Weekly archive
August 3 - August 9, 2008
Friday, Aug. 8
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky has posted a personal piece at his county website explaining why he pushed to require fast-food stores to list the calories of their fare on menus. Yaroslavsky...
ABC News has an interview between Bob Woodruff and the former (and not future) VP candidate, confirming the affair with videographer Rielle Hunter. Edwards says he doesn't love her, that...
Bernie Brillstein, the successful Hollywood manager and producer, died last night after suffering from complications following double-bypass heart surgery in February. Here's a snip from Cynthia Littleton's story on the...
Times national editor Scott Kraft addresses the paper's handling of the John Edwards-at-Beverly Hilton story. Blog Supervisor Don Knabe changes his mind and says he will vote to place...
The funeral for murdered Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy Juan Escalante will be held at 9 am downtown at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Burial follows at...
Thursday, Aug. 7
Email sent to Rebecca Rosen-Lum, former religion writer at the Contra Costa Times up north, gets back this little dig: The Contra Costa Times has cut its coverage of religion...
In the face of political and media criticism over the DWP board spicing up the future pension of COO Raman Raj, CEO David Nahai just released a statement saying never...
Cyrus Sanai, the lawyer who publicized the existence of Judge Alex Kozinski's web stash as part of a grudge against the judge, files his report for the LA Weekly on...
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gave his list of faves to the Times' Guide section. It differs some from the list in Angeleno I posted last night — but still will sound...
Sen. Dianne Feinstein is mulling whether to run for governor in 2010, which would complicate things for Mayor Villaraigoisa and the others. Skelton/LAT Other plaintiffs' lawyers in the most...
RealTalkLA lives on, in a way. (I can't get the website to work.) Craiglist has an ad for LA Reporting and Writing Interns Sought that reads: RealTALKLA.com, founded by Jay...
Wednesday, Aug. 6
EaterLA's Lesley Balla did a little feature for Angeleno's food issue this month comparing the dining quotients of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and predecessor once-removed Richard Riordan. (Jim Hahn gets left...
Here are Mark's morning headlines at LA Biz Observed. (Morning turned into all day. Should be back posting tomorrow.)...
Tuesday, Aug. 5
It was less than a year ago that L.A. Times Sports Editor Randy Harvey praised his hire of young Metro reporter Jonathan Abrams to cover the Clippers. Now it's the...
Supervisor Gloria Molina joined the two Republicans on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to reject placing a sales tax increase question on the November ballot, citing friction between...
Journalists at the Press-Telegram, District Weekly and LBReport.com (and maybe elsewhere) held the first meeting of the newly christened Long Beach Press Club. Here's a report on the meeting with...
Top of the Ticket finished atop the blog rankings at the L.A. Times again this past month, with the celebrity driven stuff just behind. Peter Viles' L.A. Land continues to...
Actor George Clooney is the featured attraction for the Geneva event on Sept. 2. Here's the email sent to potential Barack Obama donors: Subject: A Reception with George Clooney in...
Teams from the FBI, LAPD and other agencies are up on the residence hill at UCLA this morning for a large-scale training drill set in Rieber Hall, an empty dorm....
In the August issue of Angeleno, national food and travel editor Brad A. Johnson picks his top 50 L.A. area restaurants and hands out some awards: Restaurant of The Year:...
Journalist Sharon Waxman blogs that the trade paper is on the market, based on two sources....
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa hired Miriam Long, now a senior deputy for Supervisor Yvonne Burke, to be his deputy mayor for education, youth and families. From the release: For 12 years,...
Monday, Aug. 4
Bill Boyarsky, LA Observed's occasional politics columnist, is a finalist in nonfiction for the 2008 book award from the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association. It's for "Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh...
You knew it was only a matter of time before the suits who run the L.A. Daily News realized last week's dress code was a dumb idea. Editor Carolina Garcia...
Back in 2005 we told you about Gene Hughes, creator of the bible of police scanner frequencies. He also volunteered at the desk at the LAPD's Wilshire division. His real...
Controller Laura Chick continues to look at race for City Council in Studio City. Orlov/DNTrouble in the county Hall of Administration over Bill Fujioka's role. DNCouncilwoman Jan Perry responds to...
William Lobdell launched his new Orange County-centric blog with a list of the 42 things he knows after a career at the Los Angeles Times. Excerpts: 8 - The idea...
Love this story. Firefighters in Ventura County are monitoring a patch of land north of Fillmore where the temperature of the ground reached 812 degrees on Friday. From the Ventura...
Sunday, Aug. 3
Manny Ramirez deftly flicked away the attempted needles of Times columnist T.J. Simers in the morning paper, than went 4-for-5 against the Diamondbacks and clubbed his second home run as...
Michalene Busico, who left the Los Angeles Times last week, was one of the high-profile New York Times talents who jumped to the LAT during the John Carroll-Dean Baquet era....
The month just ended was the second-highest ever for visitors to LA Observed. We're over 2.6 million visits for the year; July is the earliest month that LAO has reached...
