The Sherman Oaks location on Van Nuys Boulevard has gone dark. There's some talk of reopening under new ownership.

The sign at 8th and San Julian should be in a museum, Ed Fuentes blogs. Gorky's Russian cafe was a big thing for downtown in its day.

So many fans went to the bathroom as play stopped between the U.S. and Germany that water use spiked. It then spiked again at the end of Thursday's match.

County CEO to retire. Train link approved for LAX in 2022. Chefs can soon go barehanded again. Naming the Van Nuys post office for Marilyn Monroe. Insurance risk of Uber. Plus Evelyn Taft returns to CBS 2 and more from Twitter.

In a long piece in the OC Weekly, Register rival Gustavo Arellano details all that has gone wrong with Kushner's experiment. About 70 staffers have now left the newsroom on buyouts that came down this month.

Eric Spillman, the reporter for KTLA Channel 5, posted this photo to Twitter of World Cup fans watching in South Bay.

Marketplace Morning Report will now be a formal part of "Morning Edition" on NPR stations. Plus: A new "clock" for the morning and "All Things Considered."

Supreme Court says no to Aereo and to warrantless cellphone searches. Diane Sawyer to leave ABC News anchor chair, Stephanopoulos upped to chief anchor. Brown leads by 20 points. Garcetti at one year. Rattlesnakes, drought, James Flanigan, driving in the left lane and more.

Peter Zumthor's new design spares acreage around the La Brea Tar Pits and has the initial blessing of Mayor Eric Garcetti, LACMA director Michael Govan and Jane Pisano of the Natural History Museum.

In spite of Mayor Eric Garcetti's push behind a social media campaign for Los Angeles, the new George Lucas museum will be built in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Anne Thompson helps give some perspective to the latest back and forth between the Hollywood blogger and her former colleagues.

After the verdicts in the phone hacking trial of Rupert Murdoch's tabloid editors, Prime Minister David Cameron apologized to the cameras for employing Andy Coulson as his spokesman.

Egypt jails journalists. Immigration and Rep. Kevin McCarthy. Sen. Kevin de Leon wants changes to high-speed rail. Sheriff's race going to the runoff. Why Nikki Finke won't be welcome back at Deadline. Amy Alkon in the NYT. And more.

The mother road that brought so many families to new lives in California -- and introduced so many young Americans to their country -- gets an entertaining treatment at the Autry. Treasures on display include Jack Kerouac's manuscript for "On the Road," an entire Corvette and the Getty's print of "Migrant mother" by Dorothea Lange.