LAT's Gold jumps to Washington Post
Annual issue is out this weekWednesday's news, notes and observations are after the jump. Also see Mark Lacter's morning headlines at LA Biz Observed and follow us on Twitter.
- State budget mess is a long way from settled or fixed, despite the initial wave of optimism. Rough & Tumble
- Mayor Villaraigosa was booed when introduced before last night's Dodgers game. LAT
- Will there really be a criminal aspect to Michael Jackson memorial costs, or did City Attorney Carmen Trutanich hype it a bit? Too soon to tell. LAT, DN
- Tim Rutten calls the AnsaldoBreda controversy a dilemma for public officials in which "the choice isn't a clear one. It is, as they say, a very close question." LAT Op-Ed
- City parks and large landowners like cemeteries want exemptions from the city's watering limits. L.A. Now
- Los Angeles Magazine editor Mary Melton adds a personal postscript to her writing on the passing of Julius Shulman. LA
- This week LAT media writer James Rainey takes on Lou Dobbs and the other wingnuts who keep pushing the claim that Obama isn't legally qualified to be president. LAT
- Erstwhile LAT book reviewer Lionel Rolfe remembers and revisits old issues with current books editor David Ulin. Random Lengths
- New blog Recycle LACMA is called a hilarious send-up of the museum's deaccessioning from its textile collection. CultureGrrl
- The Wrap has added a VP of Advertising Sales: Victoria Gold, former director of ad sales at Variety and The Hollywood Reporter among others. Via release
- Haim Saban accuser Matthew Krane may be in federal custody, but he's still got his crisis adviser Ross Johnson (of BNC PR) working the angles.
- Danny Bakewell, executive publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Sentinel, was elected Chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, aka the Black Press of America. Via release
- Failed mayoral candidate Walter Moore will get a talk radio tryout on KABC. LAT
- Kenneth R. Weiss of the Los Angeles Times won the top print beat award from the Society for Environmental Journalists. Valerie Brown of Santa Barbara's Miller-McCune Magazine won the honor for print explanatory reporting. SEJ
- Former TV reporter Lonnie Lardner has directed a documentary called “Angel in the Hood,” called "the real-life story of two Latina party girls from a gang-infested Los Angeles neighborhood, and their deep-rooted spiritual devotion for Peter Pan’s 'Tinker Bell.'" SoCalMediaScoop
- She's no fan of the NoHo Gateway sculpture. Metblogs