Weekly archive
June 29 - July 5, 2003
Saturday, Jul. 5
"KPFK now moves towards the further diversification of programming as we do so in the area of political consciousness, cultural awareness and the empowerment of all communities that contribute to...
Twelve years ago I used this lede on a story about California's meanest weed: "What is three feet tall, armed with sharp needles, loiters in the grass and kills a...
Friday, Jul. 4
Instead of reporting on the unfolding disarray at KPFK, the L.A. Times radio beat reporter, freelancer Steve Carney, has a nice little feature in Calendar today on the institution of...
It's OK to place granite tiles in the sidewalk along Ventura Boulevard with the names of stars who strutted their stuff at Studio City's lone studio, the city cultural heritage...
Thursday, Jul. 3
The OC Weekly's Anthony Pignataro gets in the face of Gordon Dillow, the Register columnist who was embedded with the first Marines to cross into Iraq. Dillow didn't exactly uphold...
Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll -- having already given his view on liberal bias at the paper, and having gotten a huge outside reaction -- now wants to do...
The longest running program longest running non-music show on Los Angeles radio will come to an end on July 12. KPFK's schedule revamp has claimed The Car Show, hosted by...
Page Six says that actress Sharon Stone and hubby Phil Bronstein, top editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, have split up. He, famously, was the guy bitten on the bare...
Producers and program hosts at KPFK, the Pacifica station at 90.7 FM, are getting phone calls informing them of new show times, curtailed hours and apparently some cancellations. It's the...
Since it's Thursday, here's a quick scan of the weekly papers...The LA Weekly looks at the state of liberty in America, updates the anti-trust action that arose over the closure...
Jane Kahn will indeed be the publisher and Laurie Pike the editor of Distinction, the new luxury magazine to be run by a division that reports to the L.A. Times...
Wednesday, Jul. 2
Barry Bearak, a New York Times staffer familiar in these parts from his many years as a star writer at the L.A. Times, quietly circulated a three-page proposal asking for...
Fresh off a live broadcast from the state capital on Monday, Kitty Felde is teasing to a debate on the Gray Davis recall on 'Talk of the City' (KPCC 89.3...
Soon the last TV stations left in Hollywood will be KTLA (Ch. 5) and KCET (Ch. 28), Franklin Avenue points out. The blog made a survey with pics of the...
L.A. writer Matt Welch (of L.A. Examiner.com and Reason mag) set off a comment frenzy at his personal website (58 and counting, and not all pretty) by boldly predicting that...
Ronald Grover bets that Arnold Schwarzenegger won't run for governor if Terminator 3 has a good holiday weekend at the box office. "For all the coyness, his obvious enjoyment of...
George Ramos, a reporter, editor and columnist at the L.A. Times for 25 years, is departing to become the chair of the journalism department at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo....
Tim Rutten's Regarding Media column in the L.A. Times blames the Laci Peterson frenzy on the hunger of the cable networks for summer programming, and opens with a good line:...
Tuesday, Jul. 1
Tongues were already wagging down at the L.A. Times on Tuesday morning over the Patt Morrison column in which she proudly accepts an invitation from councilman Tom LaBonge to do...
Twenty years ago, award-winning Los Angeles author A. Scott Berg began talking with his friend Katharine Hepburn about her life. Four years ago, he began writing a combination biography and...
Demand for new schools is consuming land and historic locales all over Los Angeles. On Wilshire alone, the old Otis Art Institute is already a construction site -- though the...
Playboy contributor Katie Moran has sold a book on her travels through the sexual culture of Los Angeles to Bonus Books. The 'On' Position, says Publishers Lunch, is a "sexy,...
UCLA's Anderson School gives out the Loeb Awards each year to recognize the best in business journalism. At the banquet last night in New York, none of the L.A. finalists...
Monday, Jun. 30
Media Life magazine today gave its Best of the Best award for radio to Marketplace, the daily news program produced in Los Angeles that airs locally on KCRW and KPCC....
The Power Lunch column by Ron Grover, Business Week's Los Angeles bureau chief, was dark for a month. It's back, on BusinessWeek Online, with a piece on Kirk Kerkorian's MGM...
Two versions, take your pick: the L.A. Times and Lonewacko....
Adam Kirsch (son of Jonathan) asks the question and offers an answer in Slate magazine....
L.A. Observed has learned it's to be John Lippman, who covers entertainment in the Wall Street Journal's Los Angeles bureau. Lippman has been writing about Hollywood for the Journal since...
Don Frederick, currently an editor in the L.A. Times Washington bureau, will run the paper's national political desk for the 2004 election cycle. He has worked on the desk in...
CaliforniaAuthors.com lists upcoming books by novelists Walter Mosely and newcomer (to the mystery genre) Steven Bochco and journalists Joan Didion, Edward Humes, Miles Corwin, Mark Miller and Mark Arax. The...
Freelance journalists and others have until today to get in under the amnesty program for the controversial city of Los Angeles business tax. Some details are available at the Writers...
A former deputy commissioner of the NYPD, on the likelihood of LAPD chief William Bratton returning to make New York mayor Michael Bloomberg pay for a rise in crime: "[Bloomberg]...
Sunday, Jun. 29
KCOP-TV has put its La Brea Avenue studio up for sale and moved across town to West L.A. The station, owned by Fox Broadcasting, now shares space with Fox's channel...
Page 1 of Monday's Washington Post, by Rene Sanchez of the L.A. bureau: "The nation's most populous state, home to one of the world's largest economies, has been staring in...
Gary Cohn, formerly of the Baltimore Sun, confirms via email that he will join the L.A. Times business staff as an investigative reporter in late July....
In the L.A. Times piece today on the questions that will come up if Arnold Schwarzenegger runs for governor, former mayor Richard Riordan says he thinks the actor will go...
In a front page story about the new popularity of online dating in the New York Times, a Culver City woman complains that the men she dates off their personals...
The latest LA Weekly writer to post a piece in Sunday Opinion at the L.A. Times is Howard Blume, who deftly picks apart the L.A. school district's dropout stats. Weekly...
