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Yahoo Politics profile says LA's mayor may be the future of the Democrats. Plus Garcetti on the set of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine."
It's effective immediately. Bill Simmons calls callous treatment of staffers "simply appalling."
The Washington Post looks at the relatively new Los Angeles Times practice of accepting money from nonprofits, including Eli Broad's, to help fund education reporting.
Water flows in the LA aqueduct again. Vin Scully repeats next year is his last season. Los Fezil. And more.
Former sports editor announced to horse racing writers that he is retiring. Plus: Updates on the buyout and the T.J. Simers trial.
AAdlen Brothers Auto Wrecking, an institution in Sun Valley for 53 years, has supplied or been in a lot of movies, TV episodes and music videos.
Ventura County Star political columnist Timm Herdt, moving on after 31 years of Wednesday columns, pleads the case for print.
The World-Cup winning U.S. national soccer team was honored at the White House today.
A drone knocks out power. La Opinión endorses Kamala Harris. Media notes. And much more.
Catching up to news from politics, media and place. Plus more.
After listening to Beutner make his case now a couple of places, I'm starting to think that his firing as publisher of the LA Times might turn out to be a real tragedy for the paper.
The session singer best known for "Gimme Shelter" and "20 Feet From Stardom" had both legs amputated below the knee after a freeway crash. She was honored last week at The Apollo in Harlem.
Potentially catastrophic storm heading for Puerto Vallarta "now very close to the theoretical maximum strength for a tropical cyclone on planet Earth."
Austin Beutner makes a weekend appearance on CNN's "Realiable Sources," and KPCC examines if Eli Broad bought the LA Times.
"One trait of journalists is that we accumulate a lot of paper."
USGS disputes the surprise claim that the La Habra area would endure a substantial quake in the next three years.
The departure of the Dodgers manager is being described as a mutual decision. Sounds like he didn't really want to stay anyway.
The paper's California editor says "we are confident we can rebuild a Metro newsroom that continues to focus on agenda-setting journalism, watchdog reporting and aggressive coverage."
C-146 stays close to the river in northeast LA, but the coyote recently tagged west of downtown has roamed as far as Hancock Park and back.
Lisker Chronicles update: The City Council first must approve the settlement. "It’s been a very emotional ordeal,” Lisker said.
Biden won't run. DWP rates to rise. 99.9 percent chance of an earthquake. Media moves, the Murdoch brothers and more.
"We now have more women than men working at BuzzFeed," Jonah Peretti says on his blog. They also are less white than last year.
Future of Cities: Leading in LA held its first public event Monday night, while Zocalo Public Square has been going deep on its home city.
A community forum in Jefferson Park was cut short by protesters and, in front of TV cameras, the mayor was hustled out through a pressing crowd.
At least 18 reporters on Hillary Clinton are women. "No one can remember a political press corps this heavily female," says Politico.
Catching up on politics and media news, job moves and some notes on place. Including: Metro losing riders.
It's not just print newspapers and TV news that are losing their audiences to age and digital platforms.
Fourteen events later, CicLAvia says it's the largest open streets event in North America.
He sends a check for $10,000 along with an apology.
If you see a yellow-bellied sea snake, take pictures and report the sighting but do not handle this highly venomous creature. OK?
Interstate 5 is bad, but there are A LOT of trucks trapped in the debris flow that covered Highway 58 last night. Intense video inside.
Expensive does not equal championship quality and there are questions about the future of Mattingly and others. One longtime player is gone for sure.
Fired LA Times publisher Austin Beutner will speak on "the future of newspapers" a week from today at the Columbia Journalism School.
Plus look who is on T.J. Simers' legal team: Stephen Glass.
New politics editor at KQED. CJR cuts back print. Jean Sharley Taylor. And more.
Executives at the LA Times and San Diego Union-Tribune say Chicago told them to make the financials look worse than the executives believed.
That day is Thursday at Dodger Stadium for the fifth and final playoff game with the Mets. Winner plays the Cubs.
The former Laker and Clipper is "fighting for his life" in a Las Vegas hospital. Ex-wife Khloe Kardashian is reported to be with him.
He is a bean counter "actually worth writing about" and the point man in City Hall on the homeless issue, says the Downtown News.
An exhibit of World War II camp photos at the Skirball includes images by Dorothea Lange and Toyo Miyatake.
In the heart of Silicon Valley, a milestone has been reached. Plus more progress at Harvey Mudd.
Just like that, the Dodgers face elimination Tuesday night after blowing an early 3-0 lead and letting New Yorkers blow off steam about Chase Utley.
Hugh Hefner agrees that his 62-year-old magazine should move on and adapt. The website already had.
The Center for Investigative Reporting got the story rolling. Now Steve Lopez is on the case.
If upheld, the Dodgers will play Games 3 and 4 against the Mets one man down.
May 15, 1965 was a bigger than usual Saturday taping night in the KHJ Channel 9 studios.
The Times won't tell you because, one, it doesn't know LA as well as it should and, two, it hypes to attract web eyeballs.
This is the flip side of the healthy local mountain lions in the San Gabriels I posted about earlier today.
Robert Martinez's cameras stationed in the mountains above Glendora captured two more feeding lions — in color this time.
Scully will miss the postseason that begins Friday night. He "is looking forward to returning in 2016," the Dodgers said.
A month before shooting her famous migrant mother, Lange documented the "Mexican quarter" before it was razed for downtown's Union Station.
LA Observed contributor Cari Beauchamp brings her film historian chops to a month-long series highlighting female directors back to the industry's first years.
Trial continues in the retired sports columnist's $18 million claim of age discrimination and retribution for writing critically about the publisher's friends.
An aggregation of news and notes from our in-box and other sources.
"For the right candidate, this presents an amazing opportunity to lead a nonprofit book publishing company in a period of growth."
Almost everyone on staff at least a year can apply but there is a big inducement to leave for those eligible to retire.
Hoffenblum was a Republican strategist who created the nonpartisan and respected California Target Book.
Two more letters to Tribune Publishing ask for a locally run LA Times. Plus: Joe Mathews writes Beutner was building a media-political entity that could be the future.
Clinton fundraises in LA
Jim Henson Studios on La Brea became a presidential campaign stop on Thursday.
Brown declares disaster area
The natural gas leak above Porter Ranch now qualifies for various government actions. Story
Performing arts with cheer
Donna Perlmutter closes out 2015 with productions downtown and on the Westside.
