November 4 - November 10, 2007
Saturday, Nov. 10
I'll be traveling for the next couple of days. Posting will resume Tuesday afternoon....
Friday, Nov. 9
That was Frank Gehry responding - sort of - to a lawsuit filed against him by MIT, which says that...
Spago, Mélisse and Urasawa earned two stars, while one-star restaurants include Providence, Sona, Water Grill, Ortolan, Patina, Ritz-Carlton Huntington Dining...
The world really doesn't need another profile of NBC head programmer and child-about-town, Ben Silverman, but his nasty attack on...
Another really bad day, with the Dow dropping 223 points - and tech stocks did even worse than the overall...
Gas prices skyrocket: No more of this slow and steady stuff - L.A. pump prices are 14 cents a gallon...
Thursday, Nov. 8
The Mouse House CEO said that the writers walkout will "definitely have an impact" on ABC programming if it stretches...
Never mind the stock market - if you want to get a nervous feel for where the economy is headed,...
Actually, the WSJ is using the word "plunging." Tech issues, which had been holding up pretty well in this topsy-turvy...
The founder of L.A.'s American Apparel - he's the one who likes to take R-rated pictures of his models -...
Bernanke sees slower growth: That's not exactly shocking news, but you and me saying it isn't quite the same as...
Wednesday, Nov. 7
Oh, why not? On a day when the Dow fell 360 points comes word of a new report by Goldman...
Sort of. The celebrated chef who helped jumpstart L.A. cuisine into the big leagues with Citrus restaurant on Melrose will...
This time the culprit is a toy called Bindeez, which contains small beads that are found to mimic the effects...
It's nervous time: The market is down 135 points at last check, and it could be even worse if not...
Tuesday, Nov. 6
There's probably some reasonable explanation, but Michelle Leder at footnoted.org wonders why IndyMac CEO Michael Perry recently signed a new...
A big bash is planned for tomorrow night at the new store in Glassell Park. It's one of half-dozen or...
This year's long-running soap opera involving Messrs. Geffen and Redstone gets an entertaining airing in the December Vanity Fair. All...
Countrywide bending the rules: You're a senior executive at the big mortgage lender and you're sitting on all these options....
Monday, Nov. 5
The government's latest survey shows that the average price of regular in L.A. County was $3.182 a gallon, which to...
At last, Time Warner's board has approved the promotion of Jeff Bewkes to be CEO. He succeeds Richard Parsons, who...
The always-entertaining media mogul folded his cards on IAC/InterActiveCorp, the Internet conglomerate that owned everything from Ask.com to the HSN...
The writers and producers made more progress on Sunday than anyone would have expected on Friday, but all of a...
Sunday, Nov. 4
WGA President Patric M. Verrone just emailed guild members to say that the strike will begin first thing Monday morning....
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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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