- Chief Bratton endorses another candidate — this time in New York City. L.A. Now
- KPFK suspends "anti-Semitic hatefest" show "La Causa" for six weeks; its followers blame the Jews. OC Weekly
- Mayor Villaraigosa buys two more months at the MTA for troubled Italian rail car builder AnsaldoBreda. L.A. Now, Streetsblog
- What's killing the storefronts along Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. Frontiers
- Christopher Hawthorne pens a front-page critics notebook saying billboards and supergraphics aren't so bad, followed a few hours later by the city planning commission approving on a 6-3 vote its version of a new billboard law that would ban digital billboards in most parts of the city, place some restrictions on supergraphics and allow sign districts. LAT L.A. Now
- Now jurors have the Phil Spector homicide case, after closing arguments and instructions. L.A. Daily
- New political blogger in town: Brian Doherty, author and senior editor at the libertarian Reason Magazine, who will write about local politics for KCET as City of Angles (and push readers toward Reason, apparently.)
- Madeleine Brand, late of NPR's Day to Day, is also blogging for KCET Local for a month. KCET
- He was in a wheelchair, but Julius Shulman attended last night's party for the new Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City. Culture Monster
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