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Weekly archive
August 31 - September 6, 2003
August 31 - September 6, 2003
Saturday, Sep. 6
I've tweaked the colors and margins a bit, bumped up some of the font sizes and made a coding change that should help the blog work better with RSS news...
Friday, Sep. 5
Scott Timberg in the L.A. Times dares go where not many in the local media have ventured -- to talk to people who don't much like the Frank Gehry-designed Disney...
In his day job Ken Baker is the West Coast executive editor in L.A. for Us Weekly. Somehow he also finds the time to write personal books. His first, Man...
Thursday, Sep. 4
Jonathan Cohn, the former executive editor of The American Prospect and The New Republic, has a Los Angeles Diarist piece in the current TNR on the studies at UCLA and...
The people behind the legendary La Brea Avenue hot dog stand are touting it as a sitcom setting. They entered the Pilot Project competition and made the semi-finals, writes Kevin...
Strikingly similar stories in the Times and Daily Breeze today on Matt Middlebrook's resignation as top communications aide to mayor Jim Hahn. Both stories talk about Middlebrook running Hahn's campaigns...
Writing for an audience that is not primarily other bloggers, and some who don't visit many websites of any kind, I get a lot of questions about the form and...
George Christy is the defrocked Hollywood Reporter columnist who left the trade paper after colleague Dave Robb investigated -- and tried to report -- that Christy was way too friendly...
The covers of CityBeat and ValleyBeat: Ann Coulter Story of the week at The Simon: Why I Still Read Maureen Dowd...
Joie Davidow was the first style editor of LA Weekly, beginning in 1979 -- so long ago that Melrose had not even turned cool. Jay Levin ran the start-up paper...
I thought of Mike Davis a couple of weeks ago when the LAT ran an astounding photo from up around Lancaster of a billboard bent backwards 90 degrees. "High winds"...
Wednesday, Sep. 3
The L.A. Weekly, being predictably liberal again to excite the cadre for Bustamante (sarcasm alert), in a piece by former Democratic consultant Bill Bradley headlined "Take the Money and Run":...
Thunder heads piling over the San Gabriels and the Mojave are especially humongous this afternoon. The line must be 30 miles long -- brilliant steaming white, violent and a mile...
Dan Weintraub feels compelled today to explain that as a politics blogger for the Sacramento Bee, as well as the paper's opinion page columnist, he is above all else an...
The unusual L.A. blog In the Hat has caught the eye of Danish television, which sent a crew to get the tour of Eastside gang turf from "Wally," who monitors...
The Writers Guild of America, West website explains why L.A. residents will soon see billboards all over that show the black-and-white face of an unidentified screenwriter and a familiar line...
Tuesday, Sep. 2
I shouldn't have been surprised (end of post) that studio location filming irked parts of L.A. in the 1920s. An e-mailer writes that film crews were bothersome even earlier: I...
The afternoon talk team at KFI (AM 640) has been voted the #1 Los Angeles radio personalities by the readers of LARadio.com, the subscription website run by Don Barrett. A...
For his 30th birthday, Variety television editor Michael Schneider and his wife Maria Villar put together eight teams and staged a mad dash around Los Angeles looking for clues, inspired...
The Aesthetic wonders, reasonably: Something that has always puzzled us, particularly now that gas prices have gone through the roof, is why the price of gas isn't cheaper in El...
Schwarzenegger's No Hard Questions Tour plays the "John and Ken Show" today on KFI (AM 640), some blogs report, though KFI's website has no mention. He's supposed to be on...
A selection from the August Index: Rank of California governor Gray Davis's approval rating in May among the lowest in the 55-year history of the state poll : 1 Number...
Monday, Sep. 1
The first issue of Distinction, the upscale SoCal lifestyle magazine from the creative minds at the L.A. Times advertising department, is arriving now in 50,000 high-income homes in Los Angeles...
I apologize for not posting that the blog was shutting down for the weekend. Sure did feel good though to skip reading about the recall. I'm not going to catch...
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