• Developer and big-time Villaraigosa contributor Richard Meruelo was banned from building on his land near Union Station for five years for tearing down some dilapidated structures without permits, as reported first in the LA Weekly.
• The Chandler family pushing the Tribune Company to do something with its newspapers is described in the LAT as money hungry and, in years past, bothered by stuff like coverage of gays.
• Tom O'Neil rants at The Envelope that the Academy of TV Arts and Sciences must be hiding something to explain the "unprecedented secrecy" around this weekend's Emmy judging.
• Pretty long standing ovation Saturday night for Deliver Us from Evil at the Los Angeles Film Festival, emails a reader who was at the Crest for the documentary screening.
• Four homeowners near the proposed 415 Beach Club in Santa Monica filed suit to block re-opening of the old Marion Davies estate on Pacific Coast Highway.
• I'm told the mayor showed up too late at Saturday's screening of An Inconvenient Truth to introduce Al Gore, but that Gore introduced Villaraigosa after Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora played for the audience.
• Blogger-critic Patterico finally cancelled his subscription to the Times. Reporting of the secret banking surveillance program was the last straw, he writes.
• The ex-wife of Dean McDermott is shopping a get-even book tentatively titled My Husband Left Me For Tori Spelling.