Los Angeles historian Jim Beardsley, a scholar in the work of architect Ross G. Montgomery, says his man produced a rendering for the hall ten years before the building opened.

Mostly good reads that have been stacking up looking for a home, and less news.

"60 Minutes" apologizes for Benghazi story. Register parent's talks to represent city of Anaheim collapse. HuffPost editor helps stop Brentwood demolition. Valley businesses versus the LA River ambitions. Plus more.

With maximum sustained winds of 195 mph, Super Typhoon Haiyan (as it is known elsewhere) "is thought to be the strongest storm to ever make landfall anywhere in the world in modern records." President Aquino of the Philippines urged the nation to prepare.

Have you ever wanted to see and hear (and get sprayed by) the Sylmar cascades up close? The Department of Water and Power is leaving the gates until the end of the day on Saturday.

I will be leading the conversation with NPR's media reporter for Zócalo Public Square on Monday night in Culver City. Come to the event or shoot me an email.

CBS Los Angeles took a page from baseball and announced today that it is trading some of its big name on-air talent between stations CBS 2 and KCAL 9. Here are the details.

A unusual chapel facing Wilshire Boulevard on the VA campus in West Los Angeles looks worse every time I check in on it. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the building was built with separate Protestant and Catholic chapels and is one of the oldest structures on Wilshire Boulevard.

The county-owned Bob Hope Patriotic Hall on Figueroa Street a bit south of downtown has been getting a makeover.

Moves against Ron Calderon. California more poor than previously thought. Simers blasts LAT again but has never told readers he's suing. David Hockney interviewed by Michael Govan. Drinks with Donna Bojarsky. Q&A with Roy Choi. That meteor shower and the close of Blockbuster video stores. Plus more.

Last night's Hillary Clinton for president fundraiser at the Exchange club on Spring Street featured addresses by former city controller Wendy Greuel and City Councilwoman Nury Martinez, among others.

A reader emails this screen grab: "What were they smoking at KCAL when they wrote this caption?"

UC Berkeley planning Ph.D. student Fletcher Foti animated the data from household travel surveys showing how people move throughout the day, hour by hour. You can view the population by income and mode of travel.

When the eastbound Wilshire Boulevard onramp to the northbound 405 opens, the transformation will be essentially complete at one of the city's most painful traffic choke points. The ramp project is done 13 days early.

The actual headline at Atlantic Cities is "More Billionaires Live in Beijing Than in Los Angeles." Check out the data.

Doris Kearns Goodwin will be speaking tonight about her book, "The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism."

Analysis of the mountain lion struck and killed while crossing the freeway in Agoura Hills in early October shows that it came from outside the current Santa Monica Mountains cougar population.

New mayor of NYC. LA City Council to weigh free wi-fi and sidewalk dining. Are transit plans too big for Garcetti? Tea Party Republican runs against Jerry Brown with "sexy" wife. Doubts about Kushner deal to buy Riverside paper. Nikki Finke keeps tweeting. "The Goldfinch" is still #1. Plus more.

Near Aberdeen, CA in the Eastern Sierra's Inyo County.

For months now, Los Angeles media, historians and civic officials have been thinking and talking about the city's water link to the Eastern Sierra and what it all means. It has been a good and useful exercise. Tuesday's reenactment was itself pretty cool.

Key staffers hired by Finke will carry on Deadline.com. Finke calls it "a great day" and says she is free to start a new career at a new website.

Danny Tedesco says he needs $250,000 to pay the music licensing costs of his film on the legendary Hollywood session musicians.

Nadia Lockyer speaks. Garcetti makes more changes in City Hall departments. David Dreier to represent Obama. Dean Singleton retiring. Blogger gets a national gig. PR marketer fired for LAX tweet. Upset at the Palisadian-Post. And more.

Part 2 of an excerpt adapted from "San Fernando Valley: America's Suburb" for the 100th anniversary of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

If you were a fan of Scott Turow's early blockerbuster legal thrillers, you will possibly remember that in the film version of "Presumed Innocent," Brian Dennehy played prosecuting attorney Raymond Horgan.

The key words here are rotting balls of fish flesh and corpse wax. Bon appetit.

LAX back to pretty much normal. A call for Sen. Calderon to resign. Huizar contacted in FBI undercover sting. Nury Martinez on life at City Hall. Ray Suarez lands at Al Jazeera America. Patti Smith remembers Lou Reed. The Schwarzenegger line of supplements, and more for a Monday.

The only thing random about the LAX Terminal 3 shooting is the shooter, says Charles Pierce, the politics blogger who was around the horseshoe in Terminal 7 when Friday's attack occurred.

A couple of the chapters in my book on the San Fernando Valley deal with the Los Angeles Aqueduct and how abundant water changed the city and the valley. It holds up, I'm pleased to say. For this week's anniversary, here's an adapted version.

In an joint opinion piece in the Los Angeles News Group papers, former mayor Richard Riordan and LANG columnist Tim Rutten write that the Los Angeles schools spend a lot more on students than district officials know or admit — with much lower results than they also will admit.

Former shareholders in Freedom Communications allege that buyer Aaron Kushner has wrongly held back $17 million from the 2012 purchase deal that put him in charge of the Orange County Register. He says they defrauded him on the deal.