Some of the more talked-about, linked-to or noteworthy exclusive posts from the past week here at LA Observed:

1. Job openings in the mayor's press office — and here's why.
2. LAFD Observed: Firehouse pranks have a long history and the fire chief resigns.
3. Don't bet on the 2016 Olympics coming to Los Angeles.
4. Los Angeles Archdiocese agrees to pay $60 million for sexual abuse — and it's only the beginning.
5. Wonder how issues vanish in the abyss at City Hall? Ethics commissioner Bill Boyarsky explains.
6. LAT loses its top baseball writer to Yahoo! and a New York bureau mainstay to the NYT, but hangs on to a film writer — and Eli Broad says what he thinks.
7. LAPD versus Daily News again, and Mariel Garza's response.
8. United States versus Ralphs: Mark Lacter looks into the federal case against L.A.'s food giant.
9. Daily Trojan editor resigns in protest, ponders a re-run, finally yields to an ally.
10. Jenny Price's popular LAO guide to hidden Malibu beaches returns for fall.
11. New Dodger Juan Pierre meets the media and LA Observed's video camera.
12. Denise Hamilton finally meets Ray Bradbury, now 86 and wheelchair-bound.

Plus: Veronique de Turenne in Malibu, Jenny Burman in Echo Park and the week's worth of Morning Buzz and politics posts.