Do you crave comedy with a side of pancakes? If so, The Lincoln Lodge, located behind the Lincoln Restaurant in Northcenter, will get your carb-filled belly jiggling. more ›

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA... more ›

In March of 2006 the National Organization on Disability announced its finalists for the Accessibly America Awards. The announcement of the winners came on Thursday. Coming in first place was Berkeley, CA and our fair city came in second. Receiving a $10,000 award from Wal-Mart, our city was recognized for incorporating and continuing to promote the assimilation of the disabled into community life. more ›

Huzzah, the holidays are over and the blotter is back! An SUV rolled off the Skyway at around 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning and caught on fire. Driving the vehicle was an unidentified 18-year-old female; she had with her three male passengers, two of them 22 years of age and one 20. Her GMC Envoy hit a guardrail at the 67th Street exit, rolled off the ramp, and burst into flames. All passengers were taken to... more ›

As blogging, social networking and alternate lives become more integrated into our community we will become an increasingly open and bold society. People's personal lives, embellishments aside, are out for everyone to see and even comment on. When will this mesh with the public arena? more ›

Yesterday the city announced plans to link together a 500-mile network of bike routes, including almost 200 miles of new street routes. More bike paths = good, but also great are the safety issues the plan addresses. more ›

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. Ah, Houstonist. They're biking to work, that is, if they can figure out how to get there. That's right, Mapquest says "Houston had the... more ›

Steep Theatre’s aim to produce ‘everyman theater’ fits nicely in Chicago’s self-made arts community. Strong performances and smart programming turned heads and filled the seats in 2005. Now the ensemble reaches further, offering two productions in repertory examining poverty, rural isolation, and misplaced trust. The Night Heron is a smart and funny look at that world; Of Mice and Men never completely captures it. more ›

Today Altria, makers of kid-friendly boxed cigarettes (via Philip Morris USA), dinners (via KRAFT), cereal, crackers and cookies (via Nabisco), tried, through oral arguments, to convince the Illinois State Supreme Court to overturn a $10.1 ruling against them handed down by a judge last year. more ›