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Weekly archive
December 29 - January 4, 2014
December 29 - January 4, 2014
Saturday, Jan. 4
NBC has posted a minute-long teaser for the Jimmy Fallon remake of "The Tonight Show," with footage of earlier hosts Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson and Jay Leno.
Friday, Jan. 3
Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers, the influential duo that became one of the first ten groups inducted into the new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, died in Burbank at age 74. He had been battling chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Paul Walker autopsy, Mayor Garcetti's tech agenda, hit-and-run in the Palisades, a minor but media-observed earthquake, a mountain lion in Burbank and in praise of copy editors. Plus more.
Former Fox 11 anchor Carlos Amezcua will handle 3 to 6 p.m. on the new LA home of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck.
State hydrologists report today they found more bare ground than snow in the first Sierra snowpack measurement of the year. That's bad. Here's why no storms are getting through to California.
Architect Gerhard Becker pleaded no contest Friday to involuntary manslaughter in the 2011 death of Los Angeles city firefighter Glenn Allen, who died fighting a fire at Becker's home on Viewsite Drive in the Hollywood Hills.
It's another one of those days when the LA Times says to hell with even trying to make the website attractive or newsy.
Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken, Thomas Keller and Bradley Ogden are among the chefs who will join in Las Vegas dinners to raise funds for Jacobson, who was hit by a car while walking in Henderson, Nevada.
Thursday, Jan. 2
Pamela J. Peters is a photographer from the Navajo reservation who discovered Kent Mackenzie's film "The Exiles" while she was at UCLA. Her work updates the presence of young Native Americans in LA. She talks to Lisa Napoli at KCRW and has a show downtown this weekend.
Bad news out of the WNBA about one of the league's cornerstone franchises. The league vows the team will be taken over by new owners.
Peter Dreier offers the New York City mayor some advice from the progressive side after eight years of Antonio Villaraigosa. Plus: Bill Bratton takes over (again) at the NYPD.
The lecturer in the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley covered Congress for the New York Times and helped train a generation of government reporters. She died on Dec. 29 after a long illness.
Sergio Garcia has waited four years to be told he can practice as a lawyer. He still cannot be paid under federal law.
The Hamburger Hamlet in Pasadena is scheduled to close for good tonight and flip into a Du-Par's. That leaves the Sherman Oaks location. Alison Martino has nice memories of the Hamlet.
The stats cover Dec. 13 to midnight on January 1 and include arrests by 100 different law enforcement agencies.
The Annenberg Beach House in Santa Monica has declared "Bonus Pool Days!" because the weather here is so nice.
There were 105,000 fans at the outdoor NHL game on January 1 in the snow in Michigan. There will be half that many at the LA game — but we will be warmer.
The hike means that most workers with the Coalition of L.A. City Unions have received increases totaling 24.5 percent since 2007, the Times says.
Wednesday, Jan. 1
The editorial board of the New York Times refers to Edward Snowden as a "whistle-blower' and says it is time that the Obama Administration offer him a safe way home.
Producers Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian have an unusual and unsavory backstory they tried to get the LA Weekly not to publish. It didn't work.
Los Angeles News Group photographer Dean Musgrove mounted his iPhone in front of the Star-News building in Pasadena and shot the passing Rose Parade. Quickly.
Crime down again, building on earthquake faults, a 94-year-old mountain man — lots of stories crept into the news over the holiday period, plus media notes and job openings. Here's a little round-up to clear the decks for 2014.
New Year's Day is one of the holidays that pushes LA trash collection back one day — service returns to normal next week. Plus some tips on recycling your Christmas tree.
Tuesday, Dec. 31
"This is not the first time I have passed out cold," KUTV's Brooke Graham blogs cheerily. "I am known to faint any time I am in high altitudes and get too cold. (So does my twin sister Britt)."
Dominis, a Los Angeles native, learned photography at Fremont High and went on to shoot several of the most iconic photos from the era when Life was America's most popular picture magazine.
One Long Beach police substation doesn't have to go far to obtain donuts. Photo inside.
A spokesperson for the State Department took note today of Sunday's passing of Mike O'Connor, the former NPR and KCBS-LA reporter who was the Mexico representative of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Full text inside.
After 28 years in business, Mrs. Nelson's Toy and Book Shop will close in January, the store announced in a note that cites the inability to compete with online sales and big box stores.
USA Today has gone without a formal chief of the Los Angeles bureau for about two decades or so. That changes on Wednesday.
Monday, Dec. 30
O'Connor covered wars for NPR and the New York Times, and Los Angeles for Channel 2, before taking on the delicate mission of protecting journalists trying to cover corruption and the deadly drug wars in Mexico.
The National Anthem before the Rose Bowl game on Wednesday will be performed by Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer and Judith Hill. You know their voices if not necessarily their names.
Sunday, Dec. 29
The countdown to 2014 was projected on City Hall tonight, it looks like. It's part of a big 3D digital mapping show planned for Tuesday night. "I believe we have every 40K projector in California for this event," says the creator.
Putting stars on bikes: good idea. I had never heard of Susan Peters and her story until the 2012 book, "Hollywood Rides a Bike: Cycling With the Stars," by Philadelphia film critic Steven Rea and my friends at Angel City Press.
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