November 18 - November 24, 2007

Friday, Nov. 23
As usual, the Friday after Thanksgiving offered little specific sales data but lots of anecdotes from shoppers, merchants and retail...
The Santa Monica-based cell phone company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June after burning through almost $400 million -...
Wednesday, Nov. 21
Motley Fool's Timothy Otte says he got to talking with a senior VP from Best Buy's field operations - no...
Well, what else is there to do? There was no big news today, but plenty of worry - about oil,...
You might recall that the famous red Michelin restaurant guide has expanded to include a Los Angeles edition, but the...
Stocks take another hit: I don't get it: Aren't we supposed to be easing into Thanksgiving? No big news, other...
Tuesday, Nov. 20
CBS CEO Les Moonves and Warner Bros. honchos Barry Meyer and Alan Horn sent out can't-we-all-get-along memos to their employees...
Hollywood Boulevard, that is. The crowd of WGA members - plus a scattering of SAG representatives - heard a couple...
Angelo Mozilo says he has never been through anything like the last six months – the scrutiny, the allegations, the...
The airport's position as a world cargo hub has slipped noticeably, from second place in 1997 to 11th place last...
Air travel delays: LAX should be improving by now, but a thick blanket of fog delayed a bunch of early...
Monday, Nov. 19
The buyer appears to be investment firm Hudson Capital, which acquired the Sunset-Gower Studios in Hollywood a while back (and...
The government's new survey has the average price in L.A. at $3.363 a gallon, up about 4 cents from a...
The Writers Guild says the vote was 81 percent in favor of authorizing a work stoppage if need be (about...
I'm always suspicious of trend stories like a Bloomberg piece that says folks in the 100K-300K income level are reigning-in...
Stocks getting battered: A downgrade of Citigroup, a big write-down at Swiss Reinsurance and rising oil prices are among the...
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