Arts

Friday desk-clearing

  • If you're going to see the Levitated Mass boulder arrive tonight, here's LACMA's advice on parking, facilities and timing [any tme between 2 and 6 a.m. Saturday.] The museum itself will be closed, but there will be a coffee cart on Wilshire beside Urban Light [the lamp post installation.]
  • Former CHP officer Tomiekia Johnson was sentenced to 50 years in prison for killing her husband, Marcus Lemons, by shooting him.
  • Billboard publisher Lisa Ryan Howard, editor-in-chief Danyel Smith and deputy editor Louis Hau have walked, say The Wrap and Deadline.
  • The Los Angeles Times is discontinuing the use of star ratings on restaurant reviews - here's why.
  • The story of two homeless single mothers in LA and their families. Reuters
  • KCBS/KCAL reporter Kirk Hawkins is moving to the Fox station in Charlotte as an anchor.
  • Public affairs executive David Gershwin loves the El Capitan Theatre.
  • Peter Bergman, co-founder of the Los Angeles comedy troupe Firesign Theater and the host of "Radio Free Oz" on KPFK, died of leukemia at 72.

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