L.A.’s parking signs are infamously complex, but the towers of signs stacked on top of one another may soon be a thing of the past thanks to plans to test out new signs that are intended to be as “simple and obvious as possible.”

According to The L.A. Times, City Council members this week asked the Department of Transportation to test out new signs designed by a local graphic artist.

Campaigners have long complained that the San Gabriel mountains have been under-funded and neglected, marred by trash and graffiti. Hopefully that will change now, as President Obama will announce an executive order to make roughly half of the mountains a national monument.

On its surface, the animated series Adventure Time chronicles tween boy Finn and his magical dog Jake as they fight monsters in the land of Ooo. But diving below its sugary cuteness, you’ll find a smarter, darker and more mature show than you thought possible. Ooo is actually Earth 1,000 years after nuclear armageddon has warped it into a world of mutants, mad science and magic. Most interesting for LGBT fans is the implication that constantly bickering female leads Princess Bubblegum and Marceline the Vampire Queen engaged in an off-camera lesbian relationship. It’s basically the most gay-friendly cartoon this side of Nickelodeon’s Ren & Stimpy.

Season 4 of Adventure Time is released on DVD and Blu-ray on Oct. 7, so in an attempt to catch you up on the series, here’s a look at the show’s gayest moments. Read more...

October is National Bullying Prevention Month but that was probably not what prompted a whistleblower to reveal what really went on with the lights off in the locker room of the New Jersey Sayreville High School Bombers. The alleged sexual abuse of freshmen football players is now under criminal investigation and prompted Superintendent Richard Labbe to cancel the rest of the football season.

California-based artist Alex Marsh King is holding a limited edition exhibition of some of his 35mm prints in L.A. for this week only, with photographs of “beautiful near-naked men, and other colorful natural subject matter.”

TWC News Austin livened up its Twitter traffic updates this week with the inclusion of a few photos of naked men. Attention grabbing perhaps, but probably not what their followers were expecting.

Now that she’s no longer hosting Chelsea Lately, Chelsea Handler isn’t holding back, revealing which celebrities she couldn’t bear interviewing for the show.

A gay former prison inmate has shared his ‘survival guide’ to being gay in prison and claimed that openly gay feminine men are treated like royalty.

The mid-term elections started out with a grimace, with Iowa Republican Joni Ernst introducing herself as a castrator of hogs.  But she’s out-polling and out-raising  Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley in their Senate race, one of three races that could lead Republicans to a Senate majority win on Nov. 4 (see Nate Silver’s forecast here.) 

In film, music and fashion, the classics never go out of style. Come Oct. 7, Old Hollywood will undergo an ultimate revival thanks to the release of Karina Longworth’s new book, Hollywood Frame by Frame. The glimpse into movie history features hundreds of never-before-published photographs in the form of contact sheets, which are the prints photographers once used to edit their work prior to the digital age. Longworth has woven these images together to tell the untold stories of stars behind the greatest films of the 20th century.