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When the original owner of Griffith Park, Don Antonio Feliz died of small pox in 1863, he left his extensive land holdings to Don Antonio Coronel. Subsequently, his blind, destitute 17 year old niece, Dona Petronilla, cursed the land -- great misfortune would come to whoever owned it. One by one, Coronel's family died from misfortune and disease. He left the land to his wife, who married again only to have her husband try to divorce her and get the land for himself. The next owner tried to develop it as a dairy farm, only to be wiped out by rain and debt. Finally, Griffith J. Griffith was pretty nuts and tried to shoot his wife in a Santa Monica hotel. He spent two years in San Quentin and then sold the land to the city of Los Angeles, who, as far as anyone can tell, has been bigger, more violent and full of smog ever since. Enough to make the chills run up your spine, isn't it?

In early September, 104 years ago, in a hotel in Santa Monica, the immigrant mining millionaire, Colonel Griffith Jenkins Griffith, aimed a pistol at his wife during a fit of rage and shot her in the head. Because she survived, and thanks to his political connections, Griffith only did three years in San Quentin.

Angels fans can be quite snooty. They find Dodger Stadium to be dirty and violent. Thanks to the Gwendolyn Driscoll of the Orange County Register, I can now refute one of those claims. In the last 2 1/2 years Orange County officials found 118 vermin violations at stadium kiosks and restaurants. Of those reports, 33 represent "major" violdations, in which "rodent activity" was observed by health inspectors in a "critical area" of 18 stadium...

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Live at the Fillmore 1970 (with DVD; Reprise)

After anesthesiologists delayed this morning's execution due to medical ethics, the execution was then set to happen tonight at 7:30 p.m. Once again the execution has been delayed until further discussions happen in May.

Stan Tookie Williams was pronounced dead at 12:35 this morning in San Quentin, after being executed by lethal injection for the deaths of four people in 1979.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger denied clemency for Crips founder Stan Tookie Williams this afternoon.