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In LA, what does it take to stop Crips and Bloods from killing each other? Watts and the Los Angeles Police Department have each undergone a remarkable transformation. NYT Magazine
Attorney Leo Terrell says that Mayor Eric Garcetti and City Council president Herb Wesson improperly used race in redistricting the council's lines. LAT, DN
Garcetti pledges a different approach to City Hall diversity. KPCC News
Garcetti will appear live on KPCC's "Airtalk with Larry Mantle" at 11:30 a.m.
New school board president Richard Vladovic has retained the services of political consultant Mike Trujillo as a short-term communications deputy and strategist. LA School Report
A billboard for Heidi Klum's "Project Runway" showing several nude models is banned in Los Angeles and will be replaced with covered-up models. Hollywood Reporter
KCETLink announced a new partnership with NHK World TV that will present English-language Japanese and Asian news and lifestyle programming around the clock on digitial channel 28.4
The LA Times hired Len De Groot, formerly of the Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, as director of data visualization. He will lead the Art Department and work with the Data Desk and Web team in overseeing the development of graphics and data presentations.
A bill moving through Congress to allow Bob Hope Airport to change its voluntary curfew to a mandatory one is supported by the airfield and the city of Burbank, but it could present a tricky situation for UPS and FedEx. Burbank Leader
Will LA’s rush hour make us crazy forever? Three perspectives all pretty much on the same side. Zocalo
Harper's magazine is finally ready for the digital revolution. Mashable
NASA announced that the Hubble telescope spotted a blue planet 63 light-years from Earth that likely gets its color from glass. LAT
Bill Simmons on what's wrong with the Lakers and what they should do this coming season. "It's almost like the Lakers and Clippers switched bodies." Grantland
Yasiel Puig has "an unbridled swagger that hasn't been seen around the Dodgers since Manny Ramirez, the kind of swagger that enrages fans and distracts opponents." LAT/Bill Plaschke
James L. Loper, a co-founder of KCET who ran the station and also ran the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, died at age 81. LAT
