Afternoon news and notes

Longtime entertainment reporter Claude Brodesser-Akner will be West Coast Editor of Vulture, which New York magazine wants to become "the ultimate destination for obsessional entertainment news, commentary and community."
Mayor Villaraigosa named Celine Cordero as deputy mayor for legislative and intergovernmental affairs. she had been associate director of the mayor’s Office of Homeland Security and Public Safety.
LACMA's Unframed blog has a Q&A with longtime L.A. Times arts writer Suzanne Muchnic.
Zocalo launched what it's calling a web magazine that will be "a non-partisan, non-biased space for broad-minded readers to absorb and engage with compelling ideas from a wide range of fields."
Failing to consider that few may ride the California high-speed train is a big flaw in the project's "incomplete and inappropriate" business plan, the state Legislative Analyst's office says.
Former L.A. Times foreign correspondent Richard Boudreaux's byline is now appearing from Moscow for the Wall Street Journal.
Eugene Volokh of the Volokh Conspiracy and UCLA talks to the Bitter Lawyer blog.
Google News quietly stopped adding stories from Associated Press, possibly as a contract negotiating tactic.