Extra, Extra: Go Ice Skating Downtown!

• ExperienceLA.com and Lonely Planet are running a community based Downtown photo contest. If you win, you're photo will be on the cover of the free guide that will distributed around LA and all over the world.
• And while you're Downtown shooting photos, drop by Pershing Square to go ice skating through the holidays.
• The tunnel on the 5 Freeway where a fiery crash killed three, shutting down the tunnel for over a month, reopened late yesterday afternoon. Santa Clarita/Los Angeles gridlock will not resume as normal.
• "The Los Angeles Police Department is scrapping its controversial plan to create a map detailing the Muslim communities in the sprawling metropolitan area, bowing to the outcry among Muslims and others that the project was a thinly disguised form of racial profiling."
• nothing comforts me the same as my brave friend who says, 'I don't care if forever never comes, cause I'm holding out for that teenage feeling' Tonight's concert of Neko Case at the Walt Disney Concert Hall will be broadcast live on NPR.
• Buildings go on fire every day in Los Angeles. However, it is less common that there is a fatality like the one today in Eagle Rock.
• Great holiday shopping tag line: For Every DVD Under the Tree, A Writer Starves to Death
• Bound to happen: The young woman who was too sexily clad for some Southwest Airlines employees and kicked off a flight is now posing for Playboy.

Photo by juicyrai via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr