Friday short stack: Garcetti vs DWP. Baca challenges. Zebra crosswalks. Register gets creative with a local city. Riordan and Rutten op-ed again. The LA River. And more.

Kyle Hunter sued KCBS and KCAL last year. This time he alleges that KABC did not consider him for the job due to illegal sex and age discrimination. The job went to Bri Winkler.

Producers of all experience levels from all over the world will have 24 hours to write, record, and edit a non-fiction radio story for possible prizes and airing. They call it a radio race.

The LA Times did run an obituary right away on the passing of Jean Renoir in 1979. Then a couple of appreciations. Then Welles weighed in, says a copy editor who checked.

Ratings are fine, web traffic is up and KPCC still seems to be on its ambitious rise, but a story says there is grumbling about the newspaper people who are in charge.

Financial Times calls the Hyperloop "a marvellously bonkers idea that has been embraced by the tech community but politely dismissed by some California politicians."

Dwight Sturtevant has been the unofficial, unpaid photographer of the Expo Line extension from Culver City across the Westside to Santa Monica. When he is credited, it has been as Expo Line Fan. Now he's moving away.

Prop. 8 could be finally dead. Another story on the Hollywood quake fault. LAUSD paying out Miramonte settlements. A makeover for Jordan Downs. Another challenger to Sheriff Lee Baca. Another suit against Chivas USA. Wildlife in LA and the Dodgers win on a walkoff again. Plus much more.

Steve Soboroff, Paula Madison and two other new faces will give the Garcetti police commission a new look. Emanuel Pleitez gets a pension commission slot.

Katz is vice president of the Brookings Institution and founder and co-director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. He contributes to The Atlantic Cities and has written a book, "The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy."

The Times newsroom just isn't the savviest place when it comes to using technology. For instance, a robot shovels headlines about trivial earthquakes onto the front web page without any reporter or editor deciding it is news. Often, it isn't.

This photograph of the fledgling town of Los Angeles apparently was taken from a hot-air balloon in 1887, part of a stunt by William Randolph Hearst and his San Francisco Examiner. Nathan Masters explains.

The New York Times website has gone dark with only an error message posted. "We are having technical problems." Fox News says it is a big cyber attack.

City Hall plans for possible DWP strike, you can now block your parkway with a vegetable garden, Mar Vista's crumbling curbs, a new candidate for sheriff, a missing M-16 rifle, leaving the Downtown News, the new bestsellers at SoCal bookstores, a children's book about OR-7 and more.

The Dodgers win again to extend their jaw-dropping run since bringing up Yasiel Puig. While their star of a few years ago, Manny Ramirez, was cut from his minor league team and may finally be finished. We say salud.

Included on the politically important panel are close friend Sean Burton, former City Council member Jackie Goldberg and others with connections.

Law now bans tickets at broken parking meters. City Hall's director of international trade. LAPD impound policy thrown out. Jason Patric's custody claim. LANG websites re-boot. Rebecca De Mornay at Beverly Hills High and the Getty makes its photos free to use.

Ernest Marquez likes to say that his family lived in three countries — Spain, Mexico and the United States — without ever leaving home. Their home was in Santa Monica Canyon, before the artists and the actors arrived. Nice profile in the LA Times and video of the family's hidden cemetery in the canyon.

Francine Godoy, who left Councilman Jose Huizar's staff in April for a job with the Department of Sanitation, reportedly says in a complaint that she was harassed and endured retaliation because of her gender and "refusal to engage in sex." Huizar's spokesman said the councilman "strongly and emphatically denies the assertions."

Eddie Sotelo, the popular Spanish-language radio host who goes by Piolín, will next do his thing on satellite radio. Listen for him in the fall.

The Los Angeles Fire Department news and information blog announced today that Fire Captain/Paramedic Matthew G. McKnight was found unresponsive this morning inside the Metropolitan Fire Communications Center on East Temple Street.

Former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has secured at least one university gig for the next phase of his political life. Harvard announced today that he will be a visiting fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics.

Hey, just so anyone knows who is trying to reach me. I fiddled with my personal email settings last night hoping to tighten the spam screws a bit. Instead, I cut myself off. Facebook looks like a better bet for today.

High speed train delays. No rail to LAX again. Garcetti talks to Daily News editors. A headline oops at the LA Times. And much more.

Steve Wasserman, the former Los Angeles Times books editor, has some fun remembering his friend Orson Welles in a piece for the LA Review of Books. He tells how the Times in 1979 was about to drop the ball on the death in Beverly Hills of director Jean Renoir when Wasserman, then a deputy editor of the LAT's Sunday Opinion section, decided to somehow get in touch with Welles.

The movie's funny, she's great and she lands some uncomfortable points about the male domination of movie trailer voice work. The ghost of Don LaFontaine looms over everything, even a party in Reseda.

Who knows where this beauty of a sign was revealed by some construction a few years ago? I'll post the answer later. LA Observed photo...