LAist began the month with a new food series exploring the popular and unknown late night eats around town. If a Top Chef winner opened up a late night spot in Los Angeles, denizens would flock it, yet the LA Times and other media might be wary. Turning to sports, the Dodger season was quite memorable in the way that it imploded and the LA County Sheriff’s Department made some games of their own such…

It’s been a chaotic month for AOL employees. First came news that the Dulles-based online giant would be cutting 5000 jobs. Today, another shoe is dropping: the company’s accidental release of customer search data has finally reached the fall guy phase, resulting in the departure of CTO Maureen Govern and, presumably, others. Here’s hoping that those previously laid-off can at least extract a little schadenfreude from the fiasco. Macaca Misstep Takes Toll In Poll: Yesterday…

Thanks to our friends over at DC Metblogs, today we learned that our much-beloved Panda Cam ranked as one of the 25 most interesting webcams of 2005. But before Butterstick and Motherstick break out the fermented bamboo juice and celebrate their newfound national fame, though, comparisons are in order. The Panda Cam ranked alongside the camera documenting the construction of the Raleigh Convention Center, the GracelandCam, the camera inside Tennessee’s Anderson County Sheriff’s Department jail,…

As if things weren’t bad enough for the Redskins this season, rookie standout Sean Taylor was pulled over and charged with DUI early Wednesday morning. Virginia State Police Lt. Harry Newlin pulled Taylor over at 2:45 a.m., on the Beltway. Taylor was taken into custody after he failed a sobriety test at the scene and then refused a breathlizer. He was later released on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond and is due in a…