Weekly archive
December 21 - December 27, 2008
Friday, Dec. 26
Still no positive IDs released since the bodies were badly burned, but officials think that Bruce Pardo's ex-wife Sylvia and her parents perished in the house. Pardo had not worked... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Thursday, Dec. 25
An image a day of a happy year in Highland Park from Stuart Rapeport, music by Timothy Sellers-Artichoke.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The victims of Bruce Pardo found in the Covina home he set afire include his ex-wife and her parents, who owned the home. At least two children who were shot... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Bruce Pardo, 45, showed up dressed as Santa Claus at a Christmas Eve party of his estranged wife's family, opened fire with a handgun and set the house on fire.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Wednesday, Dec. 24
Camille Johnston, who left as the Dodgers' director of communications in 2007, lands with the Obama Administration as Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tuesday, Dec. 23
The board of the Museum of Contemporary Art will announce today that it accepts Eli Broad's bailout offer, will not merge with LACMA, director Jeremy Strick has resigned and former... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Monday, Dec. 22
I'm going to ease back on posting to once or twice a day — or as needed — through the holidays. There will be a lot of maintenance going on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Contributors to the Obama inauguration fund are being wooed with the promise of hard-to-score tickets to the Washington events around the January 20 festivities. New cheaper packages have been added... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Arthur Spiegelman, called by Reuters one of the wire's "finest writers and longest-serving correspondents," died at home in Los Angeles on Saturday. He was 68. From the Reuters story: He... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Los Angeles magnet schools can continue to use racial balance as a factor in deciding who enrolls, a state appeals court ruled. SF Chronicle An LAPD veteran who operates... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
L.A. Youth, the newspaper "by and about teens" in Los Angeles, has posted video of a recent roundtable among teenagers from diverse backgrounds. "We thought what the teens had to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Sunday, Dec. 21
Should a new public school in Carson be named for Cesar Chavez or slain LAPD officer Randal Simmons, as originally proposed? Daily Breeze Add Sen. Gil Cedillo and the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Ron Kaye, the former Daily News editor who is reinventing himself as a political activist, at the end of a long blog rant about the city's solar energy boondoggle: "I... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
"Weekend America" ends with the Jan. 31 show. Thirteen full- and part-time positions will be affected, says the release from American Public Media in Minnesota. American Public Media is proud... $MTEntryExcerpt$>