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Weekly archive
September 6 - September 12, 2015
September 6 - September 12, 2015
Saturday, Sep. 12
Tom Johnson says in email to Austin Beutner that 'Your strategy was exactly what The Times needs in this rapidly changing media world.'
Friday, Sep. 11
The pod appeared off San Onofre in Orange County this week and provided a show.
Garcetti and Hillary Clinton. Villaraigosa on Clinton. New Times publisher's salary and, wow, that housing allowance. Hyperion to discharge closer to shore.
Thursday, Sep. 10
Look what the newspaper boasted about 16 years ago — and look at what's gone.
The Fine Arts movie house on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, dark for five years, reopens Sept. 18. Opened in 1937 as the Wilshire Regina.
More echoes of the early Tribune years in LA: open letter signed by 60 leaders backs Austin Beutner.
"I believe that this world class city deserves a world class paper," Renata Simril says in her exit email. Nicco Mele is said to be next.
The 52-year-old bookstore is leaving Santa Monica for a new 5,000-foot bookstore space at One Santa Fe.
Also: Ken Doctor writes this may not be the end of Austin Beutner's and Eli Broad's efforts to acquire the Times.
Wednesday, Sep. 9
First he wants to build a wall to keep out the Americans with their problems.
"There’s 29,000 people in the ballpark and a million butterflies...All the boys in the bullpen straining to get a better look as they look through the wire fence in left field..."
"I was a little shocked just how closely 2015 resembles 1997 visually," says the visualization creator at UCAR.
Tuesday, Sep. 8
"I am not departing by choice...Tribune Publishing has decided to fire me. I will continue to root for you to succeed."
Tribune Publishing's chief is headed to Los Angeles this morning to replace Beutner with a more Chicago-friendly publisher. The move, I'm told, follows a failed bid by Eli Broad to buy the Times away from Tribune.
California and the lore of LA are rife with Basque immigrants. A new study thinks it can finally answer: who are these people with their odd language?
Al Jazeera America goes for an Eastside tour with Sesshu Foster, "the poet laureate of a vanishing neighborhood."
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck credits Milner's Pete Malloy with inspiring him to join the force.
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