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LA Observed Notes: Let's call it a year
Kevin Roderick
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December 31, 2016 12:40 AM
Media notes to end 2016, plus politics, place, selected media tweets and more.
Tyrus Wong, legendary Disney artist, was 106
Kevin Roderick
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December 30, 2016 5:28 PM
Wong's artwork inspired "Bambi." He contributed to other films and was also known for his beach kites.
Read the LA Times response to Los Angeles Magazine's piece
Kevin Roderick
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December 29, 2016 4:21 PM
Co-managing editor Larry Ingrassia goes after the magazine and writer Ed Leibowitz for "What's the matter with the Los Angeles Times?"
Video: Guy hikes Griffith Park to Pt. Mugu in 69 hours
Kevin Roderick
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December 29, 2016 2:15 PM
Nick Johnson likes hiking so why not do the whole Santa Monica Mountains. Alone. Starting at night on P-22's turf.
Norms Pico has definitely closed
Kevin Roderick
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December 29, 2016 1:22 AM
The windows are covered, cones block the driveway and the We Never Close sign has gone dark.
The Rams were the original 'Hollywood's Team'
David Davis
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December 27, 2016 11:10 AM
The Rams' return to LA has been a disaster, but a new book by Jim Hock remembers when the NFL team's relationship with the city was something special.
Winter solstice cave pictograph at Burro Flats
Kevin Roderick
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December 21, 2016 11:45 AM
From the LA Observed archives, a piece for the winter solstice on a Chumash cave painting in the local hills.
LA Observed Notes: A mea culpa, good reads and many media moves
Kevin Roderick
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December 19, 2016 1:38 AM
Media and politics notes, observations on place and much more.
P-39 hit and killed crossing freeway
Kevin Roderick
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December 15, 2016 9:31 AM
The mother of three mountain lion kittens was killed on the 118 freeway, the National Park Service confirmed.
Patti Smith on Stockholm: 'The truer nature of my duty'
Kevin Roderick
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December 14, 2016 2:19 PM
The singer writes about her performance of a Bob Dylan song at the Nobel Prize ceremony.
LA Times hires new sheriff's beat reporter
Kevin Roderick
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December 12, 2016 6:05 PM
Maya Lau comes to the LAT from Baton Rouge, where she covered crime and investigations.
LA Times says pro-internment letters should not have run
Kevin Roderick
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December 12, 2016 4:27 PM
Editor-publisher Davan Maharaj says the letters to the editor of Travel violated the paper's standards for "civil, fact-based discourse."
LA Observed Notes: Perez bombshell, LAT internment letters and more
Kevin Roderick
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December 12, 2016 1:39 AM
A extra big helping of our occasional roundup of media, politics and place notes.
Norms on Pico looks to be closing this month
Kevin Roderick
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December 9, 2016 12:46 AM
The local homeowner group says the 24-hour coffee shop will close December 31 to make way for a new development.
Steve Barr drops his bid for LA mayor
Kevin Roderick
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December 8, 2016 12:33 AM
One candidate who might have had a chance against Eric Garcetti cites "our nightmare of a national election" in getting out of the 2017 race.
LA Magazine says editor Davan Maharaj is what's wrong with the LA Times*
Kevin Roderick
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December 7, 2016 11:50 PM
Magazine goes deep in a piece that finds an autocratic, distracted leader who insults women and other staffers.
LA Observed Notes: Good reads, Oakland tragedy, Oscar buzz and more
Kevin Roderick
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December 5, 2016 1:04 AM
Our occasional offering of media, politics and place noted from assorted sources.
Read the memo: New York Times won't ban 'alt-right'
Kevin Roderick
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December 2, 2016 9:07 AM
Standards editor says explain the term because many readers don't know that "It’s a racist, far-right fringe movement that embraces an ideology of white nationalism and is anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic and anti-feminist." what it means:
Midweek notes: Xavier Becerra, Jeff Michael, P-45 and more
Kevin Roderick
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December 1, 2016 9:06 AM
New attorney general appointed. An anchor leaves the news desk. What to do with P-45.
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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.
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Wet coyote
Spotted between the storms at
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Performing arts with cheer
Donna Perlmutter
closes out 2015
with productions downtown and on the Westside.
Junkyard down
After 53 years, Sun Valley's Aadlen Brothers and U-Pick Parts cleans out.
Photos