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Mayor Garcetti has muzzled city taxi administrator Tom Drischler, who criticized Uber and who said, "It is not innovation that makes these companies competitive, but their lawlessness." LA Weekly
Garcetti and labor leader Maria Elena Durazo recently had lunch at Casa La Golondrina Mexican Cafe and "discussed how to work together to improve L.A.'s economy," said Yusef Robb, the mayor's spokesman. LA Weekly
Garcetti plans to travel more than Villaraigosa did, plus Councilman Paul Koretz employs his daughter (and his wife works for Garcetti.) Rick Orlov's Tipoff/DN
Garcetti answers a Twitter yahoo who tweeted that the mayor had posted a pic of the Mexican flag but had never tweeted the US flag. Twitter
California blinked on Lake Tahoe in the face of Nevada threats. LAT
LAUSD Deputy Supt. Jaime Aquino, the right-hand to Supt. John Deasy, announced he would leave the district Dec. 31 with a blast that the school board is dysfunctional. LAT
Councilman Bob Blumenfield claims he votes no more than any other member of the council. Downtown News
Police commission president Steve Soboroff's typewriter collection is on display at Northeast University in Boston and got a visit from a writer for The Atlantic.
Internal emails show that Coliseum Commission officials tried limit public debate on its behind-the-scenes efforts to give USC control of the stadium. A judge ruled the LA Times does not have to return the emails. LAT
Voters in the Valley's 45th assembly district take a first cut through the 11 candidates on Tuesday. DN
SNL cast member Cecily Strong has been dubbed the next co-host of the show's Weekend Update segment, alongside Seth Meyers. NYT
Los Angeles magazine announced a new partnership with the University of Southern California and its alumni publication USC Trojan Family Magazine. LA Mag
Jessica Coen, the editor-in-chief of Jezebel and former editor of Gawker, and previously an LA blogger, married Benjamin James Bochnowski this weekend in Ann Arbor. NYT Vows
Today's New Yorker comes with small but subtle design changes, including redrawing the Irvin typeface and introducing Neutraface as a secondary one. NYT
The New York Times did a Sunday fashion and style story on the proliferation of rehab facilities in the city of Malibu. NYT
Inland Empire photojournalist Gabriel Luis Acosta, 46, died in a fall from a tree at home in Riverside. CBS LA
How LA Times reporter Robert J. Lopez helped create National Hispanic Heritage Month back when he was an intern in Washington. LAT
Jerry Sharell, a music industry veteran who hosts a weekend Frank Sinatra show for KJazz (88.1 FM), was attacked by a man with a machete and held for three hours at his home in Woodland Hills yesterday. LA Weekly, DN
Twelfth-century stained-glass windows from England's Canterbury Cathedral are going on display Friday at the Getty Museum, on loan while the cathedral undergoes repairs. It's a chance to see the medieval windows hung at eye level. NYT, Getty
The Getty's Pacific Standard Times Presents series that just concluded shows that "architecture remains something of a curatorial stepchild both at the Getty Foundation and at the participating museums. Compared to the Getty's first Pacific Standard Time effort in 2011, which focused on the visual arts and produced perhaps half a dozen top-notch shows, the architecture exhibitions were as a group noticeably less intellectually ambitious," says Christopher Hawthorne. LAT
Sam Hall Kaplan writes, "In many respects the Getty’s overly ambitious attempt to explore and explain the shaping of the local built environment perversely reflects the arbitrary practices and personalities of the history and hype of the Los Angeles architectural scene. The result is a muddle of successes and embarrassments." The Planning Report
Downtown landowner Joseph Hellen wants to build a 40-story residential tower in the Historic Core neighborhood between his Spring Arcade Building and the Alexandria Hotel. DT News
Tom Jordan, USC professor of earth sciences and director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, is profiled. AAAS
On Planes and Trains, Everyone Prefers to Sit Next to Women. Slate
Fred Katz, a classically trained cellist who quite by accident helped elevate his instrument to unlikely stardom in jazz, died in Santa Monica at age 94. NYT, LAT
Race. America's most fundamental dilemma. This year's movies exposes the pain and the reality. @LAObserved http://t.co/VNMHp3P6ug
— Mark Ridley-Thomas (@MRTempower) September 13, 2013
