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Sunday on "Deadline L.A" (KPFK), Barbara Osborn talks to Danny Goldberg about the cultural wars...Monday on "Life and Times" on Channel 28, the LAT's Al Martinez guests to talk about his new book of columns...Marc Haefele writes on Tom Bradley, "The man who changed L.A." in L.A. Alternative Press. Also Ed Rampell talks with Greg Palast, the Valley Boy turned journalist the Right can't stand...Reviews and pics of the recent L.A. Press Club bash are at Emmanuelle.net, the bilingual site of journalist Emmanuelle Richard.

David Shaw asks in his Sunday L.A. Times column why the paper's weather forecasts aren't more reliable: "To be wrong on the weather almost two-thirds of the time seems, well, bush league."

On KCRW with Warren Olney the other day, historian Kevin Starr seemed to experience an epiphany about the recall. In LAT Sunday Opinion, he explains how he went from "circus" to "grand opera."

New York Times Page 1 profile: In his 20s Arnold predicted movie stardom, making millions, marrying glamour and political power. L.A. Daily News picks it up.

In the NYT Magazine: L.A.'s "kooksville" fashion designers, and maybe the city's best songwriter.

Julia Chaplin does Malibu with Dana Brown of Step Into Liquid in the NYT's Sunday Styles.

Australian Q-A with Dan Weintraub: 20,000 hits a day at California Insider (via CaliforniaAuthors.com)