LA Fashion Week Schedule and Preview

Following up a whirlwind of fashion weeks in Paris, Milan, London, NY and elsewhere, fashion returns to the west coast in sunny Los Angeles for more than a full week of events, parties and runway shows.  LA...

Houston classified as having a severe smog problem

Houston has gone from being classified as having a “moderate” smog problem to a “severe” one.   The smog is so bad they skipped over the level of “serious” and went straight to...

Paris Hilton punked in Toronto

Paris Hilton was present but not accounted for on Tuesday night at the world premiere of Adria Petty’s documentary “Paris, Not France” at the Ryerson. The film had been one of the very last schedule...

Bus collides with commuter train in LA, 13 injured

Another commuting accident in Los Angeles injured 13 Friday, after a light train collided with a Metro Blue Line bus.  The accident happened during the Friday morning commute, raising more questions about the safety of public transportation in California."The light rail...

Los Angeles Metrolink Train Accident - More Twists Revealed

In a strange new twist in this tragic accident, it's revealed that three of the passengers were in a previous Metrolink accident. One of did not make it through this time."He Survived the First Train Crash but not...

Coldplay to release new EP this year

"  Coldplay have revealed they will release an new EP at the end of this year.   As previously Reported the foursome were rumoured to have some tracks left over from their sessions for recent chart-topping...

Los Angeles Commuter train crash

Los Angeles fire fighters are working to rescue live people and dead bodies from a Metrolink Commuter train which crashed this afternoon in Chatsworth California, a suburb of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley.At...

Former TV Anchorman George Putnam Dies

Los Angeles broadcaster and television anchorman George Putnam has died at the age of 94. Watch a video obituary here."George Putnam, who anchored top-rated television news shows in Los Angeles for a quarter-century,...

The Race to Save L.A. from Nuclear Terror

This is a very long article that I found very interesting and most of all, thought provoking. Here are some excerpts from the original article. I have been very interested in this kind of stuff since I read a book...

Breaking: Earthquake Rocks Los Angeles

Slightly before noon PDT, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake rocked Los Angeles and the surrounding areas.Raw data here.This is a developing story. Anyone in LA?

Earthquake Rocks Southern California

At about 11:42 am PST a 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit the LA area. The epicenter was in Diamond Bar and lasted about a half a minute. What follows is, well, sort of like a live blogging of what happened from my home...

One Day as a Lion: De La Rocha Returns 7/22

On July 22, 2008, the self-titled first album by newly formed group "One Day as a Lion" will drop.  The group is a partnership between Zack de la Rocha (formerly of Rage Against the Machine) and Jon Theodore...

Viva La Download Or Death And All His CDs

I think we can begin the farewells to CDs as music downloading is continuing to grow. In just two weeks, Coldplay broke the record of most downloaded album beating John Mayer's old record. This accounts to "SOLD"...

Gurkhas lose pensions battle

A brigade of Gurkhas has lost a legal challenge to a pension scheme plan being offered to them by the UK government. Gurkhas are Nepalese soldiers serving in a group of units of the British army. They were one of the...

Jindal to La. lawmakers 'Undo what you've done'- Voters Recall Backlash

Huge backlash with many starting Recalls on all Louisiana Lawmakers."'It's a cop-out and nobody's buying it' But he won't veto pay measure, he says By Robert Travis Scott Capital bureau BATON ROUGE -- Gov. Bobby Jindal urged lawmakers Wednesday to reverse enactment of a raise...

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