Weekly archive
December 4 - December 10, 2005
Saturday, Dec. 10
Bill Robertson, the retired L.A. County Federation of Labor chief, was 89 and suffered from Alzheimer's: "...onetime bartender and bouncer who rose to become a major labor leader and power...
Friday, Dec. 9
News swept through the upscale lunch set this afternoon that at least one worker at Cafe Pinot has hepatitis A—and three other workers aren't feeling so hot. If you ate...
You know how banks are supposedly fighting to win our business, being all helpful and friendly? At Sean Bonner's Washington Mutual branch, they didn't get the memo....
Lisa Guerrero used to be a sports reporter for KCBS and KTTV here, then for the "Regional Sports Report" on Fox Sports West. She was also a regular on Fox's...
Now that everyone can scour the state's database of sex offenders from home and work, the LAPD is doing away with the Megan's Law computer terminals in the lobbies of...
Larry Grisolano ran City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's successful 2001 race and, more importantly, was directing the race against Jerry Brown to get the Democratic nomination for state attorney general. He...
LAT watcher Brady Westwater has been watching closely to see how long it will take for the Times to correct a story that said Los Angeles was incorporated as an...
Mayor Villaraigosa's State of the Valley speech included his hopes for a denser, more urban Los Angeles than most in the Valley probably want: "This old concept that all of...
Thursday, Dec. 8
The headline belongs to today's Jewish Journal cover story by Joel Kotkin on the recent re-discovery and popularity of religious institutions close to the city's core. When the media or...
Yesterday's Barbra Streisand-drops-the-LAT meme has morphed into a Yahoo News story posted this afternoon....
Services for former Los Angeles city councilman Marvin Braude will be held Monday at 11 am at University Synagogue on Sunset. Braude represented the Westside for thirty-two years. Statements released...
Jose Valentin signs with the Mets, Elmer Dessens goes to the Royals and Jason Grabowski—who was a Paul DePodesta reclamation project—takes what's left of his career to Japan....
City Controller Laura Chick just put an end to the chatter that she is considering a run for state Controller—by announcing that she isn't going for it after all. Just...
The gambling issue. Sample lede: "Like so many young women before me, I had trekked to Las Vegas to hand out free T-shirts at a porn convention." (LA Weekly) The...
Once again the New York Times turns to Southern California for a lifestyle feature. This time, the Pasadena home of film producer Gale Anne Hurd ("a delicate, soft-spoken woman with...
Public Radio International's Tavis Smiley interviewed condemned Crips founder Tookie Williams by phone on San Quentin's Death Row. Calls are limited to fifteen minutes, so it took two redials to...
Wednesday, Dec. 7
Franklin Avenue has begun a fun blog exercise. He's seeking nominations for the treasures of Los Angeles that are getting up in years and will be missed when if they...
The LA Weekly's (possibly) longest-serving editorial staffer, Mary Katherine Aldin, has been there more than twenty years and remembers when "Jay and Joie were running the Weekly out of his...
UC Irvine historian Jon Wiener has been suing the government under the Freedom of Information Act since 1983 for complete access to the voluminous John Lennon FBI files. J. Edgar...
Barbra Streisand wanted to make sure we all got to read the full text of her letter to the editor that ran—edited—in the L.A. Times on Nov. 28, protesting the...
Mayor Villaraigosa and relevant supporting characters will appear at Berth 87 in the harbor to announce the new appointee to run the Port of Los Angeles. * 1:15 pm update:...
All these newspaper awards show site creators ought to get together before choosing their brand names. The New York Times' new online effort announced today is called Red Carpet, same...
* 12:30 pm update: Dow Jones Newswires has backpedaled all the way on its report of 2006 job cuts by Tribune: "Tribune Co. will not cut 4% of its workforce...
Tuesday, Dec. 6
Erin Aubry Kaplan's regular Wednesday column debuts on the LAT op-ed page. She writes of being "genuinely shocked" that rapper Snoop Dogg is pressing clemency for Tookie Williams. Along the...
Myron A. "Ron'' Hartwig, the senior executive in California for Hill & Knowlton, is the new vice president of communications for The J. Paul Getty Trust. His responsibilities will include...
Grady Little, former manager of Frank McCourt's hometown Boston Red Sox, will be introduced as manager of the Dodgers at a 5 pm press conference. He was run out of...
No sooner did the Hollywood Reporter gets its annual Power 100 of most important women into print than Publisher and Editor-in-chief Robert Dowling announced he is leaving at the end...
An angle raised by the Times' scheduled closing and sale of its Chatsworth printing plant: what happens to the time capsule that was buried under the floor amid great civic...
Tenants at Lincoln Place began to be removed by sheriff's deputies at 9 am today. Venice Paper says some residents were left empty-handed as locks on their units were changed....
Los Angeles has posted the top stories from the December issue, including Steve Oney's feature on Defamer Mark Lisanti and the rise of online gossip. The most influential and intimidating...
She hasn't posted since the Kings began their annual fade in the standings, but actress Elisha Cuthbert is on board as the L.A. hockey team's blondest, most exclamation-pointed official blogger....
Another longtime L.A. record store, Hatikvah Records on Fairfax Avenue, is closing. Owner Simon Rutberg guests with KCRW general manager Ruth Seymour on today's Politics of Culture at 2:30 pm....
Michael Massing, a Columbia Journalism Review editor writing in the New York Review of Books, reports on why Pulitzer winner Nancy Cleeland is no longer covering labor for the L.A....
Monday, Dec. 5
District Attorney Steve Cooley's office has decided no criminal charges are warranted in the LAPD shooting death of thirteen-year-old Devin Brown. The question was whether officer Steve Garcia broke the...
Village Voice editor Don Forst resigned effective December 31, leaving ahead of the New Times takeover of his paper (along with the LA Weekly and OC Weekly.) "A number of...
Added below: Publisher says 300 Times jobs lost in all There's still a few reporters based in an office in Encino (and they are slated to move), but the Chatsworth...
LA Weekly Deputy Editor Joe Donnelly had a pleasant enough interview with Mike Lacey, the New Times co-founder who will soon be in charge of the Weekly (and its OC...
Those of you who were still cozying up to Richard Fausset of the Times' third-floor bureau can scratch him off the holiday party list. He is shipping out to Atlanta...
Andrew K. Antwih is the mayor's new Chief Legislative Representative in Sacramento. A native of South Los Angeles, Antwih has been chief consultant to the Assembly transportation committee and has...
Websites at the L.A. Times and other Tribune properties aren't getting freshened this morning due to an unsolved technical glitch. This note was sent to Times editors by the "extended...
Starting January 3, the West Coast will get a live version of World News Tonight with newly named co-anchors Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff. The news on CBS and NBC...
The Norwegian consulate in Los Angeles is a $350-a-month conference room inside the Global Business Centers rental suites in Beverly Hills. When someone needs a visa or to replace a...
Extending the subway out Wilshire Boulevard is essential—and only didn't happen originally because of white fears about "those people" coming to the Miracle Mile and Beverly Hills, bus rider D.J....
Might this billboard pop up in Hollywood around Oscar time? It's a freshened up version of a billboard spotted during the 2002 Oscar season. The protest group Guerrilla Girls showed...
Sunday, Dec. 4
LAT notable: Patrick McDonnell, now the LAT's bureau chief in Buenos Aires, wrote about his two years in Baghdad in the Times' Sunday magazine...Steve Lopez helps his Skid Row violinist...
They already had a Gold Glove incumbent in Cesar Izturis who made the All-Star team last season (though he isn't likely to ever again.) The new guy, though, is clearly...
