Ever since Davan Maharaj became LAT editor, the newsroom has waited to learn whether arts and entertainment editor Sallie Hofmesiter would move up, leave or carry on. She's leaving. The Register's hiring of new media guru Rob Curley will create more buzz in the greater newspaper world.

Someone summoned paramedics to the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Marina del Rey this morning after Lindsay Lohan reportedly did not awaken, but TMZ reports the medics found her fine and she's said to be on set now shooting "Liz and Dick" for Lifetime. ABC News, on the other hand, reports that Lohan was taken to a hospital.

Tom Hoffarth, the sports media columnist for the Daily News, checked in with the small club of broadcasters who used to do Los Angeles Kings games during the team's 45 years of losing before this season.

Spencer Beck, the editor of Los Angeles magazine from 1997-2000, has been named editor-in-chief of Los Angeles Confidential.

Here's what happens at the Malibu party at Streisand's home to raise money for the new Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Martin Short emcees. Lisa Ling introduces Bill Clinton. Streisand sings, and so on. Guest list and more

New city head librarian, Jerry Brown sits down with Marc Cooper, Dorothy Lucey to sit with "The Young Turks," Disney's California Adventure opens and obits for Jerry Jacobs and Michael Riva, plus more.

DNA testing that links the young lion to cats north of the 101 freeway suggests "a rare bright spot for a group of animals that is suffering from an extreme lack of genetic diversity," the National Park Service says.

The union that represents some of the Los Angeles Superior Court support staff facing layoffs on Friday offered to have workers go unpaid for one work day a month in lieu of the job reductions. The offer was rejected late Thursday, the Daily Journal reports tonight.

Union organizers recognized the Walmart public relations rep who showed up in Chinatown yesterday to press the firm's case for a new store. Her card said Stephanie Harnett, senior associate at Mercury Public Affairs. But earlier this month, she came to an anti-Walmart news conference and interviewed activists as USC student journalist Zoe Mitchell. Busted.

Another four miles of the Orange Line busway are about to ready to open between Woodland Hills and Chatsworth. Out-of-service buses will be seen making test runs as soon as this weekend.

As he stood in Staples Center on Monday night and absorbed the emotion in the building, realizing for the first time what it means to win the Stanley Cup, the LA Times' Bill Plaschke got religion.

Kings parade details, Bob Miller on the Stanley Cup, City Council districts, Channel 7 gets Jerry Lewis wrong, Mark of Mark and Brian to retire, Pomona's only library may close and more.

Kings and the Cup at Dodger Stadium, the best video of the Kings celebrating the Cup, and more.

Yes, that was the elusive Kings owner and Los Angeles power figure celebrating on the ice — his ice — with the Stanley Cup on Monday night. Some 18,000 Kings fans and a live television audience got their first looks at possibly the most powerful man in Los Angeles. Nice looking guy — let's see more photos and video of Phil Anschutz.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has notified Lance Armstrong of formal doping charges that could cost him his seven Tour de France titles, the Washington Post reports today, adding that he is immediately banned from triathlons. "I have never doped," Armstrong said in a statement. Read more

NBC's telecast of the Stanley Cup winning game on Monday set a new record for a hockey game in the Los Angeles market, with a 13.6 local rating. (Duh.) Nationally, though, the game was down from last year's Game 6 in the Stanley Cup Final series.

Shorter school year again in LA, Villaraigosa out of town again, Don Shirley on the Times and the Tonys, Chuck Philips posts another piece on Jimmy Henchman, Pellicano wants out on bail, and the deaths of "Goodfellas" mobster Henry Hill and Highland Park artist Hendrik Stooker.

Santa Monica is the largest city in the U.S. to convert to parking meters that reset to zero when a car leaves, the New York Times says in a story. Santa Monica officials insist it's not about the money, but UCLA's parking reform expert says of course it's about the money.

If you plan to visit the galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, you better start thinking about going earlier in the day. The museum, currently open until at least 8 p.m. every night except Wednesday (when everything is dark), is shifting to an earlier schedule.

Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics, has an interesting personal story in addition to being highly accomplished in her field. She came to economics later in life, after putting her first husband through law school and working in the HR department at UCLA.

The Los Angeles City Council today blocked the airport's plans to offer free wireless at LAX, complaining that the deal reached by airport officials did not pass the smell test. Not that it was really going to be like other cities' free wireless — you would likely have to watch an ad — but it sounded better than the $9.95 that T-Mobile charges LAX inmates now.

The Kings began partying a few seconds before the final buzzer at Staples Center on Monday night and may not have stopped yet. Many of the players brought their children, wives, parents and friends on the ice for the post-game celebration.

Longtime county staffer Santos H. Kreimann was proposed by county CEO William Fujioka to take over as chief deputy assessor. Kreimann has been Director of Beaches and Harbors for three years and change.

Longtime Los Angeles Kings broadcaster Bob Miller got his turn with the Stanley Cup last night at Staples Center. More celebration photos from Rich Hammond at LA Kings Insider.

Both the Washington Post and the New York Times have taken note this week of the committee funded by Marc Nathanson that is spending big bucks on behalf of Rep. Howard Berman in the Democrats' congressional district showdown in the Valley.

Sacramento doings for budget week, Bryson takes medical leave, Choi joins big CD 13 field, journalism dean for Berkeley, Ethier gets new deal and a rash of local obits.

By hockey tradition, the captain is the first to accept the Stanley Cup. Dustin Brown takes the Cup from National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman. After skating with the Cup, Brown handed it to Willie Mitchell, the team's veteran defenseman and the survivor of a serious concussion.

Kings coach Darryl Sutter, one of six brothers to play in the National Hockey League, on the fun of seeing the eyes of his younger players as they realized in the final minutes of Monday's game what they had accomplished.

Parade starts at Figueroa and 5th Street, proceeds to Staples Center. There will be a ticketed rally inside the arena.

This weekend's edition of "Wait Wait..Don't Tell Me" on NPR stations worked in a question about the caper we reported here a few weeks ago in which Rep. Brad Sherman either added or removed his mother from a campaign mailer. He later joked about it. See what the panel said.

The gradual blurring of the lines between the MediaNews Group newspapers in Southern California is taking another step. Top editors will now oversee news gathering at all nine newspapers.

Commerce Secretary Bryson claims seizure behind his hit and runs, top-two primary effects mixed, killings by local police way up, GMA's Robin Roberts announces diagnosis, Dylan Ratigan leaving MSNBC and the LAPD warns about counterfeit tickets to tonight's Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final.

It's been pretty dang nice along the beaches so far in these final days of official spring. But as anyone with very many summers in Los Angeles knows, a marine layer could blanket us in a deep, gray, soul-sucking June gloom at any moment. A good read on how the marine layer works and why.

Kate Aurthur, the West Coast Editor of The Daily Beast, personally endorses a story in Sunday's New York Times about sexual abuse by teachers at an exclusive New York private school, Horace Mann. That's because she spoke to the story's writer, Amos Kamil, and editor, Ariel Kaminer, about her own groping by a teacher with a reputation while she was a student.

Frank Deford, the senior contributing writer at Sports Illustrated and weekly commentator for NPR’s “Morning Edition” — he recently read commentary number 1500 — will be in town this week to talk about his new memoir, "Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter."

Life Books has released a new book with photographs from the magazine's archives and other sources: "The Rolling Stones: 50 Years of Rock ’n’ Roll." Were you at Anaheim Stadium in '78? Altamont Speedway?