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- If anyone remembers the 2009 Golden Globes, it will be for "Slumdog Millionaire" and Kate Winslet. Variety, NYT, LAT, winners list
- "It's a completely meaningless awards show by a scandal-riddled organization on a network desperate for any kind of ratings. Yet here I am live-blogging the Golden Globes..." Nikki Finke
- Chief Bratton is hosting a Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast for black leaders that may become an annual event. Orlov/DN
- That gang intervention worker arrested in a robbery and beating over the weekend had previously been featured on a Fox 11 report about city funding of gang members that was denied by Councilwoman Janice Hahn. Eric Leonard/KFI
- Downtown developer Dan Rosenfeld will be the senior deputy in charge of planning, transportation, the environment and economic development for Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas. DT News
- Good piece over the weekend on Patte Barham, a former Hearst reporter in L.A. and socialite who lives in one of the most interesting homes in Fremont Place — backing up to Obama adviser Michael Lawson — and who swears she knows where the old Russian crown jewels are buried. There's a catch: it's in Mongolia. Bob Pool in LAT
- Things are tough on the Sherman Oaks stretch of Ventura Boulevard. Daily News
- Inside movie marketer Tim Palen's playbook, via the latest Tad Friend Letter from California. The New Yorker
- Backers of East Los Angeles cityhood gathered enough signatures to formally start the incorporation process. LAT, LA Eastside
- Architecture students of UCLA professor Dana Cuff will analyze the recent Times choices of the ten best houses in Los Angeles. Design & Architecture blog
- Which books does blogger Carolyn Kellogg pick up at a free book swap? Blog
- Ida Kinney, African American civil rights pioneer in the Valley, died at age 104. LAT, DN
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