No direct link, but ABC7 has a large red breaking news banner at the top reporting that "Fox Hills Mall in Culver City is locked down while police search for a stolen car suspect." The leaning tower of Pisa. Check. The leaning tower of Hollywood? Double check. The Sunset + Vine building appears to be leaning. Timber! Donda West, mother of Kanye, who passed away after plastic surgery at a local hospital died from......

Today in the House Committee on Appropriations, a transportation funding bill for Fiscal year 2008 was voted on and passed. It included our Purple Line, the subway that is planned and dreamed on for Wilshire Blvd. Unfortunately, it appears that the bill will not fund the project, but rather does something else of bureaucratic importance: it repeals language written in 1986 by Congress to ban subway tunneling along Wilshire. "Metro is deeply appreciative of Congressman......