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Topic Archive: Events
We're getting back on the bus in honor LA Observed's fifth (!) anniversary. There have been a couple of thousand posts since the last time...
Posted May 12, 2008 12:44 AM
An add to yesterday's item on the tale of two ex-editors: current Times editor Russ Stanton also gets out on the town Thursday night, appearing...
Posted May 7, 2008 10:35 PM
Never thought I'd see this disclaimer on an invitation in my email box: Views and opinions expressed by the Consulate General of Azerbaijan are not...
Posted May 6, 2008 10:58 PM
Denise Hamilton sits in at The Elegant Variation today and guest-interviews author Nina Revoyr about her new novel, "The Age of Dreaming." Excerpt: "The Age...
Posted April 30, 2008 11:57 AM
My panel at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books ("California: The Great Experiment") was well-attended by an enthusiastic crowd that asked many provocative questions,...
Posted April 29, 2008 03:01 PM
In her new travel guide "Great Escapes Southern California," Donna Wares describes author D.J. Waldie's ritual for the weekend of the L.A. Times Festival of...
Posted April 25, 2008 02:10 PM
Actor Charles Durning landed on Normandy's Omaha Beach as a 17-year-old Army Ranger in June 1944. Before leaving Europe, he was wounded three times and...
Posted April 22, 2008 12:12 AM
Councilman Bernard Parks and State Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas, the candidates for county Supervisor in the June primary, are scheduled for their only televised debate on...
Posted April 21, 2008 10:50 PM
Russ Stanton, the editor who has the job of reinventing the Los Angeles Times, will speak Thursday night at the L.A. Press Club on Hollywood...
Posted April 21, 2008 09:32 PM
This year's L.A. Times Festival of Books is the weekend of April 26-27 at UCLA. I'm moderating a 3 pm Saturday panel called "California: The...
Posted April 15, 2008 11:19 PM
I recently visited the Gibbon Conservation Center in a wild corner of Santa Clarita's Bouquet Canyon. It's home to 33 gibbons, the small tree-swinging apes...
Posted April 11, 2008 12:30 AM
Zócalo, the lecture series that LA Observed helps to co-sponsor, has some good ones coming up. Tickets are available and free, of course. Monday, April...
Posted April 3, 2008 12:40 PM
Doug Davis broke in as the Downtown News editorial cartoonist by lampooning the insular concerns of downtown bloggers. He ruffled feathers, but "when I saw...
Posted February 29, 2008 10:51 AM
Interesting lineup at noon today at the Loyola Law School Entertainment & Sports Law Society symposium. Topic: "The Paparazzi, Celebrity Bloggers...and the Lawyers Who Represent...
Posted February 28, 2008 12:17 AM
Alert YouTube. Sam Zell makes his first public appearance in Los Angeles Thursday since all that foofah over his demeaning language — and the launch...
Posted February 20, 2008 06:25 PM
By coincidence, an alumni group from the campus where a gunman killed five students and wounded sixteen others is having an event tonight at the...
Posted February 15, 2008 03:44 PM
As I mentioned down below, I'll be out of town all week. In addition to fewer posts from me it means I'm going to miss...
Posted December 3, 2007 12:29 AM
Zócalo, the public lecture series that LA Observed helps co-sponsor, has just added an evening discussion with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. It will be at the...
Posted October 3, 2007 12:45 PM
Free wine and eats! For Saturday evening's Extravaganza of the Senses on the 20th Century Fox lot, benefiting the Los Angeles Free Clinic, we can...
Posted July 20, 2007 09:45 AM
Zócalo has added a new speaker for September: author and Angeleno James Ellroy. They say he'll discuss "60 years of the secret history of Los...
Posted July 16, 2007 10:32 PM
Couple of interesting sessions coming up at Zócalo, the public lecture series started by Gregory Rodriguez that LA Observed helps sponsor. Next Tuesday, Dec. 12,...
Posted December 8, 2006 04:19 PM
She's back and she looks marvelous. Closed since Jan. 6, 2002, the restored and tastefully enlarged Griffith Observatory reopens on Nov. 3. Mayor Villaraigosa announced...
Posted October 3, 2006 12:48 PM
Billionaire George Soros, one of the right's favorite bogeymen of the moment, is in town tonight for a chat at the Los Angeles World Affairs...
Posted September 20, 2006 04:49 PM
This weekend's festival will have a "first-ever VIP hospitality lounge." It will be at the Cliff's Edge restaurant on Sunset, where the flakkery says that...
Posted August 21, 2006 12:46 PM
El Mirador: Alan Pavlik of Just Above Sunset captures S. Charles Lee's classic apartments on Sweetzer in West Hollywood. Liquids on a plane: Tabloid Baby...
Posted August 21, 2006 10:29 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
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
Author, Emmy nominee and longtime LAT columnist Al Martinez is giving his literary archive to the Huntington Library. The library will fete him Thursday at...
Posted June 21, 2006 11:49 AM
The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases opens today at the Getty Villa, a rare showing of 2,000-year-old pieces from the Getty's collection,...
Posted June 8, 2006 01:59 AM
Later this week the American Institute of Architects floods downtown 23,000 strong for AIA's annual convention and design expo. Here's the overview and schedule-at-a-glance. They...
Posted June 5, 2006 02:56 AM
Eric Lynxwiler and I will be signing and talking about Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles this evening In Pasadena at Vroman's Bookstore, "Southern...
Posted May 11, 2006 10:34 AM
Budget day for the mayor, bad news in the LAT for Cardinal Mahony, the LA Weekly profiles half of Los Angeles and Dean Singleton closes...
Posted April 20, 2006 01:49 AM
♦ Longtime L.A. radio reporter and anchor Hettie Lynne Hurtes is joining KPCC as mid-day anchor. Her film credits include roles in Terminator and Throw...
Posted April 19, 2006 06:49 PM
Turn the page for items on Dean Singleton's California strategy, Sheriff Baca's Compton strategy, a Saudi prince gets booed at Town Hall Los Angeles, celebrities...
Posted March 22, 2006 12:58 AM
That means traffic hiccups between downtown and La Cienega Boulevard (from 3rd Street down to Martin Luther King, but see the map below for details)...
Posted March 18, 2006 11:31 AM
The L.A. chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has abandoned downtown's Figueroa Hotel as the venue for its monthly schmoozefest. They are trying out...
Posted March 14, 2006 04:00 PM
Jack Weiss makes his ambition more or less official, Anthony Pellicano comes back to town, the Ambassador gets a proper send-off, Channel 13 News adds...
Posted February 3, 2006 08:56 AM
Looks like there's finally a new head of LACMA, Tom LaBonge finally makes it in Column One, County Health finally comes clean about the hepatitis...
Posted February 2, 2006 02:32 AM
In the news this morning, the FBI looks at that videotaped shooting by a deputy in Chino...misreading Los Angeles...quitting James Frey...buying off Stuckey...and Hollywood's gay...
Posted February 1, 2006 02:21 AM
Joel Stein's going to get letters [finally?—ed.] for writing that its wussy to "support the troops" if you oppose the war. Also if you fly...
Posted January 24, 2006 02:25 AM
The mayor draws a crowd in Sherman Oaks, the UCLA controversy, bunch of reporter moves at the Times and Long Beach cops still can't find...
Posted January 19, 2006 04:21 AM
On Thursday at 6:30 pm, author Donald H. Wolfe will talk about his new book, The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul, and the...
Posted January 11, 2006 12:59 PM
Four people were found dead on one day in different places on Skid Row, none of them due to crime. The City Council got the...
Posted December 21, 2005 02:20 AM
The board of directors met today and decided on a split vote to let me start roasting their turkeys a few milliseconds early, provided I...
Posted November 22, 2005 06:03 PM
Former LAT Editor John Carroll has been invited to spend a semester at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at...
Posted October 31, 2005 11:08 AM
♦ City Hall lobbyists now have to disclose online their clients, the issues they advocated and how much they got paid every three months. Daily News...
Posted October 19, 2005 02:44 AM
USC has in its archives some precious copies of a noteworthy Spanish-language newspaper in Yankee Los Angeles. El Clamor Público began publishing in 1855, five...
Posted October 17, 2005 07:09 PM
Mayor Villaraigosa today named an "independent peer review panel" to look into the idea of a Wilshire Boulevard subway west of Western Avenue. He wants...
Posted October 14, 2005 04:13 PM
Judith Miller has just been added to the Saturday lineup at the California First Amendment Coalition Assembly on Saturday at Cal State Fullerton. The New...
Posted October 13, 2005 03:07 PM
I have a lot of distractions this Friday, so before it turns into an off day I'm declaring it a day off. No postings unless...
Posted September 30, 2005 12:31 AM
♦ Tempers flared during the ten hours the city council locked itself in to finally select Gerry Miller as the CLA to replace Ron Deaton, Rick...
Posted September 29, 2005 02:14 AM
♦ The school board picked up Supt. Roy Romer's option for another year. ♦ The state medical board opened an investigation of the St. Vincent's physicians who...
Posted September 28, 2005 12:59 AM
Some of the female voices who shaped L.A. music radio will be on hand at the Knitting Factory tonight to talk about the good old...
Posted September 27, 2005 12:13 PM
Posting will be light today... • Mayor Villaraigosa safaris out to Tujunga this morning to unveil his appointees to the Fire Commission. If you don't know...
Posted September 9, 2005 12:58 AM
If you have a spare thou lying around, you too can dine with William F. Buckley and the editors and publisher of The National Review...
Posted September 6, 2005 11:30 AM
Still catching up to the backlog... • CityBeat's current "Real. Best. LA" theme issue is the largest yet at 108 pages. Fun tidbits include the revelation...
Posted August 9, 2005 01:41 AM
• Mayor Villaraigosa plans to announce his appointments to the airport commission Monday morning. They will be introduced at a photo op at Lincoln and Sepulveda—good...
Posted July 24, 2005 06:56 PM
Late entries are tacked on to the end... • Wonkette Ana Marie Cox comes to town Tuesday to chat at 7 p.m. with Mickey Kaus at...
Posted July 15, 2005 03:37 PM
• Police on Monday revised the facts in that fatal weekend shootout in South L.A. First, it was in Watts. The name of the dead father...
Posted July 12, 2005 12:28 AM
The Times is converting a seat on the editorial board into a three-month visiting fellow slot, as a way to bring in more thinking from...
Posted June 6, 2005 08:54 PM
• Bob Hertzberg, chairman of the Villaraigosa transition team, will be on KPCC's Talk of the City Friday at 2 p.m. with guest host Jon Beaupre....
Posted June 2, 2005 05:55 PM
Here are some items from the week. Posting over the weekend will be sporadic at best. • Los Angeles magazine celebrated this month's comedy issue last...
Posted May 27, 2005 06:36 PM
• Pierce College out in Woodland Hills is offering a course this summer that could be the answer to high gas prices. Fundamentals of Mule...
Posted May 10, 2005 08:38 PM
* Fresh items are at the bottom, as usual... • This is anniversary week (the second) for L.A. Observed, a fact that the Downtown News dug...
Posted May 9, 2005 01:00 PM
Michael Yamaki, the appointment secretary when Gray Davis was governor and former L.A. police commissioner, has been hired as senior adviser to Sheriff Lee Baca,...
Posted May 1, 2005 07:42 PM
The LAT today joins the media pack on the Huffington Post, with an arch quip from ex-Timesman Tom Rosenstiel: "Is this a new kind of...
Posted April 26, 2005 12:15 AM
FishbowlLA threw its Mediabistro-sponsored launch party tonight at Pearl in West Hollywood. The blog's Michael Sonnenschein posted his thanks at 10:40 p.m., apologizing for some...
Posted April 18, 2005 11:59 PM
That's the name of a documentary about foreign correspondents being screened tonight by the Los Angeles Press Club and the American Cinema Foundation. It was...
Posted March 8, 2005 01:30 AM
Updated through the weekend Lesbian chic: Screenwriter and "L Word" creator Ilene Chaiken is profiled in Sunday's NYT Arts section. "In 1999, after writing a...
Posted February 6, 2005 12:58 PM
John Beard: The Wall Street Journal devotes most of a TV column to the Fox 11 anchor's cameo appearances on series such as "24" and...
Posted February 3, 2005 12:05 AM
"Daily Show" rantist Lewis Black does his angry thing at the Wiltern Theatre this Friday night. He sold out in Irvine last year, so to...
Posted January 31, 2005 12:43 AM
Short items for a new week: WeHo mayor: BoifromTroy comments on West Hollywood mayor John Duran buying a share of Frontiers, which bills itself as...
Posted January 10, 2005 02:59 PM
The Zócalo lecture series is asking the question on January 27: "Does the American Middle Class have a Future?" Given the topic, the speakers are...
Posted December 13, 2004 12:05 AM
KPFK and the nation's other Pacifica stations are preempting normal programming on Thursday to raise money for preserving the Pacifica radio archives. From 6 a.m....
Posted November 30, 2004 11:41 PM
• Milton Bradley did it again. The volatile Dodgers outfielder was cited for disorderly conduct after allegedly interfering with a police traffic stop near Akron, Ohio....
Posted November 29, 2004 05:29 PM
The Mexican writer and man of letters is the subject of a piece in today's L.A. Times by Reed Johnson, and he also will speak...
Posted November 1, 2004 11:37 AM
Prompted by the gay media speculation about Rep. David Dreier and other recent events, the local chapter of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association...
Posted October 17, 2004 11:25 PM
The Jane Austen Society of North America sweeps into the Biltmore downtown today for a weekend-long conference. Among the day's events are a subway outing...
Posted October 7, 2004 11:23 AM
A couple of change-of-pace baseball items. Today, the Burbank Central Library opened an exhibition called "The Times They Were A-Changin': Baseball in the Age of...
Posted October 4, 2004 11:00 PM
KCRW music meister Nic Harcourt (left) is profiled Friday on KCET's "Life & Times," which airs at 6:30 p.m. Tonight the show visits with retiring...
Posted September 16, 2004 12:38 PM
The L.A. chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has figured out a sure way to get their monthly cocktail mixers mentioned here: invite me...
Posted September 14, 2004 10:37 AM
A conversation with Times editorial and opinion editor Michael Kinsley will be first up when Zócalo returns to the Central Library on Sept. 7. This...
Posted August 9, 2004 10:24 AM
Mediabistro has put up pictures from the site's July 7 TV party in Hollywood. There are revelers from KTLA, KTTV, NBC, Bravo, E! and others....
Posted July 21, 2004 05:44 PM
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