Weekly archive
May 18 - May 24, 2003

Saturday, May. 24
Rick Bragg, who worked at the LAT for about a month before jumping to the New York Times, has been suspended by the NYT in the Jayson Blair aftermath. There...
Friday, May. 23
The ex-con author and sometime L.A. Weekly columnist died in a hotel room and not heroically. Howard Blume, his editor at the Weekly, does the honors. Howard also gets off...
Thursday, May. 22
Memorial Day's "Airtalk with Larry Mantle" on KPCC-FM (89.3) will be a prerecorded show on historic preservation from the ghostly Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire, featuring charming stories about growing up...
Wednesday, May. 21
The victory Tuesday of David Tokofsky means that ex-mayor Dick Riordan lost another bid to hold on to his (and Eli Broad's) influence on the L.A. school board. The mayor...
Miguel Contreras and the L.A. labor council won big in Tuesday's victory of Martin Ludlow in the 10th council district. They already helped elect Ludlow's former boss Antonio Villaraigosa on...
Tuesday, May. 20
He shot iconic photos of the Watts riots and the Dodgers' welcoming parade in 1958. Neither of those, unfortunately, are in the online gallery at LATimes.com....
You may have missed the headline in this morning's LAT -- buried on B4. Ten Angelenos murdered in an especially violent spate ("We haven't had a weekend like this in...
Monday, May. 19
I've driven all over the rural West and love the road, but I loathe the return leg to L.A. from Vegas on I-15. Great scenery, idiotic drivers. Too many hog...
The ex-mayor and would-be publisher's Brentwood home is the site of a fundraiser tonight for the state Republican Party, Rick Orlov reports in the Daily News. Among the scheduled attendees...
Sunday, May. 18
Mal Florence was at the Times forever and was best known for covering USC football and writing Morning Briefing. He was 77 and mostly retired, but I don't think he...
Friends and former colleagues are pouring in heartfelt memories over at LAExaminer.com. She wrote the "Bite Me" column for New Times L.A. before the weekly folded last year and was...
From a Q-and-A on JournalismJobs.com with Matt Labash of the conservative Weekly Standard: JournalismJobs.com: Why have conservative media outlets like The Weekly Standard and Fox News Channel become more popular...
From a column at ReasonOnline : "'Media bias' is usually code for 'insufficient bias toward my views.'"...
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