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Extra, Extra: Yelpers' (Banned) Jokes About Cecil Hotel's Water Supply

- The new (and later banned) posts on Cecil Hotel's Yelp page reference the death of Elisa Lam (not always tastefully)
- Apparently, it's not easy holding a festival in Silver Lake
- Thanks to aquarium dumpers, giant gold fish are invading Lake Tahoe
- A Orange County supervisor who belongs in the NRA says he wants answers for "17 days of bloodshed" in the county
- Surprise! It is not against the law for Pitbull to drop Lindsay Lohan's name in a song
- Does Los Angeles need a bike map color-coded for stress?
- Watch this poor girl lose some hair on YouTube in the name of beauty
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