OOPS: The veterans memorial erected by a...

OOPS: The veterans memorial erected by a local VFW group at the new Chatsworth train station carries a plaque with the names of the people who paid for it. But the name of one particularly prominent $500 donor--Mayor Richard Riordan--was misspelled. “I’m sick about it,” Bert Dorosy of VFW Post 9266 said of the typo that transformed the mayor’s name to “Reardon.” . . . Worse, the post lacks the money to correct it any time soon.

MARKED TAGGER: The tagger who defaced a desert scene mural going up on the San Diego Freeway’s Plummer Street underpass this week picked the wrong target. Conceived by the LAPD’s Devonshire Division, the mural is being painted by Sepulveda Middle School students under the supervision of a CSUN graduate student. . . . “We did photograph the graffiti and turn it over to our gang unit,” said Officer Les Lovatt. “And the kids believe they know who the tag belongs to, so the school administration will be looking into it.”

OPENING: The Skirball Cultural Center and Museum, opening Sunday in the Sepulveda Pass (B1), has a replica of the Statue of Liberty torch. . . . And to reproduce benches like those at Ellis Island, President Uri Herscher, center--son of a carpenter who built furniture out of wood scraps--asked for all the scrap wood the New York museum could spare. Also admiring the torch above are museum director Nancy M. Berman and program chief Robert Kirschner.

LUX LIMO: Part-time Van Nuys artist Fabio Rodriquez, whose earlier works included a suit of armor and a Honda Civic covered with tens of thousands of dimes, has finished his latest masterpiece: a Lincoln stretch limousine plastered with nearly 100,000 Mexican marbles. . . . He’s christened the work “Crystalimo,” and boasts that with his secret recipe of three different glues, “I can put the car through a carwash and not lose a single marble.”