The second worst part of flying (after having to take your shoes off at security) is that everyone dresses like slobs. Not Vogue scarecrow-in-chief Anna Wintour. She changed twice for a six-hour flight from New York to L.A. yesterday and even got special treatment at the airport.

NYC's once-burgeoning comedy scene is fleeing for the West Coast. Splitsider has a roundtable discussion with key members of the exodus: "LA is the AIDS of the NYC comedy scene. One day, LA would just take a friend of yours."

Remember how L.A. firefighters offered up the use of their truck to a porn company who used it to make cinema? Their artistic collaboration happened in 2008, so they're off the hook under the city charter's statute of limitations.

Welcome to the neighborhood, Frances Bean Cobain! The angsty progeny of authoress Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain has purchased a 3,350 square-foot home all her own. Frances reportedly attends Bard College in upstate New York and spends the majority of her time on the East Coast, so it remains to be seen how much time she'll actually spend in L.A. Maybe for spring break with the girls?

Angela Gettis, a sophomore and cheerleader at an L.A. prep school, apparently suffered from sudden cardiac arrest while cheering on her team and later died. Her family says she had "no known health problems," but that's common in S.C.A. cases.

A white powder—determined to be harmless—was discovered in an envelope addressed to Dancing With the Stars. Look, we all had to see the nipple, okay? But most of us handled it maturely and appropriately. By tweeting "groooosssssssssssss."

Hey, has anyone seen Mike Hunt? He signed up to comment at yesterday's Los Angeles City Council meeting, but when a councilmember summoned him to speak, nobody responded. Maybe he was out getting sandwiches with his BFs Mike Hawk and Mike Rotch?

A terrible bottom-feeding tabloid called the Los Angeles District Attorney published a picture of Michael Jackson dead on a gurney today, in a gossip rag called The Prosecution's Opening Statements Against Dr. Conrad Murray. You can see it here.

Here's some unsettling footage of Barack Obama addressing a group of supporters at the House of Blues on L.A.'s Sunset Strip on Monday night. During the president's remarks, an unseen man approaches the stage, and proceeds to shout at the top of his lungs...

Back in April, we brought you the story of two L.A. traffic cops caught participating in a guerrilla porn production, "spanking and fondling" an adult actress who approached them in the street. Now it's the LA Fire Department's turn, as an investigation gets underway into allegations that firefighters lent their fire engine to two porn shoots, both of which are available to watch at your leisure on "one of the world's biggest porn websites."

If you're acrophobic, then this video of a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy being lowered out of an airborne helicopter by a thin cable to rescue some canyon climbers trapped on a cliff side will probably freak you out a bit. But rest assured, there's a happy (if somewhat incomplete) ending!

There have always been a few particularly bad apples amongst the never-ending parade of costumed ne'er-do-wells that loiter outside Hollywood's famed Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Past arrests have included that of a rampaging Chewbacca and a Spider-Man gone berserk. Now to those unseemly ranks we add yet another, for SpongeBob SquarePants was "questioned but not arrested" by LAPD officers on Tuesday after a "brief incident with two females."

We all know that Ozzy Osbourne is a mutant freak, and that's why he isn't dead. But did you know his music has the power to find lost children? Well, one lost child, at any rate?

Jumpy? Us? On the tenth anniversary of 9/11? Who's jumpy? Oh my god did you hear fighter jets got scrambled to intercept a flight headed to New York this is it we're all going to die oh god

Reese Witherspoon is recovering from "minor injuries" after being hit by a car in Santa Monica. The driver was the elephant from Water for Elephants. Kidding! It was an 84-year-old woman who was cited for failure to yield. [KTLA]

Last Friday, not so great rapper The Game tweeted a phone number that his followers should call about getting a music internship. The number was the Compton Sheriff's office, which was unsurprisingly bombarded with calls. After a little more shittalking, The Game decided to apologize on CNN: "My sincerest apologies to the Sheriff's Department.... It was a joke gone wrong." He then blamed the "mishap" on a friend and the L.A. County Sheriff's Department accepted. Oh God, is it still August?

An aspiring screenwriter put his script and laptop in a briefcase and dropped it off at an agent's office in Los Angeles. But the police thought it was a bomb and blew it up. If his script were half as good as this news story, he might have had a chance.

Back in 1979, long before all teenage pranks became felonies, a red-haired Los Angeles high schooler and three of his friends formed a dedicated group of surreptitious home toilet-paperers. Thirty-two years later, this group still exists! And now an ex-member's trying to make a documentary about it.

There are tons of time-lapse videos on the internet—you know, the ones in which everything is sped up over a dramatic soundtrack—but many of the ones we've seen have been set in New York. Here's one that finally does L.A. some justice.

Golden Globe Award-winning gay angel Chris Colfer, who beams beatifically as Kurt on Glee, has purchased himself his own little home in Laurel Canyon. Look how cute and unattractive it is!