Weekend desk-clearing

Making ready for the coming week....

• KFI will give Jim Ladd, fired last week from KLOS, a chance to say goodbye to his longtime listeners on Saturday Nov. 5 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on AM 640.
• Jeff Carr, Mayor Villaraigosa's ex-chief of staff, is still on the payroll and working on projects such as the new fence around the official residence in Windsor Square.
• Times columnist Steve Lopez visits Occupy LA and says "I'm having trouble seeing how a camp-out is going to change anything. Sure, it was great to gather and make the point loud and clear, but now what?"
• Dawn Hudson has lasted twice as long as Bette Davis did at the helm of the motion picture academy, but that doesn't mean it's been easy.
• The Sierra Club has added Melissa Sun as the group's first senior strategist for entertainment relations, based in Los Angeles.
• A 40-year-old man died after he collapsed near the finish line of Sunday's Los Angeles Rock 'n' Roll half marathon through Downtown.
• Calabasas tries living with the coyotes that share the hills.
• Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky on how he caught the opera bug.
• D. J. Waldie on the Station Wagon Way of Life promoted to postwar Angelenos by House Beautiful editor Elizabeth Gordon and photographer Maynard L. Parker, in a piece for Zocalo Public Square.
• Media info for Monday night's Halloween Carnaval in West Hollywood from the city.
• A more affluent crowd is slowly being drawn to downtown Santa Ana, sometimes at the expense of older businesses, says the New York Times.
• The Los Angeles Press Club is sending board of director ballots to members. Journalists Barbara Gasser, Martin Kasindorf, Robert Kovacik, and Gloria Zuurveen are newly running, while Beth Barrett, Jane Engle, Jill Stewart and club president Will Lewis are standing for reelection.
• Strange weekend for college football: UCLA won and USC lost.