Holiday weekend in review

Here are quick links to some posts from the weekend, which wasn't all about Malibu fire coverage and the end of Mayor Villaraigosa's affair with Mirthala Salinas. In case you need to catch up:

• The new Times reporter on the federal beat
• Gabacho defined
• Apollo has left the Getty Villa
• KCRW's Mitchell Harding dies at 79
• Columnist gushes over Angels' Torii Hunter
• Reading some L.A. blogs
• Mayor's affair with Mirthala is over
• Village Books in the Palisades calls for help
• Matt Welch leaves the L.A. Times for Reason magazine
• Michael Krikorian visits his namesake in jail
• Here are the L.A. stories in Vanity Fair

Also: Phil Wallace at SoCal Sports Observed looks back at the week in sports.