Now presenting your Los Angeles Muxtape

One Los Angeles City Edition Moleskine and major props go to Metblogs commenter Papercranes for accepting my challenge and making a Muxtape of Los Angeles themed songs.
Listen to the City of Angels flutter her wings here.

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Where to find $3.99 gas in L.A. - you may need to pinch yourself.

I know you’ve caught yourself saying this at some point while driving past a gas station this summer: “Look, gas is only $4.25 a gallon!”
But imagine my excitement when I saw gas under the $4 mark today!
To celebrate, and for…

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Shia LeBeouf flips SUV at cursed Fountain & LaBrea

The West Hollywood intersection where an allegedly intoxicated Shia Lebouf crashed and flipped his Ford pickup truck early Sunday is also the same spot where a pickup truck smashed into the corner of Edible Arrangements in December, 2007, right next……

Tony Pierce muzzles Times bloggers over John Edwards.

Tony Pierce issued a memo yesterday morning to LA Times bloggers requesting they not to discuss John Edwards alleged affair.
From: “Pierce, Tony”
Date: July 24, 2008 10:54:41 AM PDT
To: [XXX]
Subject: john edwards
Hey bloggers,
There…

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Are parking meters mortal?

There is FAIL. And then there’s DEAD.
Snapped by my girlfriend near Melrose and Mansfield.

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Hit and run driver kills hydrant, gruesome photos here.

Ian Broyles happened upon a busted hydrant in Culver City spraying a geyser dozens of feet high, and clearly had a little fun with his camera. Here’s what he wrote me about the pix:
Though I could seen no car around I’m pretty sure a car……

Angelenos favorite songs about Los Angeles

An informal poll via our sweet Twitter thingie (subscribe!) asked for L.A. residents favorite songs about the City of Angels. Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.” and “Los Angeles” by X are popular favorites, but the bulk of…

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These little piggies are doing what!?

Fuzzy Gerdes (of Chicago Metblogs fame) was in Los Angeles recently when he spotted the above unsavory image.
At the Kid’s Dental Care on Hollywood Blvd.
Fuzzy’s commentary here, but feel free to leave your own caption in the comments.

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Weekend Bullets: Get a job!

–> L.A. is among the ten worst cities for unemployment benefits.
–> If you applied for the entry level gig at the production company where Assistant Atlas works, you probably didn’t get the job… here’s some of…

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How do you get a gig as a script reader?

Poor Bookhouse. Dude just moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in screenwriting. Looking for advice on how to land a job doing script coverage, he asked the readers of AskMetafilter. Their advice? In a nutshell: “don’t do…

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