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Rapper 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.