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A short stack today.
- $1 billion in so-called trigger cuts to education and other public services will begin to be felt, and LAUSD says it will sue over losing its entire remaining budget for buses. LAT, DN
- A veterinary technician at the West Valley animal shelter was fired last week after officials found that he had subjected dogs to inhumane treatment while euthanizing them. LAT
- Found in the vault: In 2006, when Herb Wesson was newly elected to the City Council, LAT op-ed columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan wrote that he was "a product of an electoral machine that has operated with frightening efficiency in the black political set for a decade....Wesson is not malicious or unethical. It's just that he's Not Enough, and Not Enough has evolved into a transgression all by itself, a corruption of heart and will."
- John Atterberry, the music executive who died after being shot at Sunset and Vine last Friday, co-wrote and was producing an independent film, "God's Country," about a businesswoman who finds religion while working on a big deal. THR
- A giant bust of Lenin has appeared outside a gallery at La Brea and 4th Street. Curbed
- When Laguna Beach in Orange County was the LSD capital of the universe. Patch
- George Clooney will take part in a benefit reading of "8," the Dustin Lance Black play about Proposition 8, at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre on March 3.
- Sony will open "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" on Dec. 20, one night earlier than previously announced.
- David Bomford, acting director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, will leave the Getty on February 1 and "return to London where he plans to pursue research, scholarship and writing."
- Bert Schneider, the producer of "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces" and "The Last Picture Show," died in Los Angeles at 78. LAT