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August 29, 2003
Losangelesgasprices.com keeps track of the lowest prices in the area. The lowest-cost gas that visitors to the site are reporting at this moment is $1.94... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
It's not clear why, but the LA Weekly has just posted a "web exclusive" about Schwarzenegger's sex life pegged to a demand by ubiquitous feminist... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
KPFK, the Pacifica station in L.A., has been hitting Schwarzenegger this week for serving on the board of U.S. English and the published reports that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Everything changed for the pranksters of the Los Angeles Cacophony Society (into "Art, Exploration and Subversion of the Secular Norm") after two members died in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Pasadena City College FM station (89.3) has finally decided where the new Los Angeles-produced NPR-Slate show Day to Day fits in. Starting Monday, the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The back story of how Arnold Schwarzenegger's Oui magazine interview about smoking hashish and having group sex got into the news is in a short... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The LAPD is still having trouble respecting the law and the people it is supposed to serve, it seems. Undercover officers posed as civilians to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The official No on Recall website -- the one with Sharon Davis' diary -- has picked up the latest Peter King column from the L.A.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 28, 2003
It's like the famous counter-intuitive (for some people) stat that your chances of being being killed in a car crash are much higher than in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
With "media chic" all the fashion rage for fall, the Express stores have designed a line of pants "based on media occupations," says Fox News.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The bar to get in: 10% in either an L.A. Times or Field poll. Date is Sept 30, a week before the election. Rough and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The former Form Zero bookstore has reopened on the Miracle Mile as Art Haus Books. They are in one of those Wilshire Boulevard buildings with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
After the birth of her second baby, she no longer feels like the woman who would seek out erotic adventures and tell all online, in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 27, 2003
Rip Rense writes an appreciation of his neighbor Pete, a third-grade teacher who still likes his job but who needs to rant. He leaves his... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Bruce Cain, the Berkeley professor and politics junkie who has been quoted on the recall more than most of the candidates, is leaving for four... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Rough and Tumble points to 39 recall items in the media (and a couple of blogs) this morning, and the race is just getting started.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 26, 2003
Email is rolling in (OK trickling, but coming in nonetheless) making a point I should have noted when announcing the L.A. Times hire yesterday of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Denise Hamilton has sold two more Eve Diamond novels to Scribner, "for six figures"... Deborah Martinson has sold a biography, Lillian Hellman: A Life with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The centerpiece on the L.A. Times front today is solid work -- a reconstruction of the deadliest battle for American forces in the Iraq war.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
With Arnold taking his campaign to the radio talkers who fomented the recall and see themselves as the voice of real conservatives, sympathetic site NewsMax... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The second most common search term bringing visitors to L.A. Observed in August has been "playboy mansion address." No idea why, but as a quasi-public... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
From John Fund in Opinion Journal, who makes a case that the Times should poll proven registered voters, not random phone answerers. He has some... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Another Los Angeles-based online culture mag just found me. The Simon began about five years ago as a give-away quarterly and went Web-only last year,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 25, 2003
Hosting his radio show from of all places the Minnesota State Fair, Hugh Hewitt did a phone interview today with Schwarzenegger. Audio replay here. Hewitt... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Dan Neil fills the newly created post of automobile columnist and critic, writing mostly in Sunday Calendar and reporting to features editor Rick Flaste. He... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
When I go into small towns I often wonder how a publisher could ever avoid uncomfortable conflicts with the few advertisers around. Michael Hiltzik's column... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Crispin Sartwell encourages the defacing of billboards and other public advertising in a piece on the L.A. Times op-ed page: Advertising is the public expression... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
In the "One Question" feature on I Want Media, Matt Drudge is asked about LAT managing Editor Dean Baquet's assertion in the Sunday paper that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Talk of the City with Kitty Felde on KPCC broadcasts all this week from the road, traveling up the coast on Highway 1. The show... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 24, 2003
I had one of those moments of perfect clarity this afternoon that reminds me why I don't invest much time listening to AM talk radio.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>