Afternoon snack

⇒ This year Editor & Publisher actually is first with the leaked list of Pulitzer finalists. It has the Los Angeles Times up for two reporting prizes—investigating the Getty and Muslims in Europe—and two photo prizes and Copley News in San Diego for coverage of Duke Cunningham.
⇒ Janitors at NBC and Universal protested today at CityWalk and have started a new blog, Picking Up after the Peacock, to press their case.
⇒ Snow levels could drop to 1,500 feet when the Arctic air mass arrives Friday night.
⇒ Aleene MacMinn, one of two women in the Los Angeles Times city room when she was hired in 1954, died this week at age 75. She became the television editor and retired in 1993. MacMinn taught journalism at USC for twenty years.
⇒ LAVoice gets some action on loafing parking cops.
⇒ Lawyers Neville Johnson and Brian Panish are looking to represent Anthony Pellicano's alleged victims, says Nikki Finke.
⇒ Rachael Myrow covered Chief Justice John Roberts' speech at the Reagan Library for KPCC. (Audio)
⇒ T. Jefferson Parker chats about his books on "Writers on Writing" at 5 pm on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County or streamed live. Barbara DeMarco-Barrett hosts.
⇒Tonight on Life & Times: Animal Services chief Ed Boks and Supervisor Yvonne Burke—yes in two unrelated pieces.