First thing Thursday, 10/6

 ♦ Marc Weingarten reports in today's New York Times on a bitter lawsuit here in L.A. between singer Leonard Cohen and the manager he says looted millions from his accounts while he was a recluse at the Mount Baldy Zen Center (oddly described as being "in Los Angeles.")

 ♦ It's Best of LA week at the LA Weekly. Steven Mikulan edits this time. Enjoy.

 ♦ Mayor Villaraigosa delivers a speech about his first hundred days at USC in the morning then briefs the media at 2 p.m. in the City Hall tower. Is that so someone can be pushed off?

 ♦ Nick Lachey is splitting up with Jessica Simpson and moving in with his best bud, USC quarterback Matt Leinart, according to KMPC sports talk host Petros Papadakis (via SportsbyBrooks.)

 ♦ Adelphia in Silver Lake began "Everybody Loves Raymond" in Spanish on Tuesday night. "Self-corrected about half-way through," writes a reader who exec-produces in TV. Others emailed their frustration that Adelphia's answer is always to turn off your box, then turn it on again. One writer had a single word of advice for the refugees adrift in AdelphiaLand: DirectTV.

 ♦ Clear Channel will pay $30,000 for not disclosing its campaign help for City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo.

 ♦ Author Denise Hamilton will edit the new anthology Los Angeles Noir for Akashic Books. She has also posted the first chapter of Prisoner of Memory, her next Eve Diamond mystery.

 ♦ City Channel 35 is re-running Controller Laura Chick's recent "Women in Media" panel with Gisselle Acevedo-Franco of Hoy, Gayle Anderson of the KTLA Morning News, Beth Barrett of the Daily News, Kitty Felde of KPCC and Susan Friedman of Dateline NBC.

 ♦ It's Orange County Roundtable day on KPCC's Airtalk. Jean Pasco of the Times, Steve Greenhut of the Register and Gustavo Arellano of OC Weekly gab with Larry Mantle at 10:30 am.

 ♦ I discovered a new-to-me L.A. food and restaurant blogger, The Delicious Life, through West L.A. Online, which Q-and-A'd her recently.

 ♦ The Daily News unveiled its new hyper-local sections of community news and ads in the Valley.