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The most meaningful stat in the Times' Sunday page one story about the Westside's awful traffic is that it takes an average of nineteen minutes...
Posted August 28, 2006 01:04 AM
Amending AB 1381 Former mayor Richard Riordan likes Villaraigosa's reform move, but he along with opponents ex-Gov. Pete Wilson and Eli Broad want to...
Posted August 23, 2006 09:55 AM
It's not unusual for someone to claim that a newspaper misinformed them. It is quite unusual, though, for the complaint to come from a Los...
Posted August 19, 2006 12:52 AM
Martin Kaplan of USC Annenberg-Huffington Post-Hollywood-Democratic politics is interviewed by Tom Teichholz in today's Jewish Journal. Also in the JJ: columnist Bill Boyarsky observes...
Posted August 18, 2006 05:44 PM
Well not exactly, but in so many words Mayor Villaraigosa this afternoon called the bluff of the Engineer and Architects Association. He said that City...
Posted August 18, 2006 04:58 PM
Raphael died in her sleep last Saturday in a hospice in Palm Desert, following what Todd Everett calls "a long and excruciating illness." She was...
Posted August 18, 2006 10:59 AM
Morning Buzz End of the line for aerospace Boeing will take steps to shut down the C-17 plant in Long Beach. How long before...
Posted August 18, 2006 10:05 AM
Writers in the newsroom at KCBS and KCAL left their desks about 3:30 pm Wednesday and took an unscheduled break together in the courtyard before...
Posted August 18, 2006 07:39 AM
The Nguoi Viet Daily News in Orange County is the largest Vietnamese daily newspaper in the nation. Do started the paper in his Garden Grove...
Posted August 18, 2006 07:15 AM
The mayor's school bill passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee and will head next week to a floor vote. Technicians at LAX replaced...
Posted August 17, 2006 05:18 PM
TMZ reports that Mel Gibson's lawyer dropped in on Malibu's courthouse today and revealed a deal with prosecutors. He pleads no contest to misdemeanor drunk...
Posted August 17, 2006 12:25 PM
After several weeks as resident guests, and some time before that as anonymous visiting bloggers, Mayrav Saar and Kate Coe are official at Fishbowl LA....
Posted August 17, 2006 12:23 PM
In my Politics piece this month for Los Angeles magazine, while talking about South L.A. black politics post-Yvonne Burke I observe that reporters typically resist...
Posted August 16, 2006 01:23 PM
Senior editor Monika Bauerlein and deputy editor Clara Jeffery will take over the San Francisco-based magazine. City Pages has details via Romenesko....
Posted August 16, 2006 10:57 AM
Claire Hoffman's talker on Girls Gone Wild creep Joe Francis in West two weeks ago might be the most-clicked-on L.A. Times non-news story ever. As...
Posted August 16, 2006 10:23 AM
Alyssa Shelasky will be posting about her L.A. dating life for Glamour magazine's new website — with a little twist. Apparently, she will ask readers...
Posted August 16, 2006 09:57 AM
When Spa Mystique opened at the Century Plaza Hotel & Spa in 2001, it was billed as Los Angeles' largest luxury spa—a 35,000-square-foot "oasis of...
Posted August 16, 2006 09:21 AM
Silman-James Press here is upset all over again with the New York Times for not allowing the title of its book, Chess Bitch: Women in...
Posted August 16, 2006 09:09 AM
Riverside County Superior Court judge Paul Zellerbach was at an Angels-Red Sox game in Anaheim in 2004 when his jury came in with a murder...
Posted August 15, 2006 05:20 PM
For his interview on today's "Morning Edition," How To Live Well Without Owning A Car author Chris Balish took the Metro bus to Venice Boulevard...
Posted August 15, 2006 11:13 AM
Bob Sipchen went to Sacramento for the show today and says that Supt. Roy Romer and Board of Education president Marlene Canter have given up...
Posted August 14, 2006 04:23 PM
You get pretty far into Mary McNamara's LAT piece on Mary-Louise Parker (pegged to tonight's return of "Weeds" on Showtime) before you learn that she...
Posted August 14, 2006 04:18 PM
David Blum takes over at the Village Voice Sept. 12. He is a New York media veteran. Blum began at the Wall Street Journal in...
Posted August 14, 2006 01:03 PM
At LA Biz Observed, Mark Lacter reports on a juicy court case between Maxine Swim Group and its former CEO, tells who's going to promote...
Posted August 14, 2006 12:42 PM
Actor-screenwriter Dan Futterman will play the part of Daniel Pearl in the upcoming movie based on Mariane Pearl's book, according to the Washington Post's Reliable...
Posted August 14, 2006 11:29 AM
The LAT announced in yesterday's TV Times that the weekly guide to what's on television will no longer come with Sunday papers. If you are...
Posted August 14, 2006 04:52 AM
What's better than one insider pulling back the veil on exclusive Malibu? Why two, of course. Jenny Price actually lives in Venice, but she knows...
Posted August 11, 2006 10:58 PM
They talked and talked first for going on three hours, but in the end the City Council fell into line behind Mayor Villaraigosa and voted...
Posted August 11, 2006 04:32 PM
Nine of the journalists who resigned from the Santa Barbara News-Press rather than go along with the questionable decrees of owner Wendy McCaw will receive...
Posted August 11, 2006 12:08 PM
The Central City Association, the lobbyists for downtown business interests, endorsed Mayor Villaraigosa's bill in the Legislature to put the Los Angeles schools partly under...
Posted August 11, 2006 11:38 AM
LAPD officer Edward Beltran Zamora has been charged with filing a false police report and making false arrests. He surrendered at Parker Center then was...
Posted August 11, 2006 11:24 AM
Morning Buzz New airport rules Wall Street Journal lists them. Just check your stuff — including your laptop if you are headed to London...
Posted August 11, 2006 09:47 AM
Veronique de Turenne joins the LA Observed family today with a clear agenda: to raise the blogosphere profile of her hometown. Here in Malibu will...
Posted August 10, 2006 11:56 PM
Tomorrow's Jewish Journal compiles the invitations extended to Mel Gibson by groups that apparently hope to be part of whatever mea culpa tour the actor-producer...
Posted August 10, 2006 03:45 PM
The Times has posted the full list of its anointed 100 most powerful Southern California players. After the first ten, which I gave you here...
Posted August 10, 2006 12:47 PM
The fifteen "InsideSoCal" staff blogs fed mostly out of the newsroom in Woodland Hills — and the absorption of LA.com — were just the beginning...
Posted August 10, 2006 12:11 PM
West Magazine will run "The West 100" of power players in Southern California on Sunday, as chosen by Los Angeles Times staffers drafted by the...
Posted August 10, 2006 09:25 AM
Just to point out some of the pieces now in the queue at Native Intelligence, the LA Observed blog where the subjects can range wherever...
Posted August 9, 2006 02:55 PM
Charles Johnson of the Los Angeles-based war blog Little Green Footballs and co-founder of Pajamas Media got most of the praise due the blogosphere for...
Posted August 9, 2006 11:46 AM
I don't think so, but Clay Risen at the website The Morning News does. His reasoning is a little tortured: he calls Claire Hoffman's piece...
Posted August 9, 2006 11:17 AM
Morning Buzz Dodgers streak reaches 11 They beat the Rockies and Daily News columnist Steve Dilbeck eats crow. Beauty comes before duty — or...
Posted August 9, 2006 03:32 AM
Newsy day over at Mark Lacter's daily business blog. He posted on the troubling questions over Pixar's stock options, Wonder Bread's product placement in Talladega...
Posted August 8, 2006 09:24 PM
It's not as surprising as, say, usually reliable Hollywood Democrats Spielberg, Katzenberg and Saban endorsing Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, as they did last week. Mel Gibson...
Posted August 8, 2006 06:14 PM
Two miles of surf in either direction from Ballona Creek and the Marina del Rey entrance channel will be marked off limits until at least...
Posted August 8, 2006 03:40 PM
The topic of Gary Webb and his treatment within the journalism world remains divisive. People I respect fall on both sides: that he was a...
Posted August 8, 2006 01:46 PM
You probably don't know that there is a big Little League championship tournament underway in San Bernardino, with a team of Northridge 11- and 12-year-olds...
Posted August 8, 2006 12:31 PM
If you were thinking of a little holiday on the Coast Starlight that runs from Los Angeles to Oakland and beyond to Seattle, be aware...
Posted August 8, 2006 11:57 AM
Morning Buzz Bill Ouchi against AB 1381 William G. Ouchi, UCLA professor, former Riordan chief of staff and author of Making Schools Work argues on...
Posted August 8, 2006 09:53 AM
There's a line in the new Vanity Fair's cover story on Kate Moss that the model makes more money than ever, post-coke addiction, and peers...
Posted August 7, 2006 06:39 PM
John Hatfield contends that Chief William Bratton unduly influenced the LAPD Board of Rights that fired him. Hatfield is the officer who applied a flashlight...
Posted August 7, 2006 01:11 PM
This time the instrument landing system for runway 25R — the long one on the south side — failed after 9 o'clock this morning. That...
Posted August 7, 2006 12:05 PM
The Los Angeles Daily Journal columnist died over the weekend after an eight-year battle with prostate cancer. He had previously worked as a feature writer...
Posted August 7, 2006 10:56 AM
When you are promoting a new business, I guess you can write anything you wish. In the promo material on the web for Tripmates, an...
Posted August 7, 2006 10:49 AM
That profile of Joe Francis in West magazine I told you about last week was the talk of the town (to the degree that can...
Posted August 7, 2006 10:22 AM
Drivers on the northbound 110 Freeway downtown have watched the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra players depicted in Kent Twitchell's mural "Harbor Freeway Overture" gradually disappear...
Posted August 7, 2006 09:44 AM
These are some highlights from the past week of posts on the five LA Observed blogs, since I know some of you cut out early...
Posted August 7, 2006 01:09 AM
"Breakfast with the Beatles," radio's longest-running Beatles show at more than twenty years, will air on 97.1 KLXS for the last time the Sunday of...
Posted August 6, 2006 04:42 PM
Business section staff reporter Claire Hoffman opens her piece in the Sunday magazine West with a graphic scene. The screaming phone calls, accusations that she...
Posted August 4, 2006 02:58 PM
Besides the NYT and LAT reviews cited in today's Morning Buzz, the film based in Echo Park is the talk of the free weeklies. Ella...
Posted August 4, 2006 01:32 PM
KPCC will debut "Off-Ramp" Saturday at noon and run it biweekly until October, when it goes weekly. John Rabe, a reporter at the station who...
Posted August 4, 2006 11:53 AM
They are going to blow up San Pedro's first high-rise this weekend. About 6 am on Sunday, wind conditions allowing, the stripped-down former Logicon building...
Posted August 4, 2006 10:13 AM
Morning Buzz Why magazines arrive late A May 4 spot check at the big mail-processing plant in South L.A. found that some first-class mail...
Posted August 4, 2006 09:56 AM
At Mayor Villaraigosa's press conference this afternoon to help unveil Councilwoman Wendy Greuel's "anti-gridlock zone" signs, he refused to say whether he would sign or...
Posted August 3, 2006 05:55 PM
Former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy Gabriel Gonzalez assaulted women he stopped while on patrol in the Compton area. He was convicted in federal court...
Posted August 3, 2006 05:34 PM
I was burrowing through the LA Observed archives and came across this Correction o' the Week from 2005 and thought it deserved renomination for the...
Posted August 3, 2006 12:50 PM
The Valley Inn, just off the 405 freeway in Sherman Oaks, is about the 200th restaurant in the Valley to be hit during a spree...
Posted August 3, 2006 12:31 PM
Morning Buzz Council's term limits gambit sparks ire City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo called on the mayor to veto the council's action putting a term...
Posted August 3, 2006 01:24 AM
Until Mel Gibson's real arrest report leaked out, Steve Whitmore was not the most visible of law enforcement media handlers. Cindy Beavers with the San...
Posted August 2, 2006 11:11 PM
Bruce Feirstein jumps into the pool at Native Intelligence with a post that labels Arianna Huffington's "defining Hollywood moment" spin on the Mel Gibson affair...
Posted August 2, 2006 02:11 PM
The power outage that knocked out lights and elevators across the Civic Center this morning has been mostly over since before 9:30 am, but the...
Posted August 2, 2006 01:36 PM
One of the additions we've talked about at LA Observed — and have been hatching in the background — is encouraging writers to blog occasionally...
Posted August 2, 2006 12:37 PM
First thing Amy Wilentz did when she moved to Los Angeles with her husband, Nick Goldberg — op-ed editor at the LAT — was to...
Posted August 2, 2006 09:43 AM
Morning Buzz Moonshadows? Mel Gibson got smashed and posed for sloppy photos with fans at the PCH hangout Moonshadows before jumping in his car,...
Posted August 2, 2006 09:24 AM
In a column tomorrow motivated by Mel Gibson's anti-Jewish recidivism, Times Calendar columnist Patrick Goldstein chides Hollywood executives for not distancing themselves from the actor-producer....
Posted August 1, 2006 05:59 PM
The City Council imposed new rules of decorum for public speakers at the thrice-weekly meetings: one minute instead of two, no addressing a specific council...
Posted August 1, 2006 05:41 PM
Morning Buzz Mel: "I am not a bigot" Mel Gibson's people have a released a statement in which the actor denies having anti-Semitic beliefs...
Posted August 1, 2006 09:51 AM
Desperation strikes. Publisher Jeff Johnson just announced that the Los Angeles Times will begin to accept advertising on the front pages of some news and...
Posted July 31, 2006 05:01 PM
KPCC's Adolfo Guzman Lopez surveyed the local radio en español scene today and finds news and talk on the rise, especially on the AM dial....
Posted July 31, 2006 04:21 PM
The race will begin at Universal Studios and end downtown at the Central Library. Mayor Villaraigosa and Bill Burke said the new course should relieve...
Posted July 31, 2006 02:28 PM
The annual gaming trade show that the geeks drool over is cutting way back and will move out of the downtown Convention Center — but...
Posted July 31, 2006 01:49 PM
In her blog diatribe about suffering bad service at a Los Angeles area restaurant, visiting Bon Appétit online editor Martha Simon doesn't name the place....
Posted July 31, 2006 12:24 PM
In this week's double issue of The New Yorker, Nicholas Lemann struggles to comprehend the rise of blogs as a news source and the boosterish...
Posted July 31, 2006 11:20 AM
Morning Buzz Reopening the Biggie Smalls investigation LAPD chief Bill Bratton is throwing senior homicide detectives at the rap star's 1997 murder, which Chuck...
Posted July 31, 2006 09:57 AM
Well, that was a good week. New blogs, new contributors, new design, plus the usual original posts and meaty news. These were some of the...
Posted July 30, 2006 10:39 PM
Author James Ellroy writes in today's West Magazine about returning in June to live in Los Angeles after a lengthy self-exile. "The L.A. mandate," he...
Posted July 30, 2006 08:22 PM
So much for Mel Gibson wrapping himself in God. When he was arrested Friday on suspicion of DUI in Malibu, a very un-pious Gibson resisted...
Posted July 29, 2006 06:37 PM
Air traffic controllers described this week's runway encounter as "the closest call they have seen at LAX in seven years." A small passenger jet speeding...
Posted July 29, 2006 11:35 AM
Each of the local billionaire media moguls-in-waiting — Eli Broad, David Geffen and Ron Burkle — sent separate letters to the Tribune Company board this...
Posted July 29, 2006 11:22 AM
TMZ.com says that Mel Gibson was arrested this morning on suspicion of DUI by the Malibu sheriff's. He made the mistake of speeding in the...
Posted July 28, 2006 02:25 PM
Mayor Villaraigosa's preferred course toward reform of the LAUSD — Assembly bill 1381 — came up for endorsement before the the City Council's Intergovernmental Relations...
Posted July 28, 2006 11:34 AM
Top News Unprepared for the worst The DWP was "shocked" at the peak levels of electricity used during the heat wave and overestimated the...
Posted July 28, 2006 09:40 AM
Those instructions on how aides are supposed to "staff" Mayor Villaraigosa are still being passed around. The demand for unlimited Listerine breath strips and room...
Posted July 27, 2006 11:06 PM
Author Mariane Pearl describes getting behind the wheel in the NYT's New York Observed column [editor's note: harrumph] last Sunday. It's what prompted her to...
Posted July 27, 2006 09:44 PM
David Rensin has been a contributing editor of Playboy since before web browsers came along. He has written more than a hundred interviews for the...
Posted July 27, 2006 05:31 PM
Aquaman the movie? John Horn reports on the Times website that the real Ari Emanuel is at the center of real "informal talks" on a...
Posted July 27, 2006 05:18 PM
Top News Leads on missing women pour in Sheriff's detectives get the help they hoped for, including a single email from an unidentified tipster...
Posted July 27, 2006 09:41 AM
Writer, producer, novelist (and significant other of Helen Hunt) Matthew Carnahan had his personal home page taken hostage by pro-Palestinian hackers. Ray Richmond blogs that...
Posted July 26, 2006 11:28 PM
Former CityBeat columnist Erik Himmelsbach has taken his Valley Boy persona to the blogopshere. In his second post, he talks about the book he is...
Posted July 26, 2006 11:04 PM
Posting has been a tad light today due to the intrusion of life and preoccupation with the changes around here. This makes it worth it,...
Posted July 26, 2006 06:35 PM
The Onion plans to peel off a Los Angeles edition to hit the streets Aug. 10. They plan to dump about 50,000 copies at the...
Posted July 26, 2006 02:39 PM
Duke Helfand of the LAT's city-county bureau got his hands on a fascinating instruction sheet given to staffers who accompany Mayor Villaraigosa in his travels...
Posted July 26, 2006 07:24 AM
Around LA Observed's sites this afternoon: Warner Bros. deal with iTunes, new prez of Disneyland, and who to blame for power woes. Jered Weaver is...
Posted July 25, 2006 05:39 PM
The KCRW host returns to court August 15 to be sentenced on a cocaine possession charge, the only prosecution to come out of his June...
Posted July 25, 2006 05:00 PM
They had to bribe Kansas City to take him. Story at SoCal Sports Observed....
Posted July 25, 2006 04:53 PM
Santa Barbara News-Press owner and co-publisher Wendy McCaw delivered another missive to readers today claiming that she's the victim in the explosion of upset over...
Posted July 25, 2006 04:25 PM
After my Monday scooplet (yes I mean it ironically) about Los Angeles Times managing editor Doug Frantz giving Metro reporters pony rides at lunch hour...
Posted July 25, 2006 02:49 PM
The Times editorial page today follows the Daily News in wagging the finger of shame at the politicos and local leaders who lined up to...
Posted July 25, 2006 01:36 PM
The OC Post launches Aug. 21 as a six-day, full-color home-delivered tabloid that will feature many of the stories and columns that run in the...
Posted July 25, 2006 12:44 PM
On his blog over at TV Week, Christopher Lisotta is letting readers vote on the dumbest question asked during the the Television Critics Association pressfest...
Posted July 25, 2006 12:29 PM
In the increasingly bitter match of wills over control of LAUSD schools, Mayor Villaraigosa aced today's serve. He named former superintendent Ramon Cortines to be...
Posted July 25, 2006 12:12 PM
Sheriff's homicide detectives plan to ask for the public's help in locating 54 women (!) whose pictures were found in the home of multiple murderer...
Posted July 25, 2006 11:47 AM
Staffers at the Los Angeles Times are giggling about a morale booster that managing editor Doug Frantz perpetrated in the midday heat downtown today: pony...
Posted July 24, 2006 01:43 PM
Philip Anschutz's image as the most important Angeleno that most people have never seen — or even heard of — got a big boost with...
Posted July 24, 2006 01:38 PM
There's some chatter out there about today's Daily News editorial lambasting last week's Holmby Hills fundraiser for Martin Ludlow, the ex-councilman who had to give...
Posted July 24, 2006 12:44 PM
We've got Arnold and Antonio, Frank and Jamie, Ramona and Joel, Mike and Sylvester, and even Bill Handel. It's a full helping of the Morning...
Posted July 24, 2006 02:05 AM
By David Davis For those keeping score at home, it's been a banner year for Terry Cannon's Baseball Reliquary. In February, Cannon and his...
Posted July 21, 2006 07:02 PM
Karen Constine, the former chief of staff to Laura Chick and director of the California Film Commission under Gov. Gray Davis, gets the mayor's nod....
Posted July 21, 2006 03:44 PM
KCRW thought they had U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad all lined up to guest with Warren Olney on "To the Point" at 1 pm,...
Posted July 21, 2006 12:08 PM
A year into his Administration, Mayor Villaraigosa has named his members of the commission that oversees the city's police and fire pension plan. It's inside-baseball...
Posted July 21, 2006 10:24 AM
Longtime ACLU of Southern California supporter Joel Bellman yesterday circulated an open letter to executive director Ramona Ripston protesting the group's decision to honor Salam...
Posted July 21, 2006 09:32 AM
The Times breaks out a new Hollywood and politics column, the City Council gets the love it wants from Chief Bratton, and the city of...
Posted July 21, 2006 09:05 AM
Supt. Roy Romer used today's "state of the schools" speech to stress that campuses are getting better under his watch and to blast Mayor Villaraigosa...
Posted July 20, 2006 06:31 PM
Today's Wall Street Journal cranks out a piece on GOOD, the magazine for young people who do good things (get it?) that is being pulled...
Posted July 20, 2006 05:57 PM
William Dean Singleton, owner of the Daily News and several other local papers through his MediaNews Group, will take over as chairman of Associated Press...
Posted July 20, 2006 12:04 PM
They threw a party last night in Pasadena for a Stradivarius violin. Jerry Kohl fell in love with the idea of owning a Strad after...
Posted July 20, 2006 11:42 AM
The weekly Highway 1 section in the Los Angeles Times always skews toward the few who are buying a vehicle and usually has little if...
Posted July 20, 2006 11:23 AM
Over at his blog From the Desert to the Sea, John Stodder goes literary and recalls that the reclusive author Thomas Pynchon wrote much of...
Posted July 20, 2006 10:40 AM
Demolition of the final remnants of Marineland of the Pacific gets started today on the Palos Verdes peninsula. The Daily Breeze reports that about 20...
Posted July 20, 2006 09:26 AM
* Investigating why LAX shut down* Incredible shrinking movie business* Analyzing Broad's break with VillaraigosaThere's a whole bunch of news and observations today. Click the...
Posted July 20, 2006 09:05 AM
At gunpoint, no less. Channel 2 News says the actor's Thunderbird jumped the curb, sped into the parking lot of Nina's Kitchen Bath and Hardware...
Posted July 19, 2006 06:10 PM
We bloggers are not supposed to mention the ads that Google AdSense places on our sites, for fear that the mention will trigger click fraud....
Posted July 19, 2006 05:29 PM
Back in April 2004, when he was under full attack for the Fleishman-Hillard deal with DWP that began under Dick Riordan, then-Mayor Jim Hahn banned...
Posted July 19, 2006 05:12 PM
We told you on Monday that Helene Elliott would become a general columnist for the Los Angeles Times sports section. Today the memo came down:...
Posted July 19, 2006 04:17 PM
LA Weekly's Steven Leigh Morris looks at how the Latino Theater Company, which had never run a theater and possessed few assets, was awarded control...
Posted July 19, 2006 12:56 PM
Sam Singer, the San Francisco PR attache for Wendy McCaw and the Santa Barbara News-Press, is described as "resigning" — and won't say why —...
Posted July 19, 2006 12:32 PM
New from 5900 Wilshire, home of the Emmis magazines that hit the streets this week with their August issues: Los Angeles does its annual, hyper-selling...
Posted July 19, 2006 11:53 AM
We grow it, saute it, stuff it, roast it and slice it into ratatouille. Now the Times' food section tells us that there's a long...
Posted July 19, 2006 11:12 AM
The Hollywood Reporter's Ray Richmond generously blogs for newbies his ten unwritten rules for getting along at the Television Critics Association's group grope in Pasadena...
Posted July 19, 2006 09:28 AM
* KFI tops radio ratings* Bratton is defiant* More signs the honeymoon is overMuch more local news and media tidbits inside the Morning Buzz. Come...
Posted July 19, 2006 09:13 AM
The 5:30 pm shutdown was way up in Palmdale at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center, but it kept numerous flights on the...
Posted July 18, 2006 08:05 PM
Furillo was the sports editor of the late Herald Examiner, wrote his column "The Steam Room" there for many years, and served a couple of...
Posted July 18, 2006 05:46 PM
Because I'm at the desk and there are things to note: SoCal home sales tumbled in June, but prices still edged up to an all-time...
Posted July 18, 2006 05:15 PM
VICA (the Valley Industry and Commerce Association) is the one San Fernando Valley business group that seems to have some clout downtown. Its board voted...
Posted July 18, 2006 03:18 PM
Author and former Los Angeles Times science writer K.C. Cole explains why, in her view, print media too often shy away from difficult stories on...
Posted July 18, 2006 09:56 AM
For nine years, Rosie the arthritic bulldog has been part of the Belmont Shores scenery, riding in a little red wagon behind her owner. Well,...
Posted July 18, 2006 08:48 AM
* Garcetti chides Bratton* More Tasers out there* Four more years?Details and more inside the Morning Buzz. Just click to come on in....
Posted July 18, 2006 08:29 AM
Some kind of problem at Dreamhost has knocked LA Voice.org off line. We're all hostages to our hosting services, unfortunately. Best of luck to Mack...
Posted July 17, 2006 08:25 PM
In this week's New Yorker, Ken Auletta focuses on the Hollywood presence and Pellicano-tainting of powerhouse lawyer Bertram Fields. Auletta congratulates himself on getting "the...
Posted July 17, 2006 03:50 PM
She has been the editor in charge of entertainment coverage for the Los Angeles Times business section since last year, after returning from Los Angeles...
Posted July 17, 2006 03:18 PM
Back in June when the LA Weekly proclaimed that a serial killer had preyed on ten Los Angeles-area prostitutes, the paper fingered its favored suspect...
Posted July 17, 2006 02:47 PM
When I posted in the Morning Buzz about Rick Orlov's story on the relatively new Los Angeles Civic Alliance, the members' names had not yet...
Posted July 17, 2006 02:32 PM
Bob Tur of Los Angeles News Service sued YouTube in federal court for letting users post copyrighted video, including his often-aired aerial footage of trucker...
Posted July 17, 2006 02:15 PM
L.A. Times beat writers will no longer routinely cover road trips of the Kings and Ducks, Sports Editor Randy Harvey tells LA Observed. Hockey columnist...
Posted July 17, 2006 02:11 PM
Malibu's last big spread for sale.Mike Kinsley headed for brain surgery.Wendy McCaw speaks.Details and much more when you click on the Buzz. And now our...
Posted July 17, 2006 02:12 AM
In addition to running alt weekly ads that brag she's the dopest attorney in Los Angeles, criminal defense lawyer Allison Margolin has taken up blogging...
Posted July 16, 2006 03:46 PM
On his Angry Poodle blog at the Santa Barbara Independent, Nick Welsh breaks the news that ex-News-Press columnist Barney Brantingham has been served with a...
Posted July 15, 2006 01:22 PM
Billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad sent Mayor Villaraigosa a letter critical of the mayor's schools compromise for muddying the control issues. Broad's foundation has provided key...
Posted July 15, 2006 12:17 PM
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 954 AM PDT SAT JUL 15 2006 ...DANGEROUS HEAT EXPECTED TODAY ACROSS THE VALLEYS...
Posted July 15, 2006 10:14 AM
Slugger Barry Bonds' lawyers are preparing for the San Francisco Giant to be indicted in federal court as soon as next week. The charges could...
Posted July 14, 2006 05:25 PM
The Chronicle of Philanthropy has a new job posting of some importance to Mayor Villaraigosa and his Los Angeles Unified School District ambitions: Position: Superintendent...
Posted July 14, 2006 04:54 PM
From Associated Press and Yahoo in the post below....
Posted July 14, 2006 03:21 PM
Lucinda Michele Knapp, managing editor of the L.A. Alternative, nominates S.A. Griffin as Beat avatar and should-be poet laureate of Los Angeles. Her cover story...
Posted July 14, 2006 03:05 PM
At today's demonstration and rally outside the Santa Barbara News-Press offices, I'm told that most of the paper's reporters many newsroom staffers including several reporters...
Posted July 14, 2006 02:21 PM
It's a lazy Friday in July so why not post a little travel writing, even if it is about home. Notes from the Road calls...
Posted July 14, 2006 12:52 PM
Members of Southern California Transit Advocates like to challenge themselves — and explore the region — by taking long group excursions on public transit. They...
Posted July 14, 2006 12:09 PM
Jim Benning, who edits the travel website World Hum, wrote about lucha libre wrestling in Tijuana for last Sunday's Washington Post. It’s Friday night in...
Posted July 14, 2006 10:44 AM
If you watch traffic maps online or listen to radio reports, the earliest freeway snarls are often out in western Riverside County where commuters get...
Posted July 14, 2006 10:08 AM
LA Frog refers to herself as "Parisian euro-pudding whose karma ran over her dogma. Met a California surfer dude, traded high heels for flip flops...
Posted July 14, 2006 02:50 AM
Chief Bratton's long honeymoon with the City Council appears to be over, there were two more murders on South Robertson while the mayor was in...
Posted July 14, 2006 02:44 AM
Are they: Early L.A. stage actorsElected officialsCaltech scientistsReporters at the L.A. Record, circa 1905 Answer follows....
Posted July 14, 2006 12:55 AM
It was a big news day around the Santa Barbara News-Press situation. Here is some of what I've confirmed tonight: Star investigative reporter Scott Hadly...
Posted July 13, 2006 10:16 PM
Well maybe you will, but it's an interview with the indefatigable, if media shy, Romenesko himself in Hyperlink magazine at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism....
Posted July 13, 2006 06:55 PM
Buttons began in burlesque, had his own TV show in the early 1950s and won a supporting actor Academy Award for the 1957 film Sayonara,...
Posted July 13, 2006 01:17 PM
The News-Press has posted openings for reporters, design editor, business editor and assistant city editor on JournalismJobs.com. The biz editor needs two whole years of...
Posted July 13, 2006 12:07 PM
Barney Brantingham, the "beloved" longtime columnist of the Santa Barbara News-Press, explains why he accompanied all of the top editors in resigning in a piece...
Posted July 13, 2006 11:30 AM
After El Vaquero reported accurately last month on two suicides by students in the nursing program, Glendale College president John Davitt complained that the story...
Posted July 13, 2006 10:10 AM
Every summer it seems the whale boat captains talk up sightings of blue whales out in the channel. This year Channel 4 has video....
Posted July 13, 2006 09:49 AM
I knew that the threatened Nickelodeon Theatre had a lengthy history in Hollywood, but I had rushed out Tuesday's Morning Buzz item without researching all...
Posted July 13, 2006 01:33 AM
Welcome to The Newshour with Jim Lehrer on KCET.org and PublicAffairs Books....
Posted July 13, 2006 01:15 AM
In today's feast are a couple more reasons not to get hurt in this town, plus a narrow victory for the mayor's school plan, a...
Posted July 13, 2006 01:09 AM
Excuse the Wrong Coast diversion, but this is too cool to pass up. Spotted on the L.A.-rooted Boing Boing (posted by Angeleno Xeni Jardin): Today,...
Posted July 12, 2006 02:16 PM
The collection of close-to-home travel narratives titled My California has been newly chosen as the One City, One Book pick for Whittier, Santa Barbara and...
Posted July 12, 2006 01:47 PM
Chris Ayres writes in his L.A. Notebook for the Times of London that going native is one of the worst career moves a foreign correspondent...
Posted July 12, 2006 09:09 AM
Rampart and LAPD news rules today, including more details on the off-duty officer shot and critically wounded by his young son. Also: what was the...
Posted July 12, 2006 08:49 AM
Came across a nice shot of the council chambers at City Hall the way it (and the elected members) looked during President Franklin Roosevelt's first...
Posted July 11, 2006 05:46 PM
News and observations from around town, mostly off the police beat today: Chief Bratton told KPCC's Patt Morrison that an internal investigation is looking into...
Posted July 11, 2006 05:18 PM
Alexandra Zavis comes from the Johannesburg bureau of Associated Press. Memo to the staff from foreign editor Marjorie Miller follows:...
Posted July 11, 2006 05:12 PM
Orange County Register reporter Valeria Godines is in the midst of a courageous five-part series disclosing her personal battle with bipolar disorder. Brainstorm opens on...
Posted July 11, 2006 04:21 PM
The founder of the Coalition Against Police Abuse and former Black Panther died Sunday at home in Pasadena. A longtime activist and police critic in...
Posted July 11, 2006 10:07 AM
Top jobs are still open, but the acting publisher whose DUI case was ordered covered up promoted three editors from within and named a "contributing...
Posted July 11, 2006 09:59 AM
This morning on KPCC's "Airtalk," Prof. Robert Bruegmann will explain and probably defend his thesis that "sprawl is not the worst thing that ever happened...
Posted July 11, 2006 02:46 AM
We're in a blood shortage, folks. Give if you can. The old Aquarius Theatre in Hollywood is eyed by re-developers, a huge bill to fix...
Posted July 11, 2006 02:33 AM
The Dodgers' Brad Penny today was named as starting pitcher for tomorrow's All-Star Game. One of the guys he was traded to Los Angeles for...
Posted July 10, 2006 05:13 PM
CityWatch is out with an extra edition on the weekend election of downtown activist Brady Westwater as chair of the Neighborhood Council Congress. Westwater (right,...
Posted July 10, 2006 04:26 PM
Lawyer Helen Zukin is City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's newest appointee to the City Ethics Commission. Zukin, a temporary judge in the Los Angeles County Superior...
Posted July 10, 2006 04:12 PM
Red-light cameras will be turned on in August at two intersections, LADOT officials said today. The first two corners where tickets will be issued are...
Posted July 10, 2006 03:02 PM
Movie City News has added rough, uncut video interviews to its mix of blogs. Up currently is a three-part chat with Vinessa Shaw, who strolls...
Posted July 10, 2006 12:51 PM
Channel 4 unveils "The Local Story: Summer Edition" at 3 pm., with L.A. news veteran Ross Becker anchoring. Toni Guinyard, formerly of KCET's "Life &...
Posted July 10, 2006 11:35 AM
Seven members of a family hiking at Hansen Dam in Lake View Terrace had to be rescued by LAFD helicopter Sunday night after becoming stuck...
Posted July 10, 2006 11:18 AM
As usual the day begins with a meaty meal of news briefs and observations — the Morning Buzz. Come on inside after you check out...
Posted July 10, 2006 02:19 AM
It's easy. You're the captain of your national team in the final minutes of the final match of the World Cup. The score is tied,...
Posted July 9, 2006 11:55 PM
Steve Greenberg in the Ventura County Star nails the Santa Barbara News-Press situation. Link. Up on State Street, meanwhile, sports editor Gerry Spratt has also...
Posted July 8, 2006 02:59 PM
Good guesses on the corporate name that used to adorn (or despoil) the Wilson Building before Mutual of Omaha, Asashi and Samsung: it was General...
Posted July 7, 2006 03:24 PM
Sell the Los Angeles Times, Devin Leonard advises the Tribune Company. The Chandlers of L.A. will never be confused with the Sulzbergers of New York...
Posted July 7, 2006 03:07 PM
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy David Stan Piquette died on his way to work this morning when a cement mixer overturned on his car on...
Posted July 7, 2006 02:40 PM
Gov. Schwarzenegger can finally ride his Harleys legally, Gray Davis is a happy (enough) man, and it might be time to sever your emotional ties...
Posted July 7, 2006 01:07 AM
At one time Wilshire and LaBrea was the most heavily traveled intersection in the city. It's still plenty busy, as marketers for Asahi Beer learned...
Posted July 6, 2006 12:35 PM
Tales about riding Metro Rail and buses make up a growing subset of the L.A. blogosphere. Doc on the Train is written by a resident...
Posted July 6, 2006 11:05 AM
The television academy's new selection system had an effect. TNT's mini-series "Into the West" received sixteen Emmy nominations, followed by Jack Bauer and "24" with...
Posted July 6, 2006 10:17 AM
Hilary Swank has been an LA Observed fave since she took her Oscar entourage (and newly won statuette) to Astro Burger. In the August issue...
Posted July 6, 2006 03:42 AM
Pacific Drift hosted by Ben Adair has run on Sunday nights at KPCC for a year and a half. The final show aired last Sunday,...
Posted July 6, 2006 03:16 AM
The New York Times' Pellicano reporter gets in trouble, politics of the Green Line, Los Angeles' pretty-horrible traffic future and an update on Heidi Fleiss....
Posted July 6, 2006 02:38 AM
Regular readers of The Wit of the Staircase know that writer, filmmaker and former video game designer Theresa Duncan lives in Venice and is likely...
Posted July 5, 2006 04:51 PM
• Protesters looked on as bulldozers began ripping out the South Los Angeles community garden where Mayor Villaraigosa couldn't broker a deal to mollify property...
Posted July 5, 2006 12:30 PM
Caltech has come up with a program that will put video depictions of the up-and-down ground movement produced by Southern California earthquakes on the web...
Posted July 5, 2006 12:19 PM
Other than proximity to City Hall when the top brass has to make a visit, is there anything smart about the plans to erect the...
Posted July 5, 2006 11:26 AM
Two of the contributors at Blogging.la are getting married this weekend — and not to each other....
Posted July 5, 2006 11:23 AM
Filmmaker, blogger and promoter Brian Flemming has cooked up a new stunt. He announced yesterday on his blog that for the next week he will...
Posted July 5, 2006 10:58 AM
After losing out on Jerrold Perenchio's Univision auction last week, disappointed executives at Grupo Televisa said they would step back and reflect on their next...
Posted July 5, 2006 10:44 AM
When LA Weekly lifestyle editor and Style Council blogger Linda Immediato lost her Venice home suddenly, she looked around and came up empty. No place...
Posted July 5, 2006 03:32 AM
Welcome back to the work week. Here's a little news to get you started. Click on the Buzz to check it out....
Posted July 5, 2006 03:03 AM
Some takes on Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's first year in the corner office on the third floor at City Hall follow after the jump. Cartoon snippet:...
Posted July 5, 2006 01:18 AM
The Daily Breeze, perhaps a little hopefully, reports that on Day 327 of the great South Bay Gator Watch it's still possible that Reggie is...
Posted July 5, 2006 12:05 AM
LA Observed plans to take advantage of the holiday calendar and call a first hiatus of the summer. Per the server stats it's been a...
Posted June 29, 2006 11:25 PM
In the Thursday Styles section of the New York Times, Sharon Waxman laments that so many male feet in Los Angeles—by which she means Hollywood—are...
Posted June 29, 2006 10:08 PM
Los Angeles airport chief Lydia Kennard today described $1.2 billion worth of coming improvements to LAX: an expanded Bradley International Terminal, realignment of the southernmost...
Posted June 29, 2006 09:23 PM
Daily Telegraph correspondent Catherine Elsworth returned to her post in West Hollywood from a trip home to the U.K. with a serious jones for David...
Posted June 29, 2006 03:25 PM
The Morning Buzz had an item the other day about a large flock of Caspian and elegant terns—rarely seen here—colonizing two rock barges in Long...
Posted June 29, 2006 03:02 PM
Boi from Troy is checking out a report that the male yell leaders won't be back on the sidelines at Trojans football games this fall....
Posted June 29, 2006 02:55 PM
Brad Friedman's Los Angeles-based liberal blog has been all over the vote irregularity issues in the Busby-Bilbray congressional race in San Diego County. Friedman is...
Posted June 29, 2006 02:41 PM
Copley Press Inc. of San Diego says it is "exploring strategic alternatives" that could include selling the Daily Breeze, Palos Verdes Peninsula News and The...
Posted June 29, 2006 02:24 PM
Yesterday's Morning Buzz mentioned FishbowlLA's search for a staffer to replace the "guest blogger" who has been holding the fort. Later in the day, this...
Posted June 29, 2006 09:45 AM
Yesterday's almost entirely positive media story on Nikki Finke gets another day in the news, thanks to her insistence that the piece by Jon Friedman...
Posted June 29, 2006 09:40 AM
The Daily News' Mariel Garza blogs about the physical effects of trading her car for the bus this month. I have two blisters on my...
Posted June 29, 2006 09:36 AM
Lots of coverage out of City Hall and on the mayor's school plan, plus new Los Angeles World Airports chief Lydia Kennard gives a big...
Posted June 29, 2006 01:39 AM
Back in February, some will remember, I linked to video game re-creations of old Southern California amusements like Busch Gardens, Jungleland, Nu Pike and the...
Posted June 28, 2006 01:09 PM
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman got columnist-blogger Nikki Finke to come out to lunchdinner with him in Santa Monica and calls her "a rarity at...
Posted June 28, 2006 12:43 PM
Marilyn W. Thompson becomes the national investigative editor, based in Washington, on September 1. She is currently editor and vice president of the Lexington (Ky.)...
Posted June 28, 2006 11:33 AM
Come on in, look around. It's easy—just click on the red Buzz....
Posted June 28, 2006 01:42 AM
Speaking of Animal Services, the department recently accepted an offer from Hooters to throw a benefit bikini contest. Hooters has done it for other animal...
Posted June 27, 2006 05:38 PM
Michael Walker at Laurel Canyon the Book hopes the cat run over on Barham Boulevard wasn't the one that had been using his lower deck....
Posted June 27, 2006 03:58 PM
Vandenberg Air Force Base announced that tonight's Delta 4 rocket launch is scheduled for a more-exact 8:14 pm. Countdown has started, but fueling was suspended...
Posted June 27, 2006 03:14 PM
The Los Angeles Department of Animal Services—whose chief, Ed Boks, has a blog—has begun giving websites a little piece of code that will display a...
Posted June 27, 2006 01:34 PM
They give up on Jae Seo in a trade with the Devil Rays for sub-.500 veteran lefty Mark Hendrickson, who appears to have made a...
Posted June 27, 2006 01:23 PM
It happened Sunday night on Woodale Avenue in Arleta, says the Daily News' Susan Abram. Filimon Ramos was killed and his 19-year-old son wounded, apparently...
Posted June 27, 2006 11:55 AM
I guess LATimes.com admired last week's Ghana hed on ESPN so much—as I did on Thursday—that they decided to borrow it for the top of...
Posted June 27, 2006 10:58 AM
Tribune CEO Dennis FitzSimon's so-called town meeting with Los Angeles Times employees this morning is being held in the Norman Chandler Auditorium. It's named for...
Posted June 27, 2006 09:57 AM
Mayor Villaraigosa and the MTA unions will announce—and I quote—a "historic settlement" at the transit agency's office tower at 1:15 this afternoon. The mayor's office...
Posted June 27, 2006 09:52 AM
Big bunch of news nuggets this morning—click on the Buzz to come inside. Tonight is the satellite launch over the Pacific, which can make for...
Posted June 27, 2006 09:20 AM
Civil rights lawyer Stephen Yagman made bail on income tax evasion charges after spending part of Friday in jail and returned to his office on...
Posted June 26, 2006 10:37 PM
The so-called 912 Commission is charged with reviewing, evaluating and making recommendations to improve the nascent neighborhood council system. Mayor Villaraigosa named his fourteen appointees...
Posted June 26, 2006 10:27 PM
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller this morning distributed a statement on the paper's publication of details about the CIA-Treasury Department program of tracing...
Posted June 26, 2006 10:07 PM
I haven't mentioned it much because it's frankly kind of lame, but for 111 days the Times has kept two goldfish in an aquarium supposedly...
Posted June 26, 2006 04:55 PM
KCRW music host Chris Douridas will NOT be charged with kidnapping or a sex crime in connection with his arrest on suspicion of drugging a...
Posted June 26, 2006 03:35 PM
If it's clear tomorrow night, start eyeing the western sky after 7 pm. Vandenberg has scheduled the launch of a Delta IV rocket between 19:00...
Posted June 26, 2006 03:17 PM
Tribune CEO Dennis J. FitzSimons is dropping in on the L.A. Times tomorrow for a "town hall" meeting with employees. (With the cutbacks I think...
Posted June 26, 2006 11:57 AM
Following the news in this morning's Wall Street Journal (and in the Morning Buzz), Rafat Ali makes announcements about his deal for financing at paidContent.org....
Posted June 26, 2006 11:42 AM
Overnight thunder and lightning, one of the rarer pleasures of L.A. summer. Thoroughly enjoyed here in Mar Vista until the following shower chased me and...
Posted June 26, 2006 02:31 AM
As Mariel Garza notes in today's Daily News, Saturday will mark Antonio Villaraigosa's anniversary as mayor. With murmurs out of Sacramento that the mayor's school...
Posted June 25, 2006 11:54 PM
Last night at the Biltmore the L.A. Press Club bestowed its awards for the year. Selected winners: Journalists of the Year: Barbara Demick, Los Angeles...
Posted June 25, 2006 11:45 AM
Antonio Villaraigosa added another first to his resume on Saturday. He became the only mayor to play in the annual Hollywood Stars softball game at...
Posted June 25, 2006 12:50 AM
Legendary television producer Aaron Spelling died this evening, five days after suffering a stroke. His wife Candy and son Randy were at his side, according...
Posted June 23, 2006 09:39 PM
Two items: Josiah Beeman, the former aide to San Francisco politicians and Ambassador to New Zealand and Western Samoa for President Clinton, died at age...
Posted June 23, 2006 03:39 PM
Seen on the wall in the second-floor Calendar area at the Los Angeles Times: FOR SALE: Major metropolitan daily newspaper (slightly used). 312 222 4300...
Posted June 23, 2006 03:09 PM
When a non-political blogger actually does some digging to get a story, we applaud. So kudos to Ethan Lindsey at LAist for noticing that the...
Posted June 23, 2006 02:52 PM
Since we're talking cats this week, a reader in Glendale passes along more sightings: No photographic evidence; but up here on the shoulder of the...
Posted June 23, 2006 02:33 PM
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