• Yogi Returns!: Meatball, the 400lb. black bear found eating meatballs out of a La Crescenta home's garage refrigerator earlier this year and was subsequently taken several miles deep back into the forest by authorities, resurfaces once again in residents' backyards. [KABC]
• Veteran Playmate of nearly 20 years Jenny McCarthy will be the mag's July/August double issue covergirl, making it her sixth Playboy cover at age 39. [HuffPo] More»

The embarrassment Falling Whistles is currently experiencing at the moment after realizing the wall they chose to canvas this week with their new campaign happens to hold a cherished, internationally recognized mural done by artists from across the globe must be overwhelming. It's one thing to make a public mistake, but it's another when it's, like, 30ft tall and is so long that I can't give a real estimate since there isn't a wide enough shot to fit the entire thing. More»

Despite the honor of having his work currently on display in MOCA's much buzzed about and controversial graffiti showcase "Art in the Streets", local street artist Revok is anything but a celebrated champion of the arts in the eyes of the judge who just sentenced him to 180 behind bars.  The law caught up with Jason Williams a.k.a. Revok while trying to board a plane destined for Ireland out of LAX last week for failure to pay the court-ordered restitution as part of his probation to his victims in previous vandalism charges. More»

• Tensions between civilian factions and the army in Egypt rise as protesters expand to new territory in Cairo in front of the parliament building [LATimes]
• BREAKING: After almost three years of marriage, Ashlee Simpson files for divorce from Pete Wentz [TMZ]
• Facebook is so hot right now, even Michelle Obama is talking about it, but won't let First Daughters Sasha and Malia sign up to have their own profiles [HuffPo]
• Cops swept L.A. with 17 search warrants this morning in a major sting operation of the graffiti clan, "Big Dogs Crew," said to be responsible for over 500 taggings across the city [KTLA]
• Lindsay Lohan has a date with the judge today in court where she'll face her arraignment on felony grand theft charges for that $2,500 necklace she's accused of stealing [KABC]

The city is making efforts to prevent the men responsible for this quarter-mile-long masterpiece along the walls of the L.A. River from ever being able to pull off a tag like it again.  It's the most notorious piece by the Metro Transit Assassins (cute, right?), More»

[photo by Andrew Blankstein for L.A. Times] This 74-year-old O.G. right here is John Scott. He's L.A.'s oldest suspected tagger ever and was arrested in November for putting up his signature "slap tags," orange bumper stickers that read in bold, black letters "WHO IS JOHN SCOTT?," all over town and inside MTA buses. For such a threatening, hideous crime as his, "special problems unit" authorities assumed an aggressive manhunt for the "older" man to put an end to his havoc-wreaking and abhorrent vandalism once and for all, leading to his arrest. More»

Near the corner of West Adams and Hauser Blvd. in the West Adams area of L.A., just west of La Brea and South of the 10, is an impressive mural in progress by an artist who goes by "Surya." More»

"Chaz Suerte Roll Call" East L.A. 1975

On Saturday, The Hammer Museum invites you to come see Chaz Bojorquez, one of the fathers of L.A.'s street art, as he speaks about his art and experience. A native of East L.A., Bojorquez has done graffiti and been a major figure in L.A.'s street art culture since the 1950s, meaning he's a real O.G. of graffiti. More»