Afternoon news and notes

In a follow to her audit of City Hall gang programs a year ago, Controller Laura Chick says there is still a long ways to go. Report
Unlike in L.A., next Tuesday's election in the small city of Cudahy has no shortage of excitement: of the Molotov cocktail, hooded thug, FBI investigation sort. CityBeat
The past four years "are a litany of City Council failures at the most basic level," says the LA Weekly's new cover story, plus a history lesson on where the council's big salaries came from.
The L.A. Times posted stories on the Controller race between Wendy Greuel and Nick Patsaouras, and on City Attorney hopeful Carmen Trutanich.
The Center for Governmental Studies has posted another in its series of voter guides to the upcoming Los Angeles city election.
San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom is wading into Antonio Villaraigosa's turf with a March 19 event called a "Los Angeles Area Conversation about California's Future." Sausage Factory
Cardinal Roger Mahony and the archdiocese may not be named as defendants in a molestation lawsuit by an Iraq war veteran, but they are in the case nonetheless. CityBeat
The LA Weekly is marketing an event called Gold Standard in which food critic Jonathan Gold "presents 30 hand-picked restaurants" to purvey their food and wine to patrons who pony up $60 per ticket.
Councilwoman (and Controller candidate) Wendy Greuel will unveil a list of the city's most delinquent business tax non-payers at a presser on Friday morning.
The weekly LA Stage Times listing has a new look. LA Stage Blog
An octopus at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium opened a valve on its tank and flooded the place with seawater. L.A. Now
The L.A. Press Club is holding a panel tonight called "What to do After You Leave Your Job in Journalism,� moderated by Jill Stewart.