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Jay Leno slinks out of prime-time, expect the Hollywood sign to be covered with a banner, more City Council drama over the budget and more.
- Jay Leno's prime-time show on NBC ends quietly tonight. Variety
- The Hollywood sign will be covered with a banner this week (if permissions come through) as part of a campaign by the Trust for Public Land to raise money to acquire Cahuenga Peak, once owned by Howard Hughes. AP, LAT, LAist
- The City Council today takes up City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana's plan to restructure city government and do away with some departments. Mayor Villaraigosa, reportedly ready to target the council's off-budget accounts, says he will take questions in the council chambers at 11:15 a.m. LAT, DN
- Respected gang intervention worker Ronald Lamonte Barron was killed by a tagger he confronted on West Pico Blvd. in Mid-City. LAT
- Former Avenues gang leader Pancho Real has been testifying about shootings and other crimes by gang members. LAT
- U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess rejected a LAPD union challenge to the new requirement that officers in anti-gang and narcotics units disclose personal financial information every two years. LAT
- Former LAPD chief William Bratton's Los Feliz home is lingering on the market and just took another price cut to $1.399 million. Curbed LA
- It's not just non-profits and government: free-market groups are also hiring journalists. Nieman Journalism Lab
- The LA Weekly unveiled a website redesign that increases the visibility of its online-only content.
- MTV is changing its iconic logo and dropping the line 'music television." NYDN
- Cartoonists are resigned to the comics shrinking in the newly narrow Los Angeles Times. Franklin Avenue
- Hearst executive Phil Bronstein, former editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, says the paper won't be closing any time soon but adds: "That's just my belief and my observation. Anything I tell you could be completely wrong or change tomorrow." SF Gate
- StoryCorps arrives Thursday in East Los Angeles to collect the stories of Southern California’s Latino residents as part of its Historias Initiative. KPCC release
- William "Bill" Binder, who ran Philippe the Original for many years, died at age 94. LAT