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Morning Buzz: Thursday 9.11.08
- Local media figures David Hume Kennerly and David Devoss (as well as Ted Koppel and others) show up in today's opener of a three-part series on Roxanna Brown, the art expert who died in custody after being arrested in connection with the smuggling probe that led to local museums being raided earlier this year. LAT
- Insurance commissioner Steve Poizner is "laying the groundwork – dollar by dollar, event by event – for a 2010 run for governor." Sacto Bee
- AEG gets its signs on the Convention Center but will pay at least $2 million a year. LAT, DN
- The City Council banned smoking at farmers markets in Los Angeles. DN
- UCLA is investigating reports that two female students were sexually assaulted by a male freshman in the Academic Advancement Program in separate incidents at a summer dorm. LAT
- The revamped Santa Monica Place will have an open plaza and ocean views. LAT
- Amy Alkon's syndicated Advice Goddess column begins running today in Los Angeles CityBeat. Also in the issue is a Third Degree with Echo Park activist Art Goldberg.
- Marc Cooper tells his community organizer daughter she should have competed to be Miss Woodland Hills if she ever wants to be vice president. LA Weekly
- Celeste Fremon rounds up some of the questions that should be asked of Sarah Palin tonight by ABC's Charles Gibson. Witness LA
- Pastor Rick Warren appears on KPCC's "Patt Morrison" with guests host David Lazarus at 2:30 pm.
- The Travel Channel's Samantha Brown features Los Angeles on her "Passport to Great Weekends" that begins running tonight at 7 pm. She hits Hollywood Forever, Venice Beach and the Magic Castle among her locations. Online guide
Plus Thursday morning headlines from Mark Lacter at LA Biz Observed.
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| The documentary “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired” is being cited in the director's request to dismiss the molestation case against him.
| A mythology has taken hold about the financial disaster: That only a select group of economists and money managers saw it coming.
| Hennessey + Ingalls Art and Architecture bookstore opens a branch in Hollywood this week.
| Bush sought to "make the pie higher," but President-elect Barack Obama says it's time "to make sure we're growing the pie …"
| Legendary 19th-century photographer Carleton Watkins, who is the subject of an exhibition at the Getty, traveled hard miles around California with a simple motto: stand "where the view looks best."
| For every dollar I put into my first car, I got back a lifelong education in auto repair, and this disease.
| Erin Kaplan responds
Here’s a way city hall can strong arm the Dodgers into paying at least part of the cost of providing public transportation to the stadium during baseball season.
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