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- No felony charge for Kanye West in that scuffle with a photographer at LAX. Reuters
- New editor assignments on the L.A. Times city desk — involving Nita Lelyveld and Megan Garvey — and also a new Lakers beat writer: Broderick Turner, hired away from the Riverside Press-Enterprise according to a newsroom posting in Riverside.
- Longtime L.A. journalist George Garrigues is moving from Palms and has discontinued the online Palms-Village Sun. His valuable history site, Los Angeles in the 1900s, remains up.
- Sandra Tsing Loh made a guest appearance last night on the season opener of "The Office," playing an art school teacher.
- Walter Moore says he has raised more than $150,000 to run for mayor again, qualifying him for public matching funds. LAist
- Celia of the blog 5th and Spring, back from Latvia, reacts to John McCain's use of the term gook.
- Chowhound gets a design makeover: more posts per page, smaller type. Eating L.A.
- Stroh's Gourmet closes on Abbot Kinney in Venice. Eater LA
- Photo of the Los Angeles Times building under construction in 1934. LA Metblogs
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| Bev Hills billionaire Ron Burkle has $56 million in loans against his two houses. The McCourts have borrowed $28 million on their properties.
| Advice for Greenies in a Complicated World
| Steve Jones, the self-proclaimed Sire of Wilshire (a nod to the physical address of his former home at Indie 103.1 FM), is back on the air!
| She gaped at me like I was living history -- Miss Jane Pittman come to put her withered lips to the "Young Only" fountain straw of ageism.
As newspapers and television pull back from investigative reporting, foundations and other organizations are beginning to fill the void. One of the most interesting is Accountable California, a project of Local 721 of the Service Employees International Union.
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