May 13 - May 19, 2007
Friday, May. 18
Remember when he blew the whistle on a stolen Norman Rockwell painting from his own collection? Well, it's turning into...
It's the first step in what promises to be contentious negotiations with movie and TV producers this fall. Topping the...
April's jobless rate was unchanged from the previous month and above the 4.8 percent rate in April 2006. California's rate...
Please, no jokes. So what if Ron Burkle likes to hang with models and starlettes, and Maxim specializes in, well,...
To anyone with even the remotest awareness of L.A.'s fashion business, this might seem like veeeeery old news, but the...
Immigration deal: Lots of coverage about the Senate/White House compromise that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the U.S....
Thursday, May. 17
It's trading at almost $65 a barrel, up more than $2 on the day, because traders are betting that gasoline...
Does Google violate copyright protection when it displays small versions of images in its search results? Perfect 10 Inc., the...
That's what dealmakers said in a survey by Mergermarket, an M&A research service. More than half of the respondents expect...
I'm losing track here. First there was Maria "Money Honey" Bartiromo spending way too much time with a senior Citicorp...
Amazon raises the stakes: Lots of coverage this morning on the huge online retailer planning to sell songs for use...
Wednesday, May. 16
With everybody hot and bothered about the record price of gasoline, it's time once again to put a little perspecitve...
C'mon, why not? If Reuters is being sold for $17 billion and Dow Jones is dangling for $5 billion, why...
Does David Geffen really need another $6 million? That's the chump change he's pocketing from the sale of a 12-room...
Soaring food prices: Yesterday's U.S. inflation numbers may have looked tame to Wall Street, but drill down to what's going...
Tuesday, May. 15
Money magazine engages that topic in all kinds of ways and discovers that people, for the most part, say they...
The stock market was acting a little strange today, with the Dow jumping more than 100 points this morning and...
Yesterday was supposed to be the deadline for taking the buyout, but the paper still has a week to decide...
The days when white-collar prison sentences were a walk in the park - sometimes literally - are long gone, according...
Actually, April sales were way down, reaching a 12-year low throughout Southern California, according to DataQuick, which released the numbers...
Another big market day?: Heck, why not? April inflation numbers turned out to be tamer than expected, which means that...
Monday, May. 14
The decision by Daimler-Benz to buy Chrysler is sure to rank up there as among the most disastrous business deals...
It's not enough to notice - in L.A., the average gallon of self-serve regular was $3.438 for the week ended...
The Chrysler giveaway: And we thought Bev Hills billionaire Kirk Kerkorian was low-balling in his $4.5 billion offer for the...
Sunday, May. 13
He's Nick Jones, founder of the members-only Soho House, and the big news is that he's taking over the quasi-legendary...
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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...
