February 18 - February 24, 2007
Friday, Feb. 23
This is the so-called self-help proposal in which the company is split into separate broadcast and newspaper divisions and shareholders...
The L.A. homebuilder issued a release this afternoon saying that the Department of Justice is looking into KB's past stock...
Don't expect me to sniff around for angles to the video showing a dozen or so rats having their way...
So has the world's biggest coffee house chain gone a little too far in its expansion efforts, at the expense...
Bloomberg News is reporting that the L.A.-based homebuilder is under investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles over...
A Valencia landscape company made news early in the week when some of its employees got stuck in Bermuda because...
Even by the loosy-goosy standards of today's private equity financings, this one really stands out. The L.A.-based Spanish-language media company...
LAX loses out: Those monthly passenger counts at the airport routinely show signficant drops in international traffic because travelers -...
Thursday, Feb. 22
Forget about Oscar-related goodie bags - it's all about "branded retreats," where the already ridiculously rich and famous are being...
Well, it's what you might expect. Fortune looks at 10 markets to see what's available for five million bucks. Here's...
Greed as opposed to fear - and yes, the market mavens actually study the yin and yang of those two...
The world has truly gone nuts. I don't how I could have missed this one, but THR confirms that a...
L.A.-based Revver is a video-sharing site that's backed by some big-time venture money. Microsoft execs toured Revver's offices last month,...
Eater L.A. has gotten word that Osteria Mozza, which is part of the Nancy Silverton/Mario Batali/Joe Bastianich casual Italian empire,...
BW's Ron Grover takes a look at the so-called Oscar curse - and yes, you've probably read about it many,...
Ron Burkle's payday: You don't think he became a billionaire out of nowhere, do you? It looks like the L.A.-based...
Wednesday, Feb. 21
Clearwire, billionaire Craig McCaw's latest venture, just selected the L.A. office of DDB to handle its advertising, according to Ad...
Wild Oats Markets, whose largest shareholder is L.A. billionaire Ron Burkle (technically Burkle's investment arm, Yucaipa), is being sold to...
At least according to Page 6 of the NY Post. The story is that someone from Clinton's office placed a...
It's over the airport's plan to sharply increase terminal rents, a plan that the airlines say will eventually result in...
Downtown boom?: It's a happening place, according to a study by the Downtown Center Business Improvement District. The LAT trumpets...
Tuesday, Feb. 20
Outgoing NBC head Bob Wright lays out the particulars in an interview with Fortune's Tim Arango. It was 1994 and...
It's from something called the Donald T. Sterling Graphic Design Foundation and it's a request - well, more like a...
Item #1 The WSJ's Charles Forelle, James Bandler and Mark Maremont win a George K. Polk Award for revealing the...
The L.A.-based warehouse chain, which was started 136 years ago when no one knew what warehouse chains were, was picked...
The NBC-owned Latino cable channel Mun2 obviously isn't interested in political correctness, at least judging by its new image campaign...
No, not City Hall, but the Seventh Street Market, where the Department of Public Health has been finding all kinds...
Gelson's deal: The high-end supermarket chain has reached an agreement with the United Food and Commercial Workers that apparently eliminates...
Monday, Feb. 19
SmartMoney sits down with Amgen Chief Executive Kevin Sharer for its March issue and finds a CEO with "a militant...
The NY Post reports today that the long-awaited Sirius and XM merger is expected to be announced today, barring last-minute...
JetBlue founder and CEO David Neeleman messed up big time during last week's winter storm (well, his airline messed up),...
It's one of the biggest L.A. real estate deals ever. The NY investment firm Blackstone Group is selling 23 Socal...
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The funeral for Mark Lacter will be held Sunday, Nov. 24 at 12 noon at Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 W. Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles 90045. Reception to follow.
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