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Tione's on Main, an Italian restaurant and deli, opening in downtown L.A.
Inspired by East Coast delis and red sauce Italian restaurants, Tione’s on Main, part of the Medallion development in the Old Bank District of downtown L.A., will open its doors on Monday for lunch service.
Cheap drink alert: One-cent cocktails at the Church Key all week long
The Church Key is celebrating its appearance on the premiere episode of Bravo network's "Best New Restaurant," which airs Wednesday night, with one-cent cocktails all this week.
Five questions for chef Kris Morningstar of Terrine
Kris Morningstar, chef at the new Terrine on Beverly Boulevard, first fell in love with food in his family’s kitchen. But before graduating from the Cordon Bleu-affiliated California School of Culinary Arts in Pasadena, Morningstar studied marketing at the University of Maryland. He has...

Brendan Collins to open Birch in Hollywood
If you've been spending your nights eating chicken liver toast and downing pints at Waterloo & City, mourning its closing, cheer up. Although that Culver City restaurant will have its last service on Friday, chef Brendan Collins will be opening his new restaurant soon enough.
Verve Coffee Roasters opens today in downtown L.A.
Ray Garcia opening BS Taqueria in old Mo-Chica space
Free Salt & Straw ice cream at Compartes in Brentwood for Valentine's Day
5 questions for chef Luke Reyes of Butchers & Barbers

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'Suge' Knight taken back to jail, awaits bail hearing Monday
Former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was back in jail Thursday after he suffered a “medical emergency” and was taken to a hospital following his arraignment this week in connection with a deadly hit-and-run.
The anti-vaccine crowd gets its Hollywood moment at premiere
Some of the biggest names in the national debate over vaccine safety were given the Hollywood treatment Wednesday at the premiere of a documentary challenging mainstream medicine’s denial that there’s a link between autism and childhood vaccines.
Girls school's handling of sex allegations under fire after teacher arrest
Problems at one of Los Angeles' premier private schools surfaced in June, when a former student wrote an online essay accusing a popular English teacher of inappropriate conduct.
L.A. County supervisor vacancy leaves Rep. Janice Hahn a choice to make
As Rep. Janice Hahn weighs a run for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors — where her late father held a seat for four decades — the San Pedro Democrat faces a rapidly changing district and potentially strong competition for one of the most powerful local elected jobs in...
L.A. man charged with torturing and killing his mother
A 22-year-old man was charged Wednesday with torturing and killing his mother, who was visiting Los Angeles from Taiwan.
Gabriel Macht, Jacinda Barrett list Los Feliz home for sale
Actors Gabriel Macht and Jacinda Barrett have listed a house in Los Feliz at $1.998 million.

Ex-Marlborough School teacher arrested on sex charges involving student
A former English teacher at Marlborough School, a private all-girls high school in Hancock Park, was arrested Wednesday on felony charges of sex crimes involving a former student at the school, authorities said.
How the creators of 'High Maintenance' have lit up the Internet
The premise is simple. In every episode, a character known simply as "The Guy" makes a delivery to New Yorkers in need of marijuana. The customers might be a high-strung executive assistant, an obsessive shut-in with an ill mother or a pair of earnest, kombucha-swilling crunchies with a mouse...
Garcetti switches sides in Valley council race, backs Martinez
Switching his alliance, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Wednesday that he is backing Councilmember Nury Martinez's bid to win reelection to her seat representing Van Nuys, Arleta and Sun Valley.
Conrad Hilton due in court next month for alleged in-flight assault
He allegedly threatened to fight with members of the flight crew and referred to people on the plane as “peasants.”
President proposes $5 million for earthquake warning system backed by Schiff, Feinstein
President Obama has proposed spending $5 million in the upcoming federal budget on the West Coast’s earthquake early warning network, which would be a significant boost to the fledgling system if Congress approves the funding, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Obama proposes $5 million for earthquake early warning system
President Obama has proposed spending $5 million in the upcoming federal budget on the West Coast’s earthquake early warning network, which would be a significant boost to the fledgling system if Congress approves the funding.
Age has dimmed this 'Boys' Life'
First produced in the late 1980s, Howard Korder's "Boys' Life" garnered a Pulitzer nomination for its portrait of three disaffected young urban men on the prowl for women.
Long-sought cuts in L.A. business tax advance
Los Angeles lawmakers voted Tuesday to lower the city's business tax starting in 2016.
$Conrad Hilton, Paris' brother, surrenders to FBI, charged in jet fracas$

Conrad Hilton, Paris' brother, surrenders to FBI, charged in jet fracas
Conrad Hilton, younger brother of socialite Paris Hilton, surrendered Tuesday morning to the FBI after being charged with assaulting and intimidating several flight attendants aboard a British Airways flight from London to Los Angeles last year.
Spread of measles in L.A. County appears to be slowing, officials say
Los Angeles County officials say the spread of measles appears to be slowing, but they're concerned about low vaccination rates in some parts of the county.
Prosecutors hold off on charging ex-Power Ranger in sword killing
Los Angeles County prosecutors are holding off on a decision to charge a former "Power Rangers" actor in the fatal stabbing of his roommate with a sword, officials said.
Nicki Minaj, Ice Cube tapped for 2015 BET Experience
Nicki Minaj, Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube are the first acts tapped for the 2015 BET Experience, the network announced early Tuesday.
Mila Kunis debuts 'Jupiter Ascending,' is coy about her marital status
Momma's night out! Mila Kunis stepped out on Monday to debut her latest film, "Jupiter Ascending."
Home of the Day: Lodge-like retreat in Hollywood Hills West
A circular, double-height living room with a stone fireplace and wood accents lends a lodge-like quality to this Mediterranean residence, set amid a blanket of tropical landscaping in Hollywood Hills West. French doors off the master suite open to a private rooftop garden overlooking a tiled...
Home of the Day: Lodge-like retreat in Hollywood Hills West
This Hollywood Hills West home features lodge-like design with a circular living room, stone fireplaces and wood-beamed ceilings.
Jeremy Renner lists renovated classic with a Hollywood past
A turn-key home owned by actors and home renovators Jeremy Renner and Kristoffer Winters has come on the market in Hollywood at $4.795 million.
Local developers take part in theme park building boom abroad
Theme park designer Edward Marks and his team of ride developers and artists have dreamed up some of the country's most thrilling attractions — high-tech dark rides, glow-in-the-dark parades and 3-D simulators teeming with mummies, aliens and crazy clowns.
Increase in Chinese theme parks pays off for Southland developers
Theme park designer Edward Marks and his team of ride developers and artists have dreamed up some of the country's most thrilling attractions — high-tech dark rides, glow-in-the-dark parades and 3-D simulators teeming with mummies, aliens and crazy clowns.
Beacon technology to target Union Station visitors with help, commerce
Soon, walking into Los Angeles Union Station could prompt a highly personalized cellphone message that goes something like this: "Welcome to Union Station. For the Metro Red Line, take the escalator to your right."
Rick Orlov, longtime City Hall reporter for Daily News, dies at 66
Rick Orlov, a veteran political reporter who covered City Hall for the Los Angeles Daily News for nearly three decades, beginning in the Tom Bradley administration, died Monday. He was 66.
L.A. lawmaker 'astonished' at holdup in making city sidewalk repairs
Los Angeles leaders planned to spend $27 million on sidewalk repairs this budget year -- much more than the year before. But so far, more than halfway through the fiscal year, the city has yet to spend any of it.
Guerrilla Girl masks and monsters: My haul from the L.A. Art Book Fair
The L.A. Art Book Fair drew tens of thousands of visitors to more than 250 exhibitor booths wedged into the Museum of Contemporary Art over the weekend. It was a phantasmagoria of bright, hand-made books, limited-edition prints, out-of-print catalogues, bizarre stickers and handmade zines.
Damien Dante Wayans offering up perch in Hollywood Hills
Actor-writer-producer Damien Dante Wayans has listed his Hollywood Hills house for sale at $2.2 million.
TechDay start-up expo coming to Los Angeles, free to attendees
A sprawling showcase of tech start-ups expects to draw more than 5,500 people in June to its first Los Angeles event.
Angelenos say they generally feel detached from city government
Against a chilly wind, April Galvan pulled her shawl tight as her 5-year-old daughter romped around a jungle gym in a newly renovated city park in Chatsworth.
Faith informs work of state's first Muslim judge
He's seen the Internet jibes. "The Sharia judge of Mexifornia." "Jihadist judge."
Safety for immigrant victims put on hold by U-visa delay
Rosa was 14 when her stepfather started raping her and 15 when she became pregnant with his child.
Protesters confront parishioners over Serra canonization
Hoisting a sign depicting Archbishop Jose Gomez with a toothbrush mustache and a swastika medallion, a dozen people gathered outside Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels downtown to protest the proposed canonization of Father Junipero Serra.
Elderly couple, adult son found dead in apartment
Los Angeles police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths of an elderly couple and their adult son after their bodies were found inside a Wilshire-area apartment on Saturday afternoon, authorities said.
'Night on Broadway' showcases downtown L.A.'s historic theaters
Angelenos were invited to catch free shows in downtown's historic theaters and enjoy pop-up shops, live music and a car show on Broadway in downtown on Saturday.
Soboroff: Group offers to repay LAPD for meeting on Mexican Mafia
The nonprofit group of business leaders who attended an LAPD-arranged event featuring a convicted ex-shot caller for the Mexican Mafia has approached police officials with an offer to reimburse the department's costs, an official said.
Miley Cyrus closing the book on her teenage years at Toluca Lake home
Miley Cyrus' family home in Toluca Lake is on the market at $5.995 million.
L.A. County sets high goal to get all veterans off the street by 2016
Traipsing through skid row, trailing media cameras and advance staff, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro stopped to talk to a homeless woman with a white blanket draped over her head.
Downtown L.A. mosque imagines empowered role for Muslim women
The women sit on their knees, watching intently as a slightly sheepish sister in a pink head scarf crosses the beige floor and approaches the dais. After a moment, her jitters are gone and, in a booming voice, she recites the Islamic call to prayer.
L.A. officials pledge to help raise funds for immigration relief efforts
Los Angeles leaders said Friday they hope to raise $10 million to help immigrants in the country illegally apply for President Obama’s deferred action programs, which would offer some protection from deportation.
Change comes to the Villa Carlotta, an old building in Hollywood
Two perspectives on no way out by Eamon Ore-Giron
A two-channel video is the centerpiece of a somewhat slight but nonetheless involving installation by Eamon Ore-Giron at LAXART. The work is one of three small shows that inaugurate the nonprofit gallery’s new location in Hollywood.
Dog rescued from flowing L.A. River in Burbank
Dog rescued from rain-swollen L.A. River
A firefighter lowered from a hovering helicopter rescued a dog from the Los Angeles River during a sudden afternoon rain storm on Friday.
In Daniela Comani's movie universe, gender assumptions get flipped
Turning the tables to switch the gender in pictures of men and women is a fairly simplistic strategy for an artist. For her second solo exhibition at Charlie James Gallery, Berlin-based Daniela Comani manages to make it work in surprisingly effective ways.
Which NFL team would you like to see come to L.A.?
L.A.'s Hollyhock House among Wright's buildings up for World Heritage List
Ten Frank Lloyd Wright buildings from seven states, including L.A.'s Hollyhock House, were nominated on Friday for the UNESCO World Heritage List, which recognizes the most notable sites -- cultural and natural -- around the globe.
Dodger Stadium parking: $10 in 2013, $15 in 2014, $20 in 2015
On Thursday, in a news release announcing the start of single-game ticket sales, the Dodgers tucked this sentence into the last paragraph: "Parking at the gate day of game is $20."
Conductor Gustavo Dudamel buys another L.A.-area house
Gustavo Dudamel, the rock-star conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has bought a house in Los Feliz for $2.775 million.
Pom Wonderful loses appeal of FTC's deceptive advertising ruling
A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that pomegranate juice seller Pom Wonderful falsely claimed in its advertising that its products could treat heart disease, prostate cancer and erectile dysfunction.
An art gallery in Los Angeles modeled on the Unabomber cabin
Los Angeles is a region with plenty of unusual exhibition spaces. Pasadena's Side Street Projects operates out of a mobile trailer. The Finley displays art in a Los Feliz foyer visible from the street. A professor at Culver City's Otis College of Art and Design has a gallery in a small...
Friends with weight-loss benefits
Children born in South Los Angeles, where per capita income is $13,000, live on average 10 years less than children born in the affluent neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, according to the Health Atlas for the City of Los Angeles. This is health inequality.
Second attacker in Bryan Stow beating pleads guilty to weapons charge
A second man who admitted to the brutal Dodger Stadium beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow has pleaded guilty to a federal weapons charge, his attorney said Thursday.
L.A. leaders vow to end homelessness among veterans this year
Declaring they had turned a corner in the fight against homelessness, city leaders on Thursday vowed that by the end of the year there would be no more veterans living on the streets of Los Angeles.
LAPD criticized for arranging downtown talk by Mexican Mafia killer
The undercover police sedans arrived about noon in a bustling section of downtown Los Angeles.
Jeff Lewis of 'Flipping Out' sells renovated Wallace Neff house
Jeff Lewis, the interior designer and “Flipping Out” star, has sold his gated house in Hollywood Hills for $2.895 million.
Datebook: Model U.N., art of the Middle East and vintage erotica
A mock U.N. made up of Angelenos, contemporary art from artists with roots in the Middle East, the early erotic works of Tom of Finland, and Larry Clark’s photos for sale — cheap. Plus: textile-like paintings, a group show about love and war, late night in the Los Angeles Arts...
Five must-see booths at the L.A. Art Book Fair
Hundreds of art books, zines, catalogs, one-of-a-kind artist books and out-of-print rarities will be on view starting Thursday at the L.A. Art Book Fair, which promises to be the biggest edition of the fair since it launched in 2013. Last year's fair drew more than 25,000 visitors...
Scooter Braun offers up another home in Hollywood Hills
Scooter Braun, the talent manager for Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, among others, has listed a home in Hollywood Hills West for $11.6 million.
The Normandie Club, a new cocktail bar, opens in Koreatown
Just in time for this week's Golden State of Cocktails, a new cocktail bar has opened in Koreatown. The Normandie Club soft opened on Monday.
Scene change for Hollywood home built for Agnes Ayres
A Hollywood Hills home built for prolific silent film actress Agnes Ayres has sold for $1.88 million.
Tension winds tight in 'Supremacy' Aryan home-invasion drama
Even though "Supremacy" draws from actual events in Sonoma County two decades ago, the film plays out almost like a conventional Hollywood hostage thriller but for the incendiary, racially charged subtext.
Dr. Dre sells view property in Hollywood Hills for $32 million
Dr. Dre has given up what has been called the best view lot in Los Angeles to private equity firm founder Alex Soltani for $32 million.
Soboroff calls for probe of meeting featuring ex-Mexican Mafia member
The president of the Los Angeles Police Commission called for an investigation late Wednesday into the decision to use LAPD resources to arrange a downtown meeting between a convicted ex-member of the Mexican Mafia, a group of business leaders and local police chiefs.
Harold Meyerman, ex-banker who aided Palm Springs museum, dies at 76
Harold Meyerman, a prominent banker who in retirement oversaw a turnaround of the financially troubled Palm Springs Art Museum, died Jan. 21 at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage. He was 76.
Los Angeles Convention Center reports first profit in years
After years of running at a deficit, the Los Angeles Convention Center is reporting profits of $3.3 million for the first year that the facility has been turned over to a private operator.
Waze a danger to cops? Police reveal their own location on social media
Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck has been vocal in his concerns about the Google-owned Waze app and its feature that allows users to point out where police are. But L.A. police themselves often reveal their location on social media.
Home of the Day: The '70s are alive and well in Echo Park
A kaleidoscope of color sets the tone for this funky pad in Echo Park, which tips its cap to a bygone era with a collection of shag carpeting, boomerang formica and period furniture. Topping the '70s throwback is an obscured rooftop deck with a hot tub, set off by tree-top views.
Home of the Day: The '70s are alive and well in Echo Park
Bright colors, shag carpeting and formica are among the features at this funky pad in Echo Park.
'Reborning': Creepy, yes, but undeniably powerful
“Reborning” is the phenomenon in which customers purchase extravagantly expensive infant dolls – sometimes facsimiles of lost loved ones – that are amazingly lifelike in every particular.
Art cookbooks to Chicano zines: What to see at the L.A. Art Book Fair
Books may be dead, but the art book lives on.
Former Giants pitcher Barry Zito sells his spot in the Bird Streets
Major League Baseball pitcher Barry Zito and his wife, Amber, have parted ways with their second Hollywood Hills West home in as many months, selling a house in the celebrity-coveted Bird Streets area for $2.875 million.
Prop. 47 brings a shift to longer time spent behind bars
For decades, Los Angeles County jail inmates divided their sentences by five, 10 or 20 to calculate the time they would actually spend behind bars.
He's inclined to believe Angels Flight will get back on track
California's bullet train, now under construction in Fresno, may one day carry passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco, a distance of about 400 miles.
Mr. Incredible convicted in Hollywood Boulevard brawl with Batgirl
A man who wears a Mr. Incredible costume to entertain tourists on Hollywood Boulevard was convicted Tuesday of punching and body-slamming a Batgirl during a fight last year.
Sentence reduction law sparks sharp drop in L.A. County jail crowding
Los Angeles County’s long-overcrowded jail system saw a sharp decline in new inmates after California voters approved a law last year reducing penalties for a wide array of nonviolent crimes.
Former Giants pitcher Barry Zito sells his spot in the Bird Streets
The free-agent southpaw had asked as much as $4.375 million for the Bird Streets contemporary.
Seriously cheap drink alert: 7-cent martinis
Bar tabs are expensive, especially if you can hold your liquor. But for one night only, you can get a 7-cent martini, in L.A., and drink as many as you like.
Harold Perrineau lists house in West Hollywood for sale
Harold Perrineau, who was part of the cast of castaways on “Lost,” has listed a house in West Hollywood at $2.695 million.
Google to police: Waze can't track officers' movements
Real-time traffic app Waze’s police spotting feature is a deterrent for dangerous driving, not a tool that can “track” police officers, Google officials said in response to concerns from the Los Angeles police chief.
Waze to police: App can't 'track' officers' movements
Real-time traffic app Waze’s police spotting feature is a deterrent for dangerous driving, not a tool that can “track” police officers, company officials said in response to concerns from the Los Angeles police chief.

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