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Script Project: Mayor kidnapped!
In our developing L.A. noir story to beat them all, Mayor Russell Napolitano was snatched off the sand beneath Santa Monica Pier and thrown in...
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Zell names a new CEO
Perhaps Sam Zell realized his troubled new company needs a full-time boss, or maybe he just tired of his newspaper toys after a few months...
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The Murderer, the Prosecutor, the Stripper…..and the Supremes
It is a dramatic legal story….but with a twist. And it’s a hell of a twist having to do with a well-known prosecutor and a stripper. First, here are the basics: On Monday, the California Supreme Court decided unanimously that San Quentin inmate Adam Miranda should not have been…
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Lakers win game 2
They go up 2-0 in their playoff series with the Utah Jazz, winning 120-110 at Staples Center. ESPN, DN/Inside the Lakers, LAT...
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Unemployed 'Ugly Betty' Crew Blame Schwarzenegger For Show's Move To NYC
It's always been repugnant to me that, despite his years in Hollywood, Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger has done less than zero to stop runaway production or enact incentives to lure TV shows and films back to California and even Los Angeles. (Then again, what very little that this piss poor…
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Open Letter to Los Angeles
Dear Los Angeles, Seven days. Much too short a stay but Thursday I must head back to Las Vegas for another interim. After being away from you for almost a year-and-a-half (except for a brief work-related sojourn in February 2007) I had forgotten how much I truly love you, in ways that many of…
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Make it three editors...
An add to yesterday's item on the tale of two ex-editors: current Times editor Russ Stanton also gets out on the town Thursday night, appearing...
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ADVISORY: More SAG-AFTRA-AMPTP News
I had to take a personal day so I missed today's guilds-moguls fireworks. Update coming...
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LAMAG.com: Where to Eat, Where to Shop, and What to Do In Los Angeles
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New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2008: Foodscapade
Full food report will be forthcoming. For now, the photos do the talking.
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The Google cable | billso.com
Google and 4 pacRim telecoms are building a transpacific cable between Los Angeles and Japan.
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Extra, Extra: Losing Hollywood's History Man
Photo by susan catherine via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Robert Nudelman, Director of Preservation Issues for Hollywood Heritage, has passed away. Councilman Eric Garcetti reflects on his blog. Next week is Bike to Work week. You ready? Los Angeles Fire Department + Boy…
Ron Paul statement on the Bill Johnson campaign, and more
Since I'm the resident thought-tormented Ron Paul fan on staff, I've taken a special interest in the Paul supporters who are objecting to the attention we've paid to the white-supremacist past of Paul-connected judicial candidate Bill Johnson. Thanks, everybody, for...
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Web Gremlins
Apologies to all those who found the site down today. As I happens, I was working on something unrelated, so didn’t discover it for hours. To be exact, I didn’t see the problem….until I was on the phone with a deputy district attorney and HE tried to log on and got an error…
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Updated Valley Crime Map
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The Fart Billboard.
For at least a year, this degrading billboard advertising "Power 106" Hip-Hop Radio has stood atop this equally nauseating mini-mall near Sepulveda and Victory.Perhaps it's a coincidence that it sits right over the beans and burrito El Pollo Loco.This is the free market at its finest, where…
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Why We Deserve Global Warming
Yesterday, in the L.A. Times, I read a story that made my blood boil. People with the initiative and the where-with-all to make their cars run on vegetable oil, thus saving themselves money and us all fumes, are being smacked down by the state government for not seeing to such things as, oh,…
Oprah-Led Think Tank Deconstructs Mariah's Quickie-Marriage Logic [Short Ends]
newVideoPlayer("nickmariah_defamer.flv", 463, 387,"");· Today, an Oprah you simply cannot afford to miss: Watch as she, Gayle, Kelly Ripa's husband, and some other lady try to reach a consensus over when, exactly, Mariah Carey knew she was going to marry Nick Cannon. We know! We told you!…
'NY Times' Riles An Already Grumpy, Taco-Deprived Population [TacoTruckGate]
Metromix L.A. posted an angry—and justifiably so, we'd say—response to a NY Times piece from earlier in the week about the movement to save L.A.'s beloved taco trucks, currently endangered thanks to new city ordinances that would limit where they can do business. (The article begins,…
A Forgettable Game... At Least There Were Boobs
I can't believe I called in sick to work to watch this utterly terrible Dodger game. The Blue Crew lost 12 to 1 to the Mets at their monthly mid-week day game today. Maine was pitching a complete game shutout into the 9th until the Dodgers managed to squeak out one run to wipe that big fat 0…
Regional Connector Down to Two Alternatives
A rendering of 2nd street with above-ground operation of the Regional Connector. Photo by Metro. Planning for the Regional Connector is down to two preferred alternatives, one above ground and one below. Costs for the two differ by only $150 million. At a meeting of the Bringing Back…
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Dina Lohan Is This Year's Most 'Outstanding Mother', Says Cleavage-Bearing Long Island Mommy Cult [Mothers Do Not Know Best]
newVideoPlayer("dinatmz_def.flv", 463, 387,""); Proving our hunches that we are indeed living in Bizarro World, last night Dina Lohan, master momager/pimp and bestest friend to all her angelic children, received an award naming her Outstanding Mother of the Year. As you'll see in this clip, a…
7 Reasons to Hit the Downtown Art Walk
The Downtown Art Walk is every second Thursday of the month (that means tomorrow!) and is easily a staple of those things you have to do at least once. For us, however, we prefer it to be on the list of things to do at least once a month. More than 30 galleries participate along with events…
Features & blogs about art, fashion, design, culture - for women and girls - Lipstick Tracez
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Will Larry King Pass The Softball-Lobbing Torch To Ryan Seacrest? [Successors]
Despite having secured his future at CNN until 2010, Larry King, who come this November will turn 138, has finally acknowledged the fact that his career might have a finite end. (Even if his legacy does not: His Last Will and Testament contains detailed instructions of the children he expects his…
Will Larry King Pass The Softball- Lobbing Torch To Ryan Seacrest? [Successors]
Despite having secured his future at CNN until 2010, Larry King, who come this November will turn 138, has finally acknowledged the fact that his career might have a finite end. (Even if his legacy does not: His Last Will and Testament contains detailed instructions of the children he expects his…
Worth a Look: Felis Stella at L2Kontemporary
Since the 80’s Ikea has become a cultural icon of the do-it-yourself furniture world, here in the U.S. Almost all of us at some point or another have struggled putting a piece of Ikea furniture together for ourselves. Artist Felis Stella explores these concepts in her latest exhibit IKEA…
Plan for border fence puts U.S. business on Mexico side
Well, you can't say the feds aren't getting serious about border enforcement. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is about to "deport" an entire U.S. business. Plans for the fence the feds are building along the Texas/Mexican border will slice...
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City Proves Downtown Traffic Lane Not Needed
Downtown Los Angeles maven and blogger Eric Richardson posted an observation today about street construction and its lack of impact on traffic. Specifically, he speaks of a transformer that's been sitting in the northbound curb lane on 6th street for several weeks. This very lane is…
Getting The Facts On Star Jones [To Do]
newVideoPlayer("todo3_def.flv", 463, 387,""); Little known fact about Defamer Videographer Molly McAleer ... she is a Barbara Walters superfan. When she decided that she couldn't choose between putting together tonight's To Do's and reading Babs' new book, Audition, she pulled a page out of The…
Tomatomania
This feature from local Los Angeles podcaster and vlogger Douglas E. Welch covers what has come to be an annual spring ritual in these parts - Tomatomania at the Tapia Brothers Nursery in Encino, California. Who would guess that just off the 101 freeway t
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Congress talks immigration
By holding a series of immigration hearings this week, Congress seems to be going beyond lapel pins and superdelegate-ship this election season. On Tuesday, the House Committee on Education and Labor considered whether U.S. businesses are hiring American workers before...
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