- Mayor Tony says the fire is under control, it burned 800 acres - NYT - Alhambra, Burbank, Irvine, and Santa Clarita, you've been bad. How else can you explain the misery that's poised to befall you when the unholy alliance of AOL and Linkin Park plan to bombard your movie houses for One Night Only - The Rock Radio - Ted the Titan the huge "Corpse Flower" opened and closed over these last......

Man arrested for stealing 26 cars so that he could go see his girlfriend. He'd steal them in Inglewood, vist her in Santa Barbara, and then stole another one to get back home in LA. That is love. Girl you better keep him... or I guess wait for him until he gets out. - AP Villaraigosa Q & A with US News and World Report - US News Joey Buttafuoco released from LA County......

Thora Birch turns 24 today. She was great in American Beauty, but perfect as the movie version of Enid in Ghost World. Don't worry, be happy: musician Bobby McFerrin celebrates his 56th. And a handful of hyphenate birthdays: Oscar-nominee Terrence Howard is 37, Jackass-actor Johnny Knoxville is 35 and actor-director Peter Berg is 42. And Long-Island-lover-turned-porn-dude Joey Buttafuoco is 50 today. Supreme Court watchers may be interested to know that Antonin Scalia turns 70......