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October 07, 2006
Going into the weekend here is some follow through on the Times and Daily News situations: LAT petition: In an email to the newsroom, Times...
October 06, 2006
Going out of business sales begin tomorrow at all Tower Records outlets, Mark Lacter says. It was fun while it lasted....
Actually I don't know where you get them, but Los Angeles Times foreign correspondents have donned t-shirts with editor Dean Baquet's image in solidarity with...
Nikki Finke and John Amato at Crooks and Liars have posted lengthy pieces on the past right-wing connections of new L.A. Times publisher David Hiller....
At the same time that Dean Singleton's MediaNews is said to be one of two potential buyers closing in on Copley's South Bay Daily Breeze,...
The mayor and his LAPD detail were heading out to Canoga Park for a dedication of the renovated Westfield Plaza shopping mall (formerly Topanga Plaza)...
Times newsroom staffers are circulating another petition expressing support for editor Dean Baquet and their unhappiness at the ouster of publisher Jeff Johnson. The call...
On the left, last week's Pasadena Weekly Best Of cover. On the right, this week's LA Weekly Best Of cover. Some see at least a...
Why yes, it is. On the cover of her new book, Democratic campaign steerer-turned-columnist and USC law professor Susan Estrich strikes an Ann Coulter pose....
It just gets worse. Besides the major sporting events that will overlap, officials are warning that the LA Weekly's Detour Festival in the Civic Center...
An abbreviated Buzz today, due to press of other deadlines. Nuclear meltdown caused hundreds of cancers, study says It's been 47 years since a nuclear...
October 05, 2006
Newsroom sources at the Los Angeles Times are angry that today's axe fell on ex-publisher Jeff Johnson at a personally difficult time. According to the...
Saturday's game 3 of the Dodgers-Mets series will start at 4:35 pm at the stadium and be televised on Fox. Sunday's game, if it's needed,...
LA Observed contributor Bob Baker is a former Los Angeles Times city desk editor, reporter and writing coach. He posts at Native Intelligence that today...
The Fairfax 3 at Beverly and Fairfax is a discount house again, like it was before Laemmle took over. Every seat $3, says Regency. Previously:...
Times editor Dean Baquet told an editors meeting at 11:30 that he can work with new publisher David Hiller. Baquet had coffee with Hiller this...
Brendan Huffman, president of the Valley Industry and Commerce Association, was one of the community leaders who signed last month's letter urging the Tribune company...
Updated at the bottom as new info comes in... * It's breaking this morning. Editor Dean Baquet is said to be in meetings with Tribune...
Two new editorial writers, an online editor and an articles editor for op-ed in on the second floor at the L.A. Times, and some other...
In order to shoot scenes for Live Free or Die Hard with Bruce Willis, 20th Century Fox wants to close Imperial Highway beside LAX —...
School board takes hard line President Marlene Canter says Mayor Villaraigosa will not get to interview candidates or take part in selection of the...
October 04, 2006
A memo shooting around the Los Angeles Times today introduces Nancy Sullivan, most recently SVP of Music & Digital Entertainment at Rogers & Cowan. Her...
The Dodgers just had two base runners thrown at home on the same single to the right field wall. Yes, a double play at the...
Corporate executives at Disney are close to deciding whether to abandon Tom Sawyer's Island at Disneyland and replace it with another Pirates of the Caribbean-themed...
Joe Beimel's hand wound, reportedly suffered when a glass broke in in his hotel room, means that the Dodgers will have only one lefthander in...
From three Craigslist jobs categories: writing/editing, customer service and tv/film/video/radio. All caps is theirs, emphasis at the end mine: Client Services/Office Assistant General office duties...
LA Observed regulars may remember last year when Will Beall, a homicide investigator for the LAPD in 77th Street Division, sold a novel called L.A....
NBC 4 was first to go with the story last night, but today's Times and Daily News have many more details on the Grand Jury...
King-Drew save The Board of Supervisors gave the conditional go-ahead to a plan to keep the emergency room open at King-Drew, shut down most...
October 03, 2006
In an essay that ran in the Los Angeles Review, novelist Tara Ison writes about her six-month relationship with an actor who has worked enough...
Nikki Finke adds some meat to Monday's Allan Mayer-exits-Sitrick stories, saying that Mayer wanted to move from crisis PR into "a more strategic kind of...
Channel 4 got pretty excited tonight about an Ana Garcia investigative report that Troy Edwards, a deputy mayor under Jim Hahn, ran up $18,000 in...
UCLA has revised the traffic alert for this afternoon that I called unhelpfully vague yesterday. They still won't say that the president is the reason...
She's back and she looks marvelous. Closed since Jan. 6, 2002, the restored and tastefully enlarged Griffith Observatory reopens on Nov. 3. Mayor Villaraigosa announced...
King-Drew proposal The ER would remain, employees would be sent to other county hospitals and Harbor-UCLA would take over under the recommendation sent to...
October 02, 2006
Allan Mayer, who developed the entertainment practice for Sitrick and Company after writing a book with the boss, is leaving to start his own firm,...
The president of these here United States is going to be on the Westside again tomorrow for a Republican fundraiser. UCLA has given its folks...
In today's story about Republican congressman Mark Foley's suggestive emails to congressional pages of the underage male variety, The Hollywood Reporter grabbed the wrong photo....
State AG Bill Lockyer's investigation of the Getty is out today and concludes Barry Munitz "violated his legal duty when he used Trust employees to...
As of yesterday, the city of Santa Monica is seeking out people who overpaid on parking tickets to give them refunds. The city has collected...
"Being a TV host is the least of what I do," the Crenshaw district-based media force tells Patrick Goldstein in Sunday's LAT Calendar. The smooth-talking...
W.W. Norton picked up the world publishing rights to The Joy of Opera by Placido Domingo, general director of the Los Angeles Opera. Steve Wasserman,...
FTVLive cites inside sources at KNBC saying layoffs are to follow a merger of assignment desks at the NBC newsroom in Burbank. Sources say that...
Shortly after Michael Ovitz launched his post-Disney comeback through Artists Management Group, the agency began amassing a noteworthy photography collection. Of course, comebacks don't always...
The new Observatory order You'll need a timed reservation to get into the expanded Griffith Observatory when it reopens this fall, there will be...
October 01, 2006
There's a flurry of new jobs and ex-jobs the last couple of days. (See Friday.) The latest involve a couple of alums of the Wall...
After taking a year off, the Dodgers slipped back into the playoffs with a win at San Francisco. Greg Maddux scattered three hits in giving...
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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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