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- LA Weekly looks into the city's most recent murders: numbers 142, 143 and 144.
- "Morbidly obese man dies after being Tasered by deputies in Lancaster"
- If you saw a bunch of Sailor Moons and other anime clad people (including some Michael Jacksons) downtown this past weekend, they were here for the big annual Anime Expo
- The city of Rancho Palos Verdes wants to reduce the number of colorful and majestic, but apparently exasperating, peafowl running around their tony peninsula city.
- In other bird news, a rare sighting of the "least" bells vireo in the Whittier Narrows has biologists excited.
- Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood visited Los Angeles last week and toured the Gold Line Eastside Extension, scheduled to open sometime before September.
- Starline Tours will be debuting a new Westside tour this Thursday. It will be a "hop on, hop off" experience that will take tourists go the Santa Monica Pier, Hammer Museum, among other landmarks.
- New restaurant in Santa Monica: Melisse's Josiah Citrin opened Cache last Friday night on Santa Monica's Main Street. Eater LA describes the menu as "a small-plate American menu using (no shocker) French technique and market-driven ingredients."
- Speaking of food, Digesty, which lists the headlines from local food blogs has a new national page. (via LA Observed)
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