http://www.laobserved.com/ Los Angeles media, news, books and sense of place Copyright 2012 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:55:09 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.25 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Kevin Roderick: of killing his wife Monica in Cancun in 2010, has been taken from the federal detention center downtown is said to be en route to Mexico.]]> http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/beresford-redman_beng_ext.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/beresford-redman_beng_ext.php Crime Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:55:09 -0800 Mark Lacter: Just in case you have any plans to visit. http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2012/02/iran_bans_simpsons_t.php http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2012/02/iran_bans_simpsons_t.php Politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:14:54 -0800 Mark Lacter: No joke. The former Sports Illustrated cover girl leads a retail branding operation that includes more than 15,000 products. And... http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2012/02/kathy_ireland_from_s.php http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2012/02/kathy_ireland_from_s.php Celebrity Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:42:23 -0800 Kevin Roderick: The Dodgers announcer on golf, books and why he can't retire at age 84 in an interesting interview in Golf Digest. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/vin_scully_on_working_i_d.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/vin_scully_on_working_i_d.php Media people Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:56:53 -0800 Mark Lacter: An opt-clause with the owners of the Kodak is stirring all sorts of speculation. http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2012/02/business_update_on_k_80.php http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2012/02/business_update_on_k_80.php Hollywood Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:48:32 -0800 Veronique de Turenne: On the Paradise Cove pier. http://www.laobserved.com/malibu/2012/02/the_early_bird_catches_the_sun.php http://www.laobserved.com/malibu/2012/02/the_early_bird_catches_the_sun.php Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:39:55 -0800 Kevin Roderick: Jerry Brown's pardons, DWP's high pay, renaming City Hall East, LAT's Korea reporter headed for Las Vegas, a new book and more. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/morning_buzz_wednesday_28.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/morning_buzz_wednesday_28.php Morning Buzz Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:34:49 -0800 Mark Lacter: Nice comeback to a so-called pro-family group. http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2012/02/ellen_slams_anti-gay.php http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2012/02/ellen_slams_anti-gay.php Celebrity Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:45:18 -0800 Mark Lacter: California teachers challenge Facebook, Ontario offers to buy airport, L.A. Council votes to spruce up Occupy park, and Oprah magazine takes hit. http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2012/02/wednesday_morning_he_254.php http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2012/02/wednesday_morning_he_254.php Economy Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:41:21 -0800 Kevin Roderick: Rick Santorum claned up on Tuesday, but it's Mitt Romney whose record on immigration will be skewered by the mayor in Washington. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/villaraigosa_to_go_after.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/villaraigosa_to_go_after.php 2012 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:04:07 -0800 Kevin Roderick: The only question, apparently, is which bid to buy the Dodgers will LA's richest man join. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/soon-shiong_getting_in_on.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/soon-shiong_getting_in_on.php Sports Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:50:36 -0800 Kevin Roderick: Editor Rob Eshman calls the Encino State Historic Park threatened with closure his personal retreat growing up in the neighborhood. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/nice_personal_essay_on_sa.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/nice_personal_essay_on_sa.php San Fernando Valley Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:42:31 -0800 Kevin Roderick: I watched a bicyclist get hit by a car today in Westwood Village, right in front of me. So I had bike riders on the mind. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/getting_more_women_to_rid.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/getting_more_women_to_rid.php Life Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:51:11 -0800 Kevin Roderick: The best hope for newspapers online is a temporary, narrow anti-trust exemption to let publishers collude on a web pay wall, says a former reporter now at UCLA Law School. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/heres_an_idea_media_shoul.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/heres_an_idea_media_shoul.php Media Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:25:48 -0800 Kevin Roderick: Los Angeles police outside a 1987 show by The Ramones and Black Flag at the Hollywood Palladium. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/blast_from_the_past_ramon.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/blast_from_the_past_ramon.php Police Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:27:43 -0800 Kevin Roderick: He shows up at the Lakers training gym going up against Rick Fox, and at the LAPD asking then-Chief Bernard Parks for a detective job, in this 2001 video spoof. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/video_when_mayor_riordan.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/video_when_mayor_riordan.php Politics Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:31:06 -0800 Kevin Roderick: The Clippers' special season so far just became a little less magical. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/clippers_lose_chauncey_bi.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/clippers_lose_chauncey_bi.php Sports Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:42:39 -0800 Mark Lacter: The Clippers guard has a torn left Achilles' tendon. http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2012/02/clippers_cant_catch.php http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2012/02/clippers_cant_catch.php Sports Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:25:11 -0800 Mark Lacter: The technology might even be used in the navigation of driver-less cars. http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2012/02/wirelessly_rechargin.php http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2012/02/wirelessly_rechargin.php Tech Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:55:55 -0800 Mark Lacter: His small apartment on the Disneyland property hasn't been touched. http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2012/02/inside_walt_disneys.php http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2012/02/inside_walt_disneys.php California Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:01:07 -0800