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Weekly archive
April 19 - April 25, 2015
April 19 - April 25, 2015
Friday, Apr. 24
The CicLAvia organization will conduct a national search for an executive director.
P-32 is the first male to successfully disperse from the mountains across the freeway. His sister did it a month earlier.
Hollywood checks are the main target, of course, with an evening reception hosted by Haim Saban and Casey Wasserman.
Corliss wrote about film for Time for 35 years, becoming "perhaps the magazine’s most quoted writer of all time."
Thursday, Apr. 23
The Huntington Library announced it has acquired a full set of Ansel Adams portfolios that the California photographer shot and printed himself between 1948 and 1976 and called "an excellent cross section of my work."
Politics, media, place and a tweet of the day.
First came the almond farmers, then the cantaloupes, then the golf courses — and so on.
Wednesday, Apr. 22
Politics, media, place and some tweets of the day.
Tuesday, Apr. 21
Before wild animals had cute Twitter accounts, the sighting of a cougar in the hills of LA caused a much different response.
Salinas, the former Telemundo reporter who had an affair with then-mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, had been the local anchor on KRCA-62.
Johanna Maska goes back to 2007 with Obama and has just stepped down as director of press advance. She's the LAT's new veep for marketing and communications.
Monday, Apr. 20
"Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada" says the sign placed on the road into Vegas from LA in 1959. "A luminous diamond stretched like Silly Putty, each letter of 'Welcome' encircled by silver dollars."
Two Pulitzers for the Times -- for television criticism and drought writing -- and the first ever for the Daily Breeze and the Los Angeles News Group.
Plus a few tweets of the day for Monday morning.
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