April 22 - April 28, 2007
Thursday, Apr. 26
Very light posting over the next few days. Morning headlines will be back early next week....
Wednesday, Apr. 25
That had been the name used for various entertainment divisions within the Mouse House. Bloomberg News reports that everything Buena...
It's looking like Anaheim voters will determine whether that controverisal development in the city's resort district goes up. The City...
To be exact, 13,089.89, up 135.95 for the day. It only took 129 trading days to go from 12,000 to...
It's money - or at least that's the scuttlebutt. TV Week says that she wanted way more than ABC was...
Lee Iacocca should be a hoot this weekend when he blasts George Bush, the health care system, the nation's schools...
Dow over 13,000: At least in the first few minutes of trading. This could be the day the index gets...
Tuesday, Apr. 24
Sam Zell has cut his first check - $250 million towards the purchase of Tribune Co., parent of the LAT....
Might the underling be getting a little revenge? In this case, it's former Apple Chief Financial Officer Fred Anderson, who...
Bet you didn't know that schmata bad boy Dov Charney is a graduate of Choate. Well, the Choate magazine plays...
U.S. home sales tank: March was the worst sales month in 18 years, with a decline of 8.4 percent (still...
Monday, Apr. 23
We're talking Vegas, baby, Vegas, and the NYT concludes in its headlne that "Too many hotels are not enough." With...
The Pulitzer Prize winning author and journalist was killed in a three-car accident this morning in Menlo Park. The San...
Purchase price is about $68 million, according to the Business Journal. The buyer, as earlier reported, is OC-based Newport Capital...
We're talking up to 76 stories just north of Pershing Square (that would top the 72-story Library Tower as being...
Strong venture numbers: When you lump L.A., OC and San Diego together, it looks darn impressive within the world of...
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He's making history with the Space X Dragon capsule, but let's not forget the other players in the fledgling commercial space business - an industry that's taking shape in California.
More From Mark Lacter:
The aftermath of a teenage party over the weekend in the Silver Lake hills.
It's debatable which came first, the insatiable desire to document the famous or the need for the masses to see endless images of celebrities caught acting like normal people. But the Internet, the money to be made and the ease of picture-taking technology have changed everything. Thus a panel discussion at the Getty in conjunction with the exhibit, "Portraits of Renown," celebrity portraits dating back to the 1800s.
Back in the day, before his curly top turned white, Simon Rattle was an enormously gifted principal guest conductor of the LA Philharmonic. That was an earlier golden era — well before this one headed by the spirited, infectious Gustavo Dudamel. We cannot forget any of those from the '80s.
After 22 years of loyalty, Baylor is unceremoniously shown the door.
Marc Nathanson had reached the $2,500 federal limit on money he could contribute to his candidate in the San Fernando Valley’s 30th Congressional District, Rep. Howard Berman. So he started a super PAC allowing him and others to give much more.
The Elysian Park Variations. The Do Not Enter sign, top, is on Ewing Street. I have been walking past it...
Oh Maisie. She had her teeth cleaned yesterday and, thanks to a mid-air collision with Jake a few years...
