Only 6 days after the San Francisco Chronicle first reported on it and 5 days after The Blotter first noted it, the Los Angeles Times today informs its readers about the state of California's bridges. The state: hundreds of bridges are considered at risk of collapsing during a major earthquake because a state retrofitting program to strengthen the bridges was halted in 2002 due to lack of funds. What makes the failure to fund the program all the more appalling is that the state would only have t
John Huston channels William Mulholland and Jack Nicholson clueless Angelenos in Roman Polanski's classic Chinatown.UC Irvine's revelation that it would host free "water-and-film" events Friday night and Saturday morning and afternoon immediately produced visions of a giant kiddie pool plopped in front of a movie screen erected in the middle of Aldrich Park. When it was further disclosed that the first flick screened would be the 131-minute-long Chinatown, visions of pruny appendages danced i
