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February 26, 2007
Usage note for the Archdiocese lawyers' website.
February 25, 2007
Robert Parry doesn't like Kevin's take (such as it was) on the sheriff's training video.
February 15, 2007
Readers react to the idea of making the Times more bloggy, more local and less deeply reported.
February 12, 2007
If the whistle doesn't set off the more tightly wound denizens of Park LaBrea, The Grove's clock being four minutes late every hour might.
February 8, 2007
Glenda McCarthy's view of LATimes.com is out of date, if it was ever true, says the site's VP/General Manager.
February 1, 2007
Gag him with a spoon.
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Google's database of 5.2 million books published between 1500 and 2008 provides some interesting clues about word usage - and perhaps about attitudes.
More From Mark Lacter:
In "Leaving Las Vegas," Hollywood screenwriter Ben leaves LA ... and then he dies, which was sort of what he wanted. Who better than a Hollywood screenwriter to figure out that the easiest way to kill yourself is to leave LA?
At LACMA on Thursday night, a packed and very excited audience, some dressed in 80's garb, watched a screening of "Valley Girl" as the the museum's Film Independent program celebrated the movie's 30th anniversary. "This film was well-researched and shot in Los Angeles. It is about our cultural history," director Martha Coolidge told the crowd.
Ricky Jay could conjure a taxi in the rain in the middle of a cornfield. A documentary film about the renowned illusionist doesn't explain how, and, really, would you want it any other way?
After 22 years of loyalty, Baylor is unceremoniously shown the door.
The latest poll, which finds Dennis Zine ahead in the controller’s race and Mike Feuer leading for city attorney, also shows that half the voters don’t think Los Angeles is heading in the right direction.
Dear Readers, it's true. Chicken Corner has decamped. Just a few months ago, I believed I might possibly never move from my house in Echo Park, and now here I am moved out of that house and on my way to Cincinnati, Ohio. (Via I-40.)
