Many conventioneers go to the Playboy Mansion hoping for a special experience, but attendees at the DOMAINFest conference really did catch something special.

Unlike in New York, the LACMA audience apparently was quite satisfied to hear Martin talk about art.

Bill Gates, Eli Broad, Michael Milken and a bunch of Hollywood types came out to the home of Peter Chernin Thursday night for a discussion of discuss global health issues.

Sean Gallagher, the editor in charge of the online product at the L.A. Times since late 2009, is leaving the paper for the United Kingdom.

Carla Hall has already joined the editorial board on the second floor, and Sandra Hernandez will be starting shortly.

Brown's L.A. area appearances, the race to replace Harman, Democratic senators coming for Hollywood's money, authors back Measure L for the libraries and more.

Under previous city attorneys, protesters arrested for failing to disperse and blocking streets were usually prosecuted for infractions and fined.

Orange County photographer Matthew Givot renders parts of the city beautifully in his time lapse videos.

T.C. Boyle lives up near Santa Barbara and his upcoming novel is set out on the Channel Islands, which sometimes seem to loom so close to the shore from up there.

Variety has openings for paid spring and summer interns.

I'm just catching up with this from last week's LA Weekly.

UCLA's HyperCities Egypt project displays and archives tweets as they come in from Cairo and Alexandria.

Gov. Jerry Brown caught a Southwest flight this morning from Sacramento to Burbank — no press aides, no entourage, no security and no special seating.

Al Jazeera anchor, observing the scene in the square: "It's quite something, isn't it?"

She says it's not her, and The Daily doesn't sound all that convinced, but they run it anyway.

Brown's speech in L.A. tonight and his sagging poll numbers, who got Whitman's money, the City Council forms a stadium committee and more.

Jane Fonda blogged on Tuesday that tonight's opening performance of "33 Variations" at the Ahmanson Theatre would be attended by Cher, Colin Farrell, Angelica Huston, Chelsea Handler, Rosanna Arquette, Carla Gugino, Christian Slater, Peter Fonda, John Glover, Ben Vereen, Lindsay Lohan "and many other friends and family." She was right.

Real-life Wall Street Journal reporter Amy Chozick pulled a shift as an extra on L&O:LA and ends up with blood on her face. Hat tip to Movie City News....

Possible MPAA chief, new Ruben Salazar info coming, Huizar and Martinez actually talk issues, plus controversy over a photo of Nikki Finke.

Sixty-five people died in the 6.6 magnitude Sylmar earthquake 40 years ago today. We have pictures.

For 110 years, Children's Hospital has been a Los Angeles institution with a flaw. Its name, in the official papers and everywhere else, was spelled wrong.

Tim Rutten's op-ed column in the L.A. Times tomorrow gives Arianna Huffington, the Huffington Post and AOL their due for what they do right, journalistically. But he also skewers some of the less praise-worthy realities.

Your friends at the 99 Cents Only stores, as usual, offer you some buying advice for the cheap date on your Valentine's Day list.

In a story exploring the bios of the group appointed by Mayor Villaraigosa to report to him on the wisdom of AEG's downtown stadium, the Associated Press's Jacob Adelman cuts to the chase right in the lede.

Steve Lopez's lead on tomorrow's column: "What do 'tea party' beauty queen Sarah Palin and U2 guitarist the Edge have in common? Nothing..."

Politics. media and other items from the in-box.

Mark Frauenfelder went for a fun Saturday walking tour of the old Hollywoodland development in Beachwood Canyon.

City Councilman has a Sacramento fundraiser scheduled next month for an Assembly run in 2012.

Times' controversial "value added" project is called a disservice worthy of an apology by Colorado researchers. The LAT spins it otherwise.

AEG chief Tim Leiweke kept to the us versus them message in remarks today to reporters asking him about public doubts over his company's NFL stadium plans for Downtown.

Olbermann's Current TV gig, Jane Harman's seat, woman who regained her family's Klimt paintings dies, and more.

The movie version of Michael Connelly's 20xx bestseller stars Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller, an L.A. defense attorney who eschews an office and operates out of the back of his Lincoln Continental.

Looks as if Keith Olbermann is teaming up with a cable channel with an even smaller audience than MSNBC.

'm getting used to the idea that there might be a football stadium dropped behind Staples Center, but if Phil Anschutz and friends want Angelenos to buy into the idea, they better come up with some better assurances — and drop the classless us versus them attacks.

The Getty and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art jointly announced today that more than 2,000 photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe will be housed here in Los Angeles.

The Huffington Post counts something more than 6,000 volunteer blog writers who contribute for various reasons: to join in the conversation, to get a clipping, to push their pet cause, maybe even to claim an affiliation they use to gain access to events or impress a date.

Roski insists he's still in, remembering Reagan as a moderate, Paul Haggis vs. Scientology and more.

Looks like there will be yet another p[ening and possible special election in the South Bay to Westside crescent.

Kara Swisher of the Wall Street Journal posted the page, as well as scoring a video interview with Arianna Huffington and AOL's Tim Armstrong before the announcement on Sunday...

Ahmed Zewail, a Nobel prize winner in chemistry who is a professor at Caltech, returned to Egypt Sunday as a potential leader of his native country and called on Hosni Mubarak to give up power.

Michael Trujillo talked about putting a political bullet in between Rudy Martinez's forehead (sic) and called on other aides to spread dirt on Huizar's opponent.

Popejoy, winner of 27 Golden Mikes, died Saturday of cancer.

Arianna Huffington will take control of all of AOL’s editorial content as president and editor in chief of a newly created Huffington Post Media Group, under the deal reached Sunday night.

In the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Charles McGrath looks at the business empire and physical presence of Playboy's Hugh Hefner and says he looks pretty good for a guy who will turn 85 in April and was thought by many to be a dinosaur long ago.