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January 07, 2005
Southern California is gaining another glossy lifestyle mag. Emmis Communcations—they publish Los Angeles magazine—is planning to launch Tu Ciudad Los Angeles this spring. It will...
There's another book of then-and-now photographs about Los Angeles coming. Los Angeles Views of the Past and Present opens with a foreword by Catherine Mullholland,...
Presenters at the Golden Globes will receive a wicker ottoman stuffed with gifts that total out at $38,390. That is if you count the full...
The last time it rained this much in L.A. so early in the wet season was 1966—and that's before today's big Pacific storm arrives. There...
First there's the Michael Schnayerson story in Vanity Fair reporting that Bel-Air, Beverly Hills and other affluent sections of the hills are "under siege by...
In the news: Laura vs. Rocky: City Controller Laura Chick accuses City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo of blocking her audit of $29.6 million in fees paid...
January 06, 2005
From Rolling Stone's website this afternoon: Rock & roll manager and writer Danny Sugerman, best known as the manager of the Doors and the co-author...
[* Updated after the "More" link below] In today's LA Weekly, Civic Center reporter Robert Greene argues that even though most eligible Angelenos don't vote...
The only Westwood Village building listed on the National Register of Historic Places is the more-or-less Spanish-style former Ralphs Market on Westwood Boulevard at Lindbrook...
January 05, 2005
How lame is Arte Moreno's new name for his Orange County baseball team? It's so bad that Thursday's New York Times runs an editorial calling...
Defamer spots a casting call that offers a day of SAG work on the new NBC series "Medium." It's nude if you can meet the...
JimHahn.org is the last of the mayoral campaign websites to get started. It's got the usual bio and endorsements (he leads with the labor unions...
Staffers at Fleishman-Hillard offices around California were told this afternoon that Doug Dowie, who had been on paid leave, is "no longer with the firm."...
A source at the L.A. Times writes that staffers returned from lunch today to see a banner going up on the employee parking garage offering...
In one of those magazine shakeups that is "effective immediately," James Truman is giving way after 11 years as Editorial Director of Conde Nast to...
In last week's Dissonance column in LA Weekly, Marc Cooper lambasted the County Federation of Labor's endorsement of Jim Hahn over longtime labor activist Antonio...
The Times added a new comic on Monday: "Brevity," by Los Angeles cartoonists Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry. The same day, "Pardon My Planet" moved...
It's that time of year again when the Convention Center is overrun by crowds lusting after new cars. If you're not into the Los Angeles...
Despite spending more than $4.8 million on marketing, the Department of Water and Power has lost most of the people who signed up for its...
Yes, the USC Trojans won the Orange Bowl in a rout, 55-19, and locked up a national title. Hard to miss among the illustrious alumni...
January 04, 2005
CaliforniaAuthors.com has freshened up its exclusive listing of books written by California authors or about the state. Those coming in 2005 include: Wrong Side of...
John F. Lawrence had been the Washington bureau chief for the L.A. Times in the early 1970s and editor of the Business section, then a...
Friday is Sharon Tay's last day at Channel 5, says Ron Fineman. The longtime KTLA Morning News co-anchor is headed to MSNBC to co-host an...
Los Angeles was slightly less homicidal again last year. The number of murders fell from 517 to 511, half of those in South L.A. and...
Yesterday, it was El Segundo suing Los Angeles over the plan to renovate LAX. (Three more lawsuits are expected this week.) Today, Mayor Hahn reopened...
Sean Bonner at blogging.la has a beef with the County Museum of Art. He says the museum put a firewall on its computer system that...
On today's L.A. Times op-ed page, author Patrick Moore chides the LAT and the New York Times for not stating in last week's Susan Sontag...
January 03, 2005
A roundup of items in the news: Prostate cancer: Channel 7 weatherman Dallas Raines disclosed his disease on the air and underwent surgery today. The...
L.A. blogger Patterico has split his annual year-end rant from the political right about the Los Angeles Times into two installments. Part one finds liberal...
In a front page story in the latest L.A. Business Journal, Howard Fine says internal campaign polls show Antonio Villaraigosa and Bernard Parks—the two council...
The actress donated $1 million to the American Red Cross for tsunami relief efforts in Asia and Africa. She had previously sent a million to...
Former LAT editor Bob Baker writes regularly about the process of writing and editing journalism at Newsthinking.com. Now he has come up with a way...
They were the Los Angeles Angels from 1961-65, and for decades before that as a minor league team in the Pacific Coast League playing in...
One of Los Angeles' more charming secrets is that there are still families here whose ancestors were original settlers of the pueblo and surrounding Spanish...
Both Monday political notes columns glance at Antonio Villaraigosa's campaign website, which was relaunched last week. Rick Orlov in the DN says that Villaraigosa is...
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...
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Before I lived in Echo Park, there was a tiny 1920s bungalow-cottage-standalone house on N. Occidental in Silver Lake. I...
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