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Weekly archive
March 6 - March 12, 2011
March 6 - March 12, 2011
Saturday, Mar. 12
L.A. County Fire's urban search and rescue team boarded buses last night for LAX.
Sped-up video of the tsunami surge entering and leaving Crescent City's harbor on Friday morning, leaving extensive damage behind.
Friday, Mar. 11
These are always a mix of awesome and frightening.
Tsunami coverage, Mel Gibson, Arianna Huffington, book notes and more.
Crescent City, near the Oregon border, appears to have suffered significant damage to its harbor.
Tsunami coming ashore at Natori in Miyagi prefecture. From Kyodo News Service at New York Times. Wave inundating Sendai airport on closed-circuit video....
TV reports are showing not much happening along the Southern California coast as the hour passes for the arrival of tsunami surges.
NOAA has put up a tsunami advisory for us and a higher tsunami warning for north of Point Concepcion.
Thursday, Mar. 10
Updated monitoring of media reports on the Japan earthquake, which the USGS is calling a magnitude 8.9 event. Number aftershocks over 6.0 have occurred.
Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca has let Congress know before that he doesn't cotton to broad-brush slams on the Muslim community. He was back at it today, telling the panel...
Another great find by Boing Boing: a mesmerizing video of plastic sheeting from a Bavarian strawberry field dancing in the sky on thermal air currents. Just watch it.
A volunteer at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has made a fantastic discovery: perhaps the only color photographs of the devastation in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Channel 4 reporter and anchor Chris Schauble is leaving KNBC to be a morning anchor on KTLA.
Colleges, fish, a ton of politics notes and an update on La Villa Basque, all inside.
In November it will be 50 years since one of the city's scariest wind-whipped fire storms burned through Brentwood and Bel Air.
Wednesday, Mar. 9
Times columnist Steve Lopez plays TV reporter on tonight's "SoCal Connected" on KCET for a story billed as a look at the politics of bringing the NFL back to a new L.A. stadium.
The first Zócalo Public Square Book Prize goes to "In the Neighborhood" by Peter Lovenheim.
Heal the Bay put out the call for help with the massive die-off of sardines and other fish inside King Harbor in Redondo Beach.
David S. Broder, 81, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post often called the dean of the Washington press corps, died Wednesday in Arlington, Va. of complications from diabetes.
Tim Rutten returns to the L.A. Times op-ed page with part two of the conversation in which Roger Mahony reflects on his term as cardinal in Los Angeles.
Bell voters throw the bums out, more election and census coverage, NPR's chief resigns over Tea Party comments and more.
The only City Council incumbent who has to sweat out the final count late into the night is Bernard Parks. The others could go to bed early.
Long Beach doesn't get a lot of respect around LA Observed, or around Los Angeles generally. It fell to 7th among California cities.
Tuesday, Mar. 8
I don't know if folks will be as bemused in Redondo Beach, but the LAT's holy cow approach to the fish die-off works for me.
City Hall had tabulated absentees only until about 10:30, but now some votes cast today are starting to come in. Bernard Parks is the only incumbent City Council member anywhere...
Inland areas, led by Riverside County, grew the most since 2000. The coast, not so much.
The gift of $200 million from David and Dana Dornsife is the largest ever to USC, surpassing the $175 million from George Lucas.
Tribune, MediaNews Group, and private-equity firms Gores Group and Plaitnum Equity are all said to be circling with Thursday's deadline to bid on Freedom Communications, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The Dodgers' assistant general manager has been talked up through the years as a viable candidate to be the first woman to run a major league team's baseball side. She'll go work for Joe Torre at Major League Baseball.
Where to follow results tonight, plus Ruben Gonzalez resigns over Bernard Parks mailer.
The state may say L.A. is over four million, but to the U.S. Census Bureau we're at 3,792,621.
Staff members of L.A.'s leading live theater organization tell their personal stories from childhood for the It Gets Better Project.
Thousands, perhaps millions, of dead anchovies are floating this morning in King Harbor in Redondo Beach.
On election day the Times finally covers the community college races, more LAX concession bids tossed out, questions about the AEG stadium and designs for an Expo line station in Westwood. Plus more.
Brando Skyhorse and his novel about growing up in Echo Park have won the $8,000 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.
Monday, Mar. 7
The LA Observed contributor's book, The Bad Mother, is set among street kids in Hollywood.
The animated movie is set in the fictional town of Dirt. There's a character, a desert tortoise named Mayor, who dreams of imported water turning Dirt into a green paradise.
I've recently enjoyed two pieces of writing on the local Creole community spurred by the Feb. 21 passing of restaurateur Harold Legaux, proprietor of Harold & Belle’s on West Jefferson Boulevard.
New web editor at LA Weekly, candidates for mayor file papers, more media and politics notes.
My weekly column on KCRW -- on the air at 6:44 p.m. -- praises the L.A. Times' series on the community college building program but notes that the college trustees on the ballot Tuesday will still be invisible to most voters.
John Bogert writes about his cancer, political jostling for Tuesday and 2013, free parking near polls, HuffPost hires six — plus Rashida Jones, Tate Donovan and the Dominator anniversary....
Ralph Branca met Duke Snider in the spring of 1947, when they were both trying to make the Brooklyn Dodgers club. It was the year that Jackie Robinson was being...
A new book on the importance of world-class airports suggests that Los Angeles is being passed over in global commerce due to LAX.
Sunday, Mar. 6
A little of this, a little of that on the last weekend before Tuesday,
Times does a terrific job on its community college investigation, but lets the college trustees off the hook in Tuesday's election.
The tank painted with the words "This looks a bit like an elephant" was towed from the field along Pacific Coast Highway on Friday.
They're at Live Talks Los Angeles in April. Plus: Michael Connelly and James Gleick.
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