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- The LA Weekly recently re-ran a five-year-old movie review, written for them by a girl who was 12 at the time. The writer? Lily Burk, the 17-year-old who was murdered last month in Downtown.
- Some teenagers in Long Beach have started a record label and are hoping the internet will help them network their way to profits.
- Time for cost-cutting in the OC. Most of the courts in the County will be closed on Wednesday.
- Los Angeles still remains shut out of the HuffPo's lists of cities for best local food-known or "undiscovered." Plus, nary an LA eatery made Bon Appetit mag's list of Top Ten New Restaurants.
- Have you checked out the new food site Zester Daily, featuring many Angeleno contributors? Thoughts?
- Disney's "first actress," Virginia Davies died late last week at the age of 90.
- Ready for a new season of Dancing With the Stars? And, nope--Mrs. Howard Stern isn't on the list!
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