LA Observed

LA Observed: Baseball: The All-American Game, an exhibition of pieces owned by Los Angeles memorabilia collector Gary Cypres, opens Sunday at the Craft and Folk Art Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in the … More »Baseball folk art

Kevin Roderick: Here are pictures of snow last night in historic Bodie, the preserved mining town in the Eastern Sierra near Bridgeport. The Tioga Road into Yosemite National Park reopened today after … More »Snow weekend in the Sierra Nevada

Veronique de Turenne: It's close to seven years ago that Granita, arguably the best restaurant in town, the spot you'd often see... More »Signs of Saturday: (still) for lease

Mark Lacter: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a smallish movie called "Star Wars" opened in just 32 theaters, including the Avco on Wilshire Boulevard. No fanfare, no text-messaged reviews - … More »Celebrating 35 years of 'Star Wars'

Kevin Roderick: The Getty Center’s Central Garden will reopen to visitors on Saturday, May 26. It has been closed since February for maintenance to the walkways and planters. More »Getty gardens reopen Saturday

Mark Lacter: He's making history with the Space X Dragon capsule, but let's not forget the other players in the fledgling commercial space business - an industry that's taking shape in California. More »Elon Musk's moment of glory goes back quite a few years

Kevin Roderick: The overall project is now four to six months behind schedule. This means that the plans to close the freeway over a weekend to finish tearing down the Muholland Drive bridge in Sepulveda … More »405 project months behind, Carmageddon II delayed

Veronique de Turenne: Oh Maisie. She had her teeth cleaned yesterday and, thanks to a mid-air collision with Jake a few years... More »Adventures with the Muffinhead

Kevin Roderick: Press secretary vs Dan Walters, safe sex petitions, drug tests at Beverly Hills High, media notes and Molly Ringwald to marshall the Pride parade. Plus more. More »Morning Buzz: Friday 5.25.12

Mark Lacter: Holiday weekend in sight, consumer sentiment is at its highest level since late 2007, Carmageddon 2 gets delayed until August or September, and Apple CEO turns down $75 million in dividen … More »Friday morning headlines

Steve Greenberg: The latest cartoon by Steve Greenberg. His LA Sketchbook archive . More »LA Sketchbook: Space X

Mark Lacter: Using a robotic arm, astronauts captured the unmanned vehicle. It's considered the big first test of a privately funded space mission. More »Dragon capsule arrives at International Space Station

Kevin Roderick: News, blogs and community get the emphasis over the radio station's programming in the web design unveiled today (after months of use behind the scenes.) Nice to see: a news staff list … More »KPCC relaunches website as SCPR.org

Kevin Roderick: Lots of tears in the courthouse in Long Beach on Thursday. After almost ten years, five of them spent in prison, once-promising high school football player Brian Banks was officially exonerated … More »Brian Banks exonerated in court, by AP's Nick Ut

Kevin Roderick: Claudia Laffranchi was part of the colony of overseas journalists who cover Hollywood for global media outlets and participate in related events. She was, for instance, the host and master … More »Claudia Laffranchi, Swiss journalist in LA was 49

Kevin Roderick: Jillian Reynolds apologized to Dorothy Lucey for the bad things she has said about her "Good Day L.A." co-host all these years. Then they exchanged "I love yous" and hugged. "The most painful … More »Dorothy and Jillian hug and 'make up' (with Steve in the middle)

Kevin Roderick: The figures that showed up — briefly — in the Civic Center pit on Wednesday are made of papier-mâché and apparently the work of artist Calder Greenwood, the LA Weekly says . Sounds good … More »Downtown 'sunbathers' identified

Mark Lacter: Actually, this could turn out to be a pretty big deal for the packaging industry. But it's not just ketchup. A bunch of MIT mechanical engineers and nano-technologists have been working on … More »What this country needs is a better way to get ketchup out of a bottle

Mark Lacter: A number of economists are breaking down the president's prospects according to monthly jobs growth between now and November. Anything over 180,000 each month and Obama is in good shape. The … More »How job growth and unemployment rate might determine election

Kevin Roderick: The Daily Journal's Ciaran McEvoy ran one of the paper's periodic updates on the epic lawsuit between the MTA and one of its subway contractors accused of overbilling — way back on the … More »Meanwhile, lawsuit over Red Line subway rolls into 16th year

Kevin Roderick: Potential advertisers in the Beachcomber in Long Beach can secure a nice featured story for the same price as their ad, according to this pitch that went out from an advertising rep at … More »Buy an ad in the Beachcomber, get a story

Kevin Roderick: What was mostly at stake today was where to put the Century City station — the MTA board stayed with Constellation Avenue and Avenue of the Stars, inside the development. More »MTA board approves subway tunnel under Beverly Hills High

Mark Lacter: You might be getting confused - and understandably so. After the sharp run-up in March, area gas prices fell pretty substantially, only to take off a couple of weeks ago. Now, they're falling. … More »What goes down in other parts of the country goes up on the West Coast