A full afternoon and evening spread over two separate events, Carnival del Corazon: My H(art) Goes Out to Haiti will feature (from 4 to 9 p.m.) a silent art auction, food, fire dancing, $5 screen printing (bring yer own T), haircuts, bike safety checks and more. Then, from 9:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the [...]

While the poor, oppressed people of Haiti are literally crushed beneath an earthquake of (dare we call it?) Biblical proportions, the so-called reverend, Pat Robertson, has used his so-called Christian ministry to pile on—justifying the incalculable misery with an I-told-you-so that he has pulled straight out of his my-shit-don’t-stink ass.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise. [...]

Signal Hill Petroleum plans to revisit seismic testing in July–and hopefully, you won’t feel a thing

SHOCKED!
The last time Dave Slater buried his head this deep in the sand, it put him in position for a real butt-kicking. This was three and a half years ago, if you’re counting, and Slater certainly is. “There haven’t been [...]

Feel that? A preliminary 5.0 4.7 quake centered near Lennox. More here.
Update: Looks like it was the Newport-Inglewood fault. The same one responsible for the 1933 quake. And the focus of our previous quake coverage here.

LB Water Department’s Ryan Alsop call the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers “big latrines” that empty into Long Beach Harbor.
While we’re checking our ceilings for cracks and listening to reports on earthquake-related water main breaks, I recommend that we all whisper a quick prayer to the patron saint of sewer lines,* because Long Beach [...]