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More Than Red Cars , a blog examining “the obscure, offbeat and half-forgotten transportation history of Southern California,” recently ranked L.A’s Metro Rail stations by their Walk Score , a number assigned to a location illustrating its proximity to amenities like grocery stores, coffee shops and eateries. more › Read the original: How Walkable Is Your Metro Rail Station?
More Than Red Cars , a blog examining “the obscure, offbeat and half-forgotten transportation history of Southern California,” recently ranked L.A’s Metro Rail stations by their Walk Score , a number assigned to a location illustrating its proximity to amenities like grocery stores, coffee shops and eateries. more › Read the original: How Walkable Is Your Metro Rail Station?
Caitlin Doughty believes her fascination with death started when she was a little girl and she witnessed a girl fatally fall from the balcony of a local mall. She went on to get a degree in mortuary science and start a delightful (no, really!) web series about death. more › Read more: ‘Ask a Mortician’ and She’ll Tell You About Space Burials, Where the Famous Go to Die and How to Bake Your Remains into Chocolate Cake
Every once in a while, The New York Times decides to turn its attention to the Best Coast, and this week the Grey Lady suggested checking out this bubbling asphalt pit full of prehistoric (or as we Angelenos refer to it B.F.: Before Freeways) fossils that’s right smack-dab in the middle of the Miracle Mile. Isn’t that insane?!! more › More here: The New York Times Discovers This Crazy Place Called the La Brea Tar Pits
Every once in a while, The New York Times decides to turn its attention to the Best Coast, and this week the Grey Lady suggested checking out this bubbling asphalt pit full of prehistoric (or as we Angelenos refer to it B.F.: Before Freeways) fossils that’s right smack-dab in the middle of the Miracle Mile. Isn’t that insane?!! more › More here: The New York Times Discovers This Crazy Place Called the La Brea Tar Pits
Twitter is apparently hiring, and one peek at their high budget recruiting video will surely have you crafting a cover letter and tweaking your resume in hopes of landing a job at a dynamic workplace where “the future is you!” more › Link: Twitter’s New Recruiting Video Is So Awful, It’s Awesome
Police said they are investigating the very thing that has been worrying residents in Lincoln Heights : whether there’s any connection between the cases of two women in the neighborhood who mysteriously disappeared before turning up dead on the side of the freeway. more › The rest is here: Police Investigate Connection Between Two Women Whose Bodies Were Dumped Near Freeways
She gave birth to her second child less than a month ago and while most celebrities might be taking the time to work on unveiling their post-pregnancy figure, Rebecca Gayheart is straight back to being a busy mum on the run. View post: Rebecca Gayheart steps out for playdate with toddler daughter Billie
A gang shooting in front of the Mayan in Downtown Los Angeles early Saturday morning leaves one man dead and three others wounded. Police arrived on the scene around 2:45am following a report of an argument outside the nightclub at 1038 South Hill Street. A gang member had shot one of his rivals, who later died at a local hospital, in the head and wounded a trio of others. more › See the rest here: Gang Shooting Outside Downtown L.A. Nightclub Leaves One Man Dead, Three Wounded
Get out so you can gaze at the stars and figured out what 2012 foretells, see a play about Mexico inspired by Chekhov or go to the museum for free. more › Read more: Get Out: Star-Gazing, Changing Mexico, Free Museums
