Thursday late notes

Restaurant critic S. Irene Virbila talks about the Red Medicine flap.
The state of California says its method of estimating the population is better the census count and claims the feds missed 1.5 million residents.
Cartoonist Patrick O'Connor blogged about his friend and former editor at the Daily News, Mike Tetreault.
Variety columnist Brian Lowry dreams of a 2011 when "The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline and the Wrap will merge into a single online entity. Leadership of the combined venture will be settled by a pay-per-view cage match."
How Ryan Kavanaugh can save the movies. Really.
Forbes looks inside the voluminous FBI file on the late Lester Rodney, former religion editor at the Long Beach Press-Telegram (and sports editor of the Daily Worker.)
Jerry Brown reportedly plans to cut the state's office in Washington to two people from six.
David Kipen's top 11 books published in California in 2010.
The LAFD reminds you: don't burn gift wrapping in the fireplace.
KPCC's Patt Morrison was named most valuable radio voice on The Nation magazine's Progressive Honor Roll of 2010.