The Los Angeles City Council agreed to pay $320,000 to settle a lawsuit by a man who was cleared of murder when footage shot for the HBO comedy “Curb Your Enthusiasm” showed him at a Dodgers game when the crime occurred.
Juan Catalan had filed a police misconduct suit against the city after spending nearly five months in jail for a crime he did not commit – a point his lawyer proved after producing outtakes from the television show.
In the scene, which ended up on the cutting room floor, Catalan could be seen eating a hot dog in the background.
Catalan, 28, was arrested in the May 2003 murder of Martha Puebla, 16, outside her Sun Valley home, even though he told detectives that he was innocent and had been at a Dodgers game with his 6-year-old daughter at the time of the crime.
They are found only in certain areas of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. Approximately 24-36 million years ago these areas were subjected to massive volcanic activity during the Tertiary Period. The fire agates were formed during this period of volcanism when hot water, saturated with silica and iron oxide, repeatedly filled cracks and bubbles in the surrounding rock.
Shengsi, an archipelago of almost 400 islands at the mouth of China’s Yangtze river, holds a secret shrouded in time – an abandoned fishing village being reclaimed by nature. These photos by Tang Yuhong, a creative photographer based in Nanning, take us into this lost village on the beautiful archipelago.
Freddie Mercury loved his cats, so much so that while on tour he would periodically call home to talk to them. His one-time girlfriend and long-time close friend Mary Austin would hold the cats up to the
phone so they could listen to him speak. [x]
Mr. Bad Guy, the first solo album from Freddie Mercury was dedicated to his cats. He said: “This album is dedicated to my cat Jerry - also Tom, Oscar and Tiffany, and all the cat lovers across the universe - screw everybody else!” [x]
Also, the song ‘Delilah’ is entirely about Freddie Mercury’s cat.
