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♦ Mayor Villaraigosa will vote today in his new neighborhood in Hancock Park-adjacent, not back in Mount Washington. Meanwhile, don't expect any L.A. Times exit poll data. Too expensive this time around, I've heard.
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♦ Susan Salter Reynolds in the LAT calls Maureen Dowd's Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide "a book-length mistake."
♦ There are now 300,000 copies of The Year of Magical Thinking in print, five times more than Joan Didion's previous four books combined, the Wall Street Journal says.
After the jump: Bobbie Parks, moving to New York, more Dodgers dissing, private eyes at the Press Club and, sadly, an obituary on ex-LAT shooter Rick Corrales.
♦ The IRS claims to have sixty open investigations of churches that advocate for political candidates.
♦ The City Council is expected to confirm the appointment of Bobbie Parks, wife of Councilman Bernard Parks, to the Commission for Children , Youth and Their Families. Mayor Villaraigosa previously appointed Barbara Yaroslavsky, wife of Zev, to the same panel.
♦ Alaska Airlines flight 228 to Los Angeles leaves Seattle at 6 am most days, but only barely. In October the flight was canceled 35% of the time.
♦ New York Times headline: Dysfunctional Dodgers are Far From Camelot
♦ LAT Atlanta bureau chief Ellen Barry is moving to the New York bureau.
♦ Don Ray of the Daily Journal will moderate a Press Club panel on learning from private investigators, Wednesday night at 6:30. Fox 11's Chris Blatchford and KFI's Eric Leonard are among the panelists. Info.
♦ Blogger Rodger Jacobs says he's getting a ton of emails for lawyer Robert Shapiro but needs a place to forward them.
♦ Rick Corrales, an L.A. Times photographer from 1981-95, died of stomach cancer at age 48. He was part of the staff that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Southern California Latino community in 1984. He also held patents on the Spinshot panoramic camera he sold through Whittier-based Corrales Cameras. Times obit by Myrna Oliver.