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- Franklin Avenue's Mike and Maria turn up on HGTV's "What is My House Worth?"
- LAist wants Lakers and Clippers bloggers.
- Dawn at Griffith Observatory.
- Crazy Wendy at the Santa Barbara News-Press has dropped legal action against former business editor Michael Todd, one of the two dozen staffers who quit over the recent nuttiness there. His case was a little different in that a photographer claimed to have been harassed by Todd, but now she has quit too. Case dismissed.
- ImpreMedia is launching La Vibra, a Thursday entertainment insert in La Opinión, and www.lavibra.com for "young urban Latinos." The print version will be distributed nationally in ImpreMedia's newspapers.
- Porn stars, producers, industry attorneys and public health officials will gather tomorrow at UCLA for an invitation-only conference on making adult video sets safer for performers.
- Matt Leinart showed off baby pictures upon his return today to the Arizona Cardinals, a day later than first planned.
And from around LA Observed: Mark Lacter monitors the Tribune sale activity, Native Intelligence tests how well websites map Los Angeles, more on Delta Street in Echo Park and News & Chatter exclusives on the L.A. Times Poll and KCRW's Left, Right & Center.