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…

Gossip, gossip, gossip! It’s all gossip on the “West Wing” this week and it makes for a fine episode. One week before the season finale and man, things are getting good. We switch back and forth from the election to the current lame-duck administration. On the Bartlet front, the staff is dealing with three stranded astronauts on the International Space Station, and trying to keep the entire Democratic Party from imploding before the convention. The…