• Look who's sleeping at David Geffen's house. Nikki Finke has her take on why it might mean something for the LAT.
  • Former USC quarterback Matt Leinart had his baby.
  • KTLA translator Analia Sarno Riggle confirms to LA Observed she is being let go after 20 years for economic reasons.
  • Belmont New Elementary School #6 will be renamed for the late Times editor Frank del Olmo in a ceremony on Nov. 1. The school is at 100 North New Hampshire Avenue.
  • Democratic election night plans are starting to firm up: Feinstein, Angelides and Brown will all party (or weep) in Northern California.
  • Peggy Lowe has gone fulltime on Total Buzz, the OC Register's politics blog, which has been enjoying a traffic surge from the Tan Nguyen scandal. I had previously listed Lowe as a contributor.
  • The Times is sending staff writer Roy Rivenburg to blog from the AARP convention in Orange County. His first post explains how they came up with the name, Senior Moments.
  • Former LAT reporter-turned-author Alicia Valdes-Rodriguez, a familiar figureto longtime LA Observed readers, is riling them up again with her young-adult novel Haters, set in Orange County.

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