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Weekly archive
May 3 - May 9, 2015
May 3 - May 9, 2015
Friday, May. 8
Fun stock footage posted on the Internet Archive. Clifton's, the Golden Gopher, the Rialto and other theaters make appearances.
Plus Antonio Villaraigosa's new actress-girlfriend, restaurants come and go and a big day for a Dodger.
I don't know if this a drought measure or what, but the big expanse of green grass on Santa Monica Boulevard in Westwood is mostly brown.
Thursday, May. 7
Nice one-day haul for the Democratic candidate, but she's also in the spotlight for agreeing to take money from even bigger donors.
Tribune Publishing buys U-T San Diego and installs Times publisher Austin Beutner as publisher there too. Otis Chandler's dream realized?
Chief Beck has already said he's concerned about this shooting after seeing video footage.
An 11-minute promotional film on MySpace shows the newsroom and printing plant (and the hairstyles) when the Times had an entire newspaper operation in Chatsworth.
Wednesday, May. 6
The LA Times has tapped Washington bureau chief David Lauter to run the presidential campaign coverage. Read the memo.
Plus Steve Soboroff acquires another famous person's typewriter. And what it was like to play for the bad old Clippers.
Tuesday, May. 5
In his first game in major league baseball, the new Angels catcher won the game with a walk-off home run.
With David Letterman's TV run coming near the end, his writers of the past reveal the jokes they wish they had been allowed to put on the air.
So somebody else did. Screen grab from CarlyFiorina.org.
How long P-22 was under the house in Los Feliz, the lion cubs who crossed the 101 freeway and how many pets have been found at lion kills in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Monday, May. 4
Our occasional but often-on-Mondays roundup of politics, media and place.
Tim Egan, Dana Goodyear, Mark Arax, Grace Peng and others weigh in on the drought and California's future, while the New York Times style editors again give Angelenos something to wag their tongues about.
Sunday, May. 3
The Survey Monkey chief executive who reportedly died outside the U.S. while on vacation with his wife -- no details have been released -- was a pioneer in bringing digital music to the Internet.
Tracy Wood, now at Voice of OC, learned lessons about official corruption covering the Vietnam War that keep coming into play in her coverage of government.
Good for Marques. After a dude invaded her shot and began talking dirty, she put his pic on Facebook. "Do you know this face?"
Far from DTLA, Fuentes has been chronicling street art in the desert and has some ideas on what's missing.
A Missouri couple received apologies from a climber rescued off a cliff at Point Dume.
Bill Gardner soared with his on-air set devoted to the late Ben E. King on Saturday afternoon on KPFK.
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