of life onto your offspring. Case in point: those jerks who've barely snipped the umbilical cord before piercing their kid's ears. If your first......

Here’s a great way to beat the traffic crunch of life in LA. Just buy a really small vehicle and then use it to weave around other cars, squeeze between them at stop lights and cut people off at your whim. What's that? You say it's not safe? Well, then you're not a motorcycle rider. What is it about motorcycles that seems to attract the most obnoxious, unruly, unsafe drivers on the road? Maybe......

NBC4 reports today that ABC has issued an apology for their steamy pre-game intro to its "Monday Night Football" broadcast that featured some of the actresses from "Desperate Housewives." The intro, featured actress Nicollette Sheridan, wearing only a towel and pleading with Philadelphia Eagles player Terrell Owens to skip the game against the Dallas Cowboys to, instead, spend some quality time with her, and her towel. Both the NFL and viewers were quick to......

It’s a sad fact of life as an LA driver that traffic cops can’t be everywhere. That’s because the arrogant and entitled drivers are everywhere, and they’re getting away with murder. Wouldn’t it be great if they could get caught just a little more often? If common decency won’t stop them from making our lives hell, maybe a few Saturday afternoons in traffic school would. Unfortunately, there’s little to stop them from pulling moves......

One of the best traffic flow ideas LA ever had were those rush hour parking restrictions that keep cars from stopping on major streets during peak hours. All around the city, on streets like Ventura, Wilshire, Pico and Los Feliz Boulevard, the rightmost lane of traffic turns from a parking lane to a driving lane from 7 to 9 am and 4 to 7 pm. These restrictions help keep traffic moving at times when......

Buzzing from the giddy style and sheer joyous sensations initiated by the lovely film The Incredibles, which opened this weekend, we exited the Avco screening room 4 feeling a bit at ease from the political events of the week. Good old escapism has its place in a difficult world. Adults and children had packed the theater for this Saturday night show. There was applause and our senses seemed collectively tickled by the mellow palate,......

Drive. Damn it people, take a drive. Succumb to the privileges of western expansion. Get all Bush-like and blow some money on gas and drive around the city this weekend. Some call it a Nietzschean undertaking. LAist calls it coping. Read. There’s some good gay Truman Capote anecdotes over at The Elegant Variation this morning. Perhaps that’ll inspire some soul-searching. If that fails, you can read the Da Vinci Code again. Sleep. And realize......

We here at the A&E Report hate to repeat ourselves. We know we already nagged you a few weeks ago about the importance of voting. But let’s face it, today is Election Day, and not just any Election Day, but a really, really big one. Election Day: Beyond Thunderdome. So rather than whine about people who can’t tell the difference between white parking zones and yellow ones or some nonsense like that, this week’s......

We here at the A&E Report pride ourselves on delivering a weekly smackdown to LA’s most annoying citizens, the jerks whose arrogance and sense of entitlement make all our lives just a little less bearable. But for one day, we’re putting a hold on our judgment and letting the arrogant and entitled off the hook. Of course, there’s a catch: this offer applies only on October 31st, and only to the arrogant and entitled......

When the US wanted to smoke Manuel Noriega out of his Panamanian palace, they didn't use tear gas or SWAT teams. They used Oingo Boingo and AC/DC. That's because for just about anyone on the planet, the Highway to Hell is paved with whatever kind of music you don't like. So it would seem that the streets of LA are no place for Central American dictators -- or anyone else for that matter. That's......

It's one of the most annoying movie clichés imaginable. You go to see a horror movie, and just when things are getting tense, they trot out the old "child in jeopardy" gambit. And there he is, some bratty toddler whining and crying and begging for his mommy. Boo hoo. It pretty much ruins the entire film for you. Then you realize — wait a second — that's not the movie. Somebody actually brought their......

Okay, we all remember what happened in Florida in 2000, and it didn't make our voting process look very solid. A lot of people came away with the impression that their votes aren't counted properly, if at all, and that none of it matters anyway because no election will ever come down to a margin of just one vote, and if it's anywhere within a few thousand, it's just going to get decided by......

If you're on a blind date, one of the best ways to judge your companion is to observe how he or she is treating the waiter. If they're sniping at every tiny delay in service, demanding Sprite refills every five seconds and sending their food back multiple times for imaginary inadequacies, odds are that's how they're going to be treating you in a few months. So run. It's a sad fact of life in......

We here at LAist love animals, who brighten our lives with everything they do, from police dogs who bravely sniff out cocaine in airport luggage to goldfish, who obligingly die just around the time your kid gets tired of feeding them. We've seen enough sitcoms and movies of the week to know that sometimes all the crusty, loveless old curmudgeon down the hall needs to warm his heart is a gritty, slobbering face-lick from......

LAist is sick and tired of hearing people say that there are no genuine people in Los Angeles. That people are so self-absorbed and self-important that if you were getting beaten by a group of hooligans outside Chin Chin on Sunset, that people would simply watch without helping. But when your dog gets loose and you're chasing it down the street at high speeds, and your dog runs past twelve people who stand and......

When LAist began it's quest to bring you the sights and sounds of people gathering their morning buzz by using the backdrop of a particular coffee establishment, we never thought we'd endure such chaos and criticism by some jealous LA sites who had wished they'd thought of it themselves. The evidence? This week's subtle post over at LA Observed, in which they criticize LAist's The Coffee Buzz as "more unbilled product placement." Even more......

The A&E report would never be so bold as to suggest a complete ban on using cell phones while driving. LA wouldn�t be LA anymore if the guy next to you on the 101 wasn�t negotiating deal points on his script or the woman in the next lane over wasn�t breaking up with her long-distance boyfriend while merging in front of you. That being said, it doesn�t hurt to wear a headset, but this......