Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines

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-- Los Angeles’ downtown Civic Center park plans begin to take shape. Architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne assesses the design.

-- List of world’s billionaires shrinks; Eli Broad checks in at No. 93 with a net worth of $5.2 billion (down $1.5 billion).

-- Opening of Crystal Bridges, the art museum backed by Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, may be delayed.

-- Geffen Playhouse postpones ‘Nightmare Alley’ and replaces it with ‘Farragut North,’ starring Chris Noth (‘Sex and the City’) and Chris Pine (‘Star Trek’).

-- The Art Institute of Chicago raises admission price to $18, a 50% increase.

-- The Associated Press countersues ‘Hope’ artist Shepard Fairey.

-- National Symphony Orchestra to tour China and South Korea.

-- L.A. Philharmonic among five orchestras selected for residencies at London’s Barbican Centre.

-- Facing budget shortfall, Nevada Ballet Theatre cuts the number of dancers.

-- New season at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre includes Philip Seymour Hoffman and Brian Dennehy.

-- Billionaire philanthropist Leonore Annenberg dies at 91.

-- Lisa Fung