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July 30, 2008
It's almost football season! Players are returning to camp, refusing to return to camp, and negotiating contracts as sports bars order extra supplies of wings and beer and hire hotter waitresses. What can you do to celebrate this great American tradition and join in the festivities? Join a flag football team, of course, and get your own game started! One of the biggest leagues in Southern California is Top Gun Flag Football. It's a 5-on-5...
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Follow-up reporting has been sparse in the days since the National Enquirer's alleged (for the second time in a year) that former Senator and presidential candidate John Edwards was embroiled in a "love-child scandal" with 44-year-old videographer Rielle Hunter (aka Lisa Druck) at the Beverly Hilton. Both Hunter and Edwards denied having the tabloid's initial salacious cover story last October. Now, a handful of videos in which Hunter, as producer, documented John Edwards' travels over...
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Photo by Tom Andrews/LAist LAist walked Hollywood Boulevard to find the true style and fashion of the real, raw, non-celebrity Hollywood.Bostonist debated the claim that Boston is America's most racist city.Shanghaiist was taken aback by the video of an unknown Islamic terror group purporting to be responsible for recent bombings in China and warning of future attacks during the Olympics.Torontoist spent the week taking a detailed look at homicide statistics for their city, including...
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It is a rather worrying and tragic fact that each year thousands of people seem to vanish from the face of the earth, never to be seen again. Of course, many of these absentee's may well have been murdered or suffered accidental death, but what about the victim in the following case....the weird disappearance of Dixie-Lee. Dixie-Lee Arensen was a gifted and sensitive girl. Aged just twenty-years, she was the bride of an associate youth...
Continue Reading "Weird Los Angeles: Dixie-Lee is Missing"July 26, 2008
Every fear I had going into Friday night’s Dodger game against the Washington Nationals came true. As I was making the trek down the parking lot, Dodger PA announcer Eric Smith was announcing the starting line ups. And that vomit stain in Lot 3 was my reaction to the words, “Batting leadoff for the Dodgers, Juan Pierre!” It’s tiring hearing people’s justification of Juan Pierre as a leadoff hitter. Let me reiterate: the job...
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July 26, 2008
The Batmobile gets a spit shine before the crowds descend on the Arclight theater in Hollywood...
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We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist. Sobieski Vodka, the #1 premium vodka from the land where vodka was born. Old Pasadena Film Festival, Friday and Saturday nights through tomorrow! How Far is the Ocean From Here, a new novel by Amy Shearn. American Apparel, where you can buy everything from T-shirts to swim wear. If you're interested in advertising on LAist or any other site in our...
Continue Reading "Thanks to This Week's Advertisers"July 24, 2008
Going into F8 (the Facebook Developers Conference) yesterday, there was an expectation of learning something new and exciting about the uses of Facebook as a means of building a business, evangelizing a movement or business or brand (in LA all of that means preaching to others about yourself) and how Facebook now is going to help application developers make money on its platform....
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Simplicity is beautiful. Can't disagree with that....
Continue Reading "Midnight Movie: Weight Loss in America"July 20, 2008
Photo of Charlton Athletic FC and the Thames Barrier by Dean Nicholas. Londonist was treated to some fantastic views of the city, courtesy of the 'Star Over London' airship.Bostonist spent the week celebrating New England's quintessential summer meal, the lobster roll.Torontoist explored the dangerous lives of stickmen.Seattlest wondered if a suicide prevention net was really the best idea for stopping people from jumping off the Aurora bridge.Gothamist was grossed out when hearing a man...
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Now that your Los Angeles Kings have finally hired a coach, they can get aggressive about putting a plan in place to disappoint as many fans as possible this year. It will be hard to top last seasons next to last place finish, but then, I felt the exact same way a year ago, and the Kings didn’t let me down. (In that I expected to be so let down, that I wasn’t let...
Continue Reading "Kings Get Younger; Worser"July 19, 2008
This mysterious shot was found amongst my father's belongings. The marker appears to be concrete, so we can assume he probably didn't find the Titanic, It would be safe to assume this shot was taken somewhere in the Los Angeles Harbor or Catalina, his favorite dive spots. Coincidentally, the LA Harbor was undergoing improvements in 1912. Businesses like canneries, oil drilling and shipbuilding were growing so quickly that the city decided to dredge and...
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On October 28, 1966, commuters between Malibu and the Valley were surprised by the image of a large, running depiction of a naked woman. Sixty feet tall, painted in pink house paint, she was quickly dubbed The Pink Lady. At first, there was much speculation as to the artist and the purpose of such an image. Due to the subject matter, it was assumed to be a man. It turned out that this mysterious image...
Continue Reading "LAistory: Pink Lady of Malibu"July 18, 2008
We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist. Sobieski Vodka, the #1 premium vodka from the land where vodka was born. The Brotherhood Tour, featuring Los Lonely Boys and Los Lobos next Friday at The Greek Theater. Old Pasadena Film Festival, Friday and Saturday nights starting today through the 26th. American Apparel, where you can buy everything from T-shirts to swim wear. If you're interested in advertising on LAist...
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Found on Hollywood Blvd. by LAist Featured Photos Contributor, Brian Bubonic, on Flickr. Kind of reminds us of this photo about the secret CIA underground military base that had connections to Christina Aguilera....
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July 16, 2008
My guide's horse enjoys the view Searching for a way to get out of the city recently, I stumbled upon Baldwin Lake Stables in Big Bear Lake, a farm that offers horseback rides by the hour. Noting that the rides are for any level (I am pretty much a non-level, having only ridden a horse a few times when I was a kid), I decided to take my chances and head up there to...
Continue Reading "Workout Wednesday: Horseback Riding"July 14, 2008
The following post is from our advertiser, Sobieski Vodka. Vodka that’s filtered through crushed gemstones? Made from water pumped from beneath a volcano? Distilled from the tears of orphaned baby elephants? (OK, so we made the last one up, but the other two are real.) C’mon, we’re all smarter than this, no? It seems there’s a new vodka every week resorting to increasingly comical gimmicks as they try to justify the $30 they’re trying to...
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Did you buy one? We are guessing that Mankini from "The Soup" is sticking with his LG....
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Photo by squeakyrat from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Torontoist discovered a warning label affixed to some of the newspaper boxes of one of its daily papers.DCist was saddened by the tragic death of 22-year-old bicyclist Alice Swanson, who was killed when a garbage truck ran her over in a busy intersection. A "ghost bike" was erected in her honor just north of Dupont Circle.Shanghaiist was caught up all week with the gruesome murder of...
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Photo by squeakyrat from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Torontoist discovered a warning label affixed to some of the newspaper boxes of one of its daily papers.DCist was saddened by the tragic death of 22-year-old bicyclist Alice Swanson, who was killed when a garbage truck ran her over in a busy intersection. A "ghost bike" was erected in her honor just north of Dupont Circle.Shanghaiist was caught up all week with the gruesome murder of...
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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 are this week's top posts, as endorsed by you via the recommend feature, or as indicated by the...
Continue Reading "This Week's Most Commented & Recommended"July 12, 2008
Think LA's relationship with underground rail transit began with the first tunnels blasted out to make way for the Red Line? Think again! LA's first subterranean transit system was a short stretch of tunneling dubbed the "Hollywood Subway," which moved its first passengers under the city in 1925 via electric interurban rail cars. Opening Day in Toluca Yard (end of the Hollywood Subway at 1st and Glendale); original source unkonwn, via California Trolleys The idea...
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