The coronavirus pandemic has been disastrous to the local, federal, and global restaurant industry. In Los Angeles alone, untold thousands of restaurant workers have been laid off from their jobs in recent weeks, as those restaurants that remain open struggle to shore up lost business by offering takeout or delivery only. Remarkably one restaurant group, Sugarfish, is managing to push hard in the other direction, with a staggering plan to retain more than 600 workers across the entire company.

This year’s batch of TV pilots included some ominous names: “Triage,” “Wreckage” and “Housebroken.” Now, those show titles also describe network TV’s pilot season, which has been upended by the coronavirus outbreak. Broadcast networks ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and the CW were gearing up to employ thousands of workers in Los Angeles; Vancouver, Canada; New York and beyond when film and TV production shut down two weeks ago.

Nearly every company listed as a sponsor for the Los Angeles Clippers have ended or suspended their sponsorship of the team following Donald Sterling’s alleged racist remarks. Mandalay Bay Resort has yet to weigh in.

The hero in the Donald Sterling story, insofar as there is one, is the woman best known by a single letter, whose audio recordings of his unbelievably racist rantings took Sterling's history of discrimination from an inconvenient fact well known in sports circles to the biggest story in the country.

Los Angeles is now home to three giant (25-foot tall!), metal dandelions, emulating the smaller natural ones we blow on to make wishes. This latest work of public art is entitled simply, “Wish”, and adorns the new Juanita Tate Marketplace in South Central Los Angeles.

Sure, we've got a lot of problems in L.A., like poverty and trigger-happy cops. But maybe we should be focusing more on pressing topics, like celebrities defiling the sanctity of marriage. One noble man is fighting the good fight against the number one relationship killer—by putting up bizarre but well-intentioned, anti-divorce messages directed at our Hollywood stars all over our city.

odger was a “Nice Guy,” a man who feels he is entitled to sex based on positive personality traits known only to him. (“I've wanted love, affection, adoration. You think I’m unworthy of it. That's a crime that can never be forgiven,” he said). He aspired to be an “Alpha," the most attractive, dominant man in his group, but felt he’s been wrongly dismissed as an inferior “Beta.” Pick-Up Artists, by the way, refer to women they would like to have sex with as their “targets.”

Former Microsoft MSFT +0.82% CEO Steve Ballmer has offered $1.8 billion for the Los Angeles Clippers, according to a person familiar with Ballmer’s interest in the NBA team. Ballmer, who retired as Microsoft’s CEO four months ago, has a net worth of $20 billion. Another source, with intimate knowledge of the bids that Rochelle Sterling has thus far received for the basketball team, said offers have come in between $1 billion and $2 billion and that the Ballmer package is strong.

The city of Los Angeles accused JPMorgan Chase & Co. of steering minority borrowers into risky home loans they couldn’t afford, triggering a foreclosure wave that hammered property values and city coffers.

Megan Carloto, a 22-year-old UCSB graduate, was one of the victims shot by suicide-killer Elliot Rodger. After her release from the hospital, Megan shared some of her recollections and thoughts with ANIMAL. “I think the only thing that saved me was the fact that I was on my bike. I was moving faster and he missed me.”

Multiple videos have been posted online showing what uploaders described as hockey fans destroying a Los Angeles Police Department drone outside the Staples Center Friday night after the LA Kings won the NHL's Stanley Cup.

For an officer of the law, motorcycles have distinct advantages over the patrol car. They accelerate faster than anything with four wheels and can slip through traffic. They’re fuel efficient. But they’re also loud, and that can be problematic when sneaking up on perps.

A Hollywood star has described how a "river was running through the aisles" of one of Qantas's giant A380 jets about an hour after taking off from Los Angeles for Melbourne. Qantas said there had been no safety concerns and the captain had decided to turn back to Los Angeles, but passengers took to social media to share photos and their fears of being deluged shortly into the 16-hour flight in the middle of the night across the Pacific Ocean.

One owner of the ultra-desirable Tesla Model S has seen his pride-and-joy cut in half and on fire after it was stolen and crashed in LA. While the Tesla Model S is undeniably one of the most desirable electric cars on the market thanks to it's sleek looks and excellent performance, it has also suffered scrutiny over the risk of fire breaking out after an accident.

Negotiating a system of ropes and pulleys, a search-and-rescue crew labored for hours Friday through dirt and tilted terrain to free a trapped whale fossil from a Rancho Palos Verdes hillside. The approximately 16-million-year-old baleen whale fossil at the heart of the hubbub that prompted a caravan of news crews to quiet Browndeer Lane was stoic and unmoving throughout the four-hour ordeal.

Los Angeles authorities are weighing whether they may legally block hobbyists from flying camera-equipped drones over police stations. The inquiry was prompted Friday after the LAPD confronted a Southern California man outside its Hollywood station. The cops told him he was trespassing for using a drone to capture footage of the station's parking lot, and ordered him to stop. The incident is posted to YouTube.

As the film community battles to keep Hollywood close to home, another local industry – adult entertainment - is fleeing Los Angeles. The number of permits issued for adult productions has plummeted since November 2012, when voters approved a measure that requires performers to wear condoms on sets.

The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved a $5-million settlement with the family of an unarmed National Guard veteran killed on live television in a barrage of gunfire at the end of a wild pursuit last year in downtown L.A.

Keanu Reeves might need to tighten his home security system. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the actor's home was invaded two times in three days. On September 12, police responded to a burglary call in progress at Reeves' residence around 5 a.m. While nothing was taken from the home, a woman in her 40s was detained and later taken to a medical facility for further evaluation, according to the LAPD.

When Ryan O’Connell, 28, moved here from New York last year, he didn’t want a car. “I’ve always been so scared of driving,” he said. “I feel like I would be a bad driver.”