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June 14, 2003
The coastal strip around Santa Barbara has become the most expensive area in California to buy a home. With median prices at $825,000 and rising,...
In his Sunday L.A. Times media column, David Shaw wonders why more newspapers don't send letters to the subjects of their articles, asking if the...
Only three of the 55 Oscar statuettes swiped en route to Los Angeles from the factory three years ago were never found. Now one of...
June 13, 2003
The creator of Slate's popular Today's Papers feature at first assembed the column here in Los Angeles, working deep into the early morning to get...
Marcos Villatoro, who hosts the book show Shelf Life on KPFK (Mondays, 2 p.m.), talks about L.A.'s literary radio scene in an excerpt from the...
June 12, 2003
Cardinal Mahony's stalling, history of the Pasadena Freeway, new poll numbers on the Gray Davis recall and Ken Turan's appreciation of Gregory Peck. If you...
OK, more on CityBEAT now that I've seen the print copy. The first picture by photog-around-town Gary Leonard is of former mayor Richard Riordan, posing...
CNET's News.com has the details of how William Racine II, a Norco web designer, scammed Network Solutions to give him access to the Al-Jazeera.net domain,...
Franklin Avenue blogs about the Spike TV party on Tuesday night. Sounds like a lot of the usual Hefner hangers-on. The blog also ponders the...
The Amateur Athletic Foundation's Sports Letter, which ceased publication in 2001, is back as a web-only newsletter. It's a nice-looking roundup of items from the...
Mickey Kaus gets in some good if belated digs at the infamous "contact yoga" interview with Lynda Guber a couple of weeks ago in the...
James Bates explains in the L.A. Times why those pickets have been out on Wilshire Boulevard -- the actors are fighting among themselves again....
Glovebox-friendly, but I'd guess ultimately not very useful to anyone with a clue about L.A....
National Iranian Television, which beams onto a satellite from Woodland Hills, is encouraging the street protests in Tehran. Zia Ataby, president of NITV, spoke with...
San Remo Drive, the latest novel by Leslie Epstein, gets its name from the affluent street in Pacific Palisades where he grew up with Liz...
In a piece called L.A.'s Streets of Death on the op-ed page in the New York Times, Bob Herbert writes: " I don't know which...
LA CityBeat's first issue is online now and includes a cover story (with photo of Osama Bin Laden) in which the LAPD's newscaster-turned-terrorism expert John...
Celeste Fremon in the LA Weekly gives the clearest recitation I've seen on the LAPD hiring snit between Hahn and Bratton (who asked for the...
June 11, 2003
In his regular Wednesday take, Rip Rense rants on the L.A. school board for making another run at building the Belmont Learning Center -- methane,...
New entries weren't being seen here on the main page this morning due to a glitch with Movable Type. Oddly, they did show up in...
Newsweek's media writer Seth Mnookin gives 2-1 odds that L.A. Times managing editor Dean Baquet will be offered the job of New York Times executive...
The film about longtime KROQ-FM disc jockey (and Monkees stand-in) Rodney Bingenheimer -- and therefore about a swath of Los Angeles pop culture history --...
"Roughly every 10 minutes, I get an e-mail from Feinstein's office telling me what she's been up to since the last e-mail," Steve Lopez quips...
This morning on Airtalk with Larry Mantle, Larry plans to discuss the anti-lap dance ordinance that's before the L.A. city council and talk with Michael...
Five gang-related shooting incidents in a month in the Pico neighborhood of Santa Monica (with no one hit) inspired a rally and march by residents,...
June 10, 2003
Political opinion-monger Jill Stewart confirms by email that her bi-weekly Sacramento column won't run in CityBeat, the new L.A. free paper launching on Thursday. She...
My email brings news of a new message board for ex-staffers of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, which shut down in, I think, 1989. It's...
The SoCal blog Shock & Awe puts a new spin on the self-revelation by Daily News editorial writer Chris Weinkopf that he was once good...
For those who like this kind of thing, here are some photos from the mediabistro.com party at the Bel-Age on May 29 to launch the...
LAExaminer.com unveils a new design that looks really nice in Explorer. They're still working on other browsers -- it doesn't parse at all yet in...
French and German tourists were just about the only fools to take on Death Valley in summer, but they finally got smart (and a little...
Them and them....
Alicia Valdes-Rodriguez was known in her short career at the L.A. Times for penning a hilarious piece on being a Latina visitor to Cuba and...
The longtime flagship of the now-merged Weider magazine empire, Muscle and Fitness, won't be going to New York with Men's Fitness. M&F and its spinoff,...
The San Fernando Valley Fair, an annual tradition for more than fifty years, celebrated the old ranching culture again this weekend -- but not in...
Former L.A. author and blogger Virginia Postrel nominates Ron Brownstein, the national political writer for the Los Angeles Times, as somebody the New York Times...
June 09, 2003
That's because Chris Weinkopf, the paper's editorial writer, used to hang out with John Noster, the Valley man who the feds say was on a...
It just doesn't get better than Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals. The ultimate game of the most intense tournament in the fastest, most...
John Carroll's warning to the staff on liberal bias got another airing over the weekend in the Boston Globe. Cathy Young, who also writes for...
At Hit and Run, the news blog of the libertarians who write and edit Los Angeles-based Reason, Matt Welch busts the L.A. City Council: "Taking...
Missed it on Friday, but "Talk of the City" on KPCC had a program about WattStax, the "black Woodstock" that drew 100,000 people to the...
Last week on his radio show, Fox News talkschlub Bill O'Reilly railed about the L.A. Times memo on liberal bias and attributed it to editor...
Erstwhile L.A. Examiner publisher and editor Richard Riordan is making arrangements to run again for governor if the Gray Davis recall makes the ballot, says...
International Creative Management, a prime Beverly Hills talent agency, has lost clients Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu to rivals and had an agent...
June 08, 2003
Howard Kurtz, in his post-mortem Monday on Howell Raines' downfall: "The era of sweeping media mishaps under the proverbial rug is long gone, in part...
It's Lew Wasserman day in the L.A. Times. In the Book Review, Richard Schickel calls Connie Bruck's new bio of the Hollywood powerhouse "the sort...
The Daily Breeze reports on a move to change several miles of Crenshaw (from Wilshire to 79th Street) to Tom Bradley Boulevard. Bradley, for those...
Booth Moore writes fashion for the L.A. Times and her new husband, Adam Robert Tschorn, is a Los Angeles freelance writer who "composes questions for...
William Fulton, prolific and respected writer on Los Angeles history, planning and architecture, is running for the city council -- in Ventura....
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