Third time a charm? Tribune's Distinction magazine has brought on its third editor since launching last summer. It's Holly Palance, until recently the editor of Santa Barbara magazine, this week's Los Angeles Business Journal says. Palance has been the rumored candidate since the job came open again back in April. She's the former Buzz magazine columnist and ex-actor who is the daughter of Jack Palance. The story says she will commute from Santa Barbara to the magazine, which is downtown in the Times building. The story points out, and I note for the record, that Distinction's owner Angeles Publications no longer reports to the ad department at the Times.

Also in the LABJ: It's "unprecedented in the city's modern history" that the top jobs of the DWP, airports department and the Port of Los Angeles — the city Big 3 so-called proprietary departments — are vacant or filed by interim heads, says Fernando Guerra of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles. * Added: In the Times, Patrick McGreevy notes that 12 of 43 city department heads have now left this year.

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