• Martin Kaplan of USC Annenberg-Huffington Post-Hollywood-Democratic politics is interviewed by Tom Teichholz in today's Jewish Journal. Also in the JJ: columnist Bill Boyarsky observes verbal pummeling of an LAT foreign editor over Israel coverage.
  • Eric Berkowitz starts next week as legal editor of the Daily Journal. He is a lawyer who studied journalism at USC Annenberg and interned at the Los Angeles Business Journal.
  • "Does some pea-brained pilot really need to buzz the Hollywood Bowl in the Goodyear Blimp during the Beethoven Coriolan Overture?"
  • H&M opens at Beverly Center and in Pasadena in "late October," followed by stores at Hollywood and Highland, in Century City and another "undisclosed Westside location," LA.com says.
  • The state Republican convention began gathering today at the Century Plaza. Bill Bradley's New West Notes is on the scene with the site's new video channel (and Pajamas Media affiliation.) The Log Cabin GOP wing invites you to come get lei-ed.
  • Journo Michael Collins talks about his reporting on the nuclear waste dump under the Brentwood VA facility on “Harrison on the Edge” on Progressive Talk Radio tonight at 11 pm, KTLK AM 1150.
  • Daily News editor in chief Ron Kaye guests on "Deadline on L.A." Saturday to talk about ValleyNews.com, the online venture that launches Monday. KPFK, noon.
  • Sunday on KCRW's The Business: Claude Brodesser-Akner talks to Hollywood writing team Mike Wurb and Michael Colleary. 11:30 AM, KCRW 89.9 FM.
  • I was wrong about Eric Garcetti's hybrid in yesterday's Afternoon snacks. He actually drives a city-leased electric RAV-4, successor to the EV-1 of which he says in the film Who Killed The Electric Car?: "They can take away my EV-1 when they pry it from my cold, dead charger!" His partner Amy Wakeland drives the hybrid.
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