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Weekly archive
September 12 - September 18, 2010
September 12 - September 18, 2010
Saturday, Sep. 18
Fine, the 70-year-old lawyer and self-styled taxpayer advocate sent to jail "indefinitely" by a ticked-off Superior Court judge, served a year and a half before being released abruptly last night.
Bacon and Mann both made their names interviewing movie stars and other Hollywood celebrities.
Friday, Sep. 17
Founder Sean Percival, now VP of Marketing at MySpace, says there's just not enough time in the day to keep it going.
The last remaining Clifton's Cafeteria in Downtown, the forest-themed one on Broadway, has been purchased by Andrew Meieran, owner of The Edison.
Dodgers manager Joe Torre will announce this afternoon that he is stepping down at the end of the season, to be replaced by Don Mattingly.
There's been a lot of talk about Franzen and his novel "Freedom," and close to 600 people came out to hear him last night at the Aratani Japan-America Theater in Downtown.
Bruce Lisker's lawyer says that a representative of Attorney General Jerry Brown's office asked to delay consideration of Lisker's legal status until mid-November — in other words, after the election.
Check out Mark Lacter's morning headlines at LA Biz Observed.
Thursday, Sep. 16
This weekend is the last one at Fat Beats, a destination music store for hip-hop artists and fans for 14 years.
Nobody wants the McCourts to keep the Dodgers, it's beginning to sound like — including Bud Selig and Peter O'Malley.
Rob Eshman, the editor of the Jewish Journal, begins this week's note to readers with an admission: "Yes, that’s my wife and daughter on the cover of this issue." As...
Blogdowntown's Eric Richardson explains why the Jesus Saves neon signs tower above the United Artists theatre on Broadway — and digs into their travels since the first sign appeared on the downtown skyline in 1935.
James Bridle has published every edit to the Wikipedia entry for the Iraq War, from the article's creation in December of 2004 to November 2009, as a 12-volume set.
The Daily Journal's Ciaran McEvoy seems to have this alone, in today's paper.
Author and thoughtful Los Angeles observer D.J. Waldie is leaving his longtime day job with the city of Lakewood, his home town, at the end of the month.
KNBC Channel 4's news operation and the Los Angeles bureau for NBC News will move to the vacant stage built for "The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien" at Universal City, Michael Schneider reports at Variety.
State Sen. Roderick Wright, the Democrat representing Inglewood and environs, pleaded not guilty today to eight felony charges that he lived outside his district and voted fraudulently. He was indicted Monday and the indictment was unsealed tod
Zócalo has launched a series where it invites writers to contribute pieces on going home, "wherever or whatever that may be." First up is Andrés Martinez, who helped spawn Zócalo while he was editor of the editorial pages at the Los Angeles Times, before the dramatic fall.
The Strand, a program on the BBC World Service, features a segment on One-Ten, the opera being composed in serial form along and about the Pasadena and Harbor freeways by Los Angeles Magazine.
Whitman's record spending, Jerrry Brown needs to be lucky, Bell's new city attorney has a past, new job for Bill Bratton and a floating pig over Downtown.
Wednesday, Sep. 15
Heal the Bay president Mark Gold's wife made him get on a whale watch boat and go see the whales. He's glad he did.
The "Madeleine Brand Show" we've been telling you about since March joins the morning lineup on Sept. 20 at 9 a.m.
With Jay Carson leaving at the end of the month, Mayor Villaraigosa is moving the chess pieces again.
The weekly entertainment listings section put out by the Los Angeles Times is now more of a Times Community News operation.
After Michael Speier was laid off last year as executive editor of Daily Variety, he served a stint as news editor for Sharon Waxman at The Wrap. Now he's joining Waxman's arch-rival Nikki Finke in the new position of managing editor at Deadline.
Pay to play on local TV, Jerry Brown sues over Bell and more inside.
Tuesday, Sep. 14
Alan Minsky, the programming director at Pacifica Radio's KPFK, had been warning the station's community of programmers and listeners that changes were coming. And now they have.
People around town have been seeing Spanish actress and newly adopted Angeleno Penelope Cruz carrying an obvious baby bump.
In a preliminary move that will eventually have to be validated by the City Council, the City Ethics Commission voted to bar top officials from taking free tickets to concerts and sports if the donor has business pending before the city.
"We're very pleased to have the endorsement of former President Bill Clinton," says Jerry Brown's spokesman Sterling Clifford. Brown also releases a new anti-Whitman ad....
Jerry Brown apologizes for bringing Monica Lewinsky into it, Board of Supes to look at letter grades for food trucks, LAPD officers get scammed, a gay Saudi diplomat here seeks asylum and more inside.
Monday, Sep. 13
Rock musician Jesse Ed Davis's 64-year-old ex-girlfriend has Polaroid photos of Paul McCartney and the other Beatles, plus Eric Clapton and others, hanging around at John Lennon's Santa Monica beach house.
More fun with Google Maps and its perplexing take on the geography of Los Angeles. I will say, this one seems more like a technical glitch than a failure of...
Sue Schmitt, the editor of the Daly Breeze from 2001-06, is returning to the newsroom grind as Editor and General Manager of the Long Beach Press-Telegram.
ow they have gone too far. The Department of Water and Power, already in the running for least popular city agency, has closed its cafeteria to the public,
The next shock for Times readers could be an upcoming ad campaign for "Law and Order: Los Angeles" that Variety says again blurs the line between editorial and advertising, similar to previous ads in the Times for "Southland" and the King Kong attraction at Universal Studios.
My KCRW column this week suggests that the late Paul Conrad, if he were still commenting on Los Angeles, would see tragedy in the Westlake police shooting, not a clash of good and bad.
The City Attorney's charges against Mariotti stem from a domestic violence incident last month with his girlfriend at their condo in Venice.
The creditors who fear getting screwed in the Tribune Company's bankruptcy want a Delaware court's OK to sue Zell if it comes to that.
City Council President Eric Garcetti takes a turn as the fictional mayor of Los Angeles on tonight's episode of The Closer on TNT.
The Daily Beast is billing former LA Weekly writer Christine Pelisek as the site's "new L.A.-based crime reporter, with a piece up today on Drew Street's Maria Leon.
Daily News warns mayor again, schools open at the old Ambassador Hotel site, bikers count on Arnold, Natalie Portman dances and much more.
Janice Min's Hollywood Reporter will switch to a weekly magazine next next month, the New York Times says. "A mix of analytical and feature articles and photo spreads, will be...
Over the weekend Kara Seward became the 5,000 follower of LA Observed on Twitter. Her food blog is Front of the House, and she tweets as @frontofthehouse. Thanks for the...
There's been some chuckling around town, especially among TV news folks, about Channel 9 getting caught with its graphics out of synch on the night of the San Bruno disaster up north.
Sunday, Sep. 12
Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere," a forthcoming film set mostly at the Chateau Marmont, won the top Golden Lion prize at the Venice Film Festival. LAPD chief Charlie Beck said the...
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