Garry Marshall and Sam Rubin at LTLA
KCAL's Evelyn Taft in Palm SpringsRapper Kanye West will perform outdoors at Santa Monica High School on Monday afternoon, the result of students casting a million votes in a Power 106 contest. They get to miss two periods of class under tight security; the school had some racial incidents last semester. Also for Friday:
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♦ Another red-light runner finds that Orange Line buses are big and immovable. But those traffic cops that the mayor sent to the Valley? They're gone.
♦ Joan Didion visits with Kitty Felde on KPCC's Talk of the City at 2 pm to talk about The Year of Magical Thinking, fresh off her National Book Award.
♦ The Times' Charles Duhigg says that Sony Music is about to shake up the top management at two of its biggest labels, including Columbia Records.
♦ A woman in Lincoln Heights is upset with Sony for tagging up the city with stencil ads for the new PSP.
♦ Mexico City's mayor and chief prosecutor will be at Staples Center today at noon for a meeting with elected officials and business leaders on "security issues and cultural affairs." State Sen. Gil Cedillo will be among the attendees.
♦ Rip Rense sat through both Paul McCartney shows at Staples Center and rips into a film treatment written for the just-concluded U.S. tour.
♦ Two 19-year-old women arrested in Lancaster for putting a dead Mojave rattlesnake in another woman's bed got three years' probation after charges of attempted murder were bumped down to "using a booby-trap device."
♦ Para los Niños, formed 25 years ago to help the children of Skid Row, will benefit from a toy drive held at Flaunt Magazine's anniversary party tonight. It's at a private home "in zip code 90077" and Jessica Alba will be there.
♦ Councilman Tony Cardenas speaks at a breakfast gathering of the Los Angeles Current Affairs Forum at the Wilshire Grand.