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Firing on LAPD
Someone shot a round into the front window of the North Hollywood community station. No one was hit.
Santa Clarita fire mostly controlled
Full containment expected today, but it's a red flag day in Los Angeles.
Yeah, he didn't do it.
Colorado prosecutors kick John Mark Karr when his DNA doesn't turn up at the JonBenet Ramsey murder scene, but he's being held on California charges of child porn.
AFTER THE JUMP: Can the mayor fire the next LAUSD superintendent? Will the school board hire a supe before the mayor's power takes hold? Plus the NFL deal at a crossroads, a possible steakhouse at the Pantry, who didn't kill the Red Cars, and remembering Ruben Salazar. And a lot more, naturally.
Politics
Showdown over next LAUSD boss
Mayor Villaraigosa vows to fire a new superintendent who isn't a change agent, but Romer and the school board say he won't have that power even under AB 1381. And the bill won't take effect until January, presumably after the board hires the new chief.
Looking toward 2010
Bill Bradley says Villaraigosa is on the verge of "another major political triumph" that would make him the Democratic front-runner for governor in 2010.
NFL interest tenuous?
Joe Scott, who has been following the NFL talks with interest, blogs that a team in L.A. is no certainty and says that failure to approve the issue at October owner meetings "will, many agree, basically end the marathon kabuki dance."
Media
L.A. Dish debuts today
The website by former "The Bold and the Beautiful" writer Candy Kirby claims it will "nourish Angelenos with their USDA-recommended daily allowance of city style, health and beauty, dining, nightlife and entertainment news."
More outsourcing
The Times' experience with circulation calls being handled in the Philippines has led the Tribune Company to put other papers on the same plan.
Noted
Plans for Original Pantry
Ex-mayor Richard Riordan is thinking about converting the Pantry's overflow annex into a casual steakhouse, the Downtown News says.
We killed the Red Cars
USC Professor of Real Estate Economics and Public Policy Peter Gordon blogs that PBS' "History Detectives" was taken in by the myth that corporate interests killed the streetcars. He points to a seminal 1976 academic paper on the disappearance of the Red Cars from Los Angeles.
Ruben Salazar
On this day in 1970, the LAT's first Chicano columnist was killed by a sheriff's tear gas canister fired into the Silver Dollar Cafe on Whittier Boulevard during an East Los Angeles demonstration against the Vietnam War.
Following the Exploratorium model
Categorically Not! is an occasional series of Sunday evening gatherings "dedicated to exploring the common ground of art, science, politics and whatnot," at the Santa Monica Art Studios. They have an event coming Thursday night.
Press photogs on display
Fifty members of the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles will exhibit in the group's first-ever gallery show, "The Art of Photojournalism," at Bel-Air Camera in Westwood Village Sept. 5-30.
Today
Security PSA's
Sheriff Lee Baca, Westwood One and the Homeland Security Advisory Council will present a series of public service announcements about being prepared to be self-sufficient in the 72 hours after an attack or natural disaster.
Baquet on New Orleans
Los Angeles Times Editor Dean Baquet, who's from New Orleans, talks about the Katrina aftermath with Patt Morrison on KPCC about 2:15 pm.
Politics of Culture
Will Lewis interviews Jonathan Kirsch about A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization. KCRW, 2:30 pm
Around LA Observed
Yesterday at News & Chatter
Senate passes AB 1381
James Ellroy and the Black Dahlia
Monday blogs eclectic
Daniel Hernandez interviewed
Editor shifts at LAT
James Ellroy and the Black Dahlia
Monday blogs eclectic
Daniel Hernandez interviewed
Editor shifts at LAT
New on the blogs
Native Intelligence: Making the most of summer's ebb
LA Biz Observed: Tom Cruise cuts a deal
SoCal Sports Observed: Simers gets some blog love, and Mike Quarry remembered
Chicken Corner: Jenny goes solo to the Echo Park Film Center
LA Biz Observed: Tom Cruise cuts a deal
SoCal Sports Observed: Simers gets some blog love, and Mike Quarry remembered
Chicken Corner: Jenny goes solo to the Echo Park Film Center