Weekly archive
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The covers of CityBeat and ValleyBeat: Ann Coulter Story of the week at The Simon: Why I Still Read Maureen Dowd... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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":... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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... $MTEntryExcerpt$>