Rim fire 35 percent contained. Brian Banks cut by Falcons. Garcetti's police commissioners approved. Sibila Vargas to NYC. Biographies with local ties recommended by Kirkus. A. Scott Berg profiled. LA Weekly's Web Awards. Leon Whiteson, 82. Plus more

In "Remembering Malibu," Heaney wrote lovingly of the Pacific shore after lunch with novelist Brian Moore on the bluffs. Heaney died in Dublin after a short illness.

This is, I guess, a follow-up to the earlier gossip from TMZ and others that the former Laker and Clipper's family feared he was off on a drug binge. His rep said he was fine.

President Obama's September 9 trip into Los Angeles isn't only to keynote the DNC fundraiser that night in Hancock Park. He also will address the national AFL-CIO convention that will be here for four days that week.

Music Man Murray is the record collector who has a huge collection of vinyl kept in a building on Exposition Boulevard near La Brea. He became an actor at age 80.

KCET columnist Elson Trinidad relates to LA's mess of an airport as an Ellis Island of the Pacific where his father first set foot on American soil in 1969, and where he and his friends regularly arrive back home from Asian travels.

The layoff reaper finally came for ABC7's bureau chief in Sacramento. Now there will be no Los Angeles area TV stations with a presence around the state Capitol.

The National Park Service posted this time lapse of the Rim fire as observed from the Crane Flate helicopter base and looking north from Glacier Point.

HuffPost Live closing in LA. Eric Richardson on Blogdowntown. A rumor about MOCA. Rupert Murdoch closes on his Bel Air vineyard and more.

We have unpublished a post about the late author Amy Wallace that was misconstrued as an obituary and offended some of her friends with its tone. "I share my condolences with Amy Wallace's family and friends," the post's author, Adrienne Crew, writes.

The release flacking a raunchy billboard for a sexual service says the sign is near UCLA and targets students — but it's three miles away and never mentions students. Works for HuffPo.

Don Mattingly, already a man short on the bench, pulled Puig from today's game against the Cubs before the 5th inning. A post-game meeting included those two plus the Dodgers president and the GM. The suits wouldn't talk afterward, but Puig did.

The latest fan of books to write glowingly about the 5th Street store is from The Paris Review.

The burn area now covers 301 square miles, but the spread is slowing and officials predict full containment by Sept. 10. Closures continue within Yosemite National Park.

P-23 was captured and DNA-tested in the Santa Monica Mountains as a newborn last summer. Newly dispersed from her mother, P-23 was photographed eating a deer kill on the pavement of Mulholland Highway on Sunday morning.

Kenneth Klee, one of the most respected bankruptcy lawyers in the U.S., is profiled in today's Wall Street Journal for his side practice. It won't help deter the stereotypes about Californians.

The council opted for the opt-in version of the mural ordinance, requiring that neighborhoods take an affirmatives act before murals would be allowed in areas zoned for residential use. A final vote is needed next week.

"If there was something I could work on, I’d work on it till I could get it back," Linda Ronstadt says. "If there was a drug I could take to get it back, I would take the drug. I’d take napalm."

Rim fire grows overnight, but 23% contained. Obama funder will be in Hancock Park. Hollywood funder for Cory Booker. Garcetti talks production "emergency" on "Today." Monica Ratliff talks to Patt Morrison. NYT website crawls back. Cynthia Fox gets a radio gig. Steve Lopez on still being alive. Plus more.

He talks with Giselle Fernandez of Los Angeles Magazine about leaving AEG, his breakup with Phil Anschutz, regrets about the NFL stadium deal and the leadership potential of Eric Garcetti.

The design firm Gensler, which will be taking the lead on a project to remake Pershing Square, has posted a video that shows what can be done — and why it should be done. They even keep the parking garage beneath the park.

Less than two years after Eric Richardson allowed his site to be swallowed up, Blogdowntown will cease publishing. The archives will remain online.

Mayor Eric Garcetti has decided to reactivate the mayor's office of immigrant affairs, which existed briefly at the end of the Hahn administration. Linda Lopez, a political scientist who had been associate dean for diversity and strategic initiatives at USC's Dornsife College, will run the office.

Fox 11 News in Los Angeles reported that its investigative reporter and producer Martin Burns was the hiker who died Sunday in a hiking accident in the foothills above Altadena.

You won't be able to go between the Eastern Sierra and Yosemite Valley starting at noon Wednesday. Fire suppression efforts will be going on along the high country road. The fire has now burned across 184,481 acres.

Ordinarily no one would care that John Henry, the owner of the Boston Red Sox, showed up inside the offices of the Los Angeles Times. But Henry recently bought the Boston Globe. Plus: ABC News settles suit, Joe Francis, KCRW, the Nate Silver track, DirecTV, new LAT obits writer.

A columnist writes that she and her editor have been let go. The editor, however, suggests he has a new bigger role in the downsized Patch empire.

Latest on the Rim fire. Foster families "desperately" needed in LA right now. Murals aren't a simple issue. Patrick Range McDonald goes first person. Don Shirley dings the LAT's theater coverage (again.) Mark Heisler on the missing T.J. Simers. Two sheriff's deputies shoot at each other. Watch for a rocket launch from Vandenberg on Wednesday. And both Magic and Phil send beams to Lamar Odom.

The Rim fire in and around the west side of Yosemite National Park jumped Monday to 160,980 charred acres, with new evacuations outside the park. But firefighters were able to declare 20% containment.

AP reporters Michael Blood and Elliot Spagat investigated what happened when state water was stored in an underground aquifer in Ventura County — the water vanished.

Posted to Twitter by historian Michael Beschloss, without explanation. Click to see it big.

"Days when I find lost baseballs never fail to feel mildly enchanted, as if hot dogs and beer are waiting at home," the LA writer and blogger says. "If I could paint, I would paint them just as lovingly as Cézanne painted apples and oranges."

The Onion satirized CNN for leading its website with coverage of the Miley Cyrus twerking debacle by posting a fictional letter from Meredith Artley, the managing editor of the network's news website. Artley is known in Los Angeles as the former editor in charge of the LA Times website.

It is what the headline says it is. County fire used to use motorcycles to get around.

Invitations went out today for a very exclusive sit-down with the president at a location not yet revealed, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The nationally syndicated public radio news interview program produced at North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC will air over American Public Media for the last time on October 11.

In a piece for the travel section of the Telegraph, actor Hugh Laurie goes against the grain of anti-LA sentiment among his fellow Brits. "I love the hippyness – better still, the collision between hip and yup – all set against the noirish, Philip Marlowe memories of my moviegoing youth."

Eddie Sotelo, the Spanish-language radio host known as Piolin, filed a "civil extortion lawsuit" today in Santa Monica Superior court against against six former Univision employees and their Los Angeles attorneys alleging they demanded $4.9 million or would threaten to go public with allegations of sexual harassment and workplace humiliation.

Anyone making the flights up and down California this morning could not fail to be impressed and awed by the monster smoke cloud being sent up over the Sierra from the Rim Fire. Check out the view inside.

Fighting to save the Tuolumne and Merced groves of big trees. Garcetti's DWP moves scored. Murals on homes. Nikki Finke wants Deadline back. KPCC boss loses bid to stay on NPR board. Williams Books to close. Another National Go Topless Day for the media. The old flying saucer ride at Disneyland. And much more.

The documentary photographer Bruce Davidson is known mostly for his images of New York — and not the softer sides of the city. Recently he has been dropping into Los Angeles for weeks at a time to shoot mostly in the hills and canyons. Palm trees, yuccas and the ivy growing on the undersides of freeway bridges factor in his LA pictures.

The New York Times says new books could start to appear in 2015. Watch the trailer inside for the upcoming film, to screen in limited release starting Sept. 6.

Two of the busiest Los Angeles communities on Facebook, Alison Martino's Vintage Los Angeles and Tommy Gelinas' San Fernando Valley Relics, are joining forces to collect and preserve the old sign from the facade of the former Tiffany Theater on Sunset Strip. They invite supporters to come out Monday and help take it down.

Sarah Horn, a voice teacher in Riverside, just happened to be sitting near the front of the Hollywood Bowl. She knew the words to the song from "Wicked," and now her video is sweeping YouTube.

Chef Mark Peel in the New York Times, Brian D'Arcy's record as a political strategist, State Sen. Ron Calderon's dicey choice of a spokesman, a couple of rural Sunday morning earthquakes, Julie Harris, Lamar Odom and more.

Most of Yosemite National Park is not affected by the giant Rim Fire — check out the High Sierra cam from a few minutes ago. The northern route into the park and the area around Hetch Hetchy are closed. Here's the latest update.

Since Scully was hired, 889 different players have played for the Dodgers — the latest being Brian Wilson, the ex-Giant with the long, thick black beard and rat-tail. How many of the 42 shortstops who have played for the Dodgers since 1950 can you name?