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Tomorrow at noon on KPCC (89.3 FM), John Rabe and his Off-Ramp Players will read a scene from "Right of Way," the script for a...
Posted July 11, 2008 04:32 PM
The LA Observed neon cruise with the Museum of Neon Art a couple of weeks back is featured on today's Off-Ramp on KPCC at noon....
Posted June 28, 2008 11:22 AM
Eric Lynxwiler and I will be the featured speakers in Westwood today at 4 pm at the inaugural literary salon of the Friends of the...
Posted June 22, 2008 01:05 PM
Quick run around the site: Celeste and Mayor Napolitano are reunited — with a twist I didn't see coming — and it's time to...
Posted June 18, 2008 09:59 PM
Back later in the afternoon. Check out Mark Lacter's posts at LA Biz Observed and listen to him this morning on KPCC....
Posted June 17, 2008 07:42 AM
Billy Vasquez has only posted a few dozen times at The 99 Cent Chef, but he makes them count. He was featured recently on "Marketplace"...
Posted June 16, 2008 09:36 AM
My KCRW commentary airing at 4:44 pm ties together the Lakers, the Roman Polanski documentary and Susan Atkins. Archive and download Mark Lacter's LA Biz...
Posted June 13, 2008 08:38 AM
Weather reader Jackie Johnson was out last night with Channel 9 colleagues Mary Beth McDade and Melissa McCarty, but it was Johnson who got all...
Posted June 10, 2008 11:54 PM
Our bi-annual (or so) LA Observed neon cruise pulls out of the Museum of Neon Art downtown this Saturday evening. Urban anthropologist Eric Lynxwiler serves...
Posted June 9, 2008 01:07 AM
Erika Schickel chatted up Bo Diddley on a plane to New Mexico. She was ten and headed for sleep-away camp. Denise Hamilton loved Pest Control...
Posted June 3, 2008 06:14 PM
Deanne Stillman, author of the forthcoming "Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West," posts a Memorial Day paean to Buffalo Bill...
Posted May 26, 2008 10:17 PM
Sorry, LA Observed was down for several hours last night and today. Little domain registration issue... If you can see this, all is well. Thanks...
Posted May 22, 2008 09:51 AM
Busy day and a deadline week, so posting will be lighter than usual. Check our Mark Lacter's Morning Headlines at LA Biz Observed. This was...
Posted May 13, 2008 08:54 AM
We're getting back on the bus in honor LA Observed's fifth (!) anniversary. There have been a couple of thousand posts since the last time...
Posted May 12, 2008 12:44 AM
Denise Hamilton sits in at The Elegant Variation today and guest-interviews author Nina Revoyr about her new novel, "The Age of Dreaming." Excerpt: "The Age...
Posted April 30, 2008 11:57 AM
Our blogger-columnist Bill Boyarsky covered a march Downtown on Friday by 700-1,000 janitors and renters of the slum housing around MacArthur Park. It got him...
Posted April 29, 2008 03:55 PM
Just look at all the great stuff... Friday morning headlines by Mark Lacter at LA Biz Observed. Former Times city editor Bill Boyarsky dissects a...
Posted April 18, 2008 08:48 AM
This year's L.A. Times Festival of Books is the weekend of April 26-27 at UCLA. I'm moderating a 3 pm Saturday panel called "California: The...
Posted April 15, 2008 11:19 PM
The Webby Awards are annual plaudits bestowed on corporate and institutional websites and a relative few blogs, with 8,000 entries in nearly 70 categories. Five...
Posted April 9, 2008 12:14 AM
The Atlantic's new blog The Current gave one of its three "Best Opinion" slots on Friday to Mark Lacter's recent post at LA Biz Observed...
Posted April 7, 2008 10:33 PM
No fooling... Adrienne Crew is the newest contributor to Native Intelligence, this week offering up her L.A. news recap for the DVR generation. Earlier Adrienne...
Posted April 1, 2008 11:54 PM
I've got a bunch of things to do away from the computer, and today really is a holiday for some, including UCLA staff: Cesar Chavez...
Posted March 28, 2008 08:47 AM
Tad Daley, a writing fellow with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, rides on weekends with Los Angeles Wheelmen, Santa Monica Critical Mass...
Posted March 9, 2008 12:15 PM
My LA Observed commentary on KCRW today talks about the scene that awaits Lindsay Lohan when she reports to the Los Angeles County morgue for...
Posted March 7, 2008 08:00 PM
Her years in Los Angeles taught Nancy Rommelmann, an ex-New Yorker, that no one is more provincial than New Yorkers. So she isn't surprised that...
Posted March 6, 2008 12:50 PM
Madness has swept KCRW and they're letting me host Politics of Culture today at 2:30 pm — a half-hour of live radio on the blurred...
Posted March 4, 2008 09:25 AM
When LA Observed was just a toddler of a blog, I watched Nancy Rommelmann chronicle her anxiety-filled but hopeful (and ultimately happy) move to Portland...
Posted February 20, 2008 11:15 PM
Meet Eric Estrin, if you haven't already. He's been an occasional contributor to Native Intelligence for awhile now, as well as a TV writer and...
Posted February 18, 2008 12:11 AM
President Felipe Calderón of Mexico was in Chicago and the Bay Area yesterday. Today he'll address the Legislature in Sacramento and visit the Napa Valley,...
Posted February 13, 2008 12:36 AM
You may have noticed a few changes on the site. We're part way through a thorough freshening of the pages at LA Observed. There's more...
Posted February 11, 2008 12:55 AM
Native Intelligence contributor Deanne Stillman has the cover of the new Los Angeles CityBeat with a nice piece on the Mojave Desert portion of L.A....
Posted February 8, 2008 03:59 PM
Election coverage and assorted deadlines have prevented me from finishing off the design freshening and links cleanup I mentioned last week. They're coming. In the...
Posted February 4, 2008 10:36 PM
I'll be freshening up the site's look all week, eventually rolling out new logos and content. The ShareThis widget, new on some pages, is a...
Posted January 29, 2008 12:52 AM
As several KTLA staffers have emailed to remind me, the station had been blocking employees' access to LA Observed. Even while cooperating from time to...
Posted January 22, 2008 01:23 PM
Eric Estrin, a striking WGA member, is a moderator at Writer Action, the message board where Writers Guild members hang out to float conspiracy theories,...
Posted January 10, 2008 09:15 PM
The Times seems happy with the traffic performance of its national politics blog, which has been covering the presidential races mostly in posts by Andrew...
Posted January 7, 2008 09:14 AM
Quite a media zoo at UCLA today as Rick Neuheisel, who led the Bruins to a Rose Bowl victory as quarterback back in his day,...
Posted December 31, 2007 05:10 PM
KNBC Channel 4 leads the TV stations with six Golden Mikes from the Radio Television News Association, including best newscast writing, documentary ("On the Verge")...
Posted December 27, 2007 11:15 AM
I'd forgotten what happens in offices around the holidays — tons of cookies, pumpkin breads, cheese platters and fruit baskets show up and sit around....
Posted December 20, 2007 10:28 AM
David Rensin writes with affection at Native Intelligence about all the months he spent with Freddie Fields, the agent who died this week, talking about...
Posted December 14, 2007 09:04 AM
The erstwhile LA Observed video maker pulled up to the Des Moines Register's Republican debate in Johnston, Iowa in a horse and buggy, trying to...
Posted December 12, 2007 01:25 PM
David Rensin rants at Native Intelligence about a close call with a cellphone-gabbing, wide-turning Valley driver, and Jenny Price makes the case for camping in...
Posted December 9, 2007 10:45 PM
No LA Observed on KCRW today since I'm traveling, but I'm told there's another of my segments about the Valley on John Rabe's "Off-Ramp" Saturday...
Posted December 7, 2007 03:02 PM
Thanks to Veronique for keeping everything going while I got drenched by non-stop rain in Hawaii. I never suspected lightning storms would be the best...
Posted December 7, 2007 11:29 AM
Karl Dorrell's stint as head coach in Westwood isn't over yet — officially — but the Times reports that UCLA has been in contact with...
Posted December 2, 2007 11:53 PM
The red flag alert is definitely over. No Morning Buzz today. My KCRW commentary this afternoon at 4:44 will talk about USC and the Coliseum....
Posted November 30, 2007 08:43 AM
Here are quick links to some posts from the weekend, which wasn't all about Malibu fire coverage and the end of Mayor Villaraigosa's affair with...
Posted November 26, 2007 12:49 AM
Posting will be intermittent until Monday. My regular Friday afternoon LA Observed spot on KCRW is pre-empted today by a This American Life marathon....
Posted November 23, 2007 12:06 PM
In addition to his blog here at LA Observed, Bill Boyarsky is a regular columnist for Robert Scheer and Zuade Kaufman at Truthdig. They actually...
Posted November 19, 2007 10:25 PM
No Morning Buzz, sorry. * Where did the time go?: Before you know it, Friday turns into Sunday......
Posted November 16, 2007 08:13 AM
Events are starting up for Bill Boyarsky's major political history from University of California Press, Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics....
Posted November 13, 2007 12:26 PM
The surfers get edgy when the big waves roll in as they did today, "sleek and steely and cold, spitting out sets like a Tommy...
Posted November 7, 2007 10:00 PM
No LA Observed on KCRW this afternoon — I had to take the day off. Purely by coincidence, I will be on KPCC's "Off-Ramp" tomorrow...
Posted November 2, 2007 04:36 PM
Here's some of what the LA Observed contributors have been posting while I've been away from the desk: Mark Lacter was on the Dodgers drama...
Posted October 30, 2007 11:57 PM
This is one of those occasional Fridays when I need to stay away from the keyboard to meet an outside deadline. Back Monday, if not...
Posted October 5, 2007 08:38 AM
While I've been dilly-dallying on other projects and trying to get over a nasty cough, LA Observed contributors have been busy. Not Mark Lacter, though...
Posted September 26, 2007 11:58 PM
Readers of LA Observed are not just intelligent, discerning and sexy, they are also helpful (and well traveled, apparently.) David Hackett caught my mention last...
Posted September 26, 2007 09:54 PM
Our erstwhile video contributor has a couple of gigs taking away his time and his physical presence from L.A. One pursuit, as executive director of...
Posted September 25, 2007 09:42 AM
Veronique de Turenne didn't take the official snail mail seriously until it talked about "warrant for your arrest" and "$950 fine." But all's well that...
Posted September 20, 2007 09:29 AM
Bill Boyarsky went back to the ethics commission yesterday for the first time since his fellow commissioners didn't elect him president. In fact, nobody seconded...
Posted September 12, 2007 01:55 PM
I'm jet-lagged and hacking loud enough to frighten the neighbors, but they tell me it's my turn to blog. Huge kudos and thanks to Veronique...
Posted September 10, 2007 12:49 AM
It has been a couple of years since I put down the keyboard for more than a few days at a stretch. This time I'm...
Posted August 22, 2007 10:25 AM
The Huffington Post's better commenters can now become bloggers for the site. Arianna explains. The editor of USC's Online Journalism Review really didn't like...
Posted August 17, 2007 03:41 PM
Ex-Times columnist J.A. Adande has resurfaced as the NBA columnist for ESPN.com, a move that David Davis comments on at SoCal Sports Observed. Adande's first...
Posted August 16, 2007 02:30 PM
KCRW swings into fund drive mode today, so the LA Observed commentary that usually airs at 4:44 pm on Friday won't be heard. Same thing...
Posted August 3, 2007 03:44 PM
Catching up on some business: If you saw today's L.A. Times story on the city's Historical Resources Survey Project, this will make more sense. I'm...
Posted July 29, 2007 11:48 PM
Noted photographer Edward Weston preferred smallpox and poverty to Los Angeles, as he says in a new post at Native Intelligence. But he made some...
Posted July 25, 2007 11:55 PM
Free wine and eats! For Saturday evening's Extravaganza of the Senses on the 20th Century Fox lot, benefiting the Los Angeles Free Clinic, we can...
Posted July 20, 2007 09:45 AM
His kidney stone left the building, so Mark Lacter is back at the LA Biz Observed desk. The Morning Headlines led today with the Dow...
Posted July 17, 2007 10:16 AM
Elsewhere on the site: David Davis has a good interview with David Zirin, the provocative progressive writer who is author of Welcome to the Terrordome:...
Posted July 16, 2007 08:44 AM
Here's some of what you can find around the site today: Paddle boats will remain for rent at Echo Park "as long as I am...
Posted July 10, 2007 08:25 AM
The biggest benefit of subscribing to LA Observed is the satisfaction of helping the website thrive. But sometimes we also get free tickets to pass...
Posted June 28, 2007 04:16 PM
I'll be part of a "poolside chat" at the Los Angeles Film Festival tomorrow night called "Who Let The Blogs Out?" The panel and schmooze...
Posted June 25, 2007 04:40 PM
I'm away on business today, so there's no Morning Buzz. My KCRW commentary this afternoon speaks to the context of media reports on Mayor Villaraigosa's...
Posted June 15, 2007 12:05 AM
Reader Leon Kaspersky will be taking his family to Sunday's debut performance in Pasadena of Peter Schickele's "Three Cellos," courtesy of the Pacific Serenades chamber...
Posted June 1, 2007 05:10 PM
Veronique de Turenne at Here in Malibu says signs are posted everywhere about the year-old German shepherd taken by a 50-ish overweight woman with bleached...
Posted May 30, 2007 06:55 PM
Unless something startles me out of my stupor, News & Chatter will be taking off until after the holiday. Keep an eye open for fresh...
Posted May 25, 2007 09:30 AM
LA Observed subscribers are being offered tickets to another musical premiere, this one the debut performance of composer Peter Schickele's new work Three Cellos with...
Posted May 25, 2007 09:05 AM
The L.A. Phil is treating another LA Observed subscriber to this weekend's late-night premiere of Pravda. Daniel Evans and a guest will be in the...
Posted May 23, 2007 12:23 AM
KCRW has invited me to join the roster of commentators that air in the afternoons during NPR's "All Things Considered." General manager Ruth Seymour, who...
Posted May 21, 2007 12:37 AM
Phew, there was quite a rush to claim the free tickets to the Saturday, May 26 world premiere of Pravda at the Walt Disney Hall....
Posted May 20, 2007 11:56 PM
The L.A. Philharmonic is again making two tickets available free to LA Observed Insiders for a special performance at Disney Hall. On Saturday May 26,...
Posted May 16, 2007 12:19 AM
Today's New York Post praises our friends at Los Angeles magazine in a piece reviewing the best of city magazines around the country: Like the...
Posted May 7, 2007 08:12 AM
Once around the LA Observed blogs: Jenny Price writes at Native Intelligence that since the Virginia Tech tragedy, friends have been checking in with her...
Posted April 26, 2007 10:26 PM
A local television legend of sorts, and LA Observed oldie but goodie, returned tonight to the Los Angeles airwaves — and now to the blogosphere....
Posted April 25, 2007 11:52 PM
I'm talking about today's Times news with guest host Jon Beaupre on KPCC's "Patt Morrison," after the NPR news at 2 pm. Update: Times Publisher...
Posted April 23, 2007 02:00 PM
New LAUSD Supt. Supt. David L. Brewer has discovered what most of us knew — that things in his district are seriously awry. He...
Posted April 20, 2007 04:37 PM
Tom Mott is the LA Observed Insider who was first to speak up and claim two tickets to Wednesday evening's Complete Tristan and Isolde at...
Posted April 17, 2007 11:41 PM
The Tristan Project has returned to the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The L.A. Philharmonic's Esa-Pekka Salonen, director Peter Sellars and video artist Bill Viola are...
Posted April 15, 2007 11:28 PM
The News & Chatter side of LA Observed plans to stand down for a day or so to mark the passing of my father. Robert...
Posted March 27, 2007 04:45 PM
Bill Boyarsky played a prominent role in cleaning up the L.A. Times' ethical mess after the Staples Center scandal in 1999, serving as the conduit...
Posted March 22, 2007 09:12 AM
LA Observed's man with the video camera, Jacob Soboroff, greeted the A380 Airbus this morning at LAX. Check it out at Native Intelligence: He's got...
Posted March 19, 2007 09:23 PM
There's no Morning Buzz today due to the press of other time commitments, but just look at what's fresh on the site right now. Good...
Posted March 1, 2007 12:22 AM
Bit of a short week due to the holiday, but things are never slow around here. Some of the most review-worthy LA Observed posts of...
Posted February 25, 2007 11:42 AM
Mark Lacter wonders if too much attention is paid to the 29,000 people who live downtown, in a city of four million. It's one of...
Posted February 22, 2007 02:11 AM
LA Observed's Jacob Soboroff took his video camera behind the scenes at today's crowded Barack Obama rally at Rancho Cienega Rec Center and chatted with...
Posted February 20, 2007 10:55 PM
Jacob Soboroff took his LA Observed video camera to the Clippers' morning shoot around at Madison Square Garden and chatted with New York native Elton...
Posted February 8, 2007 07:47 PM
Bill Boyarsky directed the Times reporters covering the county Board of Supervisors for more than ten years. He doesn't blame Thomas Mauk for fleeing from...
Posted January 31, 2007 03:41 PM
More findings from last week's LA Observed reader survey: → Half of the 804 respondents live in the city of Los Angeles (so half live...
Posted January 26, 2007 05:27 PM
The lumber has arrived, demolition has begun, and Veronique de Turenne is off on the home remodeling ride of her life. She tries at Here...
Posted January 26, 2007 11:35 AM
More than 500 LA Observed readers put their media savvy credentials on the line and offered predictions on the top Los Angeles media stories of...
Posted January 26, 2007 03:38 AM
Thanks again to everyone who answered last week's LA Observed reader survey. I closed it at 800 responses, blown away by the wealth of insight...
Posted January 26, 2007 12:06 AM
LA Observed contributor Jacob Soboroff caught up with local TV news legend Stan Chambers in Hollywood at KTLA's 60th anniversary bash. Click on the pic...
Posted January 24, 2007 04:11 PM
No sonorous hard sell by Ruth Seymour or endless loops of Roy Orbison at the Cocoanut Grove. Just a simple pitch. We all love putting...
Posted January 20, 2007 11:29 AM
Hey, please don't forget to take a couple of minutes and give me your opinions on LA Observed. Along with some basic survey questions, you...
Posted January 19, 2007 12:50 PM
Eli Broad has opened up a bigger lead on David Geffen as LA Observed readers' most likely (or preferred?) buyer of the L.A. Times. Ron...
Posted January 17, 2007 11:55 AM
Less than twelve hours into Pledge Week and the number of replies to the LA Observed Visitor Survey is fast approaching 200. Thank you for...
Posted January 16, 2007 02:49 PM
Hi all. My traditional State of the Blog message was delayed a bit while I got my head around what has to happen in 2007....
Posted January 16, 2007 03:46 AM
Some lovely holiday finds around the LA Observed blogs: On old Mulholland: Veronique de Turenne ventured into the hills above Malibu in search of The...
Posted January 15, 2007 06:41 PM
Rick Orlov gives a sneak peek at tomorrow's Tipoff column in the Daily News to LA Observed video blogger Jacob Soboroff — psst, there's a...
Posted January 14, 2007 07:51 PM
My favorite posts, or just the newsiest, from the first week of 2007. The lost Hollywood tape of Dr. Martin Luther King. Jim Lampley and...
Posted January 6, 2007 06:31 PM
City ethics commissioner Bill Boyarsky took the on-line ethics course required of Los Angeles officials and found the exercise filled him with mixed emotions. "Campaign...
Posted December 29, 2006 12:25 PM
Lots of Time Warner cable woes, a response to Daniel Hernandez on Latinos and the L.A. Times, many complaints from Times subscribers — also Stephanie...
Posted December 27, 2006 08:30 PM
No Morning Buzz today, but here are some offerings from LA Observed contributors. How not to blog: When his piece flinging around 23 n-words riled...
Posted December 18, 2006 12:30 AM
Some highlights from the past week at LA Observed, chosen by the guy who signs the checks. Judith Regan's firing by fax breaks late Friday....
Posted December 18, 2006 12:15 AM
Video blogger Jacob Soboroff uploaded from last night's Clippers' game, chatting in the floor seats with #1 fan "Clipper" Darrell Bailey and courtside at Staples...
Posted December 15, 2006 02:53 AM
No, not Allen Iverson — not yet anyway. LA Observed contributor Bob Baker has taken over from Rick Cipes as the official, paid Clippers blogger...
Posted December 13, 2006 02:34 PM
I've switched the color of links here on News & Chatter to black, hoping to cut down on the cacophony of dark red (closer to...
Posted December 11, 2006 11:59 PM
It was a good week for scooplets, links and smart posts by LA Observed contributors at large in the city — here's my dozen-plus-some for...
Posted December 10, 2006 11:49 PM
Richard Montoya of Culture Clash (left, as Sen. Gilbert Garcia in "Water and Power" at the Taper) recently joined the Villaraigosa Administration as a commissioner...
Posted December 8, 2006 06:45 PM
Couple of interesting sessions coming up at Zócalo, the public lecture series started by Gregory Rodriguez that LA Observed helps sponsor. Next Tuesday, Dec. 12,...
Posted December 8, 2006 04:19 PM
Hollywood Reporter lays off five more, including executive editor Peter Pryor, Fishbowl LA and Nikki Finke say. Earlier in the week editorial director Howard...
Posted December 7, 2006 04:50 PM
Some of the more talked-about, linked-to or noteworthy exclusive posts from the past week here at LA Observed: Job openings in the mayor's press office...
Posted December 3, 2006 10:33 PM
Jenny Price's detailed directions on how to find and get into Malibu's less-well-marked beaches pretty much nixes any chance that David Geffen would give up...
Posted November 27, 2006 12:18 AM
It may have been a short holiday week, but news didn't take a breather. There was plenty happening around LA Observed: Michael Richards commits career...
Posted November 26, 2006 11:35 PM
Remember last month when videographer Jacob Soboroff was trying out his new camera at the Cornfield park near Chinatown and ran into Huell Howser —...
Posted November 21, 2006 11:55 PM
Twelve of the best from the past week of LA Observed posts, plus a few freebies... When a UCLA student is Tasered on video in...
Posted November 19, 2006 10:51 PM
After today's Ethics Commission meeting, the panel's vice president writes, "Give me a cynical old pol who at least keeps his or her word...We voted...
Posted November 14, 2006 03:53 PM
Veronique de Turenne gives bicyclists their space on Pacific Coast Highway, but asks the same in return. "Share the road, you arrogant cyclists. Sure, it's...
Posted November 14, 2006 01:42 PM
Bill Boyarsky, the newest LA Observed contributor, used to be city editor of the Los Angeles Times, wrote a local column called "The Spin" for...
Posted November 12, 2006 04:59 PM
While I've been away, the Native Intelligence contributors have been doing what they do best: 4-ever X-mas Perpetual Christmas has come to Los Angeles supermarkets,...
Posted November 12, 2006 12:28 PM
I will be on live talking with Warren Olney about LA Observed's coverage of Dean Baquet's ouster tonight between 7:20 and 7:30 pm. Wall Street...
Posted November 7, 2006 07:10 PM
Around the grassier neighborhoods of Los Angeles, November means the unpleasant aroma of lawns being fertilized, Native Intelligence contributor Denise Hamilton writes on today's Times...
Posted November 7, 2006 01:35 AM
USC professor David Carter is the media's go-to guy on the business of sports. More than an academic, he also has a private equity firm...
Posted November 6, 2006 01:55 AM
Highlights from the super-busy past week here at LA Observed... LA Weekly opens its tent to Jill Stewart: first the scoop, then the scene, the...
Posted November 4, 2006 06:05 PM
The LA Observed contributors have been building up to Halloween in their own ways. TJ Sullivan gave himself a tour of the hidden cemetery in...
Posted October 31, 2006 03:29 PM
Glitches at the server end have been plaguing LA Observed all weekend. They are close to being worked out, I think, and posting should resume...
Posted October 29, 2006 03:42 PM
Beyond today's early News & Chatter on MTA bus service and peeking inside the mayor's private office, there's good stuff to be found across the...
Posted October 25, 2006 04:02 PM
It was a good week across all the LA Observed blogs. Here is an editor's dozen of notable news, scoops and observations: David Zahniser is...
Posted October 21, 2006 04:12 PM
No News & Chatter until this evening. But go ahead and check out new posts on the other LA Observed pages: LA Biz Observed Native...
Posted October 16, 2006 04:52 AM
Highlights from the busy past week at News & Chatter: Publisher out, publisher in, staff insurrection, Baquet t-shirts: exclusive insider coverage of the mess at...
Posted October 8, 2006 07:41 PM
Bunch of chewy new posts around the blogs today, starting at Native Intelligence. Judy Graeme stumbles on the Getty's secret art exhibit for staffers only,...
Posted September 29, 2006 10:58 AM
Here are some of the highlights from the past week of LA Observed posts, blog by blog. Click the links to catch up on anything...
Posted September 10, 2006 04:28 PM
Over at LA Biz Observed, Mark Lacter serves up a full plate of morning-after-Labor Day headlines including the abrupt departure of Tom Freston from the...
Posted September 5, 2006 12:09 PM
Some highlights from the past week on the LA Observed blogs, for the review-minded: Welcome to Gentrification City, Leland Wong indicted, Sunset Junction kisses up...
Posted August 26, 2006 12:18 PM
What's better than one insider pulling back the veil on exclusive Malibu? Why two, of course. Jenny Price actually lives in Venice, but she knows...
Posted August 11, 2006 10:58 PM
Veronique de Turenne joins the LA Observed family today with a clear agenda: to raise the blogosphere profile of her hometown. Here in Malibu will...
Posted August 10, 2006 11:56 PM
Just to point out some of the pieces now in the queue at Native Intelligence, the LA Observed blog where the subjects can range wherever...
Posted August 9, 2006 02:55 PM
Bruce Feirstein jumps into the pool at Native Intelligence with a post that labels Arianna Huffington's "defining Hollywood moment" spin on the Mel Gibson affair...
Posted August 2, 2006 02:11 PM
One of the additions we've talked about at LA Observed — and have been hatching in the background — is encouraging writers to blog occasionally...
Posted August 2, 2006 12:37 PM
Well, that was a good week. New blogs, new contributors, new design, plus the usual original posts and meaty news. These were some of the...
Posted July 30, 2006 10:39 PM
Posting has been a tad light today due to the intrusion of life and preoccupation with the changes around here. This makes it worth it,...
Posted July 26, 2006 06:35 PM
Around LA Observed's sites this afternoon: Warner Bros. deal with iTunes, new prez of Disneyland, and who to blame for power woes. Jered Weaver is...
Posted July 25, 2006 05:39 PM
Time for a change. A fairly major change, in light of the way things have been done here so far. There won't be a Morning...
Posted July 25, 2006 07:20 AM
Welcome to The Newshour with Jim Lehrer on KCET.org and PublicAffairs Books....
Posted July 13, 2006 01:15 AM
LA Observed plans to take advantage of the holiday calendar and call a first hiatus of the summer. Per the server stats it's been a...
Posted June 29, 2006 11:25 PM
Well I lied; my desk is anything but clear. Here are some final news notes from the day though. Have a good weekend: • The...
Posted June 16, 2006 03:53 PM
Thanks to everyone who joined Saturday night's anniversary Neon Cruise with LA Observed. The bus was full and boisterous, and a fun time was had...
Posted June 5, 2006 11:07 PM
Hey, this week is LA Observed's third blogiversary. Perfect reason for a fun night on the town—literally. Join us on Saturday, June 3 to kick...
Posted May 18, 2006 11:50 PM
Wow, lot of response to yesterday's Where in L.A.? challenge. Most who emailed knew (or guessed) that the monument in the photo is a graffitied...
Posted May 17, 2006 04:20 PM
♦ The Clippers tie up their NBA playoff series 2-2, beating the Suns 114-107 at Staples Center on Sunday. ♦ USC basketball freshman Ryan Francis...
Posted May 14, 2006 10:27 PM
Eric Lynxwiler and I will be signing and talking about Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles this evening In Pasadena at Vroman's Bookstore, "Southern...
Posted May 11, 2006 10:34 AM
Some posts from the busy past week here at LA Observed: May 1 coverage: Nuggets, more nuggets, street fighting, La Opinión's solidarity, my favorite march...
Posted May 7, 2006 11:03 PM
Posting will be light (if that) this weekend due to time commitments at the Festival of Books thrown at UCLA by the Los Angeles Times....
Posted April 28, 2006 05:15 PM
In case you missed them, some posts from the past week on LA Observed: Hiltzik unmasked and the Times reacts Times outsources to India and...
Posted April 24, 2006 12:31 AM
Selected items from the past week on LA Observed... A Caitlin Flanagan two-fer Channel 2 bans fragrance and VNRs RJ Smith on L.A. and music...
Posted April 17, 2006 12:02 AM
I'm indisposed Monday in some meetings and checking out colleges with the junior member of the LAO team. Here are some selections from the past...
Posted April 9, 2006 07:39 PM
With four days to go on my server's stats counter, LA Observed has already surpassed the previous high for traffic in a month. I'm honored....
Posted March 28, 2006 02:14 PM
Some of what passed across the LA Observed front page in the past seven days... Streisand and Hollywood heavies christen RAND's global issues salon in Bel-AirEx-assemblyman...
Posted March 26, 2006 10:53 PM
Most talked-about posts from the past week at LA Observed, including a few exclusives... Exclusive blog coverage of the Los Angeles Political Roast. Patt Morrison...
Posted March 20, 2006 01:17 AM
This weekend's ad for the New York City DUI attorney was the last straw for the top-of-the-page Google Ads banner. I'll keep Google elsewhere on...
Posted March 6, 2006 06:20 PM
Selected posts from the past week at LA Observed: Hilburn's replacement: Ann Powers.Kitty Felde dropped abruptly by KPCC.Reactions to the death of Otis Chandler pour...
Posted March 6, 2006 12:59 AM
Even the Director of Literature at the National Endowment for the Arts has to hit the road if he wants to sell books. And it...
Posted March 2, 2006 12:01 AM
Last week was a good one for LA Observed scoops. Here are some talked-about posts from the past seven days: Ensign Eric Garcetti, U.S. Naval...
Posted February 26, 2006 11:30 PM
LA Observed is the first blog to have its content licensed by NewsBank, which provides libraries and schools with material from newspapers, TV and radio...
Posted February 21, 2006 12:13 AM
Jim Bursch at West L.A. Online is peeved at the Daily News for some language in today's news story about the jaw-dropping cost of extending...
Posted February 15, 2006 02:51 PM
It was thiry-five years ago today that the bedrock buckled beneath the San Gabriel Mountains, unleashing what became the Sylmar earthquake. In all that time,...
Posted February 9, 2006 03:30 AM
I was interviewed at the fabulous old HMS Bounty on Wilshire this afternoon by John Rabe of KPCC News. His piece, about the loss of...
Posted February 2, 2006 03:32 PM
Eric Lynxwiler and I are supposed to be in a segment of Channel 7's Eye on L.A. today at 6:30 pm. Hard to tell what...
Posted January 21, 2006 12:28 PM
Janko Roettgers, an L.A. based reporter for Austrian radio, came over a few weeks ago to interview me about LA Observed and being a journalist...
Posted January 9, 2006 01:59 PM
Happy New Year and thanks to everyone who made LA Observed a habit in 2005. More than 2.1 million visitors perused right around five million...
Posted January 2, 2006 02:45 PM
This will be a slow week around LA Observed Tower. I won't be doing the 'First thing' reports in the morning, but will probably pop...
Posted December 26, 2005 11:51 AM
Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles was at number eight on yesterday's Los Angeles Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list....
Posted December 26, 2005 11:45 AM
I just taped a segment with host Conan Nolan to air Sunday at 9 am. Political analysts Arnold Steinberg and Darry Sragow are on first...
Posted December 2, 2005 04:18 PM
LA Observed has been down much of today due to a "bandwith issue" at the server end. In short, a rush of visitors this morning...
Posted November 29, 2005 04:17 PM
Steve Wasserman, the Times book editor until earlier this year, will give his take on the cutbacks at his former paper in the first issue...
Posted November 26, 2005 11:32 PM
Since the ad column is filling up with spots aimed at Tuesday's elections, it seems like the right time to remind everyone of the LAObserved...
Posted November 4, 2005 12:39 AM
Thanks for all the suggestions about the Front Pages box. I intend to tinker with both design and function when I get the time this...
Posted October 28, 2005 01:41 AM
Abel Salas did a nice q-and-a with me pegged to my Wilshire book in Sunday's L.A. Times Magazine. We met at the HMS Bounty and...
Posted October 9, 2005 11:30 PM
In addition to last night's items on the Times stories by Ken Auletta and the Wall Street Journal, here are some other things you might...
Posted October 3, 2005 02:41 AM
I have a lot of distractions this Friday, so before it turns into an off day I'm declaring it a day off. No postings unless...
Posted September 30, 2005 12:31 AM
Some items from the last week of L.A. Observed... Kinsley gets the last word, via well-timed emailPlus: Andrés Martinez vows to pay more attention to...
Posted September 19, 2005 12:02 PM
Kudos to James Rainey, the LAT's media reporter—and a kick in the ass for me. Two weeks after I let the Tribune's spokesman blow off...
Posted September 17, 2005 12:22 PM
• Looks like Gov. Schwarzenegger announces Friday that he will run for reelection, the Times says. Also, La Opinión says its reporter was denied entry to...
Posted September 15, 2005 01:26 AM
In case you missed them, here are some of of the items that achieved blogginess on LA Observed in the last seven days. Return of...
Posted September 12, 2005 12:20 AM
New logo, new column array, same content (and bigger links.) I thought the blog needed a little dusting off. The way things are arranged now...
Posted September 10, 2005 04:59 PM
Blogads is having a server problem that was affecting the way the L.A. Observed page loads. I've taken down the ads until Blogads says the...
Posted September 2, 2005 08:07 PM
Some appetizers: • Marc Cooper of the LA Weekly and the Nation will be the guest host on KCRW's Left, Right and Center, today at 2:30...
Posted September 2, 2005 01:04 AM
These were some of the best-read or most emailed-about LAO items from the past week. I might do this every week. Anybody find it useful?...
Posted August 28, 2005 10:32 PM
• That's Daily News sports columnist Tom Hoffarth in the photo, taking a parachute jump with an instructor at Lake Perris. It's front and center on...
Posted August 25, 2005 02:43 AM
If I post at all in the next few days, it will be of the quick variety. Meanwhile, perusing the July logs has been fun....
Posted August 4, 2005 01:55 AM
L.A. Observed is one of the Los Angeles-based blogs named in Forbes.com's Best of the Web. The other locals are The Elegant Variation for literary...
Posted July 26, 2005 03:46 PM
But not good enough to bear repeating. For a few hours on Saturday, L.A. Observed was rolled back to April 26 by a server issue...
Posted July 17, 2005 01:11 PM
Geez, you try to skate by for a few hours and stuff starts to pile up in the in-box... • Former Burbank mayor and current city...
Posted July 14, 2005 05:43 PM
I updated some behind the scenes stuff like the About page and the Advertisers Are Really Cool People page, so I ran the numbers for...
Posted July 7, 2005 01:26 PM
I bumped up the main font just a hair. If it bothers you, let me know. By the way, I designed the site so most...
Posted June 21, 2005 01:03 PM
The Times is converting a seat on the editorial board into a three-month visiting fellow slot, as a way to bring in more thinking from...
Posted June 6, 2005 08:54 PM
• Bob Hertzberg, chairman of the Villaraigosa transition team, will be on KPCC's Talk of the City Friday at 2 p.m. with guest host Jon Beaupre....
Posted June 2, 2005 05:55 PM
With the mayoral campaign now history, I felt motivated to clean out some dead links and reorganize the lineup on the left-hand side of the...
Posted May 22, 2005 11:18 PM
It's jacaranda time in my neighborhood, and I'll be staring at the computer as little as possible. Back over the weekend....
Posted May 20, 2005 01:11 AM
* Fresh items are at the bottom, as usual... • This is anniversary week (the second) for L.A. Observed, a fact that the Downtown News dug...
Posted May 9, 2005 01:00 PM
Time to modernize the software that runs this thing. If all goes well, I'll be back posting Sunday. Wish me luck... * I'm back. Everything...
Posted April 30, 2005 01:29 PM
New items added at the bottom • Dawson's Books, the oldest bookseller in Los Angeles, celebrates its 100th anniversary this month with an exhibit at the...
Posted April 16, 2005 06:24 PM
Couldn't find any fresh media mentions of Xeni Jardin today, but there are these things to know (updated at the bottom): • Local websites nominated for...
Posted April 13, 2005 11:31 AM
My host, Total Choice Hosting, has responded nicely with a detailed explanation of yesterday's interruption. It was due to an overload on the servers, probably...
Posted April 12, 2005 09:49 AM
For reasons that still aren't clear, my hosting service — Total Choice Hosting — abruptly cut off access to L.A. Observed this afternoon. Luckily the...
Posted April 11, 2005 05:14 PM
Just got a look at the March stats, and it pleases me to be able to say that L.A. Observed set new highs across the...
Posted April 6, 2005 02:40 AM
Michael Hiltzik's "Golden State" column in today's Times tells the story behind Movable Type, the popular blogging software developed by Six Apart, a San Francisco...
Posted March 7, 2005 04:11 PM
Hilary Kaplan of the website The Next American City sits down with D.J. Waldie, author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir and the new Where...
Posted February 23, 2005 02:18 AM
Finishing off Monday's queue and looking into Tuesday: • LA.comfidential takes a look at the pro-Bush, anti-Hollywood billboards that Citizens United is buying near the Kodak...
Posted January 31, 2005 11:33 PM
From here on out, the race for mayor of Los Angeles is a sprint. With luck some Big Issues will be debated before March 8....
Posted January 24, 2005 01:02 AM
Start of a new year and time for a little refreshing of the look. First, an update on how things are going. They are, in...
Posted January 3, 2005 01:41 AM
I've mentioned before the strange fascination that some L.A. Observed visitors have with TV news women, in general, and especially with Gretchen Carr, the former...
Posted December 10, 2004 12:34 PM
The website selling the Schwarzenegger bobblehead doll via the new Blogad over in the right-hand column isn't very informative; here's a Sacramento Bee story from...
Posted October 21, 2004 09:58 PM
Some things to note from while I was gone: • Larry McCormick: The co-anchor of the KTLA "News at Ten Weekend Edition" began at channel 5...
Posted August 30, 2004 12:37 AM
I'm back after a few weeks away from the web to recharge and enjoy the summer. There are some changes to point out. You can...
Posted August 30, 2004 12:15 AM
I'm out of here until August 30. I thought about pressing guest bloggers into service or claiming to be "on assignment" then posting an occasional...
Posted August 9, 2004 08:48 PM
L.A. Observed is pleased to introduce a new Premium Sponsor: The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. The community paper is published weekly on Fridays....
Posted August 5, 2004 08:38 PM
I turned off the comments function overnight to let a wave of spam blow past. Remember what we always say at L.A. Observed: only a...
Posted July 16, 2004 12:59 AM
L.A. Observed ranked sixth (well, tied for sixth with Gawker et al) among favorite blogs of women in the media who responded to an email-in...
Posted June 3, 2004 12:00 PM
L.A. Observed is the newest co-sponsor of the "Public Square" Lecture Series presented by Zócalo and the Los Angeles Public Library. Zócalo seeks to create...
Posted June 1, 2004 01:10 AM
Time for a change. Some new colors, things moved around, a general freshening -- and a rail for advertising on the right side. I've been...
Posted February 20, 2004 04:59 AM
A couple of liberal politics blogs, Joshua Marshall's Talking Points Memo and Atrios, are publicly pondering the pros, cons and blog ethics of taking candidate...
Posted November 3, 2003 11:49 PM
Fully half of this site's unique visitors for the month of July have come by in the past 48 hours. Searches for "Kobe" and related...
Posted July 22, 2003 11:43 PM
This blog is coming to life in the midst of the scandal over disgraced New York Times reporter Jayson Blair. He made up stories, claimed...
Posted May 14, 2003 01:13 AM
My name is Kevin Roderick. I am an author, a journalist, an Angeleno and wear assorted other labels. I suppose I'm also now a blogger....
Posted May 13, 2003 11:13 PM
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