Not Super Yet: The Internet has been...

Not Super Yet: The Internet has been buzzing this week with rumors that Magic Mountain’s long-postponed Superman ride, touted as the world’s first 100-mph roller coaster, would open by mid-August. “Finally!” read one rec.roller-coaster message. . . . Alas, a spokesman for the theme park near Valencia said the rumor is not true. He added, however, that he truly wished it were.

Signing Off: Nearly four months after a mammoth traffic sign was erected at the intersection of Winnetka Avenue and Devonshire Street in Chatsworth, workers returned Tuesday morning to dismantle it. “I’m really, really thrilled,” said Irene McGee, a resident of nearby Tuba Street. . . . Acknowledging residents’ unhappiness, the city had promised to install a smaller sign at the site.

Check Your Guns: Rock musician Eddie Van Halen, above, belongs to an unusual--but fast-growing--club: celebrities who’ve been busted trying to carry a gun on a plane. With all the fears of terrorism, there’s no way you could take that shooting iron on a flying trip, as a present or for hunting, right? Wrong. You can take a gun on a plane--if you’re prepared to meticulously follow a list of FAA and airline regulations (B3). . . . Van Halen of Studio City got a year’s probation and a $910 fine.

Good Manners: A little civility. That’s all Rep. Anthony Beilenson is asking for. . . . In a letter to House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the Woodland Hills lawmaker is pushing for the end of “one-minute speeches,” those remarks made by House members at the start of the workday. Increasingly, Beilenson says, the speeches are filled with invective (A3).