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About those lion sightings Wednesday's Morning Buzz reprinted an email from the president of the Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Coun...

Yesterday was the first of three meetings devoted only to a discussion of the planning of the 16 acre Grand Avenue Park. Just a brief note ...

Is the superb old black and gold art deco/moderne bank building (that closely resembled the old Richfield Building downtown) on Western stil...

From LAOBSERVED this morning: Chaparral notes Email going around the Hollywood Hills: A neighbor on Upper Outpost had his small dog t...

The Los Angeles Times article on how Grand Avenue will become LA's version of Columbus Circle is understandably skeptical, however there...

Ok - so maybe the above headline is a bit... provocative... to get your attention. But while it is something of an exaggeration - in reality...

The good news is that Downtown Los Angeles gets both a convention center hotel and its first 5 star hotel. The bad news is that the project ...

In an on-line exclusive, LAOBSERVED quotes Cal State Fullerton professor Jeffrey Brody on why the LAT's expose of bad judges in Vegas is...

The many investigative articles by the Los Angeles Times over the past two years have been superb. And the recent articles about the problem...

Remember the recent story on how Americans are far, far more sick than the English? Well - guess what? It's all false! First a recap of ...

First the link to the fraudulent story in the LA Times.... http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fi-jobs18may18,0,7635699.story Then t...

To begin with, a multiple article series on the rich of LA and their charities in last week’s Los Angeles Business Journal is superb, but on...

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-unocal14may14,0,6417885.story?page=1&coll=la-headlines-california First, the good news, though. ...

But both the New York Times AND the Chicago Tribune gain readers: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_cont...

One of new city planning Gail Goldberg's first acts is to create a long needed position - and to then fill it with the right person! Fro...

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-chavez29apr29,1,872683.story In a rather unusual article, recently arrived in LA reporter Scott Gold...

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-050106immig_lat,0,6938733.story?coll=la-home-headlines The... bizarre... line is in the second graph: I...

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fi-retire25apr25,0,2515911.story The third part of the excellent LA Times series on private pens...

All the galleries along Main and Spring along Gallery Row will be open today until 6 PM - for free - and then a benefit will be held in the ...

http://www.lyricoperala.org/manonlescaut.html http://www.lyricoperala.org The Lyric Opera Company of Los Angeles, the first of many resident...

It takes a lot to shock my poor dopamine-deprived brain into blogger action these days - but tonight - after returning from a blogger/journa...

Devils 3, Rnagers 2

There's still tickets left at the convention center box office for today's USA Sumo championships. Shove off time is 12:30 and the d...

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/on/a_fishbowl_farewell_35105.asp Well, maybe not exactly belly up - but the great fish scooper from th...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/06/books/06masl.html A couple days ago, the review of THE LAST SEASON - the story of a Park Ranger who disapp...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/style/tmagazine/t_d_1328_talk_opener_.html?pagewanted=print April 2, 2006 The Talk By PILAR VILADAS Concep...

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114369241605012061-5StKoJ038YjveIaklYx9cxcC800_20060406.html?mod=blogs A lot of ink has been spilled ...

You know those sleazy ads written to look like newspapers articles (which have 'advertisement' written in tiny letters at the top) -...

http://www.dailynews.com/search/ci_3622331 http://la.curbed.com/archives/2006/03/grand_ave_park.php http://lavoice.org/index.php?name=News...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/18/business/media/18offline.ready.html?pagewanted=print March 18, 2006 New York Times If I Had a Million Doll...

Ernest Adams - the now formerly homeless man who was almost beaten to death by two thugs last year - has finally left his post at the end of...

http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2006/03/klimts_headed_for_los_ang_1.html Kevin over at LAOBSERVED reports on a LACMA press release about t...

Below is a description of Los Angeles's 19th Century Chinatown on the Chinese American Museum website: http://www.camla.org/history.htm ...

One of the most vibrant - and rapidly growing communities - in Downtown Los Angeles is Little Tokyo. Almost every block in it has new constr...

http://www.laweekly.com/features/12829/coming-of-age-in-the-mouth-of-madness/ So I pick up a copy of this week's LA WEEKLY and on the co...