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HEALTH will be performing tonight at the Smell | Picture via HEALTH's Myspace

Our Pick: HEALTH, Abe Vigoda, Tearist, Man's Assassination, Man @ The Smell

Tonight Long Island-bred post-hardcore act Glassjaw will be headlining the Mayan Theater in Downtown with none other than Seal Beach-based quartet RX Bandits (LAist Review). Georgia-bred singer-songwriter/producer Butch Walker is poised to grace the Hotel Café. And, lastly, NY-based producer Blockhead, whose work is most closely associated with hip hop heavyweights Aesop Rock, Murs and Slug, will be taking on the Echo. But we strongly suggest heading over to the Smell in Downtown to catch local noise-infused rock outfit HEALTH.

HEALTH - "Die Slow"

Switchfoot @ The Roxy
Glassjaw, RX Bandits @ The Mayan
Butch Walker, WAZ, Emily King, Royal Wood @ The Hotel Café
HEALTH, Abe Vigoda, Tearist, Man's Assassination, Man @ The Smell
Blockhead, DJ Signify, Amplive of Zion, Yppah, Deru @ The Echo
Club NME w/ The Dutchess and the Duke, Greg Ashley @ Spaceland
Manhattan Murder Mystery, George Glass, Downtown/Union @ 3 Clubs
Via Tania, El May, Sonos @ Bootleg Theater
John Carpenter, The Goldenhearts, The Passports @ Silver Lake Lounge
Fu Manchu, It's Casual, -16- @ Troubadour
Electric Six @ Keyclub
Royal Crown Revue @ The Mint

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Driving along Mulholland, you pass various overlooks where you can pull over on to the dirt, get out and take in the views. In all, the 55-mile Mulholland Scenic Parkway and Corridor has 18 official overlooks between the 101 Freeway and Kanan Road in the Agoura Hills area, but lucky for us, most can be found east of the 405 (see a map here).

Of those within Los Angeles, some views are not so obvious when driving by. Such is the case with the Barbara A. Fine Overlook at the Summit, about a quarter mile east of Coldwater Canyon. Trees and brush block the view from the street, but once inside, you'll find yourself in a peaceful oasis offering a views of the Valley, shade, three park benches and a drinking fountain. To us, this is a perfect little hideaway for some alone time, book reading, a picnic on the bench or just some peace and quiet.

Fine was instrumental in the remaining beauty along Mulholland. For 30 years, she fought development in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains and eventually helped create Los Angeles' hillside ordinance, which limits the number of homes that can be built on mountain hillsides. She also was part of the fore that brought the city the Mulholland Scenic Parkway Specific Plan, a document that guides development along the 22 miles of the famous artery.

In 2003, the overlook was named after her for these reasons. Specifically, the overlook stands above the upper fork of Fryman Canyon, where Fine fought to stop houses from being built. Today, it remains for the urban wild.

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Just in time for downtown's most popular event tomorrow evening, the new 2nd Street Park at the Police Administration Building has finally reopened after a two-week closure for a private police foundation fundraiser. Unfortunately, it now looks terrible. "Its grass may look as if a season of football has been played on it," described Eric Richardson at blogdowntown. So who gets to pay for the reseeding and landscaping?

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"The changes included, among others, allowing collectives in mixed-use areas; removing prohibitions against having collectives within 1,000 feet of libraries and parks; improving patient privacy issues so as to not identify every member of a collective; giving a grace period for existing collectives to comply once the law goes into effect; and allowing collective patients to grow marijuana in their homes," reports the Press Telegram.

Many prohibitions stayed in place, however, including prohibiting collectives in "esidential areas or within 1,000 feet of schools, licensed child-care facilities, playgrounds, youth centers or other collectives; limits hours of operation to between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.; and restrict marijuana distribution to collective members only."

Despite all that, marijuana advocates felt the location restrictions would be difficult to abide by. Long Beach is estimated to have between 50 and 60 dispensaries--Los Angeles has over 800, maybe even around 1,000.

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A black bear spotted on the streets of Tahoe in '07 (Photo by RickC/Flickr)

The LA County Sheriff's Department conducted a search, however they "found no sign of the bear." To warn residents, the sheriff's department used the reverse 911 system to place calls about the bear sighting. A 400-500lb bear was spotted in the Hastings Ranch area of Pasadena last month, and earlier this year a rep from the California Department of Fish and Game hailed '09 as "The Year of the Bear" since low water resources in mountains bring the hefty creatures downhill to find sustenance.

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Remember that draft ordinance submitted to City Council last month (read a copy of it here and scroll down)? Well, it's finally going to a city council committee where it will be vetted, questioned, possibly changed and more next Monday, according to the Daily News. Once and if passed out of committee, it will move to the full city council for a vote.

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CSU Long Beach will see fewer students, along with the system's 22 other campuses (Photo by LA Wad via LAist Featured Photos/Flickr)

These cuts come when the CSU has seen a dramatic increase in applications: 53% overall from the same period last year. While 32% belongs to hopeful freshmen, the increase at this time is most likely due to hopeful transfer students, who found that applications were not being accepted for them last spring at all.

Many applicants are drawn to the CSU because of its relative affordability (though tuition has been hiked multiple times in recent years) and the opportunity they extend to incoming students to matriculate while completing some of their remediation work or core work not completed at community college. However, students the latter category may find the CSU locking them out based on those obligations.

"[W]e cannot educate more students with less," says Chancellor Charles Reed, in defense of the impending enrollment limits. The "less" comes from the crippling state-level budget cuts that have left campuses with no choice but to slash course offerings, ration resources, and put nearly all employees on mandatory furloughs. Oh, and raise tuition, again: "The Board of Trustees is expected to vote on the new budget -- which may include a 10% fee hike -- next week before it goes to the governor and Legislature."

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At the Arlington West project in Santa Monica (Photo by roostercoupon via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr)

• Government offices, agencies, banks, courts, post offices, and several schools are closed.
• Trash pick up in Los Angeles will operate as usual and Metro-operated buses and trains, Metrolink trains and Foothill Transit will run on a normal schedule.

• The San Fernando Valley Veterans Day Parade begins at 11:11 a.m. at Laurel Canyon and San Fernando Mission boulevards in Mission Hills, and will travel south on Laurel Canyon Boulevard 1.1 miles and end at Ritchie Valens Park in Pacoima, and will include a flyover by the World War II-era Flying Condor Squadron from Van Nuys.
• Forest Lawn will conduct its 50th annual Veterans Day program, with the theme, "A Celebration of Heroes." It begins at 11 a.m. and includes live musical and aerial performances.
• Redondo Beach's "Honor Our Veterans Tribute" will include a 2 p.m. groundbreaking for a Veterans Memorial in Veterans Park, which is adjacent to the Redondo Beach Pier.
• The Los Angeles National Cemetary in Westwood has a program beginning at 11 a.m. that includes remarks from Gov. Schwarzenegger.
• In West Hollywood, the Holloway Park Veterans Memorial will be rededicated as the Sal Guarriello Veterans' Memorial in a ceremony and celebration that begins at 11 a.m.
• A candlelight vigil honoring veterans takes place tonight at the Airtel Hotel in Van Nuys from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
• Entrance fees are waived today at all lands managed by the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Reclamation, and the Department of Agriculture also is waiving entrance fees at its national forests.

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The way things are going now, being on California's death row seems cozier than a life term without possibility of parole, the LA Times finds. On death row, you get a single cell, good telephone access and "exclusive control over the television, CD player or other diversions in their cells," among other perks. What about that whole death penalty part? A four-year-old moratorium has stopped the practice, at least for now. And in any case, since 1977, 13 executions have occurred while 71 condemned prisoners died by other causes. 685 are currently on death row, making the state's death row population the largest in the country.