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February 25, 2005
Let the Oscar speeches begin. Updated from time to time, newest at the bottom: Sharon Waxman: Jon Friedman at CBS Marketwatch participates in the Sharon...
Bob Hertzberg's suggestion to break up the L.A. Unified School District is more of an idea than a plan, since even the candidate admits there...
Local blogs and the Times have been running with speculation that FM Indie music station 103.1 will die once its relationship with Clear Channel ends...
Today's advantage in the Susan Estrich-Michael Kinsley feud goes to Kinsley. Last week he informed the USC professor that she was no longer welcome on...
A new round of campaign contribution reports hits the paper today. Bottom line: you'll be seeing a lot of Hahn and Villaraigosa on TV between...
February 24, 2005
Every couple of weeks, Erik Himmelsbach sends in a Valley Boy column to CityBeat. In the paper out today, he hangs out on a rainy...
Don Barrett's pay site that follows Los Angeles radio has recovered from its system crash. The first email published Thurday is from Charlie Cook: "As...
Remember my post on Tuesday about blogger Steve Smith's grandmother and her broken ankle? Brian Humphrey, the blogging public information officer for the L.A. Fire...
That's not a surprise, since the paper was a major cheerleader for his candidacy four years ago. This time, though, the Weekly is not as...
On the day that World War II ended, Life photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt made one of the most famous pictures the magazine ever ran. The nurse...
A reader emails that the top item on the official city website for councilwoman Janice Hahn is a link to her testimony at the Billy...
February 23, 2005
From a City News Service story this evening: About two dozen African American political, religious and community leaders announced a dual endorsement today of two...
Now that the race to finish second in the mayoral primary seems to be a fight to the death between Hahn and Hertzberg, the latter's...
Jason Leopold had a checkered journalism career. He was president of the L.A. chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, but he also got fired...
Starting March 1, much of KCRW's original programming will be available as podcasts. From the release: Podcasting, a growing grassroots phenomenon that’s captured much media...
Nikki Finke reports in the LA Weekly that host Chris Rock will tone it down a little for the Oscars on Sunday, but still intends...
And now the site is down, possibly all week, following a total hard drive crash. Don Barrett draws every day on his rich archive of...
* Updated The big cat that has been loping through the suburbs of Ventura County was finally spotted this morning by Fish and Game trackers....
Hilary Kaplan of the website The Next American City sits down with D.J. Waldie, author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir and the new Where...
The New York Observer phones up David Halbfinger for a chat about his new job sharing the Hollywood beat for the New York Times with...
The public radio station at Cal State Northridge is difficult to tune in outside the Valley, but it has fired up a new transmitter beaming...
February 22, 2005
Getting two days' jump on the print edition, the LA Weekly has posted online some of its writers' thoughts on the death of Hunter S....
Blogger Steve Smith describes what happened when his 90-year-old grandmother fell and broke her kneecap, got taken to Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys for...
Selden Ring was a bigtime Los Angeles-area property developer who happened to believe that investigative reporting was essential to the republic. The annual award his...
Here's how valuable a nod from Controller Laura Chick has become in local politics. Even though Chick has endorsed Bill Rosendahl in the wide-open 11th...
TV minister Gene Scott, part of the scene in downtown Los Angeles for decades, has died of cancer. The AP story says that Scott, 75,...
Every decade or so when we get a huge rain season, you can tell who the newcomers are. They believe, reasonably enough, that all this...
Susan Estrich's blog about the L.A. Times has come to life. In today's installment, she COMPLAINS IN ALL CAPS about the lack of female editors...
After months of attacking Jim Hahn as a corrupt empty suit—including a new mailer depicting the mayor with a bumper sticker that reads "I brake...
February 21, 2005
In the first segment of his final show on KFI, Phil Hendrie apparently had too much fun at the expense of his replacement starting today,...
An exchange of increasingly hostile emails between Susan Estrich and Michael Kinsley was strangely cc'd to the Washington Examiner and shows up in the new...
The blog Patterico's Pontifications usually refers to the L.A. Times as The Dog Trainer and almost daily flags what it considers liberal bias in the...
Bob Hertzberg sat down last week with editors and reporters at the L.A. Business Journal. The accompanying profile in this week's issue is free online,...
In her new campaign against the L.A. Times and Michael Kinsley, Susan Estrich last week announced she was launching a website, latimesbias.org. As of Sunday...
February 20, 2005
The gonzo journalist shot himself tonight at home in Aspen. Thompson's wife, Anita, was not home. The link is to AP; everybody has pretty much...
Today's Sunday Opinion section in the Times offers little info boxes (with photos) on the records and reputations of the main political advisers in the...
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