You mean I have to do one of these every (week)day?

• So much for Buena Vista -- Disney is changing the name of its Buena Vista Entertainment divisions (home video, tv, etc...) to just plain Disney. Bloomberg

  Buena Vista, of coruse, is the street in Burbank where Disney is headquartered.

• Interesting local story in the News Press -- Glendale Arts and Culture commissioner Amador Solis will be drumming with a band on a 20-day USO tour through Iraq and elsewhere, beginning today. Amador is the son of Lenore Solis, who as you remember ran for City Council earlier this month.

• Noted -- Blogger Joe Fein's series on the GOP concludes. Valley of the Shadow

• More local bloggers (by way of Washington) -- U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff updates his blog with a post on press freedom, pegged to a meeting he had with Guatemalan journalist Oscar Castañeda, who has been threatened for his reporting on corruption, tax evasion and other social ills. Schiff, D-Pasadena, of course, formed the Free Press Caucus, and was out front on the murder of Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in January.

  And it's really the congressman blogging back there, according to his press secretary Sean Oblack -- "It is still a work in progress but I think it is working out pretty well so far. The challenge for me is pushing him to post
  regularly enough."

• Tormorrow is Burbank on Parade!

• And after that, its equestrians for Shatner!
  
  From the release:
  

  William Shatner's Wells Fargo Hollywood Charity Horse Show enters its 17th year of fundraising with a roof-raising, spectacular affair on Saturday April 28, 2007 at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center, 480 Riverside Drive, Burbank, California. Guests will be treated to an exciting professional event by Equine Extremist, Tommie Turvey and Karen Turvey-Marshall, followed by an entertaining western dinner with a special LIVE performance by Grammy-winning recording legends, Riders In The Sky. ...
  
  Proceeds from the event will benefit special-needs children across the City of Los Angeles through local charities: Ahead With Horses and Camp Max Straus Foundation. ...

  Doors open at 4 p.m.