Venice News

A British teenager who was missing in California was found safe. Leona Dawn Perryman, 19, from Poole, in Dorset, had last been seen at around midnight on December 18 in Venice, Los Angeles.

Santa Monica police are seeking a 19-year-old British woman who vanished during her vacation and they've arrested her 45-year-old boyfriend on a weapons charge.

The rain wouldn't let up as Marcia Hanscom and Roy van de Hoek walked one recent morning along the edge of the Grand Canal Lagoon near Marina del Rey.

Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao , "7 Train Exit, Manhattan", Negative 2006; Printed 2008. Inkjet print.

U.S. director Tom Ford poses after his interview with Associated Press television where he talked about his film the Single Man, at a central London hotel.

Fashion designer Tom Ford has made a seamless transition to filmmaker with 'A Single Man,' the soulful, immaculately styled story of a grieving college professor in 1960s California.

Residents in West Los Angeles and Santa Monica have been given a Final Environmental Impact for the proposed Expo Line light rail project to review, and have been told that hoped-for overpasses cannot be provided near several Westside schoolyards.

Montreal artists Claudia Ficca and Davide Luciano, known for their eponymous series of works on potholes in their hometown and in New York are in Los Angeles this month to continue their good work.

Have we told you how many rims we've cracked as a result of local potholes? TRIP , a national transportation research organization, feels our pain, calling L.A.'s roads the worst in the nation and reporting that torn up asphalt, along with congestion and other poor road conditions, cost the average Los Angeles driver $2,462 . Yep, we beat out ...

The union representing rank-and-file Los Angeles police officers says the rape and murder of Venice resident Eun Kang last week is the kind of crime that we could see more of if the state releases 40,000 prison inmates under a federal mandate.

The 2010 edition of the Whitney Biennial - that giant survey of American art on the Upper East Side of Manhattan - will not only try to chronicle current goings-on in contemporary art, but it will also reflect the world at large.

Arnold Springer, the landlord of a small apartment complex a block from Venice's trendy Abbot Kinney Boulevard, was sitting in his bedroom Tuesday night when he began to hear noises.

Police on Thursday said they were looking into the possibility that the suspect in the brutal rape and murder of a pregnant woman in Venice could be linked to other crimes.

So you've read The Omnivore's Dilemma and watched Food, Inc twice, but you still aren't quite sure how to eat local in Los Angeles.

The Deal: Rejoyce all ye pottery lovers. The holiday sales are here. December 5, 2009 10:07 am Soothe those holiday blues with color.

Neighborhood leaders in Westchester and Playa del Rey are calling for a comprehensive environmental review of a controversial power line planned through parts of the Westside.

A has no central restaurant quarter. Quality can vary and appearances can deceive - the ugliest mini-mall may hide a gem of Honduran home-cooking, while a glitzy exterior might hide little more than a costly mirage of sophistication.

With so many stores closing and retail spaces going empty, the concept of a so-called pop-up shop - a temporary boutique in an otherwise unoccupied storefront - has found fertile ground wherever "vacant" signs abound.

November 20, 2009 Seven years ago, Barbara Phillips pioneered the fashion retail business on thriving Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice, Calif.

HOLLYWOOD : Ah, the good 'ol days when everyone just horsed around on the beach instead of checking their Blackberries all day.