Weekly archive
March 5 - March 11, 2006
Saturday, Mar. 11
Police chief William Bratton's unofficial bicoastal lifestyle makes the news again. Bratton released his travel records to the Los Angeles Times' Patrick McGreevy, who calculated that the chief was outside...
This is how the Times website packaged this morning's Meghan Daum op-ed column jumping into the question of whether teenagers really do engage in lots of oral sex, and whether...
Friday, Mar. 10
⇒ Scientists at JPL were happy to hear a signal from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter following a successful entry into orbit. Added: Susan at 2020 Hindsight live-blogged the entry procedure...
At this year's Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, Joan Didion will receive the Robert Kirsch Award previously accepted by Carolyn See, Tony Hillerman, Wallace Stegner and a list of other...
David Willis is the BBC's West Coast correspondent, based here. He has reported on several continents, and returned to L.A. in 2004 after completing a fellowship at Oxford. For six...
From today's Daily News: OXNARD - The United Farm Workers and Dole Food Co. have reached agreement on a three-year contract that gives berry pickers the best wage and health...
LAPD crime maps go interactive (left)...It's going to be cold and windy today...Praising Brokeback despite the Oscar upset...blocking traffic for the mayor...questions but few answers about Herb Wesson Jr....reviews of...
Thursday, Mar. 9
⇒ This year Editor & Publisher actually is first with the leaked list of Pulitzer finalists. It has the Los Angeles Times up for two reporting prizes—investigating the Getty and...
KPCC has named Kitty Felde a Special Correspondent: "In that new role, Felde will be responsible for in-depth reporting and special coverage of a wide variety of issues in southern...
"It is clear from this initial review that there is a disturbing lack of transparency and accountability at LAUSD." Release after the jump....
The new HGTV series "Small Space, Big Style" is looking for tiny L.A. apartments to feature. Well, not just apartments: 1- SIZE: The homes can be ANY type of living...
The mayor today offered up Gloria Jeff to run the Department of Transportation, subject to City Council approval. Jeff resigned last month as director of the Michigan Department of Transportation,...
Laura Chick locks and loads to talk about schools...the mayor gets ready to name a transportation chief...Daniel Hernandez on secret talks to save the South L.A. farm...Ludlow pleads after being...
Wednesday, Mar. 8
In the days before last weekend's big hoops game at Berkeley, Trojans guard Gabe Pruitt was chatted up on AIM by a lovely from cross-town UCLA who said her name...
Reader Louis just emailed: It's 8:25pm, and the Kings made a major trade today....it was announced hours ago. So I go to the Times' sports on the web, and not...
LAPD chief William Bratton's monthly report for February says that homicide and most serious reported crimes are down substantially from last year. Only robbery is up: CRIME STATISTICS - CITY-WIDE...
Just over ten percent of registered voters in the 2nd Board of Education district cast ballots in Tuesday's election—for a total of 13,561 votes. So much for the persuasion of...
South Central Farmers Feeding Families, the group behind the embattled community garden at 41st and Alameda streets, says it has won an eviction delay until at least a hearing on...
Runoff for school board...more strangeness around the Ferrari Enzo crash...Rob Reiner's campaign chief steps out of the limelight...L.A.'s blogging pet czar blasts the Animal Defense League...while Cardinal Mahony seeks a...
Tuesday, Mar. 7
With just ten days until the invasion of Manhattan by Trader Joe's, the New York Times sends food writer Julia Moskin out to the provinces to see what the fuss...
Dutton's North Hollywood and proprietor Davis Dutton are featured on the cover of the Studio City Sun. The bookstore on Laurel Canyon Boulevard is still in the throes of its...
San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy Ivory Webb was charged with attempted voluntary manslaughter for the videotaped shooting of an unarmed Air Force police officer in Chino on January 29. If...
Robert Niles at USC's Online Journalism Review blog picked up an exchange in which the Los Angeles Times readers' representative seems to say that headlines on LATimes.com are encouraged to...
Actor Mickey Rourke to LAPD chief Bill Bratton at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, as Madonna and Guy Ritchie looked on. Told that Bratton was indeed a cop, Rourke skulked...
From the Los Angeles Times: Abortion: A March 4 column about abortion and overpopulation said that "roughly 10 billion people" die of hunger annually. The correct figure is 10 million....
Fighting in the hills of Northeast Los Angeles...Bratton's Oscar party of choice...the Times trims stock tables...Kitty Felde makes an appearance while Rose Apodaca leaves and Derek Lowe's wife says hold...
Monday, Mar. 6
City News Service is reporting that Sam Chu Lin, a former CBS News correspondent who reported most recently for Fox 11, died Sunday in Burbank. Chu Lin began reporting in...
No obvious Los Angeles angle that I can think of, other than the delight that he gave to local baseball fans. Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett died today of the...
This weekend's ad for the New York City DUI attorney was the last straw for the top-of-the-page Google Ads banner. I'll keep Google elsewhere on the site for now, but...
Better late than never—here is the internal memo from KFWB News Director Andy Ludlum: From: Andy Ludlum Subject: Exciting News!!! I have some exciting news...you'll see several of your colleagues...
Monday always seems so busy... ⇒ Mayor Villaraigosa and retired New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Sr. attended this morning's funeral for Otis Chandler. Ex-publisher and CNN chief Tom Johnson...
Newly hired associates at Quinn Emanuel Urquardt Oliver & Hedges now get $145,000, the only Los Angeles law firm to go that high for first-year lawyers, the L.A. Business Journal...
First reviews of the Oscars and Jon Stewart: not good. Also, Arnie Berghoff's diabetes roast gets some scrutiny, the Times finds waste in the local bioterrorism budget, Villaraigosa promises to...
Selected posts from the past week at LA Observed: Hilburn's replacement: Ann Powers.Kitty Felde dropped abruptly by KPCC.Reactions to the death of Otis Chandler pour in.Ethics questions at KTLA.Randy Harvey...
Workers who drive the vast concrete ramps and taxiways at LAX have puzzled for years over the letters painted on a secluded corner of the airfield: R-E-N-Z-I, in white on...
Sunday, Mar. 5
Updated during the weekend, with the latest at the bottom... ⇒ Continuing feeds from the geek-confab BarCampLA at blogging.la and LAVoice.org, among others. ⇒ The Times devotes its entire Sunday...
