Afternoon news and notes

Coliseum general manager Patrick Lynch resigned ahead of a commission meeting to decide his fate.
Mayor Villaraigosa named Richard Moss of Brentwood to the DWP board.
Former City Controller Laura Chick, no big friend of the Hahns, endorsed Debra Bowen for the Jane Harman congressional seat.
The number of people who got sick after attending or working that party at the Plaboy Mansion has grown to 200.
KABC politics talk host John Phillips has been guest-blogging for Andrew Malcom's Republican blog on the L.A. Times website.
Raw YouTube video of protests today in Iran.
Investigation Discovery has temporarily yanked "James Ellroy's LA: City of Demons" off its schedule.
Kobe Bryant this weekend becomes the first athlete to put his hands and feet in concrete outside Hollywood’s famed Grauman’s Chinese Theater.
Catching up to nice story by Bill Plaschke on his favorite free lunch spot: seats at Dodger Stadium when there is no game.
T.J. Simers suggests an on-stage conversation between him, Frank McCourt and Donald Sterling, ala the Scully-Wooden and Torre-Koufax events. But he does hint at the need for polygraph machines.