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Getting back to David Shaw's diatribe on bloggers and our inability to perform up to the LA Times' high standards - not to mention h...

After years of not only hiding from the subject - but also hiding it from the citizens of Los Angeles - the LA Times has finally discovered ...

When I started this blog, I had no intention of turning it into a LA Times bashing site; however... when the Los Angeles Times daily home de...

The Los Angeles Conservancy is celebrating Spring on Spring Street with a behind-the-scenes look at historic landmarks that are coming back ...

In today's editorial on LA's violent transnational gangs, the LA Times still refuses to tell the people of Los Angeles the truth. A...

"This is the longest that Terri Schiavo has survived without food or water."

Today is the TV debut of a professional sports league for amateur style wrestling (www.realprowrestling.com). And while I had watched all t...

In the previous post of yesterday, I predicted that the LA Times would dismiss the major revolution in city government proposed by Mayor Hah...

While people's revolutions from the Ukraine to Lebanon and now the capital of Kyrgyzstan make international headlines, an increasing tra...

With a School Board still under control of the teacher's unions, there is little surprise that much needed reforms have been either stal...

The complete domination of the School Board by the teacher's union was evident today as a new contract was announced that calls for tax ...

Both LA Times (four reporters) and the New York Times (one reporter) cover the story today of over 100 violent Central American gang members...

Every once in a while one of the LA Times better writers - and there are many fine writers at the LA Times - produces a article so well writ...

At tonight's debate by candidates vying to become Mayor of Los Angeles (sponsored by the Alliance of Neighborhood Councils, City Watch, ...

Quick -- who is LA's City Planning Director? Ok -- don't feel bad. No one knows who he is, other than, of course, Mrs. Con Howe, an...

This morning the Grand Avenue Authority met for an update on the first set of development plans by the Related Companies for the 1.2 billion...

Chris Rock did a good, entertaining, hard working performance hosting the Oscars tonight. BUT... the problem was that the hard working aspe...

Once upon a time there existed in Los Angeles a newspaper that actually wrote about the people of Los Angeles and provided the information t...

The former site of the single most notorious den of Skid Row drug dealers on Main Street - between 5th and 6th Streets - has just been offic...

Christopher Knight in yesterday's LA Times details the tragic loss to our city of one the most important paintings to become available i...

It's odd looking at the LA Times and suddenly seeing the name - and face - of a person you have not seen in... quite a few decades. Whil...

... has a new winner: The just aired two part mini-series CATEGORY 6: DAY OF DESTRUCTION. While there is often a reverse correlation betwe...

While it was no surprise that one of the greatest works by the first master of Western Art - Duccio di Buoninsegna - was just acquired by ...

When Getty Museum director Deborah Gribbon resigned yesterday, she made it clear that the mission of the Getty Trust was no longer the missi...

A new top gun/spatula is headed downtown. A lease was signed today in the Historic Core by the latest contender for the title of the top re...

All men who came of age in the 1960's and 1970's will mourn the recent passing of Russ Meyer. A throw back to the age when actual s...

Today is a day like every other day in LA. Three Los Angeles companies are gobbled up by out of state companies - and no companies are acq...

The ITALIAN JOB was screened al fresco in Pershing Square tonight in what is hoped will become a regular event. It was put on by the Centra...

The sounds of the city. On Sunday mornings I come to the office early to pursue my novel and my memoirs - that being only time that I ca...

You know the neighborhood is changing when on a single Saturday morning I observe not one, not two - but three (three - count'em - three...

The August 8th, 2004 Edition of the Slatin Report (a leading real estate newsletter) describes New York's The Related Companies winning ...

The phone calls started coming in early today as the LA Weekly and its cover story on the Neighborhood Councils hit news racks around town. ...

In Roger Vincent's excellent (as usual) article in today's LAT's Sunday business section, he mentions the until now only rumored...

I can count on one hand the number of times I have been photographed since age 17 other than by family or by female and other friends. I ha...

If anything proves the Neighborhood Councils are a work in progress, today's Mayor's Budget Day did. Last year, each Neighborhood C...

Shortly after I started this blog... my life abruptly changed, a not too uncommon occurrence in my life; hence my recent hiatus. To my su...

An era of American and world history ended today with the passing of former President Ronald Reagan. The first time I ever met Reagan wa...

One of the great civic benefactors of Los Angeles died yesterday, but you would never know it by reading the news sections of the Chicago, I...

In today's LAT, Bob Pool covers the impending demolition of the historic Wilshire eatery, Perino's - the site of so much of Los Ange...

Two events have finally pushed me over the edge into the living hell that is blogdom. FIrst, both the process and the end result of the Gran...

Accepting a dare from Matt Welch of the late, and greatly lamented (other than by the LA Times, of course), LA Examiner - I am going to take...