This wasn’t a good week for President Obama. Not only is the economy still struggling, but he’s getting opposition from both Republicans and Democrats on his new jobs bill. And the whole Solyndra bankruptcy didn’t help is job creation street cred either.

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Here’s a sample of the fun to come tomorrow night 9/8/11 in West Hollywood and in the adjacent areas!

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Obama was supposed to fix health care, but it seems like at every turn, it just gives us more headaches.

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The Federal Reserve on Tuesday said that the risk of a downturn in the nation’s economy had increased, and that it was prepared to use additional policy tools, including extending its period of exceptionally low interest rates, until at least 2013.

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The City’s Neighborhood Watch groups, in coordination with L.A. County Sheriff’s Dept and L.A. County Fire Dept as well as Public Safety and Recreation Services and Special Events Divisions, will hold the annual evening events and social gatherings in neighborhoods throughout West Hollywood with block parties, barbecues, entertainment and dancing.

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As children, toys are one of our most important vehicles to understanding life’s complexities, giving us the opportunity express a vast array of emotions and scenarios. Toys provide a blank canvas for us to interject our own role-playing needs, a mean to solve problems and answer questions… a way to safely explore what sometimes worries and frightens us.

This is the subject of artist David Levintal’s most recent photographic exhibition, entitled Toyland.

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But hats off to these fun loving diners. I put you satirical strangers in my blog’s categories of: Out on the Town, Gourmet (My biggest question is what was on the breakfast menu?) and Lifestyle, because I hope these playful shenanigans Jesse Glucksman aren’t a one-off.

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I hope that L.A. denizens can continue this temperate use of the freeways so that the price of gas doesn’t dictate their lessening of driving but their real necessity. -Carlo.

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