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Face From the Past: The Ever-Notorious Judge William G. Dryden

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Melodramatic as they might be, modern courtroom TV reality shows wouldn’t hold a candle to the legal antics of 19th Century Los Angeles. Throughout the mid- to late 1800s, the town’s circus-like court system produced a parade of offbeat trials filled with colorful characters and preposterous verdicts. But for sheer entertainment value, there was probably [...]

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Errant Cannonball Kills SoCal Woman

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Some DIY hobbies are just too insane to pursue — like building a homemade canon, for one. Yet that’s exactly what a pair of San Diego County men recently did, firing it off with predictably disastrous results. (Call it the shot heard ’round the Twin Lakes Resort mobile home park.) At least one of the [...]

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Weekend Matinee: Vervet Monkeys With a Drinking Problem

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Just for comic relief from this blog’s recent spate of death-related posts, here’s a video of a lively bunch of Caribbean Vervet Monkeys who really enjoy an afternoon of cocktails on the beach.

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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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Grave Controversy Continues at La Plaza

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Novena candles glow gently in the courtyard of Los Angeles’ Old Plaza Church. They seem a fitting enough symbol, given news a little over a week ago that construction crews working on a new LA Plaza de Cultura y Arte recently unearthed numerous remains of our city’s founding families.
The ensuing chaos has become a slapstick [...]

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L.A. Coroner’s Little Shop of Horrors Now a Dying Business

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Considering how death rates trend upward during the holiday season, this macabre December 25 New York Times article profiling the L.A. Coroner’s Skeletons in the Closet store is oddly timely. (Still, it probably would’ve been better timed before Christmas to help last-minute shoppers needing gift ideas for those hard-to-please people on their lists.)
Ever on the [...]

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Bearing Christmas Greetings

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Decorated for the holiday season, this Santa Bear guards the Ferndell entrance to Griffith Park. Someone has apparently taken it upon himself to ensure the statue is always dressed appropriately for every occasion. A few weeks ago the bear was wearing a winter sweater. During the summer he’s bare (bear?) naked.
The bear was a gift [...]

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Speaking of the Lincolns…

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Call me a sucker for GEICO commercials. As a MarCom professional myself, I  not only admire the auto insurer’s inventiveness, but also have to confess to a tinge of jealousy at all the fun the company’s creatives must be having behind the scenes. After all, who wouldn’t want to work for a corporation with a  [...]

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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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Happy Thanksgiving!

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Dateline>City of Angels will resume regular posting after the holiday weekend. In the meantime, enjoy this Gloria Gaynor parody, courtesy USA Green Card Center.

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