Weekly archive
October 18 - October 24, 2009
Friday, Oct. 23
TMZ has the letter in which Dodgers owner Frank McCourt fired the other owner, Jamie McCourt, as CEO of the team — citing "insubordination, non-responsiveness, failure to follow procedures, and...
In today's radio commentary I argue we should all care about embarrassed cops obtaining the phone records of TMZ's Harvey Levin. The segment airs — as every Friday — at...
City Attorney Carmen Trutanich enjoyed a split decision this morning, getting a Daily News editorial in favor of his bully approach to governing, and an L.A. Times editorial that rebuked...
Jailed private eye Anthony Pellicano and his sidekick, Alexander Proctor, pleaded no contest today in that 2002 threat on reporter Anita Busch, who they thought was working on a story...
MTA goes for the subway, Sheriff Lee Baca on TMZ, Trutanich vs. Leiweke and more. After the jump. Also see today's Mark Lacter morning headlines at LA Biz Observed, and...
Thursday, Oct. 22
Born Milton Supman, Soupy Sales became one of the enduring comic faces of 1950s and '60s television. His show, first in Detroit then in Los Angeles, was a hit with...
Friends and family of the late philanthropist and civic leader Nancy Daly heard heaps of praise last night at a memorial gathering in UCLA's Royce Hall. Times columnist Patt Morrison,...
Sports Illustrated is reporting that the Dodgers' front-office drama has taken a new turn, with chairman Frank McCourt firing CEO and estranged wife Jamie. She "was fired within the last...
Leiweke vs. Trutanich and more politics after the jump. Also see Mark Lacter's morning headlines at LA Biz Observed, and follow Mark and Kevin on Twitter....
Wednesday, Oct. 21
The New York Times' David Rohde reaches the part of his serial story about seven months of captivity that recalls the night he escaped with an Afghan journalist....
They didn't look any better tonight, losing 10-4. The Phillies are the National League champions after eliminating the Dodgers for the second year in a row. This time, at least,...
Los Angeles Times publisher Eddy Hartenstein sent out a paper-wide missive today calling 2009 "a year of great progress" — he even calls it "an incredble year" — and makes...
Author James Ellroy sat for a Zócalo Public Square interview with LA Observed contributor Erika Schickel at the Hammer Museum, "discussing Ellroy’s reputation as a genre writer, as the Demon...
Everybody works through getting fired in their own way. Laid-off L.A. Times columnist Tina Daunt has been expressing her fashionista side at her blog The English Muse for the past...
The first is more of a website than a blog, by ex-Los Angeles Daily Journal editor Martin Berg. He's editing Where's Our Money? for Harvey Rosenfield's Consumer Education Foundation, billed...
Pater Wallsten, a star in the Los Angeles Times Washington bureau that became the Tribune chain's bureau, has jumped to the Wall Street Journal. He will cover national politics, "an...
Editorial cuts are going down today at Architectural Digest, according to a reader who emailed. On Monday there were six cuts in the Los Angeles office of Bon Appetit, according...
While the latest newsroom reduction in talent was going on, L.A. Times editor Russ Stanton was upbeat last night in a class at USC Annenberg. The professor, executive-in-residence David Westphal,...
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....
Jack Nelson led the Los Angeles Times Washington bureau during much of the time that the paper's reputation for national reporting was growing, and before that was known for his...
Tuesday, Oct. 20
The lobby of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Music Center downtown stood in for the Rome Hilton, circa early 1960s, on a recent episode of "Mad Men." Spotted by...
David Carr retires his tuxedo after four seasons. The new New York Times blogger on the red carpet beat is Melena Ryzik. (She tweets here, by the way.) The paper...
Following his toss-down of the gauntlet last night (reported first at LAO, I feel like saying), TMZ boss Harvey Levin guests tonight on "Which Way, L.A.?" to talk about the...
I just heard interim DWP chief S. David Freeman say on Patt Morrison that the rash of water main breaks is all perception: the result of a quicker news cycle,...
Diane Haithman has been writing in the Calendar section of the L.A. Times for a good long while. Most recently she has been doing a lot for Culture Monster, the...
Associated Press has filed new court papers in its case against artist Shepard Fairey, and contends that in admitting his deception over use of an AP photo of Barack Obama...
The San Diego editorial writer who is upset that the L.A. Times blew off coverage of the Metropolitan Water District pensions controversy is intrigued by a new angle — that...
Tina Daunt, the former City Hall reporter for the Los Angeles Times who has been writing the Cause Celebre column about Hollywood politics, posted on Facebook that she felt the...
Blogger offers three finalists for LAPD chief, Polanski staying put and more. After the jump....
Monday, Oct. 19
Venting in depth for the first time about official prying into his personal phone records, TMZ editor Harvey Levin tonight called it an illegal abuse of power — "a brutal...
Oh man. Jonathan Broxton took a 4-3 lead into the 9th inning, gave up a walk, hit a batter, and served one up to former MVP Jimmy Rollins. Just like...
Bonnie Fuller is the "tabloid maven," as Style Section L.A. puts it, who is revamping HollywoodLife.com as part of the fledgling Jay Penske media empire. Fuller has hired New York...
Angels make it a 2-1 series on a Jeff Mathis double in the bottom of the 11th inning. Final score: 5-4. In Philadelphia: The Dodgers are down 2-0 to the...
About a week after leaving the LA Weekly, Steven Mikulan has been inked to write a new blog for The Wrap to be called L.A. Noir. The site also announced...
L.A. media types who also skate — Alex Cohen of KPCC and Jennifer Barbee of Blood & Thunder magazine — have written "Down and Derby: the Insiders Guide to Roller...
While we're still waiting for the latest axe to fall at the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times says it will cut 100 people out of the newsroom. Buyouts...
Staples has re-upped its deal for the naming rights to Staples Center — extending its original 20-year agreement into an "in perpetuity" deal. Staples turned ten this month....
An LAO reader forwarded this errant headline spotted this morning atop the L.A. Times books blog. The hed has now been fixed to Teen Read Week....
Reporter Eric Spillman of KTLA finally got the data he has been seeking on the public cost of providing security for Mayor Villaraigosa's trips to Africa (with Spillman's Channel 5...
Falcon and the snow job, interviewing begins for LAPD chief and more news and notes after the jump. Also see today's Mark Lacter morning headlines at LA Biz Observed, and...
Sunday, Oct. 18
Rick Caruso, president of the Los Angeles Police Commission when William Bratton was hired to run the LAPD, argues in a Visiting Blogger post at LA Observed that now is...
Man, that was ugly. The Phillies jumped all over Hiroki Kuroda in the first inning, chased him in the second, and ran up their most lopsided post-season victory in team...
