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Toll lanes coming to 10 and 110, Zine makes it official, Hahn and Huey face off for first time, hating "Page One" and more.
Mayor Villaraigosa announced the start of converting HOV lanes on the 10 and 110 freeways to toll lanes where solo drivers can pay to drive. LAT
Councilman Dennis Zine made it official that he's running for City Controller in 2013. LAT, DN, City Maven
Los Angeles newsstands could sell snacks and tobacco products under a proposal by Councilman Tom LaBonge. City Maven
Congressional candidates Janice Hahn and Craig Huey face off live in the "Airtalk" studio on KPCC, 10:30 to 11 a.m.
The Huffington Post will relaunch its OffTheBus (offthebus.org) citizen journalism initiative for the 2012 presidential campaign. Shelby Coffey, the former editor of the L.A. Times, is on the advisory board. HP
Chris Hedges doesn't like Page One, the film on the New York Times, and here's why. Truthdig
Kelly Candaele: "For all of the visual poetry, philosophic musings and oedipal triangles expressed throughout Terrence Malick's long anticipated film 'The Tree of Life,' the emotional core is the dialectic of life and death - the origins of the cosmos set beside the imperative of human suffering. Politics and Film
The TMZ bus tour is two hours of snark and sleaze. The Wrap
The family of the late Los Angeles Times and KMEX journalist Ruben Salazar has donated his archives to the University of Southern California. KPCC
LA Observed contributor Eric Estrin interviewed actor Walton Goggins ("The Shield," "Justified") for the Q+LA feature in the LAT Magazine.
LA Weekly, OC Weekly and Pasadena Weekly are finalists in this year's Association of Alternative Newsweeklies awards. Release
KCRW re-broadcast Elvis Mitchell's 2003 interview with Harvey Pekar to mark the one-year anniversary of the artist's death. On "The Treatment."
John Palatella, literary editor of The Nation magazine, was a guest on "Bibliocracy" at 8 p.m. on KPFK. Blog
Journalist Michael Linder: "Catherine Mulholland once offered me a drink from her Chatsworth kitchen tap. 'That's good Owens Valley water you're drinking, my friend.'" Twitter
Gary Phillips writes on the architecture of mystery, exploring "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," Philip Marlowe and more. FourStory.org
California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye will discuss “The Promise of Justice in a New California” at Town Hall Los Angeles, Friday at 12:30 p.m. at the Beverly Hills Hotel. She will take questions.
Prince William and Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, make their first California appearance Friday at a 4 p.m. panel at Variety's Venture Capital & New Media Summit, at the Beverly Hilton.