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Topic Archive: Magazines
This week's issue of The New Yorker carries a "Letter from Los Angeles" by Dana Goodyear on the movie being made based on Steve Lopez's...
Posted April 28, 2008 09:23 AM
Now in the anchor chair at Fox 11, Carlos Amezcua blasts his former station in the May issue of Tu Ciudad. "When Hal Fishman died,...
Posted April 24, 2008 12:10 AM
Los Angeles magazine posted its May cover story based on Shawn Hubler's interview with ex-mayoral squeeze Mirthala Salinas, 35, with portrait by Jill Greenberg. Salinas...
Posted April 10, 2008 08:46 AM
Los Angeles magazine scored the first big interview with Mirthala Salinas, ex-squeeze of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Former L.A. Times writer Shawn Hubler did the story,...
Posted April 9, 2008 12:39 PM
The magazine's hunt for the best thing about L.A. has been winnowed from 64 to 16. Still in the running: Amoeba Music, which beat In-N-Out...
Posted April 9, 2008 11:52 AM
Once around some magazines... Charles Perry profiles Philippe's — technically, Philippe the Original — on its 100th anniversary, writing in this Sunday's LAT Magazine "if...
Posted April 4, 2008 04:06 PM
Michael Kinsley's tenure in Los Angeles may not have gone smoothly or ended gracefully. But I enjoyed being reminded in this week's New Yorker how...
Posted April 1, 2008 11:06 PM
Riffing a little on Los Angeles magazine's 64 Greatest Things in L.A. contest, Los Angeles Metblogs has started polling on the 64 Worst Things about...
Posted March 26, 2008 12:58 AM
Eric Alterman's piece considers the HuffPost as a step along the path of evolving news and opinion, away from the printed newspaper. Some tidbits: First...
Posted March 24, 2008 09:14 AM
Steve Oney's piece from last June about Iraq war casualty Chris Leon is a National Magazine Awards finalist in profile writing. He shares the...
Posted March 19, 2008 04:02 PM
In another of those generic magazine roundups claiming to know the best of something, but really an exercise in geographic diversity, Details includes Square One...
Posted February 25, 2008 08:56 AM
In the March issue, Los Angeles kicks off a contest to let readers pick the single greatest thing about Los Angeles. They start with 64...
Posted February 19, 2008 05:25 PM
New York magazine got itself a sure seller this week. Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan is nude — as in freckles, nipples and tattoo — in...
Posted February 18, 2008 05:23 PM
Los Angeles does its annual movie issue for February, with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Julie Christie on the cover and a lineup inside that includes...
Posted January 24, 2008 08:08 PM
Media man-about-town Richard Rushfield is, these days, recognized mostly for his reviews of "American Idol" in the L.A. Times, where he's the website's entertainment editor....
Posted January 17, 2008 12:56 AM
The February issue of Playboy, on sale starting today, has a long feature by Joe Domanick on LAPD chief William Bratton, or Supercop as the...
Posted January 15, 2008 01:16 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
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
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
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
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
In the December issue of Vanity Fair, David Friend writes that this Oct. 31, 1974 photo of President Gerald Ford and then-Gov. Ronald Reagan —...
Posted November 25, 2007 06:05 AM
Matt Welch makes official what has been unfolding behind the scenes for a bit: he has left the Los Angeles Times editorial page to return...
Posted November 24, 2007 12:48 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
Speaking of Ciudad (next item below), former executive editor Yvette Doss is on to a new project. The founder of Frontera magazine, Silver Lake Press...
Posted November 13, 2007 09:32 AM
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
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
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
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
In one of those glib, fast-moving pronouncement pieces that magazines are in love with, Details pronounces the suburbs hip in the November issue. The sidebar...
Posted October 9, 2007 09:48 PM
Lennie LaGuire may have taken the sweet buyout to leave the L.A. Times staff, but her fingerprints remain on the weekly-turned-monthly Sunday magazine. As consulting...
Posted October 8, 2007 09:16 PM
Corn is one of those writers who seemed like he might be at The Nation forever. But he's jumping to a newly powered-up Mother Jones...
Posted October 1, 2007 03:15 PM
First there was GOOD magazine. Now there's GOOD Digital, announced today by founder and COO Ben Goldhirsh. The new unit will be headed by Craig...
Posted October 1, 2007 12:39 PM
The Advocate, feeling pretty good after celebrating its 40th anniversary, is proud that news features editor Sean Kennedy scored an interview with Sen. Hillary Clinton...
Posted September 25, 2007 10:47 PM
Steve Oney profiles Adam Carolla in the October issue, in which editor Kit Rachlis calls Carolla "the most provocative talk-radio host in Los Angeles, the...
Posted September 20, 2007 08:34 PM
Jill Ishkanian is the ex-senior reporter in Los Angeles who quit US Weekly to form Sunset Photo and News and was accused last year of...
Posted September 18, 2007 02:34 PM
Radar Magazine's October issue offers a hundred of the most overhyped people, places and things — and L.A.'s own* David and Victoria Beckham make the...
Posted September 12, 2007 12:37 PM
From the September issue of Los Angeles magazine: In Josh Kun's "The Ballad of Music Man Murray," which appeared in the July issue, it was...
Posted September 10, 2007 02:15 PM
The September issue has a long story by Jesse Katz on the scuffle at Royce Hall between a freelance writer (Rachel Neuwirth) and an anti-war...
Posted August 20, 2007 02:25 PM
Poet and New Yorker staff writer Dana Goodyear has begun Postcard from Los Angeles on the magazine's website. Her first blog post is an homage...
Posted August 5, 2007 10:38 AM
Time Inc. has told the staff of Business 2.0 to put aside the previous talk about the magazine shutting down and to begin work on...
Posted August 1, 2007 02:39 PM
Elizabeth Guider, a 18-year vet at Variety who has been sliding down the masthead lately, has jumped to The Hollywood Reporter as Editor. Most recently...
Posted July 30, 2007 11:54 AM
Former LA Weekly publisher Michael Sigman has optioned the film rights to that piece about Washington lobbyists in Harper's by reporter Ken Silverstein, who posed...
Posted July 27, 2007 05:07 PM
The August issue of Los Angeles is the annual Best of LA theme job. This time 196 is the magic number, don't ask me why....
Posted July 23, 2007 08:52 PM
Newly reunited at Los Angeles Magazine with his former editor Kit Rachlis, Moehringer explains at the end of a long profile of an obscure musician...
Posted July 17, 2007 10:46 AM
Alan Klein, president and publisher of Los Angeles magazine since 2001, is jumping to Modern Luxury Media as president and publisher of Angeleno. Los Angeles,...
Posted July 2, 2007 04:16 PM
I keep hearing from LA Observed readers who pass along email from RealTalk LA saying the magazine is in dire financial straits -- suspended operations,...
Posted July 2, 2007 02:26 PM
Two more refugees from West magazine who took buyouts to leave the Times have landed, both of them at Los Angeles. J.R. Moehringer comes on...
Posted June 29, 2007 07:29 AM
Slate.com has gone multimedia and unveiled a daily online video magazine. Slate V is based in the magazine's brand-new Venice offices and is headed up...
Posted June 25, 2007 05:42 PM
This month's Los Angeles Magazine admires Rick Caruso, creator of The Grove and upcoming shopping malls in Glendale and Arcadia, praised like this in editor...
Posted June 19, 2007 11:05 PM
The "best of" season isn't quite over. Los Angeles Magazine's is coming, but first comes Ciudad with the "best of Latino L.A." An online poll...
Posted June 11, 2007 08:29 AM
The free monthly from Southland Publishing (CityBeat, Pasadena Weekly) is "devoted to the revival of Downtown and the 'New' Eastside." Inside New Angeles are an...
Posted June 1, 2007 09:09 AM
Real Talk LA may claim they will be out with a second issue soon and all is cool, but in addition to emails from magazine...
Posted May 23, 2007 08:26 PM
So many local media sources emailed me last week with reports of the impending demise of Real Talk that I mentioned the scuttlebutt while trying...
Posted May 21, 2007 12:17 PM
Rumors are rampant that Real Talk LA, Jay Levin's new magazine, missed payroll this week and has shut down after one issue that hasn't...
Posted May 18, 2007 09:13 PM
The June issue of Los Angeles has John Powers' first Open City column since he left LA Weekly and LA Biz Observed's Mark Lacter on...
Posted May 16, 2007 03:50 PM
Jesse Katz of Los Angeles magazine won the M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award at yesterday's James Beard Foundation soiree. Katz won for "Wheels of Fortune,"...
Posted May 8, 2007 08:50 AM
Today's New York Post praises our friends at Los Angeles magazine in a piece reviewing the best of city magazines around the country: Like the...
Posted May 7, 2007 08:12 AM
Adam Moss' New York Magazine won for general excellence and in four other categories at the National Magazine Awards last night, setting off a lot...
Posted May 2, 2007 08:53 AM
PBS has picked up the first season of the series to be produced by KCET in association with Wired magazine. It premieres nationwide on October...
Posted May 1, 2007 02:58 PM
I just noticed that the RealTalk LA website has gone up with a mix of stories, brief items, holders and dead links. The blogs...
Posted May 1, 2007 02:25 PM
The May issue profiles Mario Lavandeira, who is the celebrity blogger known as Perez Hilton, asks some questions of Channel 2's Laura Diaz and visits...
Posted April 26, 2007 09:21 AM
We'll see if this flies. Blogger and Podcaster, published in Maryland, aims to "reduce the learning curve" for new practitioners, writes founder and publisher Larry...
Posted April 20, 2007 01:14 PM
Inside the annual weekend getaway issue is a piece from low-achieving Jordan High School in Watts, where Jesse Katz spent five months with the academic...
Posted April 19, 2007 09:22 AM
In the new W, former Variety scribe Gabriel Snyder explains the role of Hollywood political consultants and updates the roster of who works with whom....
Posted April 18, 2007 09:11 AM
Degen Pener becomes editor-in-chief of Angeleno, while incumbent Alexandria Abramian-Mott remains with Modern Luxury Magazines as national home design editor. Pener has been features director...
Posted April 16, 2007 02:04 PM
Last month we posted on Southland Publishing's forthcoming debut of Los Angeles New City Monthly — you remember, the magazine that would "celebrate the intellectual...
Posted April 4, 2007 09:31 PM
In this month's Tu Ciudad, Rep. Loretta Sanchez and Mrs. Kobe Bryant contribute their favorite spots in Orange County and, to stay in the theme,...
Posted April 3, 2007 10:12 PM
Jay Levin's forthcoming RealTalk LA (and RealTalkLA.com) will try to "reinvent the concept of a city magazine and create the next evolution of the local...
Posted April 2, 2007 08:08 AM
Tim Swanson, who has been the west coast bureau chief of Premiere and a writer for Variety, will blog about "the worlds of film, music,...
Posted March 26, 2007 08:24 AM
In the new issue out now, Joe Domanick examines the case against Phil Spector while Strawberry Saroyan sizes up the career of fired book publisher...
Posted March 26, 2007 01:26 AM
Los Angeles New City Monthly, from the company behind CityBeat, will "celebrate the intellectual and cultural 'renaissance' of L.A.'s Eastside, from Hollywood through Silver Lake...
Posted March 20, 2007 09:48 PM
Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing was on "The Colbert Report" this week in his hat as Editor of Make magazine. Mark and the host fired marshmallows...
Posted March 9, 2007 08:19 AM
Actress Dania Ramirez holds up the clothes for the spring fashion issue, which focuses on local designers Eduardo Lucero and Emiliano Moreno. Also in the...
Posted March 6, 2007 12:40 AM
April issue is the last one in print, says Ad Age. The magazine brand will continue online....
Posted March 5, 2007 04:05 PM
Jay Babcock, the founder of music and culture zine Arthur, emails a friend that the run has ended at #25 (cover shown.) He posts a...
Posted February 25, 2007 12:54 PM
I had to skip Radar's Wednesday night "launch" party (does a third time around really count as a launch?) at The Standard for a media...
Posted February 23, 2007 12:17 PM
In the new issue of Los Angeles magazine, media columnist RJ Smith offers several suggestions to help the Times survive — "for rescuing a newspaper...
Posted February 22, 2007 11:41 AM
Portfolio is calling Claire Hoffman a contributing editor, starting immediately. Hoffman's jump from the L.A. Times was reported last month, shortly after she danced briefly...
Posted February 16, 2007 09:54 AM
When the March issue of Los Angeles hits in a few days, media columnist RJ Smith will offer his suggestions for saving the Times after...
Posted February 15, 2007 11:34 PM
Variety buries the lede: the trade's paywall has been dropped, so now "every story, article or item is available for free." Well not quite everything....
Posted February 7, 2007 02:36 AM
Premiere magazine has been put up for sale by Hachette Filipacchi Media, Keith J. Kelly reports in the New York Post. No details, but Kelly...
Posted February 5, 2007 12:19 PM
Tu Ciudad's first almost-monthly issue (there will now be ten a year) leads with a piece on the offspring of mixed marriages "transforming what it...
Posted February 1, 2007 04:57 PM
They run it by collective, call it make/shift — subtitle "feminism in motion" — and plan to launch in March. One of the Los Angeles-based...
Posted January 29, 2007 01:50 PM
Issue number three of Swink — the "bi-coastal, biannual print magazine dedicated to identifying and promoting literary talent in both established and emerging writers," edited...
Posted January 23, 2007 02:34 AM
Time magazine is shuttering its Los Angeles bureau (and those in Chicago and Atlanta) as part of today's layoffs, Ad Age says. People magazine will...
Posted January 18, 2007 10:51 AM
HuffIt is a new beta-test section of The Huffington Post where readers can indicate (Digg-style) which news stories of the moment interest them. Those stories...
Posted January 17, 2007 10:34 AM
Jay Levin founded the LA Weekly more than 25 years ago. Lately he has been busy trying to recruit staff and writers around Los Angeles...
Posted January 8, 2007 01:37 PM
→ Los Angeles magazine's January Restaurant Awards issue proclaims Hatfield's the best new place in town, Bottle Rock the best new wine bar, Square One...
Posted January 2, 2007 10:18 PM
Tu Ciudad's new issue proclaims Erwin Raphael McManus's Mosaic the city's fastest-growing and hippest Christian congregation, with services that feature comedy skits, video clips and...
Posted December 4, 2006 02:38 PM
Esquire: In the December "Best and Brightest" issue, Colby Buzzell takes on an unruly quest across Los Angeles "in search of things that make it...
Posted November 30, 2006 02:15 AM
Inventing Lonelygirl15: Wired's December issue goes inside the Los Angeles apartment where the wildly popular web tale of Bree and Danny was hatched and taped....
Posted November 27, 2006 02:29 AM
Caitlin Flanagan told the New York Observer a year ago that "You’d never, never, never leave The New Yorker," but now she has. Flanagan has...
Posted November 22, 2006 09:22 AM
New logo, typeface, departments and architecture to the magazine, which celebrates 45 years in December. It's the Power Issue, hitting newstands now with pieces by...
Posted November 15, 2006 02:15 PM
Jasper Johns' "Flag" hangs over a fireplace in Eli Broad's Brentwood home, we learn in Bob Colacello's profile of the art collector and would-be Los...
Posted November 3, 2006 04:27 PM
Los Angeles magazine's RJ Smith takes notice of David Zahniser's run of noteworthy stories in the LA Weekly (and previously in the Daily Breeze) and...
Posted October 20, 2006 01:05 AM
George Clooney's photo spread in the November issue of Vanity Fair was shot in the garden of the late newspaper matriarch Dorothy Chandler's home, Los...
Posted October 9, 2006 04:55 PM
If Los Angeles has a media gulch it's the stretch of Wilshire Boulevard from the old Carnation headquarters — where the Hollywood Reporter and Billboard...
Posted October 9, 2006 12:05 PM
Tu Ciudad puts Carlos Mencia on the cover and at the top of its second list of 25 Angelenos We Love. What they meant to...
Posted September 29, 2006 05:45 PM
Harold Meyerson, the LA Weekly fixture [* keep reading...] who was editor of The American Prospect in 2001-2, is coming back as acting executive editor...
Posted September 27, 2006 02:16 PM
Variety Weekend is also calling it quits. The inside pages tried to draw in readers and advertisers with lifestyle coverage of and for the Hollywood...
Posted September 26, 2006 03:27 PM
On the same day that Time Inc. announced it will try to sell eighteen magazines — including Popular Science, Field & Stream, Outdoor Life and...
Posted September 12, 2006 02:32 PM
Forget the odd looking baby. Vanity Fair's October issue has the doubled-in-size VF 100, successor to the annual New Establishment roster. Rupert Murdoch tops the...
Posted September 8, 2006 09:18 AM
Bon Appétit's Los Angeles bureau has joined the podcast lineup at iTunes. Heather John, a senior editor here, covers local hotspots in a roundup of...
Posted August 30, 2006 01:52 PM
September's Los Angeles Magazine offers a primer on finding a good and safe elementary school, putting the spotlight on sixty schools around the Greater L.A....
Posted August 22, 2006 01:20 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The July issue of Los Angeles magazine (not online) has a piece by Kim Masters on Paramount's Brad Grey and by David Ferrell on the...
Posted June 15, 2006 03:11 AM
If you worked at the Atlantic, you'd have received this memo on how not to dress in the Washington office this summer. From the New...
Posted June 1, 2006 08:53 PM
Revival of Hollywood, the place not the industry, has created "the hippest zone in Los Angeles," says the June number of Los Angeles the magazine....
Posted May 25, 2006 01:38 AM
Tu Ciudad's June-July issue features an interview with Corina Villaraigosa, a report from the set of Jack Black’s Nacho Libre and the magazine's first Best...
Posted May 23, 2006 09:05 PM
Arianna Huffington told magazine editors in New York today that the Huffington Post makes money and within two months will spin off a sister site...
Posted May 9, 2006 10:09 AM
Patric Kuh, the food critic at Los Angeles magazine, won for best magazine restaurant review or critique at the James Beard Foundation journalism awards in...
Posted May 8, 2006 12:48 PM
The New Yorker's Caitlin Flanagan and her new book also get the treatment from Ella Taylor in this week's LA Weekly. Even women who can’t...
Posted April 14, 2006 12:10 AM
Caitlin Flanagan perhaps "owes her success largely to a misogynistic media that loves a catfight...[but she] has so masterfully created a persona that it virtually...
Posted April 12, 2006 11:01 PM
RJ Smith wrote about rock music for the Village Voice and Spin before landing at the LA Weekly and, now, at Los Angeles magazine—where he...
Posted April 11, 2006 11:28 PM
From the editors of zines The Big Takeover, Dumb Angel Gazette, Roctober, Scram and Ugly Things: Dear Amoeba, We the undersigned, the editors of five...
Posted April 6, 2006 12:20 AM
NewsFactor Magazine has some pretty narrow (or is that snooty?) requirements for the editor job it posted on Mediabistro. You have to live in or...
Posted April 5, 2006 10:44 PM
Tribune's experiment with a glossy lifestyle magazine aimed at high-income Southern Californians is over. Staffers at Distinction were told that next Friday is their last...
Posted March 30, 2006 10:50 AM
From the wonderful world of magazines... Vogue loves Suzanne: Lucques chef Suzanne Goin gets star treatment from Sally Singer in the April issue of Vogue,...
Posted March 24, 2006 04:48 PM
In addition to the Los Angeles magazine profile by Jesse Katz, National Magazine Awards finalists of local note include three pieces of criticism on the...
Posted March 16, 2006 01:40 PM
Variety has hired Monica Corcoran away from In Style's Los Angeles bureau to replace Ginny Chien as style editor, today's Women's Wear Daily says. Corcoran...
Posted February 28, 2006 09:42 AM
I have a piece on Council President Eric Garcetti in the March issue of Los Angeles, out but not online. It talks about his rising...
Posted February 20, 2006 01:08 PM
Michael Kinsley was dismissed as editor material for The Atlantic last summer, and he acknowledges in today's New York Observer that he has never been...
Posted February 15, 2006 01:13 PM
BiZBash covers the live events trade and will begin an L.A. version of the magazine later in the year. The website goes up Feb. 15,...
Posted February 8, 2006 10:33 AM
Vanity Fair's Hollywood issue out Tuesday has more than Scarlett and Keira nude on the cover (though that's a pretty decent jump-start on newsstand sales.)...
Posted February 7, 2006 09:22 PM
Rick Wartzman's editor's note (labeled "From First and Spring") in Sunday's debut issue of West magazine fesses up to a strong belief in the Carey...
Posted February 5, 2006 12:04 PM
Here's the story lineup for the first issue of West, the Los Angeles Times Magazine replacement that debuts in the Sunday paper. Cover story: "The...
Posted February 3, 2006 01:58 PM
Rip Rense has some thoughts about the marketing campaign for the LAT's new West magazine, coming soon to a Sunday paper near you. Whatever the...
Posted February 1, 2006 11:26 AM
That Los Angeles Magazine piece by RJ Smith on Pajamas Media is now online, along with Smith's cover story on George Clooney ("The sexiest man...
Posted February 1, 2006 11:16 AM
Updated with new entries at the bottom ⇒ Copies of the first West magazine issue were seen at the Times' Travel Show over the weekend....
Posted February 1, 2006 02:35 AM
In the February issue of Los Angeles magazine, RJ Smith examines Pajamas Media to ask whether it is a fledgling media phenomenon or a blip...
Posted January 27, 2006 10:25 PM
Gawker reports that the staff of Radar magazine was just told that it's over. Also at FishbowlNY....
Posted December 14, 2005 04:15 PM
Los Angeles has posted the top stories from the December issue, including Steve Oney's feature on Defamer Mark Lisanti and the rise of online gossip....
Posted December 6, 2005 10:38 AM
In the December issue of The Atlantic, Hanna Rosin is the latest writer to take a look at the Jesus-ization of Hollywood. They sit in...
Posted November 25, 2005 11:39 PM
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
The L.A. Times plans to relaunch its Sunday magazine Feb. 5 as West. The name has a history at the paper. A previous incarnation of...
Posted November 18, 2005 03:43 PM
Lots of chatter in local media circles these days about the syndicated L.A. Times columnist and KCRW commentator from the left. First, it appears that...
Posted November 4, 2005 04:43 PM
♦ Variety is ending the VLife experiment. Last issue is Feb. 1. I believe Mike at FishbowlLA was first up with the news. ♦ Daily Breeze music...
Posted October 16, 2005 08:30 PM
Former Los Angeles Magazine editor Michael Caruso is leaving as editor of Men's Journal after two years. He declined to renew his contract because of...
Posted October 11, 2005 11:03 AM
Oops, sorry about the day (the headline said 'Wednesday' for the first nine hours or so. We think ahead around here...) ♦ Whispers in the wind...
Posted October 11, 2005 01:47 AM
Tad Friend, writer of the New Yorker's occasional "Letter from California" feature, once again explains his m.o. in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle....
Posted October 10, 2005 09:55 AM
Question: Who did VLIfe put on its cover, following Jennifer Connelly and Halle Berry? Remember, they're trying to sell on newsstands these days. The October...
Posted September 16, 2005 01:14 AM
So you have a new magazine about legal eagles and you want them to read it. What do you do first? How about a special...
Posted September 15, 2005 02:49 AM
Been to the newsstand lately? The number of magazines trying to attract the eyeballs of Southern Californians with money to spend has swelled. In this...
Posted September 12, 2005 12:31 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
Tim Rutten's Saturday column in the LAT, nominally about the declining audience for Republican radio, posits that "While the political talk-show hosts and right-wing bloggers...
Posted August 27, 2005 12:40 AM
This is the month that Variety's glossy VLife hits newsstands and begins to find out if there's any (v)life separate from the trade's subscriber list....
Posted August 25, 2005 03:07 AM
The Michael Kinsley-to-Atlantic Monthly rumors are raised then dismissed in today's New York Observer. He had breakfast in Seattle with the magazine's owner, David Bradley,...
Posted August 24, 2005 11:41 AM
Gawker has the memo: Elizabeth Leonard, the deputy bureau chief in the Wilshire Boulevard offices of People magazine, has been quickly promoted to West Coast...
Posted August 18, 2005 06:19 PM
Time magazine's cover this week unveils its take on the "25 Most Influential Hispanics in America." Locals meriting mini-bios include Antonio Villaraigosa, of course (looking...
Posted August 16, 2005 12:45 AM
Go figure: Two-plus years of L.A. Observed with no references to People magazine West Coast Bureau Chief Todd Gold, then two mentions in less than...
Posted August 15, 2005 11:12 PM
Longtime local conservative blogger Xrlq posts that he has been summarily banned from posting comments at Hit and Run, the blog of (loosely) Los Angeles-based...
Posted August 15, 2005 01:12 AM
Sounds like there are a ton of insider references in Hollywood Hussein, the new novel by Ken Baker, West Coast editor for Us Weekly. Monday's...
Posted August 14, 2005 11:25 PM
In response to mounting losses, TV Guide is going to get harder to hold—and run fewer TV listings. Variety reports that Gemstar-TV Guide will spend...
Posted July 27, 2005 02:42 AM
Joe Edmiston, the only executive director in the 25-year history of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, might be the most powerful unelected official in California,...
Posted July 14, 2005 09:47 PM
Any late-comers will go at the bottom, as usual. • Gustavo Arellano rates the new crop of Latino-oriented glossies in the OC Weekly. He gives Bello...
Posted July 5, 2005 11:28 AM
Mondays are always so busy... • This news won't help the layoff jitters sweeping the LAT's newsrooms this week. Tribune Company stock was downgraded Monday to...
Posted June 20, 2005 08:08 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
The new upscale Latino bimonthly magazine backed by Emmis took over the Hollywood Roosevelt (and a lane of Hollywood Boulevard) Tuesday night. A few hundred...
Posted May 25, 2005 01:35 AM
Tu Ciudad, that upscale Latino mag I've been telling you about since January, hits the mail next week (with a May 24 launch party and...
Posted May 11, 2005 12:51 AM
The cover of Business Week's May 2 issue advises the corporate (and media) world that their customers and competitors are figuring out where blogs fit...
Posted April 26, 2005 10:03 AM
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
Long but terser-than-usual roundup, due to a books-filled weekend away from the computer. It was great to chat with old friends, new readers, media people...
Posted April 24, 2005 08:32 PM
In Boston since 1857, the Atlantic Monthly is moving to Washington. Editor Cullen Murphy is among those who won't make the move. He'll oversee the...
Posted April 14, 2005 03:17 PM
The forthcoming magazine for young upscale Latinos is written up in today's New York Times, with a photo of founders Jaime Gamboa and Gabriel Grimalt....
Posted April 11, 2005 11:54 AM
• Tracks magazine has gone on hiatus after a little more than a year, while management pursues "new financing support with the goal of relaunching the...
Posted April 10, 2005 11:58 PM
Women's Wear Daily's MemoPad page says that Kent Black [mentioned on L.A.O. in February] has filled the long-vacant post of style editor at the soon-to-be-relaunched...
Posted April 5, 2005 04:17 PM
Catching up with some reading and email after a slow online day: • Venice gets the 36 Hours treatment in Friday's NYT Escapes. Janelle Brown has...
Posted March 18, 2005 12:45 AM
You might remember we told you on Feb. 14 that Rick Wartzman will be the new editor of a relaunched Times magazine. He's more than...
Posted March 9, 2005 01:36 AM
On the jobs board at Mediabistro: Distinction, an upscale lifestyle magazine for Southern California, is seeking an experienced managing editor to run day-to-day editorial operations....
Posted February 10, 2005 05:22 PM
Business Week's L.A. bureau chief Ron Grover posted his latest Power Lunch column on the success of Ray and what it says about the Hollywood...
Posted February 7, 2005 11:12 AM
That Los Angeles magazine story generally praising Michael Kinsley that I mentioned awhile back is now online. Also up on the Los Angeles website from...
Posted February 3, 2005 01:06 PM
Tanya Gold of The Guardian looks at this month's Vanity Fair cover—another triptych of young actresses—and sees "a desperate sight to make all feminists tremble....
Posted February 3, 2005 10:30 AM
New Yorker editor Dana Goodyear's "Annals of L.A." story on the Ambassador Hotel is in this week's magazine (but, alas, not online.) She frames the...
Posted February 2, 2005 04:15 PM
ClothesHoarse, the more fashion-obsessed of the two LA.com blogs, posts the news of an upcoming local magazine launch. Starting May 1, LA Mode—the self-proclaimed "voice...
Posted January 29, 2005 12:41 AM
There seem to be two leading schools of opinion about Michael Kinsley's impact on the Times as a voice of Los Angeles. One group believes...
Posted January 25, 2005 01:25 AM
Southern California is gaining another glossy lifestyle mag. Emmis Communcations—they publish Los Angeles magazine—is planning to launch Tu Ciudad Los Angeles this spring. It will...
Posted January 7, 2005 05:31 PM
In one of those magazine shakeups that is "effective immediately," James Truman is giving way after 11 years as Editorial Director of Conde Nast to...
Posted January 5, 2005 12:49 PM
Forbes calls this story "Flack Attack." The piece by Los Angeles bureau chief Seth Lubove details a legal dispute over $6 million in investments that...
Posted December 10, 2004 11:07 AM
* Updated with newest posts at the bottom • The February issue of Hustler will carry the story by Michael Collins and Mark Cromer that liberal...
Posted December 8, 2004 01:56 PM
The WGA board voted unanimously Monday night to let Written By go ahead and publish a roundtable discussion of guild politics—but only after a committee...
Posted December 8, 2004 09:47 AM
The Writers Guild board is under fire for playing thin-skinned publisher and yanking a roundtable discussion of guild politics from Written By, the organization's magazine....
Posted December 7, 2004 08:48 AM
Variety editor Peter Bart turned this month's issue of Vlife (not online) over to guest editor Brett Ratner, director of After the Sunset. Ratner took...
Posted December 6, 2004 01:13 PM
The California Journal is halting publication in January—at least temporarily—after 35 years. A non-profit board has tried to build an endowment to keep the monthly...
Posted December 2, 2004 05:29 PM
In this week's New Yorker, Los Angeles-based staff writer Caitlin Flanagan ponders the ritual of giving presents to teachers for the holidays. Her vantage point...
Posted December 1, 2004 03:47 PM
Andrew Murr of the Newsweek L.A. bureau shares the byline on a piece saying that girls account for most new HIV infections among teenagers and...
Posted November 29, 2004 01:51 AM
That's the cover line in the December issue of W (not online) for a story that lets us in on a secret: there's more to...
Posted November 29, 2004 01:22 AM
The magazine has hired Steve Oney as a Senior Writer. He fills the slot vacated by Amy Wallace, who left to return to the Times...
Posted November 17, 2004 01:03 PM
In its latest issue, Citizen Culture magazine publishes in the fiction slot a story by Playboy Playmate Divini Rae Sorenson about forced sex and abuse...
Posted November 16, 2004 10:45 AM
GQ's Men of the Year issue includes a piece by former LAT reporter Jeffrey Gettleman—now at the New York Times—on what he saw covering the...
Posted November 15, 2004 11:33 AM
The magazine has put up a site at VanityFair.com with the table of contents and a couple of stories from the print issue, the Fanfair...
Posted November 12, 2004 03:16 PM
In the new Classic Hollywood issue of Los Angeles magazine (not yet online), Steve Erickson nominates ten classic films that don't belong in the pantheon,...
Posted October 29, 2004 12:22 AM
Roger Cohn has quit as editor of the San Francisco-based magazine after five years. Dan Fost reports in the San Francisco Chronicle that Cohn blamed...
Posted October 15, 2004 11:40 AM
The writer of The New Yorker's occasional "Letter from California" talks to the San Francisco Chronicle about his recent piece on Gavin Newsom, being the...
Posted October 4, 2004 11:24 PM
Third time a charm? Tribune's Distinction magazine has brought on its third editor since launching last summer. It's Holly Palance, until recently the editor of...
Posted September 27, 2004 03:12 AM
Today's Page Six chuckles over the latest issue of Architectural Digest and the editor's note from Paige Rense about her conversation with an upset "Mr....
Posted September 22, 2004 09:10 AM
Times subscribers have been opening their papers to find the glossy premiere issue of bello — small b — a new magazine of "power, culture...
Posted September 20, 2004 09:48 PM
• The contents page in Sunday's L.A. Times Magazine had a posed photograph of a faux prisoner in a faux cell, to illustrate a cover story...
Posted September 20, 2004 11:00 AM
Adam Moss continues to reinvent New York magazine. His latest addition is Ken Tucker, the ex-Herald Examiner rock critic and longtime critic-at-large for Entertainment Weekly....
Posted September 16, 2004 01:36 PM
Syndicated columnist Jill Stewart (Daily News, Register, Pasadena Weekly) has the cover story in the September issue of Wired on her favorite Koll-i-fornia governor. Headline:...
Posted September 3, 2004 12:29 AM
Kim Masters may be losing her Esquire contract to produce Hollywood stories, Defamer hears. If true, she's still got her deal with NPR at least....
Posted September 2, 2004 12:40 PM
How difficult is Jann Wenner to work for? His annual inspections of the staff's desks for neatness are apparently legendary at Rolling Stone. Today, Gawker...
Posted September 1, 2004 03:15 PM
The magazine's September issue out now is a good one, and I'd say that even if I didn't have the cover story on Mayor Jim...
Posted August 30, 2004 01:12 AM
New entries added at end • Former LAT publisher David Laventhol is writing the history of Times Mirror for Public Affairs. The company's former chief exec,...
Posted August 6, 2004 11:21 AM
You know how the website for The New Yorker takes down the story links after each week's issue passes into history, without an archive? A...
Posted August 1, 2004 03:31 PM
For the August "special global issue," the Bay Area-based Business 2.0 outsourced a section of the magazine to India. From USA Today: "We could have...
Posted July 19, 2004 11:20 PM
The senior writer at Los Angeles Magazine whose 2001 profile of Variety editor Peter Bart was much talked about — and was a finalist for...
Posted July 14, 2004 03:43 PM
Philip Bruce, news director at Channel 28's "Life and Times" program, takes over as supervising editor for California at NPR West, the Culver City operation...
Posted July 10, 2004 12:15 PM
• LAist, the SoCal version of New York's Gothamist, goes public Tuesday. Earlier: Gothamist going bicoastal. • We're number one: The feds seize more contraband cigarettes at...
Posted July 5, 2004 11:54 AM
Laurie Pike at LA.Comfidential has the lowdown on editor news at Distinction (they have yet to fill the job she left last year), Hollywood Life...
Posted June 24, 2004 10:50 PM
The LA Weekly's Nikki Finke got a rude response when she phoned up New York Times Washington correspondent (and former L.A. bureau chief) Todd Purdum...
Posted June 16, 2004 10:34 PM
With a few more weeks to work on it, a triple byline of L.A. Times writers follows up today with a fuller but no more...
Posted June 16, 2004 01:06 AM
Richard Rushfield (scroll down) smacks a $50 fine on GQ for gratuitous L.A. bashing in the latest issue's interview with Jake Gyllenhaal and shopping guide...
Posted June 15, 2004 10:43 AM
My friends at Los Angeles magazine gathered up nine awards — more than any other publication — at the City and Regional Magazine Association competition...
Posted June 10, 2004 06:13 PM
The Los Angeles-based staff writer for The New Yorker (and former Harvard Westlake English teacher) riled up people with her March piece in the Atlantic,...
Posted June 2, 2004 11:28 AM
Jon Friedman, media editor of CBS MarketWatch, was in town last week to have breakfast with Los Angeles editor Kit Rachlis (pictured) and to ponder...
Posted May 28, 2004 10:17 AM
Matt Welch details his take on the Sandra Tsing Loh-KCRW affair in a piece at Reason magazine and in a lengthy post on his blog...
Posted May 24, 2004 11:41 AM
The Sacramento Bee reports that the 34-year-old magazine of state politics and issues has been transferred (in a no-money deal) to the new California Journal...
Posted May 22, 2004 11:20 AM
The New York Observer editorializes today against its former editor, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, disagreeing with the notion that his ethical lapses in Hollywood...
Posted May 19, 2004 10:06 AM
The June issue of Reason magazine with a customized satellite photo of each subscriber's home on the cover is starting to arrive in mailboxes. The...
Posted May 18, 2004 01:53 PM
L.A. Business Journal media reporter Pat Maio interviews William Curtis, owner since 2001 of the Malibu-published Robb Report and other wealthy lifestyle magazines. Curtis says...
Posted May 17, 2004 01:38 AM
For the cover feature in the Times' Weekend Calendar today, Patt Morrison peruses and critiques a small sampling of the magazines published in and (more...
Posted May 13, 2004 11:55 AM
Bonnie Fuller's Star has a new West Coast bureau chief, Mary Ann Norbom -- she's the third in eight months, Page Six says. "It's kind...
Posted May 10, 2004 03:57 PM
The prizes for general excellence at today's National Magazine Awards went to Newsweek, Popular Science, Gourmet, Budget Living, Chicago Magazine and Aperture. There were 39...
Posted May 5, 2004 01:20 PM
Mike Lafavore resigns after just fifteen months with a little knock at reality programming. Romenesko has the memo....
Posted May 3, 2004 03:33 PM
Pretty important, the Economist thinks. The May 1 cover of the London-based weekly is devoted to a big photo of a tight-lipped Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger...
Posted May 2, 2004 11:05 PM
The newest copy of Fortune has a long piece looking at Barry Diller's moves to build a company, InterActiveCorp, that intends to get a cut...
Posted April 26, 2004 08:59 AM
Avalon owner Steve Adelman claims in a Page Six item today that Vanity Fair writer George Wayne demanded two free first-class tickets between New York...
Posted April 22, 2004 09:32 AM
The cover of Los Angeles magazine this month is 25 Great Weekends. Cover lines to stories mention R.J. Smith's piece on how L.A. car culture...
Posted April 19, 2004 05:57 PM
L.A.-based publications such as the L.A. Times Magazine, Robb Report, Angeleno and the Advocate are riding a big jump in ad pages over last year,...
Posted April 19, 2004 02:38 AM
Folks at Forbes are a mite amused by a pitch from the PR rep for LA.com, asking if the website's president and editor can meet...
Posted April 15, 2004 04:54 PM
Laurie Pike at LA.com is on a roll today [not so fast...see below *], blogging that her old job as editor of Distinction magazine has...
Posted April 13, 2004 07:35 PM
Since last week's Inglewood vote (and L.A. Observed item) pushed a few buttons, here's a follow through from L.A. blogger Armed Liberal over at Winds...
Posted April 12, 2004 10:50 PM
LA.com blogs that Adam Moss at New York magazine may (or may not) be looking for a Hollywood columnist since Anne Thompson was let go...
Posted April 12, 2004 05:52 PM
Reason magazine's June cover will be devoted to a cool exercise in technology: the 40,000 subscribers will see individualized satellite photos of their neighborhood, with...
Posted April 6, 2004 10:01 AM
The LAT's Bob Baker has a piece in the Calendar section on the newly younger and hipper magazine put out by AARP, the group for...
Posted April 4, 2004 12:11 AM
Sack had also been a producer for Channel 2 here, a screenwriter, an actor and a writer for the TV show "That's Incredible." But he...
Posted March 30, 2004 01:38 PM
Mark Robichaux takes over as executive editor of news for Broadcast & Cable, Variety reports today. He had spent 13 years at the Wall Street...
Posted March 26, 2004 06:54 PM
For the first time, more people in California buy The New Yorker than in New York, writes Cynthia Cotts in the Village Voice. The score...
Posted March 23, 2004 01:42 PM
NBC's anchor-in-waiting Brian Williams was not stripped and body-cavity searched recently at the San Diego airport. Broadcasting and Cable magazine regrets misinterpreting the joke Williams...
Posted March 23, 2004 01:21 PM
In his column at TV Week, Alex Ben Block rips Entertainment Weekly's ranking of the "25.5 funniest people in America." In fact, he calls it...
Posted March 22, 2004 12:50 PM
Back in November, Eric Umansky in the New Republic savaged claims by famed paralegal Erin Brockovich-Ellis and people around Beverly Hills High School (and a...
Posted March 17, 2004 06:01 PM
Caitlin Flanagan of the Atlantic Monthly is up for a National Magazine Award in the Reviews and Criticism category. Otherwise, it's pretty slim pickings for...
Posted March 17, 2004 02:07 PM
Author and journalist Ann Louise Bardach has written for Vanity Fair, Los Angeles, Talk, George and, among others, the New Yorker -- but you can...
Posted March 16, 2004 10:40 AM
The New Yorker's worst-selling cover of 2003 was the one about Arnold Schwarzenegger as "California's strongman." The best-selling double issue was winter fiction. Jesus covers...
Posted March 15, 2004 09:50 AM
The new "bi-coastal, biannual print magazine dedicated to identifying and promoting established and emerging literary talent" is out. The editor is Leelila Strogov. Writers in...
Posted March 12, 2004 10:54 AM
James Wolcott opens his exploration of politics blogs in the April Vanity Fair (not online) by asking "are we in danger of drowning in blogorrhea?"...
Posted March 7, 2004 12:56 PM
In the March 15 issue of Forbes, Los Angeles bureau manager Seth Lubove asks of Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold, "so who are these...
Posted February 26, 2004 04:59 PM
The first issue of Vodka magazine, based here in L.A., has hit the streets with photographs from former District Attorney Gil Garcetti's book Iron: Erecting...
Posted February 22, 2004 11:35 PM
Los Angeles-based writer Caitlin Flanagan joins the staff of The New Yorker to write stories about "modern domestic life," says the NY Observer's Sridhar Pappu....
Posted February 18, 2004 10:04 AM
In e-mail, Distinction publisher Jane Dalea-Kahn takes exception to yesterday's post on the magazine, and confirms that another editor (at least the third see below)...
Posted February 17, 2004 10:15 PM
Los Angeles has just two spheres, according to the latest Distinction magazine: West of the 405 and East of the 405. Here's how the Tribune...
Posted February 16, 2004 07:11 PM
Joel Kotkin, the L.A. author and urban analyst busy writing a book on the history of cities, rates the best (and worst) places for doing...
Posted February 11, 2004 10:55 AM
Six months after becoming the New York Times cultural czar, Adam Moss leaves to become the top editor of New York magazine. Moss gets a...
Posted February 11, 2004 10:09 AM
In the New Vanity Fair, contributing editor Howard Blum and freelance digger John Connolly (author of that much-rehashed Premiere piece on Arnold Schwarzenegger) team up...
Posted February 6, 2004 12:20 AM
Reason's L.A.-based associate editor Matt Welch has a strong piece in the current issue that takes off from the bad experience of his wrongly accused...
Posted February 4, 2004 03:59 PM
My piece on PR giant Fleishman-Hillard and its top local operative, former Daily News managing editor Doug Dowie, is now up on the Los Angeles...
Posted January 31, 2004 10:55 PM
The fashion monthly decrees the top poker game in town is the Gourmet Poker Club, which has met once a month for 25 years: Barry...
Posted January 23, 2004 01:01 AM
The February issue of Los Angeles is the annual Oscar-timed number, with Patricia Clarkson and Benicio Del Toro on the cover. Inside are a piece...
Posted January 22, 2004 12:06 AM
Last week in The New Yorker, Nation columnist Katha Pollitt confessed at length about web-stalking the lover who left her for a younger art critic....
Posted January 21, 2004 12:23 PM
Magazine and tabloid sales are off as much as 20% due to the southern California supermarket strike, says a Business story by Melinda Fulmer in...
Posted January 19, 2004 11:54 AM
Tad Friend's "Letter from California" for The New Yorker this week is about the L.A. River -- the line on the contents page reads, "Trying...
Posted January 19, 2004 01:14 AM
US Weekly's follow-up cover story on Britney Spears' brief marriage carries 16 bylines. Discuss. (from NY Daily News)...
Posted January 16, 2004 06:27 AM
Honchos of The New Frontier, the self-appointed successor to George magazine long promised by Kennedy friend Helen O'Donnell, tell Folio they will finally launch in...
Posted January 5, 2004 12:25 AM
The magazine was purchased for $55 million this afternoon by Bruce Wasserstein, chairman of investment bank Lazard, says AdAge.com. Emmis (Los Angeles magazine) and the...
Posted December 16, 2003 05:40 PM
In this month's Written By, the journal of the Writers Guild, Calle Khouri and Gary Ross talk with each other about the writing process, directing...
Posted December 15, 2003 12:13 PM
In The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" this week, Tad Friend reports on what ensued when the L.A. staff of the National Lampoon website...
Posted December 11, 2003 03:06 PM
Richard Horgan writes at FilmStew that the Playboy Interview was once a cultural milestone, but today has become just another pit stop on the Hollywood...
Posted December 11, 2003 11:30 AM
The Orange County DA Tony Rackauckas, who is engaged in a nasty feud down there with the L.A. Times and the OC Weekly, is the...
Posted December 8, 2003 11:10 AM
Seth Lubove, chief of the Forbes L.A. bureau, visits the set of the forthcoming Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator, and profiles the film's bankroller as...
Posted December 2, 2003 10:06 PM
Reason's December issue celebrates the L.A.-based magazine's 35th year in existence with a list of, yes, 35 "Heroes of Freedom" who "made the world a...
Posted December 1, 2003 11:10 PM
Richard Horgan considers the "Sexiest Man Alive" phenomenon at FilmStew.com: Two decades later, the annual title of worldwide male hottie, which was awarded last week...
Posted November 26, 2003 09:35 PM
More tales of Buzz and of Los Angeles magazine from a few regimes ago, as told by Nancy Rommelmann. Who apparently, and alas, is still...
Posted November 25, 2003 09:57 PM
New York Post gossips aren't impressed with Us Weekly's choice of reporter for the Michael Jackson case. Says Page Six: If you're expecting hard-hitting coverage...
Posted November 24, 2003 10:48 AM
Michael Caruso, the editor of Los Angeles while the magazine was owned by Disney, is taking over the top spot at Jann Wenner's Men's Journal,...
Posted November 20, 2003 10:20 AM
Slate's Eric Umansky, writing in the New Republic, takes on allegations that the oil wells at Beverly Hills High are causing a high rate of...
Posted November 18, 2003 09:14 PM
Emmis Communications, owner of Los Angeles magazine, is no longer a player in the bidding to buy New York, Keith J. Kelly reports in the...
Posted November 12, 2003 09:07 AM
Brett Pulley in a Forbes magazine cover piece examines the Matrix franchise and says it has so far taken in $1.9 billion in gross revenue...
Posted November 7, 2003 01:26 AM
Mark Bowden's October cover story in The Atlantic, "The Dark Art of Interrogation" -- which explored the role of torture and other tactics in interrogation...
Posted November 5, 2003 10:37 AM
Nice interview at mediabistro with Nick Gillespie, editor of Reason. The libertarian magazine is nominally based in Los Angeles, but he is near Cincinnati. We're...
Posted November 4, 2003 10:24 AM
The second issue of L.A. Innuendo is online and presumably in print, though I haven't yet run into it anywhere....
Posted October 31, 2003 11:31 PM
Cosmo Israel is a start-up where Editor-in-chief Lea Kantor-Matarasso grapples with the big questions. “It's sometimes difficult to write with humor or tell stories about...
Posted October 31, 2003 11:30 AM
David Denby in The New Yorker on Kill Bill--Vol. 1: “Kill Bill” is what’s formally known as decadence and commonly known as crap. It will...
Posted October 9, 2003 02:39 PM
Grant Robinson of Los Angeles is the winner of The New Republic's contest to name Gregg Easterbrook's new blog. It's now the Easterblogg. These must...
Posted October 2, 2003 12:55 AM
If you only see Los Angeles magazine on the newstand, this month the cover is on fall travel. Subscribers, however, are getting a gorgeous Dan...
Posted September 26, 2003 02:11 AM
Cathy Seipp uses her CityBeat column this week to peruse the first issue of Distinction magazine and other L.A. glossies in search of some inner...
Posted September 25, 2003 01:44 AM
New York magazine plans to start a blog and is apparently hiring Elizabeth Spiers of Gawker to help on that and write pieces for the...
Posted September 18, 2003 12:48 PM
Greg Lindsay in Women's Wear Daily cites sources saying that Emmis Communications is reluctant to bid for New York magazine, seeing it as "a major...
Posted September 16, 2003 11:14 AM
Just how serious will Emmis Communications, owners of Los Angeles magazine and Power 106 radio here, be in the crowded derby to acquire New York...
Posted September 11, 2003 10:20 AM
The mailing list for Distinction, the magazine from Angeles Publications -- which is the Los Angeles Times ad department in disguise -- is supposed to...
Posted September 10, 2003 12:16 AM
Ad Age says that Emmis Communications, publisher of Los Angeles and other city and regional magazines, including Texas Monthly, has had talks about buying New...
Posted September 9, 2003 10:39 AM
In his day job Ken Baker is the West Coast executive editor in L.A. for Us Weekly. Somehow he also finds the time to write...
Posted September 5, 2003 12:20 AM
Jonathan Cohn, the former executive editor of The American Prospect and The New Republic, has a Los Angeles Diarist piece in the current TNR on...
Posted September 4, 2003 09:58 PM
Everything changed for the pranksters of the Los Angeles Cacophony Society (into "Art, Exploration and Subversion of the Secular Norm") after two members died in...
Posted August 29, 2003 12:50 PM
Matt Welch, who appears to be having more fun than any magazine writer-editor should in his stint at Reason, goes to Lexis and catches Arianna...
Posted August 18, 2003 03:37 PM
Cinescape, the Studio City-based magazine for hardcore cinema aficionados, has a new owner, editor and focus, the L.A. Business Journal's RiShawn Biddle reports this week....
Posted August 18, 2003 01:41 AM
A couple of Los Angeles writers have pieces in the September Esquire. Ross Johnson puts actor James Caan to the "What I've Learned" test, and...
Posted August 10, 2003 01:21 PM
Genre, a lifestyle mag for successful gay men, is leaving Hollywood Boulevard for the Empire State Building in Manhattan. There's an all-new editor team in...
Posted August 7, 2003 10:47 AM
At least most of us are, writes Matt Welch in a new Reason article that argues against denying the vote to 4.6 million Americans with...
Posted July 25, 2003 02:11 PM
Haven't seen it -- so the welcome is conditional -- but anything that calls itself "L.A.'s scrappiest satirical newsmonthly" sounds good to me. L.A. Innuendo...
Posted July 24, 2003 01:47 AM
It looks like Distinction, the upcoming magazine from a newly created arm of the L.A. Times advertising department, is signing up actual editorial types. From...
Posted July 23, 2003 09:38 AM
Well it has a few, on special stories, but very few. In his media column in this Sunday's L.A. Times, David Shaw explores the Economist's...
Posted July 18, 2003 11:43 AM
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