LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of 4th of July on Venice Beach. But the biggest stories of the week was that the Mayor’s Hot Tamale was revealed, and that a Kwik-E-Mart was erected in Burbank. Phillyist was busy doing the Fourth of July up right, exercising their…

You might remember hearing the news, back in March, that the folks marketing The Simpsons Movie would be remaking some 7-11s across the country in the image of Apu Nahasapeemapetilan’s beloved Kwik-E-Mart. As Simpsons devotees, we were pretty excited. Well, the D.C. area is among the lucky metropolises selected — but, to our dismay, the Associated Press (via NBC4) tells us that the lucky 7-11 is in Bladensburg, Md. Of course Bladensburg isn’t all that…

If you were listening to WJFK on the drive home yesterday, you probably noticed that the normally witty banter of Don Geronimo and Mike O’Meara was on tape, though they were set to be live on the air. Sadly, this is because Freda Wright-Sorce, wife of Geronimo (real name Mike Sorce) died in a head-on collision in Ocean City, MD, Sunday. Sorce, married to Geronimo for 23 years, was a frequent guest on the Don…