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Here's a little news to get the short week going. Just click on the Morning Buzz. And from last week, here are links to some of the posts that attracted the most traffic:
Bad press for Rocky
Hiltzik returns in Sports
Gov. Romer profiled by the home town paper
LA Weekly staffers through the years
Menupages serves in Los Angeles
Best of Latino L.A.
Nailing Jiffy Lube's scam
Antonio on immigration in the WSJ
Number one at 11 pm
Surviving a plunge off Mulholland Drive
Hiltzik returns in Sports
Gov. Romer profiled by the home town paper
LA Weekly staffers through the years
Menupages serves in Los Angeles
Best of Latino L.A.
Nailing Jiffy Lube's scam
Antonio on immigration in the WSJ
Number one at 11 pm
Surviving a plunge off Mulholland Drive
Sold out: The Neon Cruise on June 3 is full for this time. We may do it again later in the summer. Thanks for all your interest!
♦ Ya think?: Mayor Villaraigosa's plans to take over the LAUSD are meeting more resistance, and he will go to Sacramento today to continue the lobbying push.
♦ Consequences: Bo Stefan Eriksson, in jail since April 7, is scheduled to be arraigned on nine charges growing out of his high-speed misadventure with the Ferrari Enzo on PCH.
♦ Add to the blogroll: Councilwoman Janice Hahn has gone positively bloggy.
♦ "Last call" for candidate Rocky: Conga Room reception with Delgadillo and Jimmy Smits, $250. Private dinner after: $2,500.
♦ Synergy: The Huffington Post and the New York Observer link to each other, and the New York Times noticed.
♦ 30: Long Beach Press-Telegram photographer Leo Hetzel is hanging up his Nikon after 28 years. "The conscience of the newsroom," says executive editor Rich Archbold.
♦ Shut up and do your job: Santa Monica College police don't like being videotaped while in duty and think it's legal to interfere.
♦ Double Jeopardy: This is congressman Brad Sherman's night to be featured in a question on Jeopardy!