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August 05, 2006
Last weekend I picked up a Daily News item saying that air pollution that drifts around the earth from China accounts for 25% of the...
August 04, 2006
Late Friday afternoon action, short and simple: "The question of extending term limits belongs rightly with the voters. The City Attorney has approved the ordinance...
Leaders of the Islamic Center, the Shura Council and other local groups are unhappy that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joined in a pro-Israel rally on the...
Business section staff reporter Claire Hoffman opens her piece in the Sunday magazine West with a graphic scene. The screaming phone calls, accusations that she...
Jack Miles' essay asking if Lebanon is Israel's Iraq — and whether the war on Hezbollah is a miscalculation that might leave Israel worse off...
Travis Armstrong, the Wendy McCaw aide whose elevation to publisher and newsroom boss — and suppression of his DUI sentence from the news pages —...
Besides the NYT and LAT reviews cited in today's Morning Buzz, the film based in Echo Park is the talk of the free weeklies. Ella...
KPCC will debut "Off-Ramp" Saturday at noon and run it biweekly until October, when it goes weekly. John Rabe, a reporter at the station who...
For the 44th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death, LA Observed contributor Deanne Stillman imagines a first rendezvous between the ultimate California girl and the Kennedy...
They are going to blow up San Pedro's first high-rise this weekend. About 6 am on Sunday, wind conditions allowing, the stripped-down former Logicon building...
Morning Buzz Why magazines arrive late A May 4 spot check at the big mail-processing plant in South L.A. found that some first-class mail...
August 03, 2006
At Mayor Villaraigosa's press conference this afternoon to help unveil Councilwoman Wendy Greuel's "anti-gridlock zone" signs, he refused to say whether he would sign or...
Former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy Gabriel Gonzalez assaulted women he stopped while on patrol in the Compton area. He was convicted in federal court...
A suitcase chained to a street sign brought out the bomb squad in the heavily Jewish Pico-Robertson neighborhood. All clear after a few hours of...
I was burrowing through the LA Observed archives and came across this Correction o' the Week from 2005 and thought it deserved renomination for the...
The Valley Inn, just off the 405 freeway in Sherman Oaks, is about the 200th restaurant in the Valley to be hit during a spree...
Morning Buzz Council's term limits gambit sparks ire City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo called on the mayor to veto the council's action putting a term...
August 02, 2006
Until Mel Gibson's real arrest report leaked out, Steve Whitmore was not the most visible of law enforcement media handlers. Cindy Beavers with the San...
Moving day to the new building on the Radford lot in Studio City is still two whole calendar seasons — and at least one sweeps...
Bruce Feirstein jumps into the pool at Native Intelligence with a post that labels Arianna Huffington's "defining Hollywood moment" spin on the Mel Gibson affair...
The power outage that knocked out lights and elevators across the Civic Center this morning has been mostly over since before 9:30 am, but the...
One of the additions we've talked about at LA Observed — and have been hatching in the background — is encouraging writers to blog occasionally...
First thing Amy Wilentz did when she moved to Los Angeles with her husband, Nick Goldberg — op-ed editor at the LAT — was to...
Morning Buzz Moonshadows? Mel Gibson got smashed and posed for sloppy photos with fans at the PCH hangout Moonshadows before jumping in his car,...
August 01, 2006
In a column tomorrow motivated by Mel Gibson's anti-Jewish recidivism, Times Calendar columnist Patrick Goldstein chides Hollywood executives for not distancing themselves from the actor-producer....
At a UCLA event this afternoon to launch a global initiative on climate change, Mayor Villaraigosa embraced former President Bill Clinton with a warm introduction....
The City Council imposed new rules of decorum for public speakers at the thrice-weekly meetings: one minute instead of two, no addressing a specific council...
This all began back on July 21 when longtime ACLU member Joel Bellman released an open letter to Ramona Ripston, head of the Southern California...
Free lane-side assistance from the Metro Freeway Service Patrol is expanding to the 210 west of Pasadena and to I-5 from Sylmar up to Lake...
Morning Buzz Mel: "I am not a bigot" Mel Gibson's people have a released a statement in which the actor denies having anti-Semitic beliefs...
Two more contributors have posted over at Native Intelligence, the LA Observed blog where selected writers are invited to post their unedited observations about Los...
July 31, 2006
That's Mel Gibson's booking photo, posted minutes ago at LATimes.com. Gibson is supposedly in rehab already for his alcoholic binge, Orin Aviv of Disney...
Desperation strikes. Publisher Jeff Johnson just announced that the Los Angeles Times will begin to accept advertising on the front pages of some news and...
KPCC's Adolfo Guzman Lopez surveyed the local radio en español scene today and finds news and talk on the rise, especially on the AM dial....
The race will begin at Universal Studios and end downtown at the Central Library. Mayor Villaraigosa and Bill Burke said the new course should relieve...
The annual gaming trade show that the geeks drool over is cutting way back and will move out of the downtown Convention Center — but...
In her blog diatribe about suffering bad service at a Los Angeles area restaurant, visiting Bon Appétit online editor Martha Simon doesn't name the place....
Inspectors with the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services descended on Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center today to see if the troubled hospital...
If you noticed small groups of World War II airplanes swooping low over the San Fernando Valley this weekend and thought huh?, here's the answer...
In this week's double issue of The New Yorker, Nicholas Lemann struggles to comprehend the rise of blogs as a news source and the boosterish...
Morning Buzz Reopening the Biggie Smalls investigation LAPD chief Bill Bratton is throwing senior homicide detectives at the rap star's 1997 murder, which Chuck...
July 30, 2006
Well, that was a good week. New blogs, new contributors, new design, plus the usual original posts and meaty news. These were some of the...
Author James Ellroy writes in today's West Magazine about returning in June to live in Los Angeles after a lengthy self-exile. "The L.A. mandate," he...
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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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