• Times columnist Tim Rutten rehashes 'Frontline' in his Saturday column and finds it "mysterious and troubling" that his bosses, editor Jim O'Shea and publisher David Hiller, weren't quoted more extensively. As I posted Friday, the interview outtakes are on the PBS website.
  • The Daily Breeze picks up on our report about the plan to pay departing Los Angeles World Airports chief Lydia Kennard up to $200,000 a year as a consultant.
  • KUSC has grabbed K-Mozart refugee Rich Capparella for its afternoon classical music lineup and also hired Dennis Bartel for mornings. Both Capparella and Bartel used to spin the classical disks for KUSC.
  • Bruce B. Brugmann of the Bay Guardian reacts to the recent Boston Phoenix story on New Times/Village Voice Media: "The NT/VVM formula, successful as it might be without competition in the deserts and the foothills, simply doesn't work in cities where they have real competition with community based newspapers, such as in San Francisco with the Guardian and in the East Bay..."
  • Political and PR consultant Julie Buckner has joined RenewComm, a new environmentally sensitive strategic communications firm launched last week with Josh Baran in New York and Peter Kelley in Washington. It's founding motto is "communications for the green industrial evolution."
  • Word on the street in Pacific Palisades is that former mayor Richard Riordan's purchase of Mort's Deli has gone through and that renovation (and, ultimately, opening of an adjacent bar and grill) should begin soon.
  • Artist Christian Moeller's interactive sculpture "Mojo" going up in San Pedro this month gets a write up by Hugh Hart in Sunday's New York Times.
  • Steve Pride, president of the local National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association chapter, suffered a stroke recently and is a patient at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Downey. Christopher Lisotta is gathering well-wishes.
  • MetalJazz is former LA Weekly music critic Greg Burk's new blog.
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