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An update [already] on Hawaii's classic ukulele- Sarah Palin opened a weekend centennial celebration of Ronald Reagan with a shot at President Obama (NYT, LAT, DN)
- Gov. Jerry Brown will address business leaders at a Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce dinner Thursday, his first public appearance in L.A. since taking office last month.
- "The Social Network" and "Inception" were the big winners at Saturday's Writers Guild awards.
- Anderson Cooper announced on Saturday that he is joining the media exits from Egypt.
- As of 2 p.m. Friday, not a single one of the dozens of letters submissions to the Times on AEG's NFL stadium expressed support. Two were borderline. Separately, the letters that ran Saturday in Sports were also negative.
- Raman Raj resigned as Chief Operating Officer of the DWP, within days of new general manager Ron Nichols starting.
- Gensler, the architectural firm, says it will move from Santa Monica to a three-story building between the office towers at downtown’s City National Plaza, the former Arco Plaza..
- The Times endorsed Mitchell Englander in CD 12 and Rudy Martinez (over incumbent Jose Huizar) in CD 14.
- Latest in the back-and-forth battle of the CD 14 black ops campaign consultants: Martinez had an LAPD badge that didn't belong to him.
- New York Times reporters Souad Mekhennet and Nicholas Kulish wrote a chilling account of the tortures they overheard while detained overnight by the Egyptian secret police.
- Former Sen. Gloria Romero landed an invite to watch the Super Bowl at the White House with President Barack Obama and other invited guests.
- Elizabeth Spiers, the former editor-in-chief of both Gawker and MediaBistro, is the new editor of the New York Observer.
- Liz Pryor of Sherman Oaks will give advice weekly on ABC's "Good Morning America."
- Noted surfing photographer LeRoy Grannis, a co-founder of Surfing magazine, died at 93 in a Torrance nursing facility.
More by Kevin Roderick:
Ralph Lawler of the Clippers and the age of AquariusRiding the Expo Line to USC 'just magical'
Last bastion of free parking? Loyola Marymount to charge students
Matt Kemp, Dodgers and Kings start big weekend the right way
LA Times writers revisit their '92 riots observations
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LA Weekly's executive editor in '92 details riot coverageLos Angeles more worldly since '92, LA Times 'more insular'
More recommended media coverage of the riots
Shelby Coffey, LA Times editor then, on the night the riots erupted
When LA Weekly (did) cover the riots *
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