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...
Thursday, Dec. 25
An image a day of a happy year in Highland Park from Stuart Rapeport, music by Timothy Sellers-Artichoke....
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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