Weekend news and notes

The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture withdrew its bid to buy the 1949 murals in the old Golden State Mutual building.
Thousands of teachers and other union workers and supporters rallied in Downtown on Saturday to show backing for labor in Wisconsin. LAT, DN, AP
Incoming LAUSD superintendent John Deasy said he would not take his $55,000 pay raise for being promoted. LAT, DN
Steve Barr and Shane Martin, the college dean who succeeded him as chairman of the Green Dot board in 2009, issued a joint statement announcing that Mr. Barr would no longer use the Green Dot name as he sought to open charter schools in New York and elsewhere.
Get rid of the city's full-time Board of Public Works, the Daily News urged in an editorial.
City Hall exit: Cecilia Cabello, senior legislative deputy to City Council president Eric Garcetti, checked out Friday. She's joining Mercury Public Affairs after five years in City Hall.
The FilmWeek team on KPCC gave two thumbs up to Bill Cunningham's New York, the documentary finally showing here at the Nuart.
Speaking of street photography, Ed Ruscha transformed the genre when he put his camera in the bed of a pickup truck and shot Sunset Strip, says Christopher Knight.
The move to L.A. of "longtime New York gallerist and secondary market dealer Perry Rubenstein and his wife, arts PR maven Sara Fitzmaurice," represents a coastward trend, says ArtInfo.
Former USC student Téa Obreht has landed atop the LAT bestseller list at age 25 with her debut novel, "The Tiger's Wife."
L.A. Times columnist Hector Tobar has a new book coming ion September: "The Barbarian Nurseries: A Novel," about which the flackery says: "Tobar calls on all of his experience—as a novelist, a father, a journalist, a son of Guatemalan immigrants, and a native Angeleno—to deliver a novel as broad, as essential, as alive as the city itself."
In the end, 18 candidates — five Democrats, six Republicans and seven others — filed to run in the 36th congressional district race to succeed Jane Harman. LAT, Daily Breeze
Barry Levine, executive editor of The National Enquirer, writes in the New York Times that Elizabeth Taylor is the reason he became a tabloid reporter.
L.A. writer Heather Havrilesky writes about her 14-year-old stepson's angst about girls and life, and other observations, in the NYT Magazine.
Terry Cannon and his Baseball Reliquary profiled by David Ferrell at SecondAct.com.
Scott O'Neil, the former program director at KNX 1070, "died with his mic on" in Las Vegas at age 69.