Los Angeles redesigns

New logo, typeface, departments and architecture to the magazine, which celebrates 45 years in December. It's the Power Issue, hitting newstands now with pieces by me on Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Harold Meyerson on how L.A. power has changed, and mini-capsules on 122 figures chosen for the magazine's unranked list of The Influentials: "To make the cut it was not enough to be merely powerful, much less rich or famous. You can be all those things and yet never exert clout in a significant or transcendent manner, which is why the list is short on celebrity."

Mark Lisanti and Jon Weisman are the bloggers, "Jack Dunphy" the pseudonymous cop at National Review Online. They come in 22 categories; here are a relative handful of the selections:

Media: Steve Lopez, Harvey Levin, Michael Sitrick, Betty Pleasant (for her Soulvine column in The Wave), Tom Anderson & Chris DeWolfe of My Space. Politics: Daily News editor Ron Kaye, Controller Laura Chick, Speaker Fabian Núñez, Brad Freeman, Steve Bing, Lorri Jean, Madeline Janis Aparicio, Magic Johnson. Players: Broad-Burkle-Geffen, Philip Anschutz, Frank Gehry. Aesthetics: Thom Mayne, L.A. Conservancy executive director Linda Dishman. Ideas: Arianna Huffington, Jared Diamond. Land: Rick Caruso and David Y. Lee, "Koreatown's Howard Hughes." Home: Bruce Karatz (oops), D.J. Waldie. Food: Suzanne Goin, Jonathan Gold. Wheels: Times auto critic Dan Neil. En Español: Monica Lozano, Haim Saban, Eddie Sotelo, Gustavo Santaolalla, John Gallegos. Music: Bob Dylan, Amoeba Music owner Karen Pearson.

Also in the issue: LA Observed contributors David Davis and Mark Lacter have pieces (on private football coach Steve Clarkson and a federal probe into labor practices at Ralphs, respectively.) Greg Goldin also looks at how the new LAPD headquarters came to claim such a valuable piece of downtown.

Not on line, but the website suggests that changes are coming.