Dateline>City of Angels

Do the dead need to tone for the afterlife? Apparently so, if you can believe the security cams at the Anytime Fitness center in Overland Park, Kan. Sometime, somehow, in the late hours when the building was otherwise vacant, someone or something tripped the motion-sensitive cameras into action. When staff later inspected the surveillance footage it revealed a spooky white “orb” making the machine circuit…

And in Other News…

… Cityhood for East L.A.? That’s the question posed by today’s New York Times. Known as an “epicenter of Latino culture,” East L.A. is not actually part of the City of Angels at all, but rather a 7.4-square-mile swath of unincorporated county land. According to the NYT piece, a growing number of residents want to change that…

… Griffith Park’s Monumental Battle: Meanwhile, in incorporated Los Angeles, the future of Griffith Park as a historical-cultural monument is still tenuous at City Hall, despite the recent thumbs up from the Cultural Heritage Commission. L.A. Weekly’s David Ferrell explains why the proposal may yet face an uphill fight…

… Just in Time for Halloween: The Corpus Christi College in Cambridge has unveiled what has to be the world’s ugliest clock. Not only does the so-called Chronophage tick and tock erratically, it’s meant to remind gazers that their moments on this mortal earth are quickly being devoured.