It’s Washington’s own version of The Big Dig, but it’s much more secluded and (hopefully) isn’t filling up with water. It’s a multi-million dollar boondoggle that provides plenty of fodder for Congresscritters who wish to howl about federal spending. It’s the Capitol Visitor Center, which has been under construction since 2001, and has increased in cost from $265 million at that time to $573 million today—which isn’t too bad for a Federal project, right? The…

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big — really freaking big — so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city’s San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA…