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- Attention: boys and girls who love Apple products now have a dating site to meet each other.
- There's a big, big, big animal adoption event this Saturday throughout the city and county. Found Animals' "Better with a Buddy" event will be simultaneously be held at 14 shelters and will pay for half of adoption fees when you adopt and 100% of them if you adopt two pets.
- Be on the lookout: inflatable art is rising in Silver Lake.
- Today in local brush fires: In the Los Angeles neighborhood of El Sereno and near the 91 Freeway in Riverside County.
- On the lack of shade around Los Angeles, including asphalted school playgrounds: "If this were a prison, Amnesty International would be going nuts."
- "June 17, 1994" (that's when O.J. Simpson gave chase) on ESPN will help us relive "one of the wildest days" in Los Angeles history. It airs tonight.
- A test missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County around 3 a.m. this morning traveled 4,190 miles, hitting its target in the Marshall Islands.
- Erykah Badu is playing The Greek Theatre on June 20th and we're giving away a pair of tickets. Enter our contest here.