Friday desk-clearing

No felony charge for Kanye West in that scuffle with a photographer at LAX. Reuters
New editor assignments on the L.A. Times city desk — involving Nita Lelyveld and Megan Garvey — and also a new Lakers beat writer: Broderick Turner, hired away from the Riverside Press-Enterprise according to a newsroom posting in Riverside.
Longtime L.A. journalist George Garrigues is moving from Palms and has discontinued the online Palms-Village Sun. His valuable history site, Los Angeles in the 1900s, remains up.
Sandra Tsing Loh made a guest appearance last night on the season opener of "The Office," playing an art school teacher.
Walter Moore says he has raised more than $150,000 to run for mayor again, qualifying him for public matching funds. LAist
Celia of the blog 5th and Spring, back from Latvia, reacts to John McCain's use of the term gook.
Chowhound gets a design makeover: more posts per page, smaller type. Eating L.A.
Stroh's Gourmet closes on Abbot Kinney in Venice. Eater LA
Photo of the Los Angeles Times building under construction in 1934. LA Metblogs