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Newsblips: Art, Murder, Cops, Turbos, Toxins & Shortcuts
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Study for America Tropical |
Shiny little nuggets from the morning's news-sieve:
Big Mural, Big Money:
Restoration of the legendary Olvera Street mural America Tropical (which we covered last week) will cost $7.8 million - $3.95M from the Getty Foundation and the rest from the city. Completion date: 2009
Racist Conspirators:
Four Latino gang-members were convicted of conspiring to murder and assault black Highland Park residents to force them out of the neighborhood.
In Defense of "Warrior Cops":
Pseudonymous LAPD columnist "Jack Dunphy" says the "warrior cop" label slapped on the department by the Blue Ribbon Rampart Review Panel a) comes from a group that blew the Rampart corruption scandal out of proportion and b) doesn't seem to be scaring killers off the street ...
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Building the Perfect Beast
Not content with owning a custom-built race car powered by a 6-foot-long, 1,792-cubic-inch, V-12 tank engine with enough torque to rip the bumper off a locomotive, funnyman/car-geek Jay Leno now plans to turbocharge the monster so he can show off in Detroit.
No Extra Butter, Please:
Food-flavoring workers in the City of Commerce say that butter-flavoring is ruining their lungs.
Escape from Mac Hall:
An orphan-abuse survivor recalls the hell of MacLaren Children's Center as "a violent, unsafe hell for kids."
Fresh Food! Cheap!
The Mar Vista Farmers' Market launches Sunday on Grandview between Venice and Pacific, filling the West-side fresh-produce void left by the closure earlier this year of the market at Santa Monica Airport. Veggies, fruit, etc, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sundays from now on.
Shortcuts! Cheap!
A musician named GARKO is offering to sell you an eBook containing 115 driving shortcuts for $19.95. Most people I know would give you at least half that many for the price of a good beer.
Actor Misbehaves! More News at 11!
Amazingly, the world-endangering war in Lebanon still outpolls the drunken racist idiot on Google News, though not for long, at the rate we're going.
Sorry, but shouldn't we be focused on more important issues, like the future of LAUSD, global warming or the presidency going to the dogs? I mean, hell, even Jack Dunphy's in on the act.
Just saying.
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| Posted by: Mack_Reed on Wednesday, August 02, 2006 - 01:33 PM
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