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• Posted Eye Nosh: Is This the Best Pastrami in America? to LAist
  Three deckers of delish (Photo by djjewelz via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) If we're talking nosh, there's no item perhaps more quintessential than pastrami on rye. The one pictured above hailed from a plate served up at Langer's, a deli that has been a longtime favorite of locals, but has now been praised for offering up the best of its kind in the whole country. The accolade comes from writer David...
• Posted Classmates Honor Melody Ross; Her Teen Killers Charged as Adults to LAist
  One week ago, 16-year-old Wilson High student Melody Ross was with her friends, watching the school's Homecoming football game. Last night the team observed a moment of silence in her honor, as Ross was gunned down minutes after she exited the Long Beach school's stadium. At last night's game students wrote MR on their cheeks, the team turned the school's "W" on their helmets upside down to make an "M" in their classmates honor,...
• Posted License to Drive You Crazy: DMV Offices Closed 12 Straight Fridays to LAist
  Inside the Santa Monica DMV this time last year (Photo by omar omar via Flickr) Yesterday was yet another Friday on which the state's DMV offices were closed down, thanks to Executive Order S-13-09--a furlough mandate launched in July that sees the department darkened for the first three Fridays of each month. However, do a little figuring with the calendar, and yesterday kicked off a long string of Fridays when the DMV just won't...
• Posted MTA Bus and Car Collide in Silver Lake Last Night, 19 Injured to LAist
  Last night during rush hour an MTA bus collided with a private vehicle near 1959 N. Glendale Boulevard and the 2 Freeway. "According to Officer Gregory Baek of the Los Angeles Police Department, the No. 92 bus was driving northbound just before the freeway ramp when the accident occurred," explains LA Now. As a result, 19 people suffered injuries, of which 10 "were taken to the hospital," and of those, one "was reported to...
• Commented on Revoking <em>90210</em>'s Poetic License: Hollywood Sign Sinning
  Thanks for looking into that, avblue. I had a strong suspicion there was some serious Hollywood magic going on there. In the Huell Howser episode where they visit the sign it indeed looks far less picturesque up close, with the...