- Attention Blacks - Dreamworks wants you to audition to be Donkey for the Broadway production of Shrek - Defamer

- Was Mayor Tony up to the same monkeybusiness that the Frisco Mayor admitted to? - LA Observed

- Now that we know where the Westside of LA begins (La Cienega), has the Associated Press determined that Toluca Lake is in the Hollywood Hills? - LA Brain Terrain

- Muslim man in Van Nuys charged with the murders of his Hindu girlfriend and her father - Daily News

- Iranian pornstars could soon start being executed - CNN

- Steve Lopez has fun with Rocky Delgadillo's crazy week - LAT

- Garrison Keillor ventures out of Lake Wobegon and gives a thumbs up to LA - LAT

- Proof that Disney is brilliant, they turned a hokey, dated ride into a franchise. Pirates III booty now over a half billion dollars - AP

- The Game pleads not mothafuckin guilty of impersonating the five-oh - eonline

- Sometimes we wonder if Bushie is even trying - One Cent

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