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⇒ Rep. Brad Sherman today introduced a bill to name a Valley post office for retired UCLA basketball legend John Wooden, who is 95. He lives in Encino, but the post office there was already named for Chick Hearn. So Wooden gets Reseda, where his daughter lives. Sherman, by the way, predicts that "passing this bill through all the hoops in Congress should be a slam dunk."

⇒ Today's LAist Interview is with Kiino Villand, the DJ and commercial photographer behind the RESFEST LA screenings.

⇒ Metroblogging, the network behind blogging.la, has made Paris its 38th city.

⇒ As Jim Healy might have said, is it true that top editors at the L.A. Times are sitting on a pre-layoffs employee survey because the results show a ton of unhappiness on the features side of the paper?

⇒ Sen. Barbara Boxer's luncheon speech tomorrow at Town Hall Los Angeles has been cancelled due to business in Washington.