Even though we smiled in the pictures in our rented tuxes and frilly dresses, most of us had a shitty time at prom. Some of those haunting memories and major disappointments may have followed us into adulthood, and for some, ruined our lives forever. When you're a teenager and the prettiest girl you know just broke up with her boyfriend, and your "girlfriend" lives far away and her dad won't let her fly back......

A Word or 48: The weekend might be there for watching some sports on TV. Other than the baseball there's the Monaco Grand Prix (Speed) on Sunday, as well as cycling's Giro d'Italia (Versus). For kicks, if you are truly desperate, watch Hudson Hawk in Spanish on KVEA on Saturday at 9 p.m. Tonight - Friday - June 1, 2007 Orioles @ Angels (Fox Sports, 7:00 p.m.) The Henry Rollins Show (IFC, 8:00 p.m.)......

They keep marketing it as a race, but the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach this weekend is far more party than race these days. Oh, there will be plenty of racing — Champ Cars, the American Le Mans series, and you really need to check out the drifters. But if you’ve been to Long Beach for the race before, you know that it’s really a people-watching party where there just happens to be cars......

By week's end, LA is regularly littered with a handful of free rags. Combined, these publications put the Tribune Company's Spring Street operation LA Times to shame as far as reporting on the dozens of municipalities that make up this metropolis of more than 12 million people. LAist reads the weeklies so you don't have to. If there's anything we missed, let us know, or better yet drop it in the comments section below.......