Weekly archive
February 13 - February 19, 2005
Saturday, Feb. 19
"Jack Dunphy" is the pseudonym of a politically conservative LAPD veteran who contributes to National Review Online. His most recent piece rails about the "carnival of racial pandering" he says...
* Updated with excerpts The paper says Sunday that a spirited runoff betwen Antonio Villaraigosa and Bob Hertzberg would be good for the city, and doesn't name a favorite—only that...
Friday, Feb. 18
Today it's the Hertzberg campaign's turn to stumble in public. Somebody over there sent out a mass email boasting that KCAL-9 commentator Kerman Maddox (who is a Parks supporter) proclaimed...
The Times has filled the New York television beat opening created when Elizabeth Jensen resigned. Moving east is Matea Gold, who has been covering politics. She was a primary reporter...
The April issue of Stuff celebrates what the magazine calls the country's thirteen Hall of Fame dive bars. Total number west of Texas: 2. Total in California: 1. Total in...
Sherry Bebitch Jeffe submits to questions about the mayor's race from CityBeat editor Steve Appleford, who noticed that she is the expert debate reporters go to when they need some...
Thursday, Feb. 17
RonFineman.com is asking his readers to vote over the next week on the best storm gear on local TV news. Leslie Miller—from Channel 7, top left in the fuzzy hat—has...
Either the New York Times "House & Home" section has a long lead time, or Christopher Hawthorne hung on to his East Coast freelance gig when he became the L.A....
No blog, especially not this one, can post on everything. There is just too much going on. So we pick and choose. One of the surest ways an item makes...
Last time I sat in the lobby of Laura Chick's suite in City Hall East, the most prominent photo showed the controller with her friend Bob Hertzberg. She selected him...
Who knew that blogger Mickey Kaus' call for the L.A. Times to run more gossip about the private lives of politicians would have such legs. First John Carroll used the...
Other projects and a stubborn cold have slowed me down the last day or so. Here's some things I missed: • Estrich vs. Kinsley: USC law professor and columnist Susan Estrich...
Wednesday, Feb. 16
The despondent man who caused last month's Glendale train derailment was looking for attention from his estranged wife, not to commit suicide, a police detective told the L.A. Daily Journal's...
Joe Scott, who worked in the Bradley and Riordan campaigns for mayor and has covered races—and who is researching 1930s Los Angeles for a book—takes issue with the meme repeated...
Tuesday, Feb. 15
That amount is the gap between the actual median income in Southern California and the income you would need to qualify for a mortgage to buy a house that sells...
Big John's Village Cafe in El Segundo serves a 32-ounce cheeseburger, said to have the girth of a medium pizza and adorned with half-a-head of lettuce, three tomatoes, an entire...
The Times asked Bob Hertzberg for the details of his call to break up the L.A. school district and reports today there aren't many specifics to know. The closest thing...
The New York Times' former film critic is following the occasionally-beaten path—again—and going to work for Hollywood. Back in 1992, Mitchell took a post at Paramount and lasted six months....
Monday, Feb. 14
This is pure one-source, unsubstantiated gossip of the sort I usually don't pass along, but it's so specific maybe there is something to it. The Times, like other papers, has...
A blogger can't even take a few hours away for a nice Valentine's Day lunch (at Angelini Osteria) without something breaking. While I was gone, the inbox was filling up...
Architecture and city planning critic Sam Hall Kaplan writes in the Downtown News that a new police headquarters across from City Hall would violate pretty much all of the good...
Fresh off losing in the city council, which won't let voters decide if they want a sales tax boost for more cops, LAPD chief William Bratton warns on the Times...
They are more capsules than profiles, if the 839 words spent on Richard Alarcon in Monday's paper are typical. (Compare to the Times and LA Weekly.) The rest are coming...
Sunday, Feb. 13
Scientists who go down in submarines to study the ocean floor off Southern California don't see many big rockfish anymore. But they have found a new species of coral they...
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. Sunday's Daily News editorial says of the paper's choice: Fortunately, there are four qualified candidates with a strong...
As expected, the name of Carlos Vignali has surfaced in the mayoral race. But this time it came from Bernard Parks, who charged that Jim Hahn's TV spots about Vignali...
The Sunday Opinion feature "Outside the Tent" seems in love with bloggers as the critics of the Times that count. Today it's Patterico's turn. Writing as Patrick Frey, he argues...
The New York Times bureau had its "So long!" party for the departing Bernard Weinraub last night. Someone who was there said the cocktail soiree, held at bureau chief John...
