Weekend three-dots...

Michael Yamaki, the appointment secretary when Gray Davis was governor and former L.A. police commissioner, has been hired as senior adviser to Sheriff Lee Baca, the Daily Journal says...The Times on Sunday reendorsed Flora Gil Krisiloff over Bill Rosendahl in the 11th district council runoff...Frank Black of The Pixies interviews Ray Bradbury for the L.A. Alternative Press...Media imitates blogs: Kim Cooper and Nathan Marsak of the 1947Project (remember them?) get ink and a photo in today's LAT Magazine...Film critic Luke Y. Thompson survives a nasty bout with gangrene and a bad appendix, and blogs about it (via Matt Welch)...Councilman Eric Garcetti blogs (on his new official 13th district blog) about how the Cultural Heritage Commission and some neighbors stopped the illegal demolition of an East Hollywood home...Single Shot Los Angeles promises to send a daily email informing readers of "one hot thing in Los Angeles." The latest one was actually the Coachella festival...Works by photographers Gary Leonard (Encino) and Cheryl Himmelstein (Venice) are featured in the new L.A. Neighborhoods exhibition at the Central Library...Also at the library, on May 25 the social science department and L.A. Friends of Insight Press mark the release of From Ike to Mao and Beyond, a new memoir by Revolutionary Communist Party chairman Bob Avakian that was reviewed in Friday's San Francisco Chronicle. (Marc Cooper reviews the review, not kindly.)