DIY Community Improvement in Sherman Oaks
Zach at LAist writes:
Meet the future location of Studio Oaks Park where a grassroots effort is the only way this strip of unusable, rat-infested land will become a park. In Los Angeles, if you really want to get something done, you’ve got to tak…
What’s Weird, Los Angeles?
Joe Oesterle, writer of one of my favorite books about Los Angeles, “Weird California,” contacted me recently to tell me he’s now working on “Weird Hollywood.”
His deadline isn’t for a few weeks, and while it…
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64 Worst: Onramp Traffic Meters vs. Segregation
Today’s poll are two of the most popular suggestions in my original call…
Its a disappointing admission that a city as diverse as Los Angeles is also plagued with segregation. But while the idea of seperate black, Latino, and Asian…
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Friday Bullets: Late Edition
Lindsay William-Ross and Elise Thompson have an uncustomarily negative review up at LAist of “Krust,” a Burbank cafe/bakery, that provided them with such piss poor customer service they never even tasted the food… which actually…
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64 Worst: Self important jackholes vs. Extended post fire closures in Griffith Park
I don’t know if anyone remember this, but there was this ginormous wildfire in Griffith Park last year that took the cooperative efforts of our gallant county and city fire departments to control before it spread to neighboring communities…
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What is Luke Ford’s beef with Kevin Roderick?*
*Updated… additional details at bottom of entry.
Blogging pioneer Luke Ford is questioning the credentials of LA Observed’s Kevin Roderick, who lists sharing “in two Pulitzer Prizes awarded for staff coverage” while working…
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Clinton: “I was pinned down by sniper fire” on way into NBC’s Burbank studios
After the New York Senator took a seat next to Jay Leno on the Tonight Show set (airing tonight) she said, “It is so great to be here, I was so worried I wasn’t going to make it. I was pinned down by sniper fire.” [via My Way News]
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Air America host suspended for calling Clinton a prostitute
Liberal radio host Randi Rhodes was suspended for using “abusive, ad hominem language” criticizing Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro at a San Francisco event two weeks ago. [via The Caucus blog at New York Times]
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Money to burn… literally
Strange item that just arrived from LAFD alerts:
Bank teller states hand burning after touching $100 bill
Update, 1:54pm:
Two females, 41 & 39, were transported to Northridge Hosp in stable cond. Washington Mutual security and the Haz Mat…
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Alternative media wins big against City of L.A., big media
This morning, Clear Channel and CBS Outdoor went to the Los Angeles Superior Court after allegedly being tipped off by the Dept. of Building and Safety that the LA Weekly was seeking a list of all legal and illegal billboards they had permitted. The me…