- A day after News & Chatter broke the unfortunate news that Dutton's Beverly Hills is closing, the store posted an explanation on the web saying the landlord and Beverly Hills city hall never delivered on promises of support. As for book buyers, "the community provided overwhelming support." Publisher's Weekly follows our item.
- After losing Paris bureau chief Alissa Rubin to the NYT's Baghdad bureau, the L.A. Times filled its own Baghdad opening with Tina Susman of Newsday. Quick work: the opening just went up Dec. 4.
- The ACLU told Wendy McCaw to stop threatening Santa Barbara businesses that post signs saying "McCaw Obey the Law," calling the cease-and-desist letters a violation of law.
- Dan Evans, a former journalist turned investigator for the L.A. city ethics commission, blogs at Married to the Blog about Burbank things and, most recently, about the trouble he ran into trying to de-subscribe from the Daily News.
- Remembering the Edendale asteroid.
- David Davis and I will be two of the Los Angeles authors meeting shoppers and signing books as part of a press conference for literacy Friday at 10 am outside Barnes & Noble at The Grove. Councilman Tom LaBonge and City Librarian Fontayne Holmes are hosting to promote literacy programs and the reading of books about Los Angeles.
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