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Weekly archive
December 11 - December 17, 2011
December 11 - December 17, 2011
Saturday, Dec. 17
With the last American troops crossing out of Iraq into Kuwait tonight, the L.A. Times photo blog Framework has posted an impressive gallery of images from the war.
Tonight at the Alamodome in San Antonio, UCLA's women's volleyball team beat Illinois to win the NCAA national championship.
Westbound lanes of the 60 freeway were opened about 11 a.m. on Saturday. The eastbound lanes were back in service by about 3 p.m.
News item: Brian Wilson will rejoin the Beach Boys to make a 50th anniversary album and go on tour.
Friday, Dec. 16
NBC bills it as an interview with the Santa Cruz paramedic who was beaten at Dodger Stadium on opening day of the past season, possibly because he was a Giants fan.
It's her move, says TMZ, which reported that Vanessa Bryant cited "irreconcilable differences" in Friday's Orange County filing and that a source says "the last straw" was infidelity.
The employee at Southern California Edison's information technology facility in Irwindale, reportedly a systems analyst, began methodically shooting co-workers this afternoon before killing himself.
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti was on stage in 1986 when KCRW held its first live music show ever, at the Olympic Auditorium.
Baseball's all-time home run leader can appeal before serving his sentence.
The posting for a new co-host to work with Madeleine Brand has reached Journalism Jobs, and it's a little more svelte than the original detailed posting we told you about...
The station's longtime producer, voice and spokeswoman has a note on the KCRW members blog.
It's not the respondents who call themselves likely voters, though they lie too.
Pomona Freeway stays closed, State Senate pays for sexual claim against Rod Wright, Villaraigosa defends Asia trip, Hahn won't endorse and another housing authority report tonight on "SoCal Connected."
Thursday, Dec. 15
The author and Vanity Fair contributing editor has died of cancer at a hospital in Houston, the magazine announced.
Wildlife trackers in Oregon have followed a lone male gray wolf on a 730-mile trek across the state, south toward the border with California. "He could be in Yreka in two days if he wanted to be," a California fish and game official says.
The item on the Huffington Post site about New York City doesn't feel right.
Manuscripts, correspondence, calendars and other archival materials are included in the acquisitions, as well as some photographs of course.
The note is from Marcia Parker, West Coast Editorial Director for AOL's Patch websites.
60 freeway stays closed into weekend, Laura Chick endorses Buscaino, Gerald Rivera coming to L.A. talk radio, the Kinde Durkee story, Golden Globe nominations and the owner of Junior's Deli dies — plus more.
The list ranges from Mom's to Lazy Ox Canteen.
Not many people probably know that there is a Mental Health Courthouse in Los Angeles County, or that when you report for Superior Court jury duty Downtown you could be sent to this building on San Fernando Road.
Wednesday, Dec. 14
P.D. James claims the top fiction spot with "Death Comes to Pemberley."
The point guard the Lakers coveted is coming to L.A. anyway, he just won't have the nice dressing room.
The MTA, not surprisingly, didn't care for Reason.tv's lampoon of light rail the other day.
Time's Person of the Year cover was designed by Shepard Fairey from a Ted Soqui photograph of an Occupy LA protester in Downtown.
LAUSD cuts, animal shelter tech fired, a 2006 view of Herb Wesson, the Christian film John Atterberry was working on, a Lenin bust on La Brea and more.
Kevin McCollister, the photographer whose book and blog are both called "East of West L.A.," was out Sunday and Monday nights for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Tuesday, Dec. 13
In its story tonight about editor Russ Stanton stepping down, the Los Angeles Times introduces in the fourth paragraph the idea that the "mutual decision" to leave comes amid dissension over more newsroom cuts. Did the axe man lose his stomach for more cuts?
It can't be a bad sign for your chances when the incoming president of the City Council publicly endorses your campaign to be elected to said council.
Shock and dismay in the Burbank newsroom over News Director Vicky Burns deciding to let reporter and sometime-anchor Jennifer Bjorklund go.
Russ Stanton, who stepped down today as editor of the Los Angeles Times, sent this note to the staff. A note from LAT president Kathy Thomson follows.
The Times story says simply that Russ Stanton "will step down as the editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times on Dec. 23," and that Managing Editor Davan Maharaj will take over the top newsroom job.
More Housing Authority, poll says Brown looks good on taxes, Brokaw and Olney to be feted, and more.
Lots of roads in the higher elevations of Los Angeles County are having snow closures after Monday's storm.
Major League Baseball and its partner association of sportswriters have become the first major sport to issue dress guidelines for the media working games. It applies to camera people and...
Monday, Dec. 12
The Department of Water and Power has apparently decided to reopen its once well-regarded cafeteria to the public, KPCC says.
The libertarians at Reason.tv made an entertaining video on traveling by rail from LAX to Burbank, accompanied by their research on how much the public subsidizes the transit system.
In an Occupy video of the Nov. 30 LAPD raid outside City Hall, City News Service reporter Calvin Milam is observed being thrown to the ground and arrested after he crosses (outbound) through the police skirmish line.
The music industry veteran who was shot in his Mercedes by Tyler Brehm in Friday's rampage in Hollywood died of his injuries this afternoon, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center announced.
And just because it's been one of those sports weeks, the Los Angeles Kings have removed coach Terry Murray — "relieved him of his duties," in press release speak.
And we thought the Frank and Jamie McCourt melodrama was intense.
Good deed by music writer Kevin Bronson, Ridley-Thomas responds to Times, Mike Downey has an idea for the Dodgers, Steve Lopez writes on his father's deteriorating choices and Bill Moyers returns to KCET
You can probably guess handle the Secret Service used for the actor.
Sunday, Dec. 11
Sunday was media day at the Lakers training camp in El Segundo. Then the Clippers traded (apparently) for Chris Paul.
Top aide to Mayor Villaraigosa heard the shots and the screams, and a local photojournalist takes the money shot of the gunman lying wounded.
The pod of 12 killer whales logged previously in British Columbia was spotted off Ventura on Friday, off Rancho Palos Verdes on Saturday and off Newport Beach today.
The L.A. Film Critics Association is tweeting out the news from their annual vote.
Guest spot on 'Weekend Update' as the pilot that threw him off his AA flight at LAX.
The Lakers get a first-round pick in 2012 from Dallas for Lamar Odom, who came back to the team after his trade to New Orleans (with Pau Gasol for Chris Paul) was voided by the league.
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