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• The Daily News lost Sports Editor Michael Anastasi to the Salt Lake Tribune not too long ago and now is losing another his successor. Doug Jacobs is leaving to be Deputy Sports Editor of the Tampa Tribune. The new Sports Editor in Woodland Hills is to be Jon Clifford.
• ClothesHoarse picks up a resemblance between one of the W photos of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt pretending to be domestic and a 1958 Julius Shulman image, "Case Study House #51."
• Lester Rodney, the 94-year-old former communist sportswriter and Long Beach Press Telegram religion editor, speaks about helping break the baseball color barrier with Kitty Felde on KPCC's Talk of the City. Tuesday at 2 p.m.
• I'm told the second issue of Tu Ciudad features L.A.'s 25 hippest Latinos, a profile of author Salvador Plascencia and once again has a hot Latina on the cover.
• Bob Hertzberg spoke at the weekend Bear Flag League conference, along with GOP political consultant Allan Hoffenblum and Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Weintraub. He will feature the group in his column on Tuesday. Liberal blogger Kevin Drum of Political Animal made the scene.
• New West, the news and culture website about the Rocky Mountain region started by former L.A. Times reporter-editor Jonathan Weber, gets nice ink in a Washington Post story about citizen journalism. Weber also was founding editor of the Industry Standard.
• Joe Scott blogs that the Villaraigosa for governor rumor is "ludicrous," or at least a source close to the mayor says so.
• Wayback alert: Food blogger Jessica Ritz revisits my family favorite, the legendary Angeli Caffe on Melrose, and in her post evokes the memory of the long-departed Nucleus Nuance. Good day for personal favorites: LAist blows the cover off Don Antonio's on Pico, which was already so crowded the other night I had to satisfy my Mexican craving elsewhere.
• Ken Reich, blogging from Alaska, recommends Dennis McDougal's 2001 book on the L.A. Times and its Chandler family, Privileged Son.
• No longer HealthSouth: The El Segundo training complex that is home to the Lakers and Kings is now officially the Toyota Sports Center.
• Writers-at-Large and Jayne Lyn Stahl are putting on an August 9 discussion called "Writers of the Storm: Fake News, and Public Decency, in the Age of Terror." Panelists scheduled include Joseph Bosco, Paul Krassner, Cathrine Ann Jones, April Smith, Deena Metzger, Jervey Tervalon and John Daly. Author and lawyer Stephen F. Rohde moderates. It's being held at the Odyssey Theatre in West L.A.