http://www.laobserved.com/ Kevin Roderick's blog on LA Observed Copyright 2012 Fri, 25 May 2012 14:01:10 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.25 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss closed since February for maintenance to the walkways and planters.]]> http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/getty_gardens_reopen_satu.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/getty_gardens_reopen_satu.php Arts Fri, 25 May 2012 14:01:10 -0800 The overall project is now four to six months behind schedule. This means that the plans to close the freeway over a weekend to finish tearing down the Muholland Drive bridge in Sepulveda Pass are now delayed at least until late summer. Plus: Wilshire Rampture by the numbers. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/wilshire_ramps_by_the_num.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/wilshire_ramps_by_the_num.php 405 Fri, 25 May 2012 09:45:39 -0800 Press secretary vs Dan Walters, safe sex petitions, drug tests at Beverly Hills High, media notes and Molly Ringwald to marshall the Pride parade. Plus more. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/friday_notes_3.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/friday_notes_3.php Morning Buzz Fri, 25 May 2012 09:31:20 -0800 LA Sketchbook archive.]]> http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/la_sketchbook_space_x.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/la_sketchbook_space_x.php LA Sketchbook Fri, 25 May 2012 08:32:09 -0800 unveiled today (after months of use behind the scenes.) Nice to see: a news staff list with beats and bios for 78 reporters, producers, editors, hosts and others. Read the memo and links]]> http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/kpcc_relaunches_website_a.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/kpcc_relaunches_website_a.php Read the memo Thu, 24 May 2012 23:23:39 -0800 Lots of tears in the courthouse in Long Beach on Thursday. After almost ten years, five of them spent in prison, once-promising high school football player Brian Banks was officially exonerated of the rape charge he pleaded no contest to as a sixteen-year-old, in a bid to avoid a longer sentence. The childhood friend who accused him, Wanetta Gibson, friended him on Facebook last year and admitted on tape that she had made up the rape allegation. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/brian_banks_in_court_by_a.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/brian_banks_in_court_by_a.php Crime Thu, 24 May 2012 22:12:06 -0800 in her Los Angeles-area apartment.]]> http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/claudia_laffranchi_swiss.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/claudia_laffranchi_swiss.php Obituaries Thu, 24 May 2012 21:37:57 -0800 Jillian Reynolds apologized to Dorothy Lucey for the bad things she has said about her "Good Day L.A." co-host all these years. Then they exchanged "I love yous" and hugged. "The most painful TV you'll watch all day: Jillian and Dorothy's cringe-worthy farewell and fake tears," TV Guide's Michael Schneider said. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/dorothy_and_jillian_hug_a.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/dorothy_and_jillian_hug_a.php Media people Thu, 24 May 2012 17:56:16 -0800 . Sounds good to us.]]> http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/downtown_sunbathers_ident.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/downtown_sunbathers_ident.php Downtown Thu, 24 May 2012 16:04:45 -0800 http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/meanwhile_lawsuit_over_re.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/meanwhile_lawsuit_over_re.php Law Thu, 24 May 2012 13:25:28 -0800