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December 04, 2008
Great story today on NPR's Day to Day about the homeless, junkies, addicted gamblers and others who live in the storm drains beneath Las Vegas, in some cases right under... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Variety has details on more than a dozen jobs cuts today at its rival Hollywood trade: The layoffs amount to a significant reduction in the paper's reporting staff. Also cut... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
OK, so I finally caught on that all the retrospectives popping up one by one on the LA Weekly website were part of a special issue. I picked up the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The L.A. Times has dusted off the dormant title of Metro Editor and moved veteran Steve Clow into the role as number two on local coverage. Most recently he had... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
My duty is done for another year — such as it was. After forming a pool of 99 jurors for a 25-day trial in Dept. 107, the judge came out... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Former LA Weekly writer Matthew Fleischer, now a senior editor at CityBeat, debuts in the paper with a piece on the city of Maywood and its controversial mayor, Felipe Aguirre,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Last night at the Beverly Hills Hotel, PEN Center USA gave a lifetime achievement award to multi-faceted writer Larry Gelbart and its First Amendment Award to the Writers Guild. Jesse... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The City Council temporarily stopped construction of the elephant exhibit at the L.A. Zoo to do more study. LAT, DN Supt. David Brewer's save his job tour took him... $MTEntryExcerpt$>