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Weekly archive
July 3 - July 9, 2011
July 3 - July 9, 2011
Friday, Jul. 8
Watching KCAL's coverage of the British consul-general's reception for William and Kate, Gov. Brown introduced the couple as Mayor Villaraigosa and Lu Parker stood with the Duchess.
I'm pretty sure I swore off the Hitler spoofs awhile back. but this one is worth it — and just very smart about the city's culture.
Gaye Williams has most recently been an advisor to Austin Beutner, the former deputy mayor who is running for the top job in 2013.
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles looks to have a hit on its hands.
Thursday, Jul. 7
Fraiche is hosting a seven-course wine dinner next Wednesday that's not for the unemployed or those whose 401-k's have cratered.
The British residence in Hancock Park was designed by Wallace Neff and finished in 1928.
L.A. Times Metro features editor Nita Lelyveld is returning to local reporting and posted a request on the city desk's public Twitter account.
Toll lanes coming to 10 and 110, Zine makes it official, Hahn and Huey face off for first time, hating "Page One" and more.
Wednesday, Jul. 6
Basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar cried when Walter O'Malley's Dodgers left Brooklyn, and he's not much happier about Frank McCourt's team now.
Carmageddon in the New York Times, from Los Angeles bureau chief Adam Nagourney. You would think that Los Angeles, of all places, would know how to handle a catastrophe. But...
The author and granddaughter of one of Los Angeles' most discussed historical figures, the water legend William Mulholland, died today of natural causes at her home in Camarillo.
I'm tied up all day on other tasks. Mark at LA Biz Observed posted on Mayor Villaraigosa's chief of staff giving notice and other news, starting with the morning headlines....
Tuesday, Jul. 5
With tonight's defeat, the Dodgers now have reached 50 losses at the earliest date in any of the team's seasons since 1979.
Author and long-ago L.A. Times enviro reporter Philip L. Fradkin and his photographer son, Alex L. Fradkin, walked the eleven-hundred miles of California coast and have married their words and images in “The Left Coast."
Former Daily Pilot photographer Kent Treptow is walking across the United States with his dog Hanna.
Nicole Bershon, head of the Los Angeles Police Department's watchdog agency just since May 2010, said today she will depart soon to become a Superior Court commissioner
"L.A. also smells of fat and sugar—the cheap donuts served at my hotel.”
New KCET programs named, Sharon Waxman on "Deal From Hell," Ken Auletta on Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, L.A.'s shrines to the Virgen de Guadalupe and more.
Monday, Jul. 4
What did you do for the Fourth of July?
Fox News hacked, Villaraigosa calls for raising the debt ceiling, a new year at the City Council and more.
In advance of Britain's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visiting California this week, the New York Times' London correspondent Sarah Lyall gave them some cheeky advice for handling the "culture shock" of Los Angeles.
See the Museum of Neon Art begin its move out of Downtown to Glendale.
The Dodgers are in last place on July 4, and the media pile on.
An architecture critic says don't build that wall, while an artist envisions a revenue opportunity.
How do you bring a 340-ton rock to Wilshire Boulevard? First you need a transporter with 208 wheels, and about fifteen men.
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| The funeral for Mark Lacter will be held Sunday, Nov. 24 at 12 noon at Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 W. Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles 90045. Reception to follow.
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