blogging.la wins for best fire coverage of yesterday's blaze - blogging.la Zuma Dogg wins for reporting that Doug McIntyre of 790 KABC asked him for a hemp tshirt on the air - Mayor Sam We all win when Franklin Avenue takes the Gold Line and shows us what they did and where they ate on their journey - Franklin Ave h/t MetroriderLA Losanjealous wins for the meanest haiku review of the Jill Cunniff show......

- Michael Jackson is being sued again, this time by the family of a woman who died in a hospital in SLO and whose room he popped his head into when he had the flu during his last trial - SLO Trib - Oki Dog has always been an "A" in our hearts, now the Health Dept. has given them the top grade - Los Anjealous - How the Internet Superhighway makes its way......

- A Correction letter was sent out by CA Secretary of State to all 14,000 OC voters who got the illegal voter fraud from the GOP wannabe - Lonewacko - Miami-bound American Airlines jet returns to LAX due to odor - NBC4 - Marilyn Manson to open an LA art gallery on Halloween - EarthTimes - Two plead guilty in $30+ million bank fraud scheme - AP - Orel interviews for Oakland opening. Will he......

Topping the list is a horrifyingly bizarre history of the Sunset Junction area. Including a robbery in the '20s of someone who was sporting some fresh old school grillz. 8. 3900 Sunset: November 9, 1928- A bald-headed man with a mouth full of golden choppers held up the California Bank today, with the aid of a less dramatic-looking associate, to the tune of $4,000. This is the fifth robbery at this particular branch in......

This round up is in honor of the Raiders, who are playing a pre-season game against the Minnesota Vikings tonight at 5pm on Monday Night Football on ESPN; the game marks Randy Moss's first return to the Twin Cities. LA Observed lets us know that the times they are a-changing. The L.A. Times will no longer provide the TV Times to Sunday subscribers unless they call and ask for it. The rise of TiVo......

Jason Toney, editor emeritus, is back to blogging, just not for LAist. On his personal blog, Negro Please, he writes that after three months "away from the daily grind of blogging about Los Angeles in our glutted city-blog landscape, I thought I'd take a look at what's going on in LA and who is doing it well. I've barely read most of these sites since I retired completely so it's almost a whole new......

News Busters sez "cheap slap at Catholics" to a feature in today's LA Times (reg. required), printing this quote from The Times' coverage of Erotica LA: Payne, who earns $250 an hour, was about to demonstrate the fine art of spanking, which — contrary to what you might think — is not as simple as it looks. The hand should be cupped, not flat, she explained, and positioned on the lower part of the......

We stopped by Canter's Deli last night around 11:00 p.m. to see the lines ourselves, witness the hoopla and grab a quick rugula. Daily News reports that Canter's estimated selling "10,000 sandwiches packed with 8,500 pounds of corned beef brisket." Other Canter's Deli consumption stats: 4,900 pounds of pastrami per month1,500 gallons of chicken soup a week4,000 knishes a week Los Anjealous visited right at 12:00 p.m. and snapped a shot of their meal.......