Topic Archive: Weeklies
As an amateur admirer of mariachi, I enjoyed CityBeat's feature on the female ensemble Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles. But I was stopped by the...
Posted May 6, 2008 10:10 PM
When the LA Weekly staff moves to Culver City next week, it will do so without Deputy Editor Joe Donnelly. His position was cut by...
Posted April 23, 2008 12:50 PM
Staffers began complaining a couple of weeks ago that the LA Weekly's history was being dumped in the parking lot. I don't know if this...
Posted April 10, 2008 10:10 PM
Another local music critic down, not many left to go. Alan Rich, who is at least 83, was let go as classical music critic over...
Posted April 9, 2008 12:37 AM
The official explanation for Steve Lowery bailing as editor of CityBeat after a few days is that his heart wasn't in reinventing the weekly as...
Posted April 8, 2008 12:15 AM
Steve Lowery reported as editor in chief on Monday, put out his first issue of CityBeat on Thursday, then tendered his resignation last night. "I...
Posted April 4, 2008 11:46 AM
I'm told that two of the original CityBeat columnists have given up their gigs in response to last week's dump of editor Steve Appleford. Natalie...
Posted March 30, 2008 11:08 PM
An email going around from an LA Weekly staffer says someone at the paper has decided to throw out most of the printed copies of...
Posted March 29, 2008 05:18 PM
Gustavo Arellano announced in today's OC Weekly column that he's dropping the long-running ĦAsk a Mexican! gig that has brought him fame and...well, maybe just...
Posted March 27, 2008 06:10 PM
After this week's issue went to bed earlier today, the staff of CityBeat was told that founding editor Steve Appleford is being replaced by Steve...
Posted March 26, 2008 11:40 PM
The Bay Guardian won its predatory pricing lawsuit against the SF Weekly, receiving about $15 million in trebled damages. Longtime BAG owner Bruce Brugmann had...
Posted March 5, 2008 05:52 PM
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
Commenters on the God Blog have attacked the Jewish Journal for employing a "God-fearing Christian" with the last name of Greenberg to write for the...
Posted November 27, 2007 07:42 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
A couple of LAO readers emailed to say they couldn't find today's premiere issue of The District Weekly anywhere around Long Beach. But apparently it...
Posted April 11, 2007 11:02 PM
Executive Editor Matt Coker isn't moving north to Long Beach — he's going another 400 miles further. His email to what remains of the OC...
Posted March 22, 2007 05:56 PM
Now we know why all those OC Weekly resignations have been coming so fast. Several of the departed are joining former Weekly editor Will Swaim...
Posted March 12, 2007 05:22 PM
We told you yesterday afternoon that Rebecca Schoenkopf became the third exit in a week from the OC Weekly, and said her farewell "Commie Girl"...
Posted February 1, 2007 05:19 PM
Jill Stewart mailed out her own announcement today about shutting down her syndicated column to assume a key editing position at the LA Weekly. She...
Posted November 2, 2006 10:16 AM
Jack Miles' essay asking if Lebanon is Israel's Iraq — and whether the war on Hezbollah is a miscalculation that might leave Israel worse off...
Posted August 4, 2006 02:20 PM
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