New Weiner disclosure involves a porn actress, Loretta Sanchez may lose her district, Lacey makes a campaign video for DA, plus Schwarzenegger, Frank Buckley, Marc Cooper, D.J Waldie, Ron Kaye and more.

Richard Bloom is getting in the race to succeed the terming-out Julie Brownley. He talks to Sharon Waxman at The Wrap about it. Torie Osborn, the onetime adviser to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former executive director of Liberty Hill, is also geared up to run.

Last week's headline sounded bad enough: trustee for foster kids steals their money. Now Christina Villacorte of the Daily News has the more human story of the pain caused by those thefts, via Samuel Sago — a foster child under the care of Los Angeles County from the age of three.

He had saved up some money working at Starbucks - about $300 a month over a 17-month period - and turned it over to his county case manager for safekeeping in a trust fund. That was required by the county's Transitional Housing Program, which helps house youths for three years after they leave foster care at age 18 and forces them to save money for their future.

As he approached 21 and it was time to start paying his own rent for the first time, the county Department of Children and Family Services offered him a check.

The grand total: $713.

Sago was stunned. What happened to the rest of it - nearly $5,000 - he wondered. He fought with county officials for months, and was offered one runaround and vague excuse after another, but no check.

In fact, it was only after reading a story Friday in the Daily News that he learned the full, awful truth: His case manager, Deputy Probation Officer II Andre Toliver, had allegedly pocketed his cash, along with funds from at least 10 other youths he was supervising.

The thefts were discovered in March, after Toliver died of a heart attack. Not until Friday did Sago get the rest of his money: $4,664.10. Only Monday did Jackie Contreras, acting director of the county's Department of Children and Family Services, offer an apology.

Kristy Edmunds, who comes to UCLA from Australia, talks about programming the performing arts and how she intends to get to know what Los Angeles audiences want.

Andrew Gold, who died Friday at home in Encino, had serious roots in the Los Angeles music scene. His father, Ernest Gold, won an Oscar for his score on the 1960 film "Exodus." His mother, Marni Nixon, sang for Natalie Wood in the movie of "West Side Story" and for Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady." Gold himself was a student at the Oakwood School in North Hollywood in the 1960s when Linda Ronstadt and her band the Stone Poneys performed there. He struck up a conversation with Ronstadt, and later joined her new band. "It was clear from the beginning that I was going to be a musician,” Gold told the Los Angeles Times in 1977. On Saturday, Ronstadt told the paper "Andrew was so enormously talented it almost seemed effortless. He was a real cornerstone of those early records." From tonight's New York Times obit:

Mr. Gold’s combination of instrumental versatility and songwriting skill gave him a prominent if sometimes invisible role in shaping the Los Angeles-dominated pop-rock style of the 1970s. In addition to his instrumental and arranging work for Ms. Ronstadt’s breakout 1974 album, “Heart Like a Wheel,” Mr. Gold was a much sought after musician whose guitar and piano work (he also played bass and drums) helped define the seamless texture of recordings by artists like James Taylor, Carly Simon, Maria Muldaur, Jackson Browne and Loudon Wainwright III.

Though he was considered a masterly musician, he never learned to read music. “We gave him lessons on piano and guitar, but somehow he found it easier to just listen to something and play it by ear,” said Mr. Gold’s mother, the singer Marni Nixon.

His solo hit records included “Lonely Boy” and “Thank You for Being a Friend.” Gold suffered from renal cancer.

After the jump:"Lonely Boy" and a little taste of Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys.

Scott Pelley took the anchor chair on the CBS network's flagship news program tonight, and mostly nobody cared. The only suspense, really, was how would his show cover the Anthony Weiner sex scandal that broke earlier in the day in New York. NBC's Brian Williams led with it: "The age of oversharing has claimed another victim," he read. ABC had an exclusive interview with Meagan Broussard, the woman who leaked her online flirting with Weiner to Andrew Breitbart. And Pelley? Weiner was the third story that he delivered — "with more than a hint of distaste," the New York Times observed.

"Nancy, help us understand why Congressman Weiner matters,” Mr. Pelley said in a prim tone that suggested he didn’t really think Mr. Weiner does.

Mr. Pelley, a former “60 Minutes” correspondent, signaled to viewers that he is a no-nonsense newsman, but it was harder to glean what else he intends to offer. CBS has been promising viewers that he will bring “60 Minutes” values to the evening news, using ads with his picture and an image of a stopwatch and the words: “What if you can have the world-class original reporting of ‘60 Minutes’ every weeknight? Well, now you can.”

Actually, judging by Monday’s broadcast, you can’t. It’s a little like claiming that Stouffer’s frozen turkey pot pies make for a fine dining experience — there is plenty to be said for speed and convenience, but it’s not the same as a four-course meal at Le Bernardin, or a four-segment episode of “60 Minutes.”

The writer there is the irrepressible Alessandra Stanley. CBS dressed Pelley's new set with a map made to look like the one that hung behind Walter Cronkite when CBS dominated the news ratings. Here's a video on how they made the map.

Andrew Breitbart, the Westside-based conservative activist and website mogul, doesn't always hit the targets he aims for on the left. On Monday, though, he leveled New York Rep. Anthony Weiner with a clean check. [Can you tell the hockey playoffs are on?] After Weiner's repeated and sanctimonious assertions last week that he knew nothing about his lewd picture on Twitter, which Breitbart had reported on, Breitbart posted a bombshell on his Big Government site early this morning.

A new woman has come forward with what she claims are photographs, chats, and emails with Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY). These appear to undermine severely Rep. Weiner’s explanations that he was the victim of a “prank” or a “hack.”

The detailed new information suggests that the Brooklyn- and Queens-based representative and the young woman in question were involved in an online, consensual relationship involving the mutual exchange of intimate photographs....

We will be updating BigGovernment.com and BigJournalism.com throughout the day with photographs, timelines, and other clarifying details. However, we will not be releasing all of the material because some of it is of an extreme, graphic nature.

Bingo. By afternoon, Weiner stood in front of the press admitting that, yes, he has had online sexual dalliances with at least six females he believes to be adults but whose ages he doesn't really know, that he has talked to some of them on the phone, that photos have been exchanged, and that his wife didn't know about it. All that stuff last week, blaming "hackers" and pranksters and suggesting Breitbart had been taken or worse? Lies. "I apologize to Andrew Breitbart,” Weiner said at his presser. Weiner, in fact, wouldn't leave the podium and kept giving reporters more tantalizing loose ends to track down. "If he isn’t addicted to sex, he’s clearly addicted to air time," says the Daily Caller's Mickey Kaus.

Entertaining note: Breitbart attended Weiner's press conference and spoke to the media before the congressman arrived. "I’m here for some vindication,” he said. NYT

Photo of Weiner: BigGovernment.com

In tonight's column I visit Pacific Palisades, one of the city's richest corners, and hang around the bookstore the community could not keep open. The piece airs at 6:44 p.m. and also is on the KCRW website and the iTunes store.

Books related note: Following on this morning's LA Observed post about Downtown's Metropolis Books being for sale, journalist Scott Timberg reposted his story from when the store opened on Main Street: "The sudden appearance of Metropolis Books startled so many locals that some thought it was a movie set."

Jena Troutman, the lactation consultant and self-described “children’s rights advocate” who was behind the anti-circumcision effort in Santa Monica, says she'll drop the ban bid before beginning to collect signatures. She blames the media’s misrepresentation of her cause as an attack on religious freedom. From the Jewish Journal's Bloggish blog.

“It shouldn’t have been about religion in the first place,” Troutman said in an interview. “Ninety-five percent of people aren’t doing it for religious reasons, and with everyone from the New York Times to Glenn Beck focusing on the religious issue, it’s closing Americans down to the conversation.”

Troutman was featured prominently in an article in the New York Times on Sunday about attempts to ban circumcision in two California cities. A mother of two, Troutman runs the website wholebabyrevolution.com, which she describes as an educational resource for parents considering circumcision.

Troutman also said that Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom posted news about her withdrawal of the ballot measure on his Facebook feed this afternoon.

Previously on LA Observed:
Anti-circumcision vote could be coming to Santa Monica

The Associated Press made calls to some top executives in Hollywood looking for quotes to freshen up the prepared obituary on Apple's Steve Jobs. When Apple heard about the calls, the company put out the word not to talk, says the New York Post.

Calls are believed to have been placed in the last two weeks to honchos at Universal Studios, Warner Pictures and record labels Sony, EMI and Warner Music.

A source told Page Six, "Apple found out about it and asked everyone involved not to give any quotes, although most of those called had already refused."

Jobs has been out on medical leave and not seen in public since March. He is due to give the keynote speech today at the Worldwide Developers Conference.