Andrew Blankstein Is Our Batman: Is Andrew Blankstein on the outrageous vandalism beat? First he tackles the case of the cruel criminals who capped the knees of the Bronze Miner in Carthay Circle. Now, he's on toBuket, the graffiti artist who is way too old to be tagging buses in broad daylight. If someone starts knocking over mailboxes in your neighborhood, give Blankstein a call.
French Dip:Elizabeth Snead serves up some foreign dish today with a look at the Nice-Matin, the hometown paper of Cannes, France, which gave out some snarky awards to America's best imports (e.g. Mike Tyson got the "Absurd Award" for simply being Mike Tyson). Ah, the French.