L.A. Observed can't observe with any cred on website design (for plainly obvious reasons...), and it's all personal preference anyway. But I'll just say this about the CityBEAT/ValleyBEAT site: the white on almost-black motif is unfortunate, if the object is for us to read the stories. Luckily, the papers' second issues are now out, with intriguing cover stories, a call for Gray Davis to resign ahead of a recall so the governor's office remains in Democratic hands, and a Catherine Seipp treatment of the L.A. Times bias memo that makes a surprise leap: the Times, she believes, has an agenda to bury stories in which O.J. Simpson comes off poorly. The Letters page is suitably positive about the new papers, though a Sunland man voices the plaintive cry of all Valleyites: "Is a Valley-centric dining section with a food critic who lives north of the 101 too much to hope for?"

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