Monday shorts *

   • Architecture: The owner of Santa Monica Place is in quiet talks with the city to raze the Frank Gehry-designed shopping center and build an open-air adjunct to the Third Street Promenade. Story in the L.A. Business Journal, which got onto it via the Santa Monica Daily Press.
   • Jail time: The Times' Sue Fox has an interesting slice-of-nightlife feature in the California section on the scene outside of county jail on Bauchet Street as loved ones and assorted others wait hours for inmates to be released.
   • Diversifying: Defamer produces a custom blog to promote the John Waters film A Dirty Shame.
   • 20 questions: LAist begins a new interview feature with the LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold, and does more unbilled (we assume) product placement for Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf.
   • Good site: Brian Humphrey at the LAFD has posted a helpful web page that instantly gives you the LAPD division, phone number and Basic Car number for any address in Los Angeles. Now perhaps fewer reporters will call the fire department seeking police info.
   • Watching Starbucks: Media news guru Jim Romenesko now runs a third site, Starbucks Gossip, all about America's coffee pourer and the people who work there.
   • * Breaking through: Author and former journalist Denise Hamilton has sold film rights to her first four Eve Diamond mysteries — about the sleuthing exploits of a Times suburban reporter — to Kennedy-Marshall Company at Universal.