Welcome to CityBeat...and good luck

LA CityBeat's first issue is online now and includes a cover story (with photo of Osama Bin Laden) in which the LAPD's newscaster-turned-terrorism expert John Miller is turned loose to argue that Los Angeles is a target and, naturally, he needs a bunch more staff. Balance comes from former chief Bernard Parks, who says additional anti-terrorism cops aren't necessary. Also in the issue: A quick take on the Hahn-council battle over new cops [see the posting below], a story on the Glendale cops, and a story on toxic problems at the former Rocketdyne site in the Valley that also has been covered in the sister publication, Pasadena Weekly. Andy Klein reviews Hollywood Homicide and there is a place in the template for Jill Stewart's Capitol Punishment column, even though she told L.A. Observed she won't be writing for the paper. There's no masthead on the site, so we'll have to get the paper to see who else is involved.

[Update: The site is evolving through the day -- first day jitters. They took down the Stewart spot and added a Valley Boy column by Erik Himmelsbach, whose point of view I can find nothing to disagree with. In fact it'll be going up at The Valley Observed.]

1:50 AM Thursday, June 12 2003 • Link
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Shouldn't someone teach them how to spell "calendar?" It's only the front page, after all.

Posted by: Jon at June 12, 2003 09:25 AM

Good catch. Not sure I like the white type on dark gray background for the website.

Posted by: Kevin at June 12, 2003 11:29 AM

What graffic design school reject put white type on a black background? Tiny white type you need a miscroscpe to make out. Guess ya get whatcha pay fer. Or don't. Wanted to read the thing, but it's too hard.

Posted by: Black Jack at June 12, 2003 07:55 PM

I just discovered CityBeat in the local newspaper thingamajigs (those containers that hold the papers); they caught my eye and for a second I thought the New Times was back. (Do you remember the New Times, that Los Angeles alternative weekly that was put out of business by the LA Weekly, apparently. Is CityBeat the new incarnation of New Times?)

I enjoyed the paper; I thought the articles were interesting and, most of all, fun to read. It reminded me of New Times--(sorry, I can't finish.)

Harold

Posted by: Harold at June 17, 2003 05:06 PM
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