Recent Entries in Breaking
-
Hosni Mubarak Addresses Egypt [Updated]
Watch NOW as Hosni Mubarak addresses Egypt on streaming Al Jazeera television after seven days of violent and destructive anti-government protests in the country. In his address, he said that he will not step down, he will continue his term, but will not seek reelection. He says he will work towards a peaceful transition of power in the coming months and will instruct parliament to amend the constitution to allow for elections that allow...
-
Breaking: El Camino Real High School On Lockdown
KTLA is reporting on another lockdown at El Camino Real High School and Hale Middle School after a report of a gun on campus at 2:40 p.m. A Hispanic male with a shaved head was allegedly seen on campus with a gun, say authorities. No word yet on whether the suspect was an attending student. El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills was one of San Fernando Valley campuses locked down last week...
-
Coachella 2011 Lineup Announced!
The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, of shoes, and ships, and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings. And of Coachella. The big announcement is finally here. Shhh, if you listen closely you can hear the muffled shrill of sycophant whineoceroses deflating in winced unison. Bemoan! Oh the woe! No Radiohead. No Daft Punk. No David Bowie. Coachella 2010 was aMuse-ing, but Coachella 2011 is all about DURAN DURAN OMG...
-
Extra, Extra
Today in Extra, Extra: UPDATES about the Gabrielle Giffords attempted assassination, murmurs of Los Angeles AEG / Farmers Insurance NFL deal, Bieber on Glee, Glendale issues a trifecta of warnings. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.
-
Breaking: Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot In The Head
AP Photo According to NPR, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head and at least 10 other people, including members of her staff, were injured outside a grocery store in Tucson while holding a public event, reports Arizona Public Media. The Democrat, re-elected to a third term in November, was hosting a "Congress on Your Corner" event at a Safeway in northwest Tucson, "when a gunman ran up and started...
-
Main Route To Big Bear Has Collapsed
A large section of highway 330 on the way to Big Bear collapsed today leaving a massive hole in the road, reports KTLA. Heavy rain and snow over the past weeks left highways 18 and 330 closed to traffic and no injuries were reported in the collapse. According to a CalTrans, motorists headed up mountain should use highway 38. No word yet on when the highway is set to reopen; more rain is forecast...
-
-thumb-100x100-582651.jpg)
Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, 1941-2010
“I don’t like hypnotics. I’m doing a non-hypnotic music, to break up the catatonic state. And I think there is one, right now.” - Don Van Vliet to Paul Moyer, 1980
Trying to explain the world of Captain Beefheart to the uninitiated is a fruitless task. The music that Don Van Vliet and his shifting crew of dedicated accomplices known as the Magic Band unleashed between 1965 and 1982 defies description and confounds any attempts at drawing a valid comparison. The phrase “Beefheart-like” has come to be used as shorthand by music writers trying to describe any old thing with a bent toward oddball beats and dissonant chords, but it’s impossible to get a sense of what Beefheart is about by listening to any or all of the bands trying to live up to that description.
-
Inmate Lawsuits Cost California $108 Million
In more prison news, turns out the state footed the bill for 12 inmates' lawsuits over the past 12 years - to the tune of $108 million, according a report by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's inspector general. That number exclude's California's "own legal costs or the amount needed to fix problems that led to the class-action suits alleging violations of inmate rights, including poor medical, dental and mental health care," says the...
-
State Correctional Officers' Furloughs Illegal, Judge Rules
California prison guards forced to take unpaid leave days came out victorious today as an Alameda Superior Court judge ruled the furloughs illegal, SacBee reports. In their March court filing, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association maintained that it would be impossible for "every employee to utilize the 34 deferred furlough days each will accrue during the time allotted" as prisons are already understaffed, says SacBee.
-
Christian Brando has died
Christian Brando, the troubled son of legendary actor Marlon Brando, died from pneumonia early this morning at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital. Christian Brando, an actor like his father, was known less for his movie roles and more for the trouble he found himself in. In 1990 he pled guilty to the charge of manslaughter in the death of his sister Cheyenne's boyfriend, Dag Drollet, at his father's Mulholland home. In 2001, Robert Blake accused Christian of...
-
Breaking News: Baseball is Full of Effing Cheaters
Former Senate Majority Leader (and current Boston Red Sox director) George Mitchell just announced the results of his 20-month, $20 million investigation into allegations of widespread steroid usage in baseball. The long-awaited, 409-page Mitchell Report (document here) identifies more than 80 current and former players as being linked to using performance-enhancing drugs. While the report casts blame on the lack of institutional control within baseball as much as the players themselves that cheated, what...
-
Sigur Rós takes LA by storm
Quick! If you can make it over to Amoeba Records tonight between 6-9pm, grab a free wristband for a very special evening at the Vista Theater with Sigur Rós, presented by Myspace Secret Shows. Not only will you get to see them perform a three song set, but you'll get to see a "Black Curtain Screening" of their forthcoming documentary "Heima". In support of the documentary, Sigur Rós have planned a flurry of LA-based...
-
A sad day for piracy
What happens when you run one of the largest, "extremely lucrative" networks of invite-only, torrent-based music piracy? Interpol comes knocking at your door. Next thing you know all of your properties, including that covert warehouse in Amsterdam where your server is based, are seized in a raid-like manner. As though you were exporting/importing pounds of Class A drugs. Last night around 2 a.m. Pacific Standard Time, OiNK was officially taken off the web. By...
