Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'losangelescounty'
January 25, 2008
Geez, the weather this winter has been uneventful. There's no letup of dull weather in sight, at least in New York. We took a gander at LAist this morning only to see that Los Angeles has more snow than Gotham City. The massive west coast storm has dropped up to eighteen inches of snow at higher elevations in Los Angeles County. Today is sunny, slightly cool and windy. Tomorrow: Clouds, slightly less cool and not......
Continue Reading "It was Snowier A Century Ago"October 28, 2007
A look at some noteworthy television this week: Nature: Silence of the Bees (Sunday, 8:00 p.m., WNET 13; Wednesday 8:00 p.m., WLIW 21) The long running PBS nature series Nature takes a look at the recent decline in the honey bee population and the possible consequences of it. Masterpiece Theatre: The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (Sunday, 9:00 p.m., WNET 13) The story of a supermarket manager becomes Prime Minister continues with Mrs. Pritchard facing some hard......
Continue Reading "Noteworthy Television This Week: "June 9, 2007
The tabloids and cable news media got a weekend windfall when a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ordered socialite Paris Hliton back to jail. The Post called her a "Wailbird" while the Daily News described her as a "blubbering blond". And let's not even discuss the ridiculous coverage of her arrest at her home and the TV helicopters following her to court on TV. To summarize: Judge Michael Sauer was angry that the......
Continue Reading "Paris is Burning Up the Tabloids"May 5, 2007
It's a tabloid Saturday jackpot as a Los Angeles County judge sentenced "celebrity" Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail. Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer agreed with prosecutors who felt that Hilton's driving with a suspended license (she was busted for DUI on September 7, 2006, ordered to go to alcohol education this past February, and then was pulled over yet again in late February) deserved jail and sentenced the infamous sometimes New Yorker......
Continue Reading "More Than One Night in Jail For Paris"March 28, 2006
For shame to those in the upper crust of New York's income levels! There are only 62,773 of you in New York County, ranking you 13th on a list ranking the country's millionaires. A study by TNS Financial Services tallied up the most households with a net worth of over $1 million in counties across the country. Ranking waaaay at the top of the list is Los Angeles County with 262,800 millionaires and Cook County,......
Continue Reading "A Crushing Blow to Millionaires in NY"October 17, 2003
Man, if Courtney Love thinks taking her case to Rush & Molloy is going to win her some support, she clearly is insane. Love talks to the Daily News' gossip mongers in order to give a glimpse into her mental health, as she tries to get custody of poor little Frances Bean back, after Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services placed her 11 year-old child with Kurt's mother, Wendy O'Connor when police......
Continue Reading "Courtney Love: Freeway to Crazy"
