Andre Ethier went 0 for 4 Saturday night against Mets pitchers, ending his quest for the longest hitting streak in Dodgers history. They lost 4-2 to the Mets....

David Hume Kennerly won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 (at age 25) for his combat photography of the Vietnam War and was at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles the night in June, 1968 that Robert F. Kennedy was shot.

About 600 photographers, reporters and others pay $100 a year for a permit that is supposed to allow them to park at expired meters and in preferential parking zones while covering news

Federal grand jury subpoenas have come in, there's been a guilty plea, and a USC fraternity sues for being held up for bribes.

Patric Kuh of Los Angeles magazine and Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly are the top local winners of the James Beard Foundation media awards.

No NBA team has come back from a three-game deficit in the playoffs, according to the TV broadcast.

That gives him the second-longest hitting streak in Dodgers history, L.A. or Brooklyn. Former centerfielder Willie Davis holds the top spot at 31 games.

In an email sent by his exploratory campaign for mayor, first-time candidate Austin Beutner asks his contacts to talk him up — and particularly to mention Richard Riordan and that Los Angeles Magazine profile.

Eddy Hartenstein remains publisher of Los Angeles Times Media Group, but has appointed former Times executive Kathy Thomson as president and chief operating officer of the paper.

Dodgers owner apologizes for untrue comments about Tom Scheiifer, MLB's monitor at Dodger Stadium.

For yesterday's celebration of Cinco de Mayo, the Pink Taco in the Century City shopping center painted a donkey pink and tied it up outside the restaurant.

Mickey Kaus compares the trending topics on Twitter in Los Angeles with those in Washington and Islamabad, and says ours are "embarrassing."

Laurents wrote the books for "West Side Story" and "Gypsy" and the screenplay (from his own novel) for "The Way We Were."

The Giants fan who was beaten into a coma in the Dodger Stadium parking lot has been experiencing major seizures.

L.A. Now commenters now have to sign in via Facebook. It's part of the battle to contain comment trolls and racists and raise discourse to at least the fourth-grade level....

The cocktail lounge at the Canoga Park Bowl features classical music on Wednesday nights.

It's not very often that you hear a guest on KPCC's "Airtalk" get almost snarky with host Larry Mantle, but these are desperate times at Dodger Stadium.

A top baseball official starts making the case against McCourt, plus Dianne Feinstein, Herb Wesson, Steve Lopez, Truthdig, Jackie Cooper and more.

Final score tonight: Dallas 93, Lakers 81.

When you're local, you know where the best hot weather ski run lets you get wet at the bottpm.

Los Angeles Magazine usually does well in the National City and Regional Magazine Awards competition, and this time took home five awards. T

Hotel taxes, Olvera Street, Geraldo Rivera, the Dalai Lama and 10 years after Bonny Lee Blakely's murder.

Frank McCourt took questions on ESPN 710 AM on Tuesday. On Wednesday morning he'll be on KTLA.

Shana Ting Lipton was among the press corps that freebied in to tonight's launch party for the 90th season of the Hollywood Bowl. Nice night for it.

CIA chief Leon Panetta is interviewed by Jim Lehrer tonight on PBS NewsHour.

Dakota Smith took over as Curbed LA editor in 2007 and guided the site to must-read status with a lot of original reporting.

A Saturday panel at the LA Times book festival billed as "History, Identity & Purpose: California Chicanos & Beyond" turned into a forum for Sal Castro, an organizer of the East L.A. student walkouts of the 1960s.

New officers named plus plans for Spanish-language Patch sites in Southern California.

Villaraigosa back in DC, Scott Pelley to anchor CBS News, new editor for Huffington Post, plus LAT circulation, local Maggie winners, and mummified remains of ex-actress found dead in her home.

A biography of Harvey and a Visiting Blogger excerpt about the woman who designed the floor of the cafe at Union Station.

Sheriff Lee Baca is becoming one of the more interesting local elected officials, with his leading role in the defense of law-abiding American muslims and his advocacy of education programs for his jail inmates.

It's hard to imagine anyone close to the nexus of L.A. fashion and celebrity not being familiar with James Goldstein, the older (shall we say) man who dresses in python skin suits and hats and who has been a fixture for years at Lakers games and around the edges of the L.A. fashion scene.

In their forthcoming book "Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum," reporters Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino detail Getty scams through the years.

Those functions will move from the unionized Long Beach daily paper to the non-union sister paper the Daily Breeze.

Greg Critser is a Pasadena author who, in his magazine days, edited several top L.A. journalists. He's also enough of a cook that Science 2.0 put up some instructional videos of Critser making pasta.

Sheriff Baca's freebies, Orlov's Tipoffs, city salaries and bonuses, DA drops "lynching" prosecution and more for a Monday.

The mayor released a statement tonight after President Obama spoke to the nation.

The Monday morning scene in the Pakistan city where Osama bin Laden was killed, posted to Twitpic by Sohaib Athar, a 33-year-old Pakistani IT professional who unknowingly live-tweeted the raid.

Limit travel and avoid mass gatherings " in areas where events could cause anti-American violence," the State Department strongly urges.

The New York Times says that the first authoritative tweet that "seemed to confirm" the news was posted at 10:25 p.m. Eastern Time by Keith Urbahn, the chief of staff for former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

The city's Department of Transportation sent out a Sunday afternoon press release saying it had "launched a full investigation" of that KNBC report about two traffic enforcement officers appearing in a porn film while on duty and in uniform.

The Dalai Lama had two sold-out appearances scheduled Monday in UCLA's Royce Hall.

The plot of the April 9, 1969 episode of the television series "The Outsider," starring Darrin McGavin, hinges on the destruction of the Bunker Hill neighborhood in Downtown.

he Dalai Lama was supposed to speak at 2:30 p.m. at the Long Beach Terrace Theater. A sore throat has delayed his travel from Japan, where he was visiting with earthquake victims.

The first day of the L.A. Times Festival of Books at USC on Saturday had nice weather, brisk book sales as far as I could tell, and a decent sized and mellow crowd.