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Monday always seems so busy...
⇒ Mayor Villaraigosa and retired New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Sr. attended this morning's funeral for Otis Chandler. Ex-publisher and CNN chief Tom Johnson gave the eulogy. Chandler's ashes were spread Sunday at a beach north of Malibu. (LAT)
⇒ Overnight Oscar ratings on ABC were down 11% from last year, beating only the turkey year of 2003. Los Angeles was not among the five TV markets where the Oscars were most popular with viewers. (Variety)
⇒ Crash financier Bob Yari, who bought ads in the trades complaining bitterly that he was not a credited producer under Academy rules, watched the film win Best Picture from Moe's restaurant in the Valley. (Hollywood Reporter)
⇒ Former Councilman Martin Ludlow's Superior Court arraignment was put over to Wednesday. (ABC7)
⇒ "Jim Cramer's Real Money" debuted today at noon on KNX 1070. It airs daily until 1 pm. (KNX)
⇒ Gene Maddaus has a follow to his Pasadena Star-News column that kicked off the latest KTLA ethics flap.
⇒ An update on Mexican media coverage of the recent LA Weekly piece on Tijuana's mayor.
⇒ The Spanish-language "Rick Dees Weekly Top Weekly Top 40 Con Sabor" debuted this weekend on 96.3 FM (Radio Ink)
⇒ Brady Westwater resumes blogging after two weeks off brought about by "dopamine deficiency problems."
⇒ Hollywood Thoughts discovers the Peninsula Hotel's poolside bar service.
⇒ LATimes.com "90210" headline on the skateboarder story would work better if Beverly Hills High School was actually in that zip code and not in 90212.
⇒ L.A. City Nerd notes that the city treasury absorbs $75,000 in costs for closing streets for the Oscars.
⇒ Curbed L.A. found a rendering of the proposed Whole Foods market in Hollywood.
⇒ The LAPD has a new high-tech, anti-car theft tool that scans passing license plates. Wired has the story. (blogging.la)
⇒ Inside the combined Tribune-LAT Washington bureau. (Editor & Publisher)