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L.A.’s Forgotten Lizard People

The KCRW Shortcuts blog has a new post exploring the facts and fiction surrounding Los Angeles’ oft-ignored network of underground tunnels. The post includes links to several in-depth features on the topic by local news outlets.
Worthwhile as the item is, however, it unfortunately left out an entertainingly bizarre story about L.A.’s subterranean landscape: the mysterious [...]

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Lost and Found: Original 1927 Grauman’s Chinese Theatre Footprints

Life in Angel City

NBC Los Angeles reports that concrete slabs bearing the original footprints of Sid Grauman, Douglass Fairbanks and Mary Pickford have been found in — of all places — a local airport hanger. Along with the still-lost footprints of Norma Talmadge, the silent-era imprints date to 1927 and, through a quirk of fate, were the very [...]

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BlogoBuzz: A Downtown Guide for Last-Minute Valentine’s Romance

Life in Angel City

Frantically looking for last-minute Valentine’s activities in the Downtown Los Angeles area? Don’t worry, all is not lost. The Downtown Center Business Improvement District (DCBID) has a host of ideas for procrastinating Romeos (and/or Juliets), including intimate dining locales, lovingly thoughtful gift-shopping suggestions, and especially romantic spots to pop the question if you’re so inclined. [...]

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Caution: Never, Never Wake the Dead!

Not to beat a dead horse, but having unearthed numerous pioneer skeletons at the abandoned Placita churchyard, LA Plaza officials might want to think twice before messing with the spot any further. Construction crews assembling an amusement ride in Britain have apparently disturbed a similar old cemetery, resulting in menacing visits by a headless monk.
Here [...]

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Megastorm Watch 2011 and Beyond!

Local television news anchors and their producers must be salivating. Scientists are warning that the Mother of All Storm Seasons may soon be headed our way.
No, it’s not due to global cooling, global warming or climate change (whichever term is in vogue nowadays). Rather, like our region’s major earthquakes, such megastorms are natural phenomena that [...]

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BlogoBuzz: Statuary With Style and Flair

Inspired by Griffith Park’s oddly dressed bear statue, the gang at Curbed LA have taken it upon themselves to outfit other local statuary in the latest styles. Click on over and decide if their fashion sense merits a big thumbs up, or a surprise visit from Stacy and Clinton of TLC’s What Not to Wear.

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Get Ready to Pay Through the Nose for Dumping Your “Illegal” Trash

Life in Angel City

Fines for dumping illegal garbage in Los Angeles have skyrocketed drastically, thanks to a new city ordinance. Yet, strangely, officials waited weeks to launch their public awareness campaign for the new regulations, which actually took effect last month.
Aimed primarily at businesses, the law allows trashy offenders to be charged “administrative” fines of $500, $750 and [...]

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Stowed Baby Mummies Spark Film-Noir-Like LAPD Investigation

Sometimes it’s best not to snoop through somebody else’s old, abandoned luggage. Still, you can just picture the scenario as it unfolded Tuesday afternoon…
Rummaging down in the basement of an aging Westlake Neighborhood apartment building, the rental manager and a friend find three rustic steamer trunks. The discovery naturally piques the female pair’s curiosity. Do [...]

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Aliens Implicated in Mysterious Cattle Slaughter

While the rest of us were carving up our turkeys for the holiday, it appears someone — or something — in southern Colorado was engaging in an otherworldly animal carving ritual of their own.
According to this Associated Press story, “a creepy string of calf mutilations” has left local ranchers and sheriff’s officials “mystified:”
“Four calves were [...]

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Anonymous Billboard Urges Boycott of Los Feliz’s Vermont Hand Wash

Life in Angel City

At first I thought this new billboard along Sunset’s 4400 block might be the work of advertising amateurs — or possibly a lone disgruntled customer angry enough to splurge on an outdoor display. The slogan’s catchy enough, but there’s nothing to support the message or make us care. For all we know, the alleged “injustice” [...]

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Check Out Silver Lake’s Gleaming New Neutra-Inspired Library!

Life in Angel City

It was a long time in coming, but Silver Lake finally saw the much-anticipated opening of its new $12-million library this morning. The residents’ campaign for the building actually began in the mid-1990s, but considering how Silver Lake’s elite history dates to the early 1900s, you wonder why it even took that long.
In any event, [...]

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Angeleno Streets Rank a Fatal Third Most “Dangerous by Design”

Life in Angel City

As if you didn’t have reason enough, now there’s even more cause to fear the mean streets of Los Angeles.
The Transportation for America (TFA) advocacy group has released a report ranking Los Angeles as 27th in the nation for pedestrian accidents, but third in pedestrian fatalities.
In other words, your stroll along Main Street carries less [...]

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Everything Comes Up Roses With Capt. Sully

If there’s one thing you can count on, it’s for Tournament of Roses officials to bring a trademark “rosy optimism” to each New Year’s celebration.
For a year overshadowed by malaise like 2010 promises to be, could they have done any better to lift our spirits than naming Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger as the parade’s Grand [...]

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Back From the Dead

The pumpkins are carved, the skeletons are hanging from the rafters, dusk has descended, and the witching hour is upon us.
Yes, it’s the Eve of All Hallows, and at long last the resurrection of this blog after its recent crash. Most of the infrastructure has been repaired, so, fittingly, I plan to recommence regular posts [...]

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Do You Blog Like a Girl?

Well, do you? (Not that it’s a bad thing, especially if you are a woman.)
More importantly, which great writer do you emulate? Jane Austen? Homer? H.G. Wells?
Thanks to computer nerds with way too much time on their hands, the answers to these questions are just a few mouse clicks away.
Enter your blog URL (or any [...]

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BlogoBuzz: The Halloween Edition

Dateline>City of Angels would like to take this opportunity to wish readers a Happy Halloween and announce a special treat: Before dusk descends and the little costumed urchins hit the streets, I’ll be posting this site’s very first Podcast Report. (Be sure to check back here shortly!)
Technologically challenged as I am, this podcast was a [...]

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BlogoBuzz: Urbanization, Poachers Eat Away at Venus Flytrap

Did Venus Flytraps captivate you as a child?
Carnivorous plants may not have been the fascination of every kid on the block, but I was admittedly geeky enough to have a whole terrarium of them.
I could try to justify my offbeat hobby by claiming it was educational, but the truth is it was just plain cool [...]

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BlogoBuzz: Ghosts in the Weight Machines?

Do the dead need to tone for the afterlife? Apparently so, if you can believe the security cams at the Anytime Fitness center in Overland Park, Kan. Sometime, somehow, in the late hours when the building was otherwise vacant, someone or something tripped the motion-sensitive cameras into action. When staff later inspected the surveillance footage [...]

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More BlogoBuzz: Deconstructing Sunset Junction

Militant Angeleno “sort of” covers this weekend’s Sunset Junction Street Fair, an event your humble blogger also stopped going to about two years ago.
There’s little I can add to the Militant’s post — his observations are dead-on. Sunset Junction used to be a fun event with an edge: An unpretentious celebration in which rag-tag bohemians, [...]

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BlogoBuzz: A Streetcar We’d Desire

L.A. Metblogger Jason Burns has the perfect recommendation for the new downtown streetcars proposed by the Bringing Back Broadway initiative: Make them vintage, à la San Francisco’s famous trolleys and cable cars.
Burns makes an eloquent case for such vehicles in his full post, a snippet of which reads:
While the very notion of a new streetcar [...]

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