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F.W. Murnau's Sunrise screens at the Silent Movie Theatre tonight. / Photo by Shawnté's via LAist's flickr pool. TALK: Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum moderates a Zócalo Public Square Lecture tonight on “Baby, I’m Bored: When Did Motherhood Become a Career and Is It a Professional Disaster” with authors Leslie Bennetts and Meg Wolitzer. Bennett’s book The Feminine Mistake suggests that even women who stop working even temporarily sacrifice much more than financial...
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No, you're not hallucinating, that's Charlie Hunter and his 8-string guitar. | Photo by imacuckoo2 via flickr. Check out live music -- FREE -- after work this evening. LA's Earlimart plays a set at Amoeba at 7, and Charlie Hunter visits Hollywood & Highland's Wine and Jazz Tuesdays from 7-9. For more of what's going on in rock music this month, check out our This Month in Rock guide. Earlimart @ Amoeba Charlie Hunter...
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The Screen Actors Guild announced today that they will "present its response" to the "last best final" contract offer by movie studios and producers, who hope it will be accepted. With that, Nikki Finke opines: "... the Big Media companies are prepared to play hardball. I forsee a repeat of what happened during the lowest ebb of the writers strike: the AMPTP walks away from the talks and issues an ultimatum to SAG to take...
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July 8, 2008
Via L.A. Now, here's the 4th documented freeway bicycle ride. This time, it was a different group of folks (you may remember these crazy photos from Crimanimalz) and they hit the 101 and 110 starting in Silver Lake....
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California Attorney General Jerry Brown is all about crime fighting. The former Governor (and possible future Governor again) is in Los Angeles today after 30 plus search and arrest warrants were executed in South Los Angeles locations as part of an ongoing gang enforcement operation in the City of Compton. Why is the state getting involved in a local matter? "State agents crack down on local gang operations when the violence reaches a level that makes local containment difficult, if not impossible," a press release announcing this afternoon's press conference explains.
Thunderstorms are predicted for the Southwest, but they will mostly develop over Arizona and parts of Utah. As for California, there is a very slight chance for thunderstorms in Southeastern California and Northern California (where dry lightening strikes caused over 1700 fires in the state since June 20). As for Los Angeles weather in the recent spate of hot weather predictions, Ken Clark, Expert Senior Meteorlgist with Accuweather.com says most of the reported extreme heat will be in Northern and Central California. "We're pretty much going to have fairly typical weather for this time of the year. It's nothing out of the ordinary." And if it does get really hot, LA County has opened cooling centers.
--> Thursday afternoon, there were two DASH buses and a DASH shuttle vehicle parked on Hollywood Boulevard, all of them idling. The 2nd DASH bus had an operator at the wheel and he pulled out into the street, passing the 1st DASH bus and stopping to chat for a moment with an operator on the street who then jumped into the shuttle vehicle and drove away, leaving an idling DASH bus on the street....
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You've seen them around the city, right? Those light beige signs designating an area as a historical square. There's Amelia Earhart Square in the NoHo Arts District and the "I Love Lucy Square" near Paramount Studios. Now, after being approved last year, Larry King is getting his officially designated this Thursday at the intersection of Sunset and Cahuenga boulevards where the CNN building is located.
Mayor Villaraigosa is not in Los Angeles today -- he's in Washington DC. Now that Senator Hillary Clinton is out of the race for the White House, the mayor has put his support behind Senator Barack Obama. And today's supportive move is to "introduce Obama at the annual convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC," according to the Daily News.
Left to right: LADOT Staff Michael May, CD-4 Larry Hoffman, Mayoral appointee Glenn Bailey at a LABAC meeting | Photo courtesy by Alex Thompson Shocked by the horrific road raging motorist vs. cyclists incident on Mandeville Canyon Road this past holiday weekend, the cycling community has rallied in the last four days to fight for justice and to ensure that Los Angeles city leadership, law enforcement and the judicial system respond to incidents such...
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Photo by HBuzacott via Flickr It wasn't too long ago where a story on alternative forms of transit in the LA Times or Daily News were rare. But these days, with the help of gas prices, it's almost a daily occurrence. Today, the Times has not one, not two, but three featured stories on alternative use -- two of them on bicycle issues. And not only that, last night, CBS/KCAL (video below) and NBC...
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Photo by yunny via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr From 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., an excessive heat warning is in effect, according to the National Weather Service. And going along with the state's Flex (Your Power) Alert, the NWS has also issued an excessive heat watch through Thursday evening. How hot will it be? Triple digits are expected hit highs of 102 to 110 degrees in some areas. And with the statewide flex...
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LA Dodgers defeat Atlanta Braves 3-0. It was Mark Teixeira's double to lead off the eighth inning that broke up Hiroki Kuroda's perfect game. And it was that double that was the only blemish of Kuroda's game who pitched the entire game striking out six, walking none while throwing only 91 pitches in 2:03. Offensively, Blake DeWitt went 3-3 while Nomar Garciaparra smashed a hanging curve to the Dodger bullpen in the fifth inning...
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Time to hunker down and flex your power, so says state officials. "The California Independent System Operator (CAISO), charged with managing the electricity grid in California, has issued a Flex Alert for Tuesday, July 8th through Thursday, July 10th," an e-mail alert states. "Due to the current hot weather, electricity conservation is necessary."
Photo by digitalshay via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The top ten most wanted in Orange County, now named. Endangered birds now even more endangered: Condors + Big Sur Fire = Not a good day for wildlife experts. Locally, fireworks on the 4th were not so good (read, death) for birds. Arthur has left the house: "After six years in Los Angeles, Arthur editor/publisher Jay Babcock has relocated Arthur’s editorial headquarters to...
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