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March 14, 2006
Media and blog coverage of the South Central Community Garden mostly celebrates a story line of plucky, poor South L.A. residents banding together in agrarian fellowship to stand up to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Hollywood's iconic Capitol Records building has been put up for sale by parent company EMI Group. The potential of converting the circular, Welton Becket Associates-designed tower on Vine Street into... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Bad enough that the mayor and his wife can't go to the movies without being reported on, as we noted yesterday. Now someone else who claims to have been at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The L.A. chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has abandoned downtown's Figueroa Hotel as the venue for its monthly schmoozefest. They are trying out the Cat & Fiddle on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Either L.A. County's Board of Supervisors stood up to the final lobbying swarm or all the deals for friends got written into the staff recommendations. But the Supes today OK'd... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Chris Arellano—the school board candidate without the degrees he claimed and with the criminal record he played down—has dropped out of the runoff campaign, the LA Weekly reports online. City... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Curbed LA says the home of the late photographer Herb Ritts is open today above Sunset Strip on St. Ives Drive. Asking price: $5.4 million. The open house runs until... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Grist magazine interviews Francisca Porchas, an organizer for the Bus Riders Union here in Los Angeles. She sees global reach in her cause of cleaning up pollution from MTA buses.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
This will get noticed over at the LA Weekly. Gawker says the new owners fired Village Voice acting editor-in-chief Doug Simmons, but are keeping Nick Sylvester, the writer of a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Pellicano turns up on tapes cutting deals with tabloid reporters... there may be a Singleton in the future of Norcal newspapers...Jay Leno does the mea culpa...the blogger king of Santa... $MTEntryExcerpt$>