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Photo by matchity via Flickr These may well be the dog days of summer, but local pooches can take a "paws" and relax and unwind at a water park just for man's best friend. After all, it's not easy being a dog, and everyone needs a little pampering, right? Paradise Ranch Pet Resort in Sun Valley has launched their "Bora Bora Club," for dogs, reports KTLA, where Fido and Rover can "can dive off...

Bargain shoppers and vintage hunters rejoice! L.A. is a great city for flea markets, and the Citysearch has compiled a list of the eight best spots to hit up around town. Perennial favorite Rose Bowl makes the list, with a caveat about the admission fee and a tip to BYO lunch. The newest flea market to open up is the LA Flea Market, which debuted last month at Dodger Stadium with rousing success. Other...

Inside Fat Beats on Melrose (Photo by cyan79 via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) Another independent music store has announced they will be closing down. This time it's Fat Beats, a hip-hop centric record shop with two remaining retail outlets, one in New York City and one here in Los Angeles on Melrose. "[T]he record stores were a place to experience hip-hop culture and its legacy, which became a global phenomenon," notes...

An apartment manager doing some cleaning in the basement of a Westlake building found something unusual wrapped in newspapers inside two doctor's bags stashed in a steamer trunk. Inside the papers--a 1933 and a 1935 issue of the Los Angeles Times--were "infant skeletons" thought to be those of fetuses, according to the Daily News. "If the preliminary investigation is of any indication, the remains have been there for a very long time," notes abc7....

Photo by Taylorgotbeats via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Tainted eggs shipped to California are part of a national recall due to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened at least 43 people in L.A. County. The trial of a California man accused of torturing his daughter and leaving her to die while stuffed inside a freezer is coming to an end. Authorities in Santa Ana arrested a 31-year-old man they caught having...

It's been a long time since The Carpenters had a single that exploded on the charts, but yesterday in Cypress the police thought they had an explosive on their hands that turned out to be a Carpenters record, according to the OC Register. "Around noon, the department received a small box with unusual packaging, no return address, and uncancelled postage - signs the U.S. Postal Service warns about." Protocol dictated the bomb squad be...

An urban artist at work in Venice (Photo by morgan.arnold via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) This Thursday night the Venice Art Crawl will have its inaugural tread through the community, showcasing the area's renowned artist community and spirit. The idea for the event was borne partially from the collective frustration of the artists who have long-flocked to the area because of its welcome to creative folk: The artistic force continues today...

Taking a drive in Huntington Beach just got a little riskier--financially (Photo by doug_wertman via Flickr) The Huntington Beach City Council approved an "emergency services cost recovery program," yesterday that will see to it that visitors who cause car accidents while in the city "will now be billed up to $3,000 for emergency response," according to an AP report published on cbs2. Here's how the new fees break down: - Pry a trapped person...

JetBlue's Steven Slater/Photo via Gothamist Gothamist was stunned when a JetBlue flight attendant apparently had a meltdown and then exited the plane via emergency slide. It's unclear whether Steven Slater is a working man's hero for telling off a bad passenger or was actually drunk, but it's an amazing story, none the less. Chicagoist survived another edition of Lollapalooza at which they were unimpressed by Lady Gaga, actually dug Green Day, were blown away...

Photo by 27ray via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Authorities have released the name of the driver in the fatal California 200 racing accident that killed 8 and injured 12 others. Zsa Zsa Gabor's publicist says the ailing actress is in extremely serious condition at a local hospital. Five people, including three kids, were injured in a shooting at a Sylmar birthday party last night. The LAUSD is opening a virtual high...

A brush fire threatened homes last weekend in the SCV (Photo by Eric B. Shanks via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) Even with our summer of cool temperatures there have still been a number of brush fires sparking up all over Southern California. Today, however, with the arrival of a surge in hot weather, officials are reminding us of the imminent threat of fire, according to LA Now. "On Sunday and Monday...

When Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa broke his elbow in a bicycle accident in July, one of the first responses from his constituents was surprise--that he even rode a bike in the first place. Now he's being hailed as a "new champion of cyclists' rights," according to an AP report published on cbs2. Tomorrow the Mayor's Bike Summit begins; it has garnered criticism before it even began, which is perhaps why the City Hall's PR machine...