September 9 - September 15, 2007
Friday, Sep. 14
That's what downtown developers are asking. They've been shelling out millions of dollars in fees to help fund local parks,...
If you're a fan of the 1987 Oliver Stone film "Wall Street," you'll know Blue Star as the name of...
Yes, we're talking about Redstone, the guy who still loses sleep over missing out on the purchase of MySpace -...
Teachers can't take a joke. The Carl's Jr. marketing folks just wanted to reach out to 18-34 year-old males who...
Gas prices jump: Here we go! The latest Auto Club survey shows that the average price of self-serve regular gasoline...
Thursday, Sep. 13
Michael Laphen makes really nice money as president and COO of Computer Sciences Corp. over in El Segundo. Understand that...
That's a first, and another sign that the economy could be in trouble. Of course, $80-a-barrel oil in 2007 isn't...
It's likely to be a long snooze. Congress voted to repeal a 20-year-old prohibition against using federal money to tunnel...
Lots more, in fact. Rescinding a job offer is bad form under any circumstance, but doing it because the guy...
He's George Cogswell III, who succeeds long-timer Tim Gallagher at the Ventura County Star, an E.W. Scripps-owned paper. Cogswell had...
More borrowing for Countrywide: The Calabasas-based mortgage lender says it's getting another $12 billion in borrowing capacity through new and...
Wednesday, Sep. 12
But don't expect much of a consensus, at least among the 52 economists surveyed by the WSJ in the last...
Probably not that bad - but bad enough. Just ask the mortgage lender's ticked-off employees, who have filed suit in...
Sure, August sales were horrible, according to the latest numbers from Dataquick - a 15-year low for the month, in...
Closer to recession?: That's what UCLA's Anderson Forecast is saying in its latest quarterly report. Between credit woes and the...
Tuesday, Sep. 11
Sell on Rosh Hashanah, buy on Yom Kippur. On average, from 1971 to 2005, the S&P 500 has fallen 0.4...
For the second quarter in a row, total ad expenditures have fallen from the prior year’s period, according to a...
Countrywide needs money: The NY Post is reporting that another multi-billion dollar bailout plan may be in the works for...
Monday, Sep. 10
Talk about your tough times: Joan and Melissa Rivers got canned from both E! and the TV Guide Channel -...
Well, that all depends on whether you lost power during last week's heat wave. Members of the L.A. City Council...
It's L.A.-based Schematic, which is hired by media companies and advertisers to handle all kinds of interactive assignments. WPP, the...
Or maybe a David Cronenberg script. While most of us over 30 (or 40 or 50, for that matter) are...
Disney to test for lead: The Mouse House will inform Mattel today of its plans to test toys featuring Disney...
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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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After 22 years of loyalty, Baylor is unceremoniously shown the door.
Before I lived in Echo Park, there was a tiny 1920s bungalow-cottage-standalone house on N. Occidental in Silver Lake. I...
