Blogosphere

Desk-clearing items

Thanks to United I have some extra time to kill at LAX. And also later at SFO. Some stuff I didn't get to yesterday:

  • Style Section L.A. is a new fashion site from L.A. Times Image section refugees Emili Vesilind and Erin Weinger, plus Andrew Harmon, former West Coast editor of DNR. The Chic Leak
  • It's now confirmed that former San Diego Mayor Roger Hedgecock will be the "local" news talker on the new KFWB weekdays 3-6 p.m. OC Register
  • Tina Dupuy got the $75 check she wanted from a newspaper in Florida. Fishbowl LA
  • Steve Soboroff collects the typewriters of famous writers. Palisadian Post
  • LACMA director Michael Govan talks about the film program. The Wrap
  • Adam Baer's Priceline staycation. Faster Times

More by Kevin Roderick:
Standing up to Harvey Weinstein
The Media
LA Times gets a top editor with nothing but questions
LA Observed Notes: Harvey Weinstein stripped bare
LA Observed Notes: Photos of the homeless, photos that found homes
Recent Blogosphere stories on LA Observed:
LA Weekly loses film critic Amy Nicholson too
California's secret water blogger is a she
Scientists who help write the movies
RV encampment on Tujunga Avenue in North Hollywood
Michael Higby, LA blogger, was 50
Original Wonkette blogger wants you to know she's a Christian
Andrew Sullivan to shut down The Dish
Andrew Sullivan to give up blogging (and get a life)


 

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