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Topic Archive: Websites
New Geography.com, based in Sherman Oaks and North Dakota, has launched as a website "devoted to analyzing and discussing the places where we live and...
Posted June 23, 2008 03:26 PM
The Online Journalism Review had survived for ten years under the stewardship of USC's Annenberg School of Communications. No more. Editor Robert Niles posted today:...
Posted June 16, 2008 05:45 PM
The Webby Awards are annual plaudits bestowed on corporate and institutional websites and a relative few blogs, with 8,000 entries in nearly 70 categories. Five...
Posted April 9, 2008 12:14 AM
Well, just a new name. Jamie Court has abandoned the snooze-inducing Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights in favor of...ta dah...Consumer Watchdog.org. Broadcasters everywhere will...
Posted March 19, 2008 02:55 PM
That audio of O.J. Simpson hollering at sports memorabilia collectors in a Las Vegas hotel last year was worth $165,000 to TMZ.com, reports The Smoking...
Posted March 10, 2008 05:13 PM
The new website created and bankrolled by Liz Smith, Lesley Stahl, Peggy Noonan, Mary Wells and Joni Evans went live today. Backed by $1 million...
Posted March 8, 2008 05:05 PM
No print edition, just online, and not much more ambitious than the mix already posted at the Anschutz media empire's obscure Los Angeles site —...
Posted March 4, 2008 12:39 AM
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
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
Betsy Morgan is leaving as general manager of CBSNews.com to lead the HuffPost. Arianna Huffington remains editor in chief and co-founder Kenneth Lerer moves up...
Posted October 1, 2007 09:35 PM
Writer Frank Coffey's spoof site eTrueSports.com is now in video on YouTube....
Posted September 25, 2007 11:19 PM
Marc Cooper is joining the Huffington Post as special correpondent and will direct coverage of the 2008 political campaigns for OfftheBus.net, a co-venture of the...
Posted September 20, 2007 10:54 AM
TMZ.com ran a video clip of Superior Court Judge Lance Ito pronouncing O.J. Simpson "guilty as sin" of the Las Vegas charges — except it...
Posted September 20, 2007 08:23 AM
PeopleJam, a self-help website due to launch this month by Hollywood execs Robert Tercek and Matt Edelman, has already been dinged for the lame name...
Posted September 12, 2007 06:20 AM
Steve Wasserman and Robert Scheer are together again. The former Los Angeles Times book editor, now managing director of the New York office of Kneerim...
Posted August 9, 2007 10:49 AM
Recurring outages in the South of Market Street area of San Francisco have knocked Craigslist, Netflix, Technorati and other websites offline at times this afternoon....
Posted July 24, 2007 04:15 PM
The onetime maven of media mixers sold mediabistro.com today for $23 million. The buyer is Internet research firm Jupitermedia, which wants the company for the...
Posted July 17, 2007 09:35 PM
FourStory is "fact-based housing advocacy with a human perspective," and with fiction and a manifesto. It reads in part: This site had its genesis over...
Posted July 9, 2007 12:20 PM
Eric Longabardi of ERS News.com reports that before Mirthala Salinas became involved with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, she was the girlfriend of his good friend and...
Posted July 3, 2007 05:49 PM
Don Barrett has been informing and entertaining local radio buffs at LARadio.com for ten years, but it sounds as if the thrill is gone. He...
Posted June 24, 2007 10:24 PM
Memo out of the Daily News building in Woodland Hills: We're pleased to announce that Jason Middleton is joining LA.Com as Editor. Jason came to...
Posted May 15, 2007 03:44 PM
Pasadena Now publisher and editor James Macpherson justifies the move as a cost-saver that could significantly improve local reporting. "Whether you’re at a desk in...
Posted May 10, 2007 02:24 PM
The new website from L.A. online entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart launched Friday night with an exclusive interview with former Senator Fred Thompson, his first on video...
Posted May 6, 2007 11:32 PM
This tree went down yesterday in Leimert Park. Photo is from a new Leimert Park community website by former Daily Breeze reporter Eddie North-Hager, who...
Posted April 13, 2007 07:29 AM
Meredith Artley, named earlier this month to be executive editor of the Times website, tells the Online Journalism Review that her focus will be on...
Posted February 20, 2007 10:26 PM
The Sacramento Bee today announced a big new risky online gamble: a premium politics website called CapitolAlert that costs a whopping $499 a year and...
Posted January 24, 2007 10:16 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
If you enjoy remembering old local restaurants and already exhausted Jonathon Foerstel's Los Angeles Time Machines, writer Mark Evanier's POVOnline is an entertaining place to...
Posted January 16, 2007 11:09 PM
What do you get when you put together art and radio? Not much, frankly. But what if you add visuals? ArtScene magazine is doing just...
Posted January 16, 2007 06:05 PM
Elinor Shields leaves the BBC to become managing editor of the Huffington Post, based in New York. She will oversee day-to-day editorial operations, including the...
Posted January 11, 2007 09:53 AM
City news junkies will soon start hearing more about the "912 Commission." More formally called the Neighborhood Council Review Commission, it is required by the...
Posted January 3, 2007 05:20 AM
Ron Fineman lost his battle with colon cancer today. The founder of the television news website Ron Fineman's On the Record was taken off his...
Posted December 30, 2006 06:52 PM
Hollywood Today calls itself a "newsmagazine, with attitude...we cover the world of entertainment in all its multimedia glory, from screens and stages large and small."...
Posted December 15, 2006 12:29 AM
No, Michael Richards did not attend a celebrity roast for Whoopi Goldberg in blackface. Nor did he pour a bottle of Aunt Jemima syrup over...
Posted December 5, 2006 03:37 PM
Melinda Henneberger, a Newsweek contributing editor who used to be at the New York Times, joins the Huffington Post as political editor and will hire...
Posted November 30, 2006 10:20 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
Ah, the rich cultural history, snow-capped mountains and sun-kissed beaches. Sounds lovely — too bad the Vernon link on Supervisor Gloria Molina's county website doesn't...
Posted November 8, 2006 02:31 AM
Rafat Ali's Santa Monica-based news operation — a success story among the many local web startups — has completely redesigned and shifted to a new...
Posted October 24, 2006 09:14 AM
The Hollywood Reporter has joined the website redesign parade, giving the site a thorough remake. Flackage: New features include site-wide integration of The Reporter’s database,...
Posted October 23, 2006 04:15 PM
Beirut | Los Angeles calls itself a "nonpartisan albeit progressive project for peace, linking Americans with Lebanon in particular and the Middle East more generally."...
Posted August 23, 2006 10:16 AM
Came across a website that bills itself as A People’s Guide to LA: "an attempt to map sites of racial and class struggle in Los...
Posted June 12, 2006 08:45 PM
Suddenly we're awash in online restaurant menus. An email announces the Los Angeles launch of MenuPix, "free access to menus and basic information" on 3,000...
Posted June 5, 2006 10:39 AM
Martin Schall, the German photographer who runs one of the best Los Angeles architecture websites, has posted a bunch of new images at his site...
Posted May 30, 2006 12:49 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
Derek Lowe started the Dodgers opener today and kinda bombed—he gave up eight runs in five innings. Either before or after the game, he also...
Posted April 3, 2006 11:03 PM
Anthony Pellicano will go into court today and ask for an expedited trial, possibly foregoing the use of a federal public defender, journalist Ross Johnson...
Posted March 20, 2006 01:48 AM
There may not yet be a Los Angeles Examiner in the fledgling Philip Anschutz newspaper empire, but there is a dedicated L.A. page on Examiner.com....
Posted March 15, 2006 12:46 AM
Dave Sifry of Technorati tracks what bloggers link to and notes in his latest report that the New York Times receives by far the most...
Posted February 19, 2006 11:45 AM
Dateline: Hollywood's spoof of the week headlines the news that "automobile fatalities in Los Angeles are up 85% in the past month as residents seeking...
Posted February 6, 2006 04:05 PM
Snopes.com weighs in on the case of the USC cheerleader on the side of she may not be to blame—after all, it was a close...
Posted January 26, 2006 01:14 PM
District Attorney Steve Cooley's website designed to put pressure on felons who flee to Mexico—and authorities who tolerate it— is getting credit for the arrest...
Posted January 25, 2006 06:33 PM
Yahoo's hiring of Dave Morgan, the #2 editor in the LAT Sports section, gets a thorough dissection in the forum at SportsJournalists.com....
Posted January 25, 2006 02:02 AM
The new issue of The Planning Report has a Q-and-A with departing L.A. planning director Mark Winogrond, a discussion with planning commissioners Jane Usher and...
Posted January 23, 2006 02:07 PM
The LA Weekly website redesign I mentioned this morning is currently down; the old design is back up in its place, with last week's stories....
Posted January 19, 2006 02:36 PM
The attempt by a conservative website to out and possibly intimidate UCLA professors who espouse political views has media legs, at least today. Shawn Steel,...
Posted January 18, 2006 01:56 PM
Here's a letter to the editor in the latest Fortune magazine, posted on the website Online News Squared: Could Craigslist turn newspaper classifieds to ashes?...
Posted January 18, 2006 11:23 AM
Gawker has the news that the Golden Groundhog award will honor the best underground movie of 2005, chosen from among "genuinely outstanding films from the...
Posted January 18, 2006 09:57 AM
New media reporter Anne Riley-Katz's LABJ piece on Robert Scheer's venture Truthdig.com focuses less on the deposed L.A. Times columnist and more on co-founder and...
Posted December 12, 2005 01:54 AM
I told you early last year about an extraordinary website that presents hundreds of photographs of Los Angeles landmark buildings, giving dates and information on...
Posted November 17, 2005 11:34 PM
Here's an update to my exclusive post last Friday on the end of Robert Scheer's column on the L.A. Times op-ed page: He went on...
Posted November 8, 2005 04:32 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
Posting will be light today... • Mayor Villaraigosa safaris out to Tujunga this morning to unveil his appointees to the Fire Commission. If you don't know...
Posted September 9, 2005 12:58 AM
WeHoNews.com promises to be an online newspaper covering West Hollywood as an "independent, fair, balanced and effective local news vehicle." The first issue has features...
Posted September 8, 2005 11:31 AM
Ripped from the headlines at Dateline Hollywood, TV evangelist Pat Robertson has called for another well-known figure who annoys him to be assassinated. That would...
Posted August 31, 2005 01:49 PM
A little morning briefing... • Brian Cullen, the suspected killer of model Iryna Singerman, was found dead in a Tijuana motel room. Authorities say he killed...
Posted August 31, 2005 02:18 AM
LAPD Wife posts word of a new club for the wives of officers. From the group's website: The LAPD Wives Club is for women dating,...
Posted August 17, 2005 09:22 AM
LA.com is jumping into the traffic biz with a monthly newsletter of commuter tips called Car Keys. The first edition carries links to traffic-related stories...
Posted August 16, 2005 01:34 AM
Steve Harvey's Only in L.A. column in today's Times points to a new website for rants, discussions and tips about traffic. The forums at The...
Posted July 7, 2005 12:23 AM
Up in Sacramento, Political Pulse bought the Capitol Weekly website and newspapers and plans to launch a state political news portal later this summer. The...
Posted June 30, 2005 03:30 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
Over on Wilshire, the online staff at E! is trying to take back a gossip nugget they posted announcing the collapse of the Jessica Simpson-Nick...
Posted May 25, 2005 10:12 AM
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
Ron Fineman follows up today with reporting on his scoop last week that KNBC reporter Kyung Lah and "Today in L.A." producer Jeff Soto got...
Posted March 22, 2005 02:04 AM
Jim Hill gives reality tours of Disneyland to tourists who want the inside story, not the official Magic Kingdom pablum. During yesterday's tour, park security...
Posted March 21, 2005 02:39 PM
Don Barrett's pay site that follows Los Angeles radio has recovered from its system crash. The first email published Thurday is from Charlie Cook: "As...
Posted February 24, 2005 10:41 PM
And now the site is down, possibly all week, following a total hard drive crash. Don Barrett draws every day on his rich archive of...
Posted February 23, 2005 12:22 PM
The founder and editor of Salon.com will announce Thursday that he is leaving after 10 years to write a book about Robert F. Kennedy, the...
Posted February 9, 2005 11:38 PM
Where else but here can you get two-week-old news? An emailer just pointed out to me that Spinsanity announced on Jan. 19 that the political...
Posted February 2, 2005 10:26 AM
I can't swear that PEN Center USA's website is new, but I just came across it for the first time. Bookmark it as another good...
Posted January 28, 2005 02:00 AM
Not a moment too soon, CityBeat has given up the white-type-on-black look that made its website so difficult to read. The new design is definitely...
Posted January 27, 2005 10:39 AM
Google is known for its creative holiday plays on its familiar logo. Last year artists came up with a logo for most big holidays plus...
Posted January 17, 2005 04:19 PM
My favorite job used to be to roam around upstate California and Nevada looking for stories, then try to write them onto the front page...
Posted January 15, 2005 12:01 AM
CaliforniaAuthors.com has freshened up its exclusive listing of books written by California authors or about the state. Those coming in 2005 include: Wrong Side of...
Posted January 4, 2005 11:45 PM
Friday is Sharon Tay's last day at Channel 5, says Ron Fineman. The longtime KTLA Morning News co-anchor is headed to MSNBC to co-host an...
Posted January 4, 2005 07:07 PM
In a front page story in the latest L.A. Business Journal, Howard Fine says internal campaign polls show Antonio Villaraigosa and Bernard Parks—the two council...
Posted January 3, 2005 04:41 PM
L.A.'s most important Denver-based player, Philip Anschutz, has filed trademark applications to reserve "The Examiner" as the name of newspapers in 69 cities. The Denver...
Posted December 21, 2004 10:12 AM
LAVoice.org has competition for its series keeping tabs on the web presence of the five top candidates for mayor. In the Downtown News, Jon Regardie...
Posted December 19, 2004 10:12 PM
Both the L.A. Business Journal and LA Weekly are getting ready to unveil newsier websites. In the new issue, the Journal announces that over the...
Posted December 19, 2004 09:38 PM
The Food Section, the New York-based website Gourmet calls "the consummate gastronomic blog," is devoting a week to Los Angeles culinary spots. Guest editor Kristin...
Posted December 16, 2004 12:57 PM
• Milton Bradley did it again. The volatile Dodgers outfielder was cited for disorderly conduct after allegedly interfering with a police traffic stop near Akron, Ohio....
Posted November 29, 2004 05:29 PM
This is (probably) the final follow to the Online News Association conference that was held here last week. I noted earlier that the entry fee...
Posted November 18, 2004 06:27 PM
From Garrison Frost in his online "journal of arts and ideas," The Aesthetic: American Martyrs Church: You can't understand the South Bay until you understand...
Posted October 29, 2004 11:56 AM
Los Angeles schools chief Roy Romer and the school district have sued that disgruntled ex-student who posted gay pornography on a website and claimed it...
Posted October 29, 2004 11:24 AM
The contenders in the Online News Association competition I helped judge over the weekend are now posted. Local finalists include the L.A. Times Outdoors section,...
Posted October 7, 2004 01:14 PM
Some guy with a worker's comp claim against the L.A. school district emails me that in a desperate plea to push his case, he has...
Posted October 4, 2004 01:57 AM
At the end of last week, the editors at LAist posted that the site would be migrating to a new server over the weekend. Always...
Posted September 27, 2004 12:12 PM
Mack Reed at LAVoice.org breaks the news that LA.com, the city guide and shopping site put together by the parent of the Daily News and...
Posted September 24, 2004 05:36 PM
WriterAction.com is where about 400 members of the Writers Guild go for their daily fix of of dish, dirt and grousing, behind a firewall open...
Posted September 24, 2004 01:49 AM
• 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
OK, we recently noted an L.A. hot dog website. Now we've been pointed to Hamburger LA. They evalute by price, meat and patty, buns, fixings,...
Posted September 17, 2004 11:58 AM
• Architecture: The owner of Santa Monica Place is in quiet talks with the city to raze the Frank Gehry-designed shopping center and build an open-air...
Posted September 13, 2004 10:43 AM
LAist excerpts an interview about the beauty and other qualities of Los Angeles with author and New Yorker writer Lawrence Weschler, a Valley boy from...
Posted September 9, 2004 09:48 AM
David Shaw's Media Matters column in yesterday's Times was all about George Wolfe and his news satire site, the LALA Times. Wolfe, 40, is an...
Posted August 30, 2004 10:19 AM
Some things to note from while I was gone: • Larry McCormick: The co-anchor of the KTLA "News at Ten Weekend Edition" began at channel 5...
Posted August 30, 2004 12:37 AM
Starting Sunday, craigslist will charge $25 for placing job ads on the website in Los Angeles and New York. The cheapskates who want models, actors...
Posted July 30, 2004 09:07 PM
The creators of that cartoon parody sweeping through the Web — a Shockwave clip of Bush and Kerry singing to the tune of "This Land...
Posted July 27, 2004 09:48 AM
For what it's worth, the folks at Snopes.com have declared false the notion that writer Anne Jacobsen encountered a band of rehearsing terrorists on her...
Posted July 26, 2004 06:15 PM
In his cinematic essay Los Angeles Plays Itself, filmmaker and Cal Arts professor Thom Andersen tries to correct the false images of the city he...
Posted July 26, 2004 08:46 AM
Yes, Microsoft is talking about selling the online magazine to the Washington Post, the New York Times or a handful of other potential buyers, the...
Posted July 23, 2004 12:26 PM
Salon's resident airline pilot Patrick Smith reacts to that woman's account last week of her uncomfortable flight on Northwest Airlines with a bunch of Arabs...
Posted July 21, 2004 01:22 PM
Writer Annie Jacobsen at Women'sWallStreet.com goes into detail about her nerve-wracking flight from Detroit to Los Angeles in June with 14 suspicious-acting (to her) Middle...
Posted July 16, 2004 09:06 AM
Lawyers for Cameron Diaz want the Gawker Media websites to stop reporting on and having fun with that for-sale video showing the actress topless in...
Posted July 14, 2004 12:27 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
The local knockoff of the New York website will be called LAist when it launches next week. Tom Berman will do the writing. Franklin Avenue...
Posted June 29, 2004 09:57 AM
Long Beach Press-Telegram columnist Doug Krikorian said on his radio show on KSPN this afternoon that Lakers owner Jerry Buss met face-to-face with Miami Heat...
Posted June 22, 2004 05:43 PM
CNET reports on why popular news websites were down on Tuesday morning....
Posted June 15, 2004 12:19 PM
Sunday's L.A. Times Magazine has a cover piece on Craig Newmark, the former IBM programmer and computer security geek who started and still runs Craigslist....
Posted June 11, 2004 05:04 PM
The Westmar Sun is "a Web-based journal of news and opinion about Mar Vista and the Westdales," small L.A. neighborhoods on the border of Santa...
Posted June 7, 2004 10:47 PM
Editor & Publisher, the print newspaper trade mag, and Mediaweek today handed out the 2004 EPpy awards to honor "the best new media work by...
Posted May 12, 2004 01:20 PM
Someone emails to ask if it's a little ironic or something that the Writers Guild of America, West negotiations website has posted the full text...
Posted May 1, 2004 12:50 AM
SWAT teams summoned. Only in the spoof world of George Wolfe's LALATimes. Also in the new issue: "Bush Declares California Disaster Area - In General"...
Posted April 29, 2004 11:57 AM
Toby Young, the Brit journalist who used to write for Vanity Fair, is writing the Slate Diary this week about living in L.A. for three...
Posted April 22, 2004 03:08 AM
Former E! Online columnist Andy Jones today begins a new weekly gig for FilmStew.com about party life. It's called SWAG: See Where Andy Goes. In...
Posted April 9, 2004 05:57 PM
Chill Out LA is a website and weekly newsletter "devoted to helping you become a happier, healthier, more centered Angeleno."...
Posted April 6, 2004 12:56 PM
In some depth, by Mack Reed of LAVoice.org (who didn't get the job to be the site's editor). The site - almost two years in...
Posted April 5, 2004 03:43 AM
PaidContent.org, which authoritatively tracks media efforts to make money on the web, is now listed among my links on the left side as a Los...
Posted April 4, 2004 12:48 AM
Garrison Frost writes in The Aesthetic (The South Bay's Journal of Arts and Ideas) of attending a memorial service last week for Cy Zoerner, a...
Posted March 1, 2004 01:24 PM
Online city guide LA.com formally launches this week, two years after Dean Singleton's MediaNews Group bought the domain name from Las Vegas Internet entrepreneurs. The...
Posted February 29, 2004 02:24 PM
The "Article of the Week" in The Simon is a mostly favorable take on Kevin Phillips, the disgruntled ex-Republican (and LAT Opinion contributor) whose new...
Posted February 19, 2004 04:54 PM
Beverly Hills' own smut publisher Larry Flynt is interviewed about porn, civil liberties and the Internet by Xeni Jardin today at Wired News. Wilshire Boulevard...
Posted February 19, 2004 12:42 PM
At LAVoice.org, Mack Reed posts about the increasing number of political protest signs hung above and alongside the freeways. He links to FreewayBlogger.com, an antiwar...
Posted February 12, 2004 11:55 PM
You can't say Joe Shea doesn't take the road less traveled. Two years ago, the editor in chief of the online newspaper American Reporter ran...
Posted February 12, 2004 01:15 AM
In the parallel universe of George Wolfe's LaLaTimes, that is. Doesn't he know you don't joke about water in Los Angeles?...
Posted February 12, 2004 12:58 AM
The actor, writer, economist and Republican activist wrote "Monday Night at Morton's" for E! Online for seven or eight years. He cites his changed worldview...
Posted January 30, 2004 12:32 AM
LAVoice.org is a new community site made up of, says the FAQs, "ultra-local newsgatherers, pundits and outspoken writers whose collective knowledge of their neighborhoods and...
Posted January 23, 2004 10:57 AM
Cathy Seipp pokes fun at Pitzer College president Laura Skandera Trombley -- and the school's decision to stop using the SAT -- in a piece...
Posted January 21, 2004 11:42 AM
Lead story in the LaLaTimes (not to be confused with any other Times)....
Posted January 14, 2004 01:02 AM
Film critic Henry Sheehan, a regular on KPCC's "Film Week" segment, has added audio interviews to his website at HenrySheehan.com. The first is a lengthy...
Posted January 8, 2004 12:53 AM
The website Sports By Brooks says that during last night's Lakers game, Nicole Richie (the non-Hilton half of "The Simple Life" duo) was interviewed on...
Posted December 20, 2003 11:43 AM
The once-pioneering JenniCam is closing down December 31 after seven years online, and Terry Teachout at ArtsJournal.com writes that Jenni Ringley deserves credit as the...
Posted December 9, 2003 02:20 PM
Snappy new look to the website for The Planning Report by David Abel and friends, and an interesting list of L.A. stories this month: Steve...
Posted December 4, 2003 01:39 PM
Movie City News has unveiled the MCN 100, a panel of critics, reviewers and film watchers who will vote periodically for Best Picture and other...
Posted December 4, 2003 12:14 AM
Nerve.com's resident guinea pig Grant Stoddard takes on the assignment: get three L.A. women to pose naked for his digital camera. Continuing my assimilation into...
Posted November 30, 2003 11:46 PM
Low Culture finds a certain similarity in the archives of writing about Phil Spector -- who, if you didn't know, was a millionaire before......
Posted November 21, 2003 11:47 AM
Most in the media know the basic Jim Romenesko story -- news guy starts "MediaGossip.com" on his own, moves to Poynter, gets a paycheck, drops...
Posted November 21, 2003 11:29 AM
Ben Stein revels in the cushy life where Hollywood meets Fox News Channel. His gig for E! Online website must be the easiest column in...
Posted November 14, 2003 11:43 AM
The spoofy LALATimes, slogan "everything absurd under the sun," is looking for "a bone fide publisher and investors to guide and support it through its...
Posted November 13, 2003 03:01 PM
Matt Welch clicks on LA.com, the new city guide beta site from Gannett and Dean Singleton's MediaNews Group, and finds it lacking. The team includes...
Posted November 10, 2003 11:48 AM
Courthouse News, the Pasadena-based legal website, has a blog by journalist Matthew Heller. His latest item is about a lawsuit against L.A. Focus magazine by...
Posted November 4, 2003 10:38 PM
Richard Horgan makes a persuasive case that the London-based World Entertainment News Network is commandeering celebrity news and gossip without crediting the right sources, and...
Posted October 29, 2003 12:54 PM
The volume of stories and Hollywood reactions to the loss of free screener movies has officially surpassed L.A. Observed's ability to keep up. (Kind of...
Posted October 2, 2003 02:46 PM
RestaurantWatch.com is a new site that lets you check the health inspection grade of L.A. restaurants by zip code. With registration, you can create a...
Posted September 22, 2003 12:49 AM
The Los Angeles-based Theme Park Insider is all over the latest Disneyland accident in which a man was killed on the Big Thunder Mountain roller...
Posted September 8, 2003 09:47 PM
After the birth of her second baby, she no longer feels like the woman who would seek out erotic adventures and tell all online, in...
Posted August 28, 2003 02:06 AM
Another Los Angeles-based online culture mag just found me. The Simon began about five years ago as a give-away quarterly and went Web-only last year,...
Posted August 26, 2003 12:28 AM
The headlines: Special Investigation: Hollywood Marred by Nepotism Arnold Vows to Move State Capital to Vancouver C-SPAN Takes Reality TV to Higher Plane Dateline: Hollwood,...
Posted August 16, 2003 01:15 AM
The L.A.-based movie reviews and showbiz news website was struck by a mass-mailing virus that flooded subscriber in-boxes with infected attachments last night and today....
Posted August 15, 2003 12:58 PM
Writing at FilmStew.com, columnist Richard Horgan goes for the contrarian take on Bob Hope and talks with Arthur Marx, author of an unauthorized biography a...
Posted July 31, 2003 12:26 AM
Eric Umansky took the place of the late Angeleno Scott Shuger doing the popular Today's Papers feature for Slate. He's 30, has never worked at...
Posted July 21, 2003 12:43 PM
The lead story in The LALA Times -- "all the news that's fit to be tied."...
Posted July 15, 2003 12:53 PM
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