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P.M. Shorts *

News and blog-views that rolled into L.A.O. Central while I was otherwise engaged on a Thursday (and updated at the bottom) ...

• Mark Ebner and Andrew Breitbart report on their Hollywood, Interrupted site that Crossroads, the star-studded Santa Monica school, employs a registered sex offender in a sensitive position.

• Superior Court Judge Kevin Ross violated judicial ethics by holding court in a strip club, says a Commission on Judicial Performance panel.

• Michael Kinsley accepted a Harvard alumni invite Wednesday night and found himself having dinner with Luke Ford.

• It must be love: Already this month, Mickey Kaus has linked five times to Times-watching blogger Brady "Exclamation Points!!" Westwater. The latest involves controversial L.A. historian Mike Davis.

• OC Weekly news editor (and NPR contributor) Gustavo Arellano is blogging. There's also a piece in the OCW about the Register and the late Gary Webb.

• Deane Dana, an elected county supervisor in L.A. from 1980-1996, died today at age 78.

• David Kipen in the San Francisco Chronicle welcomes Judith Regan to California and fills her in on the place.

• LA.com notices Times fashion writer Booth Moore responding to critics in a veiled way.

• Phil Anschutz: Media Wildcatter, in Business Week from Los Angeles by Christopher Palmeri.


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