Weekly archive
June 8 - June 14, 2003
Saturday, Jun. 14
The coastal strip around Santa Barbara has become the most expensive area in California to buy a home. With median prices at $825,000 and rising, the town is losing its...
In his Sunday L.A. Times media column, David Shaw wonders why more newspapers don't send letters to the subjects of their articles, asking if the published facts were correct. One...
Only three of the 55 Oscar statuettes swiped en route to Los Angeles from the factory three years ago were never found. Now one of them has turned up, during...
Friday, Jun. 13
The creator of Slate's popular Today's Papers feature at first assembed the column here in Los Angeles, working deep into the early morning to get it ready for East Coast...
Marcos Villatoro, who hosts the book show Shelf Life on KPFK (Mondays, 2 p.m.), talks about L.A.'s literary radio scene in an excerpt from the anthology, Misread City: New Literary...
Thursday, Jun. 12
Cardinal Mahony's stalling, history of the Pasadena Freeway, new poll numbers on the Gray Davis recall and Ken Turan's appreciation of Gregory Peck. If you have a fast connection, listen...
OK, more on CityBEAT now that I've seen the print copy. The first picture by photog-around-town Gary Leonard is of former mayor Richard Riordan, posing outside The Pantry with the...
CNET's News.com has the details of how William Racine II, a Norco web designer, scammed Network Solutions to give him access to the Al-Jazeera.net domain, which he then redirected to...
Franklin Avenue blogs about the Spike TV party on Tuesday night. Sounds like a lot of the usual Hefner hangers-on. The blog also ponders the pirate radio scene around Echo...
The Amateur Athletic Foundation's Sports Letter, which ceased publication in 2001, is back as a web-only newsletter. It's a nice-looking roundup of items from the sports world, some local and...
Mickey Kaus gets in some good if belated digs at the infamous "contact yoga" interview with Lynda Guber a couple of weeks ago in the L.A. Times' new Home section....
James Bates explains in the L.A. Times why those pickets have been out on Wilshire Boulevard -- the actors are fighting among themselves again....
Glovebox-friendly, but I'd guess ultimately not very useful to anyone with a clue about L.A....
National Iranian Television, which beams onto a satellite from Woodland Hills, is encouraging the street protests in Tehran. Zia Ataby, president of NITV, spoke with Warren Olney yesterday (Real Audio)....
San Remo Drive, the latest novel by Leslie Epstein, gets its name from the affluent street in Pacific Palisades where he grew up with Liz Taylor in his pool and...
In a piece called L.A.'s Streets of Death on the op-ed page in the New York Times, Bob Herbert writes: " I don't know which is more bizarre, the agonizing...
LA CityBeat's first issue is online now and includes a cover story (with photo of Osama Bin Laden) in which the LAPD's newscaster-turned-terrorism expert John Miller is turned loose to...
Celeste Fremon in the LA Weekly gives the clearest recitation I've seen on the LAPD hiring snit between Hahn and Bratton (who asked for the money to add 320 cops)...
Wednesday, Jun. 11
In his regular Wednesday take, Rip Rense rants on the L.A. school board for making another run at building the Belmont Learning Center -- methane, earthquake faults and all. He...
New entries weren't being seen here on the main page this morning due to a glitch with Movable Type. Oddly, they did show up in the archives. Anyway, things seem...
Newsweek's media writer Seth Mnookin gives 2-1 odds that L.A. Times managing editor Dean Baquet will be offered the job of New York Times executive editor. Before coming to L.A....
The film about longtime KROQ-FM disc jockey (and Monkees stand-in) Rodney Bingenheimer -- and therefore about a swath of Los Angeles pop culture history -- will premiere next week at...
"Roughly every 10 minutes, I get an e-mail from Feinstein's office telling me what she's been up to since the last e-mail," Steve Lopez quips in his appraisal this morning...
This morning on Airtalk with Larry Mantle, Larry plans to discuss the anti-lap dance ordinance that's before the L.A. city council and talk with Michael Lewis about his new baseball...
Five gang-related shooting incidents in a month in the Pico neighborhood of Santa Monica (with no one hit) inspired a rally and march by residents, the Santa Monica Daily Press...
Tuesday, Jun. 10
Political opinion-monger Jill Stewart confirms by email that her bi-weekly Sacramento column won't run in CityBeat, the new L.A. free paper launching on Thursday. She does appear in Pasadena Weekly,...
My email brings news of a new message board for ex-staffers of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, which shut down in, I think, 1989. It's run by Chris Gulker, who...
The SoCal blog Shock & Awe puts a new spin on the self-revelation by Daily News editorial writer Chris Weinkopf that he was once good buds with terrorism suspect John...
For those who like this kind of thing, here are some photos from the mediabistro.com party at the Bel-Age on May 29 to launch the website's new L.A. personals....
LAExaminer.com unveils a new design that looks really nice in Explorer. They're still working on other browsers -- it doesn't parse at all yet in my Netscape 7. If you...
French and German tourists were just about the only fools to take on Death Valley in summer, but they finally got smart (and a little hurt by all the Euro...
Alicia Valdes-Rodriguez was known in her short career at the L.A. Times for penning a hilarious piece on being a Latina visitor to Cuba and encountering Woody Harrelson, and for...
The longtime flagship of the now-merged Weider magazine empire, Muscle and Fitness, won't be going to New York with Men's Fitness. M&F and its spinoff, Muscle and Fitness Hers, will...
The San Fernando Valley Fair, an annual tradition for more than fifty years, celebrated the old ranching culture again this weekend -- but not in the Valley. Just like many...
Former L.A. author and blogger Virginia Postrel nominates Ron Brownstein, the national political writer for the Los Angeles Times, as somebody the New York Times should hire. She also thinks...
Monday, Jun. 9
That's because Chris Weinkopf, the paper's editorial writer, used to hang out with John Noster, the Valley man who the feds say was on a path to become the next...
It just doesn't get better than Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals. The ultimate game of the most intense tournament in the fastest, most demanding sport. Doesn't even matter...
John Carroll's warning to the staff on liberal bias got another airing over the weekend in the Boston Globe. Cathy Young, who also writes for Reason, explores the spectrum of...
At Hit and Run, the news blog of the libertarians who write and edit Los Angeles-based Reason, Matt Welch busts the L.A. City Council: "Taking Hollywood promotional tie-ins to a...
Missed it on Friday, but "Talk of the City" on KPCC had a program about WattStax, the "black Woodstock" that drew 100,000 people to the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1972....
Last week on his radio show, Fox News talkschlub Bill O'Reilly railed about the L.A. Times memo on liberal bias and attributed it to editor John Roberts. A listener who...
Erstwhile L.A. Examiner publisher and editor Richard Riordan is making arrangements to run again for governor if the Gray Davis recall makes the ballot, says Robert Novak, the conservative Chicago...
International Creative Management, a prime Beverly Hills talent agency, has lost clients Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu to rivals and had an agent get in a public tiff...
Sunday, Jun. 8
Howard Kurtz, in his post-mortem Monday on Howell Raines' downfall: "The era of sweeping media mishaps under the proverbial rug is long gone, in part because there are so many...
It's Lew Wasserman day in the L.A. Times. In the Book Review, Richard Schickel calls Connie Bruck's new bio of the Hollywood powerhouse "the sort of elegy the old man...
The Daily Breeze reports on a move to change several miles of Crenshaw (from Wilshire to 79th Street) to Tom Bradley Boulevard. Bradley, for those who forget, was the mayor...
Booth Moore writes fashion for the L.A. Times and her new husband, Adam Robert Tschorn, is a Los Angeles freelance writer who "composes questions for 'The Weakest Link' and other...
William Fulton, prolific and respected writer on Los Angeles history, planning and architecture, is running for the city council -- in Ventura....
