• The special interests that secretly bankroll Gov. Schwarzenegger's travel have been identified. LAT
  • East Los Angeles' cityhood pitch covered. AP
  • The Mark Ridley-Thomas campaign has put up a blog.
  • Some Belmont Shore businesses in Long Beach are trying to pressure the District Weekly via ad boycott. District Weekly, P-T
  • Inside the world of SoCal train watchers, post Metrolink crash. LAT
  • Beverly Hills is all roiled over whether the Beverly Hilton should build a high-rise Waldorf-Astoria hotel and two luxury condo towers. LAT
  • The Harvey Weinstein-Scott Rudin-Nikki Finke episode proves once again that "feuding in public is ultimately self-defeating." Patrick Goldstein
  • Jeff Leeds, the former New York Times and LAT music business reporter, joins Buzznet as Editor-in-Chief of the Hollywood-based social media company.
  • ICEF Public Schools ­announced plans to create 22 new public charter schools in the South Los Angeles area. LAT
  • This week's SoCal Connected on KCET explores issues around wildfires and includes Chris Ayres of the Times of London reflecting on how natural catastrophe marks the change of seasons here. Thursday night at 8 pm.
  • Cheap wine tasting at a blogger picnic, on video. The 99 Cent Chef
  • Dale Pitt, who co-wrote with her husband the local encyclopedia "Los Angeles A to Z," died at age 77. LAT
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