April 15 - April 21, 2007
Saturday, Apr. 21
Joe Hutchinson has been creative director for the Times since 2005 and before that was deputy ME. He's been in...
Friday, Apr. 20
To celebrate its 100th birthday, SF's Fairmont is offering two nights in the penthouse for $100,000. Actually, there's more to...
The March number is the highest since March 2006, and it's quite a jump from February's 4.6 percent level. It's...
The Dow is up around 100 points as of this writing, so it's looking like 15 out of 16 up...
Market takes off: Strong Google earnings have jump-started things this morning as the Dow crosses the uncharted waters of 12,900....
Thursday, Apr. 19
That's what the L.A. Independent is reporting. The buyer, according to an unnamed source, is Newport Capital Advisors, the developer...
That's the estimate by Forbes in the magazine's annual examination of how much baseball franchises are worth. The valuation is...
She's leaving Dead Horse Media, the blog network that runs DealBreaker, AboveTheLaw, and Fashionista. Spiers is calling it an "insurmountable...
Most of those They were insider trading counts - and that's a potential 10 years in prison for each count....
Market alert: This might be a rocky session, coming one day after the Dow set an all-time record high. The...
Wednesday, Apr. 18
You know things are looking bleak when you've been let go by the TV Guide Channel. No reason cited for...
Wall Street obviously isn't interested in any whining about subprime loans or high gas prices or the yucky state of...
You think you have a tough job - try keeping track of the nation's priciest homes on the market. Ultimate...
BlackBerry blackout: It's shaping up to be a rough day if you rely on a handheld. Research in Motion Ltd.,...
Tuesday, Apr. 17
KCRW GM Ruth Seymour has been delivering the bad news to listeners all day: The little-known Copyright Royalty Board upheld...
That's what the New Yorker's James Surowiecki is strongly suggesting in this week's Financial Page column. He's citing questionable criminal...
Time Warner cutting cable?: It's under consideration, according to the WSJ. Just too much Internet competition. Rather than spend all...
Monday, Apr. 16
So much for the slowdown. The government's weekly survey shows that for the period ended today, the average price of...
There's nothing like the annual Fortune 500 to put Los Angeles in its place - but in a good way....
The paper won the public service award for its probe into backdated stock options - and for international reporting on...
It's what you would expect with home prices flat to down and those teaser-rate mortgages making way for resets that...
Travel nightmare: NY airports are up and running this morning after the weekend's rain and wind storm resulted in 500...
Sunday, Apr. 15
LAT reporter Glenn Bunting got access to the final production budget for the 2005 action adventure film "Sahara" and it's...
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After 22 years of loyalty, Baylor is unceremoniously shown the door.
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