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January 29, 2005
After posting the latest cash on hand in the mayor's race on Thursday night, I wondered how much of the $7 million raised has come...
ClothesHoarse, the more fashion-obsessed of the two LA.com blogs, posts the news of an upcoming local magazine launch. Starting May 1, LA Mode—the self-proclaimed "voice...
January 28, 2005
O'Dwyer's Report, a monthly pub for the PR trade, doesn't think much of all the scrutiny directed at Fleishman-Hillard's controversial activities in Los Angeles. The...
Anchor Dave Zorn (Marines) and assistant news director Ronnie Bradford (Army) both arrived in South Vietnam in 1965 and saw action. They are going back...
Residents of Atwater Village are learning the hard lesson about living near the scene of a big news event in Los Angeles. Imagine a fleet...
The Bush Administration won't appeal a court ruling throwing out new FCC rules that would have made it legal for media giants to own TV...
I can't swear that PEN Center USA's website is new, but I just came across it for the first time. Bookmark it as another good...
Candidates for mayor have now raised $7 million in contributions for the upcoming battle of the airwaves, and have accepted another $2 million in public...
City councilman Eric Garcetti blogged his inside-the-yellow-tape observations of the Glendale train wreck. His reelection campaign blog also includes photos of the carnage and of...
January 27, 2005
LA.Comfidential has an item about Luna Park, the restaurant on the ground floor of the Wilson Building at Wilshire and La Brea, claiming that its...
The City Council voted yesterday to borrow enough money to hire 250 (Times) or 300 (Daily News) new LAPD officers this year. Both papers cite...
Bumble Ward, who represents Quentin Tarantino, Sofia Coppola, Tim Burton and others, is quitting the business to write novels. Michael Fleming writes in Variety that...
Max Boot, the LAT's conservative op-ed columnist, argues today that Seymour Hersh doesn't deserve his status as one of the top investigative reporters around. He's...
Journalist Doug Ireland calls The Aviator a mendacious film that "glorifies the odious Howard Hughes. Scorcese [sic], of all people, ought to know better than...
Not a moment too soon, CityBeat has given up the white-type-on-black look that made its website so difficult to read. The new design is definitely...
Walking in L.A. took a stroll this month along, over and in the Los Angeles River in Burbank and Glendale. He has put up...
The deck on the cover story by Brendan Bernhard in the LA Weekly observes that "Bruce Wagner infects his novels with madness, celebrity, name-dropping, drugs...
January 26, 2005
In a New York Observer diary that begins with a riff on the Hollywood swag season that is upon us and ends with a personal...
The Los Angeles Fire Department media relations blog announces the death of Julia Bennett, 44, a senior clerk typist for the Bureau of Fire Prevention...
Sunday night at 9, KPCC begins a new hour-long weekly arts and culture program. "Pacific Drift" is created, produced and hosted by Benjamin Adair, who...
Thirty-seven Americans died today in Iraq, the highest toll of any day since the invasion. Most of them were Marines from Camp Pendleton who perished...
Ten people are dead and more than 200 injured after this morning's Metrolink commuter train derailment behind the Costco in Glendale. One of the dead...
Daniel Van Meter's stack of old wooden beer pallets in Sherman Oaks has been cheapening the designation of city historic-cultural monument since 1978. The Column...
Political analysts Arnie Steinberg and Raphael Sonenshein will be guests on Larry Mantle's Airtalk this morning at 10:30 (KPCC, 89.3 FM) to talk about the...
January 25, 2005
Julius Shulman's files number more than 260,000 negatives, prints and transparencies, including some of the most recognized images of Los Angeles architecture. His iconic photograph...
KCRW has decided on Tony Blankley, editorial page editor of the Washington Times and former Newt Gingrich press secretary, to hold the conservative seat on...
Death Valley, the lowest and for much of the year hottest place in the Western Hemisphere, is only about four hours drive from Los Angeles....
City Council President Alex Padilla told the Current Affairs Forum Monday that the vote on a tax hike for hiring more cops should be delayed...
There seem to be two leading schools of opinion about Michael Kinsley's impact on the Times as a voice of Los Angeles. One group believes...
January 24, 2005
Scanning the Sunday Opinion section yesterday, I completely missed that Hugh Hewitt wrote the second installment of the Times' new commentary spot, "Outside the Tent."...
What is it with City Hall and websites that encourage people with gripes to vent anonymously without standing behind their assertions? Yet another new anonymous...
Body Worlds didn't end its amazing run at the California Science Center quietly. More than 15,000 visitors came through on Sunday alone, thanks to the...
From here on out, the race for mayor of Los Angeles is a sprint. With luck some Big Issues will be debated before March 8....
January 23, 2005
Dodgers historian Mark Langill is chronicling in photographs the redesign of Dodger Stadium's dugouts, foul territory and expensive seats. His photos are on the team's...
Johnny Carson: No shortage of appreciations and retrospectives online and on the air for the late-night pioneer who died Sunday at home in Malibu (of...
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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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