Afternoon snackage

♦ Ken Bernstein, director of preservation issues for the Los Angeles Conservancy, moves to the city planning department as its first director of historic resources. (Press release)
♦ Laurie Pike, late of LA.com, succeeds Anne Breza as style director of Los Angeles magazine.
♦ Add the U.K. Telegraph's woman in Los Angeles, Catherine Elsworth, to the blogroll. She posts this week about the May 1 march and Coachella, of which she posts "It was Madonna’s first ever music festival but probably my last...why wasn’t Coachella more fun?"
♦ Los Angeles made the United States Olympic Committee's list of five candidates to bid for the 2016 Games.
♦ Former Gov. Pete Wilson, LAPD chief William Bratton, Sheriff Lee Baca, State Sen. Tom McClintock, City Councilmember Bernard Parks and ex-LAPD Commander Joe Gunn are scheduled to speak at a memorial service for Ed Davis on Thursday at 2:30 pm. at the Police Academy in Elysian Park.
♦ The L.A. Times' Lakers bloggers, Andrew and Brian Kamenetzky, have added a Dodgers blog. Light on baseball savvy and fan fervor so far—for an example of that, see Boston's DirtDogs—but they do have locker room access to players.