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June 09, 2006
Las Vegas Sun columnist Jon Ralston heaps praise on this week's Times series about the city's shady judiciary (link via Romenesko): I'm embarrassed. For the...
Flurry of stories this morning on the repercussions of the Chandler family's strained relations with the Tribune Company. The most immediate effect is that the...
Bandit tow trucks, taxi stings, serial murders, euthanized kittens. Today's Morning Buzz doesn't present a very pretty picture of Los Angeles, I'm afraid. Good thing...
See it full size at blogger Bad Mom, Good Mom's photo queue, on the recommendation of Angeleno-in-exile Virginia Postrel....
June 08, 2006
• CityBeat's cover story by Celia Farber delves into the controversy over the possible AIDS death of three-year-old Eliza Jane Scovill, her mother Christine Maggiore's...
Sharon Waxman in the New York Times looks for, and mostly doesn't find, larger meaning in the move of Creative Artists Agency and International Creative...
Kate Aurthur has been writing for Calendar, Vanity Fair, Slate and the New York Times. Her father Robert Alan Aurthur was a producer and writer...
Betty Pleasant, the Wave's Soulvine columnist, digs out that congresswoman Maxine Waters has bought a home in Hancock Park—quite a distance from her district covering...
The LA Weekly's cover story by Christine Pelisek reports on a possible link between the murders of ten African Americans in the Los Angeles area....
Times business reporter Kim Christensen has been detached from her his! Hollywood beat to work on the paper's Pellicano investigation team. So they are bringing...
The Wall Street Journal comes back today with another revelation about the Tribune Company, reporting that the owner of KTLA and the Los Angeles Times...
The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases opens today at the Getty Villa, a rare showing of 2,000-year-old pieces from the Getty's collection,...
Election wraps, accusations about a major City Hall department head, chilling news about a wounded LAPD officer and more—including a weird coincidence in the case...
June 07, 2006
Last night's suspicions proved right on. The Dodgers' Eric Gagne underwent an MRI exam today and will sit for a few days to see if...
Susan Carpenter debuted today as the Los Angeles Times' first motorcycle columnist. Throttle Jockey will run bi-weekly in the Wednesday Highway 1 section. The flackage...
Today's WSJ story on the dissenting Chandler family board members was enough to prompt Tribune CEO Dennis FitzSimons to email some all-hands spin throughout Tribuneland....
Remember back in April when Xeni Jardin reported on "Day to Day" and at BoingBoing on the sheriff's department's new "unmanned aerial vehicle" or drone?...
Vavine is a reader at LA Voice who comes from Australia and apparently was chided recently for being topless on Venice Beach. She didn't actually...
Claude Brodesser, who has been flying solo at FishbowlLA since Michael Sonnenschein exited the scene in early April, posts that he is leaving to write...
The second city in Los Angeles County elected a new mayor for the first time in twelve years. Bob Foster, 59, former president of Southern...
The Wall Street Journal fronts a story on opposition to the Tribune Company's stock buyback gambit from an unusual source—the three representatives of the Chandler...
Updated with 100% returns Don't believe the analyses you find in the morning papers. They were all written on spec last night before the results...
A quick sampling of what's in the news this morning. Election at a glance is in the post above....
June 06, 2006
Eric Gagne picked up his first relief save for the Dodgers since undergoing surgery almost a year ago, striking out two and forming half of...
My favorite blog reading is not about politics or Los Angeles (or even ice hockey.) What I enjoy is eavesdropping on aficionados in some field...
• Voting results after 8 pm: Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder results page, Secretary of State results, NBC-4. • Gov. Schwarzenegger will spend election night in...
There's been some grousing about the news summaries the Los Angeles Times began running on the second and third pages in April (or was it...
Those insidious website ads that creep across a page and obscure the content are often driven by Macromedia Flash. If you find Flash an unwelcome...
Councilman Bill Rosendahl has called a 6 pm "town meeting" in Venice to deal with racial tension in the Oakwood area growing partly out of...
The Livingston Awards for Young Journalists bestow $10,000 each on three journos under age 35, judged by a panel that includes Dean Baquet of the...
Yes it's Election Day all across California. A little political news and more after you click on the Buzz....
June 05, 2006
Some of you may remember the New Year's thread when KTLA dumped longtime Rose Parade host Stephanie Edwards out in the rain and gave Michaela...
Thanks to everyone who joined Saturday night's anniversary Neon Cruise with LA Observed. The bus was full and boisterous, and a fun time was had...
• Joe Scott on the closeness of Tuesday's Democratic primary for governor, with Steve Westly and Phil Angelides in a dead heat for polling purposes...
At 4 pm, Mayor Villaraigosa will emcee the ceremonial rollout of his Gridlock Tiger Team on Wilshire between Normandie and Ardmore. The office all but...
LAist editor Carolyn Kellogg is leaving our fair city and the blog for the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh. She...
Suddenly we're awash in online restaurant menus. An email announces the Los Angeles launch of MenuPix, "free access to menus and basic information" on 3,000...
The New York Times looks from afar at Jerry Brown's quest to be attorney general of California—a quest that figures to take a big step...
Later this week the American Institute of Architects floods downtown 23,000 strong for AIA's annual convention and design expo. Here's the overview and schedule-at-a-glance. They...
It was on this day in 1981 that Dr. Michael Gottlieb of UCLA, then 33, published the first report describing the syndrome that would come...
Paperback Mysteries, reviews of new books by Dick Adler, reviewer for the Chicago Tribune and Publishers Weekly and longtime Los Angeles author and journalist. Add...
Where we scan the news and a few blogs so you don't have to, add a shot of our own sources and brew up a...
June 04, 2006
♦ USC quarterback Mark Sanchez won't be charged with any crime in connection with his arrest in April on suspicion of sexual assault. ♦ The...
At the urging of Pamela Leavey of The Democratic Daily blog, Sen. John Kerry sat down and charmed more than a half-dozen liberal bloggers after...
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