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July 05, 2003
"KPFK now moves towards the further diversification of programming as we do so in the area of political consciousness, cultural awareness and the empowerment of...
Twelve years ago I used this lede on a story about California's meanest weed: "What is three feet tall, armed with sharp needles, loiters in...
July 04, 2003
Instead of reporting on the unfolding disarray at KPFK, the L.A. Times radio beat reporter, freelancer Steve Carney, has a nice little feature in Calendar...
It's OK to place granite tiles in the sidewalk along Ventura Boulevard with the names of stars who strutted their stuff at Studio City's lone...
July 03, 2003
The OC Weekly's Anthony Pignataro gets in the face of Gordon Dillow, the Register columnist who was embedded with the first Marines to cross into...
Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll -- having already given his view on liberal bias at the paper, and having gotten a huge outside reaction...
The longest running program longest running non-music show on Los Angeles radio will come to an end on July 12. KPFK's schedule revamp has claimed...
Page Six says that actress Sharon Stone and hubby Phil Bronstein, top editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, have split up. He, famously, was the...
Producers and program hosts at KPFK, the Pacifica station at 90.7 FM, are getting phone calls informing them of new show times, curtailed hours and...
Since it's Thursday, here's a quick scan of the weekly papers...The LA Weekly looks at the state of liberty in America, updates the anti-trust action...
Jane Kahn will indeed be the publisher and Laurie Pike the editor of Distinction, the new luxury magazine to be run by a division that...
July 02, 2003
Barry Bearak, a New York Times staffer familiar in these parts from his many years as a star writer at the L.A. Times, quietly circulated...
Fresh off a live broadcast from the state capital on Monday, Kitty Felde is teasing to a debate on the Gray Davis recall on 'Talk...
Soon the last TV stations left in Hollywood will be KTLA (Ch. 5) and KCET (Ch. 28), Franklin Avenue points out. The blog made a...
L.A. writer Matt Welch (of L.A. Examiner.com and Reason mag) set off a comment frenzy at his personal website (58 and counting, and not all...
Ronald Grover bets that Arnold Schwarzenegger won't run for governor if Terminator 3 has a good holiday weekend at the box office. "For all the...
George Ramos, a reporter, editor and columnist at the L.A. Times for 25 years, is departing to become the chair of the journalism department at...
Tim Rutten's Regarding Media column in the L.A. Times blames the Laci Peterson frenzy on the hunger of the cable networks for summer programming, and...
July 01, 2003
Tongues were already wagging down at the L.A. Times on Tuesday morning over the Patt Morrison column in which she proudly accepts an invitation from...
Twenty years ago, award-winning Los Angeles author A. Scott Berg began talking with his friend Katharine Hepburn about her life. Four years ago, he began...
Demand for new schools is consuming land and historic locales all over Los Angeles. On Wilshire alone, the old Otis Art Institute is already a...
Playboy contributor Katie Moran has sold a book on her travels through the sexual culture of Los Angeles to Bonus Books. The 'On' Position, says...
UCLA's Anderson School gives out the Loeb Awards each year to recognize the best in business journalism. At the banquet last night in New York,...
June 30, 2003
Media Life magazine today gave its Best of the Best award for radio to Marketplace, the daily news program produced in Los Angeles that airs...
The Power Lunch column by Ron Grover, Business Week's Los Angeles bureau chief, was dark for a month. It's back, on BusinessWeek Online, with a...
Two versions, take your pick: the L.A. Times and Lonewacko....
Adam Kirsch (son of Jonathan) asks the question and offers an answer in Slate magazine....
L.A. Observed has learned it's to be John Lippman, who covers entertainment in the Wall Street Journal's Los Angeles bureau. Lippman has been writing about...
Don Frederick, currently an editor in the L.A. Times Washington bureau, will run the paper's national political desk for the 2004 election cycle. He has...
CaliforniaAuthors.com lists upcoming books by novelists Walter Mosely and newcomer (to the mystery genre) Steven Bochco and journalists Joan Didion, Edward Humes, Miles Corwin, Mark...
Freelance journalists and others have until today to get in under the amnesty program for the controversial city of Los Angeles business tax. Some details...
A former deputy commissioner of the NYPD, on the likelihood of LAPD chief William Bratton returning to make New York mayor Michael Bloomberg pay for...
June 29, 2003
KCOP-TV has put its La Brea Avenue studio up for sale and moved across town to West L.A. The station, owned by Fox Broadcasting, now...
Page 1 of Monday's Washington Post, by Rene Sanchez of the L.A. bureau: "The nation's most populous state, home to one of the world's largest...
Gary Cohn, formerly of the Baltimore Sun, confirms via email that he will join the L.A. Times business staff as an investigative reporter in late...
In the L.A. Times piece today on the questions that will come up if Arnold Schwarzenegger runs for governor, former mayor Richard Riordan says he...
In a front page story about the new popularity of online dating in the New York Times, a Culver City woman complains that the men...
The latest LA Weekly writer to post a piece in Sunday Opinion at the L.A. Times is Howard Blume, who deftly picks apart the L.A....
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