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The relationship between real estate and the Hollywood Sign is as old as, well, the sign itself. Built in 1923 as a promotional billboard to attract buyers to make their homes in the hills of the burgeoning Hollywood community, the sign that once read "HOLLYWOODLAND" has become one of the most iconic landmarks in LA. Now real estate and the sign have a new possibility: 138 acres of land once owned by Howard Hughes that sits west of the "H" in the sign is up for sale for a cool $22 million.

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What will Hike The Geek do?!?!

Ann Coulter is not a tasteless, trouble-making, uninformed, clueless bimbo, though she often plays one on TV. At least that's what we were led to believe during a nearly ten minute, extended Wikipedia-style introduction of the lawyer-turned-talking head at USC's Annenberg Auditorium. "I’ve never seen such a friendly crowd at a college campus," Coulter beamed as the standing-room audience of about 250 settled down after the majority greeted her with a standing ovation. Coulter...

"... the kids who join the Greek organizations are very spirited. They are very much involved with all aspects of college life. They run for office and they are big philanthropists," a California State University Northridge (CSUN) student told the Daily News in an article about the city of Los Angeles ordering members of two off-campus CSUN fraternity houses, Zeta Beta Tau and Pi Kappa Alpha, to shut down. Hrmmm, if these students are...

5pm-Infinity Roy Rogers Film Fest TCM - All you could ever want of the singing cowboy. 9:00pm Big Brother 8 CBS - Veto! Veto! Veto!! [What's it all about Tony?] 9:00pm Wide Angle PBS/KCET - Crop failures, sinking global cotton prices, and spiraling debts drive Indian cotton farmers to suicide in this typical example of uplifting fare from public television. 9:00pm i-Caught ABC - Parkour (as featured in LAist within the last week) athletes jump...

While the action on the sand was unscripted, the action around it was incredibly choreographed. AVP (Association of Volleyball Professionals) knows how to market their events. Yesterday the men's finals of the Manhattan Beach Open was held in the South Bay on the sands next to the Manhattan Beach Pier. AVP built a stadium in the sand, complete with corporate luxury boxes and flashy attention-grabbers everywhere you turned. The PA announcer joked with the players,...

Writer Ray Bradbury may be 87, but his mind and sense of humor are as agile as ever. LAist joined his diehard fans and other audience members for an evening with Bradbury live at the Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena on Friday night. The author of American classics – Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles etc. – took the stage and talked for nearly an hour and a half on his love life.

Trevor Corson discusses and signs The Zen of Fish 7pm @ Vroman's

In what could be the finest form of stealing from the rich, the Artist Formerly Known as being far more comfortable touring outside of the US, could be setting up shop a block away from Hollywood & Highland for a royal residency. The LA Times Buzz Bands blog says the details are being ironed out between the purple one and the increasingly relevant-again Roosevelt Hotel. The string of shows is scheduled to start in...

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to!

Diana Ross -- looking like a big-haired, red-feathered, mythical creature (or possibly Sigourney Weaver in Ghostbusters) -- vogued, shrieked and crooned a vegas-style rendition of “More Today Than Yesterday,” while Randy tapped along, Paula danced like a drunken sailor and Simon watched smugly all the while thinking, “If she was in this competition, her entrails would be hanging off the lighting rig.” Or maybe he was just looking through her dress. It's hard to...

There are three months left of American Idol. And judging from last night's show, that's three very long months to whittle down from 12 to the two finalists. The singing overall on the Diana Ross-themed show was pretty lousy, except for a few of the usual suspects: Jordin Sparks (who we think sang a Diana Ross tune from The Land Before Time, Melinda Doolitte belting a song from The Wiz, and show-stopper LaKisha Jones singing...

Last night American Idol whittled down its ranks to 24 finalists. While it took nearly an hour to cut people on TV, which was bad enough, we can’t understand why it took the entire day for the judges to deliver a “yay” or “nay” to each contestant. Did Simon need a smoke break every five minutes? Was there a four-hour lunch break? Anyway, some of the judges choices probably stemmed from a likeability or...

- The two dead bodies found in the crawl space in the Westwood home that caught fire were part of the painting crew - NBC-4

We may not have a football team, but we have American Idol. Last night, Los Angeles welcomed home its own. AI in LA ! Starring: Paula’s cleavage! Olivia Newton Sandy Xanadu John! Mr. Jackson’s snazzy pink and white striped shirt! And charmer extraordinaire, Simon “I’m not being rude, but…” Cowell! This epidode opened on an epileptic panther-man with megalomaniacal ambitions and wild assertions, who got all Cold Hearted Snake on the stairs while making...

Hopefully you heard about the beach closures at parts of Santa Monica and Will Rogers over the weekend, and avoided being coated in a layer of untreated…um, sludge. But, the good people at the CA Department of Health have lifted their restrictions, and we can now bring you this more savory link regarding the aesthetic virtues of the L.A Storm Drain System. FOVICKS -- or Friends of Vast Industrial Concrete Kafkaesque Structures, has a...

You ruined my day, Reggie Bush. I had plans. I was going to have a great workout. I was going on a trail run from Will Rogers Park to Temescal Canyon. I was going to the Santa Monica Steps to punish my cardiovascular system while I gawk at celebrities and hardbodies. I was going to get work done. There was nothing better to do. Chicago was spanking New Orleans in the NFC Championship game. Why...

Rogers Cadenhead has been in the news this week because he is the owner of the online store called Wargames.com, a site he's owned for eight years.

Welcome to Monday, people. And welcome to the first post of the Daily Disgruntle -- your weekday touchstone of work related games, diversions, commiserations, news, recipes, and on-the-clock subterfuge for the LA office culture. Today we’re going to talk about space. Now, if you are lucky enough to work for Buck Rogers, your office probably looks like this. But, if you are one of the millions of worker bees who is not gainfully employed...

This time, we're not talking about USC fan woes or UCLA fans who got shot with rubber bullets. We're talking shootings with real bullets: Eagle Rock On Friday, December 1, 2006, at approximately 8:40 p.m., officers responded to the 4800 block of Wiota Street in Eagle Rock. Officers found Randy Duane Rogers’ lifeless body lying on the driveway. Paramedics made several attempts to resuscitate him but he had already died from his injuries. According...

- An anonymous bullpen coach says that he's certain Kenny Rogers cheated in the World Series:

It was pine tar. It couldn't be anything else. Pitchers use pine tar, shaving cream and suntan lotion. Pitchers use them to help them grip the ball and make the ball move more. Bullpen guys sometimes keep suntan lotion in the ball bags. It's not for a tan. Pine tar works the best. It's been around the longest. - Sports Illustrated

"This is another prime example of people trying to discredit our team," Inge said. "We beat the Yankees [in the Division Series], they wanted to fire Joe Torre," Inge said. "We beat Oakland [in the ALCS], they fired their manager [Ken Macha]. It's like they're saying, 'You should be embarrassed to have lost to the Tigers.' No one gives us credit for being the team we are." - worldseries.com

It was so blatant. What was so strange about it was how obvious it was, in the World Series. It's a shame a guy would cheat in a World Series game. It hurts the integrity of the game. He wasn't just cheating by using pine tar; he was scuffing balls, too. We collected about five or six balls that are scuffed. He had to be using his fingernails or something. - USA Today

I don't believe it was dirt. Didn't look like dirt. - AP

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. - SI.com

- Paris is the best girlfriend ever - PR Inside

Righty bloggers have their panties in a bunch that (another) one of their own is being exposed as being a closeted homosexual with a history of helping to pass anti-gay laws. It's hard to tell if they're upset that their party is quickly becoming the Gay Old Party (not like there's anything wrong with that), or the Hypocritical Old Party, or the Page-Chasing Old Party. The latest Republican Senator accused of being a homosexual...

farm flashback These may be the last days of the community farm in south central LA; supporters are $10 million short in their efforts to buy the property from the developer who's ready to take his 14 acres and make a profit. But Hollywood is lending a publicity-generating, eviction-fighting hand: Daryl Hannah is camping out on the property, Laura Dern and husband Ben Harper stopped by and Joan Baez is treesitting. Treesitting, you ask? Don't worry, the eminent folk singer has experienced treesitter Julia "Butterfly" Hill in the tree beside her if she has any questions.

It’s easy to forget how many Angelenos influence what we read, consume and think. For every telegenic actor accepting an award or CEO discussing his latest stock offering with a journalist, there is a phalanx of publicity professionals and marketing specialists choreographing the entire event.

There's a whole wide world out there, and here's the proof:

If any of you saw "American Idol" last night, then you saw something shocking. And we don't mean Simon Cowell's outfit, or Ryan Seacrest's lame "facial fuzz". No, we mean something far more disturbing. That something was the apparently overly surgically enhanced and polished face of Kenny Rogers.

Another step has been taken in transforming downtown with the Grand Avenue project. Now we're not sure we're going to get the technicalities of municipal development right, but as we read in the Daily News, an agreement to begin design on the park (see illustration) that will stretch from the Music Center to City Hall has been approved. A gallery of park proposals from the people has been put together by good-intentioned rabble-rousers at the Norman Lear Center at USC; we suggest the big developer look there for some inspired ideas.

A few weeks ago we were pretty jazzed about Porto's Bakery opening up at the corner of Magnolia and Hollywood Way in Burbank. Turns out that wasn't the only local or national eatery with new digs in the little city known as the Media Center. Recently we found ourselves on that strip of commercial real estate on San Fernando on the other side of the mall, and noticed that things had been developing in terms of eating options, but on the corporate tip. Burbank, and its neighbor, Glendale, are two areas of LA not known for their broad range of stellar non-chain dining options (yes, we know there are some decent spots, just not a plethora), so it didn't come as much of a shock to see that what was once a Kenny Rogers Roasters is now a whole lineup of big names, including the ubiquitous toasted subs of Quiznos, a Robeks (our top pick for corporate smoothies), and a Starbucks complete with a drive-through window. This link of chains is anchored by an LA favorite: Zankou Chicken--which happened to be our dining destination. Just down the street the long-suffering Koo Koo Roo gave up their chicken combos for a branch of the Corner Bakery. We've never been to a Corner Bakery, and we'd rather have Zankou over Koo Koo Roo any day. The newest Zankou is all about the more upscale atmosphere, so we happily took a seat with our 1/4 chicken combo, complete with pita and that addictive garlic sauce, and drank in their new digs. The food is tasty, the price is nice ($5.49 for the chicken, pita, hummus, pickles & tomatoes, and the garlic sauce), and the orders get served up lightening fast. We're happy to have this new Zankou in Burbank, because it gives us a better option in a pinch. Next time, though, we're going to hit up the Starbucks from the driver's seat--give us one go 'round for novelty's sake, okay?