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Afternoon snacks
- Downtown's residential population has grown 21% in two years, is mostly single and has a median age of 31, according to a study by the local Business Improvement District. Households in newer buildings have a medium income of $99,000. Downtown News
- Willow Bay is one of five finalists for dean of USC Annenberg. LAist
- Britney Spears checked into rehab in Malibu, paparazzi rent a helicopter for the assault. TMZ
- Blogger lives next door to the mob scene that formed while Britney got her tattoo in Studio City. Hollywood Thoughts
- Paramount boss Brad Grey may have attended a fundraiser and said he would help Rudy Giuliani's presidential bid, but he ponied up for the Obama fundraiser tonight. Deadline Hollywood Daily
- Obama squeezed in a public rally between today's four Beverly Hills fundraisers. Political Muscle
- LAT homicide blogger Jill Leovy chatted about her beat with Brooke Gladstone at On the Media, while op-ed columnist Joel Stein phoned in an email interview with Kate Coe at Fishbowl LA. [Ay: Coe was on the same On the Media, talking about coverage of the Long Beach hate cases.]
- What's odder than one L. A. Times blog post about my headline use of Variety's verb ankled? Two.
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| Forget plastics, the real action these days is arranging going-out-of-business sales.
| Louis Verdad was one of L.A.'s hottest designers, but he had little idea of how to run a business.
| Without referencing its recent layoff, the Ventura County Star's editor says the suburban LA paper is now "more streamlined and, in many ways, much more efficient."
| We stripped the Indians of their ponies, and now we're doing it to ourselves.
| When the sun looks like that, there's a big fire somewhere regardless of whether we see or smell smoke.
Lee Abrams, Tribune Company's chief innovation officer, doesn’t seem too impressed with the Los Angeles Times. That’s the feeling I got when he appeared at the Los Angeles Press Club.
Four or five minutes from now I can definitively say I didn't hear the sound of sirens.
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