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Times editorial writer Robert Greene sheds light on the editorial board's process leading up to an endorsement in the 15th council district runoff (and why the paper didn't think either remaining candidate was endorsement-worthy in the primary.) Opinion LA
Councilman Bernard Parks and the Coliseum are squabbling over a $40,000 unpaid bill for a July 4 fireworks party that Parks sponsored. LA Weekly
The westbound lanes reopened across the 1st Street bridge between Downtown and Boyle Heights, closed for years by Gold Line work.
Reporter Alan Zarembo was on NPR's Talk of the Nation today discussing his Los Angeles Times series on autism this week.
Film writer for Entertainment Weekly film writer Anthony Breznican sold his debut novel, "Brutal Youth," pitched as "Fight Club" meets "The Breakfast Club" at a working-class Catholic high school, to Thomas Dunne Books. Publishers Lunch
Todd Purdum, the former New York Times bureau chief in Los Angeles, sold "More Powerful Than All the Armies: The Story of the 1964 Civil Rights Act," to Times Books for publication in spring 2014. Publishers Lunch
Orson Welles' best screenplay Academy Award for "Citizen Kane" was sold by Nate D. Sanders today for $861,542.
The "NBA Countdown" show on ESPN featuring Magic Johnson is moving to the network's studios at L.A. Live. FBLA
ESPN basketball guru John Hollinger projects the newly shallow Lakers will finish fifth in the NBA's west...one spot behind the emPaulened Clippers...with Oklahoma City in first.
The husband of Etta James will remain conservator of the terminally ill singer's estate, a judge ruled.
Remembering some of Christopher Hitchens' appearances on stage in Los Angeles.
Steve Soboroff announced he has added a typewriter to his collection that was formerly owned by Jerry Siegel, the writer of the Adventures of Superman series for DC Comics.
L.A. Times journalist Daniel Hernandez' Intersections blog, started in Echo Park and now written mostly in Mexico City, turned five years old today.
The Los Angeles Conservancy is working on a California Register of Historical Resources nomination for the UCLA Faculty Center building. Faculty Association
"Trouble In Paradise: Music and Los Angeles 1945-1975" will open at the Grammy Museum Feb. 22 and feature materials on Johnnie Otis, Ritchie Valens, The Beach Boys, Horace Tapscott, Thee Midniters, Buffalo Springfield, El Chicano, and The Byrds among others.
Colman Andrews on the passing of Robert Louis Balzer, "the first great California wine writer."
Heidi Helen Davis, a director, teacher and actress known for her work at the Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga, died of breast cancer at age 60.