December 2008 Archives
Best of the SoCal Web for 2008-12-31
By Pixelbot
December 31, 2008
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from LAist: The annual Improv Everywhere event is spreading across the nation including Los Angeles on the afternoon of January 10th. "
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from Mashable.com: The Governator has apparently had enough, and is turning to social media to urge constituents of the nation's most populus state to pressure their lawmakers in the state legislature.
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from the NYTimes: "California officials estimate that there are tens of thousands of abandoned pools in the state, with as many as 5,000 in places like Sacramento County, where a building boom in the capital's suburbs has gone bust."
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from Slate Magazine: A review of Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles, journalists Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly. [h/t LAGreenGirl]
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from voiceofsandiego.org: Nearly 30 percent of homes in San Diego County with a mortgage are worth less than their owners owe on their mortgage, according to new data.
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The Bus Bench: "Some people say that they can drive faster than the Gold Line, well this video calls you a storyteller. You'd think the marketing executives at Metro would have come up what this, but of course they all have cars."
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from photographer Thomas Hawk's blog: "They asked us not to shoot the refinery and suggested that it was a "double standard" that we'd insist on our constitutional rights to shoot in public while not honoring BP's request that we not shoot their facility from a public sidewalk." [h/t Lalawag.com]
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from Blogdowntown: On December 30, 1882, at roughly 7:40pm, Mayor Homer Toberman threw the switch to send current to the first two arc lights installed by the Los Angeles Electric Company.
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from the Los Angeles Times: "Reiterating her call for more air traffic controllers, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Monday warned President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for Transportation secretary that chronic staff shortages at Los Angeles International Airport and the main radar facility that guides aircraft between airports pose an "alarming risk" to aviation safety in Southern California."
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from LAist: "Police across the region are telling people not to shoot guns into the air on New Year's Eve."
Best of the SoCal Web for 2008-12-30
By Pixelbot
December 30, 2008
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Charles E. Young on the future of MOCA.
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from LA Observed: To save a very small number of bucks, the Los Angeles Times has again decided to close the building's historic entrance -- and to block public access to the carefully restored Hugo Ballin murals and the paper's own newspaper museum.
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from the Los Angeles Times: When it rains, Lennie Arkinstall scrambles to stanch the outflow of urban debris churning along the Long Beach area's swollen rivers and channels.
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From LA Daily NewsL "We either are going to figure out how to make Scouting the most exciting, dynamic organization for Hispanic kids or we're going to be out of business," said Rick Cronk, former national president of the Boy Scouts, and chairman of the World Scout Committee.
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These descriptions are always (and sadly) the same.
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from the Los Angeles Times: A Times investigation shows that the problem of Inglewood police officers shooting unarmed suspects isn't new.
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From the NYTimes Style Section: News about [Linda]. Sánchez, or her sister, Representative Loretta Sanchez (who does not use the accent in her name), is bound to be interesting.
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From the Los Angeles Times: The Los Angeles school district has suspended a key arts program because of a spending freeze, a sign of what may be ahead for the state's largest district, which is facing a serious budget shortfall.
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The creator of the "Great Bronze Doors" at the Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels, "Olympic Gateway" at the entrance to Memorial Coliseum and "Plumed Serpent" at Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park in San Jose dies. From the San Jose Mercury News.
VOD: California Argot
By Gary Dauphin
December 29, 2008
Best of the SoCal Web for 2008-12-25
By Pixelbot
December 25, 2008
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Democratic political action group Courage Campaign's slideshow of married gay and lesbian Californians asking not to be forcibly divorced.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special of 1977. Merry Hollywood Pangloss!
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Curbed LA's Dakota Smith tells you everything you ever wanted to know about the Century Plaza Hotel.
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from the Las Vegas Sun: "Trip between Vegas, Anaheim, Calif., could take only 86 minutes." [h/t Curbed LA]
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From the Los Angeles Times: The Madoff scandal has hit many Jews particularly hard because it connects to two deeply felt emotions: reverence for Jewish charity and anxiety about what the rest of the world thinks of Jews
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from the Los Angeles Times: "Police seized $2.7 million in counterfeit items bearing names such as Air Jordan, Ed Hardy, Coach and Sony in the weekend raids, resulting in the second-largest take of knockoffs in Los Angeles County history." Did you shop at Santee Alley?
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from the Daily Breeze: "Naval prosecutors had charged [Robert Truman Reece, 78, ] with two unauthorized absences and missing a ship's movement. He was initially sentenced on Oct. 12, 1949, to 15 days of confinement, 30 days of extra police duties and ordered to give up $15 of pay for six months. "
VOD: A Satirical (and Political) X-Mas Carol
By Gary Dauphin
December 24, 2008
In time for the holidays, progressive political action group Courage Campaign turns CA governor Arnold Schwarzenegger into a modern-day Scrooge.
Best of the SoCal Web for 2008-12-24
By Pixelbot
December 24, 2008
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Writer Donnell Alexander remembers Los Angeles native and pitcher Dock Ellis.
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from NPR's Day to Day: " The Los Angeles Fire Department is using Web-savvy techniques like Twitter and blogging to reach out to residents. "
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from LA Eastside: I'm here to present you with a quick roundup of everyone's favorite holiday treat: Tamales! There's a small stretch on Brooklyn with a few different tamalerias which I've dubbed Tamal Row.
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Hector Tobar in the Los Angeles Times: "I can't say for certain if [Fabian Nuñez's son] is or is not a "gang member." But if he is, he strikes me as the most politically connected "gang member" in the history of "gang members."
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from the Los Angeles Times: "All he wants for Christmas is a good defense attorney. "
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We have a winner. From the Los Angeles Times.
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Jeff Jarvis has advice for the Los Angeles Times. [H/T Fishbowl LA]
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from Fishbowl LA: "LATimes.com Achieves 143% Audience Growth in 2008." Not all bad news on Spring Street.
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This is so wrong. The Daily Mail is on the case.
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Los Angeles' own Jewish Journal has a blog tracking the ongoing fallout of the Bernie Madoff scandal. Hat-tip our own Adolfo Guzman-Lopez's Movie Miento.
Best of the SoCal Web for 2008-12-23
By Pixelbot
December 23, 2008
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Streetsblogs talks to Robert Gottlieb, Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban Environmental Studies and Director of the Urban Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College, about transportation reform in Los Angeles.
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from the SacBee: "Democratic state Sens. Gil Cedillo and Gloria Romero say they're exploring running for the East Los Angeles County congressional seat that's expected to be vacated by Rep. Hilda Solis, reportedly President-elect Barack Obama's pick for labor secretary."
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from Jonathan Turley: In a surprising reversal, California Attorney General Jerry Brown asked the California Supreme Court on Friday to overturn Proposition 8 on the grounds that it violates basic rights guaranteed in the state Constitution.
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from the SF Chronicle: "Los Angeles can continue to seek racial balance in assigning tens of thousands of students to specialized magnet schools despite California's voter-approved ban on race preferences in government programs, a state appeals court has ruled." [h/t LAObserved]
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From LAist: "For the fifth consecutive day, prices in the Los Angeles region have increased." Admit it: you went and bought a new SUV when the prices were down, right?
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from the OC Register: "The 4th District Court of Appeal ruled late Friday against the city of Anaheim, which has been fighting to overturn the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball team name for about four years."
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from the Los Angeles Times: "With just nine months left before it opens, a new arts high school in downtown Los Angeles still lacks a principal, a staff, a curriculum, a permanent name and a clearly articulated plan for how students will be selected -- critical details for a school that aims to be one of the foremost arts education institutions in the United States."
VOD: The Grinch of Blogland
By Gary Dauphin
December 22, 2008
LAist shares this video (and a healthy does of seasonal snark) about a string of Christmas ornament thefts in Beverly Hills:
LAist contributor Lindsay William-Ross adds:
[T]he boundless joy of Christmas has been curtailed by someone helping themselves to people's Christmas decorations put out by Peter (Columbo) and Shera Falk, Charo, and Gregory himself. Wow, it's not such a wonderful life after all for the people who live on Jimmy Stewart's old block!What's priceless isn't Mrs. Columbo's stolen $1000 elf, but rather this video that features the residents detailing what was stolen and how much they spent on it, actual surveillance video of thieves taking the wreath, and the ire expressed in the tone of voice used only by the truly spoiled at having to "chain down" their snowmen and reindeer lest the bandits make off with more of their merriment on display.
While stealing is indeed a crime, publicly bemoaning the loss of your thousand-dollar, twenty-pound elf decoration just might be more of crime. Whose heart bleeds for these Beverly Hills-ers--especially in a time when thousands of people are losing their jobs every day, and most people in So Cal are struggling just to stay afloat?
A better story to tell would be how you took all the money you would have spent putting Santa and his elves on your lawn and put it towards getting homeless people sheltered and fed during this chilly holiday season.
Only in Beverly Hills...
One solid gold elf - $1000
Two jewel encrusted wreathes - $750
Getting to make fun of the Hollywood rich - priceless!
Best of the SoCal Web for 2008-12-19
By Pixelbot
December 19, 2008
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Streetsblog rates the look at cycle culture in this month's Los Angeles magazine.
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from the Los Angeles Times' Culture Monster blog: The question, [Broad] said, is which bailout carries a stronger guarantee of secure funding for MOCA's endowment and exhibitions: his $30-million offer or LACMA's merger proposal, to which no price tag has been publicly attached.
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from the Los Angeles Times: Democratic Rep. Hilda Solis of California will be Barack Obama's pick for labor secretary
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Huffington Post: David Bank, RBC Analyst will host a conference call this Thursday at 11:00 am PT to discuss the potential of a SAG strike and what it means. Jonathan Handel is the guest speaker.
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LA Times: The action gives the city time to craft a coherent policy on signs, officials say.
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LA Times: UC San Francisco will build a state-of-the-art laboratory that will bring together some of the world's leading scientists in the field.
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LA Times: By structuring them as fees, they would skirt GOP opponents and raise $9.3 billion. A court fight looms.
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NPR: California financial officials voted Wednesday to freeze nearly $4 billion in financing for construction projects across the state.
VOD: All About VoiceofSanDiego
By Gary Dauphin
December 18, 2008
In this installment of "Video of the Day," Scott Lewis of VoiceofSanDiego.org talks to Kristen Taylor about his site, as well as the future of local online news and online investigative journalism.
How does an online newspaper work? from Knight Pulse on Vimeo.
VoiceofSanDiego.org describes itself as "a nonprofit, independent and insightful online newspaper focused on issues impacting the San Diego region." It was recently the recipient of a grant from the James L. Knight Foundation to "expand their local reporting staffs and bring their communities more content."
To echo Scott and Kristen's conversation: "Do you think [voiceofsandiego.org's] model will replace traditional models of journalism?"
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By Pixelbot
December 18, 2008
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from Heal the Bay: "A Day Without a Bag is an education and grassroots event coordinated by Heal the Bay that involves businesses and individuals throughout Los Angeles County. On this day we ask holiday shoppers and retailers to forgo single-use, plastic shopping bags in favor of reusable bags. Held the third Thursday in December, Heal the Bay's second annual A Day Without a Bag will be December 18, 2008."
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From the LAT's Culture Monster blog: "Confirming weeks of rumors, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has announced that the Board of Museum Associates, the nonprofit that operates the county museum, has presented a plan to the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art for a proposed merger with the financially troubled MOCA."
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from the Los Angeles Times: Road, levee, school and housing construction projects throughout California are on the verge of being halted or delayed, as state officials prepare to shut off their financing in the most drastic fallout yet from California's cash crisis.
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from SoapBox LA: Somehow this Billboard was built on this land. It either had a permit or it didn't. If it has a permit, the person who issued this permit should be held accountable for their actions. If it doesn't have a permit, the billboard should be removed, posthaste!
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from Streetsblog: "Now there is some good news and bad news for opponents of the I-710 project, which now would most likely be a tunnel underneath the I-710 to double capacity and give L.A. County our own Big Dig."
Best of the SoCal Web for 2008-12-17
By Pixelbot
December 17, 2008
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from Curbed LA: "The official opening isn't till Saturday, and there are still barricades up at the entry points near the reservoir, but... people just can't help themselves--Silver Lakeians are hopping over the small concrete barrier and testing out the path..."
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from the Bus Bench: Now at first I really tried to ignore this, but I find more and more that some people's behavior is completely out of line. And you can't ignore people. You are forced to be pleasant to these individuals and have insane chit chat, because if you don't certain individuals get very nasty.
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from the Los Angeles Times: "The Los Angeles Board of Education is expected to announce that Ramon C. Cortines will take over as superintendent of the nation's second-largest school system. Cortines, 76, has served as schools superintendent in New York City -- the nation's largest school system-- San Francisco, San Jose and Pasadena."
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Barbara Isenberg remember Marcia Weisman stewardship of MOCA in the Los Angeles Times
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Huffington Post: Documents show Dennis Quaid and his wife have agreed to a a $750,000 settlement with a hospital that gave his newborn twins an overdose of blood thinner.
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LA Times: Hector Tobar takes a look at East Los Angeles.
VOD: Los Angeles Always Plays Itself
By Gary Dauphin
December 16, 2008
I have a feeling the "Retro Friday" feature at the Franklin Avenue blog is going to be a goldmine of "Video of the Day" items. This is their most recent update, the trailer for 1988 thriller Miracle Mile starring a youngish Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham:
Best of the SoCal Web for 2008-12-16
By Pixelbot
December 16, 2008
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What did you think, the decline would go on forever? [h/t LA Biz Observed]
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The OC Register has a gallery of Loretta Sanchez X-Mas cards through the years.
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from the Latino Politics Blog: "It's that time of the year again -- Loretta Sanchez has a new holiday card. The Congresswoman does seem to be toning it down from the "pet the cat" card that hit a few years back when she posed with Gretzky, her fluffy feline, on her lap."
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From LA Observed: The Los Angeles Times today named Betsy Sharkey second film critic to work with Kenneth Turan.
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from the Los Angeles Times: "California government is arguably more dysfunctional now than it was when Davis, a Democrat, got the boot. The budget deficit has grown so huge that a shutdown of government services looms. Partisan gridlock grips the Legislature, and lawmakers bicker as the state plunges into crisis."
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from the LAT's Culture Monster: "The arts economy strikes again: Because of lagging ticket sales as well as a rapid decline in individual and corporate donations, the Santa Clarita Symphony is canceling its 2009 season in what company spokesman John Dow calls a temporary move."
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from the Los Angeles Times: "Hoping to avert layoffs next year, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is negotiating a voluntary retirement plan with the city's employee unions that could affect as many as several thousand workers."
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from the Los Angeles Times: "MOCA has overspent by $1 million a year on average since 2000, burning through reserves to pay bills. Deficits continued to mount early in the decade despite spending cuts, leading to a bid to grow out of problems by ramping up exhibitions to attract acclaim and big donors -- a strategy one arts management expert likens to playing the lottery."
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LA TACO tells you everything you ever wanted to know about getting soup dumplings in the SGV
Best of the SoCal Web for 2008-12-13
By Pixelbot
December 13, 2008
links for 2008-12-11
By Pixelbot
December 11, 2008
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from the Bus Bench: Much of the advocacy in the alt transit movement is not for the people who transfer. The people who transfer from a working class suburb to the train from another bus, just to get off the train and get on yet another bus. There isn’t much talk of the people who have two and three hour commutes and there are lots of them.
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from Streetsblog: The Los Angeles Department of City Planning will be holding hearings this Friday and Monday on an ordinance that would provide new guidelines for development on both public and private land adjacent to the river.
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See the full list. [h/t LAObserved]
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from L.A. Now: The long-sought subway extension on the Westside could clear a big hurdle next month when local transit officials may vote on moving forward with environmental studies of the project.
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from LAObserved: The shows remainson the air until March 20. In all 64 NPR employees are being laid off, due to a funding deficit the staff was told grew from $2 million to $22 million.
VOD: Artists Transform Trash to Art
By Gary Dauphin
December 10, 2008
This is actually more of a narrated slide show, but it depicts an increasingly familiar recession story: When life gives you financial lemons, the tough make lemonade/art/small business plans. From the Los Angeles Daily News [hat-tip Curbed LA]:
Permalink Discusslinks for 2008-12-10
By Pixelbot
December 10, 2008
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LA TImes: The crippled F/A-18D Hornet from the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln was trying to land at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. Authorities say three people were killed
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LA Times: As part of the city's yearly Gifts for Guns program, residents handed over 965 weapons and took home more than $95,000 in gift cards to Target, Best Buy and Ralphs.
links for 2008-12-09
By Pixelbot
December 9, 2008
KCET is My Source for...?
By Gary Dauphin
December 8, 2008
How would you finish answering the question in this post's title? KCET and PBS want your response for an online video project called My Source, where we're inviting KCET viewers to share stories about their relationship to Los Angeles public television. You can upload video responses (and audio, pictures, and text; we're taking all comers) here singing the praises of your favorite KCET or PBS show, telling us what KCET means to you, or reminiscing about the day PBS or KCET changed your life. Submissions will become available in the KCET My Source area, but the best video entries will be folded into an awareness campaign running on PBS stations across the country.
I'm not being cute about wanting to hear about PBS changing your life. I grew up in NYC so my public television stories are of the WNET and WLIW variety, but one of my foundational memories is the realization (circa 1978?) that I was a geeky, bookish Haitian-American kid whose inclinations and tastes were more Channel 13 than Channel 2. I know that saying "my tastes are more PBS than CBS" has an off-putting air of self-regard to it - "Look how smart and cultured I am!" But during the go-go 70s and early-80s of my childhood, public television really was your only source for genuinely risky and contemporary TV, science, education, sophisticated drama and new technology mixing freely and cross-pollinating.
For example, dig the crazy analog video effect in the bumper for the New York State Education Department's Bureau of Mass Communications, creators of one my favorite shows growing up Vegetable Soup:
links for 2008-12-07
By Pixelbot
December 7, 2008
links for 2008-12-06
By Pixelbot
December 6, 2008
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LAist on new data released today about our water shortage.
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An L. A. Times editorial: The MTA is projecting a $134-million deficit for the fiscal year that starts in July. Though Measure R will bring in additional money for operations, it won't take care of the agency's fundamental structural deficit [...]. There's a way to fix the deficit without raising fares, but it requires the MTA board to cut inefficiencies -- such as bus lines that are used by only a handful of riders.
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Los Angeles Metblogs has "4 reasons Los Angeles should be embarrassed by the Lighting of the Angels at L.A. Live.: #3? Britney
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from the L. A. Times: Hundreds of firefighters battled a blaze this morning at an electronics warehouse in downtown Los Angeles that sent smoke into the sky and backed up traffic on nearby freeways, officials said.
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In the L. A. Times: A chicken grows in Echo Park.
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The NV end to a story that started in SoCal?
VOD: When the L. A. Times Really Was the L. A. Times
By Gary Dauphin
December 5, 2008
This installment of Video of the Day comes from our friends at the Franklin Avenue blog:
Franklin Avenue writes:
From 1981: An ad for the Los Angeles Times -- get a load of the size of that newspaper on the driveway, as a dog lifts it up with his teeth. Can't remember the last time my weekday paper looked that big.
Also in this clip: An ad for In N Out Burger, plus a couple of promos for KABC/Channel 7.
Anyone remember these images?
Permalink Discusslinks for 2008-12-05
By Pixelbot
December 5, 2008
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from Streetsblog: "Concerns over federal and state funding measures, and how it impacts our plans for Measure R funds locally, dominated the debate at today's Metro Board Meeting."
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from L.A. Now: There may be some movement on the is-Google-Transit-ever-coming-to-Los Angeles front.
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from Culture Monster: "The fear I have is a New York Times story that says, 'L.A. Museum Fails' or 'Closes.' "
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LA Metblogs is looking for the biggest Grinch in Los Angeles.
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from the L.A. Times: "An official Los Angeles County assessment has acknowledged for the first time that a woman who died shortly after writhing in pain for nearly an hour on the waiting room floor of Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Medical Center could have been saved if she had been properly treated."
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from : "Despite all of the buzz, national attention and influential sounds coming out of Indie, few people are listening."
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from L.A. Now: "A new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California shows that the ballot measure banning gay marriage in California received its strongest support from Republicans and evangelical Christians."
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blogdowntown offers a preview of today's L.A. Live reveal.
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LAist: A look at the happenings downtown tonight.
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A fire has erupted at the Body Shop, a famous all nude strip club located on Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood.
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OC Register: Swift fire that destroyed 187 homes in November forced crews to make quick decisions.
VOD: Prop 8 - The Musical... and the Database
By Gary Dauphin
December 4, 2008
In just one day, comedy site Funny or Die's star-studded "Prop 8 - The Musical" has been seen about 1.3 million times.
In case you are the one slacking office/info-worker in Los Angeles who hasn't been forwarded the video, here it is:Permalink Discuss
Picture of the Day: 3 Kinds of Cali Car
By Gary Dauphin
December 4, 2008
You might have noticed that Pixeltown has a feature called Video of the Day. You also might have noticed that the feature should probably be called "Video of Every Other Day." (What can we say? As this video from the Onion points out, the web may be full of video, but it's also full'o'crap.)
Anyhow, as a way to balance (make that "fill") things out, we're going to start throwing stills in the mix, some them borrowed from our favorite blogs, some of them contributed by you to our Flickr group. This week's theme is cars.
Permalink Discusslinks for 2008-12-04
By Pixelbot
December 4, 2008
VOD: Great L.A. Walk 2008
By Gary Dauphin
December 3, 2008
For the third year in a row, the folks at the Franklin Avenue blog organized a pre-Thanksgiving walk from Union Station to Santa Monica. (That's just over 18 miles for those of you keeping count.) An eight-minute recap of this year's Great L.A. Walk can be found below:
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links for 2008-12-03
By Pixelbot
December 3, 2008
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LAist keeps an eye on gas prices and bets that day 101 - "in honor of the freeway" - is when the price will turn around. Any bets on your end?
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The New York Times on the financial crisis at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater. [h/t Curbed LA]
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Gridskipper creates an interactive map of celebrity memorials and gravesites.
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from LAObserved: "Steve Hymon's Bottleneck blog is the latest Times staff blog to be folded into L.A. Now.."
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from the L.A. Times: "Despite increased speculation that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa may be heading to Washington, he said Monday that he would not be joining President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet." [h/t LAist]
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from L.A. Noir: "Sure, L.A.'s got some violent crime. But even Compton can't compare with TJ."
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from Streetsblogs It's been four weeks since Measure R was passed and so Metro's Board of Directors is moving to begin spending some of that money.
links for 2008-12-02
By Pixelbot
December 2, 2008
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From the LA Daily News: "Richardson is the nation's only Hispanic governor and the most prominent Hispanic elected official in the country. And the way he was treated doesn't say much about Obama's respect for the Hispanic community"
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from the L.A. Times: "In an effort to counteract female witnesses who say the murder defendant terrorized them with guns, the defense in the retrial says Spector also brandished firearms at men." Nice!
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You'll have to click through to see the picture, I can't do it justice.
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from Los Angeles Metblogs: "Someone has put together a not totally complete but still very interesting Google Map of the gangs of LA, or some of them anyway."
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From the L.A. Times: On the third floor of El Mercado de Los Angeles in Boyle Heights, musicians often compete from opposite ends of the cavernous room. Mariachis perched on the stage of La Perla restaurant battle ranchero accordions in the adjoining El Torasco restaurant. Patrons shout over the festive music while waitresses scramble to take orders.
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from Culture Monster: "Ten days have passed since news broke of a financial crisis... And a week has passed since philanthropist Eli Broad published an Opinion article in The Times that offered $30 million to begin to help ..."
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L.A. Now: "I would love to have a yoga studio that's affordable," resident Sandra Martinez, 40, said with a half-guilty laugh. "The problem with a yoga studio is when that moves in, that's the end -- that's the definition of gentrification."
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L.A. photog Ted Soqui has been taking pictures of cheap gas prices. How low will he go? [h/t LAObserved]
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LAist: "Besides a reverence of Joe Strummer and The Clash and a good ear for underground bands that could appeal to a wider audience, I don't have that much in common with Nic musically."
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from Los Angeles Metblogs: "A thousand words pays $7.50.” Don't tell our bloggers.
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LAist: Residents, businesses and government have all lowered their water use over the past year, but the industrial sector has increased use by 22%
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from LAist: Gov. Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal emergency today today, which allows him to force the state legislature to pass a bill addressing the state's budget crisis.
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Your turkey is barely digested, and already the X-Mas tree war has begun. LA Now: "The battle of the L.A. area Christmas trees is heating up. "
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Is November too early to start talking about the Oscars? Maybe.
VOD: Sumi Ink Club at SiteLA
By Gary Dauphin
December 1, 2008
Video of the Day is going arty in 2009. To get you started, here is an animation made out of close-up details of Sumi Ink Club's recent exhibition at SiteLA. The show - "Shadow Out of Time" - has moved on to Boston, but you can still catch a glimpse on the inter-webs.
SUMI INK CLUB nov 2008 from Sarah RaRa on Vimeo.
Viewers are invited to tease out what themes they may, but the never-wrong Wikipedia notes that, [H. P. Lovecraft's 1936 short story] "The Shadow Out of Time" indirectly tells of the Great Race of Yith, an extraterrestrial species with the ability to travel through space and time. The Yithians accomplish this by switching bodies with hosts from the intended spatial or temporal destination. The story implies that the effect when seen from the outside is similar to spiritual possession." No relation to Los Angeles, whatsoever, right?
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