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October 05, 2007
This is one of those occasional Fridays when I need to stay away from the keyboard to meet an outside deadline. Back Monday, if not... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
I always enjoy sitting down with the LA Weekly Best Of L.A. issue, and I'm sure I'll get to the new Armageddon-themed one that runs... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
October 04, 2007
Richard S. Chang, writing in today's New York Times Wheels section about the pleasures of driving a stick shift: I was living in Los Angeles.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On the same day that the Daily News unveils a newly designed website, the comic strip Funky Winkerbean kills off main character Lisa Moore with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
L.A. broadcasting fixture Gary Franklin died at 79, at home in Chatsworth. He first became known as a street reporter on KFWB, ending his reports... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Some politics, some media, some books...click to go on in.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
October 03, 2007
Zócalo, the public lecture series that LA Observed helps co-sponsor, has just added an evening discussion with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. It will be at the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Quick round-up today on the region-wide immigration raids, Antonio's plan for the telephone tax, what the feds see wrong at the fire department and more.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
October 02, 2007
Real-estate developer Jeffrey Greene, one of L.A.'s least-public billionaires, and New York real-estate executive Mei Sze Chan were married last weekend at his 27-acre Beverly... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Variety deputy editor Anne Thompson says the season for newspapers to crank up their Oscars-Globes-etc blogs is fast approaching. She gives a rundown on who's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Mark Frauenfelder, Xeni Jardin and the rest of the very successful Boing Boing blog team launched tv.boingboing.net tonight. Xeni explains on the site: The idea... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Meredith Artley, executive editor of LATimes.com, has sent the staff another periodic update on the site. Traffic is creeping back up, and there are plans... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Gina McIntyre, managing editor for features at the Hollywood Reporter, is moving to the L.A. Times as an assistant entertainment editor. The memo on that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Union deal at City Hall, the WGA asks for a strike OK, saving an old Van Nuys building and how to take your picture with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
October 01, 2007
Lauritzen died today of a brain tumor, according to the Board of Education and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. He lost his reelection campaign for the board... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Given the option of Riverside or the greener pastures of a fresh start, mayoral paramour Mirthala Salinas opted for...not Riverside. A couple of Los Angeles... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Betsy Morgan is leaving as general manager of CBSNews.com to lead the HuffPost. Arianna Huffington remains editor in chief and co-founder Kenneth Lerer moves up... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Corn is one of those writers who seemed like he might be at The Nation forever. But he's jumping to a newly powered-up Mother Jones... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Council President Eric Garcetti has been close to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa since the new administration took over in 2005, even though Garcetti actually endorsed then-Mayor... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
First there was GOOD magazine. Now there's GOOD Digital, announced today by founder and COO Ben Goldhirsh. The new unit will be headed by Craig... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Jim O'Shea, coming up on one year since he inherited the top job at the L.A. Times, is shaking things up a bit. In a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Still looking for the mayor's million trees, more fallout from the Yom Kippur inspection in Hancock Park, new arrivals Downtown and a lot more.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 30, 2007
Transportation planners get mounds of daily data from all the sensors installed beneath Los Angeles streets, but they throw it all away after a few... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
With another of its occasional Sunday packages railing about city salaries, the Daily News posts online a database listing the name and salary of all... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Former mayor Richard Riordan endorsed Rudy Giuliani for president, despite feeling "Giuliani is too liberal for the solid, right-wing Republicans in California, that part... $MTEntryExcerpt$>