Weekly archive
July 2 - July 8, 2006
Saturday, Jul. 8
Steve Greenberg in the Ventura County Star nails the Santa Barbara News-Press situation. Link. Up on State Street, meanwhile, sports editor Gerry Spratt has also resigned from the News-Press (that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Friday, Jul. 7
Good guesses on the corporate name that used to adorn (or despoil) the Wilson Building before Mutual of Omaha, Asashi and Samsung: it was General Insurance. I misspoke yesterday, though.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Sell the Los Angeles Times, Devin Leonard advises the Tribune Company. The Chandlers of L.A. will never be confused with the Sulzbergers of New York or the Grahams of Washington,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy David Stan Piquette died on his way to work this morning when a cement mixer overturned on his car on the Riverside Freeway. Piquette, who... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Gov. Schwarzenegger can finally ride his Harleys legally, Gray Davis is a happy (enough) man, and it might be time to sever your emotional ties to Eric Gagne. Those items... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Thursday, Jul. 6
Heiress Wendy McCaw bought the Santa Barbara News-Press in 2000 and for the past few months has outraged her editors and reporters with demands that advertisers and friends be given... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
At one time Wilshire and LaBrea was the most heavily traveled intersection in the city. It's still plenty busy, as marketers for Asahi Beer learned when their neon sign perched... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tales about riding Metro Rail and buses make up a growing subset of the L.A. blogosphere. Doc on the Train is written by a resident at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center who... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The television academy's new selection system had an effect. TNT's mini-series "Into the West" received sixteen Emmy nominations, followed by Jack Bauer and "24" with twelve and "Grey's Anatomy" with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Hilary Swank has been an LA Observed fave since she took her Oscar entourage (and newly won statuette) to Astro Burger. In the August issue of Vanity Fair, though, she... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Pacific Drift hosted by Ben Adair has run on Sunday nights at KPCC for a year and a half. The final show aired last Sunday, a week after PD picked... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The New York Times' Pellicano reporter gets in trouble, politics of the Green Line, Los Angeles' pretty-horrible traffic future and an update on Heidi Fleiss. That and more morning news... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Wednesday, Jul. 5
Regular readers of The Wit of the Staircase know that writer, filmmaker and former video game designer Theresa Duncan lives in Venice and is likely to post about literature, clothes,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
• Protesters looked on as bulldozers began ripping out the South Los Angeles community garden where Mayor Villaraigosa couldn't broker a deal to mollify property owner Ralph Horowitz. • Convicted... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Caltech has come up with a program that will put video depictions of the up-and-down ground movement produced by Southern California earthquakes on the web 45 minutes after they occur.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Other than proximity to City Hall when the top brass has to make a visit, is there anything smart about the plans to erect the new LAPD headquarters in the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Two of the contributors at Blogging.la are getting married this weekend — and not to each other.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Filmmaker, blogger and promoter Brian Flemming has cooked up a new stunt. He announced yesterday on his blog that for the next week he will eat only what comes out... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
After losing out on Jerrold Perenchio's Univision auction last week, disappointed executives at Grupo Televisa said they would step back and reflect on their next move. Today they came up... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
When LA Weekly lifestyle editor and Style Council blogger Linda Immediato lost her Venice home suddenly, she looked around and came up empty. No place she could afford would let... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Welcome back to the work week. Here's a little news to get you started. Click on the Buzz to check it out.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Some takes on Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's first year in the corner office on the third floor at City Hall follow after the jump. Cartoon snippet: Los Angeles Times... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Daily Breeze, perhaps a little hopefully, reports that on Day 327 of the great South Bay Gator Watch it's still possible that Reggie is lurking somewhere in Machado Lake.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>