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September 30, 2003
Bill Bradley of the LA Weekly is up on the Weekly's site with a story that Arianna Huffington will drop out tonight on "Larry King... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Not much is as embarrassing as running the obituary of someone who still breathes. But running the wrong picture comes close. The unfortunate culprit this... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Alan Arkatov, a former television producer and media consultant for James Hahn and Bill Clinton campaigns, is taking over the new position of President and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tony Hillerman sits in his office, somewhere in New Mexico, and ruminates on his framed Auto Club of Southern California map of Indian Country for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The highlight of the L.A. Times op-ed page today isn't the paired recall pieces by Robert Scheer and Dan Schnur. It's Joseph Wambaugh's literary take... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Hilary E. MacGregor attends an underground girl fight in the downtown warehouse district. If by underground you mean with a publicist, at 11 in the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
It looks like the end of free movie DVDs and videos for the thousands who vote on the Oscars, and assorted Hollywood hangers on. With... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 29, 2003
Email brings word of a full week of media-related goings on at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. Times and locations vary, so for more... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
A Valley entrepreneur has gone public in the Daily News with his desire to build a 9,000-seat sports and music arena in North Hollywood. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The New York Times covers the issue of newspaper sponsored blogs with a small Business section piece that contains an interesting tidbit: the Dallas Morning... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 28, 2003
The L.A. Times and apparently everybody else got scooped by today's Washingon Post front pager on the Justice Department looking into the leak by "two... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Writer Nancy Rommelmann (LA Weekly, Los Angeles mag, lots of other stuff) plans to depart Los Angeles for Portland next June when her daughter finishes... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Thomas Curwen in the L.A. Times Book Review and Thomas Mallon in the New York Times Book Review both weigh in on Joan Didion's dark... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The lead L.A. Times editorial today recommends a no vote on the recall -- no surprise there -- and says no as well on all... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 27, 2003
Not sure how much I'll be posting this weekend, but here's a few things to chew on. This may will be was added to through... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 26, 2003
In the Los Angeles Magazine profile mentioned a couple of posts below, Frank Gehry suggests that his Disney Hall -- as well as MOCA and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Eric Zorn, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, began posting items on the paper's site in August. He conferred with the Sacramento Bee's Dan Weintraub... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Dr. Kaus puts Huffington on the couch to figure out why she got so peeved by Arnold's needling. I've noticed this distressing character trait in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
If you only see Los Angeles magazine on the newstand, this month the cover is on fall travel. Subscribers, however, are getting a gorgeous Dan... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Yes the Indian casinos are the biggest spenders in state politics, but they aren't the reason California is in a hole. Arnold has taken their... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The new memoir by novelist James Brown, The Los Angeles Diaries, visits a side of L.A. not frequently traveled or well chronicled. Anne-Marie O'Connor of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 25, 2003
New Republic writer and now blogger Gregg Easterbrook says that Schwarzenegger could not possibly have written the op-ed under his name in the Wall Street... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The L.A. Press Club is doing another no-host cocktail gathering on Monday, Sept. 29 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the poolside bar of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Jeff Jarvis, who started Entertainment Weekly and was Sunday editor of the N.Y. Daily News, has some interesting format ideas for the "post-Internet newspaper." He... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Cathy Seipp uses her CityBeat column this week to peruse the first issue of Distinction magazine and other L.A. glossies in search of some inner... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
In case you can't find your ideal political mate among the 135 candidates on the recall ballot, here are 26 more who have qualified as... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Scoring the big debate: -"Gray won" - Dave Jensen, Condor blog -"I'd say (Cruz) won" - Outside the Beltway blog -"I don't think anyone won"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
CalPundit's Kevin Drum posted the following message and got 26 comments: I'll be spending the day in lovely El Segundo today. Blogging will resume this... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 24, 2003
The issue of LA Weekly that hits the Web tonight and the street tomorrow will endorse a no vote on the recall (and on Prop.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
For Laurie Garrett, the award-winning health writer for Newsday, it was one broken embargo too many by her competitors at the New York Times. She... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Worst in six years, say the stories in the L.A. Times and Daily News. It's still better than it was in Los Angeles a generation... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Dan Weintraub tells Mark Glaser at the Online Journalism Review that the shift in his editing regime at the Bee is a minor deal. "Obviously... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 23, 2003
The recall election is back on for two weeks from today, compliments of the 9th Circuit. Unanimous 11-0 decision that the ACLU says it won't... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
New: L.A. Times obituary by Bob Drogin Mark Fineman, one of the L.A. Times staff writers in Iraq, died this morning of an apparent heart... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Last week's soft L.A. Times story on duck liberators freeing four quackers from a foie gras shed in Sonoma didn't elicit much reaction, according to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Kudos to Mickey Kaus for getting the Bee's executive editor on the phone to talk about the Weintraub blog, and for correcting the always far-fetched... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Warren Olney's Which Way L.A.? plans to look at the Indian tribes and the role of their money in politics, today at 7 p.m. on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 22, 2003
T. Coraghessan Boyle's next novel The Inner Circle -- his sixteenth -- has just sold to Viking. The agent's blurb is intriguing for a Boyle... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Friends of Mark Antenorcruz, the Covina man shot and killed in the Dodger Stadium parking, are expressing their feelings in the comments of the LAO... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
I see that the always smart Justene Adamec at the pro-recall conservative CalBlog joins me in saying let's wait to see IF Dan Weintraub's freedom... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
I can't explain it, but this was one of those weekends where a lot of posts happened. A ton. Here are a few that are... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Patt Morrison's Inside Politics column in the L.A. Times reports the City Hall rumor that if Bustamante is elected governor, new councilman Tony Cardenas will... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Amy Wilentz, the author of Martyrs' Crossing, is writing a book on the recall and California. She opined in Sunday Opinion on the 9th Circuit.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Maureen Dowd does Beverly Hills with Arnold.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Todd Matthews at OC Weekly considers The Register's new marketing campaign to "Take Back the Morning." Meanwhile, the Reg continues to hang a monster 250-square-foot... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
This is an inside baseball kind of post for the journalists and writers who come here, and long, so I'll break it up into two... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
RestaurantWatch.com is a new site that lets you check the health inspection grade of L.A. restaurants by zip code. With registration, you can create a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 21, 2003
Roger L. Simon has posted a nice report from the weekend's Santa Barbara Book and Author Festival, two days after posting that he was through... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
His bosses at the Sacramento Bee have ordered Dan Weintraub to submit his California Insider blog items to a high-level editor before posting. Tony Marcano,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
From the September poll by the Public Policy Institute of California: Both independents and moderates are evenly split on the recall. A higher percentage of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The second annual West Hollywood Book Fair is today. Plenty of local authors will be there, among them Carolyn See, Janet Fitch. Aimee Liu, Denise... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Remarks by 9th Circuit liberal jurist Harry Pregerson in Henry Weinstein's story in the L.A. Times on Saturday have legal types talking. Pregerson was on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The L.A. County Museum of Art's all-night, free-admission art party Thursday night had crowds lined up around the block. Think this city is starved for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 20, 2003
City officials say it cost Los Angeles taxpayers $183,000 to close streets and direct traffic at the Bob Hope memorial service in the Valley on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Jill Stewart's latest anti-Gray Davis column from Sacramento is being aggressively fact-checked by liberal-leaning lawyer Steve Smith at his blog and in the comments to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Republican strategist and commentator Arnold Steinberg, in Tim Rutten's L.A. Times column today: Schwarzenegger's strategy requires a docile news media, and he's getting one. Steinberg... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Robert Garcia Tagorda, who was at the game, reacts at Priorities and Frivolities to last night's murder in the Dodger Stadium parking lot, apparently a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The L.A. Times today takes its turn trying to figure out Mickey Kaus -- "a brainy, iconoclastic dart-thrower." The widely read, Venice-based blogger for Slate... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Victoria Riskin was reelected president of the Writers Guild of America, West. The rest of the top officers were reelected too, without any of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 19, 2003
Arnold's campaign requires every staffer to sign a five-page confidentiality agreement, including a clause that the agreement itself is a secret. The L.A. Times received... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Mayor Hahn missed the deadline to appoint or replace 20 city comissioners, which under the city charter means council president Alex Padilla now gets to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Earlier in the week, recall candidate Mary Carey wrote (well, maybe she wrote) an op-ed piece in the L.A. Times making some points about the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 18, 2003
I must admit that as I read into the story in today's L.A. Times California section about a midnight raid by "duck freedom fighters," I... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
New York magazine plans to start a blog and is apparently hiring Elizabeth Spiers of Gawker to help on that and write pieces for the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Back at Variety after seven years at the L.A. Times, television columnist Brian Lowry is happy to discover "they've painted the place." Over that time,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Looks more and more like the recall election -- if it's allowed to go ahead -- will be a landmark of sorts for voter turnout,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
In Ramblin' Man, his upcoming biography of Woody Guthrie, USC journalism professor Ed Cray explores Guthrie's years in Glendale, Topanga and Silverlake hanging out with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Daily Trojan alumni site lists info on 2,070 former staffers of the USC student paper -- by year and by name. Have fun.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
For five good years in the 1960s, Johnny Cash was a Valley boy. Also in the LA Weekly: Jonathan Gold reveals where to find the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 17, 2003
When Jerry Roberts left the San Francisco Chronicle and turned up last year as editor of the Santa Barbara News-Press, more than a few newspaper... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
California Authors notes two contrasting reviews of Joan Didion's Where I Was From: Patt Morrison, LAT: "...a soulsearching look at Californias complexities and contradictions." Benjamin... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The piece by Peter J. Boyer in last week's New Yorker is the most calm and even-handed I've read about Mel Gibson and his self-described... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Or to put it another way, busy day for non-blog things. Will post later.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 16, 2003
Ron Fineman is back online with On the Record, his pay site with insider reports on Los Angeles TV news. He reports on the move... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
In response to the latest L.A. Times Poll on the recall, Mark DiCamillo and Mervin Field of the Field Poll have posted a long rebuttal... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Syndicated columnist Amy Alkon wrote a remarkable piece for the Los Angeles Times a few years ago (I think in the magazine) about tracking down... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Greg Lindsay in Women's Wear Daily cites sources saying that Emmis Communications is reluctant to bid for New York magazine, seeing it as "a major... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Simi Valley teachers union president is upset at education coverage in the L.A Daily News and is urging members to cancel subscriptions and stop... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
West Nile virus, now confirmed in Los Angeles County.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Column One story in the L.A. Times today grew out of reporter Rosie Mestel being told by a doctor, at age 43, that she... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The L.A. Press Club is hosting a debate among four of the recall candidates for governor on Wednesday at 3 p.m. The confirmed participants are... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 15, 2003
HBO is losing the popular "Sex in the City," but to lessen the blow the cable network has commissioned a six-part documentary called "Pornucopia: Going... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Publishers Lunch Weekly brings word of several local book deals, the most intriguing touted as "the first inside history of the RAND Corporation," the Santa... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Readers have asked in email why the Los Angeles TV website run by Ron Fineman is off-line today. Ron explains that it's a little Network... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Lou Cannon will be on Life and Times Tuesday night (7 p.m., Ch. 28) to talk about his fifth book on Ronald Reagan. He also... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
A new Los Angeles literary event, "Our Favorite Writers," begins tonight with Jeffrey Eugenides, author of the The Virgin Suicides. He will read and talk... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Loyola law professor Rick Hasen is blogging on the 9th Circuit court order delaying the recall election, a move he supported in a brief. Incidentally,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Schwarzenegger called John Carroll, editor of the L.A. Times, to tell him that the LAT's coverage had been very fair and balanced, political reporter Mark... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Ron Brownstein, the national political reporter based in Washington for the L.A. Times, is among the most influential of the scribes covering the presidential campaign,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Slate takes a quick look at the four influential book review publications Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal and Booklist. You've probably never read these... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
We'll be seeing more of the Hollywood Reporter in posters and ads around town as part of what the New York Times calls the trade's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The star DJ on the #1 music radio station in Los Angeles calls Jeff Smulyan, the president of Emmis, a good boss and "someone you... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association made L.A. Times film reviewer Kevin Thomas only the group's second recipient of a lifetime achievement award. There... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Most places the best-read story in today's newspapers will be about Ben and J. Lo. But at Los Angeles City Hall, everyone will turn first... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Boy, that Mickey Kaus has some nerve. He keeps violating the blogger code by actually leaving his computer to report stories. Couple of weeks ago... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Frances Ring, the former editor of Westways, wrote a poignant piece in the Sunday LAT Opinion section about being old and losing her license to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 13, 2003
The L.A. Times reports that rat traps are set up all over the new Disney Hall auditorium, in advance of next month's opening. No one... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Cathy Seipp's media column in CityBeat this week is about her pal Mickey Kaus and his runaway success as a blogger (gets paid by Slate,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 12, 2003
The Breeze reports that FBI agents are conducting interviews about payments for land purchases needed to expand LAX. Reporters David Zahniser and Ian Gregor say... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The new L.A. Times Poll has the recall itself still barely ahead (50-47 with 3% sampling error), Bustmante sinking like a leaky balloon (high negatives,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 11, 2003
Just how serious will Emmis Communications, owners of Los Angeles magazine and Power 106 radio here, be in the crowded derby to acquire New York... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Bernard Weinraub in the NYT covers the Huffington fundraiser in Holmby Hills Tuesday night: ...the liberal-come-lately newspaper columnist who has frequently opened her Brentwood home... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Just yesterday, the New York Post and Variety ran planted stories about disgraced New York Timeser Jayson Blair getting a book deal at New Millennium... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Schwarzenegger said on The O'Reilly Factor that the L.A. Times is biased against him, with one of his points that they put more stories about... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 10, 2003
As we've noted before, Leslie Epstein's Los Angeles novel San Remo has gotten nice treatment in the New York Times. He had to have been... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The humiliated ex-journalist was turned down by New York publishers but struck a deal with New Millennium, the Beverly Hills publishing house run by Michael... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tim Rutten thinks that Schwarzenegger's use of AM talk radio contributes to his gender gap with women (along with violent movies and the Oui article).... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Robert Gelfand reports in The American Reporter on a quiet little 3-way newspaper war brewing in San Pedro. On one side is a new advertising... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Richard Karpel, the head of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, takes issue with Matt Welch's piece on blogs in Columbia Journalism Review (recommended by me... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The mailing list for Distinction, the magazine from Angeles Publications -- which is the Los Angeles Times ad department in disguise -- is supposed to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 09, 2003
The L.A. Times today debuted its weekly section on outdoor life. A section like Outdoors has been pondered for years as a natural for Southern... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Brian Linse, who blogs at Aint No Bad Dude, has up a nice tribute to his friend Warren Zevon.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Local blog Shock and Awe recently took a fair shot at Snopes.com (the Urban Legends Reference Pages, also SoCal based) for a screed against Michael... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Democratic Leadership Council in Washington has reached out to tap L.A. city councilwoman Wendy Greuel as the group's "New Democrat of the Week." Here... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Those enjoying the Frank Gehry-Sam Hall Kaplan spat over Disney Hall may want to hear Kaplan's "City Observed" commentary tomorrow (Wednesday) on KCRW. In the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Peter Ueberroth has cancelled his public appearances and called a 1 p.m. news conference, apparently to make his exit from the recall race, AP reports.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Ad Age says that Emmis Communications, publisher of Los Angeles and other city and regional magazines, including Texas Monthly, has had talks about buying New... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
A couple of South Bay papers, the Beach Reporter and the Palos Verdes Peninsula News, have been bought by Copley Press, owner of the Daily... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Round two of the independent recall polls begins with the Field Poll today showing Davis behind 55%-40%. Bustamante is still ahead of Schwarzenegger 30%-25%, with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 08, 2003
Ron Fineman chastises Channel 5's "News at Ten" for making a story of co-anchor Mindy Burbano's wedding shower. But wait, it gets worse. In the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
SoCal blogger Lonewacko is driving across country and filing brief reports with photos. Over the weekend he posted a picture from the highest point in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Los Angeles-based Theme Park Insider is all over the latest Disneyland accident in which a man was killed on the Big Thunder Mountain roller... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Catching up on last week: Romenesko's letters page has a couple of entries with opposing opinions on the L.A. Times liberal bias memo, pegged to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Fairfax High dropout narrated Los Angeles in his music. He revealed last year that he had inoperable lung cancer, then completed a new album,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
For the mediabistro.com party tonight at Santo Coyote on Melrose, the invitations carry a stern proviso: Sorry, no PR/Marketing folks or interns/students. Attendance is limited.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
I mentioned on Friday how urban design critic Sam Hall Kaplan gave Disney Hall a less than fawning review. Turns out that Frank Gehry was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
A sample of the winners announced on Saturday night: Regularly Scheduled Daily News: Daytime "Good Day LA" (Fox11) Regularly Scheduled Daily News: 0-35 Minutes "Channel... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Ian Gregor in the Daily Breeze says it's the Texaco station on Century Boulevard at LAX, the last place to fill up before returning a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Not the Schwarzeneggers, though Carla Hall writes in the L.A. Times today on Maria Shriver's more prominent role in THAT campaign. No, the family to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Literary journalism of the sort practiced by Pulitzer winner Barry Siegel of the L.A. Times national staff has its fans and detractors. Count the UC... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Filmmaker Lionel Chetwynd is the usual go-to guy for journalists who dust off the "lonely Republicans of Hollywood" story. He also wrote and produced the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Now that Matt Miller has his own book out, the moderate moderator of KCRW's politics show Left, Right & Center is being a guest and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 06, 2003
I've tweaked the colors and margins a bit, bumped up some of the font sizes and made a coding change that should help the blog... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 05, 2003
Scott Timberg in the L.A. Times dares go where not many in the local media have ventured -- to talk to people who don't much... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
In his day job Ken Baker is the West Coast executive editor in L.A. for Us Weekly. Somehow he also finds the time to write... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 04, 2003
Jonathan Cohn, the former executive editor of The American Prospect and The New Republic, has a Los Angeles Diarist piece in the current TNR on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The people behind the legendary La Brea Avenue hot dog stand are touting it as a sitcom setting. They entered the Pilot Project competition and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Strikingly similar stories in the Times and Daily Breeze today on Matt Middlebrook's resignation as top communications aide to mayor Jim Hahn. Both stories talk... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Writing for an audience that is not primarily other bloggers, and some who don't visit many websites of any kind, I get a lot of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
George Christy is the defrocked Hollywood Reporter columnist who left the trade paper after colleague Dave Robb investigated -- and tried to report -- that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The covers of CityBeat and ValleyBeat: Ann Coulter Story of the week at The Simon: Why I Still Read Maureen Dowd... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Joie Davidow was the first style editor of LA Weekly, beginning in 1979 -- so long ago that Melrose had not even turned cool. Jay... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
I thought of Mike Davis a couple of weeks ago when the LAT ran an astounding photo from up around Lancaster of a billboard bent... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 03, 2003
The L.A. Weekly, being predictably liberal again to excite the cadre for Bustamante (sarcasm alert), in a piece by former Democratic consultant Bill Bradley headlined... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Thunder heads piling over the San Gabriels and the Mojave are especially humongous this afternoon. The line must be 30 miles long -- brilliant steaming... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Dan Weintraub feels compelled today to explain that as a politics blogger for the Sacramento Bee, as well as the paper's opinion page columnist, he... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The unusual L.A. blog In the Hat has caught the eye of Danish television, which sent a crew to get the tour of Eastside gang... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Writers Guild of America, West website explains why L.A. residents will soon see billboards all over that show the black-and-white face of an unidentified... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 02, 2003
I shouldn't have been surprised (end of post) that studio location filming irked parts of L.A. in the 1920s. An e-mailer writes that film crews... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The afternoon talk team at KFI (AM 640) has been voted the #1 Los Angeles radio personalities by the readers of LARadio.com, the subscription website... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
For his 30th birthday, Variety television editor Michael Schneider and his wife Maria Villar put together eight teams and staged a mad dash around Los... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Aesthetic wonders, reasonably: Something that has always puzzled us, particularly now that gas prices have gone through the roof, is why the price of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Schwarzenegger's No Hard Questions Tour plays the "John and Ken Show" today on KFI (AM 640), some blogs report, though KFI's website has no mention.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
A selection from the August Index: Rank of California governor Gray Davis's approval rating in May among the lowest in the 55-year history of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 01, 2003
The first issue of Distinction, the upscale SoCal lifestyle magazine from the creative minds at the L.A. Times advertising department, is arriving now in 50,000... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
I apologize for not posting that the blog was shutting down for the weekend. Sure did feel good though to skip reading about the recall.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>