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May 4, 2008
This Week's Most Commented & Recommended
Why is this guy smiling? Maybe because he hearts LAist? | Photo by Malingering/LAist
When you read something you like on LAist, we love it when you hit the "recommend" button, and we love it even more if you put your two cents' worth in the comments. Getting a dialog going with our readers and making sure we're giving you content you can use are top priorities for us. So here's this week's top posts, as endorsed by you via the recommend feature, or as indicated by the level of talk going on in the comments:
This week we had two posts topping both lists:
Irksome and Insufferable: The Ten Most Annoying Singers is pretty self-explanatory, and a little (to rhyme) inflammatory. And, no surprise, when Malingering heads out to Dodger Stadium, there's bound to be jackassery, all caught by her camera: Greatest First Inning to Start, Worst Jerk-off to Finish.
And the rest...
Most Commented
No Cash for Valley-centric Tourism. Like Ohmygod, Ok! Is there any reason why tourism should be a big draw in the Valley, besides movie locations and mega-malls?
The Worst Dog Park In The World? "If you hate grass, convenience, and other dogs, then Griffith Park Dog Park is the place for you."
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Coachella Overheard Witty and profound insights on sexual identity, the potentially damaging effects of artificial tanning and second-hand smoke, the darker side of musical history, and the significance of t-shirt slogans.
LAist Interview: Jose Canseco The baseball star talks about the state of the sport, reality television, and his current book.
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Personally, I think of the Valley's malls as mostly small-to-medium size. I tend to think of places like South Coast Plaza or the Glendale Galleria or Ontario Mills or Victoria Gardens in Rancho Cucamongs as "mega-malls".
But since I rarely go to malls, maybe I'm just overlooking something.
My shopping consultant advises me that both the expanded Topanga Plaza and the Northridge Fashion Center might very well be considered "mega-malls", so, um... never mind.
(They still strike me as rather dubious tourist destinations, but then, so does The Grove, so I'm probably just being weird again.)
Ah, your shopping consultant beat me to it, as those were the exact two places I had in mind!
Agreed that any mall these days is a lame excuse for a tourist destination (oh, except maybe the Mall of America in MN and the West Edmonton Mall only because they have amusement parks et al inside, but STILL, they are MALLS filled with the same stores found ALL OVER THE WORLD AND ONLINE).