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Weekly archive
September 19 - September 25, 2010
September 19 - September 25, 2010
Friday, Sep. 24
Turns out that Beverly Hills Judge Elden Fox can't just make it up and prevent Lindsay Lohan from getting bail on a misdemeanor violation.
When the official Downtown Art Walk returns in January, it will switch to a weekend day and be held quarterly, the organizers say.
The David Fincher movie based on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg opens the New York Film Festival tonight.
I'm the keynote speaker today at the Founders Day celebration at California State University, Northridge. Five hundred something alumni from the college's early years will be there. They're going to...
Great scenery from a hang glider soaring over the mountains.
Lindsay Lohan's progress from her home to Beverly Hills court was tracked en masse, and TMZ has reactivated its live stream from outside the courthouse.
Thursday, Sep. 23
LAO's Judy Graeme attended today's press preview for the new Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion at LACMA.
Only a few of Architectural Digest's Los Angeles staffers show up on the masthead for the newly constituted AD in New York.
Jeb Corliss wants to be the first person to jump out of an airplane and land safely without a parachute.
ack Klunder, the president and publisher of the Daily News, was 18 and at Rio Hondo Junior College in Whittier when his 1966 Mustang (bought for $800 in 1974) was stolen from a parking lot.
Whitman and Brown tied in Field Poll, how Robert Rizzo may have hid the high salaries in Bell, LADOT chief resigns, Larry Elder returns to KABC and more inside.
Davis, who did the famous Demon Sheep spot for Carly Fiorina and ads for John McCain this year and the Barack Obama-Paris Hilton spot in 2008, "is perhaps the most sought-after ad man in politics," the Washington Post says in a feature with photos by Jonathan Alcorn.
Councilman Tony Cardenas' office is also looking to hire a deputy for communications. Deadline to apply is Friday.
Wednesday, Sep. 22
It's amazing Rick Caruso doesn't fall over, as much leaning as he's doing on the question of running for mayor in 2013.
First Deputy Mayor and DWP chief Austin Beutner guests with Warren Olney on "Which Way, L.A.?" tonight at 7 p.m. and talks about the department and the chatter that he...
That's down from the $3.2 million originally set for ex-Bell city manager Robert Rizzo.
L.A. Times publisher Eddy Hartenstein and USC just jointly announced that next year's Festival of Books will be moving from UCLA, where it started and was held for 15 years.
Arraignment is coming up for the eight current and former city of Bell officials who were arrested yesterday. "LA courtroom hallway jammed with friends, family, lawyers, bail bonds men, activists...
Channel 2 has mapped the locations of what it calls the only cameras in the state placed to catch drivers running stop signs.
Buddy Collette, the legendary jazz musician and Los Angeles native who died here on Sunday at 89, "both profited from and contributed to the rich midcentury jazz scene along Los...
Whitman, Brown, Mrs. Brown, pot, Mrs. Obama, a job opening at City Hall for a media type and more inside.
Tuesday, Sep. 21
Once Larry Silverstein gets done testifying, the two sides will go into mediation, reports say.
With the lifeguards at Zuma, inside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, why we love Helen Mirren, plus an analysis from our own Mark Lacter on the prospects of (and arguments for) bankruptcy by the city of Los Angeles.
Bill's hard at work on a future book and needs to pull in from his writing on politics for awhile.
Simon and Schuster is all over the case of pitching Nicole Richie as a well-rounded author-whatever.
This graphic posted to Flickr by Eric Fischer maps Los Angeles using racial and ethnic data from the 2000 census. Each dot represents 25 people.
Rob Guth, the Wall Street Journal's tech reporter based in San Francisco, is coming south to be Los Angeles bureau chief. Read the memo.
Catching up with some stuff that's been piling up.
District Attorney Steve Cooley is on live TV now announcing the charges and arrests. Former city manager Robert Rizzo is accused of misappropriating more than $5 million in public funds....
The new owner of Clifton's Cafeteria will be appearing at a press conference shortly with Councilman Jose Huizar to announce that there will be 100 new jobs for the formerly homeless as part of the new Clifton's. Plus a DWP cafeteria update.
Concessions contracts awarded at LAX, original Wonkette talks to Schwarzenegger, Mel Brooks on the radio and much more.
Monday, Sep. 20
In Pomona, "even a feel-good wedding story turns out to be nuts."
Alan Mendelson, the former Channel 9 business and consumer reporter, talks to the L.A. Business Journal about his kidney and pancreas transplant, his infomercials pitching paid products and how he sees his firing from KCAL after 16 years.
The former U.S. Senate candidate finds a new home for Kausfiles, which left Slate during his campaign for U.S. Senate.
Joshua Fisher, the 24-year-old University of Minnesota Law School student who started DodgerDivorce.com, is back in town covering McCourt v. McCourt, which resumed today with Jamie on the stand.
Conde Nast announced today that the editorial offices of Bon Appetit magazine will be moving to New York, without longtime editor Barbara Fairchild.
The Los Angeles Times's controversial database rating LAUSD teachers based on test scores has been a big online traffic draw.
Jamie McCourt's SUV hits a pedestrian, Paris Hilton pleads guilty in Vegas, The Madeleine Brand Show debuts at 9 a.m. and more for a Monday — including items on Jerry Brown, Rick Caruso, Rick Dees, Lynda and Stewart Resnick, Ruben Martinez and others.
Sunday, Sep. 19
Longtime California Republican hand Sal Russo is riding high with the success in GOP primaries of tea party candidates.
Howard Fineman, who the New York Times calls "one of the more recognizable pundits on cable television and a correspondent for Newsweek for 30 years," is leaving the magazine to become a senior politics editor at The Huffington Post.
If Frank McCourt does manage to own the Dodgers for a long time to come, as he vows, he's in for some rough pubic relations. He's already lost the Times, if Plaschke's column is any indication.
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