December 17 - December 23, 2006
Friday, Dec. 22
The editor of West magazine told his staff today that he has given notice to become a senior fellow at...
Remember when L.A. officials tried to convince Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group to eadquarter its new U.S. airline here? The...
But things are hardly normal. Two runways were opened at around 10 a.m. and they're hoping to clear two more...
L.A. County's jobless rate fell to 4.2 percent in November, which is the lowest level in at least 30 years....
In the media world, five years is ancient history. Consider the case of Rupert Murdoch, who in October 2001 lost...
Travel mess: The big problem, of course, involves getting in and out of Denver, where the airport isn't even scheduled...
The long-discussed plan for News Corp. to hand over its controlling stake in the El Segundo-based satellite service to Liberty...
Thursday, Dec. 21
That's been the heavy-duty speculation going into the 2007 acquisition season. Merrill Lynch's David Anders added more fuel to the...
Well, at least in advance of an expected appeal. Superior Court Judge Dzintra Janavs overturned the law that would give...
Laura Mecoy, who has been in the L.A. office for 14 years, says she's considering whether to relocate her family...
The old palooka (and I do mean old) scored a more-than-respectable $6.2 million on opening day - a mid-week opener...
Chandlers and Tribune: Representatives of the newspaper family were in Chicago this week to hear a sales presentation on the...
Wednesday, Dec. 20
Demographers are taking note of the dwindling numbers coming into California from other states. Between 2005 and 2006, net immigration...
When the L.A.-based real estate company was being run by Richard Ziman, the focus was strictly on Southern California (Ziman...
You have to feel for Irvine-based Taco Bell, which is struggling to get back fast-food customers as a result of...
BW offers its end-of-the-year roster, which includes some obvious clunkers (the O.J. Simpson book and TV interview, Hewlett-Packard's boneheaded efforts...
For anyone who missed the former GE chairman the other night on Stephen Colbert's Comedy Central show, let's just say...
Ticketmaster buys stake: The West Hollywood-based ticket service has picked up a 25 percent stake in iLike.com, where users exchange...
Tuesday, Dec. 19
Coming to any conclusions about next year's housing market has become a thankless exercise because many of the numbers are...
Many of them are noticeably later this year - presumably because online retailers are doing a better job at turning...
The Port of Los Angeles saw a 16.3 percent increase in the number of containers handled last month compared with...
If you're struggling to find a hotel room under $200 a night during the holidays, there's always downtown. The Sheraton...
This has been talked about off and on ever since it emerged from bankruptcy three years ago. FOH Holdings, the...
The assumption has been that holiday shoppers wait to the last minute in the expectation that retailers will mark down...
'Jewish cabal': That's the phrase Judith Regan apparently used in her conversation with the HarperCollins attorney - the conversation that...
Monday, Dec. 18
Port of Los Angeles officials have made plans for the nation's first container-inspection facility on 14 acres of Terminal Island....
He's the owner of L.A.-based American Apprel and always seems to be in the middle of controversy, mostly for the...
That's the Dutch parent of THR, Adweek, Billboard and Nielsen. All told, 4,000 jobs, or around 10 percent of the...
Sounds like it's just in the talking stage, but the owner of NY's famous frank-and-juice emporiums has been expanding outside...
Tribune vs. Chandler: With little action from the outside, it's looking like Tribune management and the Chandler family will make...
Sunday, Dec. 17
LAT reports that Judith Regan's sudden firing late Friday afternoon came right after a phone conversation with a HarperCollins attorney...
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The funeral for Mark Lacter will be held Sunday, Nov. 24 at 12 noon at Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 W. Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles 90045. Reception to follow.
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