Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines

--Funeral services are planned this morning at 9:30 at Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral for artist Robert Graham, who died Dec. 27 at age 70.

--Some producers of Broadway's "Speed-the-Plow" reportedly seek an investigation and consider a suit against the play's sushi-tainted former star Jeremy Piven.

--Mayor Villaraigosa launches LA Arts Month to draw attention to the arts, which generates "$100 billion in revenue for the area each year."

--On Thursday, PBS will air "Cyrano de Bergerac," starring Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner and staged by David Leveaux.

--Arts patron Betty Freeman dies at 87. Mark Swed recalls her support of young composers. Tyler Green shares memories of a tour of her art collection.

-- Conductor Daniel Barenboim calls off two concerts in Qatar and Egypt.

--Adam Shankman, who directed the film version of "Hairspray," is tapped to take on a film version of "Bye Bye Birdie." 

--The World Monuments Fund joins with Iraq's State Board of Antiquities to launch a management and conservation plan for Babylon.

--Lisa Fung

Photo: Robert Graham. Credit: Charley Gallay / Getty Images