• Architect Frank Gehry, who turned 80, has cut his staff by half and given up plans to build a new house in Venice. He's also concerned about the Grand Avenue project being put on hold. Christopher Hawthorne/LAT
  • Rick Orlov explains the term "the Full Baca." DN
  • A Hawthorne police officer used a 50,000-volt stun gun on a violent autistic 12-year-old boy at one of the city's middle schools, prompting an investigation. LAT
  • The Downtown News has an editorial urging the L.A. Times to not kill the California section. DTN
  • Berkeley's Ten Speed Press has been acquired by Random House. WSJ
  • L.A. cartoonist Donna Barstow has joined the lineup at Slate and at Uclick, a syndicate aimed at iPhone users that includes Paul Conrad among 54 other cartoonists (only two women besides Barstow.) Why I Did It

Weekend posts | Mark Lacter's headlines

> | More
© 2003-2011   •  About LA Observed  •  Email the editor
Follow LAO
Kevin Roderick blog
2:25 PM Fri | Martin Gomez, the head librarian for Los Angeles since 2009, will become vice dean in the USC Libraries on April 2.
Sign up for email

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner