• The L.A. Times was forced to run a correction because Michael Douglas forgot that he hosted a 1991 event honoring his father, Kirk Douglas.
  • The anonymous blogger known as Temp X is upset that Facebook disabled her account but left alone other pseudonyms such as Winona Ryder, Tom Cruise and The Rock.
  • The New York Times observes upon the oddity of the Wilshire Grand hotel downtown undergoing a $20 million makeover a year or two before the owners hope to tear it down.
  • Steve Lambert is the new Editor and Publisher of the San Gabriel Valley newspaper Group and Steve Hunt is promoted from managing editor to senior editor.
  • Rihanna's lawyer says she will take the stand during the preliminary hearing later this month for Chris Brown, the singer's accused assailant.
  • Chastity Bono's publicist confirmed his client is transitioning from female to male.
  • KCRW cancelled a July 7 conversation between “The Treatment” host Elvis Mitchell and actor Laurence Fishburne due to a scheduling conflict and says it will refund the cost of tickets.
  • Mayor Villaraigosa named Martin Gomez, "one of the nation’s top library reformers," to the post of City Librarian.
  • Occidental's Peter Dreier expands on his defense of Villaraigosa — and his critique of Los Angeles magazine — in the Jewish Journal.
  • TJ Sullivan wonders on Twitter whether, since neither Villaraigosa nor Lu Parker follow each other, can it really be true love?
  • Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, newly named dean of the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at Loyola Marymount University, edits a website with blogs called The Zeleza Post, with news and commentary on the Pan-African world.
  • "SoCal Connected" reprises some of the best reports from the concluded season, as part of a one-hour special for KCET’s Spring fundraising drive on Friday night.
  • West L.A. Online has returned to its blog roots and scrapped for now the Westside Community News Project.
  • Today's Register did a bylined story on Hooter's looking to hire 100 wholesome "lucky ladies" for a new outlet in Orange County.

Mark had a good afternoon of posts at LA Biz Observed.

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