CityBEAT #2 hits the street

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?"