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Weekly archive
May 20 - May 26, 2007
May 20 - May 26, 2007
Friday, May. 25
Patrick McGreevy, a fixture at City Hall for the L.A. Times, is transferring to the buyout-impacted Sacramento bureau. Memo after the jump....
Unless something startles me out of my stupor, News & Chatter will be taking off until after the holiday. Keep an eye open for fresh...
Lisa Napoli came home from the doctor's office so annoyed she typed up these notes. The Boobs As overheard by Lisa Napoli Scene: The very...
LA Observed subscribers are being offered tickets to another musical premiere, this one the debut performance of composer Peter Schickele's new work Three Cellos with...
Thursday, May. 24
Times editor Jim O'Shea emails the staff to report that 57 editorial staffers will be leaving, some voluntarily and some given the Al Martinez treatment....
Our long reptilian nightmare is over — they caught Reggie this afternoon. The alligator dumped in Machado Lake way back in ought five — and...
Al Martinez just sent a second email to his L.A. Times colleagues, informing them that the newspaper will de-activate his email address tonight. He included...
OK, if I ran Times Sports I might try to hide my connection with T.J. Simers too. But since his mug is all over newsboxes...
The LA Weekly's Steven Mikulan has been covering the Phil Spector trial like a theater performance, observing the development of characters and scenes. Hey, you...
Curtis Hazell, the third-ranking official in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office and college roommate of DA Steve Cooley, says he did not begin...
The news is hidden after the jump for aesthetic reasons. Click to go on in....
Wednesday, May. 23
How's this for a tangible book prize? Charles Rappleye, formerly of the LA Weekly, won the $50,000 George Washington Book Prize, "honoring the most important...
Anzack's family in Torrance was notified by the Army that his body had been found floating in the Euphrates river near Baghdad. The 20-year-old was...
Real Talk LA may claim they will be out with a second issue soon and all is cool, but in addition to emails from magazine...
Columnist Al Martinez has been with the Los Angeles Times more than 30 years and, despite being exiled to the back of the features section...
Four Daily News reporters — Jason Kandel, Brent Hopkins, Rick Coca and Rachel Uranga — are contributing items to It's a Crime, with a Valley...
Mid-week buzz after the jump....
The most successful and most entertaining pro team in Southern California isn't the Lakers or the Dodgers. And it certainly isn't the Kings. SoCal Sports...
Staffers at the Los Angeles Times were more than a bit shocked when they got to work Tuesday. Posted on the elevator walls were large...
This time it's the city of Claremont getting all umbraged up about the Claremont Insider, recounted on the blog of San Garbriel Valley Tribune city...
The L.A. Phil is treating another LA Observed subscriber to this weekend's late-night premiere of Pravda. Daniel Evans and a guest will be in the...
The only writer for the Santa Barbara News-Press that anyone has heard of is stepping away from the keyboard after what the Santa Barbara Independent...
Tuesday, May. 22
How about a little Buzz with your coffee? Click the link to join in....
Monday, May. 21
Before this morning's parade of defendants began at the LAX courthouse on South La Cienega, the court reporter in Department B sat down at her...
Jenny Burman was invited out this morning by Dodgers VP Howard Sunkin. They had a good chat at the Rodeo Grill on Sunset about baseball,...
Nothing punctuates buyouts under the threat of layoffs like some new hires. While the top suits contemplate how many of last week's rush to the...
So many local media sources emailed me last week with reports of the impending demise of Real Talk that I mentioned the scuttlebutt while trying...
Colin Brown's Flickr stream of the burn area includes several scorched animal skeletons, including this deer that looks to have gotten snagged in a tree....
Come on in by clicking the link. Also: Last week on News & Chatter Last week on LA Biz Observed Recently on Native Intelligence...
KCRW has invited me to join the roster of commentators that air in the afternoons during NPR's "All Things Considered." General manager Ruth Seymour, who...
Sunday, May. 20
Phew, there was quite a rush to claim the free tickets to the Saturday, May 26 world premiere of Pravda at the Walt Disney Hall....
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson won't announce Monday at the L.A. Press Club after all. His campaign sent out an urgent notice that the Millennium...
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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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