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♦ Tonight is Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's walk-on role on the George Lopez sitcom on ABC. Daniel Hernandez in the LAT analyzes the bilingual press conferences and other evidences of "the Latino mayor."
♦ Tuesday's downtown power outage occurred the same day that 22 DWP managers called in sick to protest contract delays. Politicians want an explanation.
♦ Three of the five city ethics commissioners support Bill Boyarsky's call for full public funding of local campaigns and vow to go to the voters if necessary.
♦ The police commission wants the city council to clamp down on lap dancing again. After all, it went so well the last time.
♦ Despite failing three times, the activists pushing to get the cross restored to the county seal will try again.
♦ Former KFI radio host Tracey Miller died of brain cancer at age 51. In addition to doing "TNT in the Morning" with Terri-Rae Elmer starting in 1990, she co-hosted "Two Chicks on the Radio" with Robin Abcarian on KTZN and worked with Peter Tilden on KABC and KMPC.
♦ Surfing photographer Larry "Flame" Moore, who led and filmed the first surfing safari on the huge waves at Cortes Bank—a hundred miles off the coast of San Diego—died of cancer at age 57.