Guy Fieri's amazingly flamboyant yellow Lamborghini, which readers will remember was boosted from a tony showroom on Van Ness last year, turned up this weekend in a storage unit rented out by a teenager wanted on a separate gun charge. Investigators from the Marin County Sheriff's department discovered the vehicle after arresting the 17-year-old suspect on suspicion of shooting in to an occupied car in Mill Valley on April 13th. more ›

Yes, we get it — Laws banning cigarette smoking and texting-while-driving are here for our own safety, but in the past week both have managed to bring down a couple of actual criminals and not just recklessly inconsiderate members of society. Yesterday we saw Alameda County's cigarette smoking ban bring down a murder suspect. Today we learn that California's ban on texting-while-driving has led to an arrest in a case of grand theft auto earlier this week. more ›

OMG! Ricky Reed, of Wallpaper. fame, is missing. Gone! Completely vanished. Unfortunately, his stellar world tour has now been cancelled. Fans are riotous with the news. The far reaching world tour included stops to Tanzania, Tucson and Tokyo. We even heard Wallpaper. was venturing to Antarctica and the Vatican City to make sure he reached every last fan. more ›

Over at EB Games on Powell Street, people lined up this morning to plunk down $60 to commit heinous acts of vehicular manslaughter. You see, Grand Theft Auto IV went on sale today. more ›

More mysterious criminal events in Fremont! This time, someone dropped a five-foot tall safe off a truck in the middle of the road. The safe had been pried open, revealing...... a collection of about 70 Star Wars action figures, still in their original packaging. Somewhere, a broken-hearted fan weeps. more ›

Okay, this is kind of genius -- it's a video for "If You're Going to San Francisco" by Scott McKenzie, with graphics from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. (No killings.) By YouTube user BlueDevil969. more ›

The Electronic Entertainment Expo is so close you can almost taste the LA smog and the tangy sweat of desperation. In honor of that, this week's round-up is all videogame-related news. more ›

In tech news, stoned graphic designers were stunned when they realized that they had no idea that Adobe was going to swallow Macromedia whole. South Park laughs to keep from crying. more ›

We don't mean to ALARM you ... but it's possible that President Kennedy is in VERY GRAVE DANGER. more ›

EA Games got James Caan and Robert Duvall to reprise their Godfather roles, lending their likenesses and voice talent to a new video game based on the movie franchise. Lest we forget, EA Games has also come under fire lately for allegedly overworking its employees. more ›

If it seems like it's a shinier, happier world out there, it's because this week is "No Name-Calling Week." All week Middle Schools taking part in the program will teach kids that calling each other names is bad…mmmm…kay? Participating schools will receive a resource guide that includes lesson plans, a video for classroom use and other promotional materials. At the end of the week, an essay and poetry contest will be held. We're sure the kiddies will be right on that. more ›

[Be sure to check out the coverage of Los Santos on LAist!] more ›

While everyone's concerned about national results, we're more concerned with a bag of fajitas, a rather uninhinbited mayoral wife, and propositions, propositions, propositions (it's like a beat in the Tenderloin). more ›

Grand Theft Auto jacked. more ›

There are video games that are popular with gamers - Counter Strike, Half-Life, Halo - and then there are video games that become cultural phenomena. The audience is drawn not so much by the game itself as to the world or story that the game describes. Who can forget the comic carnage of Mortal Kombat? The crossing of the gender gap by Ms. Pac-Man and Ladybug? The legions of fans of all ages who would almost rather play Madden NFL than actually watch a real football game? more ›