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Photo by Lord Jim via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr An outbreak of tagging done recently at Metro's Little Tokyo Gold Line station appears to be linked to a graffiti exhibit running across the street at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. All of the tags were immediately painted over by Metro employees, according to LA Now. The Los Angeles Police Department say they have also been alerted about dozens of other tags...

Sunday, Monday... Five of the cast members of the classic television series "Happy Days" are reuniting, but not on the small screen. Anson Williams, Don Most, Marion Ross, Erin Moran and the estate of Tom Bosley are together as part of a $40 million breach-of-contract lawsuit filed today in Los Angeles alleging the performers are "owed money for merchandise sales related to the comedy series," reports the Daily Breeze. Although the Garry Marshall-created series...

Photo by sfxeric via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The Hollywood Farmers' Market has been given a 30-day extension on their street closure permit and can continue to operate until mid-May as negotiations with the Los Angeles Film School continue. The school challenged the long-running market late last year based on a need to have improved access to their parking facility while the market is in operation on Sundays. City Council President...

Orange County GOP official Marilyn Davenport is refusing to step down from her elected post today after she was outed as the sender of an email of a digitally-altered "family portrait" of President Obama as a baby chimp according to Top of the Ticket. Davenport said she thought the photo was "amusing," and definitely not racist. Likening her effort at levity to the jabs taken and shared via e-mail at preceding President George W....

Photo by John-Morgan via Flickr It's Tax Day in the U.S.A. Eight post offices in Los Angeles and Orange Counties will be open late tonight to accommodate those procrastinators who have waited until the very last minute to postmark their 2010 taxes. All eight of the post offices offering extended hours will have mail collection until midnight, the deadline for filing today, though retail services will conclude at different times among the locations. Here...

Proposed Downtown stadium Farmers Field (Gensler) One of the biggest hitches in the whole Farmers Field Stadium in Downtown plan is that we don't have a National Football League team. Now a city negotiator is saying Los Angeles will need not only a team to seal the deal, but that team would have to sign on for 20 to 30 years in the proposed stadium. Chief Legislative Analyst Gerry Miller told a City Council...

Tweets before the event as captured by Venice311 The man wounded in a shooting on the Venice Boardwalk Saturday night was struck during the course of a flash mob gathering that had been organized using Twitter, reports the LA Times. The victim, said to be in his mid-20s, received a gunshot wound in the head and was listed in critical condition following the shooting. The flash mob was organized using Twitter, and word had...

In today's Extra, Extra we've got Xtina's boy toy off the hook, all sorts a stuff ablaze in Chatsworth, Passover dessert recipes, hot hot heat, and more news bites of the day. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.

From around the -ists: DC debates...everything, Boston is really worried about the Red Sox, an ocelot gets its teeth brushed, and more.

Opening day at Dodger Stadium, 2011. Will we host another World Series this year? (Photo by Culture Shlock via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) So maybe our Lakers fans don't have the best rep, and if you don't root for the home team you might get beaten within an inch of your life, the City of Angels is still #1 when it comes to sports. Los Angeles has recently been ranked the...

In today's It Might Be Hot in L.A. But It's Hot as Hades in Coachella edition of Extra, Extra we've got a hit-and-run victim who's back at home, some funny film clichés, food trucks facing gas price woes, and more news bites of the day. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.

Someone is shooting arrows at the geese in Fountain Valley, and now the authorities are on the lookout for the perp, and a reward has been offered up to help nab the shooter. Three Canada Geese were struck with hunting arrows last week at Mile Square Regional Park, according to the OC Register. Authorities believe the geese were hit on or before Friday, April 8th. Of the three geese shot, only one remains alive....