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Weekly archive
April 29 - May 5, 2007
April 29 - May 5, 2007
Friday, May. 4
Paris Hilton will get no work release, furloughs, cushy suburban jail or electronic monitoring and instead must spend a month and a half locked up...
"I am not in prison! At least not yet, not for a few more weeks and hopefully never," John Stodder says in a Dear Friends...
A Jon Weisman post at Dodger Thoughts that is not about baseball inspired a long run of comments on being a pedestrian, here and elsewhere....
The Times sports writer formerly known as Mike Penner is scheduled to be interviewed live tonight at 11:30 on Sports Byline USA. She will chat...
Click below to come on in....
Thursday, May. 3
With the LAPD yet again giving the city a black eye, Mayor Villaraigosa cut short his trip to Latin America and will return to Los...
Meredith Artley, the new top editor at LATimes.com, sent a missive to the staff talking up new features on the website and ranking the most...
Retired L.A. Times Metropolitan Editor Dave Rosenzweig died last night after battling cancer. A longtime investigative reporter and editor, Rosenzweig most recently had covered the...
Three swastikas and an anti-Semitic message were found this morning on the front door of Councilman Jack Weiss' Sherman Oaks field office. The red-and-black Nazi...
Billionaire Angeleno Ron Burkle didn't get to buy the L.A. Times, but he supposedly now is looking at tabloid publisher American Media. This according to...
Environmental rehab of the Santa Susana Field Lab site in the West Valley has been inadequate, U.S. District Court Judge Samuel Conti ruled. He told...
It was just a few months ago that LAPD chief William Bratton argued that the department had learned its lesson and no longer should operate...
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's statement on the violence against the police, and by the police, during the May 1 rally in the park. Yesterday, across the...
Wednesday, May. 2
From the Los Angeles Press Club and SPJ after the jump, and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists at the link, in response to yesterdays...
Paul Karl Lukacs, the entertainment lawyer who chucked it all last June to travel in Asia and blog about it, has a new itinerary. He's...
The L.A. Public Library just put out a release saying that free wireless is now available to laptop users in all 71 branches as well...
Those are reporter Christina Gonzalez's words on Fox 11 after she was shoved and laughed at by LAPD riot cops while coming to the defense...
OK, today's matchup at Dodger Stadium is an afternoon game. It won't be nearly as full as Opening Day — in fact, they're sending out...
Adam Moss' New York Magazine won for general excellence and in four other categories at the National Magazine Awards last night, setting off a lot...
The Armenian National Committee of America in Glendale is orchestrating a campaign to besiege the L.A. Times with emails demanding that Managing Editor Doug Frantz...
A little news, a little noting. After the jump....
Yesterday's number of marchers was small compared to last year, perhaps 25,000 strong, and peaceful. But the day ended with police moving in to MacArthur...
Tuesday, May. 1
Natalie Nichols passes the editor's keyboard to Rebecca Epstein, announcing on her hipspinster blog that it's time to devote more time to her own writing....
Raul Gama, a 20-year veteran Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy on surveillance duty in North Hollywod, died this morning when a van smashed into...
PBS has picked up the first season of the series to be produced by KCET in association with Wired magazine. It premieres nationwide on October...
It's Thomas Edsall, a professor at Columbia who covered national politics at The Washington Post for 25 years. He will write for the Huffington Post...
I just noticed that the RealTalk LA website has gone up with a mix of stories, brief items, holders and dead links. The blogs...
Just to finish the thought from yesterday, Daily News circulation dropped 7.3% from a year ago to 146,000. That's not good news in the already...
Click below for a little news to start your day....
Monday, Apr. 30
It's retro month at LA Observed. First Sharon Tay returns, now Reggie the wayward alligator has apparently been spotted at Lake Machado in Harbor City...
Not only did L.A. Times circulation take another hit today — down more than four percent — but Editor & Publisher named N. Christian Anderson...
LA Observed reader Cecilia was at the Beverly Hilton last night and heard that Trader Vic's next door would serve its final mai-tai's today....
Times staff writer Mark Arax just escalated — in a big way — his dispute with the paper's managing editor over a recent story about...
The father with two kids who tried to stiff the Northridge Claim Jumper last Thursday night sure picked the wrong night at the wrong place...
Another Gran Marcha to support immigrants begins Tuesday morning at Broadway and Olympic, moves north on Broadway starting at 10 am, and heads to City...
The weekend was too busy to put up an Editor's Dozen, but here's a quick link to browse all of last week's News & Chatter...
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| Yes, the numbers are terrible, but they were supposed to have been terrible - and they will continue to be terrible for some time.
| The promotion runs between now and June 3, which is typically a slow time in the theme park business - likely to be even slower this year.
| The gel-filled wrist support I purchased from Amazon.com arrived today ... in a really, REALLY, big box.
| Eventually the meter-revenue claim becomes bureaucratic doublespeak for "meter-maid revenue."
| The MTA's Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive jumps into Web 2.0 with enthusiasm, with Flickr photos and YouTube clips.
| Chuck Todd and his goatee
Peter Kaye's memoir, Contrarian, is both the story of his career as a political writer and the downward slide of the paper he worked for, the San Diego Union-Tribune
The inimitable Arthur as an entity on paper has just turned to dust in our memories. Jay Babcock moved the...
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