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Weekly archive
May 11 - May 17, 2014
May 11 - May 17, 2014
Saturday, May. 17
The Cheviot Drive home where Ray Bradbury lived and wrote for 50 years has been listed for sale at $1.495 million. It's open on Sunday.
After last night's elimination of the Ducks from the NHL playoffs, the Kings players stayed on the ice to tap their sticks in salute of 43-year-old Teemu Selanne, who played his last game.
Friday, May. 16
Wildfires. Garcetti accepts the NAACP award. LA Times endorses Duran in Supes race. Beck wants to stay as chief. And Sulzberger explains Jill Abramson firing. Plus more.
The basketball portion of the Clippers season ended tonight at Staples Center. Now we can all think about Donald Sterling 24/7.
I missed this the other night. Yasiel Puig, looking more relaxed these days, brought his mother to Dodger Stadium for his bobblehead night. She threw out the first pitch —...
Wednesday, May. 14
Francine Prose's new novel is "Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932." Tickets are from Live Talks LA for Thursday night in Santa Monica.
Folks in Pasadena don't really want their director of public health bashing gays, Catholics, Muslims and evolution. But in the state of Georgia? No problem!
The Kings and Ducks will meet to settle it on Friday evening in Anaheim. That's two big playoff games in LA in the past week where TV screens failed at the end. Not just Time Warner Cable either.
Dean Baquet, the former editor in chief of the Los Angeles Times who left during the worst of the Tribune Company manhandling of the LAT, today was named executive editor of the New York Times. Jill Abramson is out. No explanation.
Rihanna and Steven Soboroff, the president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, are certainly making the most out of their recent encounter at the Clippers playoff game. The broken phone is paying off for the LAPD Foundation.
Molotov Cocktail attack on units occupied by black residents of Boyle Heights projects is a bigger story for La Opinión than the English language media.
Old LA Observed friend Steve Greenberg contributes cartoons to the Jewish Journal and connected with this Donald Sterling gem. Previously on LA Observed: Steve Greenberg's LA Sketchbook...
Oregon's roaming gray wolf was observed by a remote camera in the south Cascades. Another camera spotted a female the next day -- uncollared and previously unknown to trackers.
Tuesday, May. 13
The restaurant at Wilshire and Doheny has met a need through the years: open late, big menu, long counter and a few dishes to come back for. It also has an LA Observed connection.
Take away the big two from the U.S. map of languages spoken at home and the national portrait becomes really interesting.
The Clippers were really, really close to going up 3 games to 2 in their NBA playoffs series against the Oklahoma City Thunder. This close.
KPCC has been looking for awhile for the right person to host a new arts and entertainment program aimed at making the station a player in Hollywood and cultural coverage. They found their man at the LA Times.
405 carpool lane to open next week. City Hall's 3-1-1 line doesn't work very well. Voices of the drought. Plus more.
Monday, May. 12
Donald Sterling uses his time on Anderson Cooper to slam Magic Johnson as a promiscuous person who has never done anything for the black community. And more.
Mayor Eric Garcetti's staff has posted another set of Facebook photos showing him as a regular guy. This time he's riding a bike to work in Koreatown
Richard Fausset is leaving Mexico City to return to Atlanta, this time as a New York Times national correspondent. Plus another opening at the NYT.
Heat wave arrives. Beverly Hills Hotel hires a familiar image fixer. Plus politics notes and more.
Sterling talks with Anderson Cooper in interview to air tonight on CNN. He asks forgiveness from the NBA — if his words offended, that is. "If I said anything wrong, I'm sorry."
Andrés Martinez writes about the discomfort of being raised in Mexico by an American gringa, and about the last time he spoke with her.
I guess nobody at the Daily Mail recognizes Steven Soboroff, the president of the Los Angeles Police Commission — dismissed as a "jolly older gentleman" and a "pensioner" in a Fail story on Rihanna attending a Clippers game while dressed.
Red and yellow books arranged on shelves. The Last Bookstore, Downtown Los Angeles.
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