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Long interview with Henry Nicholas
The embattled Broadcom executive chats at length with the Times. Former LAT Business editor Bob Magnuson now runs the billionaire's family office. LAT
Chick gives Marcus Allen a deal
Controller Laura Chick takes back her former chief deputy as a consultant who can make up to $85,000 a year. Problem is, Allen also works for City Hall lobbyists Harvey Englander and Arnie Berghoff. Allen left Chick's staff in 2005 to be a senior aide in the new Villaraigosa administration. LAT, DN
Garcetti profile
Council President Eric Garcetti talks with Anna Scott in her last story for the L.A. Independent. She is moving to the Downtown News as the replacement for Kathleen Nye Flynn.
L.A. to ban smoking in parks
UCLA report says student wrongly Tasered
Merrick Bobb, retained by the chancellor, says the university officer who shocked a student who refused to stand up violated school rules. The Times has more. The original incident last year was all over YouTube.
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Piece of the old Valley
Bob Pool does a nice piece in the Times on one of my favorite hidden reminders of Valleywood, the house on Devonshire near Reseda Boulevard that architect Paul R. Williams designed for actress Barbara Stanwyck when she briefly went into the thoroughbred ranching game with agent Zeppo Marx. She sold it to actor Jack Oakie, whose widow gave it to USC. The acreage, which still has Oakie's 1940s orchard, is now destined to be subdivided into 28 homes. LAT
Not surprised
Theresa Duncan had a fertile imagination and a paranoid side, writes Kate Coe, who knew her a little. LA Weekly
Finke not impressed by THR choice
Before hiring Elizabeth Guider from Variety, the publisher of The Hollywood Reporter had his eyes on, among others, ex-THR editor Alex Ben Block, New York Timesers Sharon Waxman and Michael Cieply, freelancer Stephen Galloway, former Variety staffer Tom Tapp and L.A. Timesers Claudia Eller and Lennie LaGuire. LA Weekly
Leaving Los Angeles
Outgoing New Angeles Monthly editor Nikki Bazar, moving to Portland after three issues, says what she'll miss:
The treasures of L.A. are secrets reserved for those who live here, numerous enough so that we each have our own set. Mine are: the Pasadena flea market, Farmers Market, Zócalo panels, burrito joints, the Brewery Arts Complex, Griffith Park, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Zuma beach, MAK Center, flashlight tours of the La Brea Tar Pits, Freakbeat Records, movies in the Hollywood Forever cemetery, the smell of Jacaranda trees, Francine Dancer, Machine Projects, flash storms, ALOUD at the Central Library, Esotouric bus adventures, always wondering if you just felt an earthquake, the lotus festival, First Fridays at the Natural History Museum, helicopters, the Silver Lake reservoir, Shakespeare in Barnsdall Park, Olvera Street, gyoza in Little Tokyo, Farmlab, Out of the Closet, LAObserved.com, REDCAT, the Robertson skater, the Leimert Park jazz scene, Dangerous Curve, Chinatown … and the list goes on.
Not here it doesn't. The new editor, as previously reported, is Donnell Alexander.
'Very bad news for the Santa Clarita Valley'
Summer of Love remembered
San Francisco had the hippies but L.A. had the music and Laurel Canyon. LAT
Two LAist bloggers hired at Times
Adam Rose will be the USC sports blogger and Elina Shatkin will be a content producer for Calendar Live. LAist
