The website of the city-landmark El Rey Theatre on Wilshire's Miracle Mile has a page of photos out of the past, showing both the interior and (more interesting to me) street scenes out front from 1946, 1954 and 1962.
The Silver Lake Downhill Derby is targeting June 2005 for a gravity powered race starting near Landa Street and Redcliff, inspired in part by the Echo Park Soap Box Derby.
Porn Valley has a new trade pub, from Xbiz.com: the monthly Xbiz World.
The L.A. Press Club is throwing a book party on Election Eve (Nov. 1) for All the President's Spin, by Ben Fritz, Bryan Keefer and Brendan Nyan of Spinsanity.org. It's at Nic's Martini Lounge in Beverly Hills.
Ilsa Setziol of KPCC won an outstanding beat reporting award from the Society of Environmental Journalists for her pieces on the Colorado River, fire aftermath and other stories.
Deanne Stillman writes in The Chronicle of the Horse that President Bush's policy toward wild horses violates the Texas cowboy Ten Commandments.
Someone emailed to point out that the Metropolitan News-Enterprise website has been down all weekend. [* It's back up on Monday]
History
In the weekend email
More by Kevin Roderick:
Standing up to Harvey WeinsteinThe Media
LA Times gets a top editor with nothing but questions
LA Observed Notes: Harvey Weinstein stripped bare
LA Observed Notes: Photos of the homeless, photos that found homes
Recent History stories on LA Observed:
Kevin Starr, 76, the historian of CaliforniaWinter solstice cave pictograph at Burro Flats
Pink Lady of Malibu Canyon
LA's first presidential election was different
Pink Lady of Malibu Canyon: 50 years ago
James Dean died 61 years ago today. Now the famous gas station is gone
Code 7 in Sherman Oaks: A little bit of history
1932 Olympics tourist map