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JM, Franklin Av. Dusk, 1.2.08


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Nikki Finke all by her lonesome broke at her site last night that the Writer's Guild has settled independently with Tom Cruise's United Artists. This is just the kind of side deal yours truly said a week ago that the Mayor should be calling for publically. Instead he was adding value to your urban experience by cutting out to Io-wayy and campaigning for the show horse.

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Cops come up for air: narc and gang unit cops have made a big media radio buy, the Daily News says. They'll tell the snooze alarmers that as many as 500 officers would rather leave their beats than disclose financial info, and suggest that this would hurt LA bigtime. Sounds like a threat to public safety; from cops, that's inappropriate, even if their position is the right one. Listen to the spot yourself and decide here.

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80 in '08 is a Downtown News special on who's rockin' downtown. Including blogs, and we're so there. Thank you Anna. Other good lists are five residential projects and five key corridors.

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Hey, there's a novel set in San Pedro and it wasn't written by John Shannon. The Daily Breeze says that readers of Andrew Rafkin's first novel Creating Madness will "see references to Trani's Restaurant, the Port of Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners, "Hurricane Gulch" (the nickname for Cabrillo Beach), Catalina Island, the Vincent Thomas Bridge, the Trump National Golf Club and other familiar local landmarks."

Good for him. Hard to beat Shannon's Terminal Island, though.