Diana Chang, who blogs at HRGBRG, posts: "In order from south to north, here's every Venice Boardwalk storefront that faces the Pacific Ocean. Photographs taken on May 17, 2012. With soundtrack."

Chang tells me, "I tried to recreate the Venice Boardwalk for the internet by taking a pic of each and every storefront that faces the ocean, with a soundtrack, and I think I made it work!" Check it out

The Pasadena Police Department and San Gabriel Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District flew over El Monte and Duarte on Tuesday and identified 21 dirty, abandoned or improperly drained swimming pools that could provide breeding environments for Asian tiger mosquitoes. San Gabriel Valley Tribune photographer Walt Mancini rode along. Story | Photo gallery

Photo: Walt Mancini/San Gabriel Valley Tribune

A Santa Monica police officer fired the shot that killed the mountain lion cornered in a courtyard off the 3rd Street Promenade yesterday. LAT

The Natural Resources Defense Council, a supporter up to now of the Anschutz Entertainment Group stadium proposal, called on AEG to rewrite to environmental impact report, saying it failed to fully analyze health risks created by cars that would travel to and from the 72,000-seat facility. LAT

Reps. Howard Berman and Brad Sherman continued to tussle verbally over which was more responsible for fixes to the 405 freeway. DN

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health launched a “LA’s Next Sex Symbol” contest in which residents are asked to submit photos or artwork "to be featured on an official Los Angeles-branded condom."

The Strange Thing About Bruce Jenner: "He was the greatest athlete of his time. But you know him as Kim Khloé, Kourtney, Kendall, and Kylie's dad. Or the first great athlete to marry a Kardashian." Esquire

Nationally syndicated columnist and humorist Amy Alkon has gotten a book deal with St. Martin's Press for "Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck, "an edgy manners advice book that focuses on how to defuse rude people and cut down on the amount of stress and conflict in our daily lives."

United Airlines pilots engaged in a contract dispute with the airline will take the media on a tour Thursday morning of Lot E, the parking lot at LAX where some pilots sleep between their runs.

A group called BishopAccountability.org in Santa Barbara has posted what it calls the Archive of Franciscan Sex Abuse, "the largest disclosure of religious order records in history."

Janet Balis, formerly Senior Vice President and Head of Sales Strategy, Marketing and Partnerships at AOL, has been named Publisher of the Huffington Post Media Group.

"The Beverly Hills Hotel and Bungalows, The First 100 Years" by Robert Anderson sells for $100. HuffPost

Voice of San Diego plans to publish a print and digital monthly magazine. VOSD

An Italian journalist is plagiarizing old LA Times stories. Fishbowl LA

Actress Kristen Stewart, at Cannes, "embraces topless, beatnik role in 'On the Road.' The Wrap

"Rushing Waters, Rising Dreams" a 40-minute documentary that chronicles the arts scene in the Northeast San Fernando Valley, debuts Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural & Bookstore in Sylmar. DN

Car racing pioneer Barney Oldfield’s need for speed. Westways

Dana Point surfboard shaper Terry Martin, credited with as many as 80,000 boards, died May 12 at home in Capistrano Beach after a battle with melanoma. His death was announced by the Hobie Surf Shop in Dana Point. Martin was 74. LAT

The Chronicle of Higher Education's Pageview blog asked Tom Lutz how his daily reading has changed since he began editing and publishing the Los Angeles Review of Books. There are some things he no longer has time for, now that he's checking the newspapers online for breaking news he seldom unwraps the print papers he pays for [tell me about it....] and he's added Google Analytics to his morning ritual. He includes LA Observed prominently in his blog reading. It's a nice piece. Excerpts:

Q: What newspapers and magazines do you subscribe to or read regularly? What do you read in print vs. online vs. mobile? A. We subscribe to The New York Times and the L.A. Times, and rarely take them out of their wrappers. I recognize this as an ecologically stupid practice; I just want to do my little to help keep them alive, but I’ve always seen the stories online before the paper arrives. We take The New Yorker, Atlantic, Harper’s, The Economist (dislike the politics, love the coverage and the astounding efficiency of the prose), Los Angeles magazine, Vanity Fair, New York Review of Books, LRB, TLS, and there always seem to be a number of food magazines arriving related to my wife’s work [Laurie Winer is a culture and food writer.] When I get to any of these, except for the newspapers, it is almost always in print....

Q: What books have you recently read? Do they stand out?

A. Much of my reading now is instigated by travel, so Peter Godwin’s books on Zimbabwe, Thant Myint-U on Burma (and Orwell’s Burmese Days), Liao Yiwu on China. Other authors this year, for fun, Edward St. Aubyn, Andrey Kurkov, Paul Cain, Derek Raymond, Vanessa Veselka, Chad Harbach, Teaching literature means regularly rereading great books. Thus Love Medicine, which is absolutely beautiful, for a course on collagelike novels, which started with In Our Time, Cane, and Winesburg, Ohio, and runs through The Noodle Maker, The Imperfectionists, I Hotel, and A Visit from the Goon Squad. I have recently been visiting some book clubs for fundraising purposes (LARB is reader-supported), and for them I reread House of Mirth, again thrilled by Wharton’s truly nasty sense of humor, and A Hazard of New Fortunes, with the more restrained and yet profound wit of Howells. I’d say the mix these days is 65% physical and 35% a mix of iBooks and Kindle, with the e-books gaining....

Q. What has been the most surprising aspect of starting a new book review?

A. Three: the incredible enthusiasm and kindness with which it has been received, the beautiful willingness of people to dive in and help make it happen, and the difficulty of raising money to sustain it.

Lutz is also a professor in the department of creative writing at UC Riverside.

Actually, they may leave the NHL's Western Conference championship hardware behind. Kings captain Dustin Brown didn't even look at the trophy after the Kings beat Phoenix tonight 4-3 in sudden death overtime. Players don't play hockey to win that unknown object. Some consider it bad luck to touch any trophy but the one they play for. The Kings open the Stanley Cup final in either New York or New Jersey on May 30..

It will be the first visit to the final round for the Kings since 1993, when Wayne Gretzky was team captain. They lost that year to the Montreal Canadiens in five games.

What you don't see in the picture that the Phoenix fans are pelting Brown with boos, catcalls and some thrown objects. Shortly before the game ended, he ran into a Coyotes player who went down injured. The Phoenix bench felt Brown threw out a knee to cause an intentional injury, though the TV replays don't back that up. The players were so mad there was a lot of jawing with Brown during the traditional handshake line that marks the end of the playoff series.

The Kings eliminated Phoenix in five games, meaning that in the playoffs so far they have won 12 games, lost 2, and eliminated three teams that had better records during the season.

* By the way: The trophy does have a name and a history, but who cares? Certainly not the players.

Photo on Kings website/Max Wolfson-Getty Images

The Houston Chronicle announced this morning that Los Angeles Times associate editor Randy Harvey is joining the paper as sports columnist. Harvey was a longtime sports writer, editor and columnist before becoming a masthead editor under Russ Stanton at the LAT. He's currently number three on the online masthead, after editor Davan Maharaj and online managing editor Jimmy Orr. Stanton is gone to KPCC, now Harvey is leaving, and there has been no managing editor named yet by editor Davan Maharaj. Harvey, by the way, previously worked and went to school in Texas.

* Update #1: Harvey comments via email: "I've been suppressing my inner Oscar Madison. After 12 years behind a desk in management, I'm letting him free."

Update #2: Here's the memo from Maharaj:

From: Maharaj, Davan
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 8:08 AM
Subject: Randy Harvey
To the Staff:

After almost three years as associate editor, Randy Harvey is leaving The Times to return to where his career began — in sports and in Texas, as a columnist for the Houston Chronicle.

Randy arrived at the L.A. Times in 1981 from the New York Daily News to cover the Showtime Lakers. After the 1984 Olympics, he covered international sports, including the Olympics and soccer (but never cricket), before becoming a sports columnist in 1996. He has covered XV Summer and Winter Olympics, including every Summer Games since 1976; XII Super Bowls; and four soccer World Cups. Name a well-known athlete or coach from 1970 through the 1990s, and Randy has probably interviewed him or her. (He did wisely shy away from Diego Maradona in 1994 in Buenos Aires after the soccer star shot at reporters with an air rifle.)

He was twice named California sportswriter of the year. He was honored seven times in the annual Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest and won numerous other sportswriting awards. He appeared four times in the “Best Sports Stories of the Year” anthologies.

Randy moved into management as senior assistant sports editor in 2000, left in 2004 to become Assistant Managing Editor/Sports for the Baltimore Sun and returned to The Times as sports editor in 2006.

In 2009, Russ named Randy associate editor, asking him to help integrate print and digital. He also became the point person for other departments within the Times – advertising, marketing, circulation, operations, the community newspapers and websites and Hoy. It was a difficult task, but one he performed with skill, dedication and his usual class. One particular part of that job he considered particularly inspiring: working with colleagues in supervising the Metpro and intern programs. One of his regrets, he says, is that he will not be here to usher in the next class of talented, young journalists.

Randy will be leaving us on June 8 with our deepest gratitude for his many contributions to The Times.

Please join me in wishing him all the best in the future.

–Davan

Between Thursday and Sunday, the Kings, Lakers and Clippers played six games in 72 hours before 110,000 fans at Staples Center. That's tough on the arena staff. Getty Images put together a time lapse of the weekend, via Yahoo Sports.

Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and John Krasinksi headlined a fundraiser last night in Santa Monica that raised more than $250,000 for Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren. Hollywood Reporter

No one knows for sure if the county's Jails Commission will matter or if will issue an earnest report that generates a few news stories, and some congratulatory action on the part of the Board of Supervisors, and then for all practical purposes vanishes, says Celeste Fremon. "However, it is more and more evident that at least some of the seven commissioners do not intend to be irrelevant. Furthermore, even the most conservative members of the commission are beginning to their evident surprise to apprehend the severity of the problem in the jails, and to suspect that its causes don’t lie solely with an old jail facility that needs to be shut down, and a few out of control deputies that need better training or whatever, that the issue is far more entrenched and complex and may very well have much to do with those at the very top of the department." Witness LA, first of 3 parts

One week after Gov. Jerry Brown proposed slicing state workers' pay by 5 percent, the Democratic governor and legislators find themselves targeted for a "share the pain" salary cut. Sacto Bee via Rough and Tumble

Four months after a California assemblyman was cited and released for carrying a gun into an airport, the Assembly passed legislation today that would require offenders to be taken into custody in such situations. Capitol Alert

Assemblyman Roger Hernandez (D-West Covina) has pleaded not guilty to drunk driving charges stemming from his March 27 arrest in Concord. LAT

United Farm Workers at 50: Does this legendary union still matter? Which Way, LA?

Four carwash workers filed suit Monday claiming that a family of carwash owners in Venice, Santa Monica and Lakewood routinely withheld pay for overtime and denied them breaks during the summer. LAT

A Saudi prince seeking to build a mansion complex at the end of a private lane in Benedict Canyon has asked the Los Angeles County Superior Court to order the city of Los Angeles to allow the project to move forward without environmental review. LAT

The Times editorial page endorses a City Council vote to ban plastic bags but is silent on paper bags, implying I guess that it's against extending the ban to paper. LAT editorial

Former Telfair Elementary teacher Paul Chapel was charged with sexually abusing 13 children while he taught 3rd grade at the Pacoima school. DN

Mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti announced the endorsement of former Democratic Party chair Howard Dean and the launch of a new campaign website.

Tom Mueller, Vice President of Propulsion Development for Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, on how he came to be in Los Angeles building rockets. KCET