Weekly archive
August 13 - August 19, 2006
Saturday, Aug. 19
It's not unusual for someone to claim that a newspaper misinformed them. It is quite unusual, though, for the complaint to come from a Los Angeles Times contributor — about...
Friday, Aug. 18
Martin Kaplan of USC Annenberg-Huffington Post-Hollywood-Democratic politics is interviewed by Tom Teichholz in today's Jewish Journal. Also in the JJ: columnist Bill Boyarsky observes verbal pummeling of an LAT...
Well not exactly, but in so many words Mayor Villaraigosa this afternoon called the bluff of the Engineer and Architects Association. He said that City Hall is ready if the...
Raphael died in her sleep last Saturday in a hospice in Palm Desert, following what Todd Everett calls "a long and excruciating illness." She was a contributor in the early...
Morning Buzz End of the line for aerospace Boeing will take steps to shut down the C-17 plant in Long Beach. How long before all evidence of the aerospace...
Writers in the newsroom at KCBS and KCAL left their desks about 3:30 pm Wednesday and took an unscheduled break together in the courtyard before returning to their desks at...
The Nguoi Viet Daily News in Orange County is the largest Vietnamese daily newspaper in the nation. Do started the paper in his Garden Grove garage as a four-page weekly...
Thursday, Aug. 17
The mayor's school bill passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee and will head next week to a floor vote. Technicians at LAX replaced a sensor they think malfunctioned...
A half-dozen Los Angeles Times subscribers have now emailed me about their call from the LAT phone robot asking if they want to keep receiving the emaciated TV Times. The...
Mike at Franklin Avenue records the abrupt change this morning from country music to Top 40 — with Rick Dees as the morning guy on "Movin 93.9." How abrupt? KZLA,...
TMZ reports that Mel Gibson's lawyer dropped in on Malibu's courthouse today and revealed a deal with prosecutors. He pleads no contest to misdemeanor drunk driving, but counts of driving...
After several weeks as resident guests, and some time before that as anonymous visiting bloggers, Mayrav Saar and Kate Coe are official at Fishbowl LA. Mayrav is a former Orange...
Morning Buzz Unfriendly fire Over the past two decades, 90 LAPD officers were shot by bad guys while 68 either shot themselves or were shot by other officers. The...
Wednesday, Aug. 16
In my Politics piece this month for Los Angeles magazine, while talking about South L.A. black politics post-Yvonne Burke I observe that reporters typically resist assignments at the county Hall...
Senior editor Monika Bauerlein and deputy editor Clara Jeffery will take over the San Francisco-based magazine. City Pages has details via Romenesko....
Claire Hoffman's talker on Girls Gone Wild creep Joe Francis in West two weeks ago might be the most-clicked-on L.A. Times non-news story ever. As this memo sent from LATimes.com...
Alyssa Shelasky will be posting about her L.A. dating life for Glamour magazine's new website — with a little twist. Apparently, she will ask readers for love advice then put...
When Spa Mystique opened at the Century Plaza Hotel & Spa in 2001, it was billed as Los Angeles' largest luxury spa—a 35,000-square-foot "oasis of serenity, offering hotel guests and...
Silman-James Press here is upset all over again with the New York Times for not allowing the title of its book, Chess Bitch: Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Sport by...
Morning Buzz How a nuke could ruin your day A ten-kiloton blast at the Port of Los Angeles "would not only kill tens of thousands of people, but have...
Tuesday, Aug. 15
Riverside County Superior Court judge Paul Zellerbach was at an Angels-Red Sox game in Anaheim in 2004 when his jury came in with a murder verdict. The state judicial watchdog...
A judge told Newhall Land and Farming that it can go ahead with the Riverpark project. The Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Santa Clara River and...
KCRW music host Chris Douridas received his sentence today in Superior Court, after pleading no contest to possession of cocaine. He must enroll in a drug-counseling program and serve three...
For his interview on today's "Morning Edition," How To Live Well Without Owning A Car author Chris Balish took the Metro bus to Venice Boulevard and Hughes then rode his...
Morning Buzz LAX outages a mystery Runway 25R never closed during yesterday's forty-minute ILS failure but controllers had to talk planes down, forcing flights to circle or be held...
Monday, Aug. 14
Bob Sipchen went to Sacramento for the show today and says that Supt. Roy Romer and Board of Education president Marlene Canter have given up trying to substantially alter the...
You get pretty far into Mary McNamara's LAT piece on Mary-Louise Parker (pegged to tonight's return of "Weeds" on Showtime) before you learn that she is not a happy faux...
LAX lost the instrument landing system on runway 25R again this morning. The system was out for about forty minutes, forcing landings to move to the north runways and reducing...
David Blum takes over at the Village Voice Sept. 12. He is a New York media veteran. Blum began at the Wall Street Journal in 1979, jumped to Esquire then...
At LA Biz Observed, Mark Lacter reports on a juicy court case between Maxine Swim Group and its former CEO, tells who's going to promote "Desperate Housewives" and "Ugly Betty"...
Actor-screenwriter Dan Futterman will play the part of Daniel Pearl in the upcoming movie based on Mariane Pearl's book, according to the Washington Post's Reliable Source column. When it became...
The LAT announced in yesterday's TV Times that the weekly guide to what's on television will no longer come with Sunday papers. If you are a Times subscriber, and if...
Morning Buzz Channels 2 and 9 lead the Emmy pack The sister stations took home eight local Emmy's on Saturday, followed by Fox 11. Top news writer was Mary...
