Weekly archive
August 9 - August 15, 2009
Friday, Aug. 14
Mark at LA Biz Observed picked up this morning's news out of Chicago about Tribune Company creditors trying to delete Sam Zell from any reorganization that comes from the bankruptcy....
Light posting here today. There will be no LA Observed segment on KCRW this afternoon due to the station's pledge drive. Noted: I was on KPCC with Patt Morrison yesterday...
Mayor Villaraigosa has a 1 p.m. media op to hit the firefighters union for its latest contract negotiating ploy: a mailer that uses photos from last year's Chatsworth Metrolink crash....
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme is the woman who pointed a gun at President Gerald Ford in Sacramento in 1975. Before that, she was the Charles Manson follower who served as the...
Thursday, Aug. 13
Photojournalist Jonathan Alcorn captured the conclusive moment when the suspect was shot with a Taser (or Taser-like) charge, bringing to a close today's lengthy standoff outside the Westwood federal building....
The store's annual clearance sale began in the Convention Center today....
Donna Myrow, the founder and publisher of LA Youth, met the novelist and screenwriter Budd Schulberg soon after he launched the Watts Writers Workshop following the 1965 riots. He became...
USC Annenberg plans to announce tomorrow that Kit Rachlis, the former editor of Los Angeles magazine, will be a Senior Fellow at the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy. As...
This cruddy, albeit colorful, air we're breathing today extends up to Mt. Wilson at 5,700 feet. This is the hazy view from the 150-foot solar tower cam....
It took Van Nuys merchants, the Daily News and the LAPD decades to eradicate the Los Angeles tradition of cruising on Van Nuys Boulevard. They finally had to shut the...
"It’s safe to say that rock and roll as we know it would not exist without his invention," says the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That invention? The solid-body...
Michael Jackson surrounded himself with unusual characters, from Marlon Brando to Bubbles the chimp, but in billionaire Phil Anschutz "Jackson may have found his most mysterious—and lucrative—partner" yet, writes Matt...
Richard Serrano, a former reporter at the Los Angeles Times Washington bureau, and before that on the LAPD beat here in L.A., is joining the Las Vegas Sun as a...
State inspector general Laura Chick, the former City Controller, will be interviewed by KCBS' Dave Bryan at today's lunch gathering of the Current Affairs Forum hosted by Emma Schafer. Besides...
New police commissioner and more in the news and notes after the jump. Also see today's Mark Lacter morning headlines at LA Biz Observed, and follow Mark and Kevin on...
Wednesday, Aug. 12
The New York Times tonight added a second editor's note clarifying an Aug. 3 story about Katherine Jackson getting legal custody of Michael Jackson's children and raising questions about the...
Managing editor for online Meredith Artley used to work at the International Herald Tribune site, in the New York Times system. The new serif typeface — Georgia — will look...
Former City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo began today as counsel at Goodwin Procter LLP in Los Angeles, in the firm's litigation department. He will have the leeway to continue his run...
Roger Wetherington, who died July 26, had been the adviser to the student newspapers at Cal States Northridge and Long Beach. As such, he worked closely with a number of...
Sharon Waxman at The Wrap says that Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke stands to pocket $80,000 out of a class-action lawsuit against E-Trade for being tape recorded without her permission. Waxman...
She's still getting re-adjusted to life at home, but Euna Lee sent her thanks to supporters in a post on LauraandEuna.com: Knowing that you would not stop until we came...
KCET's website has discovered the time-tested method for getting more attention from L.A. bloggers: profile them. Up this week is Cindy Mosqueda, writer of the venerable Loteria Chicana, which dates...
News and notes are hidden after the jump. Also see today's Mark Lacter morning headlines at LA Biz Observed, and follow Mark and Kevin on Twitter....
Tuesday, Aug. 11
Former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton will appear together on stage at the Gibson Amphitheatre on Feb. 22 as headliners in the American Jewish University's Public Lecture Series....
The president of Phoenix Books in Beverly Hills was 65. He died of cancer over the weekend. Viner has published or tried to publish several controversial books, including in 2003...
Video of the newsroom celebration from reporter Eric Spillman's blog at the KTLA website....
The Autry Museum of Western Heritage has withdrawn its $175 million expansion plans, citing in part the conditions proposed by Councilman Jose Huizar. What this means for the Southwest Museum...
KFI's Eric Leonard is reporting online that Andrew Adelman, the general manager of the city's Department of Building and Safety, is being investigated by the LAPD as "the prime suspect"...
Steve Greenberg charts the evolution of KFWB, which gives up its all-news format in September to add talkers led by Dr. Laura and Laura Ingraham. Click the cartoon to...
Today's news and notes, hidden after the jump, were delayed by a computer crash. Also see today's Mark Lacter morning headlines at LA Biz Observed, and follow Mark and Kevin...
Monday, Aug. 10
LA Observed contributor Nancy Rommelmann, at her blog up in Portland, steps back and considers the murder of 17-year-old Lily Burk, the way she and others have written about it,...
O'Brien, appointed by President Bush and confirmed in Oct. 2007 as the United States Attorney for the Central District of California, meaning Los Angeles, will join the L.A. office of...
First big name signed for the new format, which begins Sept. 8: Dr. Laura, says the Register's Gary Lycan. He adds: "More details were still to be announced. Local news...
Steve Greenberg found the one possible upside to California's school textbooks growing more and more out of date. Click on the cartoon to see it larger. LA Sketchbook archive...
President Obama has nominated Dolly Gee, managing partner at Schwartz, Steinsapir, Dohrmann & Sommers, and Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Jacquelyn H. Nguyen to the U.S. District Court bench...
Tomorrow's correction today from a post on radio personality Don Imus at the L.A. Times' Show Tracker blog: Recently, he has devoted time on the air to discussing his prostrate...
Today's Buzz is tucked away after the jump. Also see Mark Lacter's morning headlines at LA Biz Observed, and follow Mark and Kevin on Twitter....
Sunday, Aug. 9
Jennifer McLain has left the San Gabriel Valley Tribune to pursue a master's degree in public administration at USC. She posts at Leftovers from City Hall, the paper's politics blog:...
In the latest first-person Column One story by a Times reporter, Molly Hennessy-Fiske writes about bonding with a South Los Angeles gang shooting victim. LAT Oscar Winner Budd Schulberg...
I got home from dinner and found a couple of emails pointing out that there's a bylined story about the Chino prison riot on the front page of New...
Amusing omission on the Daily News website, submitted by a mutual reader who observes "the neighborhood has its faults, but it ain't thaaat bad." Police reportedly suspect a link to...
