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Weekend chatter
- Looks like Lloyd Grove isn't coming to the L.A. Times. A Liz Smith item in the New York Post says the gossip columnist has landed at Vanity Fair.
- The LAT continues its penetrating reportage on the transplant issue, with Alan Zarembo's Sunday piece on the sticky ethical questions of whether to put young organs in elderly patients.
- Mayor Villaraigosa's chosen "problem schools" won't be the neediest, just the most politic.
- James Ellroy takes questions in the NYT Magazine: "I live in a vacuum. I don’t read books. I don’t read newspapers. I do not own a TV set or a cellphone or a computer. I spend my evenings alone, usually lying in the dark talking to women who aren’t in the room with me."
- Laura Randall adds her review of Griffith Observatory in the Washington Post. In the LAT's Current section, Gregory Rodriguez's love speaks for the natives. USC physics professor Clifford Johnson also blogs his visit.
- West magazine does a Las Vegas theme issue, a week after the LAT's Current section did the same.
- 280+ blog comments on the departure of Eric Gagne from Dodger Stadium.
- KCRW restored "Car Talk" to its weekend lineup, Sunday at 11 am.
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| The promotion runs between now and June 3, which is typically a slow time in the theme park business - likely to be even slower this year.
| He was a regular at a Palm Beach shop called Trillion, where you could spend $7,500 on a sports jacket.
| The gel-filled wrist support I purchased from Amazon.com arrived today ... in a really, REALLY, big box.
| Eventually the meter-revenue claim becomes bureaucratic doublespeak for "meter-maid revenue."
| The MTA's Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive jumps into Web 2.0 with enthusiasm, with Flickr photos and YouTube clips.
| Chuck Todd and his goatee
Peter Kaye's memoir, Contrarian, is both the story of his career as a political writer and the downward slide of the paper he worked for, the San Diego Union-Tribune
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