He's the next mayor
I left LA for Chicago why?- Restaurant critic S. Irene Virbila talks about the Red Medicine flap.
- The state of California says its method of estimating the population is better the census count and claims the feds missed 1.5 million residents.
- Cartoonist Patrick O'Connor blogged about his friend and former editor at the Daily News, Mike Tetreault.
- Variety columnist Brian Lowry dreams of a 2011 when "The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline and the Wrap will merge into a single online entity. Leadership of the combined venture will be settled by a pay-per-view cage match."
- How Ryan Kavanaugh can save the movies. Really.
- Forbes looks inside the voluminous FBI file on the late Lester Rodney, former religion editor at the Long Beach Press-Telegram (and sports editor of the Daily Worker.)
- Jerry Brown reportedly plans to cut the state's office in Washington to two people from six.
- David Kipen's top 11 books published in California in 2010.
- The LAFD reminds you: don't burn gift wrapping in the fireplace.
- KPCC's Patt Morrison was named most valuable radio voice on The Nation magazine's Progressive Honor Roll of 2010.
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