 
|
 |
|
Editor's Dozen: Feb. 11-17
Here are some of last week's best and most talked-about posts. If you prefer the unabridged version, here's the archive of the entire week here on News & Chatter.
L.A's two most voracious camera hogs shared a lens at a Grammy party, prompting the LA Observed audience to offer many amusing captions and coin a new last name: Villarahilton. Mayor V told LAO exclusively what he and Paris were chatting about.- Eli Broad's sheep fell into line on the Grand Avenue project, but Steve Lopez rues they went for a glorified shopping center instead of a cultural heart for downtown.
- The Charlie LeDuff experiment at the New York Times' Los Angeles bureau came to a close, while the LAT Metro staff lost its investigations editor to Philadelphia and some Register readers didn't care to read about Mayrav Saar''s husband's schlong.
- Nikki Finke exhorted the LAT not to report on the gambling habit of Universal Studios chief Ron Meyer — if they are. She's quite vehement about it, but it's anybody's guess why.
- The gloriously pink Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard has a lot of jobs to fill — I mean a lot of jobs — and decides that CityBeat's readers are the desired ones.
- Jenny Price tries looking on the bright side now that Cigna has bumped her health insurance premium up to $12,268 a year. She doesn't have the money, but hey, it could have been worse. In consumer week at Native Intelligence, TV writer Eric Estrin takes on BMG Music over a billing issue.
The next great televised (circus) trial: Phil Spector's. Wouldn't it great if there was a sound track?- David Neiman told Yahoo's NBA columnist to get a clue about Kobe Bryant and can't believe that the Chargers fired coach Marty Schottenheimer now.
- It was a Valentine's Day parking massacre in the red hills of Echo Park.
- Hugh Hewitt urged the Times to reinvent what it means to be an L.A. newspaper, but not everyone liked his ideas.
- Hoy got promoted into the Times' future Hispanic strategy — too bad about that soccer match they didn't cover.
- Mr. KABC has a name change coming up.
Catch the whole week of Morning Buzz and LA Biz Observed.
© 2003-2008 • About LA Observed • Contact the editor
| Federal regulators have issued a cease-and-desist order that requires the Newport Beach-based thrift to raise capital.
| The actor has agreed to pay $660,000 to settle IRS claims that he improperly deducted personal expenses.
| American humorists — The new journalists.
| George Bush compares the "angry left" with the North Vietnamese, but it's the angry right that made McCain cry uncle.
| This is one time I think the candidate should step down to spend more time with her family. A cursory...
| USC and UCLA both start their football seasons with impressive wins over southern opponents.
Sponsors
Premium Blogads
Books, Blogs & Events
Get RSS Feeds
of LA Observed
of LA Observed
LA Observed publishes several Real Simple Syndication feeds for easy scanning of headlines. If you wish to subscribe to a feed, most popular RSS readers will do it for you. You can also enter the web address from the XML button below or click on a specific feed. For more help with RSS, try here or here.
