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Recent L.A. Weekly Cover Story to be Feature Filmnew
Universal Pictures has acquired Sascha Rothchild's "How to Get Divorced by 30" to form the basis of a romantic comedy, Variety reports. Marc Platt will produce the picture with Dana Fox, writer of the upcoming What Happens in Vegas... and 2005's The Wedding Date.
Variety |
04-10-2008 9:10 am |
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L.A. Weekly Quickly Wins Legal Fight with Clear Channelnew
Reporter Christine Pelisek recently asked the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety for a list of all legal and illegal billboards in the city, which activists have been trying to get for months. When she did, the department gave a head's up to billboard giants Clear Channel and CBS, who then took the city to Superior Court to stop it "from even thinking about giving the Weekly the list," the paper reports. But the media conglomerates were quickly shot down in court by Judge James Chalfant, who ruled the list is public information, not proprietary information, as Clear Channel lawyers argued. The department must release the list by April 4.
L.A. Weekly |
04-03-2008 11:30 am |
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L.A. Weekly Film Critic Talks About Her Career and Worknew
"Like her fellow alt-weekly brethren, L.A. Weekly scribe Ella Taylor infuses prose with a touch of sass, delivering the well-read skinny on films great and small with dexterity and, oftentimes, the patience of a saint," Rotten Tomatoes writes. In this Q&A, Taylor talks about how she got into film criticism 19 years ago ("I was an uncomfortable academic sociologist who preferred journalistic to academic writing"), what she wanted to be as a kid when she grew up ("A shoe saleswoman") and the best part of being a film critic ("Free movies, and the regular opportunity to carp.")
Rotten Tomatoes |
03-06-2008 8:58 am |
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L.A. Weekly Dominates Entertainment Journalism Awardsnew
The paper finished first in four of the six categories for which it was eligible in the LA Press Club's inaugural National Entertainment Journalism Awards. Nikki Finke swept the online categories, winning first for Best News Story, Best Feature Story, and Best Critic. Ella Taylor took first for Best Critic in print, and Finke also finished second for Best News Story in print.
LA Press Club |
02-22-2008 12:54 pm |
Honors & Achievements
L.A. Weekly Series on Skid Row Leads to Documentarynew
Between Dec. 2005-March 2006, Sam Slovick wrote a series of Weekly cover stories on the everyday tragedies and triumphs found on Los Angeles's Skid Row, and now he's used that work as a jumping-off point for a five-part documentary. The short film, which is written and directed by Slovick and sponsored by GOOD Magazine, debuted this week on MySpace TV. "We couldn't be prouder of Sam and the light he's helped shine on this issue," Weekly deputy editor Joe Donnelly says.
L.A. Weekly | MySpace TV |
02-21-2008 10:40 am |
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L.A. Weekly Cartoonist Cited as Important 2008 Election Voicenew
Mr. Fish, a.k.a. Dwayne Booth, who creates political cartoons for the Weekly, was listed as number one on "the 10 most important voices to listen to this election cycle" list by Best Life Magazine. "Political cartooning hasn't evolved much since the days of Ben Franklin, but the art form may have found a new voice that can help bring back the edge," Best Life says.
Best Life Magazine |
02-19-2008 1:15 pm |
Honors & Achievements
L.A. Weekly's Annual Biennial is a Hitnew
Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight writes that the only thing missing from the third L.A. Weekly Annual Biennial, "Some Paintings," is "an exclamation mark at the title's end. A whopping 81 paintings by 80 artists, most made recently; here is a show that wants to make a point. And it does, with wit, verve and considerable taste." The show, curated by Weekly art critic Doug Harvey, opened Jan. 19. "Harvey favors an art that expresses a wild and raucous spirit of life," artnet Magazine says. "'Some Paintings' is a perfect antidote to the minimal cool of much successful art, which can often leave one feeling empty."
Los Angeles Times |
01-28-2008 10:44 am |
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Nikki Finke Takes a Breaknew
"I'm exhausted. I'm not feeling well. I'm overwhelmed," the L.A. Weekly columnist writes. She says she will return next Tuesday. Her blog has become the go-to source for news on the writers' strike, and she's reportedly been working nearly around the clock since it started. "I need a week away from the emails and the comments and the phone calls and the rumors. Most of all, I just need to rest since I've been going, going, going, since the strike started."
Deadline Hollywood Daily |
01-15-2008 8:37 am |
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9/11 Truth Activists Picket L.A. Weekly Officenew
Some adherents of the 9/11 Truth movement hit the streets in front of the paper's Hollywood office on Friday, handing out flyers, waving upside-down American flags and denouncing longtime columnist Marc Cooper. The activists took umbrage with this turn of phrase included in a recent Cooper column on Cynthia McKinney: "She was one of the first high-profile adherents of the official whack-job '9/11 Truth' movement, directly implicating the U.S. government in the staging of the attack on the Twin Towers." The Weekly has a slideshow of the protests.
MarcCooper.com | L.A. Weekly |
01-14-2008 8:33 am |
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L.A. Weekly's Nikki Finke Nominated for ICG Publicists Press Awardnew
Variety |
01-11-2008 1:07 pm |
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Nikki Finke Named 'Media Mensch of the Year'new
In crowning her as such, the New York Observer thanks the L.A. Weekly columnist "for reminding us that all good journalism comes, first and foremost, from obsession." Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily site has become the go-to source for coverage of the writers' strike, and has made this a defining moment in her career. "The biggest entertainment story of the year has also turned into the biggest story of Ms. Finke's career," the Observer reports. "She's demonstrated that one determined reporter -- with none of the support or backing of a media outfit, but also none of the entangling alliances -- can, in fact, beat the big guys at their own game."
New York Observer |
01-02-2008 1:05 pm |
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Writers' Strike is Gold for Nikke Finke's 'Deadline Hollywood Daily'new
The L.A. Weekly columnist's website "has supplanted traditional media as a primary source of strike news" for many, the New York Times reports. She's even been invoked in picket line chants. "Variety and The Reporter stink. We get our news from Nikki Finke," Ugly Betty writer Bill Wrubel chanted. Since the strike began, Finke has written 142 posts about it, the Times reports. She said she had worked almost around the clock for three weeks, and had fallen asleep at the computer four times. "It's been brutal, but it's also been exhilarating because I love news," she says. "I love it -- a scoop is better than sex." More on Finke from Bloomberg News.
The New York Times |
11-26-2007 9:54 am |
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Michael Lacey Attempts to Give LA Observed 'A Little Perspective'new
"As a source of gossip, half truths, lies, slander, unfounded speculation and general lazy-ass foolishness, LA Observed remains invaluable," Village Voice Media's executive editor writes in an e-mail published on the site. "Comes the news flash that three writers have, or will soon, depart the L.A. Weekly. To LA Observed, these are not matters of opportunity but signs of darkening skies," he writes. "In a city like Los Angeles writers find books, scripts and other opportunities. At any newspaper you have the occasional clash. You might have ascertained all of the above if you ever picked up the phone and talked to the targets of your biliousness."
LA Observed |
09-27-2007 9:27 am |
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L.A. Weekly Columnist Joins Huffington Post Citizen Journalism Projectnew
Marc Cooper will be the editor of OffTheBus, the Huffington Post's project to cover the 2008 campaigns via citizen journalists, Wired reports.
Wired |
09-19-2007 9:56 am |
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Daniel Hernandez Leaving L.A. Weekly to Write Book for Scribnernew
"He's leaving L.A. Weekly not because of some New Times conspiracy but because Scribner has asked him to write a book about Mexico City based on his amazing cover story from last year," OC Weekly's Gustavo Arellano writes. Hernandez, who Arellano credits as "the man who made my career" with a big profile in the Los Angeles Times, writes on his blog that the book will be "about the underground, basically -- youth and subcultures."
OC Weekly |
09-14-2007 8:47 am |
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