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- What the campaign donors ate last night at Tavern, aka what President Obama may have sampled a few bites of as he worked the room.
- Linday Lohan sentenced to 120 days in county jail for violting probation by walking away with that necklace, and community service at the Downtown Women's Center and the county morgue.
- Labor peace at L.A. County, much different than at City Hall.
- Two New York men paid a La Guardia cabbie $5,000 to drive them to Los Angeles.
- Earthquake warning banners in Beverly Hills catch the eye of New York Times bureau chief Adam Nagourney.
- Sacramento Kings now expected to stay up there next season, NBA says.
- The bacteria that cause Legionnaires’ disease have been found in the Playboy Mansion grotto.
- I. Cugini in Santa Monica to close in June after 20 years.
Also: Photographer Gary Leonard celebrates his 60th birthday with a big sale tonight at his Broadway gallery, Take My Picture. And more at Adrienne Crew's Angeleno Datebook.