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Even Flat Stanley pays his Orange Line fare. The Daily News has an idea. We're not so much into it, but here is how it goes. While Metro contracts with LA County Sheriff's, the LAPD has a man who knows something about enforcing ticketless travelers on transit systems and he happens to be top cop Chief William Bratton. Some will remember that he became famous for his "broken windows" theory that enforced smaller crimes...

Since you know LAist is crazy about bacon, how about this burger made of ground bacon? [Serious Eats] In the meat-eating corner: Ted Nugent! In the meat-free corner: Paul McCartney! Read what Nugent really thinks about the folks in the music biz he knows who have been "Fired for eating meat by an animal-rights maniac, hard-core vegan bass player." [Waco Tribune-Hearld] David Haskell of Bin 8945: Chowhounds can be so tasteless, bloggers mean business...

With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs.

Tomorrow night (Thursday) at the Egyptian Theater's Alternative Screen at 8:00 p.m., running late will do you no good. The Tribe: An Unorthodox, Unauthorized History of the Jewish People and the Barbie Doll ... in About Fifteen Minutes, which was an official selection at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, only runs... about 15 minutes. But in 15 minutes you can learn a lot of history (and retain it), maybe even more than you will with this Saturday's premiere of Assume the Position with Mr. Wuhl on HBO.

This Sunday, LA's theatre community--the companies, actors, supporters and fans--are hosting Applause for August Wilson, a tribute event for the playwright who passed away on October 2 at the age of 60. The brief, one hour long event will conclude with each of the titles of Wilson's "decade" plays (including Fences, The Piano Lesson, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) will be called-out, one at a time, followed by the audience giving Wilson and his plays 1 full-minute of grateful applause, for a total of 10 minutes. Scheduled participants include the African Grove Institute for the Arts (California Chapter), Center Theatre Group, League of Allied Arts Corporation, Robey Theatre Company, and the Towne Street Theatre. The tribute aims to be simple, solemn, and timely, and a chance for the community to gather to honor the life of a playwright who dedicated his life's work to chrnonicling the African-American experience in the twentieth century. In New York City, Broadway's Virginia Theatre will be renamed for Wilson, and further tributes for the Los Angeles area are in the works.

Maybe it's because nobody walks in LA. In New York, people walk their dogs and watch them squat, nonchalantly scooping their pooches' poop when necessary. It took an Angeleno to invent Pet a Potty, the rolling indoor/outdoor grass box that your pup can squat in to do his business. Advertised as a "solution for those walks at inopportune times," handily equipped with a trap pan for liquids, available in artificial or real turf and carrying a price tag of upwards of $200, the Pet a Potty is trying to be far more sexy than a litter box for dogs. Although the company is proud of Sharon Osbourne saying "I think this is absolutely amazing," we think a stronger tag line might come from the musical Fame: "I want to go crazy / like the dogs in the yard." Or maybe someone should just let the dogs out.