Weekly archive
February 12 - February 18, 2006
Saturday, Feb. 18
* Newest shorts at the bottom... ⇒ More subplots in the Anthony Pellicano affair, a thirteenth defendant and Leslie Abramson joins the case. Also, the Times says anonymous witness 'Johnny...
Mimosa and Cafe Beaujolais L.A. Ritz Sunshine in a basket LAPD Wife Lebowski Fest West 2006 Sergio Leone & the Infield Fly Rule Official Skunks Document Dump Skunks of Los...
Friday, Feb. 17
Today's Daily Journal (no link) features a front-page piece on John Stodder, the indicted former Fleishman-Hillard executive turned blogger who I began telling you about last month. Erin Park reports:...
Trevor Butterworth argues in the Financial Times that, as a business model, blogs never were here. Blogging will no doubt always have a place as an underground medium in closed...
John Broder is returning to the Washington bureau of the New York Times, and will be replaced as Los Angeles bureau chief this summer by Jennifer Steinhauer. "One of the...
Martin Ludlow's possible political demise is what the clued-in class will be chattering about this morning, but there's also a Republican move to break up the school district ahead of...
Rumors about Villaraigosa intimate Martin Ludlow swept California political circles all week and finally make it into print in Friday's LAT: Sources say the former city councilman may take a...
Thursday, Feb. 16
The February issue of TPR talks to Corbin Smith, project manager of the Getty Villa transformation, and also with Chief Legislative Analyst Gerry Miller and Playa Vista president Steve Soboroff....
The city Cultural Heritage Commission overruled the staff and decided to hear a nomination for historic-cultural monument status for The Derby in Los Feliz. It will come up at some...
Mayor Villaraigosa's press conference du jour was to announce the members of his newly created panel on homeland security. Councilman Jack Weiss co-chairs with Deputy Mayor for Homeland Security and...
Will Campbell at blogging.la (last night), Carolyn Kellogg at LAist and Brady Westwater (this morning) blogged about last evening's forum on homelessness at the Times building. Publisher Jeff Johnson stumbled...
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Speaker Fabian Núñez plan to campaign on the Eastside tomorrow for Mónica García, their anointed candidate for the open school board seat to replace José Huizar....
Village Voice Media maximum editor Michael Lacey talked to Boston's The Phoenix about what the New Times takeover will mean at the Village Voice—and, I guess, by extension what he'll...
Wednesday, Feb. 15
Today's front pagesNew York Times See/Read Washington Post See/ReadLA Times See/ReadDaily News See/ReadDaily Breeze See/ReadPress-Telegram See/Read Register See/ReadStar-News Read Variety ReadHwd Reporter ReadLa Opinión Read Slate: Today's Papers Terry Christensen wasn't...
A federal grand jury charges that Terry Christensen, 65, paid private eye Anthony Pellicano at least $100,000 to wiretap Lisa Bonder Kerkorian, the wife of billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian, during...
The tiny Santa Monica breakfast and lunch spot has a sign in the window saying it will close in March. I guess having Catherine Keener and family drop in on...
Inspired by yesterday's long-lost amusement parks post, Susan at 2020 Hindsight spools out her Pike stories....
Jim Bursch at West L.A. Online is peeved at the Daily News for some language in today's news story about the jaw-dropping cost of extending the Red Line all the...
Those left-turn arrows going in at 160 new Los Angeles intersections will mostly be of the kind that switch to a full green light—"green ball" to traffic engineers—rather than a...
Michael Kinsley was dismissed as editor material for The Atlantic last summer, and he acknowledges in today's New York Observer that he has never been offered the job. But the...
Maybe it's been around awhile, I just didn't know of takemypicture.com. Not much information about the photographer— well none really—but Leonard's gallery of Los Angeles photos dates back to the...
From the Los Angeles Fire Department news blog: This morning, more than a dozen public agencies in the Greater Los Angeles area will be participating in "Operation Safe Passage", a...
As of today, new names eligible for election to The Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals include the creator of Strat-o-Matic, a one-eyed umpire, the Hobo Roy Hobbs and the...
Today's front pagesNew York Times See/Read Washington Post See/ReadLA Times See/ReadDaily News See/ReadDaily Breeze See/ReadPress-Telegram See/Read Register See/ReadStar-News Read Variety ReadHwd Reporter ReadLa Opinión Read Ovitz and Pellicano, ugly details...
Tuesday, Feb. 14
The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles informed members today of another defection by an unhappy congregation. He doesn't mention the Episcopal Church's decison to ordain a gay...
Jon Weisman notes at Dodger Thoughts that the real spring training has begun. The baseball beat writers have winged their way to Florida and Arizona and begun to file features...
Quick, name the highest-grossing actor of all time.... Turn the page for the answer:...
Front pager in the L.A. Business Journal mentions that the circa-1930 Wilshire Theatre, designed by S. Charles Lee as the Fox Beverly Hills, will be getting a $20 million makeover...
There seem to be a lot of Angelenos who fondly remember the old pony rides and amusement park that Beverly Center displaced. Re-creations of it and other long-gone amusements show...
Loyalty to Jill Murphy may have finally been Barry Munitz's undoing, the police commission waffles, going after Deaton, bomb on the 210 and another batch of morning media notes—all after...
Monday, Feb. 13
At a news conference out in the Valley this afternoon, Mayor Villaraigosa said he made an offer yesterday to Sheriff Lee Baca to help out on the jail rioting mess....
Sheriff Lee Baca has postponed his interview on Talk of the City for at least a day. As I sort of suspected he would this morning. Supposedly he'll make it...
Maybe he can help with the riots. From Channel 4's website: Lou Ferrigno, the former Mr. Universe and star of "The Incredible Hulk" television series, will be sworn in Monday...
Last week it was a naked pedestrian on the 710, last night it was a woman on the 210 who got out of her car to exchange information after an...
West Hollywood is thinking about adding its own late-night trolley shuttle and taking other steps to recapture nightlife business heading Hollywood's way, the L.A. Independent says. A WeHo city report...
Tough talk in Crain's Chicago Business about the L.A. Times being a serious drag on the Tribune Company—and charging way more for ads than the waning circulation numbers justify. Here...
Three lead items out of the largest local bureaucracy in the nation, none of them good news...plus Hiltzik lashes Keith Brackpool, no retraction for the UFW, the best and worst...
Sunday, Feb. 12
Tony Mora in North Hollywood posts photos of the wall murals he finds at carnicerias, mariscos emporiums and taco stands. The Valley is his usual canvas, but he has been...
New ones are added to the tail end through the weekend.... ⇒ Robert Parry, who frequently contributed when LA Observed took comments, returned last month from Iraq duty as a...
Michelle Kwan woke up Sunday morning, realized that it's over at age 25, and announced her withdrawal from the Turin games. She fell in practice yesterday and tweaked her leg,...
