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Dinner parties gone wrong, PETA's mad at the Olsen twins, and another view on those reservoir balls -- it's last links!

5:55 PM, June 12, 2008

Righting_old_wrongs The creation of a 150-acre reef to anchor a forest of giant kelp is taking shape in San Clemente.

An interview with "Weeds" creator Jenji Kohan in LAist.

Those reservoir balls the DWP dumped in Silver Lake might not be so safe after all, says Donna Barstow.

Dinner parties gone very, very wrong. Jacket Copy

MTA ridership just keeps going up. Bottleneck Blog

The Olsen twins incur the wrath of PETA. LA Unleashed

Kid fails driving test five times in one day -- video! YouTube via Fishbowl LA

Ride your bike to work in LA -- a how-to guide from LA MetBlogs.

Start planning for the L.A. Film Festival next week.

Compton will get a new skateboard park in September. Curbed LA

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The animal rights movement seems to attract abusive people. It's not really about compassion. It's about using compassion as a great excuse to act out like a bully and intimidate people who don't see the world your way.

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Veronique de Turenne is a journalist, essayist, book critic and blogger, and has been a staff writer at virtually every newspaper in Southern California. One of the highlights of her career was interviewing Vin Scully in his broadcast booth at Dodger Stadium, then receiving a handwritten thank you note from him a week later. She lives in Malibu.

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