Extra, Extra: L.A. Tofu Festival and Sunset Junction Street Fair this Weekend!

• Don't forget to head out to the LA Tofu Festival and Sunset Junction Street Fair this weekend!
• Several large Japanese corporations are working with Japanese American community organizations in L.A. to bring a massive float to the U.S. for the first time.
• The very "principled" Republicans senators in the California legislature are citing fiscal sanity and their constituents as the primary factors driving their continued stalling on the budget bill.
• A man was hit and killed by an eastbound freight train yesterday night near Parthenia Street and Lindley Avenue.
• Stamen Design created Oakland Crimespotting with Microsoft Virtual Earth as a convenient tool to track crime in the Oakland area.
• John McCain: the "greatest war critic" ever?
• The LAT reports on the state of Pisco, a city hard-hit by the deadly 8.0 magnitude earthquake that rocked Peru on Wednesday.
• Hurricane Dean, currently speeding across the eastern Caribbean, could turn into a Category 5 storm within the next 72 hours.

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