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Kevin Roderick • March 16 2008 5:03 PM

Councilman Tony Cardenas told Controller Laura Chick Friday to "get out of my face." DN
LAT reporter Martha Groves describes in first-person detail (plus slideshow) the ordeal of recovering from a serious knee injury she suffered on last summer's South America ski trip with ex-mayor Richard Riordan.
New York Times shouldn't have been fooled, again, by "Love and Consequences," says the paper's public editor in a column.
Steve Lopez discovers that the Craigslist free ads are a forum for prostitution. LAT
Need a primer on the Las Lomas controversy that isn't too deep or challenging? Here it is.
Robert C. J. Parry argues against the LAPD's plans to make the SWAT unit less of a brotherhood. LAT Opinion
36 hours in Pasadena with the bureau chief for the New York Times. NYT Travel
Blogger Carolyn Kellogg in Istanbul. Pinky's Paperhaus
Caitlin Flanagan says the trend of teenagers driving less and staying close to their parents more is a good one. NYT Op-Ed
The newest Valley street is Costco Drive. Here in Van Nuys
Enjoying an unexpected silence in the city, "Not absolute, deafening silence, but that the usual background urban noise orchestra took a tacet for a few measures and allowed the sound of a gentle breeze to take a solo." Militant Angeleno
Shana Ting Lipton enlightens her blog readers on "the smell," that "perhaps thrice-in-a-lifetime sexual chemistry that is SO intense that you practically want to devour each other."

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Paul McCartney gets a star in Hollywood

6:50 PM Thu | Largest crowd for a Walk of Fame star ceremony that many could remember, outside the Capitol Records tower on Thursday. Photo by Gary Leonard.

5:35 PM Thu | Live at 6 p.m.: the beach Frisbee press conference

5:31 PM Thu | Lana Del Rey fills up Amoeba Music

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How to know if you're eligible for mortgage relief

5:19 PM Thu | Well, you really can't, not now anyway.

4:56 PM Thu | Paying too much attention to the Dow?

1:14 PM Thu | Why does MarketWatch employ a columnist who is a white nationalist?

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