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Santa Monica's other side of the tracks...getting serious about L.A.'s homeless...retraction city at the Daily News...plus the Undie Run, some new Ansel Adams photos, blogging my USC panel and a journalism family obituary. Turn the page for details and the front pages...
♦ Santa Monica's other side: The Times fronts a story on the Pico neighborhood where 15-year-old Eddie Lopez was murdered by a gang member.
♦ $100 million for the homeless: "This is a proposal of historic proportions," says County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky. Now will it fly? Times, Daily News, Copley
♦ Checker Cab retraction: The Daily News goes beyond a correction and retracts a story about uninsured taxicabs.
♦ Undie Run folo: Cops shunted this quarter's UCLA runners out of Westwood and onto campus, apparently without incident, the Daily Bruin says. Some students ended up in their underwear in Shapiro Fountain outside Royce Hall.
♦ Ansel Adams trove: LAist's Carolyn Kellogg dug up an online collection of photographs from 1940 Los Angeles, Burbank and Santa Monica that Adams shot for Fortune magazine.
♦ Editor of The Economist: John Micklethwait, who set up the magazine's Los Angeles office before he became U.S. editor, is the new top guy at British weekly magazine.
♦ Blogging panel: Martin Kaplan at the Huffington Post and Scott Olin Schmidt (aka BoifromTroy) both posted items off of the panel I was part of on Wednesday at USC.
♦ Promotion: Sean K. Kennedy was named the federal public defender for Los Angeles by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
♦ Mystery writers gather: Dick Adler will moderate a panel that includes Jan Burke, Twist Phelan, Denise Hamilton, Rochelle Krich, Patricia Smiley, Harley Jane Kozak and Naomi Hirahara on Sunday at 3 pm at Westwood's Mystery Book Store.
♦ Obituary: Retired Times copy editor Dave Blume, owner of the West Side folk dance club Cafe Danssa and composer of the 1966 pop hit "Turn Down Day," died at age 74. He was the father of Jewish Journal managing editor Howard Blume.