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Former Daily News online-master-of-all-he-surveyed Josh Kleinbaum points out that this CareerBuilder.com Super Bowl commercial, a riff on REALLY casual Fridays, was filmed in the newsroom at the old Daily News building in Woodland Hills.

After we moved to our new offices, also in Woodland Hills (you can see our sign from the Ventura (101) Freeway between Canoga Avenue and Topanga Canyon Boulevard), the old building was converted into a huge filming site by a company called Hollywood Locations.

Click the link above (or here) to see what it looks like in just about every room.

I'll be looking for the next generation of corporate, windowless office movies to be filmed in this beige wonder, where they seemingly kept the original desks, phones, art on the walls, etc.

Good moves both. My buddy Jason Kandel of the Los Angeles Daily News is going over to public radio behemoth KPCC-FM (89.3) as online managing editor, and the station, in its wisdom, is keeping one of L.A.'s greatest radio resources, ex-"Day to Day" co-host Alex Cohen, as local host of "All Things Considered."

(Sorry for the smallish Alex Cohen image at left; she's fairly scarce on the Web).

Outgoing City Councilwoman Wendy Greuel and the City Council Education and Neighborhood Committee have gone where both the Van Nuys and Sherman Oaks Neighborhood Councils have not — approving the inclusion of the 1,800-resident Van Nuys neighborhood bordered by Hazeltine Avenue to the east, Sepulveda Boulevard to the west, Burbank Boulevard to the south and Oxnard Street to the north, according to the story by Daily News City Hall reporter Rick Orlov in the story linked to above.

Things about the story, as it stands, that are different than what was previously proposed are:

The northern "border" of what might be Sherman Oaks is listed as Oxnard Street. Previous information from Part of Sherman Oaks indicated that the northern border it sought was either Emelita or Tiara streets. If by that they meant the inclusion of those streets, both the north and south sides, then a border of Oxnard Street would indicate that all of Tiara (the street just south of Oxnard Street) would be included in the new Sherman Oaks.

Would this also mean, by extension, that the many auto-repair businesses on the south side of Oxnard Street would also be in Sherman Oaks?

So what's standing between this now-Van Nuys neighborhood actually becoming part of Sherman Oaks? Unlike the last time a hunk of Van Nuys was added to Sherman Oaks, when the Chandler Estates area got its name change, it takes more than the approval of the area's City Council member.

Instead, the measure to bring the neighborhood into Sherman Oaks must pass the entire City Council.

Questions: Why should the rest of the City Council, aside from the outgoing Wendy Greuel, care? What political favors, if any, do the other council members owe to the Part of Sherman Oaks people? And what do they owe to the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association and the two neighborhood councils that oppose the move?