Weekly archive
June 22 - June 28, 2003
Saturday, Jun. 28
High profile for the Crenshaw area this week, with the council debate and now Sunday's review by Jonathan Kirsch of Southland: A Novel. He enjoys the murder mystery by Nina...
Los Angeles has a lone on-the-air show dedicated to perusing the local media: Deadline L.A. on KPFK-FM (90.7). It airs every Sunday from noon to 12:30, looking at "news and...
James Bates chats up 81-year-old Jack Valenti on the eve of meetings with studio execs to consider his eventual retirement and successor as head of the MPAA. No date has...
Knott's Berry Farm, which by some accounts was the nation's first theme park, is the only one with a church that holds Sunday services, the New York Times reports. It's...
Sometimes you can't plan these things. I should have caught this a couple of days ago though. Ed Rampell in the L.A. Alternative Press ponders Arianna Huffington and asks: does...
Friday, Jun. 27
Rather than decide today, the L.A. city council sent the question of renaming Crenshaw Boulevard for the late mayor Tom Bradley to committee. If it comes back, one thing will...
June 30 is the last day that writers and other freelancers swept up in the city of Los Angeles' aggressive move to collect business taxes can file for amnesty. The...
KCRW is throwing a fundraiser at the home of Arianna Huffington on July 13 that will feature a live presentation of Left, Right and Center, the politics show on which...
Studio 360, the weekly culture show on NPR hosted by Kurt Andersen, has a good historical segment today on the European composers and musicians who fled the Nazis and came...
All the noise in Washington about Univision's desire to merge with another Hispanic-oriented media company is really a Democrat-inspired fight over the future loyalties of Latino voters, writes Daniel Gross...
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a familiar figure in Los Angeles before she tried to shoot President Gerald Ford in 1974, is in love with a serial killer who poisoned four patients...
Retired L.A. Times city editor and columnist Bill Boyarsky was named to the city ethics commission yesterday by Controller Laura Chick, subject to confirmation. Boyarsky, who lectures on politics at...
Postings to Ron Fineman's On the Record, which covers the local TV newsrooms closer than anyone, have slowed because Fineman is battling cancer, writes Michael Schneider, the TV editor at...
Thursday, Jun. 26
Tavis Smiley went to Chicago for a two-part interview with Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader, that aired on his NPR show from Los Angeles. Tonight's final installment included...
The website CaliforniaAuthors.com was Yahoo's Pick of the Day yesterday (sorry we missed it...), and also celebrates its first anniversary this week. The site is the creation of editor Donna...
The Daily News reported this morning that a militant animal rights group says it is being investigated by the LAPD's anti-terrorism unit. The Animal Defense League drew attention by posting...
Roger L. Simon, author of the Moses Wine detective novels and a blogger, revisits the work and life of his fellow mystery spinner and old friend Ross Thomas in a...
The LA Weekly's Christopher Lisotta describes a leadership vacuum in L.A. gay politics since the depatures of Joel Wachs (to New York) and Jackie Goldberg (Sacramento). "No openly gay candidate...
L.A. blogger Luke Ford likes to do blanket coverage of events given by the Los Angeles Press Club, and he files a report (with a mention of L.A. Observed) from...
Greg Hardesty in The Register gives a once-over to the ongoing feud between Orange County DA Tony Rackauckas and the L.A. Times. The prosecutor stopped talking to all reporters at...
Kyle McKinnon, filling in for Warren Olney, discussed the crumbling California financial situation yesterday with Dennis Cauchon, the USA Today reporter whose investigative pieces this week explore just how badly...
David Karp, who writes richly detailed stories about food in the LAT often, tours the avocado groves of Southern California for the New York Times today. He delves into the...
The front page photo in the free weekly Santa Monica Mirror of cute kids carrying protest signs is not stunning, but the credit line is: David Hume Kennerly, Pulitzer winner...
Wednesday, Jun. 25
Arianna Huffungton's usual Wednesday op-ed didn't run in the L.A. Times today, but in it the Brentwood salon maven and regular Friday kibitzer on KCRW likes the message of 'Legally...
Former LAT publisher Richard Schlosberg is stepping down as president and chief executive officer of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. He landed at the Northern California foundation after leaving...
The feisty downtown paper Garment & Citizen is bringing Chicken Boy back to L.A. For years a giant fiberglass Chicken Boy statue sat atop a restaurant of the same name...
UCLA law professor and local blogger Eugene Volokh has a piece in National Review Online arguing against a ruling that makes an Elks Club in New Hampshire legally liable for...
Mickey Kaus, blogging at Slate magazine, likes the Gray Davis recall idea, but not the way the successor is chosen, so he puts her name on the board [scroll down]...
The USC Annenberg School for Communication will now co-produce the annual Online Journalism Awards with the Online News Association. USC replaces Columbia University as partner. Entries are accepted July 1-21,...
The Baltimore Sun weighs into the case of Los Angeles freelance investigative reporter Eric Longabardi, who gave up on the TV news business and went to Associated Press hoping to...
Tuesday, Jun. 24
Jeff Jarvis, big-time blogger (BuzzMachine.com), isn't in L.A., but he thought of the Times as he was looking to make the point that newspapers sprouting in Iraq should emulate websites...
Distinction magazine will launch in Los Angeles in the fall, Jack Fuller, president of Tribune's newspaper division, told Wall Street analysts and investors Tuesday in New York. The company already...
Screenwriter and journalist Bruce Feirstein -- a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and columnist from L.A. for The New York Observer, writing at the website DuckSeason.org -- applies his political...
The American Jewish Press Association is in town this week, at the Beverly Hilton. Wednesday's session includes a panel and job fair for freelancers....
Univision would own 5 of the Los Angeles area's 20 Spanish-language radio stations if its disputed merger with Hispanic Broadcasting goes through, the New York Times reports. Univision Communications, based...
NYT publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s interest in Dean Baquet was as managing editor, the #2 job, the New York Daily News' Paul Colford writes, citing unnamed sources. Baquet turned it...
"LOS ANGELES - It is understood on the streets of gangland that a rivalry can leave you dominant or it can leave you dead. But sometimes it can leave you...
New links in the right-hand column include Hollywood Reporter media columnist Ray Richmond, the Ocean Park Gazette, Written By (the magazine of the Writers Guild), The Aesthetic (the "South Bay's...
Monday, Jun. 23
"Jack Dunphy" is the nom de cyber of an LAPD officer who contributes columns to the conservative website National Review Online. Today, he anonymously and harshly critiques the LAT's recent...
Dan Weintraub, the former L.A. Times reporter who is now a state Capitol columnist for the Sacramento Bee, is posting a daily weblog of political observations for the Bee called...
Life and Times on KCET will look at L.A.'s historic art form, neon, on Monday, and carry reports from South Korea by Jeffrey Kaye on Tuesday and Wednesday...At KPCC (89.3),...
The Franklin Avenue blog has pulled together some fun info on several notable buildings around Los Angeles that sit empty or nearly so. My favorite is the monstrosity at 1100...
Who knew that Malibu was a haven for publishers. Last week it was a buyer for the Political Pulse newsletter, and now CurtCo Media Group, publisher of the Robb Report,...
Sunday, Jun. 22
Sure, the headline could be better, but there are six names and why show bias to the big guys, right? JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Print Over 100,000 Circulation STEVE LOPEZ...
Ouch. The Los Angeles Business Journal has to close each week's issue on Thursday...and on Friday, Wendy Greuel pulled out of the race for president of the city council. That...
Author Aimee Bender, on being a novelist in a screenwriter town (she lives and writes in a Hollywood apartment): "They don't know what to do with you. There's a lot...
Old movie newsreels dating as far back as 1917 will be digitized and put up on the Net under a joint project of IBM and the UCLA Film and Television...
Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she won't run in a recall race with Gray Davis on the ballot, which may be dumb tactics by the Democrats but it's OK with L.A....
Three members of Los Angeles' progressive leadership propose in Sunday Opinion that with Antonio Villaraigosa and Martin Ludlow joining the city council, the time is now to move on the...
