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- In the latest first-person Column One story by a Times reporter, Molly Hennessy-Fiske writes about bonding with a South Los Angeles gang shooting victim. LAT
- Oscar Winner Budd Schulberg is remembered for his love of boxing by friend George Kimball. The Sweet Science
- Lily Burk remembered at a memorial in Barnsdall Park. LAT
Plus: Celeste Fremon the politicizing Burk's death. LAT Op-Ed, Witness LA - It's been a mixed opening act for City Attorney Carmen Trutanich. LAT
- New York street scenes for the eighth season of "24" will be shot on location in Los Angeles or on a soundstage using green-screen technology. NYT
- The Van Nuys Japanese Garden is a diamond in the rough. L.A. Beez
- Blogger David Lewis returned to L.A. to be interviewed for a documentary about trapeze flyer Miguel Vazquez. Showbiz David
- Up close and personal with Perez Hilton, tastemaker and troublemaker and now more than just a blogger who draws on pictures. LAT
- What is arts journalism reimagined through new media forms, asks the director of USC's Institute for Multimedia. KCET Local
- The stunted development of the Dodgers' James Loney Baseball Prospectus
- Bill Dwyre visits with Zola Budd, the South African runner who famously became entangled with Mary Decker at the 1984 Olympics in the Los Angeles Coliseum. LAT
- Partaking of Zankou Chickren and the Hollywood Bowl, on the cheap and on video. 99 Cent Chef
Plus: Deanne Stillman at Native Intelligence on the time a cowboy saved her life at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, and Here in Malibu's Veronique de Turenne pens a Then and Now feature for the Times on the Adamson House in Malibu.