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Extra, Extra: How to Enthrall Your Oscar-Watching Companions

- Some overall good news for Metro: Ridership is up across the system, though it's down on bus lines, and up on rail and dedicated lane bus lines.
- Here’s a pretty cool shot of the construction work going on at Dodger Stadium.
- To enthrall your Oscar-watching companions: 10 Fun Facts About Oscar Statuettes.
- Speaking of the Academy Awards, past host Billy Crystal has some advice for new host Seth MacFarlane.
- Agoura Hills Patch got a sneak taste preview of Taco Bell's upcoming Cool Ranch Doritos Taco shell; the rest of us plebes have to wait until March 7.
- All of L.A.’s traffic signals are now synched.
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