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- Fascinating: "Peace breaks out among LA gangs: It's all a matter of economics."
- The movie Battle: Los Angeles was filmed in LA... Louisiana, that is, which has Curbed LA asking "If we can't keep a movie in town that has 'Los Angeles' in the title, what can we keep here?"
- LA County's Gift for Guns program took 5,334 weapons off the streets, including 53 from just one guy.
- Forget your crappy getting skinny New Year's resolution, here are 4 Eco-New Year’s challenges.
- The famous NPR voice of Carl Kassell won't be so ubiquitous anymore, unless you listen to Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me.
- A guide to New Year's Eve in downtown.
- What a lede: "Orange County sheriff's deputies say a man savagely killed a dog, ran naked through a tennis club and poured hot coffee on his head."
- It's a silly sounding Facebook fan page, but the issue is becoming quite a story up in the SCV: Find the Missing Santa Clarita Baby Jesus.
- The restaurant Off Vine, which burned down in 2008, is prepping to make a come back in 2010!
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