Weekly archive
October 19 - October 25, 2003
Saturday, Oct. 25
Venerable Canter's Deli on Fairfax took over an existing deli at Treasure Island in May and is getting set to open a big new showcase in the Strip casino, and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Author Mark Salzman was invited to visit a writing class at L.A.'s Central Juvenile Hall and was so blown away by the experience that he became a teacher there. His... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Garrison at The Aesthetic writes: Alright, that's it. Now that we're spending more time in the car, we've found ourselves listening to no small amount of AM talk radio, even... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Fashion Week in Los Angeles for the spring lines begins Sunday. Runway shows are held at The Standard downtown and at Smashbox Studios in Culver City. The FashionWeek website is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Friday, Oct. 24
Nikki Finke on the LA Weekly website has the news that Sharon Waxman of the Washington Post Los Angeles bureau is taking the long-vacant New York Times Hollywood job. Finke,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Susannah Breslin, the L.A. writer of the late Reverse Cowgirl blog, is out with Youre a Bad Man, Arent You?, billed as "a short story collection of sordidly sexual tales,"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Joseph at joyrides without maps is a blogger with cul-chah. He gives a great inside-the-hall report on opening night at Frank Gehry's monument -- and posts it before midnight. He... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
"Tony Rafael" at In the Hat, the website where he writes about L.A. gangs and crime, posts a lengthy observation spurred by Jill Leovy's Slate diary on the way bad... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Thursday, Oct. 23
Variety columnist Brian Lowry took Entertainment Weekly to task yesterday for taking this year's "101 Most Power People" so seriously that, with ties, there are 123 names on the list.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Daily Breeze's Ian Gregor says that Mayor Hahn's vision for L.A. International faces a new hurdle. Mayor James Hahns $9 billion LAX modernization plan fails to fulfill its stated... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Katie Roiphe, in a piece for Slate, ponders the evolution of USC law professor and feminist author Susan Estrich, who wrote a column strongly attacking the LAT story on Schwarzenegger's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Cathy Seipp in CityBeat doesn't quite buy my take on the L.A. Times groping story about Arnold, and doesn't quite dismiss it either. In any case, she writes that when... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Ella Taylor in LA Weekly explains how the Los Angeles Film Critics took up her idea to cancel their awards dinner this year, in protest over the loss of film... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
In case anybody forgot, Bill Bradley reminds us in his LA Weekly column out today that he can still get the Governor-elect on the phone. Bradley insists that the bipartisan... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
An internal source reports that KPFK's first big fundraising drive since the station made over the program lineup to please the lefties is not going well. The pledges aren't coming... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Jill Leovy, the L.A. Times crime reporter in South L.A., is writing the Slate Diary this week on the crime-ridden 77th Street Division. People typically find out about homicides on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Wednesday, Oct. 22
The Magnificent Montague and L.A. Times writer Bob Baker were on "Day to Day" Monday talking about their book on the early days of black radio in Los Angeles, Burn,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
It may be a come down for Tina Brown to go from editor of The New Yorker and Talk magazine to a column in the Washington Post Style section, but... $MTEntryExcerpt$>