• 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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