Sometimes, what happens around San Francisco applies to Los Angeles. Editor Brock Keeling catches this sign of the times with some humor: Freeway Blogger brought these sings to our attention, placed on the overpass above (the) eastbound I-80. A great message about global warming. Good job. Also: how mean! Christmas is canceled!......

The man, the legend, the writer who puts himself in crazy situations to get the best material, will read from his new book, Riding Toward Everywhere, at Book Soup tonight @ 7pm. Marc Weingarten for the LA Times says it best: "As one of our more intrepid cultural interpreters, William T. Vollmann has traveled with the mujahedin in Afghanistan, smoked crack with hookers and camped out at the North Pole. So it's not surprising to......

Ahhh, Christmas, carols fill the air along with the aroma of baking cookies. hearts are filled with joy, and Santa sends out obscene mail to good little girls and boys. Here are some stories of holidays gone bad, including some from holidays past. Ho ho ho!!!Author of nasty letters from Santa sought Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:39am ET OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's post office and police are trying to track down a "rogue elf" who......

There are a lot of suckers out there for a good love story (this LAist poster included). And essentially, that’s at the heart of Robert Anthony Siegel’s new book All Will be Revealed -- although its premise is a more intriguing than the boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-wins-girl back plot of most chick lit or Harlequin romances. In Siegel’s novel, its anti-hero, Augustus Auerbach, is a wheelchair-bound pornography mogul in 19th century New York City. His......

- Torrance man found with 115 pounds of buds in his pickup in Ohio - Palladium-Item - 90,000 marijuana plants were confiscated in the San Bernardino National Forrest this year - Daily Bulletin - Mill Valley artist caught growing 297 marijuana plants, having 15 pounds of kush, and $65,000 in cash given four months of jail time - Marin IJ - North Pole man goes on a high speed chase from Alaskan cops because......

The Conan Countdown goes on and the world's longest lame duck continues to be lame. Our question about next week's "Tonight Show" line-up is how much did the producers of "Pulse" pay to get on Leno Wednesday and Thursday nights, did no one want to follow Will Ferrell on Thurs? The downside for the Kristen Bell, pictured, horror flick written by Wes Craven is it doesn't come out until August 11, the upside is......

Whoever thought that a show often referred to in its infancy as "Dawson's Kryptonite" would still be managing to glue us to the boob tube at season five? Smallville is doing just that. LAist watched the premiere episode last Thursday, and while it had some problems, we have to admit that it was much better than the lackluster premiere of Alias. If you haven't ever seen the show, you've probably heard about it. The......