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September 27, 2003
Not sure how much I'll be posting this weekend, but here's a few things to chew on. This may will be was added to through...
September 26, 2003
In the Los Angeles Magazine profile mentioned a couple of posts below, Frank Gehry suggests that his Disney Hall -- as well as MOCA and...
Eric Zorn, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, began posting items on the paper's site in August. He conferred with the Sacramento Bee's Dan Weintraub...
Dr. Kaus puts Huffington on the couch to figure out why she got so peeved by Arnold's needling. I've noticed this distressing character trait in...
If you only see Los Angeles magazine on the newstand, this month the cover is on fall travel. Subscribers, however, are getting a gorgeous Dan...
Yes the Indian casinos are the biggest spenders in state politics, but they aren't the reason California is in a hole. Arnold has taken their...
The new memoir by novelist James Brown, The Los Angeles Diaries, visits a side of L.A. not frequently traveled or well chronicled. Anne-Marie O'Connor of...
September 25, 2003
New Republic writer and now blogger Gregg Easterbrook says that Schwarzenegger could not possibly have written the op-ed under his name in the Wall Street...
The L.A. Press Club is doing another no-host cocktail gathering on Monday, Sept. 29 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the poolside bar of the...
Jeff Jarvis, who started Entertainment Weekly and was Sunday editor of the N.Y. Daily News, has some interesting format ideas for the "post-Internet newspaper." He...
Cathy Seipp uses her CityBeat column this week to peruse the first issue of Distinction magazine and other L.A. glossies in search of some inner...
In case you can't find your ideal political mate among the 135 candidates on the recall ballot, here are 26 more who have qualified as...
Scoring the big debate: -"Gray won" - Dave Jensen, Condor blog -"I'd say (Cruz) won" - Outside the Beltway blog -"I don't think anyone won"...
CalPundit's Kevin Drum posted the following message and got 26 comments: I'll be spending the day in lovely El Segundo today. Blogging will resume this...
September 24, 2003
The issue of LA Weekly that hits the Web tonight and the street tomorrow will endorse a no vote on the recall (and on Prop....
For Laurie Garrett, the award-winning health writer for Newsday, it was one broken embargo too many by her competitors at the New York Times. She...
Worst in six years, say the stories in the L.A. Times and Daily News. It's still better than it was in Los Angeles a generation...
Dan Weintraub tells Mark Glaser at the Online Journalism Review that the shift in his editing regime at the Bee is a minor deal. "Obviously...
September 23, 2003
The recall election is back on for two weeks from today, compliments of the 9th Circuit. Unanimous 11-0 decision that the ACLU says it won't...
New: L.A. Times obituary by Bob Drogin Mark Fineman, one of the L.A. Times staff writers in Iraq, died this morning of an apparent heart...
Last week's soft L.A. Times story on duck liberators freeing four quackers from a foie gras shed in Sonoma didn't elicit much reaction, according to...
Kudos to Mickey Kaus for getting the Bee's executive editor on the phone to talk about the Weintraub blog, and for correcting the always far-fetched...
Warren Olney's Which Way L.A.? plans to look at the Indian tribes and the role of their money in politics, today at 7 p.m. on...
September 22, 2003
T. Coraghessan Boyle's next novel The Inner Circle -- his sixteenth -- has just sold to Viking. The agent's blurb is intriguing for a Boyle...
Friends of Mark Antenorcruz, the Covina man shot and killed in the Dodger Stadium parking, are expressing their feelings in the comments of the LAO...
I see that the always smart Justene Adamec at the pro-recall conservative CalBlog joins me in saying let's wait to see IF Dan Weintraub's freedom...
I can't explain it, but this was one of those weekends where a lot of posts happened. A ton. Here are a few that are...
Patt Morrison's Inside Politics column in the L.A. Times reports the City Hall rumor that if Bustamante is elected governor, new councilman Tony Cardenas will...
Amy Wilentz, the author of Martyrs' Crossing, is writing a book on the recall and California. She opined in Sunday Opinion on the 9th Circuit....
Maureen Dowd does Beverly Hills with Arnold....
Todd Matthews at OC Weekly considers The Register's new marketing campaign to "Take Back the Morning." Meanwhile, the Reg continues to hang a monster 250-square-foot...
This is an inside baseball kind of post for the journalists and writers who come here, and long, so I'll break it up into two...
RestaurantWatch.com is a new site that lets you check the health inspection grade of L.A. restaurants by zip code. With registration, you can create a...
September 21, 2003
Roger L. Simon has posted a nice report from the weekend's Santa Barbara Book and Author Festival, two days after posting that he was through...
His bosses at the Sacramento Bee have ordered Dan Weintraub to submit his California Insider blog items to a high-level editor before posting. Tony Marcano,...
From the September poll by the Public Policy Institute of California: Both independents and moderates are evenly split on the recall. A higher percentage of...
The second annual West Hollywood Book Fair is today. Plenty of local authors will be there, among them Carolyn See, Janet Fitch. Aimee Liu, Denise...
Remarks by 9th Circuit liberal jurist Harry Pregerson in Henry Weinstein's story in the L.A. Times on Saturday have legal types talking. Pregerson was on...
The L.A. County Museum of Art's all-night, free-admission art party Thursday night had crowds lined up around the block. Think this city is starved for...
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