Time for a change of pace.
Kathryn Maese, formerly the news editor of the Downtown News, has joined the Los Angeles Business Journal to write about tech and defense.
On their blog, Variety TV editor Michael Schneider and his wife Maria Villar are collecting votes on a name for their baby boy, who's due soon. They are down to ten finalists.
Variety editors Jonathan Bing and Dade Hayes have a new book out, Open Wide: How Hollywood Box Office Became a National Obsession, from Miramax Books. They will be feted as part of a L.A. Lit Mixer next Tuesday, Sept. 21, 7 p.m. at Cinespace in Hollywood.
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