JERRY’S DEAL: Starting today, Jerry’s Famous Deli...

JERRY’S DEAL: Starting today, Jerry’s Famous Deli will be offering more than bagels and sandwiches. . . . Business columnist Tom Petruno (D3) reports that the Studio City-based restaurant chain is going public with a stock offering. The cash will help Jerry’s reduce debt, buy out limited-partner investors and open new sites. . . . Sure, stockholders face some risk. But at $6, the shares are cheaper than a good lunch.

PENNY-PINCHER: Living in Burbank will soon be cheaper . . . thanks to the beneficence of the Burbank City Council. On Nov. 1, utility rates in the city will drop 5%. It’s about time, said Councilman Bob Kramer, who called the current rates “ridiculous.” The average Joe will save $3.43 a month.

SMALL WORLD: “My fondest wish is to be 1 1/2 inches tall and live in my own Lego city.” . . . So says Times reporter Aaron Curtiss, a trained planner and card-carrying member of the Lego Builders Club. When real life in L.A. gets him down, Curtiss retreats to the Lego room and his city, an ever-evolving Utopia in miniature, above. . . . See the My Place column on B2.

RIDE ‘EM: Police officers will be out corralling wild “suspects” with whatever force necessary this weekend. . . . But don’t call the ACLU. The suspects are the four-legged kind. And the bucking broncos have more than a fighting chance to toss these cowboy-police officers on their backsides. The occasion: the 1995 Championship Police Rodeo at the Hansen Dam Equestrian Center in Lake View Terrace.

BLATHER: Santa Clarita’s City Council and its various commissions got together Wednesday night to chat about talking . . . and the lost art of listening. To none-too-subtly make that point, Assistant City Manager Ken Pulskamp brought along a pink stuffed swine. Speakers tossed it around the room to remind one another not to hog the platform. If that doesn’t work, get the hook.