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Every spring after the rains the yuccas bloom. They're so beautiful, cascades of vivid white, each floret suspended, in...
We had just been talking about the terrible drought and how we had only two storms in Malibu last...
It's frustrating to listen to the weather person on the radio chirping about the fabulous high-pressure system that means...
First, the good things that happened on our walk in Solstice Canyon this morning, starting with the fact we actually...
This silk floss tree has been blooming in an empty lot for decades. Considering the years of drought, the long...
It used to be the Chili Cook-off grounds, and even before that a friend said he used to grow...
The Point Dume headlands used to turn gold in February, the thousands of giant coreopsis plants a blaze of blooms....
All that was left of the rainstorm from yesterday was that little clamshell of a cloud. We are in...
Yes, yes, yet another creek video, because after the drought years this still seems like a miracle....
The lone oak has survived repeated cycles of drought and fire and even the occasional vandal... But can it survive...
This is from yesterday as yet another front moved through. I know a lot of you are tired of the...
We're a week or so away from the annual display. Enough buds and greenery to be heartening, enough plants...
The giant coreopsis bloom has begun along the coast but I haven't had the will yet to visit the Point...
LA Observed Notes: Media moves, books and authors, media people, place notes and selected tweets.
LA Observed Notes: Christopher Hawthorne defects, Pomona mourns, Soon-Shiong goes to the Gridiron, media moves and much more.
Despite abundant rains last winter, the drought years continue to take a toll. January 2017 in Solstice Canyon: October 2017:...
Our occasional roundup of news and observations from media, politics and place. With some selected tweets.
The other day the fog came in thick enough to squeeze out a few raindrops so of course your drought-battered...
Media and politics notes from all over, plus media people news, some place notes and selected tweets.
Keith Boyer, a veteran with the Whittier Police Department, was 53 and a father. He was shot by a recent parolee.
An estimated 188,000 people fled areas downstream from Lake Oroville after a hole was spotted Sunday in the giant dam's emergency spillway. LA swift-water rescue teams are headed north.
There were times during the drought (the one that's not over, no matter what the rain gauges may say) that...
Our occasional roundup on media, politics and place from multiple sources.
After years of drought the sight and sounds of this creek (and the wild parrots -- hear them?) edges into...
A line of storms is coming toward California — just like they used to before the drought.
The creek is bone dry but the trees are still surprisingly green despite so many years of drought....
As of last night, officials had found one body burned to death in a car and counted 18 structures destroyed.
Wednesday's staff party is cancelled because the Times could not, or did not, secure the room in its own building.
Time was the marine layer in Los Angeles would regularly drift from the coast into canyons and deep into town....
A deputy from the OC Register and a tech editor from the Bay Area are added. Plus: A new column in Sports.
I love the California history behind this story of fruits and nuts.
Rivers are high, snow pack is deep and new storms are coming. Los Angeles, however, remains one of the driest places in the state.
Selected items from the media, our in box and other LA Observed sources.
The writer of On the Public Record.com sat down with Peter H. King of the LA Times after seven years of anonymity.
When the first storms thrown our way by El Niño were bearing down last week, the Los Angeles-based staff writer for the New Yorker, Dana Goodyear, went out and gave...
The first media op of the season was today. Water content across the range is at 108 percent of normal.
It's looking like (Southern California) winter in the Santa Monica Mountains, where the little lake has managed to hang on...
New manager for the Dodgers. Growth politics in LA. Women in Hollywood. Lots and lots of media notes. And more.
Water flows in the LA aqueduct again. Vin Scully repeats next year is his last season. Los Fezil. And more.
A drone knocks out power. La Opinión endorses Kamala Harris. Media notes. And much more.
Biden won't run. DWP rates to rise. 99.9 percent chance of an earthquake. Media moves, the Murdoch brothers and more.
The Center for Investigative Reporting got the story rolling. Now Steve Lopez is on the case.
The drought has gone on so long there may be new Angelenos who have never seen the concrete Los Angeles River raging. Hola, El Niño.
"I was a little shocked just how closely 2015 resembles 1997 visually," says the visualization creator at UCAR.
Of all the comments prompted by the firing of Austin Beutner as publisher of the Los Angeles Times, the most meaningful came from the paper’s thoughtful and talented Patt Morrison.
"I am not departing by choice...Tribune Publishing has decided to fire me. I will continue to root for you to succeed."
Tribune Publishing's chief is headed to Los Angeles this morning to replace Beutner with a more Chicago-friendly publisher. The move, I'm told, follows a failed bid by Eli Broad to buy the Times away from Tribune.
Items include Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, Daniele Watts, Eric Garcetti, Frank Gehry, Aja Brown, Wes Craven, Serena Wlliams, Jessica Mendoza, Claudia Puig and more.
Memo from the ME for editorial strategy praises coverage of schools, Straight Outta Compton and Taylor Swift. Plus more.
Jerry Brown on "Meet the Press." Toni Atkins on "News Conference." A crossword creator dies. And much more.
Dave Lesher named to run start-up CalMatters. News from City Hall and the county, and much more.
He heads out today to the Central Valley after last night's Hillary Clinton fundraiser -- which at least one neighbor didn't appreciate.
For the first time anyone has noticed, the giant trees in Sequoia National Park are showing signs of drought distress. Scientists go for a climb.
An old byline returns to the LA Times. Plus how Hillary Clinton should be more like Trump.
Can you help this ex-Marine get her old uniform back? Lots of politics, media and place for a desk-clearing Friday.
Another VP comes with government experience, the LAT's most senior newsroom staffer takes on a new assignment, and an obit for Larry Stammer.
Politics, media and place with a little news thrown in. Catching up from the weekend.
A week ago it was still raining; boy that was nice. Lots of talk now about the gathering El Nino,...
Biden was in town. Ex-LA Times reporter takes a job in City Hall. Fernando Valenzuela becomes a citizen. And California's hangup on superheroes. Plus more.
Politics, media and place plus a few tweets of the day.
From Los Angeles city hall to the county building up the hill, African American political activists are thinking about the mayor's race and the future of black representation on the board of supervisors.
Catching up on politics, media and place. Including a piece on KPCC's Latino audience.
Marcie Edwards, Los Angeles' water boss, gives an audience no sense of the calamitous nature of the drought. But maybe that’s as it should be.
Parks and LaBonge check out of the City Council. SCOTUS to take on labor union fees. Gravel yards. Much more politics, media and place.
The annual press club banquet was Sunday night. Here's a curated list of some of the winners.
An echo from the recent past at the scenic brine lake on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada range.
Catching up with a plethora of items on politics, media and place including news this morning from the Supreme Court.
The pair of coyotes who are raising a litter in the hills behind the cottage took a family field trip last night.
A glaring editing mistake on the cover of Sports distracts from the return of former columnist Peter King.
The editor who led the Times to 13 Pulitzers in the first five years of Tribune ownership, then left rather than begin to dismantle the paper with cuts, died in Lexington, Kentucky of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
King had been reporter, columnist and city editor before leaving in 2009 for the University of California communications staff. He comes back to bolster California coverage.
Tropical Storm Blanca adds a day of rain and an evening of rainbows to our already odd and bewildering spring weather.
Climate change, the drought and development pressure are all taking a toll on the symbolic succulents that grow only in the Mojave Desert.
Minimum wage. Drought shaming. A new head of LAX. Emmy nominees. Gawker unionizes. Plus media moves and much more.
I've been storing up for a few days.
Clippers lose. Clinton Foundation donations. Loretta Sanchez war whoops. Fassbender as Steve Jobs. Much more.
Marines die in Nepal. The City Council's new secretive ways. LANG parent no longer for sale. Another jab at LAT from Jeff Gottlibeb. Plus more politics, media and place.
Sanchez is running. Brown and Napolitano make up. A good point about almonds and water. Another LATimesman leaves for political PR. And more.
My post last week on the Mormon lawn in Westwood had a weird, short life as a media drought nugget. After hedging, the landmark temple now says, yes, the lawn is going dry to help out.
Plus Antonio Villaraigosa's new actress-girlfriend, restaurants come and go and a big day for a Dodger.
I don't know if this a drought measure or what, but the big expanse of green grass on Santa Monica Boulevard in Westwood is mostly brown.
Plus Steve Soboroff acquires another famous person's typewriter. And what it was like to play for the bad old Clippers.
Tim Egan, Dana Goodyear, Mark Arax, Grace Peng and others weigh in on the drought and California's future, while the New York Times style editors again give Angelenos something to wag their tongues about.
Baltimore cops charged, more reax to LAPD body cameras, a crooked local chief of police, DWP audits and more.
A morning roundup of politics, media and place plus some tweets of the day.
First came the almond farmers, then the cantaloupes, then the golf courses — and so on.
Two Pulitzers for the Times -- for television criticism and drought writing -- and the first ever for the Daily Breeze and the Los Angeles News Group.
Plus a few tweets of the day for Monday morning.
Expect a day of rain on Tuesday with snow above 4,500 feet. NWS expects about up to an inch of rain.
Gov. Brown orders the state's first-ever 25% cut in water use as the winter ends with essentially no snowpack. "This is the new normal,” Brown says. “We will learn how to cope with this.”
News and notes from LA Observed on politics, media and place plus a couple of tweets of the day.
Carly Fiorina likely to run for president. New Daily Show host. Good magazine relaunches. KPCC drops Multi-American blog. Plus more and tweets of the day.
They've appeared a full month earlier than last year, these mountain wildflowers, but in this 4th drought year, I guess...
Scientist Grace Peng reminds us there was a time when the Pacific inundated California with rivers of free water from the sky.
Some news and notes of politics, media and place to get the week started.
Roughly half of California's fresh water arrives in this quirkily engineered, mis-named place, writes Emily Green. 25 million Californians depend on freshwater from the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta.
Catching up with a full day's worth of news and notes on politics, media and this crazy place we call LA.
With this drought year starting to look like the worst yet, the Metropolitan Water District is offering rich deals and Northern California rice farmers are selling.
El Niño but so what. LA losing fog. Did Villaraigosa miss his last moment? Harrison Ford's crash. Plus more notes on politics, media and place and tweets of the day.
Politics, media, place and more. Photo: KPCC's Meghan McCarty looks for an Angeleno who cares about the city election.
Not only is there not much snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, we're setting winter records for warmth -- again -- and the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge has returned.
Remember this, the little mountain lake evaporating in the drought? Thanks to just those few storms we had, it's back....
LA's overpaid City Council. More suspicious DWP bills. Politics and media notes. Hollyhock House. and more.
A very wet "atmospheric river event" is pointed at Northern California with an estimated arrival of later this week. Hey, we'll take it.
City National Bank sold, Southwest Museum, more Villaraigosa and Boxer, and Thom Mayne on Bradbury's house.
Larry Ingrassia left the New York Times last year after a stint as deputy managing editor for new initiatives. He was the NYT business editor for eight years.
In good weather the region has about 10 reported crashes an hour, peaking in the morning. On rainy days, the rate soars to 15 an hour and is worst in the afternoon. Go figure.
Well, no rain yet. (Forecasters say maybe some showers tonight. Fingers crossed.) What really matters to our drought-blasted state is...
An old-fashioned Pacific winter storm that slammed into Northern California has flooded streets and highways, registered some astonishing wind speeds and forced some schools to close. Surfing on Lake Tahoe!
Heavy rain and snowfall, blizzards above 6,000 feet and more are expected this week -- in Northern California. But that's good enough for us in the south. The Ridiculously Resilient Ridge has moved out of the way for now.
Investigation continues as lanes open around DTLA fire site. What is developer Geoff Palmer's vision? FBI will brief Sony employees on the studio's cyberattack. Pivot TV cancels TakePart Live. California's drought is naturally occurring. Plus more.
As the drought deepens, a new study finds, the year 2014 has been the worst single year since 800 AD — and rising temperatures mean it could yet get worse.
Three of the iconic Yosemite waterfalls have awakened from the drought — enjoy. Also, the rainfall totals from three nice days of cleansing rain in the Los Angeles area.
A slow build with this storm, low clouds edging in all night long. Thick mist at daybreak, just a...
The big rain should arrive Tuesday. In the meantime, Northern California is getting a reminder of what "normal" looks like.
I first wrote about negotiations between the Owens Valley and Los Angeles over the noxious dust that blows off of Owens Lake 25 years ago. So it seems a little bizarre that they finally have a deal both sides can live with.
Drought gardener and blogger Emily Green wants people to remember that they need to deep-water their trees or the drought can have a worse effect than necessary.
OK, maybe just here in Malibu, and maybe for just a half hour or so, but today it's wetter here...
Elizabeth Warren visits with LA and Hollywood progressives. City Council races start to take an interesting shape. Still counting in that Valley assembly race, possibly "the biggest political upset of the year" in LA. Monday columns and much more.
It's still a crapshoot, but NOAA's seasonal outlook sees a good chance of at least a normal precipitation winter in California.
HBO to stream on the web. Board of Supervisors campaign debate on KCRW. Aaron Kushner set up for an "embarrassing fall." Plus City Hall, state politics, media notes and more.
Back from three weeks away from the routine with a hefty offering of items in politics, media, sports and more. Catching up will continue all week.
Jeffrey Kightlinger, general manager of the Metropolitan Water District, knows how to deliver bad news in a positive manner.
Remember this, the little mountain lake last March? Now it's this, a little mountain meadow:...
Boxer looks unlikely to run. Mystery respiratory virus. Metrolink ridership keeps dropping. James Corden gets "Late Late Show." New James Ellroy books, Bob Welch's death not heart attack, and more.
Some 10,000 square feet of landscaping needs to be replaced and repairs are already underway on the popular splash pad fountain.
Shootings and fear across South LA. Brown and Kashkari debate. Rancor in OC. Blue whale numbers are back. A new gig for Jon Christensen. Plus Scientology's baby Buddha looks like L. Ron Hubbard and more.
Napa buildings red-tagged with quake damage. Drought lifestyles of the rich and parched. Paying for LA sidewalks. Routing the high-speed train through the Angeles National Forest. Selective prosecution on politico residency. Lizzy Caplan sex-ed teacher to the world. And more.
So much water is missing that the tectonic plate on which the West sits is rising. And that's not the worst news.
"With California in the midst of a drought, TheWrap opted against using water, and instead just waited for some of the ice to melt." Does Sharon Waxman's hair even get wet?
LAPD caught cooking the books on crime stats. Kevin James as City Hall insider. South LA's school board candidates. Maureen Dowd moves. Plus more news, politics and media notes.
Drought pushes California grape harvest earlier. Chief Beck under scrutiny over his daughter. LAPD holds back homicide data. Mayor Garcetti takes questions. Ken Doctor on the LA Times parent, plus more.
It was very nice having a couple of episodes of soft rain fall on my head (and my yard) over the weekend. But despite the isolated newsworthy pummeling over and just below the San Gabriels, this was not much of a rain event.
Drought effects. Bobby Shriver gets an endorsement. Obamajam keeps woman in labor from the hospital. Colbert will keep Late Show in NYC. What happens when film and TV productions are denied California's subsidy. Plus media notes: Maria Russo, Chris Long, KCRW's drone and more.
Water police, Garcetti welcomes immigrant children, yet another new approach to Skid Row, best restaurants in the Valley and more.
LeBron goes back to Cleveland. The Perez recount begins. Bill allows light-rail in the Valley again. LA crime heads up for first time in a decade. Plus more.
It's a shock to see the Central Valley these days.
Supreme Court says no to Aereo and to warrantless cellphone searches. Diane Sawyer to leave ABC News anchor chair, Stephanopoulos upped to chief anchor. Brown leads by 20 points. Garcetti at one year. Rattlesnakes, drought, James Flanigan, driving in the left lane and more.
405 carpool lane to open next week. City Hall's 3-1-1 line doesn't work very well. Voices of the drought. Plus more.
It's wildflower season up in the hills and despite the drought, the variety is stunning. I'm kind of in...
Credit for the headline to the High Country News, which notes that "with each passing day it seems more certain: 2014 is going to be an El Niño year, and probably a big one."
Here's as sure a sign as any about the extent of the California snowfall drought.
The yuccas are blooming in the Santa Monicas, fewer this spring than ever before. It's the drought, I think, four...
The races to replace Waxman and Yaroslavsky, sidewalk money goes unspent, Garcetti and Jay Z to announce DTLA festival, sheriff's use of force rules, and no subway entrance at 2nd and Spring because Tribune has development plans. Plus more.
Even these drought-tolerant natives aren't escaping unscathed from California's epic dry spell. But they're still well worth a visit.
Calderon takes leave of absence. Sacramento Democrats lose supermajority. LAFD hiring commanders whose sons advanced reassigned. Assessor candidates. NYT's 1853 story on Solomon Northup's kidnapping. Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki's Instagram pics. Before and after drought pictures. Evelyn Taft's baby. Plus more.
Awesome weather map. The free water will be here Friday morning.
The colors at the beach this morning tell the tale -- a storm is coming. Really, it is.
The blocking ridge of high pressure over the Pacific Ocean off North America couldn't last forever. It just seemed that way. An explanation.
He gets that "the whole fantasy of modern California has long been dependent on an audacious feat of engineering." This time is different, he argues.
Even after last week's heavy rainfall up north, the drought maps are still a dry sea of red. And oh by the way, it looks as if the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge may be re-forming out in the Pacific.
White House to screen Clooney's "Monuments Men." Council members to propose living wage hike for hotel workers. Police commission poised to OK new shooting review shift. Jimmy Fallon debuts and Bob Costas returns. The sad case of Casey Kasem. Gustavo Dudamel in Venezuela. Culver City ice rink still can't reopen. Plus much more.
Obama talks California drought — then goes golfing on a lush green course in the desert? Brand-name consultants for Williamson, a Villaraigosa aide joins the LAFD and more.
Drought politics heating up. An opening coming to California Supreme Court. Herb Wesson endorses Wendy Greuel. Why LA high-rises don't have sprinklers. White House guest list. New hires at Bloomberg film beat and Sitrick PR. And the perp who smashed LAPD car windows while Darth Vader watched.
Folsom Lake is six feet higher, but that only means the reservoir is at 19% of capacity instead of 17%. Nice graphic shows how water use differs around the state.
As much as 6-7 inches of rain could fall as the ridiculously resilient ridge retreats. SoCal won't be part of the big event, at least so far.
Hilda Solis and the FBI. City Hall pays nine LAPD officers to work for the union. More candidates declare. Garcetti's mandate such as it is. Judge Cunningham files claim against UCLA police who cuffed him. KCET Departures' new look. Moby loves LA in the Guardian. Dodgers jack prices way up. Plus more.
Midway through the first quarter, Time Warner Cable's Super Bowl broadcast went black. As if that's a bad thing.
Farmers talk about California's epic drought on "Good Food" on KCRW, and it's scary.
Fog diverts flights. Running out of water. New fill-in sheriff named. Republican candidates for governor don't vote. New attention for Pacific Standard. The woman behind In-n-Out Burger. Aaron Kushner replies to story about life insurance policies. The mayor's tweet about Pete Seeger and Justin Bieber.
Ridley-Thomas responds to Daily News with swipe at LA Times. Garcetti previews Obama speech and welcomes Madeleine Brand to KCRW. Jennifer Ferro on Brand. Eneergy drinks and the City Council. Tarantino sues Gawker. Matthew Garrahan promoted by the FT. Chuck Cecil leaves the air. Plus more.
Grammys list. Golden Mikes winners. Republicans see California drought as advantage. More on Bobby Shriver's stocks. Garcetti to propose end of business tax. Broadway to lose a traffic lane downtown. Jason Collins to sit in First Lady's box at SOTU. OC Register won't name restaurants where food critic got sick. Plus more.
It felt very weird to have a few splatters on the car windshield. Ten minutes later, a few more drops hit our breakfast table. Alert the networks!
In the annals of weather records, this is one nobody wanted to break, says the Bee. Not since 1884 has Sacramento gone this many winter days without rain or snow.
The high pressure ridge keeping us dry also left Mavericks with the ideal combination of big swells and no wind or weather.
Here are two more LA palm trees that don't fit with their current locations -- plus one I do admire and KPCC's "Off-Ramp" takes on the subject.
Weather models show California's historically dry weather is expected to continue. Gov. Brown today declared a drought emergency. The Obama Administration named 27 counties as disaster areas.
Brown declares drought. Maldonado drops out. Congress passes LA helicopter noise bill. Moves in the race for sheriff. A critical audit of the sheriff's department. More quake coverage. OC Weekly on the Register's new editor. A profile of LARB's Tom Lutz. Justine Bateman at UCLA. The second-to-last Munchkin dies. And more.
Check out to the NOAA satellite pictures and a release from Mono County. Plus: Olympic hopefuls like Lindsey Jacobellis (video) are in Mammoth this weekend.
State lawmakers return to Sacramento. Sen. Kevin de Leon wants to lead the Senate. Napolitano on Edward Snowden. City Attorney Mike Feuer on jaywalking and more. Why film and TV production leaves LA. New Yorker profiles author Jennifer Weiner. LAT profiles AIDS activist Michael Weinstein. When a young colleague dies. Plus Don Forst, RIP. And more inside.
State hydrologists report today they found more bare ground than snow in the first Sierra snowpack measurement of the year. That's bad. Here's why no storms are getting through to California.
A couple of the chapters in my book on the San Fernando Valley deal with the Los Angeles Aqueduct and how abundant water changed the city and the valley. It holds up, I'm pleased to say. For this week's anniversary, here's an adapted version.
Conditions out in the Pacific add up to a third straight off year for rainfall. But you never know — normal is such a squishy concept here.
A mountain lion takes down a deer on Mulholland Highway.
The wild bobcats that roam the west end of the Santa Monica Mountains have had it hard in recent times. Now biologists fear profound threats to survival.
Murder suspect from the Valley arrested in Joshua Tree, an Obama ambassador from HBO, Metro bus drivers sickened by pesticides, LA grapples with digital billboards, Garcetti breakfasts with Greuel, LAPD buys 188 cars, LA may be part of Rupert Murdoch's soccer plans, Dodger dollars don't add up, plus media moves, Zoey Tur and the 19th anniversary of OJ's slow-speed chase.
A little bit, but barring unusual problems this summer Southern California Edison should be all right. Longer term might be a different story.
The editorial board of the Arizona Republic newspaper didn't care for last week's LA Times op-ed essay in which a New Mexico environmental author argued that Phoenix, already a pretty sucky place, is in the cross-hairs of Southwest climate change. Instead of refuting the guy's case, they go after LA.
We know about the deal we make with earthquakes, but the biggest catastrophes through time in California have actually been storms. There's only been one on the epic scale since statehood, but a story in the new Scientific American says the next time will be worse for us.
Why the West could run out of water, Rocketdyne site still radioactive, Bee cuts off comments on Jerry Brown cancer, Baca-Tanaka cover story in LA Weekly, Google Maps for iPhones and Golden Globe nominations. Plusmuch more.
Mark Bittman, the New York Times food columnist, asked readers where in the world they wanted him to go to write a solid, serious piece for the NYT Magazine's food issue this Sunday. This challenge led him to California's Central Valley, where so much of the food consumed in America comes from — at least for now. He explains why that had to be the place, and shows his excitement at the scale of it all, but sounds the alarm about the future.
On average, we're talking about an extra $32.76 for all of next year, according to a back-of-the-envelope calculation. That's $2.73 a month.
"We still need the development of some events that are going to scare the hell out of people," says the CEO of L.A.-based Oaktree Capital.
Thursday night, I officially hated camping. I was in Yosemite, yes, near Yosemite Creek. But where was I really? On...
Much of the recent coverage about crop damage is being handled by newspeople who - how shall I put this - don't know what they're talking about.
The LA author of a new history of the ukulele says last week's story in The Daily got a few key things wrong. Here are his corrections, and more proof that the uke has soul.
Facebook's stock price keeps falling, ads for Pom Wonderful pomegranate juice are ruled deceptive, local car wash workers sue, and Long Beach Airport offers some of the cheapest fares in the nation.
The billionaire's investment arm will hold a 20 percent stake in the high-end fashion retailer as part of a debt restructuring. Current owner, Istithmar World, the investment arm of state-owned Dubai World, paid $942 million for Barneys at the top of the market in 2007.
Pujols went 111 at-bats into his 10-year, $240-million new life in the American League before finally clubbing a home run on Sunday afternoon in Anaheim. It was the longest homerless drought in his career. When he got back to the dugout, his Angels teammates were nowhere to be found.
You mean aside from being gross, overpriced relics of an earlier, gluttonous age?
Mark Walter, who controls the purse strings, says he will remain in the background.
An ambulance for Porter Ranch, hating the paper bag ban idea, LAUSD hires ex-TV reporter to run social media, New York Times cuts back on free articles, a possible return of McDonnell/Douglas the radio show, and more.
California teachers challenge Facebook, Ontario offers to buy airport, L.A. Council votes to spruce up Occupy park, and Oprah magazine takes hit.
Judge OK's Dodgers deals, LAUSD may propose parcel tax, City Hall faces life without the CRA, a new editor for Huffington Post and more.
NOAA's forecast for the coming winter expects a drier than average wet season in Southern California and a higher risk of wildfire.
La Niña typically means a drier-than-usual wet season in Southern California and across the Southwest, but wetter months for our friends in the Pacific Northwest.
New Weiner disclosure involves a porn actress, Loretta Sanchez may lose her district, Lacey makes a campaign video for DA, plus Schwarzenegger, Frank Buckley, Marc Cooper, D.J Waldie, Ron Kaye and more.
Hotel taxes, Olvera Street, Geraldo Rivera, the Dalai Lama and 10 years after Bonny Lee Blakely's murder.
Laurie Pike out as Style Editor at Los Angeles magazine, Rick Orlov's Tipoffs and more media and politics notes. Plus a programming note.
Opening day at Dodger Stadium, 'tragedy" at the community colleges, no Plan B for Jerry Brown, KCET staffers forced to sign NDAs, Chapman University gets into the film business and Alycia Lane tweets against naked women.
Look for a warmer day, Brown on YouTube again, Rosendahl gets a Lopez column, Anaheim votes to go after the Sacramento Kings and Amy Tan sells a new book.
The Blackhawks' winning the Stanley Cup doesn't quite leave the Los Angeles Kings as the NHL team that has has gone the longest without a championship. Just close.
Brian Kennedy couldn't manage the fear of actually playing hockey and getting "hammered," so now he writes about the game — when he's not teaching college English.
The very unexpected improvement in the jobs picture could be the result of what economic bulls have been saying for some time.
When it comes to the wild things, the Times generally gets it. But in this case something is deeply amiss.
Wednesday's news, notes and observations are after the jump. Also see Mark Lacter's morning headlines at LA Biz Observed and follow us on Twitter....
Monday's news, notes and observations are after the jump. Also see Mark Lacter's morning headlines at LA Biz Observed and follow us on Twitter....
Strong earnings at JP Morgan Chase, budget talks continue in Sacramento, big Boeing deal for El Segundo, and Wal-Mart thinking green.
Arnold takes aim at unions, lots of green jobs in CA, Honda's 50th anniversary in the U.S., and strip clubs are paring down.
When you're woken up by a downpour in June, the same week that Los Angeles imposes mandatory water cutbacks, the subject of today's commentary became almost a no-brainer. It airs...
The state may have a chronic inability to form a government, like a certain boot-shaped European nation, but we can't help it -- we still like the place.
Last-minute filers on tax day, state and local sales tax revenues fall sharply, banks ramp up foreclosures, and ripple effects from LAX downturn.
Yes, the headline is intentional. The City Council voted 14-zip today to reject a drought surcharge on water bills for now. The vote had as much to do with the...
A judge has tentatively ruled that the DWP practice of shifting profits to the city general fund violates Proposition 218 and that $30 million planned for in the City...
Most of the state ballot measures up for a publc vote in May are losing. LAT, Bee New PPIC poll finds Californians still just as divided as ever on...
Mayor Villaraigosa named attorney, philanthropist and former city commissioner David Fleming to the board of the Metropolitan Water District. (This gets Fleming off the MTA board, opening up a second...
Market tries comeback (again), biz-related measure goes down, Manny deal could be close, and El Centro is Ground Zero for recession.
Today's the day the Los Angeles Times drops its California section and rearranges the paper's A section, with local news starting on page A2, followed by national and foreign...
KTLA has posted an interview with octuplets mom Nadya Suleman by former health reporter Marta Waller for a story on a fertility clinic back in 2006. Suleman also identifies...
Retail numbers worse than expected, port traffic way down in December, Gottschalks files Chapter 11, and SAG strike doubtful.
Closings, consolidations, layoffs, and the elimination of print editions on certain days of the week are the grim prospects for 2009.
If you call an LAFD ambulance, the bill will now be $712 (or $1,004 for advanced life support) plus $15.75 per mile. That's 15 dollars per mile. Yes, the...
Villaraigosa scampers over to Obama side National co-chair of the Clinton campaign announced his acceptance that Obama is the party's nominee. "Americans said it's time for change," the mayor said....
Stories planted this morning in the Times, Daily News and Wall Street Journal unveil Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's billion-dollar agenda to re-invent Los Angeles' relationship to water. Villaraigosa and DWP chief...
Mark Swed's Jan. 7 LAT review of an L.A. Philharmonic performance of pieces with an urban theme said, among other things: In between came Frank Zappa's 'Dupree's Paradise.' Short, diverting...
Raindrops keep falling on my head. Newscasters keep whining about it. They make me cranky.
The L.A. Times is going back to reporter "bureaus" placed around the Los Angeles area, in hopes of flushing out more local news. The paper has had them before, then...
Fire closures Public schools in Malibu, Topanga and Canyon Country are closed for the day, as well as Pepperdine and College of the Canyons. Hard to believe, but the weather...
Rate cut day: The market is way up in early trading, in part because of better-than-expected third-quarter numbers from Lehman and also because everyone expects the Fed to lower short-term interest rates in a few hours. The question is not so much whether there will be a cut, but how much (a quarter or a half point)? Also, will there be any clues of more cuts to come? An unscientific reader poll by the WSJ's...
Retired L.A. Times garden editor Robert Smaus has moved to the Pacific Northwest and says goodbye to the soil of Rancho Park in a piece today. He's probably advised more...
Warning: this piece cracks wise, floats a goofy idea, contains copious potty talk (as well as ample alliteration) and is in fairly poor taste. Read at your own risk...and enjoy!
Unless something startles me out of my stupor, News & Chatter will be taking off until after the holiday. Keep an eye open for fresh posts on the other great...
Well, despite Griffith Park, the Dodgers organization is sticking to its guns. Senior VP Howard Sunkin emailed Echo Park community...
Took the weekend off, but there's a full steaming mug of Buzz just below the fold......
Thomas Mauk, the man who wouldn't be L.A. County CAO, wasn't the first to reject a deal with the Board of Supervisors. Dr. Joshua Perper, the Broward County (Fla.) Medical...
Still only moderate by the way the National Drought Mitigation Center classifies things, but that darker brown shade to the east and south of us marks "severe drought." Yellow on...
As Tribune Co. mulls a sale of its assets, it goes without saying that the Chicago Cubs may be in play.
Designers Louis Montoya and Laurent Turin talk about working on projects in Echo Park.
Morning Buzz is late today due to some technical snags. Hope you find the new look to your liking. Top News Missing women update Multiple murdered William Bradford told jurors...
Turns out a second writer had her op-ed piece on the great rains of 1861-62 rejected by the Times. Frances Dinkelspiel, a Berkeley journalist and books blogger at Ghost Word...
Every decade or so when we get a huge rain season, you can tell who the newcomers are. They believe, reasonably enough, that all this rain is collected and stored...
Oleander bushes are the latest Southern California plant infected by a scourge that seems imppssible to stop. If they all start dying, some parts of L.A. will look denuded. Lisa...