Los Angeles Times

Nancie Clare was named editor of LA, the Los Angeles Times Media Group's monthly Sunday magazine, in the latest in a series of management changes. Effective immediately, Clare replaces Annie Gilbar, who shepherded the magazine's relaunch in September 2008, the group said Monday. After serving as editor in chief for the last year, Gilbar is leaving the company. Clare also participated in the relaunch and was promoted to executive editor in January after serving as deputy editor.

Nicknamed "the world's largest Japanese lantern" for the soft yellow glow it emanates at night, this Brian Murphy-designed house in the Hollywood Hills is the brainchild of an architect known for his edgy, offbeat creations. The effect is caused by light reflecting off the home's corrugated fiberglass shell. With views of Los Angeles from every room and an interior flooded with natural light coming through glass walls and half a dozen skylights, the Sunset Strip-area house had its current owners instantly hooked.

A few miles from Los Angeles City Hall, a small experiment in marijuana regulation has been underway for years. While the state's largest city passed a flawed moratorium, failed to enforce it, debated proposed rules endlessly and watched flummoxed as dispensaries multiplied, West Hollywood pressed ahead. Confronted with its own dispensary explosion in 2005, the city surrounded by L.A. imposed a moratorium on dispensaries, clamped interim rules on the ones that were open, passed a strict ordinance and capped the number allowed at four, all within two years.

"I'm disappointed that's his decision, because I think there's a lot of information that says [leaving early] is not going to help him out as much as he thinks," said USC Coach Pete Carroll. The quote was not about Mark Sanchez, it was about USC All-American wide receiver Mike Williams on Feb. 26, 2004, in a Los Angeles Times article. Williams went against Pete Carroll's advice and now he is out of the NFL. Pete Carroll wants only the best for his players and their families. Asad Akmal, Torrance :: If you treat a mere football coach like a god, he is bound to become an egomaniac.

PAPERBACKS Fiction -- Fiction weeks on list 1. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $19.99) Bella 27 must choose between her lover and a friend, between life and death. 2. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $22.99) 24 The final book in the "Twilight" saga finds Bella choosing immortality. 3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by 24 Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Dial Press: $22) A writer corresponds with islanders after German occupation.

Zap2it.com: A headline and article in Business on Friday said the online television and movie listings service Zap2it.com was being merged into the Los Angeles Times. More precisely, the listings service and the news organization, both owned by Tribune Co., will share staff in a newly formed Los Angeles-based online entertainment news bureau created to produce entertainment listings, news stories and online coverage for all Tribune properties.

Congratulations to the Palm Springs Visitors' Bureau on the ad in the Feb. 8 Los Angeles Times. I particularly enjoyed the advertorial on Valentine's Day, which targeted the huge LGBT market in Southern California. It is refreshing in this post-Prop. 8 era to see us visualized as an accepted group of potential travelers to our desert and not simply as some sort of "other" in a political campaign. George W. Zander Palm Springs

Oscar photographs: In some editions of Monday's Calendar, a photograph with an article about the backstage scene at the Oscars said that it showed Jack Black with a stage director. Black was with the telecast's producer, Laurence Mark. And a caption on a photograph of "Slumdog Millionaire" director Danny Boyle being congratulated after the show said he was being embraced by his wife. She is his ex-wife. Also, a photograph of Kate Winslet, Sean Penn and Penelope Cruz on the section cover was credited to Los Angeles Times photographer Jay L. Clendenin, but the picture was taken by Times photographer Lawrence K. Ho. And with the article about red carpet fashions, the photograph of actress Taraji P. Henson wearing a Roberto Cavalli gown should have been credited to Times photographer Bryan Chan, not Wally Skalij.

John Leech, 74, a co-founder of L.A.'s legendary Onyx Cafe, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Wednesday, the county coroner's office confirmed. A hangout for literary figures and bohemians in the city's Los Feliz area, the Onyx opened its doors in 1982. It hosted monthly art exhibits and poetry slams and was a launching pad for local musicians, including Beck. Patrons included artists Peter Shire, Gronk, Gary Panter and Cam Slocum. A 1988 Los Angeles Times story described it as a place "where a lot of books were written and lots of black was worn."

Tribune Co. would have received as much as $45 million and a 5% stake in a leased Wrigley Field under a deal involving a state loan of $300 million toward restoring the ballpark, a proposal found in state documents shows. The media company, which owns the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, is trying to sell the Chicago Cubs and its ballpark. Secret talks about the pact between Tribune Co. and state officials came to a halt Dec. 9 when then-Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich was arrested on federal corruption charges.