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Weekly archive
August 7 - August 13, 2011
August 7 - August 13, 2011
Friday, Aug. 12
You may remember the local ballet company that we featured in an audio photo video a couple of years ago. The LA Weekly looks at why so many dancers leave.
Whale-watchers on board a Redondo Beach boat were off Palos Verdes Peninsula on Monday when they got an unusual treat for these waters.
Longtime Hollywood photographer David Strick is suing the Times and Tribune for using his photos 500 times.
SoCal Focus has pulled together an amusing array of photos and postcards showing just how pervasive oil derricks were on the region's landscape for many years.
The effect of moving the vendors and food trucks out of the crowded core of Downtown's Art Walk was, predictably, to steer some of the people to other blocks.
Bus benches start to disappear, USC's veto power over NFL in Coliseum, an anchor in London, News-Press loses again and Tobar calls L.A. a third-world city.
Thursday, Aug. 11
Twenty-nine years after they frolicked on La Cienega and in the Beverly Hills fountain for the "Our Lips Are Sealed" video below, the Go-Go's showed up in Hollywood today...
Former CNN Business News correspondent Stephanie Elam will join Robert Kovacik at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Channel 4.
Police investigating a reported suspicious package at a talent agency office on Rodeo Drive found — and blew up — a briefcase.
The Falcon, an unmanned experimental space plane launched this morning at Vandenberg, is designed to fly 13,000 miles an hour, or 20 times the speed of sound.
Add the National Association of Hispanic Journalists to those concerned about recent job shifts at NBC 4 here in Los Angeles.
30 Mosques in 30 States is the blog of Aman Ali and Bassam Tariq’s Ramadan-month road trip across the United States from Alaska to New York.
The ABC News Senior White House Correspondent gives tips to the new army of virgin journalists that will be spun by national campaign machines before it ends in 2012.
Peter Douglas' exit from the Coastal Commission, California's electoral vote, the view from London, covering high-speed rail, the City Council re-votes on Farmers Field, James Franco and porn, plus "Los Angeles Plays Itself."
Diana Nyad was almost 24 hours into her Cuba to Florida swim and losing the battle with the Gulf Stream. An inside look.
L.A. Times photographer Barbara Davidson comments at the paper's photo blog on the stunning image she shot of a refugee and her child. It ran last week on the front...
Wednesday, Aug. 10
Veronique de Turenne celebrates five years of blogging with a pictorial tour of her favorite posts.
Peter Sanders, the Wall Street Journal's former aerospace writer in Los Angeles, begins Monday.
The Getty's acquisition includes photographs of nudes, celebrity portraits, and images made for high-fashion ad campaigns.
Stanford University's Rural West Initiative has a fine interactive map showing the spread of newspapers across the United States from 1690 to today.
Food trucks will be kept outside the core area of this Thursday's Downtown Art Walk, the first to be held since the death last month of Marcello Vasquez when a car went up on the sidewalk.
State budget already in trouble, bullet train gets even more expensive, remapping politics at county, dinner at Rupert's, an ovation for "The Help," and invoking God to get through the news. Plus good news from Bryan Stow's hospital room.
Tuesday, Aug. 9
The current wave of departures from the Los Angeles Times newsroom isn't nearly over.
Mis-attribution of quote on anonymous political novel is cited.
City Council members Bill Rosendahl and Herb Wesson propose that Friday be John Schwada Day in the city of Los Angeles. Plus: Joe Saltzman.
LAT calls for stadium approval, Rutten on KPCC, KFI leads morning ratings, inside The Wrap, production begins on "Mad Men," plus zombies in Topanga.
Monday, Aug. 8
Many of her 173,000 followers on Twitter want to know about the animals.
Nyad was vomiting when she was pulled onto her support boat at 12:45 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday.
On my trip to Seattle, my hotel room window looked out at the baseball stadium. We got to our seats in five minutes.
His brother Mark, the head of Heal the Bay, says that he asked the LA Weekly food writer for this weekend's op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times. Getting it done was more of a struggle.
"The feeling is that this could be much worse" than Carmageddon, says the president of the Westwood Homeowners Association.
In first class with Will Ferrell, Antonio Jr.'s mural project, the LAT's slimmer editorial page, the last purchase at Village Books, plus politics and media notes.
The Home Secretary and Mayor of London nixed the idea, says The Telegraph.
Sunday, Aug. 7
A note from Assistant Managing Editor Henry Fuhrmann reminds copy editors that "Latino should be used in nearly all contexts."
With so many NPR staffers in town the past week, L.A. stories are getting a good ride on the network.
Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego is opening an L.A. area store this summer on Artesia Boulevard in Redondo Beach.
Susan Salter Reynolds and Richard Rayner will continue the book columns that the Los Angeles Times recently dropped in its cost-cutting of freelancers.
Nyad, the KCRW columnist and extreme swimmer, played "Reveille" on a bugle then at 4:45 p.m. L.A. time plunged into a Havana marina to begin swimming from Cuba to Florida.
Imprisoned former Hollywood troubleshooter Anthony Pellicano said during his first prison interview — with Daily Beast writer Christine Pelisek for Newsweek magazine — that he knew enough about Arnold Schwarzenegger to prevent him from becoming governor. No details offered.
Channel 4 took home 13 awards at last night's local Emmys, including a sweep of all three regularly scheduled newscast categories. The Governors Award went to FOX11 anchor Christine Devine...
By Ryan Killackey, who writes: "I worked on this project on and off for over a year and a half. It is composed of over 10,000 photos shot in California by my wife and I."
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