Weekend shorts

Updated during the weekend, with the latest at the bottom...

⇒ Continuing feeds from the geek-confab BarCampLA at blogging.la and LAVoice.org, among others.
⇒ The Times devotes its entire Sunday editorial column to proposing solutions to homelessness.
⇒ Steve Pond blogs at The Envelope about star antics at Saturday's Oscar rehearsal: Hillary Swank refused to jinx David Strathairn, Ziyi Zhang was "the most star-struck" and "Jessica Alba was most visibly overwhelmed by the Oscar experience."
⇒ Nikki Finke blogs (yes, blogs) that Lowell Bergmann is back on the Pellicano beat for the New York Times.
⇒ The Daily News' Bradley A. Greenberg has a big Sunday takeout on Kimberly Pandelios, the 20-year-old model from Northridge who was murdered in 1992.
⇒ West magazine contributors include Larry Gelbart, Paul Mazurksy, A.M. Homes and Gawker co-editor Jessica Coen (on the art of the air kiss.) Robert Towne is interviewed in West about Ask the Dust and is the subject of a piece in the NYT too. Also: A reader emails that Randye Hoder should be noted as a contributor to Sunday's West, since she is married to the magazine's editor, Rick Wartzman.
⇒ The Sunset Tower Hotel gets a little ink in the New York Times.
⇒ Olga Marcus, co-founder of Women For, died at age 97.
⇒ Rancor between Orthodox Jews and others in Hancock Park—which came to a head in a bitter neighborhood council election—is examined in the cover piece in the Jewish Journal: "Aside from continuing enmity over the election, residents are battling in court over the construction of a synagogue on a busy residential street. And an Orthodox school and its neighbors are testing just how far they can push each other. But on both sides, there are people willing to face tough questions so they can begin to bridge the divide."