McCain plays the sore loser again...

It feels like the Pasadena bookseller Cliff's Books has been in liquidation mode all year. But Steve Barkan noticed a new level of signage today.

DWP can't explain $40 million to two internal nonprofits. One LASD deputy involved in seven shootings. Campaigns will have to report paid blog posts. Garcetti takes to the curb. More on Swisher and Mossberg. No pants at Fox News. LAT looking at standards after GTA ads. Plus behind the scenes at LA Opera and more.

Mossberg and Swisher say they will continue writing about tech after the contract for AllThingsD runs out at the end of the year. No details, however.

The Dodgers clinched first place in the National League West and a spot in the postseason by beating Arizona 7-6 today. Some Diamondbacks were unhappy about what happened next.

New state senator from LA. Spring Street's green bike lane going away. Nikki Finke is talking. HIV-positive porn performer vs. Kink.com. Sheriff Baca in Sherman Oaks. NFL teams talking to Hollywood Park. Why a writer is leaving Venice. Artist Cecil Fergerson, RIP. Plus the Dodgers lose again and cockroaches in City Hall.

The New York Times keeps its web ads in the usual ad places and still looks like the NYT. Compare to what the LA Times lets its ad execs get away with.

Egger arrives in October from The Weather Channel to take over as the meteorologist on "Today in LA" on NBC 4. She's a UC Santa Barbara grad from Grand Terrace in the Inland Empire.

It has been a big week for the blue-footed booby since last week's sighting. "A bevy of boobies," quips the website SoCal Wild.

Actually, for a limited time all the sports columnists are free. Simers aims a couple of zings at the LA Times in his OC debut.

Loved the headline on this morning's Los Angeles Times story about Elinor Otto, who began working as a wartime Rosie the Riveter in 1942. The kicker of the story is that, at age 93, she's still working in an aircraft plant.

"Hey Joe" at the Monterey Pop Festival. Hendrix died Sept. 18, 1970.

The largest gift ever to Georgetown, his alma mater, will establish the McCourt School of Public Policy.

Tommy Gelinas, the prolific collector of memorabilia, photos, signage and documents related to the San Fernando Valley, plans to put some of his collection on display in Chatsworth on October 12.

Plesko, the Budapest-born author "known for Beat Generation-inspired novels," died on Monday morning after jumping from the roof of the building where he lived in Venice, the authorities said.

This is from last week: Los Angeles Times editor Davan Maharaj and his number two, Marc Duvoisin, lavishing their praise on the emotional Sunday piece by Christopher Goffard and Rick Loomis.

Nature writer Jackson Landers had his encounter with a black widow spider in Virginia, but since we are lousy with black widows here too and his story is kind of gripping, it's worth a read.

Insipid web listicle omits the inconvenient truths that Garcetti is married and a father.

All big newspapers face financial challenges, but only one turned the top of its page over to a video game bikini babe — on the same day the reporters are busy filling in details on a mass murderer who was obsessed with video games.

The Broad opened its doors to the media today for a hard-hat tour of the still under-construction museum and made some news.

The annual southbound migration of traveling Vaux's Swifts is underway — they are not using the chimney of the Chester Williams building at 5th and Broadway, but the nearby Spring Arts Tower. The first Audubon watch party is Saturday.

Herbalife's formidable foe. Delaying the merger of Planning and Building and Safety. Sheriff's brass allowed to fade into retirement. The LAPD's after-hours ghost hunter. DiCaprio picks up Scott Berg's Woodrow Wilson book. More blue-footed booby news. Plus Jackie Lomax, Philip Berg and more.

Cruise was the first to arrive when the Museum of Tolerance invited two dozen Hollywood VIPs to preview the upcoming Anne Frank exhibit.

Garcetti muzzles City Hall's taxi official. And he lunches with Maria Elena Durazo. Koretz's family at City Hall. Times can keep Coliseum Commission emails. Cecily Strong moves up at SNL. Music industry veteran hurt in machete attack. Critiquing Pacific Standard Time Presents. Sitting next to women. And more.

After losing three straight at home to the (no longer) last-place Giants this weekend, the Dodgers have now lost 8 of their last 11 games. And the big stars are nursing injuries.

An unusual piece of heartwarming news out of the Los Angeles County jails.

On the back of a classic Los Angeles address on 7th Street, visible only across a parking lot, is a reminder of the once popular Clifton's cafeteria empire.

For the first time since the Rim fire was at its peak, travelers can drive between the Eastern Sierra and the heart of Yosemite National Park.

Democrats who were disappointed they didn't get to see President Obama in Hancock Park last week will get the chance to open the checkbook for First Lady Michelle Obama.

The Orange County Register put the story about T.J. Simers jumping from the LA Times on the front page of this morning's sports section — and outside the website paywall. No word on whether the columns themselves will disappear behind the wall.