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Summer Reruns: Murder and Mayhem Edition

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That’s right, folks! Once again we’re pimping the old Dateline>City of Angels archives to reacquaint readers with some of our all-time favorite posts. This week we bring you three selections dealing with murder and mayhem topped off with scandal. (Not to mention a ghost or two.) Enjoy!

The gruesome kidnapping and murder of Marian Parker shocked [...]

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Blogobuzz: Celebrity Deaths and More

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Today is Friday, and you know what that means! Time for another wrap-up of some interesting items culled from the blogosphere this past week. Today’s selection includes the deaths of two famous Angelenos, mugshots (just for fun), and a pair of posts relating to Southland art. Enjoy!

They say celebrity deaths always come in threes. Award-winning [...]

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Hollywood’s Hidden Conservative Side

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Question: Besides stardom, what do Adam Sandler, Angie Harmon and Gary Sinise have in common? Answer: They’re all Hollywood Republicans — or at least individuals on record as giving to GOP candidates and related conservative causes. Yes, there really are such right-leaning people in Tinseltown, and Ranker has a list of 200 or so of [...]

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RIP for Famous Puppetry Theater?

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Unfortunately, it may indeed be curtains for Echo Park’s world-renown Bob Baker Marionette Theater. Built in 1953, the old cinder-block building at First Street and Glendale Blvd. is considered by many to be America’s longest-running puppet theater, and was declared a Los Angeles historic-cultural landmark in 2009. Nevertheless, the theater has been floundering since 2008, [...]

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Blogobuzz: A Swimming Bear and Other Memorial Week Craziness

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Two Monrovia girls were startled to find a bear taking a dip in their family’s pool over Memorial Day weekend. They managed to capture the animal’s leisurely swim in a video for KTLA. Unfortunately, that Channel 5 report won’t embed here, so you’ll have to click the link to see the cute ol’ bear enjoying [...]

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Summer Reruns: Keeping Up With the Coronels

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Throughout the summer, your humble blogger is performing a much-needed, behind-the-scenes overhaul of Dateline>City of Angels. During that time, we’ll occasionally pimp the archives to revisit some favorite posts you may have missed or forgotten over the years. Here are this week’s offerings…

Antonio Villaraigosa is L.A.’s first Latino mayor in over a century. But he [...]

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Pussycat, Pussycat, Where Have You Been?

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Historical preservationists have some very strange bedfellows… Don’t ask me how I stumbled across it, but this offbeat San Diego Reader piece by Jay Allen Sanford offers a detailed — if sometimes tediously lurid — look into the rise and fall of Southern California’s X-rated Pussycat Theater chain.
Whatever you might think of the Pussycat enterprise, [...]

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Blogobuzz: This Past Week’s Odds and Ends

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What will dog owners do now? With apparently no better issues to solve in a city facing massive infrastructure and budget woes, L.A.’s city council spent an inordinate part of the week debating, and ultimately voting for, a ban on plastic shopping bags. (A 10-cent surcharge on paper grocery bags also goes into effect.)
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L.A.’s Forgotten Lizard People

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The KCRW Shortcuts blog has a new post exploring the facts and fiction surrounding Los Angeles’ oft-ignored network of underground tunnels. The post includes links to several in-depth features on the topic by local news outlets.
Worthwhile as the item is, however, it unfortunately left out an entertainingly bizarre story about L.A.’s subterranean landscape: the mysterious [...]

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Lost and Found: Original 1927 Grauman’s Chinese Theatre Footprints

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NBC Los Angeles reports that concrete slabs bearing the original footprints of Sid Grauman, Douglass Fairbanks and Mary Pickford have been found in — of all places — a local airport hanger. Along with the still-lost footprints of Norma Talmadge, the silent-era imprints date to 1927 and, through a quirk of fate, were the very [...]

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BlogoBuzz: A Downtown Guide for Last-Minute Valentine’s Romance

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Frantically looking for last-minute Valentine’s activities in the Downtown Los Angeles area? Don’t worry, all is not lost. The Downtown Center Business Improvement District (DCBID) has a host of ideas for procrastinating Romeos (and/or Juliets), including intimate dining locales, lovingly thoughtful gift-shopping suggestions, and especially romantic spots to pop the question if you’re so inclined. [...]

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Caution: Never, Never Wake the Dead!

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Not to beat a dead horse, but having unearthed numerous pioneer skeletons at the abandoned Placita churchyard, LA Plaza officials might want to think twice before messing with the spot any further. Construction crews assembling an amusement ride in Britain have apparently disturbed a similar old cemetery, resulting in menacing visits by a headless monk.
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Megastorm Watch 2011 and Beyond!

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Local television news anchors and their producers must be salivating. Scientists are warning that the Mother of All Storm Seasons may soon be headed our way.
No, it’s not due to global cooling, global warming or climate change (whichever term is in vogue nowadays). Rather, like our region’s major earthquakes, such megastorms are natural phenomena that [...]

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BlogoBuzz: Statuary With Style and Flair

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Inspired by Griffith Park’s oddly dressed bear statue, the gang at Curbed LA have taken it upon themselves to outfit other local statuary in the latest styles. Click on over and decide if their fashion sense merits a big thumbs up, or a surprise visit from Stacy and Clinton of TLC’s What Not to Wear.

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Get Ready to Pay Through the Nose for Dumping Your “Illegal” Trash

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Fines for dumping illegal garbage in Los Angeles have skyrocketed drastically, thanks to a new city ordinance. Yet, strangely, officials waited weeks to launch their public awareness campaign for the new regulations, which actually took effect last month.
Aimed primarily at businesses, the law allows trashy offenders to be charged “administrative” fines of $500, $750 and [...]

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Stowed Baby Mummies Spark Film-Noir-Like LAPD Investigation

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Sometimes it’s best not to snoop through somebody else’s old, abandoned luggage. Still, you can just picture the scenario as it unfolded Tuesday afternoon…
Rummaging down in the basement of an aging Westlake Neighborhood apartment building, the rental manager and a friend find three rustic steamer trunks. The discovery naturally piques the female pair’s curiosity. Do [...]

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Aliens Implicated in Mysterious Cattle Slaughter

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While the rest of us were carving up our turkeys for the holiday, it appears someone — or something — in southern Colorado was engaging in an otherworldly animal carving ritual of their own.
According to this Associated Press story, “a creepy string of calf mutilations” has left local ranchers and sheriff’s officials “mystified:”
“Four calves were [...]

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Anonymous Billboard Urges Boycott of Los Feliz’s Vermont Hand Wash

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At first I thought this new billboard along Sunset’s 4400 block might be the work of advertising amateurs — or possibly a lone disgruntled customer angry enough to splurge on an outdoor display. The slogan’s catchy enough, but there’s nothing to support the message or make us care. For all we know, the alleged “injustice” [...]

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Check Out Silver Lake’s Gleaming New Neutra-Inspired Library!

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It was a long time in coming, but Silver Lake finally saw the much-anticipated opening of its new $12-million library this morning. The residents’ campaign for the building actually began in the mid-1990s, but considering how Silver Lake’s elite history dates to the early 1900s, you wonder why it even took that long.
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Angeleno Streets Rank a Fatal Third Most “Dangerous by Design”

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As if you didn’t have reason enough, now there’s even more cause to fear the mean streets of Los Angeles.
The Transportation for America (TFA) advocacy group has released a report ranking Los Angeles as 27th in the nation for pedestrian accidents, but third in pedestrian fatalities.
In other words, your stroll along Main Street carries less [...]

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