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Topic Archive: Los Angeles
Let's assume that the Times forgetting to print the top part of the shark-kills-man story on Saturday — necessitating a reprint in Sunday papers —...
Posted April 28, 2008 11:34 AM
Councilman Tony Cardenas told Controller Laura Chick Friday to "get out of my face." DN LAT reporter Martha Groves describes in first-person detail (plus...
Posted March 16, 2008 05:03 PM
"I am ecstatic with no-bullshit excitement and pride in joining The Tribune Company," writes Lee Abrams, hired from XM Satellite Radio. He calls news and...
Posted March 13, 2008 09:28 AM
Actually it's not so new, but the Koreanization of the suburbs in the northwest Valley has really taken hold. I think every church my parents...
Posted February 23, 2008 11:00 AM
In a pop-up window on the Downtown News website, the weekly says: County Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke will endorse Bernard Parks in the race to...
Posted February 6, 2008 07:21 PM
Regional airport panel disbands — again The Southern California Regional Airport Authority, revived in name by Mayor Villaraigosa in 2006, voted to put itself out...
Posted February 1, 2008 09:15 AM
Jay Babcock at Nature Trumps: An L.A. River Blog posts this scene from November, looking upstream from the footbridge toward Los Feliz Boulevard and the...
Posted January 26, 2008 03:16 PM
Because it feels like a briefs kind of day. Departing eBay chief Meg Whitman is talking to Republicans about her running for Governor in 2010....
Posted January 24, 2008 06:08 PM
"I still have no memory of the trip to Costa Rica or anything that happened," Ron Deaton, once the most powerful figure in City Hall,...
Posted January 21, 2008 10:20 PM
That seems to be a popular theme, pegged to the coincidence that yesterday's news about yet another high-level exit from the Times broke on the...
Posted January 21, 2008 03:34 PM
Times publisher David Hiller tells his newspaper's reporter that he did not fire his editor — "Jim and I decided we no longer saw things...
Posted January 20, 2008 09:30 PM
Arnold admits his early positions were bogus He says inexperience and naivete were behind things like calling for mass elimination of state departments. (But it...
Posted January 18, 2008 08:55 AM
Here's a nice little story from writer Mark Evanier's blog, called modestly News From Me. Seems he began teaching a humor writing class at USC...
Posted January 17, 2008 11:12 PM
The LA Weekly has a fun story in today's issue listing, and mapping, 38 places that figure in the music and life of L.A. transplant...
Posted January 17, 2008 01:18 AM
Let's have a round of applause for Richard Knerr, a USC graduate whose Pasadena company of fun brought the world the Frisbee, the Hula Hoop,...
Posted January 17, 2008 12:49 AM
Long-retired Bruins legend John Wooden still attends basketball games at Pauley Pavilion — he is 97 years old — and he is hugely popular in...
Posted January 16, 2008 10:10 PM
Barack Obama is stopping in at the Los Angeles Times this afternoon for a meeting with the editorial board. Tonight he has the big fundraiser...
Posted January 16, 2008 03:15 PM
Riordan and Hahn veteran Diego Alvarez was appointed Deputy Mayor for Legislative and Intergovernmental Relations. This makes him Mayor Villaraigosa's chief liaison to federal, state...
Posted January 16, 2008 09:06 AM
An LA Observed reader who works at Cal State Long Beach stopped by Wilshire Books in Santa Monica and found the store cleared out. "Quietly...
Posted January 14, 2008 10:31 PM
OC Sheriff Carona resigns Facing corruption charges and plunging support, Mike Carona posts on the OC Sheriff's Department website that "it has become clear to...
Posted January 14, 2008 08:56 AM
W does its version of A-list Hollywood for February, with Keira Knightley and James McAvoy on the cover (and in an online slide show) and...
Posted January 13, 2008 09:15 PM
Carl Karcher essentially grew a single hot dog cart in Los Angeles into the Carl's Jr. fast-food chain. He and his wife Margaret opened Carl's...
Posted January 11, 2008 08:59 PM
Dana Goodyear visits Chateau Scientology in a Letter from California in this week's New Yorker. She followed up with a blog post about a...
Posted January 11, 2008 04:45 PM
Nancy Cleeland covered labor for the Times and shared in the Pulitzer for coverage of WalMart's global impact. She writes about her latest life turn...
Posted January 11, 2008 01:31 PM
Loyola Law School Dean David Burcham has been named provost at Loyola Marymount, a new position at the law school's parent institution. The new interim...
Posted January 11, 2008 12:28 PM
Sara Catania was a reporter for the Times, Daily News and LA Weekly — and watches The Wire on HBO. The experiences left her with...
Posted January 11, 2008 09:14 AM
Truncated Morning Buzz today... Clinton in town Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will be in Commerce to speak at the Electrical Training Institute, a facility affiliated...
Posted January 11, 2008 09:07 AM
Eric Estrin, a striking WGA member, is a moderator at Writer Action, the message board where Writers Guild members hang out to float conspiracy theories,...
Posted January 10, 2008 09:15 PM
John Ziegler didn't just go away at KFI. He went away mad. Ziegler has put up a website called The Real KFI "dedicated to telling...
Posted January 10, 2008 08:25 PM
The New York Times' former Hollywood reporter in the L.A. bureau resigned rather than take an assignment back in New York. She's been writing a...
Posted January 10, 2008 07:38 PM
The Los Angeles County coroner still isn't certain why Donda West died on Nov. 10, the day after undergoing cosmetic surgergy, but there was no...
Posted January 10, 2008 12:19 PM
Cedars-Sinai cited for endangering children State report looking into the over-medication of Dennis Quaid's infant twins and others found "multiple failures by the facility to...
Posted January 10, 2008 08:55 AM
It's the end of an era in Hollywood. Johnny Grant, the last of the "honorary mayors" for whom the ceremonial title still meant something, was...
Posted January 9, 2008 10:03 PM
Gene Maddaus at the Breeze delves into the decision long ago to spend $700 million building the Green Line light rail for 20 miles from...
Posted January 9, 2008 05:27 PM
If you are Emerald City, the L.A. Times' environment blog, you follow yesterday's post on your friend's bikini crotch with a post today on the...
Posted January 9, 2008 02:40 PM
A live baby was dropped off at a fire station in Norwalk this morning, the first under the Safe Surrender policy in Los Angeles County...
Posted January 9, 2008 02:01 PM
Just to follow up up our Sunday report: Dave Reeves, the columnist for Arthur magazine jailed over not reporting a traffic mishap on his bike,...
Posted January 9, 2008 09:10 AM
Three L.A. Times editors go online to defend the paper's use of three reporters to cover Ms. Spears' latest public meltdown. "If we had wanted...
Posted January 9, 2008 09:07 AM
State of Arnold's state Budget cuts to be proposed along with a hike in fees and a constitutional amendment that would impose a spending cap....
Posted January 9, 2008 08:55 AM
Safiya Jones, communications director for Councilman Bill Rosendahl, checks out. Her exit email: Dear All, It is with deep respect and gratitude that I say...
Posted January 8, 2008 11:28 PM
Emerald City is not one of the top 15 blogs for traffic at LATimes.com, or wasn't in December. But the blog, described as "Siel follows...
Posted January 8, 2008 05:17 PM
Another round of layoffs hits in Orange County, on top of the cancelled Christmas party and gutted 401-k contributions. Nick Schou at the OC Weekly...
Posted January 8, 2008 02:55 PM
John Rabe of KPCC's "Off-Ramp," inspired by Frank Baker's memo to the Los Angeles bureau, ponders how the AP might incorporate more Britney news on...
Posted January 8, 2008 02:43 PM
Tina Daunt posits in her Cause Celebre column in today's Calendar that Hollywood's Hillary contingent is on the verge of buying tickets on the Barack...
Posted January 8, 2008 02:28 PM
Memo on coverage of faded pop tart Britney Spears from Associated Press' Los Angeles assistant bureau chief: From: Baker, Frank S. Sent: Tue 1/8/2008 11:58...
Posted January 8, 2008 12:46 PM
Spotted in the Daily Breeze, by staff photographer Robert Casillas....
Posted January 8, 2008 09:10 AM
The L.A. Times' decision to go ahead and distribute Parade magazine's Benazir Bhutto issue as if she were still alive — with an unfortunate cover...
Posted January 7, 2008 11:17 PM
Dianne Ogden, a longtime music talent coordinator, was one of four women who testified in Phil Spector's murder trial (which ended in a mistrial) that...
Posted January 7, 2008 10:57 PM
Music Center president Stephen Roundtree said today that the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion will close for renovations in 2013, not 2011 as originally announced. Apparently, offices...
Posted January 7, 2008 02:56 PM
Mayor Villaraigosa has appointed new members of the Cultural Heritage comission, Industrial Development Authority and the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission. Release with...
Posted January 7, 2008 02:16 PM
Curtis Bernard Harris had pleaded no contest to possessing a firearm after kidnapping his estranged wife, but was freed without bail on Dec. 21 pending...
Posted January 7, 2008 01:51 PM
One of the most unusual, and storied, commercial buildings on Wilshire Boulevard is back on the market. The one-story, ranch-style office complex at the southeast...
Posted January 7, 2008 01:24 PM
One entry in the program for the Towne Street Theatre's upcoming Ten-Minute Play Festival in Hollywood caught my eye. In the TST 2nd Annual Ten-Minute...
Posted January 7, 2008 12:46 PM
Examining the Board of Supervisors The five Supes who run Los Angeles County "may offer the best argument for" term limits, LAT opinion chief Jim...
Posted January 7, 2008 08:42 AM
In the eyes of the New York Times, the 96 students in the Colburn School conservatory on Bunker Hill "are among the finest young musicians...
Posted January 6, 2008 10:56 PM
Arthur magazine's columnist Dave Reeves is serving time in Men's Central Jail over a bike accident, and his friends aren't happy about it. "A series...
Posted January 6, 2008 10:00 PM
Over at Native Intelligence, Judy Graeme's third offering on Los Angeles photographers introduces a group of teenagers (and younger) who use borrowed cameras to shoot...
Posted January 5, 2008 11:58 PM
David Butler was editor of the Daily News in Woodland Hills until Dean Singleton bought the Detroit News and installed Butler as editor and publisher....
Posted January 4, 2008 11:59 AM
Where's Jay Levin? The founder of last year's one-off magazine RealTalkLA resurfaced this week as an editorial consultant at CityBeat, brought in by parent Southland...
Posted January 4, 2008 08:36 AM
Unhappy with the LAPD's new financial disclosure rules for drug and gang cops, the L.A. Police Protective League has bought radio time on KFWB and...
Posted January 3, 2008 08:17 PM
The internal watchblog that began after Dan Rather's career meltdown has disappeared from the list of CBS News blogs, and Rachel Sklar at the Huffington...
Posted January 3, 2008 03:32 PM
Times publisher David Hiller has let staffers know that he was back home for the holidays but has returned here refreshed and ready to carry...
Posted January 3, 2008 10:56 AM
Leno, Letterman et al are back Watch video of all five late-night hosts returning to the air. HuffPost Whole lot of rain on the way...
Posted January 3, 2008 08:57 AM
Colin Brown headed to lunch at Clifton's Cafeteria today and encountered the remains of a robbery at the Bank of America on Broadway. That's red...
Posted January 2, 2008 08:10 PM
Ken Ellingwood moves from Jerusalem to Mexico City, and Ashraf Khalil leaves Metro for the Middle East. Memo from Foreign Editor Marjorie Miller after the...
Posted January 2, 2008 05:12 PM
The ex-talker at KTLK explains what happened and talks up his future in Los Angeles radio. Marc Germain, popular Los Angeles radio talk show host...
Posted January 2, 2008 01:58 PM
The New York Observer writes of Nikki Finke, calling her The Media Mensch of the Year: The biggest entertainment story of the year has also...
Posted January 2, 2008 08:36 AM
Celeste Fremon asked ten Los Angeles figures their wishes for 2008 and blogged their answers. Some media types are included: [Oscar Garza, editor at Tu...
Posted January 2, 2008 08:29 AM
In the Washington Post Style section's annual what's out and what's in list, Hank Stuever deems Miss Manners out and says the hip new advice...
Posted January 2, 2008 08:14 AM
Gavin Newsom gets engaged The San Francisco mayor popped the question over the weekend to actress Jennifer Siebel, and she reportedly accepted. That leaves one...
Posted January 2, 2008 01:02 AM
It's amazing, really, to look back at all the distraction, disruption and toe-shooting the new Los Angeles Times can pack into a single year. In...
Posted January 1, 2008 11:38 PM
The Internet has spoken — no Los Angeles story came close to surpassing the interest in Antonio Villaraigosa and his affair with Telemundo rising star...
Posted January 1, 2008 11:30 PM
Noting the deaths of noteworthy Los Angeles figures and LAO's colleagues and friends in the media is just something we do here. Here are most...
Posted January 1, 2008 06:29 PM
Marc Germain, the talk radio host formerly known as Mr. KABC and Mr. KFI, has been let go as liberal-talk KTLK's Mr. K. "A total...
Posted January 1, 2008 04:30 PM
Question: Where will Mayor Villaraigosa and Chief Bratton drag the media to announce the 2007 crime stats? AKA, a "historic reduction in homicides and violent...
Posted January 1, 2008 02:59 PM
Happy 2008! Clearing the decks from 2007: Times-basher Patterico is out with his fifth annual Dog Trainer Year in Review, "documenting omissions, distortions, and misrepresentations"...
Posted December 31, 2007 06:20 PM
John Stodder, the former Fleishman-Hillard executive whose wire fraud and conspiracy conviction is on appeal, blogs about the pressure of facing Christmas with a prison...
Posted December 31, 2007 06:02 PM
The mother of four who took a politically motivated shot at President Gerald Ford in San Francisco in 1975 got out of the low-security Federal...
Posted December 31, 2007 04:16 PM
Let's face it, the fun place to be for a politics junkie right now is Iowa. Mayor Villaraigosa flew in Saturday (after skiing in Aspen...
Posted December 31, 2007 12:32 PM
Josh Rawitch of the Dodgers gets personal in his blog farewell to Stu Nahan....
Posted December 27, 2007 11:01 PM
Remember when the City Council got around that whole referendum thing by, wink wink, making a few changes to its living wage policy for the...
Posted December 27, 2007 10:20 PM
KCRW and KPCC have jumped on this morning's assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Warren Olney's shows, "To the Point" and "Which Way, L.A.?," are both...
Posted December 27, 2007 04:41 PM
KNBC Channel 4 leads the TV stations with six Golden Mikes from the Radio Television News Association, including best newscast writing, documentary ("On the Verge")...
Posted December 27, 2007 11:15 AM
The Kings held a moment of silence before tonight's game to honor Stu Nahan, the former sportscaster at channels 4, 5 and 7 and sports...
Posted December 26, 2007 10:57 PM
Irv Letofsky, former editor of the L.A. Times Sunday Calendar section and a critic for the Hollywood Reporter, died Sunday of liver cancer at age...
Posted December 24, 2007 10:25 AM
Still catching up from my unintended, and unwanted, time away from the keyboard... Adam Carolla stays, Danny Bonaduce goes. The Virgin Megastore at Sunset and...
Posted December 24, 2007 10:16 AM
Valley history buffs were aghast to learn last week that the first hangar built at what's now called Van Nuys Airport was in the process...
Posted December 23, 2007 04:53 PM
The Tribune Company takeover by Sam Zell prompted Times media columnist Tim Rutten to pronounce the seven years of Tribune ownership at the LAT "a...
Posted December 23, 2007 12:55 PM
That was quite a front-page correction the L.A. Times ran on Thursday, below the fold under the headline 'Steroid affidavit unsealed.' The Times acknowledged that...
Posted December 23, 2007 12:30 PM
Robert J. Rosenthal, the former managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, will lead the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Berkeley-based independent reporting group co-founded...
Posted December 19, 2007 02:47 PM
The editor's note on page 34 of the new Vanity Fair caught my eye (well, after it was pointed out to me): "In Bryan Burrough's...
Posted December 19, 2007 12:50 PM
Tribune Company chairman Dennis J. FitzSimons won't be missed much at the L.A. Times. Here's his farewell missive sent this morning (the typos or misspellings...
Posted December 19, 2007 09:18 AM
Taking sides in the Supes race The county Federation of Labor comes out for Mark Ridley-Thomas, Supervisor Gloria Molina says she'll help Bernard Parks. L.A....
Posted December 19, 2007 08:56 AM
Ed Boks, L.A.'s constantly embattled animal services chief, is still blogging away. He posts today that the "No-Kill Equation" getting a lot of buzz...
Posted December 18, 2007 11:55 PM
Times Hollywood columnist Patrick Goldstein got off some good observations about the waning quality, originality and relevance of Oscar race analyzing and gossip. The award...
Posted December 18, 2007 10:54 PM
With the Zellionaire's takeover of Tribune expected to close this week, the L.A. Times and the Chicago Tribune are reporting that chairman and chief executive...
Posted December 18, 2007 10:31 PM
Tammara at Metroblogging Los Angeles posts about her connection to Laura Huxley, who she used to see around Hollywood Reservoir and who died on the...
Posted December 18, 2007 09:02 AM
Paying the price We knew Mayor Villaraigosa was going to put the screws on local business and rich guys to pay for his pet projects...
Posted December 18, 2007 08:44 AM
Los Angeles magazine's January issue, landing this week, has pieces on LAT homicide blogger Jill Leovy and on the Wendy McCaw situation at the Santa...
Posted December 17, 2007 10:25 PM
Leslie Brenner, the Food Editor at the L.A. Times, will move over to become interim editor of the monthly Sunday magazine. There's at least nominally...
Posted December 17, 2007 05:58 PM
I'm told by KCET that "Life & Times" will hold down its 7pm time slot until Dec. 28, then give way to Tavis Smiley. Stories...
Posted December 17, 2007 05:45 PM
Woman found dead in towed away car — a day later The body of an elderly woman was discovered hidden under the deployed passenger air...
Posted December 17, 2007 08:35 AM
From Tony Jackson at the Daily News: Camille Johnston, the Dodgers senior vice president for communications and chief spokesperson for the past two years, said...
Posted December 15, 2007 08:55 AM
Tonight's show at 7pm on KCET has Tom Brokaw looking back at the 1960s, Vicki Curry checking in on the Orange County Museum of Art's...
Posted December 14, 2007 06:24 PM
A long story at Editor & Publisher.com on newspaper political blogs ledes with the veteran reporter who co-writes Top of the Ticket, the L.A. Times...
Posted December 14, 2007 05:43 PM
The author and widow of Aldous Huxley has died in Los Angeles, according to family friends. She was 96. She was born in Italy and...
Posted December 14, 2007 05:11 PM
The DWP has decided to dump all the water in Silver Lake and the Elysian reservoir because of unusually high traces of the carcinogen bromate,...
Posted December 14, 2007 04:59 PM
The memo is out on the additions we told you were coming to the Times' web staff — LAist's Tony Pierce and LAO's Veronique de...
Posted December 14, 2007 04:31 PM
David Rensin writes with affection at Native Intelligence about all the months he spent with Freddie Fields, the agent who died this week, talking about...
Posted December 14, 2007 09:04 AM
Congestion pricing in diamond lanes You know all those carpool lanes being built squeezed onto freeways, often requiring a year or two of construction traffic...
Posted December 14, 2007 08:52 AM
The late, beloved Rhino Records closed on Westwood Boulevard last year, but if you need a fix a pop-up Rhino store has opened on 3rd...
Posted December 13, 2007 08:36 PM
Following the lead of sister paper the Daily News, the San Bernardino Sun and Inland Valley Daily-Bulletin got hold of the salaries of county workers...
Posted December 13, 2007 08:18 PM
Five men aged 18 to 27 have been arrested in connection with the Thanksgiving weekend fire that burned 53 homes in Malibu. Authorities said the...
Posted December 13, 2007 07:52 PM
The Times found a passage based on internal notes from within the Dodger organization about former catcher Paul Lo Duca. Seems the team may have...
Posted December 13, 2007 07:50 PM
Seems there is some backstory to today's LA Weekly cover piece on Los Angeles street gang violence by Peter Landesman. It apparently had started as...
Posted December 13, 2007 01:08 PM
LAist was a tad late to the recent Undie Run phenomenon at UCLA, but has sure embraced it fully. Plenty of pics at the blog...
Posted December 13, 2007 12:26 PM
Skipping the Golden Globes Yes, in case anyone cares, the few dozen C-listers who make up the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have again published a...
Posted December 13, 2007 09:10 AM
The ex-husband and abuser of Tina Turner died at home in suburban San Marcos in the San Diego area. Ike and Tina were a pretty...
Posted December 12, 2007 02:09 PM
The one-time vaudeville booker who became the agent for Judy Garland, Henry Fonda, Barbra Streisand and other stars died of lung cancer Tuesday at home...
Posted December 12, 2007 01:32 PM
Evan George has left the Downtown News for the Los Angeles Daily Journal, where he will take over the health care beat and cover insurance...
Posted December 12, 2007 09:57 AM
Handicapping Parks vs. Ridley-Thomas The first seriously contested Board of Supervisors race since 1992 — when Kenneth Hahn was replaced — is "going to be...
Posted December 12, 2007 08:55 AM
No way the mayor's organizers could let this one slip away. Parents and teachers at six LAUSD campuses — including one of the high schools...
Posted December 11, 2007 11:55 PM
Publishers Lunch brings word that Maria Shriver has sold Just Who Will You Be, "presenting life lessons and reflections on what's important in her life,...
Posted December 11, 2007 11:28 PM
The L.A. Times is going back to reporter "bureaus" placed around the Los Angeles area, in hopes of flushing out more local news. The paper...
Posted December 11, 2007 03:54 PM
This one is more of a prank than yesterday's scam, also from Shelf Awareness: Kerry Slattery, general manager of Skylight Books, Los Angeles, Calif., has...
Posted December 11, 2007 11:25 AM
Villaraigosa school plan comes to a vote Teachers and parents at Roosevelt, Santee and Jordan high schools, and at Hollenbeck, Stevenson, Markham and Gompers middle...
Posted December 11, 2007 08:50 AM
OK technically it was an editor's note. And the day was Sunday. But it was just pointed out to me. The subject is architecture critic...
Posted December 10, 2007 10:53 PM
I had to be sure she wanted them, but now it can be told: Vicki Kechekian was the first LA Observed subscriber to email for...
Posted December 10, 2007 07:56 PM
John Evans, co-owner of Diesel: A Bookstore out in Malibu, told the newsletter Shelf Awareness about a strange come-on at his Oakland store. I guess...
Posted December 10, 2007 01:42 PM
Somebody at the New York Times bureau in Iraq apparently fell for the old password trick. Read the memo: Gang, The Baghdad Bureau e-mail address...
Posted December 10, 2007 12:43 PM
Anonymous residents of Rancho Palos Verdes have demanded, through an attorney, that the city produce eleven years of public records — "all documents, communications, e-mail,...
Posted December 10, 2007 08:33 AM
Digging in for a long strike Patric Verrone's plan at the WGA all along was for a bloody fight over respect, says Michael Cieply in...
Posted December 10, 2007 12:46 AM
There Will Be Blood was voted the best picture of 2007. Here are the other awards that local critics went for, picked up from the...
Posted December 9, 2007 11:23 PM
David Rensin rants at Native Intelligence about a close call with a cellphone-gabbing, wide-turning Valley driver, and Jenny Price makes the case for camping in...
Posted December 9, 2007 10:45 PM
The defrocked Getty curator of antiquities who has faced criminal charges in Europe finally talks to the media, in the form of Hugh Eakin in...
Posted December 9, 2007 03:04 PM
No LA Observed on KCRW today since I'm traveling, but I'm told there's another of my segments about the Valley on John Rabe's "Off-Ramp" Saturday...
Posted December 7, 2007 03:02 PM
Around LAO: Writers talks look bleak, job reports look better, the ports get bigger, and gas gets, if not cheaper, then slightly less expensive. Mark...
Posted December 7, 2007 10:49 AM
Short and sweet: Tribune Co. uses $500 million in cash to reduce buyout loans and close the $8.2 billion deal by year's end. AP by...
Posted December 7, 2007 05:55 AM
A veteran copy editor has been fired by the News-Press after words from the gag front page traditionally composed for a departing employee's send-off ended...
Posted December 6, 2007 12:37 PM
I'm out here in the boonies where they've barely heard of the internets. Service is spotty and loading a page takes. A. Really. Very. Painfully....
Posted December 5, 2007 01:03 PM
A few links to limber up those early-morning fingers: Triple whammy Big surf, big wind, big rain - a big week for weather. David Reyes...
Posted December 4, 2007 05:20 AM
Surf's (almost) up! Say adios to the Lake of the Pacific. Surfline sees a swell swell headed our way. Bonus link here. The games people...
Posted December 3, 2007 01:57 PM
Red Hen, LA's own indie press, is off to an auspicious start tonight with its new writers-in-conversation series, Monday Evenings at the Geffen. Authors Janet...
Posted December 3, 2007 01:42 PM
Dear Kevin, So you've decided to work for a few days from the Maui bureau of LAO? Excellent move. Overnight temps here in SoCal have...
Posted December 3, 2007 11:02 AM
Sicha and two others editors quit the New York news and gossip site, apparently at least partly over a new pay scale. Romenesko rounds up...
Posted December 3, 2007 07:16 AM
The OC Weekly's Gustavo Arellano did a guest-host stint last week on KFI — yes the same AM shout station where John & Ken live...
Posted December 3, 2007 07:11 AM
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
Karl Dorrell's stint as head coach in Westwood isn't over yet — officially — but the Times reports that UCLA has been in contact with...
Posted December 2, 2007 11:53 PM
All of us at LA Observed Tower congratulate Veronique de Turenne, doyenne of Here in Malibu, who will join the Los Angeles Times staff after...
Posted December 2, 2007 08:56 PM
Takedown of the new Michelin guide for Los Angeles began with Leslie Brenner in the L.A. Times food section back on Nov. 21. Sample: In...
Posted December 2, 2007 08:45 PM
The Greater Los Angeles Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has picked six journalists to honor at its banquet next April. The winners of...
Posted December 2, 2007 08:24 PM
The red flag alert is definitely over. No Morning Buzz today. My KCRW commentary this afternoon at 4:44 will talk about USC and the Coliseum....
Posted November 30, 2007 08:43 AM
Among them is director Oz E. Scott, appointed to the Cultural Heritage Commission. Release with bios follows....
Posted November 29, 2007 12:14 PM
The Signal in Santa Clarita on Wednesday published a column and accompanying editorial cartoon skewering the manipulation of faith and politics. After some readers complained...
Posted November 29, 2007 09:36 AM
Villaraigosa accepts the NFL won't come to Coliseum Time to forget the NFL dream and give a USC a long-term deal, the mayor says. LAT...
Posted November 29, 2007 09:24 AM
An open letter from Athletic Director Mike Garrett. Excerpt: It gives me no pleasure to write a letter of this kind, but there are issues...
Posted November 28, 2007 09:53 AM
USC alumni don't want to gather on campus Saturday mornings, touch the statue then get on a bus. They want to walk to the stadium....
Posted November 28, 2007 12:14 AM
The Santa Anas are back and the LAFD has declared a red flag day in the hills for Wednesday. Those who live there know what...
Posted November 27, 2007 11:40 PM
The Los Angeles Press Club is getting into the non-geographic awards game, announcing it will accept entries (for $35 each) and give out the National...
Posted November 27, 2007 11:31 PM
Jon Weisman at Dodger Thoughts: People can minimize it all they want, but these round-numbered birthdays are times that I take stock, and looking at...
Posted November 27, 2007 11:24 PM
No word in the Times web story on when civil rights lawyer Stephen Yagman begins serving his federal prison term for tax evasion, money laundering...
Posted November 27, 2007 06:45 PM
Sometimes the hiring memos at the L.A. Times yield some insight into the interests an editor brings to the table. In this case, we learn...
Posted November 27, 2007 02:12 PM
Remember Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, the journalist who quit the L.A. Times in a huffy outburst and resurfaced as a successful novelist? (And who more recently mourned...
Posted November 27, 2007 11:56 AM
We told you Saturday that Matt Welch had left the L.A. Times editorial page to return to Reason magazine, and said to await further details....
Posted November 27, 2007 08:50 AM
Mayor Villaraigosa's office says that Carol Baker Tharp, general manager of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, has died. The mayor just released this statement: “Carol...
Posted November 26, 2007 12:08 PM
Here are quick links to some posts from the weekend, which wasn't all about Malibu fire coverage and the end of Mayor Villaraigosa's affair with...
Posted November 26, 2007 12:49 AM
The footage on Channel 9 of "super-scoopers" scraping the ocean surface in Santa Monica Bay has been awesome. Fresh fish tonight for the raccoons in...
Posted November 24, 2007 01:17 PM
Veronique has updates on the fire at Here in Malibu. Last I heard, 35 structures had burned and 200 more were threatened, mostly in the...
Posted November 24, 2007 10:55 AM
Katie O'Laughlin of Village Books, one of the city's best and coziest small bookstores, says she's losing the battle against the big boxes and rising...
Posted November 24, 2007 10:25 AM
David Zahniser reports in the Times, based on unnamed sources, that the affair between Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Mirthala Salinas "disintegrated" possibly as long ago...
Posted November 24, 2007 10:10 AM
Residents smelled smoke at about 3:30 a.m. Fire started in Corral Canyon, then swiftly spread wests due to strong winds, which have since died down....
Posted November 24, 2007 07:59 AM
Long weekend equals time to catch up on some L.A. blog reading. Here's a few; may be more later: Jasmyne Cannick drove down Crenshaw this...
Posted November 23, 2007 11:04 PM
Baseball blogs are already ridiculing today's Kurt Streeter column in the L.A. Times worshiping at the feet of new Angels center fielder Torii Hunter, a...
Posted November 23, 2007 12:50 PM
Scott Glover has been a digger on local law enforcement for the L.A. Times. He's moving over to focus his reporting on the U.S. Attorney's...
Posted November 21, 2007 11:29 AM
Before a City Council committee voted yesterday to tentatively approve a controversial condo project in Van Nuys Valley Village, a planning staffer for the city...
Posted November 21, 2007 09:07 AM
Nice photo from yesterday's writers guild street rally in Hollywood by Barbara Davidson at the L.A. Times. Strike coverage is pulled together at a compilation...
Posted November 21, 2007 08:37 AM
Pacifica radio station KPFK is in the midst of an election that, once again, has divided the staff, show programmers and listeners over politics and...
Posted November 21, 2007 07:58 AM
LAPD officer struck by hit-and-run Unidentified officer is believed to be in critical condition after being hurt near Evergreen Cemetery in Boyle Heights. NBC4 City...
Posted November 20, 2007 09:10 AM
Bill Nye "The Science Guy," who lives in Studio City, wants a restraining order to protect himself from his former wife, Blair Tindall, author of...
Posted November 19, 2007 11:58 PM
Sure enough, my pals at Los Angeles have somehow come out with another monthly issue — this one containing the magazine's first Walk of Shame...
Posted November 19, 2007 11:28 PM
Writers Guild strikers and their brethren are planning to converge Tuesday afternoon for a rally, accompanied by Alicia Keys. The guild is hoping for a...
Posted November 19, 2007 10:32 PM
In addition to his blog here at LA Observed, Bill Boyarsky is a regular columnist for Robert Scheer and Zuade Kaufman at Truthdig. They actually...
Posted November 19, 2007 10:25 PM
PhotoFriends.org is the site for the nonprofit organization that supports the Los Angeles Public Library's photograph collection, which is lovingly nurtured (and increasingly put on-line)...
Posted November 19, 2007 09:01 AM
Brian Grazer was "deeply upset by the episode" in which the L.A. Times asked him to guest-edit the opinion section on Sunday, then refused to...
Posted November 19, 2007 08:55 AM
Mayor Bobblehead The Southwest Voter Registration Education Project sells a bobblehead doll of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for $30. It's a fundraiser for the group. Rick...
Posted November 19, 2007 08:45 AM
OK, just kidding about that. But who knew her older sister is a rabbi on a kibbutz in Israel? I guess you would if you...
Posted November 19, 2007 12:47 AM
Veteran anchor-reporter Linda Alvarez is taking her leave of Channel 2 at the end of the month, concluding 14 years at the station. Here's the...
Posted November 18, 2007 11:36 PM
The writers strike has inspired a frenzy of non-stop posting by Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood Daily. (I shudder to think of the condition of...
Posted November 18, 2007 11:25 PM
Axel Koester grabbed this scene (for the New York Times) of photographers swarming actress Mandy Moore's arrival at a Beverly Hills restaurant. The term paparazzi...
Posted November 18, 2007 09:10 PM
Ted Johnson, the Variety managing editor who writes the trade's politics blog, Wilshire & Washington, posts about Sen. Hillary Clinton's appearance Saturday at a local...
Posted November 18, 2007 02:40 PM
An email correspondent caught me up with angryasianman.com by Phil Yu, a 27-year-old Korean American who was the subject of a story last month (!)...
Posted November 18, 2007 02:36 PM
No Morning Buzz, sorry. * Where did the time go?: Before you know it, Friday turns into Sunday......
Posted November 16, 2007 08:13 AM
Michael Aguirre began "investigating" San Diego's PBS station after cancellation of a show where he was a frequent guest. As soon as light was cast...
Posted November 16, 2007 08:07 AM
Times Publisher David Hiller uses his in-house blog to refute Joe Scott's blind item that reported the LAT building is for sale. I guess most...
Posted November 15, 2007 01:12 PM
Yeah, LAPD won't map where Muslims live Who didn't see this coming? The department dropped the plan, but will still do outreach. "Muslim Americans were...
Posted November 15, 2007 09:20 AM
Heidi Klum tries to appear charmed at the gift of pumpkin bread from Councilman Tom LaBonge, but most of the Victoria's Secret Angels seem —...
Posted November 14, 2007 10:11 PM
Political blogger Joe Scott, citing buzz among major real estate brokers, says the Tribune Co. intends to sell the square block of Downtown where the...
Posted November 14, 2007 07:45 PM
Councilman Jose Huizar, downtown advocate Brady Westwater and, especially, the owner of several of the former movie palaces on Broadway are featured in a Wall...
Posted November 14, 2007 01:09 PM
Last night's was the final show for the talker who came with a bit of a checkered past from Kentucky and had some run-ins here,...
Posted November 14, 2007 12:15 PM
Coroner investigating Donda West's death The mother of Kanye West died under mysterious circumstances a day after undergoing cosmetic surgery from high-profile Brentwood plastic surgeon...
Posted November 14, 2007 08:50 AM
Shopping mall developer Rick Caruso nicked the owners of the Glendale Galleria for $15 million in punitive damages today, on top of the $74 million...
Posted November 13, 2007 07:28 PM
Judith Regan today sued News Corp for $100 million over her firing last year and charged that a senior executive urged her to mislead federal...
Posted November 13, 2007 05:34 PM
Larry Mantle this morning took on one of the lesser issues of our time, but one that's still interesting and perplexing for locals: should we...
Posted November 13, 2007 12:41 PM
Times media columnist Tim Rutten is moving to the opinion pages, where he began his L.A. Times career [* nope, I'm told he began in...
Posted November 13, 2007 12:07 PM
Ciudad's culinary guide to Latin dining in the November issue ranges from La Casita Mexicana in Bell to La Super-Rica Taquería in Santa Barbara, and...
Posted November 13, 2007 01:20 AM
Monday was bring your family to the picket line day. The Tuesday target for Writers Guild media attention is Universal. The talent scheduled to appear...
Posted November 12, 2007 11:02 PM
L.A. Times photographer Luis Sinco has been immersed in the life of former Marine Cpl. James Miller since the horrible day in 2004 when Sinco...
Posted November 12, 2007 10:15 PM
USC's Norman Lear Center and pollster John Zogby tested for the link between political leaning and taste in entertainment. They conclude that 37% of the...
Posted November 12, 2007 04:53 PM
It's hiring memo day at the L.A. Times. First, before he became the Wall Street Journal Hollywood columnist and a Sitrick and Company troubleshooter, John...
Posted November 12, 2007 03:53 PM
I'm observing the holiday today — have been all weekend, actually — but I couldn't resist this. AP's photographer and caption writer can be excused...
Posted November 12, 2007 12:05 PM
LAPD plans to map Islamic neighborhoods "We are looking for communities and enclaves based on risk factors that are likely to become isolated. . ....
Posted November 9, 2007 08:15 AM
Want to know how editorial cartoonists work? The Daily News' Patrick O'Connor posts early sketches, talks about his process for deciding on a topic and...
Posted November 8, 2007 02:57 PM
The FBI has sent a notice to law enforcement warning of possible Al-Qaeda threats against shopping malls in Los Angeles and Chicago this holiday season,...
Posted November 8, 2007 01:42 PM
During today's discussion of the expansion at Holy Cross hospital in the Northeast Valley, Councilman Richard Alarcon made City Hall reporters sit up in their...
Posted November 7, 2007 11:40 PM
Fun little item on Rich Hammond's Kings blog for the Daily News. Even though the players supposedly had the day off, they were called to...
Posted November 7, 2007 10:21 PM
The surfers get edgy when the big waves roll in as they did today, "sleek and steely and cold, spitting out sets like a Tommy...
Posted November 7, 2007 10:00 PM
Busier-than-usual day for me away from the blog. Here's what has caught my eye: Would you believe $40 million more for the new LAPD headquarters...
Posted November 6, 2007 12:51 PM
Andrés Martinez, the former LAT editorial page editor, has teamed up with the Washington Post website on a twice-weekly online political advice column. (His former...
Posted November 5, 2007 09:57 PM
Points to photographer Gary Leonard for getting the front position at this morning's Joe Torre investiture at Dodger Stadium. But who's Gary giving the evil...
Posted November 5, 2007 08:20 PM
The New Yorker's Connie Bruck examines the personality that is Sam Zell and his deal to acquire Tribune, and comes up with some earthy quotes...
Posted November 5, 2007 09:15 AM
Late-hour talks broke down over the weekend, so the Writers Guild of America went on strike at midnight New York time and is preparing to...
Posted November 4, 2007 11:54 PM
The bureau in Los Angeles will close at the end of the year, the San Diego Union-Tribune staff was told yesterday. No word on what...
Posted November 3, 2007 10:14 AM
The parking ban and shuttle bus system at the renovated Griffith Observatory is history as of today. Although the mayor says 650,000 patrons have visited...
Posted November 3, 2007 10:05 AM
No LA Observed on KCRW this afternoon — I had to take the day off. Purely by coincidence, I will be on KPCC's "Off-Ramp" tomorrow...
Posted November 2, 2007 04:36 PM
The DWP was told it could not have a preliminary injunction blocking the Daily News from publishing salary info on nearly 8,500 workers on the...
Posted November 2, 2007 09:18 AM
While his columnist ex-colleagues at the L.A. Times fall over themselves to pronounce Joe Torre just what the Dodgers need, J.A. Adande is now a...
Posted November 2, 2007 12:29 AM
After posting Wednesday's item about the newspaper that couldn't decide if it was the Los Angeles Sun or the Los Angeles Star, I heard from...
Posted November 2, 2007 12:09 AM
Dana Goodyear has been blogging on the fires for The New Yorker and has a Talk of the Town piece in this week. Excerpt: Southern...
Posted November 1, 2007 11:51 PM
The Washington Post team in Los Angeles is losing their bureau aide to National Public Radio [actually KCRW, see below] and would like to hire...
Posted November 1, 2007 11:36 PM
The District's Rebecca Schoenkopf got to know Sheriff Mike Carona in her OC Weekly days — he once sent her a bottle of wine and...
Posted November 1, 2007 11:25 PM
Brian D’Arcy, head of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18, is going to eat David Nahai's lunch at the Department of Water, Alan...
Posted November 1, 2007 11:11 PM
In January the Sacramento Bee baffled people by going against the trend and moving its online political coverage behind the pay wall — a high...
Posted November 1, 2007 10:54 PM
Before Joe Torre's hiring — as the most expensive Dodgers manager ever — became official today, Jerry Crowe in the LAT noted that his pre-Yankees...
Posted November 1, 2007 10:31 PM
Writers talks break down at deadline Writers Guild could be moving closer to striking Hollywood, and all that that entails. Variety, LAT, Deadline Hollywood Daily...
Posted November 1, 2007 08:58 AM
Martin J. Smith and Barbara Thornburg were, I think, the last senior editors at the Los Angeles Times Magazine to pre-date and survive the West...
Posted October 31, 2007 09:11 PM
The Craigslist posting is looking for recent college grads and interns — code words for low to no pay. Worse, the ad can't decide if...
Posted October 31, 2007 09:05 PM
Pajamas Media's Ron Rosenbaum has got some chatter going with an item that hand-wrings about media gossip that the L.A. Times is sitting on an...
Posted October 31, 2007 12:20 PM
"Scary Larry" is one of the Variety entries in the battle of the media offices at the Wilshire Courtyard complex on the Miracle Mile. The...
Posted October 31, 2007 08:46 AM
Three's a crowd Headline on the Daily News website says "Orange County Sheriff Carona, his wife, and alleged mistress expected to surrender in federal corruption...
Posted October 31, 2007 08:37 AM
In a piece about how San Francisco's Castro district won't be the place for dressing up like Larry Craig tonight, the New York Times says...
Posted October 31, 2007 12:26 AM
Here's some of what the LA Observed contributors have been posting while I've been away from the desk: Mark Lacter was on the Dodgers drama...
Posted October 30, 2007 11:57 PM
Should the Valley get lower electric rates? It's an old, and potentially divisive, debate. The DWP is considering separate rates in summer that give the...
Posted October 30, 2007 08:35 AM
Joe Torre says there's nothing to it, but the New York Post says there is and the L.A. Times cites two major league sources who...
Posted October 30, 2007 12:21 AM
The Times reports, apparently alone, that Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona has been indicted on federal corruption charges. Former Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo already has...
Posted October 30, 2007 12:16 AM
Another theater is going dark. Landmark is leaving the NuWilshire in Santa Monica, though it seems the chain wanted to stay but was kicked out...
Posted October 29, 2007 11:52 PM
The Tribune-owned pop culture and listings site for Los Angeles is looking to hire full-time editors, as soon as possible. They want a copy editor,...
Posted October 29, 2007 08:18 AM
Hmm, guess it was all pre-arranged. Mayor Villaraigosa today will nominate H. David Nahai for the vacancy at the head of the Department of Water...
Posted October 29, 2007 08:12 AM
New talk station debuts This is the day that Michael Jackson returns as host on KGIL 1260 AM, a station with too weak of a...
Posted October 29, 2007 12:17 AM
Brian Grazer (that's him on the left, pre-big hair) and his younger brother Gavin, who has nepotistic roles in several of Brian's movies, have a...
Posted October 28, 2007 11:49 PM
From the author's Op-Ed in the New York Times: The fires have come to Los Angeles again and there is only one thing certain, and...
Posted October 28, 2007 11:28 PM
An LA Observed reader who didn't receive his L.A. Times on Sunday went to the paper's website and was amused to see these competing notices...
Posted October 28, 2007 10:44 PM
Ron Deaton made it official that he won't be returning to the top job at the Department of Water and Power. He either resigned (Times)...
Posted October 26, 2007 08:47 PM
Bratton begins second term Bagpipes serenade at the chief's swearing-in ceremony. LAT Urges more tough questions "L.A. Sniper" Alan Mittelstaedt liked the hard questions that...
Posted October 26, 2007 07:30 AM
Ash that supposedly fell from the sky in the San Diego area has been put up for sale on eBay, with a starting bid of...
Posted October 25, 2007 10:23 PM
The Los Angeles Business Journal isn't losing people as fast as it did there for awhile, but there is a new defection. Todd Cunningham, the...
Posted October 25, 2007 10:07 PM
Christy Porter was a photojournalist in Kentucky when the little paper where she worked did hard investigations of local sacred cows like the university basketball...
Posted October 25, 2007 09:47 PM
Today's LAT devotes a story — and three bylines — to casting doubt on the claims of a million fire evacuations that the paper reported...
Posted October 25, 2007 07:28 AM
L.A. County Supervisor Mike D. Antonovich adjourned the Supes meeting with a motion to mourn the reduction of live news coverage at Channel 5. It...
Posted October 24, 2007 11:48 PM
Now the finger pointing With the fires claiming at least 1,165 homes in Southern California, some firefighters are saying the region wasn't prepared. "It is...
Posted October 24, 2007 08:46 AM
Local freelancer Michael Goldstein wonders at his blog, Monday Morning Media Quarterback, if the Huffington Post is getting its money's worth out of unpaid fire...
Posted October 23, 2007 11:10 PM
Michael Schneider at Franklin Avenue puts all the newspaper front pages together side by side — for headlines we've got an Inferno, an Armageddon, a...
Posted October 23, 2007 10:40 PM
This shot was gathered from satellites on Monday afternoon. If you've got the bandwidth, NASA has a 1.2 MB high-res version for you. There's also...
Posted October 23, 2007 09:58 PM
The Daily Journal's Sandra Hernandez reports that attorneys for immigrants being held in the U.S. facility are livid. In the wake of a series of...
Posted October 23, 2007 12:25 PM
The PBS TV and FM station in San Diego is informing other stations that "our transmitter site was engulf[ed] by the fire. We are off...
Posted October 23, 2007 12:07 PM
'That was my garage' Larry Himmel, a reporter for KFMB in San Diego, reported on video as flames burned down his own home. KTLA video...
Posted October 23, 2007 08:46 AM
Editorial judgment or just luck? I dunno, but the big story on the cover of the November issue of Los Angeles (ignore John Cusack) is...
Posted October 22, 2007 10:45 PM
I've nothing to add on the wildfires that are burning homes by the hundreds across Southern California, but you've got to see — and appreciate...
Posted October 22, 2007 10:06 PM
Today's issue of The New Yorker has an excerpt from Steve Martin's forthcoming memoir, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life, in which he talks about...
Posted October 22, 2007 01:07 AM
Fire closures Public schools in Malibu, Topanga and Canyon Country are closed for the day, as well as Pepperdine and College of the Canyons. Hard...
Posted October 22, 2007 01:03 AM
Veronique de Turenne is monitoring the Malibu situation, where Pepperdine students have been evacuated to a campus center, Malibu Presbyterian Church and the visual landmark...
Posted October 21, 2007 10:29 AM
It's going to be windy in a big way this weekend. The National Weather Service this morning posted an upgraded high wind warning for the...
Posted October 20, 2007 11:36 AM
Full surrender by Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, who held a press conference in Phoenix this afternoon to admit it was stupid to arrest New...
Posted October 19, 2007 09:16 PM
Rising gas prices, tanking stocks, and a sinking feeling among TV fans as the writers' strike edges closer to reality. Mark Lacter has that (and...
Posted October 19, 2007 01:03 PM
Michael Lacey (right) and Jim Larkin, the founders and top dogs at Village Voice Media, were taken in at home by deputies after their Phoenix...
Posted October 19, 2007 07:59 AM
Now that Rebecca de Mornay is on HBO all the time, it figures somebody would ask, "what became of the old Wally George 'Hot Seat'...
Posted October 19, 2007 12:49 AM
Google Stephen Colbert for President and the first listing (other than news about the announcement of his, uh, candidacy) is Colbertocrat.com. That's the website that...
Posted October 19, 2007 12:27 AM
I haven't checked this out, but the source who tipped me has never steered me wrong. The report is that the L.A. Times held a...
Posted October 19, 2007 12:13 AM
Jay Clendenin, a freelancer in Washington, DC, and Liz O. Baylen, a freelancer in New York, are joining the L.A. Times photo staff. Photo editor...
Posted October 18, 2007 11:45 PM
I missed this in the news last week. Or rather, let's say it got way underplayed — just a brief buried in the LAT Calendar...
Posted October 18, 2007 11:33 PM
The newest feature on the Los Angeles skyline is something old. Congratulations to Amy Inouye, the artist whose years-long project to reunite L.A. with Chicken...
Posted October 18, 2007 02:10 PM
Dean Singleton, the biggest owner of newspapers in the L.A. area, has sent his employees an eight-page status report on the health of the industry...
Posted October 18, 2007 09:25 AM
A new book released this week, The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World, describes a wild cross-country drive...
Posted October 17, 2007 10:48 AM
Staph superbug kills more than AIDS A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association says methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, has spread...
Posted October 17, 2007 08:30 AM
Disney announced a $1.1 billion makeover of California Adventure to make it, well, more like Disneyland. They also plan to add a replica of the...
Posted October 17, 2007 12:16 AM
Times reporter Peter Hong sat through the whole first act of The People vs. Phil Spector, but he found a way to leave at intermission....
Posted October 16, 2007 01:39 PM
Westwood Village's Mann National closed in April, reopened a little later as an indy screen and apparently locked the doors again on Oct. 7. Not...
Posted October 16, 2007 01:28 PM
Victims of our geography As more people live beyond the mountain ranges that ring metro Southern California, expect more traffic chokes of the sort that...
Posted October 16, 2007 08:45 AM
Things got tense at the big post office near LAX for taxpayers trying to meet last night's deadline for filing IRS returns (on the six-month...
Posted October 16, 2007 08:16 AM
The ill-considered move to make AM 1260 a classical music station has officially failed, and owner Saul Levine is planning to resurrect the call letters...
Posted October 15, 2007 08:57 PM
Quick hits today: Fox Business Network launches Neil Cavuto is managing editor and on the air. Romenesko Jay Leno doesn't want to go Fears at...
Posted October 15, 2007 08:40 AM
* 8 am update: Lanes were open in both directions this morning. Caltrans district chief Douglas Failing said the southbound lanes of the freeway would...
Posted October 15, 2007 12:13 AM
Author and journalist Ann Louise Bardach writes in today's Washington Post that a friend advised her to stay off US Airways — "It's the worst...
Posted October 14, 2007 11:57 PM
The Pacifica FM station in town has found out who the new interim general manager will be: it's Jim Lafferty, executive director of the National...
Posted October 14, 2007 11:45 PM
La Fonda de Los Camperos has been fighting eviction from its historic building at Wilshire and Carondelet, but the restaurant and its world-famous Mariachi Los...
Posted October 14, 2007 11:20 PM
Ian McKellen frenzy has reached $1,700 a seat for his appearance with the Royal Shakespeare Company in "King Lear" opening Friday at UCLA's Royce...
Posted October 14, 2007 11:47 AM
Don't plan on sailing in or out of Los Angeles on Interstate 5 (or the Antelope Freeway, for that matter) any time soon. Last night's...
Posted October 13, 2007 04:03 PM
The Pacifica radio station paid former general manager the equivalent of nine months’ salary, or $63,268, to part ways, former KPFK hand Marc Cooper reports...
Posted October 11, 2007 11:15 PM
This shot of Angels Flight in its old location beside the 3rd Street tunnel is one of the photographs in the exhibition of "Julius Shulman's...
Posted October 11, 2007 10:59 PM
This one's not voluntary. Dave Shulman, who has columnized at the Weekly since 1998 — first as Sitegeist, more recently as Column Dave — was...
Posted October 11, 2007 10:48 PM
Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez has been taking a pounding in the Times for his extravagant spending with money stuffed in his pockets by the interests...
Posted October 11, 2007 10:34 PM
The big three local network TV stations will still be in the Valley, but NBC made official what's been talked about for awhile: the station...
Posted October 11, 2007 09:32 AM
Lara Loewenstein gave up her gig as the sex columnist for the Daily Bruin last year, graduated from UCLA and now has a blog where...
Posted October 10, 2007 10:27 PM
This could be good — or not. Times Publisher David Hiller, who likes to explain at length his view of the emerging media world, has...
Posted October 10, 2007 04:43 PM
Based on the coverage, the department's long-awaited report blames bad command decisions, gaps in officer training and a small splinter group of trouble-making demonstrators for...
Posted October 10, 2007 08:45 AM
Remember that episode back in March when Andrés Martinez resigned as editor of the Times editorial pages after the publisher, David Hiller, didn't back...