In the new issue out now, Joe Domanick examines the case against Phil Spector while Strawberry Saroyan sizes up the career of fired book publisher Judith Regan. There are also pieces on the real estate market, medical marijuana dispensaries and the best used bookstores (by new associate editor Lesley Bargar, formerly of the L.A. Alternative.) My political column is on City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and looks at how far his star has fallen from the heady days when his advisers called themselves Team 1600, after the address of the White House. LA Biz Observed's Mark Lacter helped report the real estate package.

Add Spector case: At Native Intelligence, LA Observed contributor Deanne Stillman — who has been on the story since the murder of Lana Clarkson — introduces her new piece in the U.K. Independent.

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