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There were no street celebrations recently when Long Beach was named "the Aquatics Capital of America," possibly because the designation came from, well, its own City Council.
There was the time the kitchen became a bit too smoky in the restaurant Engine Co. No. 28 and an alarm sounded.
For more than 40 years, news anchor Jerry Dunphy greeted his viewers with the words, "From the desert to the sea, to all of Southern California, a good evening."
Philippe's, home of the French dip sandwich, turns 100 this year, and for much of the last century local historians and foodies have been arguing over one question: How was the dish created?
Mystery obscures the life of Frederick Shaw (1827-1914), the indigent inventor, health promoter, social crusader and purported naked man of Laurel Canyon.
Some paparazzi in Pacific Palisades were outside a house that was being visited by actress Jennifer Aniston when a hillside caught fire about a block away. A handful of the bored photogs immediately hopped in their cars and went over to check out the fire, the Palisadian-Post reported. After taking a few shots, they drove back to the house where Aniston was. Firefighters then put out the blaze, no thanks to the paparazzi.
"If . . . you found you could buy cakes in a windmill, ices in a gigantic cream can, and flowers in a huge pot, you might begin to wonder whether you had not stepped through a looking glass or taken a toss down a rabbit burrow and could expect Mad Hatter or White Queen to appear . . . "
You think your neighbor is a problem? The Saddleback Valley News said police received a report about a Lake Forest resident who "routinely blows a bugle-type horn and marches around the yard with a sword." I wouldn't worry -- unless the sword-waver starts yelling, "Charge!"
Budgets must be getting really tight in Hollywood.
Rick Call of Marina del Rey chanced upon a newspaper ad promoting "a rare opportunity to be in the powerful presence of a swami (one who is considered to be liberated from material desires)."