Nikke Finke has sold her web site, Deadline Hollywood Daily, to Jay Penske's Mail.com, and will be hiring a reporter in New York to expand the site's coverage. So get those résumés ready, kids.

What could cure cancer, the economy, and put lovable handles on Michael Phelps? Hold that thought. On the bong I've got: Jason Mulgrew, Jeff Weiss, and Anonymous Hedgefund Dude. We are from the future.

(UPDATED) After eight years as editor in chief, Laurie Ochoa is leaving LA Weekly as Village Voice Media severs more of its own legacy.

Sadly, yet another distinguished film critic was put down last Friday when LA Weekly shed veteran scribe Ella Taylor.

Music critic Kate Sullivan, a favorite of ours, has been canned by Village Voice Media's L.A. Weekly as part of an ongoing effort by the magazine's parent company to enforce a lifeless, stultifying conformity in the pages of its papers. [Tabloid Baby]