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Weekly archive
October 3 - October 9, 2010
October 3 - October 9, 2010
Friday, Oct. 8
The website formerly known as LAStageBlog — itself an outgrowth of LA Stage magazine — is now bigger, better and design-ier.
I've been receiving email all day about this. So has the L.A. Times. Now the paper's Readers' Representative blog explains why gantlet is the correct term.
Here's the 7½ route of city streets that will be closed to cars on Sunday for the 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. event.
KCET mainstay Huell Howser tweets that he hasn't been told what the future holds at the station now that it's going independent.
KCET will become an independent public station on January 1, the station announced, citing an "inability to reach an agreement on a reduction in PBS fees and greater programming flexibility
Dennis Mannion had been the guy the McCourts brought in to have an actual executive in charge of the team. He came in as chief operating officer in 2007 and...
Brown apologizes for underling's Whitman slur, she has now spent $121 million of her own money to become governor, an LAPD officer convicted, plus book and media notes.
Thursday, Oct. 7
This house ad for the Los Angeles Times awards season coverage is unintentionally funny, given that there are bloggers in this city with more experience and higher standards than some...
According to his lawyer, former Bell official Robert Rizzo is due payments from the city of Bell in a negotiated deal that led to his resignation this summer. He also wants the city to pay his legal bills.
The departure of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to run for mayor of Chicago is not good news for his brother Ari, says Sharon Waxman at The Wrap.
Anne Thompson becomes editor-at-large, Todd McCarthy ankles for the Hollywood Reporter.
A reader sent in this screen grab from the Associated Press web page. Can you spot the mistake?
An LAPD tactical alert was in force for about an hour earlier this evening following the police shooting of a suspect in the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts.
Tony Castro at the Daily News gives the quick tour of new security features.
Judge has a familiar name, teachers threaten to sue, Baca endorses Brown and more.
Guy Adams, the Los Angeles-based correspondent for The Independent in the U.K., posts tonight on Twitter: "To save The Independent money, I am flying to Chile on an airline called Copa. It's the Panamanian Aeroflot."
Steve Greenberg's cartoon for LA Observed on Meg Whitman and Latino voters.
KFI News tweeted shortly after midnight that former Bell city administrative officer Robert Rizzo had posted bail and been released from jail.
Richard Johnson, the editor of the New York Post gossip page for nearly 25 years, is leaving Page Six for a new gig with News Corp. in Los Angeles.
Wednesday, Oct. 6
Times Business columnist Michael Hiltzik today takes off from the FTC's recent complaint against the health and goodness claims made on behalf of Pom Wonderful, the pomegranate juice marketed like...
Actually, the folks at Live Talks L.A. are making ten pairs of tickets available to LA Observed readers to catch P.J. O'Rourke in conversation with Judy Muller.
A Superior Court spokesman said today that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's marriage to Corina Villaraigosa is now officially dissolved.
Ed Rosenthal talks about the desert and god, still loots of talk about Meg Whitman's money and her ex-housekeeper, Gloria Allred again declines to say who put her up to it and the L.A. Times endorses Republican Steve Cooley.
Tuesday, Oct. 5
Media reporter David Carr's takeout in the New York Times on Tribune's boorish corporate culture under Randy Michaels and Sam Zell is the kind of story that gets media types across the country tweeting late into the night.
The creator of "Law and Order: Los Angeles" regaled the likes of City Council president Eric Garcetti, exiting Bon Appetit editor Barbara Fairchild and NBC correspondent Josh Mankiewicz with behind-the-scenes stories from the show.
Tribune Company chief Randy Michaels rushed out a memo to all the properties tonight trying to shoot down a New York Times column posted tonight by David Carr. The column alleges boorish behavior by Michaels and friends at Tribune.
The morning anchors at "Fox and Friends" reported today that the city of Los Angeles had ordered 10,000 space-age jetpacks for the police and fire departments — at $100,000 each. No, the broke city isn't actually spending a billion dollars so its cops can, you know, fly.
Even the Washington Post's looongtime media writer has been seduced by the siren call of online fame and riches. Kurtz will be the Washington bureau chief for the Daily Beast.
If Councilman Alarcon goes down for not living in his district home, it could be because he forgot to leave the water running. Plus more notes inside.
Old Cuba hand Ann Louise Bardach remembers that Jerry Brown, while mayor of Oakland, "violated U.S. sanction law during a trip to Cuba by using a CIA turncoat as a travel agent."
Monday, Oct. 4
Neither candidate's camp will give a reason for ditching tomorrow's scheduled radio showdown on KGO in the Bay Area, says Politico. * Added: The only real question, says the San...
"It's time for a change," says the Daily News editorial endorsing Carly Fiorina over Sen. Barbara Boxer.
Spending welfare money out of state, more politics of LAFD assistants, more redevelopment scams, USC gets to keep its trademark and more.
I haven't seen this book yet, but I'd still bet it will be one of my favorite books of the year. Glen Creason, the ace map librarian in the history...
The Los Angeles Times may have decided to be a Republican mouthpiece when it comes to political blogging, but the editorial page has endorsed Democrats Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer.
Sunday, Oct. 3
We're doing another LA Observed night on the world-famous Neon Cruise on Saturday, October 16.
Art Ginsburg is leaving Art's Deli to his children, but look who reported the story for AOL Patch.
Channel 34's website has cut up the weekend debate between the candidates for governor into sixteen bite-size video segments.
Juan Pierre, now on the White Sox, reached base far more than any Dodger hitter — and with a better on-base percentage than Matt Kemp, James Loney or Casey Blake.
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Before I lived in Echo Park, there was a tiny 1920s bungalow-cottage-standalone house on N. Occidental in Silver Lake. I...
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