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Diamond Bar is looking for a logo. But the City Council isn’t desperate enough to choose the ones that local artists have submitted so far. They depict buildings, windmills and ranch fences inside a diamond. Mayor Phyllis Papen said one was likened to “an outhouse moon, even though the artist probably intended the triangle-shaped design to be sunlight.”

Meanwhile, in Beverly Hills, the police chief is being likened to Fred Astaire. The local newspaper, the Beverly Hills Courier, wrote an editorial about farming out city projects and services to private contractors. “Suppose the Courier suggested Police Chief Marvin Iannone be sold for cash to Arthur Murray dance studio. After all anyone who has seen him in action knows he is an excellent dancer,” the editorial said.

However, Lt. Bob Curtis is dispelling any such notion that the chief is ready to trade in his police badge for ballet shoes. In fact, he can’t figure out where anyone got the idea he was such a great hoofer.

Said Curtis, “At public functions, he gets up and dances with his wife, that’s about it. He doesn’t stop the show or anything.”

Maybe Iannone might want to consider hula hoops? Dessie Kehaiova, a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey performer learned the trade from a Russian performer. Kehaiova attempted to beat her own record this week in Los Angeles. She’s in the Guinness Book of World Records for manipulating 75 hoops at once.

She did set another record by getting 88 hoops circling her 5-foot-3 frame. But she was a bit disappointed because she had wanted to twirl 100 hoops simultaneously. Maybe if she were a little taller?

On Wednesday, it was mentioned that local communities were celebrating “America’s Night Out Against Crime,” to promote safe neighborhoods. Block parties were held all over the city. To set the record straight, it was City of Commerce, not Culver City, which had the hot dogs and balloons delivered by Brinks Home Security.

Every year, L.A. West magazine produces a “Shop Till You Drop” directory of Westside retail outlets. And every year, the editors strive for a cover depicting the ultimate in L.A.’s consuming society. This year they opted for a bit of whimsy. The photographer shot a photo of a photo shoot.

Conrad Johnson photographed “The Photo Shoot” sculpture that was unveiled May 18 outside the Fred Hayman boutique on Rodeo Drive. The bronze statue, by artist J. Seward Johnson, depicts your typical everyday scene on Rodeo Drive, the shopping street to beat all shopping streets. A classy dressed woman has in tow her child, dog and enough shopping bags to float the national debt.