Photo by Peggy Archer via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr 60-year-old Kazuyoshi Miura "was arrested Friday while visiting Saipan, a U.S. commonwealth territory in the Pacific" for the murder of his wife, which took place in Los Angeles in 1981. Miura is awaiting extradition. The LA Times takes a look at two major Downtown projects that remain delayed, Park Fifth and Grand Avenue. Financing woes and pushed back start dates have led......

Empty Trader Joe's Parking lot at 3rd and LaBrea.......

Photo taken at The Grove by Peggy Archer......

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Norman Mailer, the controversial and beloved novelist and winner two Pulitzer Prizes died today in New York City of acute renal failure. The author of almost 50 books, Mailer lived a life beset by tragedy, triumph and tribulation. He once ran for Mayor of NYC and was almost stabbed to death by one of his wives. Mailer was 84. Out of the ashes of one fire in San Diego, a man sold a charred,......

It's Halloween and that means it's a big day at CreepyLA.com. Among many stories posted today, an interview about today's holiday with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. How does one do a green Halloween? Do like Siel: organic pumpkins, drink and go by public transit and send eco-Halloween e-cards. There's plenty to do in the ghost town that was tonight. Head Downtown! And while Downtown, Mayor Sam has some updates from political ghosting at City Hall.......

Here are some of my favorite LAist stories from this week: Anti reviews a cd that was sent to him, he gives it a "Good", but someone from the band writes in to complain that it wasn't a good enough Peggy Archer showed us that Malibu is finding that whoring out their best beachfront homes to corporations isn't all they hoped it would be Charles Bukowski is my favorite writer, so I liked this......

Either he learned a few tricks from the Invisible Woman or the Silver Surfer was swiped from out in front of the Cinerama Dome at the Arclight. Hollywood resident Peggy Archer tagged the photo above on the LAist Featured Photos group on flickr and asks the question "Isn't there supposed to be a guy on there, or is the character a disembodied foot?" Hopefully (we always try to stay optimistic) the statue was not......

- Deemed the Irreconcilable Differences Bandit because during his first bank holdup he said he was going through a divorce that was bankrupting him, bro tried hold up three banks today and was successful in Burbank and Glendale - Daily News - Ex-Dodger Steve Yeager who is now a coach in the IE was driving home when a car flew over the center divider and landed on his roof. He needed 250-300 stitches. No......

- Did you go to the Anti War Demonstration this weekend? Tony did - Tony Forberg - Life is so weird, when Gene Simmons was young he wore all that crazy Kiss makeup, now that he's old and hideous and in need of several layers of makeup he tries to keep it real - TMZ - A 9-year-old Novato boy is a hero after saving a drowning toddler from a swimming pool - CBS2......

This is what the streets of Hollywood around the Kodak Theater looked like just hours before the big bar-b-que, or whatever the hell they're doing over there. LA blogger and industry insider Peggy Archer was nice enough to let us feature some of the pics she took this afternoon which can be found after the jump.......

#92 Female astronaut drives from Texas to Orlando in a diaper (so she wouldn't have to stop) to try to kidnap a woman boning the dude she wants to be boning. - NPR #93 Group of bull sharks ram, sink shrimp boat - Local 6 #94 Palm Bay Police Chief says F the FAA, he wants his drones - Florida Today photo by Peggy Archer......

Blogwar at Martini o'clock starring two guys who don't back down for nobody -- Martini Republic & blogging.la. It started here in the comment section, continued here and went over here. Even the word "pussy" has been used. Downtown Los Angeles Central City East Blogger takes note. A few days earlier: Martini Republic vs. LA Times regarding KTLA's Stephanie Edwards not doing the Rose Parade. LA Times' Joel Stein vs. his readers: "DON'T E-MAIL......

Florida fucks up every day. They're a blight to this country. We love 'em, but they blow. Big Time. The hide in the corner of the nation in shame and they should. Every day we will list three or four troubling things that they should be sorry about. We won't stop until they change their motto from "The Sunshine State" to "We're Really Really Sorry". 4. Palm Beach County's homicide rate rose by 26%......

LA is home to many tv and film professionals. One thing that you learn about production crews is they're typically easy-going, funny, and amazingly smart. They've seen it all: the tantrums, the egos, the drama, the abuse, and the beauty. They laugh it off and wait till its time to break everything down, go home, and do it again in the morning. The "stars" come and go but the real pros have been doing......

You know it's the end of the month when rotting sofas, teetering stacks of broken down Ikea book shelves, and putrid mattresses start to collect on curbs throughout the city. Unfortunately when a renter's lease is up they are not always responsible enough to cart this trash elsewhere or to simply call The Los Angeles sanitation department to haul it away. These eyesores have gained kitsch appeal with the new LA-based blog, Abandoned Couches.......

While the talent are under the lights and the writers are standing with their clipboards, the crew are writing their reviews of the proceedings on the set. If you're lucky. If you're unlucky they're completely ignoring you and emailing Defamer. Peggy Archer discovered a snide jab this month on a set on the Paramount lot and we can only hope that the writers of the project actually take the hint. Thanks, crew, for indirectly......

Blogger Peggy Archer got this shot while working on a film set. Too bad those tree branches wouldn't be in the shot — they sure are pretty.......

More news from the land of LA blogs this week, behind the scenes of Tinseltown. Celia gets out of downtown and soaks up some fantastic curmudgeonliness from William Goldman. (Oscars for the screenplays Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid and All the President's Men, wrote both the novel and movie of Princess Bride, plus too many other fantastic things). Peggy Archer's behind the scenes film crew blog links to photo portraits of grips. Grips are......

We've learned, via Peggy Archer's blog, Totally Unauthorized," that someone has posted a rant about the mall of the moment on the restaurant worker blog, Bitter Waitress (scroll down to find the story, #6 in the queue. The post details The Grove management's policy of charging mall employees for parking in the mall's parking structure. Due to this policy, many workers park for free outside the lot and face long walks to their cars......