People around town have been seeing Spanish actress and newly adopted Angeleno Penelope Cruz carrying an obvious baby bump. Couple of journos even Facebooked recently about spotting the Cruz-Bardems at the Argentine restaurant on Melrose, Carlitos Gardel. Anyway, no sooner did Cruz's reps confirm today that she is 4½ months pregnant than Vanity Fair faked up a first look at the Cruz-Bardem spawn.

In a preliminary move that will eventually have to be validated by the City Council, the City Ethics Commission voted to bar top officials from taking free tickets to concerts and sports if the donor has business pending before the city. The ban would apply even if the recipient — an elected office holder, commissioner or top manager — has official city business to conduct at the event, as Mayor Villaraigosa claimed to justify his presence at dozens of high-profile events.

"We're very pleased to have the endorsement of former President Bill Clinton," says Jerry Brown's spokesman Sterling Clifford. Brown also releases a new anti-Whitman ad.

Jerry Brown apologizes for bringing Monica Lewinsky into it, Board of Supes to look at letter grades for food trucks, LAPD officers get scammed, a gay Saudi diplomat here seeks asylum and more inside.

Rock musician Jesse Ed Davis's 64-year-old ex-girlfriend has rare Polaroid photos of Paul McCartney and the other Beatles, plus Eric Clapton and others, hanging around at John Lennon's Santa Monica beach house. Included are shots of Lennon's so-called "lost weekend," short-term girlfriend May Pang, and McCartney playing Lennon's piano. Chuck Henry's story for NBC 4 says it's the first time Lennon and McCartney were together after the band's breakup. If you can't see the video above, here's the link. Sorry, there's an ad at the front of the video.

For what it's worth: An anonymous comment posted at the web page for part one says, "I would like to quote (the love of Jesse's life) Mrs. Jesse Ed Davis. 'If any money is made by selling these photographs and letters, it should all be donated to a Native American Indian Drug and Rehab Facility.'"

* Plus: Not so new, says Rip Rense.

More fun with Google Maps and its perplexing take on the geography of Los Angeles. I will say, this one seems more like a technical glitch than a failure of concept. Reader David Murphy noticed Google has moved the Century City Louis Vuitton store through Beverly Hills, up and over Coldwater Canyon into the hills of Sherman Oaks. Only one mountain range removed from reality, not bad. I re-tried the map search three times using different ways of asking the same question, but the answer was the same. Want a bag, go to the Valley across Coldwater Canyon Avenue from the Harvard-Westlake School.

Double fail: Just for kicks, I asked Google Maps to map out my driving route from the Louis Vuitton store in Century City to the town of Wahoo, California — a location known only to Google Maps and the websites that use its mapping base. (Wahoo is a long-abandoned historical place name along San Fernando Road in what's now Sun Valley.) That map is after the jump.

Sue Schmitt, the editor of the Daily Breeze from 2001-06, is returning to the newsroom grind as Editor and General Manager of the Long Beach Press-Telegram. Current editor Rich Archibold, in the job since 1997, is moving to the new position of Community Liaison Director at the newspaper. He will also have the title of Editor Emeritus and sit on the editorial board. "Sue is the right person, a great journalist as well as a creative implementer who will push our news and information across emerging digital platforms," says Publisher Linda Lindus.

Now they have gone too far. The Department of Water and Power, already in the running for least popular city agency, has closed its cafeteria to the public. "New security procedures," is all that director of communications Joe Ramallo told KPCC's Molly Peterson. "Sorry." Gosh, that must be some big new security threat — the cafeteria in the DWP's John Ferraro headquarters building has been a favorite lunch spot for jurors, Civic Center workers and journalists for many safe years. Could it be bigger than any security threats facing the county Hall of Administration, the Ronald Reagan state building or Caltrans? "I will say it seems weird to close down a cafeteria in a public building to public access," Peterson observes.

It's been a tough week for readers of the print Los Angeles Times. Some got papers on Sunday without the final USC and UCLA football game scores, just as some have reported getting incomplete Dodgers and Angels results. Last week's San Bruno explosion led all the news shows but wasn't on the front page of the Times, relegated inside to the LATExtra section. Those were business-dictated deadline calls, but the next shock for readers will be strictly business: an upcoming ad campaign for "Law and Order: Los Angeles" that Weekly Variety says again blurs the line between editorial and advertising, similar to previous ads in the Times for "Southland" and the King Kong attraction at Universal Studios. "Where our 'Southland' and King Kong ads left off, 'LOLA' will pick up," (NBC marketing honcho Adam) Stotsky says, "and hopefully surpass both of these events."

My KCRW column this week suggests that the late Paul Conrad, if he were still commenting on Los Angeles, would see tragedy in the Westlake police shooting and its aftermath, not a clash between good and bad. I taped the piece Friday, but nothing has changed in the interim. It airs at 6:44 p.m. on KCRW (89.9 FM) or can be played at KCRW.com or downloaded for free off iTunes. The text is after the jump.