Don Shirley: Pianists make history
Iris Schneider on Annie Leibovitz
The Times also named the editor who will oversee presidential campaign coverage and hired LZ Granderson, formerly of ESPN, as a hybrid sports and culture columnist.
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The Times also named the editor who will oversee presidential campaign coverage and hired LZ Granderson, formerly of ESPN, as a hybrid sports and culture columnist.
Westside Pavilion is putting the final stores out of their misery and converting the mall to offices.
Veronique de Turenne is following the Woolsey fire aftermath at Here in Malibu.
Included are the return of Sue Horton as op-ed editor and an East Coaster billed as part of the replacement for the late food writer Jonathan Gold.
KCET debuts "SoCal Wanderer" with Rosey Alvero. The Wall Street Journal gets a new bureau chief. Plus other moves in local media.
Read the memo: Big promotion for business editor Kimi Yoshino, plus a new managing editor.
The journalism veteran has run Time magazine and the Wall Street Journal. He's been quietly getting to know the LAT staff as advisor to Patrick Soon-Shiong.
"California — and the West — is where the world comes to see its future," the new owner of the Los Angeles Times says to his staff.
Fox 11 morning anchor Elex Michaelson will host the 10:30 p.m. show.
With the newsroom threatening a class-action lawsuit, Jim Kirk memos the staff.
In a surprising set of weekend pieces, the editor of the SoCal News Group and each of his papers call on readers to support local news. Or else.
Women and people of color knew they made less than white men doing the same jobs, but now they have the numbers. "It's so grim to be able to mathematically quantify exactly how much my company undervalues me," says reporter Laura Nelson.
LA Observed Notes: Media moves, books and authors, media people, place notes and selected tweets.
Trail cams placed by Robert Martinez catch a mother and three cubs in the mountains above Glendora.
Plus: Valentine's Day cards written by LA Times staffers. Web-only crime series from KNBC. Media notes and more.
Read the memo: The new LAT owner says buying the paper was deeply personal and he calls himself a longtime admirer of the Times journalists.
The deal for $500 million will close in April. The Times publisher was cleared by an internal investigation.
The deal, if reached, would end the bizarre run of Tronc and Chicago investor Michael Ferro as California media owners. Soon-Shiong comes with questions of his own.
Latest editor arrives and even gets some applause, just as a new disagreement breaks out in public over a high-profile investigation.
The LA Times staff voted union but there's a lot more going on. Val Zavala retires from KCET. Remembering Ed Moses and Greg Critser.
Frank, the KCRW legend, died at 79. LA Times heads for another big disruption and loses a reporter. Layoffs coming in LA media.
Stephen Miller led FoxSports.com and CBS Sportsline. There's also talk of more hires and moving the Times offices, possibly out of downtown.
LA Times journalists vote on a union this week. Plus the most-clicked story of 2017, Hollywood women organize, notes on media politics and place, and selected tweets.
Endless Summer changed the image of surfers and surfing culture in the 1960s and made Brown a legend on the beach.
Selected scandal reading from Lupita Nyong'o's amazing piece to Quentin Tarantino's quasi mea culpa. Plus heat, Dodgers, media news and selected tweets.
The venerable free Los Angeles alt-weekly has been dished off by owner Voice Media Group.
Bullet points: What you should know about the biggest story in Hollywood in years, including the names of the heroes.
Daily News photographer takes to the streets. Visiting critic blinded by the light. Media notes and obits. More PST:LA/LA. Selected tweets.
Ross Levinshon concludes his first week in the news business with a rah-rah note to staff and some good news for users of the Times' website. Read it here.
Tronc has pushed out Los Angeles Times editor-publisher Davan Maharaj and replaced him with new publisher Ross Levinsohn and interim editor Jim Kirk, former editor of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Bullet Points: An LA Republican discusses Trump. Nazis in LA. A new reporter in town. Tommy Hawkins dies.
Nazi and racist scum in Virginia, Trump equates, and a nation shakes its head. Plenty of media and politics notes and selected tweets.
Plus what some LA media people are doing and selected tweets from the past week.
Friedman was a stalwart of the Los Angeles Times photo staff for more than 30 years.
The show Rabe created has been a Saturday staple of KPCC for 11 years.
Our irregular compendium of media, police and place with selected tweets.
Our occasional roundup of news and observations from the media, politics and place. Plus selected tweets and more.
Our occasional roundup of news and observations from media, politics and place. With some selected tweets.
Media and politics notes for the new week, plus selected tweets.
Challenger to Councilman Gil Cedillo says he remains in the race for May 16 runoff.
The two new cats are nearly grown males and face the threat of dominant males already in the Santa Monica Mountains along with the freeways, rat poison and other dangers.
Also: The "super bloom" of yellow mustard across SoCal hillsides needs to be stopped.
You probably have heard of David Fahrenthold by now. Ex-LAT journalists re-uniting at CNN. Octavia Butler, Bob Miller, politics notes.
"He is not merely amusing. He is dangerous," Monday's editorial says. "He has made himself the stooge...for every crazy blogger, political quack, racial theorist, foreign leader or nutcase peddling a story."
Roger Mahony spent his 81st birthday weekend at refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan, headed for Iraq.
After 3½ hours of mostly uneventful filler, the Oscars show needed a picker upper. It got one.
The Los Angeles entertainment journalist and author of "Sunset Boulevard: Cruising The Heart of Los Angeles” has died of cancer.
Also: Exits from the LA Times, Google warns journalists, some Trump-inspired news jobs and more.
An estimated 188,000 people fled areas downstream from Lake Oroville after a hole was spotted Sunday in the giant dam's emergency spillway. LA swift-water rescue teams are headed north.
The creative director and editor who brought The Hollywood Reporter back from the brink is moving to the parent company.
Been a few years since I posted on the anniversary. But here are a couple of videos.
The mother P-39 and both cubs died on the 118 in Santa Susana Pass since Dec. 3.
Our occasional roundup on media, politics and place from multiple sources.
Two views of the river: Sunday's rain-swollen racetrack and the big concrete ditch we usually see.
The mega airport is such a vital and vulnerable piece of our infrastructure that it employs two anti-terrorism experts with top-secret clearances.
The top contender for the title of preeminent observer of our state "chronicled the history of California as no one else," Gov. Jerry Brown said.
Our occasional roundup on media, politics and place from a variety of LA Observed sources.
As Lynne Seemayer, she created an indelible part of LA street art lore and became something of a legend.
Media notes to end 2016, plus politics, place, selected media tweets and more.
The mother of three mountain lion kittens was killed on the 118 freeway, the National Park Service confirmed.
The second memo of the fall election cycle reminds reporters and editors that social media is on the record.
Author, activist and former California state assemblyman and senator Tom Hayden has died in Santa Monica after a lengthy illness.
Los Angeles can breathe again. The day no one wanted to come has passed.
Ken Doctor reports that a deal may be announced as soon as Monday, over the oposition of LA billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong.
The chief meteorologist for CBS 2 and KCAL 9 will be the LAPD's new public information director.
NBC 4 led in the local Emmy count. Fox News vs women. Trump in the media.
Ken Doctor hears that Tronc chairman Michael Ferro may be considering his options.
Scully's secret weapon is stage manager Boyd Robertson, who stands to his right and has been with Scully 28 years.
Joint attention to the homeless issue will be on the same day as 70+ Bay Area news organizations focus their coverage on the problem.
There is no more Tribune Publishing. There is only tronc.
Bear playing in the swimming pool in Bradbury during Sunday's heat.
Trump adds the very mainstream Post to the list of neutral orgs he doesn't want covering him.
Plus a media wedding, the memorial service for Steve Julian and "survivor's mentality" at the LA Times.
The Wrap says that newsroom gossip is true about a strip club expense account, a free trip and more.
Tom Angel forwarded derogatory jokes and as criticism built, McDonnell couldn't save him.
Afternoon fire at Pick Your Part required 150 firefighters to knock down.
Job moves, hires, book news, awards and other items I've been saving up on the media beat.
"Maybe the greatest combination country singer and songwriter of his generation," Robert Hilburn said today.
Women really, really detest the Republican frontrunner, who polls worse than Dick Cheney or George H.W. Bush at their lowest.
The longtime Westside councilman and television host entered hospice care last month.
The California primary on June 7 is very much in play for Republicans.
Organizers say the measure belongs on a city ballot to be locally debated.
Rebecca Kimitch is moving into PR for the Metropolitan Water District.
Anthony Rendon becomes Speaker, Trump trouble in Silicon Valley, candidate trouble for the Democrats in Simi Valley and more.
A deputy from the OC Register and a tech editor from the Bay Area are added. Plus: A new column in Sports.
A relief well has allowed SoCal Gas to stop the uncontrolled release of odorized natural gas, but the utility describes the stoppage as temporary pending a final seal over the well leaking since October.
The American snowboarder who we like at LA Observed added Sunday to her legacy as the woman with the most X Games medals.
The Semidi segment of the subduction zone in the Aleutian Islands points right at us and is "too quiet."
Warren Olney will remain as host and executive producer of "To the Point" and add a weekly interview segment during the NPR news.
The writer of On the Public Record.com sat down with Peter H. King of the LA Times after seven years of anonymity.
It's the first time the LAPD chief has recommended charges in the killing of an unarmed suspect.
When the first storms thrown our way by El Niño were bearing down last week, the Los Angeles-based staff writer for the New Yorker, Dana Goodyear, went out and gave...
Managing editor will run the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative in LA. Also: what the LA Times wants in its next California politics editor.
Once LA's rock powerhouse, after going all-news the station promised "you give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world."
Judge William A. MacLaughlin apparently didn't get to finish his thought when he vacated part of the $7.1 million award against the LA Times on Monday.
The Chronicle of Higher Education piles on the praise, saying there's now "an LARB style" of reviewing.
New at LA Observed
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.
