Weekly archive
January 9 - January 15, 2005
Saturday, Jan. 15
My favorite job used to be to roam around upstate California and Nevada looking for stories, then try to write them onto the front page of the newspaper. I would...
Friday, Jan. 14
Most reviews of the documentary Shortcut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela, including the one by Kevin Crust in Friday's Times, mention the scenes where a man ties his penis to a...
The LA Weekly's Marc Cooper recounts an incident from the recent storms involving a guy in a wet leather jacket on Sunset near Vine: As I sat idle in a...
Molly Freedenberg writes in the weekly Ventura County Reporter about going to cover the La Conchita mudslide and discovering that several victims were her friends. Her Reporter's Notebook (third item...
Felix Sanchez of the Long Beach Press-Telegram got the memo and broke the story that Boeing will announce today it's going to stop building the 717 airliner. [* The Register's...
The cover piece in the CityBeat issue that came out Thursday happened to recite the litany of investigations, ethical questions and connections swirling around Jim Hahn's run for reelection. Stormy...
Thursday, Jan. 13
A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted former Fleishman-Hillard senior VP John Stodder on 11 counts of wire fraud. These are felony counts and allege that he "participated in a...
Bill Rempel has been a lead investigative reporter for the Times on the international arms market and projects such as the Troopergate stories during the Bill Clinton years. He's shifting...
The former top news executive at CBS (1982-1986), Fox and Channel 2 here has been on something of a kick about liberal media bias lately (he is more conservative). On...
• The L.A. Times has an obit today on Marcus Arnold, who rocketed to Internet stardom as a 15-year-old legal expert on AskMe.com. Turns out Arnold died back on May 1,...
Wednesday, Jan. 12
The mayor's race got a little snippy today. This morning I guess Bob Hertzberg unveiled something he calls the Commuters' Bill of Rights. The Hahn campaign responded, over spokeswoman Julie...
The bodies of Jimmy Wallet's missing wife and three daughters were found today under the landslide at La Conchita. He is the father who was returning from the market as...
Tuesday, Jan. 11
Until now, the L.A. Times has had an editor for environmental coverage of California, Frank Clifford, whose oversight pretty much ended at the state line. In a long overdue realignment,...
Some of you might remember last year's exchanges in the old comments section here about Michel Thomas. He was the language teacher to the stars who claimed a number of...
If you have a good connection and enough memory, check out the photo full sized on the cover of today's Ventura County Star. The La Conchita mudslide is turning into...
Where it counts in January, that is. The mayor's got $2.4 million in the bank to spend on ads and getting out the vote, compared to about $1.6 million for...
Yeah, Topanga Canyon is going to be closed for awhile. The photo is by Ken Hively in the LAT. Slide show of storm photos at LATimes.com. Meanwhile, things look bad...
Monday, Jan. 10
Antonio Villaraigosa's campaign sent email to supporters this afternoon claiming that he's leading the race for mayor based on a poll released today by the Hertzberg campaign. The first problem...
Short items for a new week: WeHo mayor: BoifromTroy comments on West Hollywood mayor John Duran buying a share of Frontiers, which bills itself as "California's gay biweekly." Hewitt book:...
Southern California subscribers to the New York Times did not get their papers today because the weather interfered with satellite transmission. The L.A. Business Journal has a story on its...
Three network execs and producer Mary Mapes lost their jobs after an independent report concluded that a bogus "60 Minutes Wednesday" story on President Bush's National Guard failed to apply...
Sunday, Jan. 9
Monrovia's one-of-a-kind Baseball Reliquary is "dedicated to fostering an appreciation of American art and culture through the context of baseball history." Its version of the Hall of Fame is the...
The University of California Press has just published a book on Los Angeles politics by four Occidental College faculty members. Two authors of The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for...
Suddenly Los Angeles is awash in lost murals by Mexican revolutionary artist David Alfaro Siqueiros. In 1932, the comrade of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo came to L.A. to teach...
Hertzbucks up: Bob Hertzberg disclosed Sunday that his campaign for mayor has raised $2.2 million, double what he reported in September. He now has nearly $1.6 million on hand. We'll...
The Sunday Business section of the LAT is two pages thinner starting today. Certain stocks and mutual funds will no longer be included in the end-of-week stock tables, the paper...
From Sunday afternoon's Associated Press L.A. weather roundup: "We've had almost continuous rain for 60 hours, and it's going to continue for a day or two. I don't see any...
