Mayor missing the party

Wags are cackling that Mayor Villaraigosa is on vacation in Africa and missing the city's biggest media day in years — all those cameras, perhaps a billion people watching L.A. on worldwide television, and not a single Antonio sighting. Villaraigosa's staff has mounted an appeal for donations to the city from Michael Jackson fans on the mayor's website — misspelling tax deductible and with the wrong date.