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October 21, 2006
Authors, publishers and good bookstore people — revelers all — partied tonight in the Gold Room at the Biltmore downtown for the 2006 Southern California... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
In town from England for the press sit-downs to promote The Prestige, actor Michael Caine sounded morose about what's become of the city he knew... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
It was a good week across all the LA Observed blogs. Here is an editor's dozen of notable news, scoops and observations: David Zahniser is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
After an internal redesign process that has gone on for years, Sunday's Los Angeles Times will unveil a busy new look on the front page... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
October 20, 2006
George Weller is the Santa Monica driver who killed ten people at the Santa Monica farmers market in 2003. The jury has been deliberating since... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Well yeehaw, Saul Levine is bringing country music back to the Los Angeles airwaves. The last indie L.A. broadcaster of any note has switched AM... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Remember the amazing news that newlywed James Woodson died from a bullet that came out of the air and struck him in the back while... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Light version today... NBC drops 8 pm sitcoms The 8-9 hour of prime time will be for games shows and other inexpensive fare. LAT, Variety... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Los Angeles magazine's RJ Smith takes notice of David Zahniser's run of noteworthy stories in the LA Weekly (and previously in the Daily Breeze) and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
October 19, 2006
As I thought in today's Morning Buzz, the Z File is a new column label in the LA Weekly for David Zahniser. Also new in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Agents from the FBI's foreign counterintelligence unit have searched the Valley Village home of Abraham Lesnik, a senior scientist on anti-missile systems, looking for evidence... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Cops and others who work the streets downtown call the boils, abscesses and infections they see all the time Skid Row staph — a strain... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
NBC cuts come today NBC Universal Television Group head Jeff Zucker will detail cost cuts at a town hall meeting at NBC’s headquarters. Layoffs... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
October 18, 2006
Jacob Soboroff just got a new HD video camera and went over to the Cornfield state park downtown yesterday to try it out. Walking the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Editor & Publisher, the newspaper trade mag, likes L.A. Times Cairo bureau chief Megan Stack. A profile posted today says that Stack, then the Houston... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Former L.A. Times reporter Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson has been reporting on Sacramento and politics for the Orange County Register for the last little while, but... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The L.A. Times is really embracing this whole solicit free advice idea. In addition to the Manhattan Project and asking readers to share tips at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Going after Bert Fields Prosecutors engaged in a "last-ditch effort" to tie the Hollywood superlawyer to the Anthony Pellicano case have summoned ten members... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The troubled county hospital in Willowbrook will become part of Harbor-UCLA medical center and get a new name: Harbor-Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital. Under... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
October 17, 2006
Michael Crichton is joining the board of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, along with Yahoo chairman and CEO Terry Semel and philanthropist and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
LA Biz Observed had it early this morning: the U.S. Attorney for Los Angeles, Debra Yang, is resigning to join Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Today's San Francisco Chronicle editorial page wishes David Brewer luck but finds his selection to run L.A. Unified — and everything about the new governance... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On last Friday's LA Observed Neon Cruise, spontaneous applause broke out on the bus when we sighted the newly lit Griffith Observatory. That was cool.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Breeze chatter gets louder Buzz within at least one L.A. Newspaper Group newsroom is that their boss Dean Singleton will announce soon that he... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
October 16, 2006
The best Los Angeles story in Sunday's New York Times was a magazine piece about the fight against urban pigeons — and the people who... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Is the ex-New York Daily News gossip columnist about to pop up as the long-awaited in-house gossip for the L.A. Times? I don't know, but... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
With the demise of the Los Angeles Alternative in print form, Allison Margolin needed a new place to advertise her services as L.A.'s Dopest Attorney.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" demolished the Redondo Beach home of paralyzed LAPD officer Kristina Ripatti last week — and now needs construction workers to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
No News & Chatter until this evening. But go ahead and check out new posts on the other LA Observed pages: LA Biz Observed Native... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Weekend clouds obscure the view across Santa Monica Bay, but the cloud pillars orient the geography. Veronique de Turenne has the coordinates at Here in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
LA Observed contributor Victor Merina checks in from Nashville: Here in Music City, much of the conversation around town and on sports talk shows this... $MTEntryExcerpt$>