Mother's Day shorts

• Sandy Gallin sells his Malibu home for $30 million and only gets second billing in the Times' Hot Property column. Also: Elvira as unhappy homeowner.
• Jack Klunder, the Times' new head of circulation, acknowledges to the L.A. Business Journal that shifting demographics are hurting his business: "It's more difficult now than it's ever been."
•  The Times' circulation woes even reach into the new Denise Hamilton mystery, Savage Garden (which I just finished and enjoyed.) Her protagonist, reporter Eve Diamond, pegs the paper's daily readership at 700,000, which is more than two hundred grand shy of the actual latest count. Hamilton reviews Elmore Leonard's The Hot Kid, a novel in today's LAT Book Review.
• Professor Bainbridge blogs via Treo 650 from the back row of a faculty meeting at UCLA Law School: "One of my favorite colleagues once observed that a UCLA faculty meeting is not over when everything has been said, it is only over when everything has been said by everyone."
• Speaking of UCLA, the Daily Bruin says two red-tailed hawks are making a nest within sight of Westwood crowds on the Art Deco tower of the landmark Fox theatre. (via West L.A. Online and L.A. Voice)
• Big turnout Friday night at The Velvet Margarita on Cahuenga for CityBeat's one hundredth issue party. Making the scene were, among others, author David Ulin, Tu Ciudad's Dennis Romero, advice columnist Amy Alkon, Newsweek's Lorraine Ali, writer and actress Erika Schickel, journalists Victor Merina, Luke Y. Thompson, Joe Donnelly and Charles Rappleye, musician Ben Harper, CityBeaters Steve Appleford, Natalie Nichols, Mick Farren, Gary Leonard and new staffer Donnell Alexander.
• Democratic strategist Darry Sragow has been named a partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and member of the law firm's public law and public strategies practices. (via LABJ)
• Better late than never: I neglected to report that Rochelle Krich's thirteenth book, Grave Endings won the Mary Higgins Clark Award.

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