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LAist Editor Tony Pierce has blogged here non-stop for more than a year deserving a well-earned vacation (and did he ever earn it). While out of town, we decided to have a little fun and bring some guest day editors in from around the blogLAsphere. Monday we had Green LA Girl and Tuesday saw Fred Camino of MetroRiderLA. Yesterday was Zuma Dogg and today is the official nerd him/her/itself, the LA City Nerd. 1....

- Dodgers donate $100k to help rebuild Griffith Park - MLB

- Mack Reed steps down from LA Voice, hands over the reigns to two new editors, Ryan Knoll and Scott Schmidt. Congratulations, Mack for your years of dedication and great blogging - LA Voice - Ozzfest will be free this year, and it will kick off in LA - Ozzfest - LAPD's story is different than witnesses stories in the death of a 31 yr old who some say was beaten while handcuffed -...

- Hi New LAist Readers: Skid Row gets an Internet Cafe - UPI - Best LA Daily News Headline of the Week: "Moms + kids + wine = big-time buzz" - Daily News - Those Aqua Teen Hunger Force "bombs" were headed to LA - LA Times - Mello and Brand jockeying for Yao's All Star spot - AP - Rush Limbaugh nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize - PR Newswire - Wisconsin Police...

- To boost ridership, WiFi has been proposed to travel with riders on the Gold Line - Curbed LA - Dogs in Echo Park as a hot issue - Chicken Corner - Nevermind. Thomas Mauk has decided to stay with Orange County instead of moving to LA County as Chief Administrative Officer - LAO - Kobe = suspended. Lakers will still win tonight against the Knicks - NY Times - The city council race...

In a strangely underreported story that we can only see being discussed on a few local blogs, it appears that the Better Business Bureau has given Santa Monica-based rental giants Westside Rentals an F-rating.

photo excerpt of "Washing Out" by our common

Yesterday, Sean Bonner of Metroblogging Los Angeles, who helped the LAPD birth a blog of their own, caught wind of a video taken on August 11 and posted on YouTube on October 18, showing a splice of an arrest with an officer punching a man in the face. Immediately, LAist wrote Council District 13, requesting a response. They were not aware of it and said they would let us know of any details to...

- Travis Barker responds on his Myspace about his ex-wife's divorce party this weekend, that he didn't get an evite to - seriouslyomgwtf - Speaking of Barkers: Nerd might replace Bob Barker - WOW - Jill Stewart hired at the LA Weekly, several fired, hilarity doesn't ensue - LA Observed here and here, LA Voice, Martini Republic, - Microsoft Office 2007 & Vista will be released Nov. 30. for eh behavior. - PC World...

US attorney in Frisco sez the LA Times story was filled with inaccuracies when it claimed that Roger Clemens and others were the names redacted from the affidavit of MLB players fingered by stool pigeon Jason Grimsley - LAT Guns 'N Roses announces new tour dates including two in LA: 12/17, 12/19 at the Gibson - MTV Death Row inmate convicted of murder dies of a heart attack, victim's mother pissed that he wasn't...

LAist loves all the blogs in LA and we realize that we don't give enough love to them. It's not because of any reasons other than foolishness and ignorance. Case in point: last week Mack Reed went on an LAPD ride-a-long and wrote a nice long piece in LA Voice about his experience. Apparently he was shown certain aspects of Skid Row by Senior Lead Officer Deon Joseph, that included techniques of dealing with...

Admittedly, LAist is a bit behind on the Zuma Dogg story. But we figured, there are still a lot of readers who have not seen any of this.

What do Pee-Wee Herman, Johnny "Drama," and Alice Nelson from the Brady Bunch all have in common? They are part of Blogging.la's Fictional LA series that has been running since Monday. 25 in total, today is the last day. Who will be the #1 Los Angeles fictional character?

"The state has so far received 74,108 applications for an allotment of 75,000 decals permitting hybrid owners to drive solo in HOV lanes." ~ L.A. Times Blogging.LA does the math on hate crimes in LA: "...for every one hate crime in San Diego and San Francisco counties combined, there were five in Los Angeles. By any explanation, that's a lot of hate." Pasadena goes WiFi. (via LA Voice) In city politics and news, fines...

LAist is a huge fan of stereogum. HUGE. We write them but they don't write back, but it's cool. No really, it's cool. In fact there are 13 free mp3s after the jump.

News Busters sez "cheap slap at Catholics" to a feature in today's LA Times (reg. required), printing this quote from The Times' coverage of Erotica LA:

Payne, who earns $250 an hour, was about to demonstrate the fine art of spanking, which — contrary to what you might think — is not as simple as it looks. The hand should be cupped, not flat, she explained, and positioned on the lower part of the buttocks, never at the top, never on the leg and never ever near the tailbone.

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miss chinatown, multiculturally: Angela Chao Roberson (third from left) was the first African-American-Chinese contestant in the Miss Los Angeles Chinatown competition in January. She was crowned Princess #3. The winners "are a really true reflection of Chinese Americans in Southern California," Terry R. Loo, one of the judges, told the LA Times. "It's a mixed group these days."

The LA Times looks inside Schwarzenegger's Governorship and finds the Governator "difficult to predict," "mercurial," "fun," Democrat-kissing and peach-schnapps-drinking. We're thinking "loose cannon."

If you liked your Dicky Barret in the morning, you're not alone. His Mighty Morning Show disappeared from the Indie 103.1 airwaves this week and radio listeners are bemoaning its loss all over the internets.

We know that as far as fashion goes, the '80s are back, but in webland it's 1996 all over again. Remember the coffee cam, which was fun to look at just because you could? You could use this newfangled internet to look at something as hysterically inane as a coffeepot in an office thousands of miles away; you could watch it get drained and refilled in blurry 10-second refresh updates. The internet was, like, magic.

Today the LA Times reports on the internal LAPD debate about what to do with Skid Row. Clearcut clean up the worst areas, like 6th and San Julian, by removing everyone (to where)? Or target the criminals in those areas? We don't know what the best solution might be, but we can't wait to hear what downtown activist Brady Westwater thinks.

That there black goo bluging streets and seeping through manhole covers in downtown seems to be oil, indeed. Workers at a nearby oil well were flushing old lines with high-pressure water to get any last drops of oil out — and started wrecking havoc on Olive Street.

LA Voice is paying attention to one of those little things that could mean a lot:

An overlooked LA landmark: Bob Hanifen visits Santa Monica's Camera Obscura for Gridskipper. We didn't know exactly what a Camera Obscura was, but he explains. It's pretty cool.

We're still not quite sure what's really going on between the disgruntled former models of Suicide Girls and the company behind the site. From everything we've been able to gather, most of the complaints seem to be about one of the company's owners and founders, Sean Suhl, and the perception of SG as a punk-feminist-free speech advocating adult site versus a reality of what many former employees feel is about censorship and the exploitation of their young group of models.

It has been quite a while since KRS-One was claiming criminal minded and the few reports we've read about the event don't suggest there were problems or even calls of complaints to the force so we're very curious about the reaction of the LAPD to a Hurricane Katrina Relief concert at a warehouse in Downtown LA this past weekend.

In the past week, we've noticed some pretty cool stuff going on with blogs around town. LAblogs, currently on hiatus, has launched a wiki about the city that we can all add to. LA Voice launched LA Vision, which seems awfully ambitious and one of the few community video projects we've seen. Mayor Sam's Sister City broke a local politics story that got them in all the local papers and on CNN today and it isn't part of their blog network but LA.com launched a car tips newsletter that features a very cool tip that we won't tell you about because we want those spaces for ourselves but Franklin Avenue will.

A few years ago, in a random used book store in Hollywood, we I bought an electric coach tour guide of LA printed in 1906 called . Anything with a copyright dated 1922 or earlier is in the public domain, thus deserves to be easily accessible to the public and a search for the tour guide's title on google and the LAPL card catalog found nothing, so it seemed the right thing to do would be to scan it and post it on the internet for everyone to read. Using a digital SLR, every page of the book was captured in high resolution and then converted to plain text, at first by hand and then using an OCR program.

Today people are buzzing about the LA Times poll that says Antonio Villaraigosa leads James Hahn by 18 points in the race for Mayor. The Angelino calls the news "devastating" for Hahn. While LA Voice scoffs at voter apathy and the tiny number of likely voters (suggesting a write-in for Xeni Jardin), the poll hits the national blogsphere on Daily Kos and the AP isn't far behind. BoiFromTroi reminds us that last time around, Hahn got nasty at the end and this time, the gloves may be coming off. We're waiting to see if the next few weeks become, as The Angelino says, a knife fight in a phone booth.

Bob Hertzberg might be gone from the Mayor's race, but he's launched a new website this week to make sure he's not forgotten. Called Big Ideas 4 LA, the site so far has a lively blog that culls stories from the day's news into a snappy, still-evolving digest format. Former Hertzberg campaigner Brian Hay is behind most of the work, and the digests are sure helpful to those who like getting a snapshot of what's happening around the city. But like LA Voice, we're not exactly sure what the point is. Maybe it's the first step toward something big.