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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?"
Guess the website (unlike the Weekly's) doesn't include the entire paper -- too bad. (I ran a search for "Seipp" and came up with nothing).
As for a hard copy, I'm still looking. Last night (Thursday) at the place I got last week's issue (the coffee house at the corner of Franklin and Tamarind), there weren't any at 6:30 p.m.
On the other hand, the L.A. Independent hasn't delivered in my neighborhood (or at least my street) in months, and their circulation manager won't return my calls. And I thought we were an upscalish sort of readership!
Posted by: exherald at June 20, 2003 12:57 PMThere is a link on their main page to all the columns.
Posted by: Kevin Roderick at June 20, 2003 06:13 PMHas anyone noticed that City Beat is re-running articles from their sister papers. This week, it looks like the Pasadena Weekly and LA City Beat have the same cover story. Last week's Valley Beat cover story ran in the Ventura paper last year. Talk about synergy... they should save themselves time and effort and just print one California edition.
Posted by: dotcommie at June 23, 2003 05:01 PM
of LA Observed
Cathy Seipp is an idiot, and a poor writer. Can anyone really get through a whole column? There is no narrative thread to hold together her ramblings, which read like a younger version of those old cranky ladies who write in community papers. She shouldn't quit her day job... oh wait, that IS her day job!
Posted by: Edmond at June 20, 2003 10:30 AM