Ranunculus and Anemones | Photo by pink_fish13 via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Is it too much to ask that all businesses, big and small, have a Green rating associated with them? Something akin to LA’s restaurant classifications, where the average consumer is clued into the eco-friendliness of establishments and in turn, companies vie for the buyer’s dollars through a public showing (or shaming) of their carbon footprint? While the complications and policing......

See this primordial ooze, the rest of the Tar Pits and the Page Museum for free today. / Photo by Gamma Infinity via LAist's flickr pool. TALK* McSweeney’s has published the debut novel Bowl of Cherries by Millard Kaufman. What’s different here is that Mr. Kaufman is a 90-year-old ex-Marine who created Mr. Magoo way back when. It’s described as “A bizarre and funny pseudo-take on Great Expectations, Kaufman's book has enough twists and......