Patrick Range McDonald
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LA Weekly Debuts Their Own iPhone App - Posted October 12, 2009
The LA Weekly's app is pretty neat. No news. Just listings of events and restaurants. Generally helpful if you're the kind of person who does stuff.
You can download it for free at the app store. Always a plus. Not like the dim two buck CNN app.
Of course, if we... [FishBowlLA]
LA Weekly Debuts Their Own iPhone App - Posted October 12, 2009
The LA Weekly's app is pretty neat. No news. Just listings of events and restaurants. Generally helpful if you're the kind of person who does stuff.
You can download it for free at the app store. Always a plus. Not like the dim two buck CNN app.
Of course, if we... [FishBowlLA]
LA Gets a "Hard-Hitting Hipster"...Like Another One - Posted August 28, 2009
Being an LA City Hall nerd just got a little more exciting. No we're not talking about another rumble over one-way streets or a park or something that controversial. We're talking about one dude name Jay Carson, Hillary Clinton's traveling press secretary in 2007. Who also worked for her husband, former... [FishBowlLA]
LA Weekly Reporter Reacts to Bratton Stepping Down - Posted August 5, 2009
We'll recap: Chief of Police Bill Bratton has been touting this statistic about how LA, this LA - the LA we live in, is one of the safest cities in the country and crime is down to 1956 levels. Patrick Range McDonald at the LA Weekly wrote a piece refuting those... [FishBowlLA]
LA Weekly Reporter Reacts to Bratton Stepping Down - Posted August 5, 2009
We'll recap: Chief of Police Bill Bratton has been touting this statistic about how LA, this LA - the LA we live in, is one of the safest cities in the country and crime is down to 1956 levels. Patrick Range McDonald at the LA Weekly wrote a piece refuting those... [FishBowlLA]
James Rainey vs Jill Stewart Redux - Posted June 25, 2009
Jill Stewart penned a rebuttal to James Rainey's "take-down" piece about the LA Weekly.
Since LATimes.com is crashing on and off due to the Michael Jackson deluge, we have posted then entire piece after the break, but here's an excerpt:
Rainey accuses me of being an ideologue. Isn't he talking about himself? I... [FishBowlLA]
Police Chief Bratton Says LA Weekly's McDonald is 'Smoking a Little Weed' - Posted May 21, 2009
There is something very unsettling about a member of the LAPD accusing a reporter of doing drugs for disagreeing with them. That would go for any police force, but the LAPD - in a post-Rampart world - throwing around the 'you're a dope head' dismissal for challenging his murky crime... [FishBowlLA]
Police Chief Bratton Says LA Weekly's McDonald is 'Smoking a Little Weed' - Posted May 21, 2009
There is something very unsettling about a member of the LAPD accusing a reporter of doing drugs for disagreeing with them. That would go for any police force, but the LAPD - in a post-Rampart world - throwing around the 'you're a dope head' dismissal for challenging his murky crime... [FishBowlLA]
LA Weekly Packs the LA Press Club Awards Finalists - Posted May 14, 2009
The LA Press Club announced the finalists for this year's awards. The LA Weekly is listed more than any other publication. Wowee. The partial list is here and yes, Patrick Range McDonald is totally on the list. A couple of times. Swoon.... [FishBowlLA]
FBLA Exclusive Interview With Patrick Range McDonald - Posted April 22, 2009
So Gavin Newsom made it all official yesterday and formally announced his campaign for governor on Twitter. So we thought we'd ask LA Weekly journo and local political wonk Patrick Range McDonald for his thoughts on the upcoming race:
FBLA: Do you think Antonio Villaraigosa is actually going to put in a... [FishBowlLA]
FBLA Exclusive Interview With Patrick Range McDonald - Posted April 22, 2009
So Gavin Newsom made it all official yesterday and formally announced his campaign for governor on Twitter. So we thought we'd ask LA Weekly journo and local political wonk Patrick Range McDonald for his thoughts on the upcoming race:
FBLA: Do you think Antonio Villaraigosa is actually going to put in a... [FishBowlLA]
LA Weekly Stirring It Up at City Hall - Posted February 26, 2009
Patrick Range McDonald penned a cover story in today's LA Weekly that's pretty damning of our humble city council. Not unwarranted. Just damning.
He writes:
While Los Angeles visibly falls apart, its illegal graffiti, illegal billboards and illegal street peddlers metastasizing, its remarkable congestion clogging each new block that's been targeted by... [FishBowlLA]
LA Weekly Stirring It Up at City Hall - Posted February 26, 2009
Patrick Range McDonald penned a cover story in today's LA Weekly that's pretty damning of our humble city council. Not unwarranted. Just damning.
He writes:
While Los Angeles visibly falls apart, its illegal graffiti, illegal billboards and illegal street peddlers metastasizing, its remarkable congestion clogging each new block that's been targeted by... [FishBowlLA]
Patrick Range McDonald's State of Newspapers Address - Posted February 25, 2009
We emailed, LA Weekly staffer Patrick Range McDonald about his reaction to this story "Five things newspaper employees can do to help save their company" by Matt Sokoloff. Which include revolutionary ideas like "Stop Useless Spending".
Uh huh.
Patrick, pictured above in the middle wrote us:
To be honest, none of those things... [FishBowlLA]
Patrick Range McDonald's State of Newspapers Address - Posted February 25, 2009
We emailed, LA Weekly staffer Patrick Range McDonald about his reaction to this story "Five things newspaper employees can do to help save their company" by Matt Sokoloff. Which include revolutionary ideas like "Stop Useless Spending".
Uh huh.
Patrick, pictured above with his parents, wrote us:
To be honest, none of those things... [FishBowlLA]
FBLA Trolls WeHo - Finds Ho' People - Posted January 12, 2009
This is another photo of the Patrick Range McDonald shindig.
From the left is Matthew Poe who's at UCLA Live and said he's looking forward to working with former LAT editor turned flack Robin Rauzi.
In the middle is Michael O. Gallant producer of the current film Humboldt County. And to the right... [FishBowlLA]
FBLA Trolls WeHo - Finds Journos - Posted January 12, 2009
We went to Patrick Range McDonald's birthday party in West Hollywood on Saturday. Here we are pictured with McDonald (in the middle) and Variety's Ted Johnson.
Other notables at the party include Michael Weinstein, founder of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Mike Gatto, attorney and politico at Mayer Brown, Miki Jackson and John Walsh,... [FishBowlLA]
LA Weekly Answers Mayor V - Posted December 31, 2008
As we reported yesterday, after LA Weekly wrote a critical article about Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in September, and then he defended himself with the LA Daily News last week.
Basically, the Weekly reported that Villaraigosa only does city business (according to his schedule) with 11% of his time. So Villaraigosa said that... [FishBowlLA]
Mayor V Answers His Critics in - Wait For It - The Daily News - Posted December 30, 2008
Patrick Range McDonald wrote a blistering expose about Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in the LA Weekly back in September of this year. The article was scathing yet never once mentioned the Mayor's love of the ladies...especially those that are members of the press.
Villaraigosa defended himself to the LA Daily News last Friday:
His... [FishBowlLA]
California Gays Punched Again This Month - Posted December 18, 2008
By now you have heard that in the line-up of next month's inauguration, evangelical light-on-facts preacher Rick Warren has been tapped to do Barack Obama's invocation.
So last month, gay couples had their rights taken away and now one of the champions for taking away those rights is going to give... [FishBowlLA]
LA Public Access TV Could Be Less Accessible - Posted December 11, 2008
LA Weekly's Patrick Range McDonald documents the saga of public access television in LA:
It goes far beyond that. The normally slow and dithering City Council on December 3 unanimously voted to consolidate their control over public access and squeeze the citizen-producers onto Channel 36, an already jammed station run by the... [FishBowlLA]
The California Election Post-Mortem - Posted November 7, 2008
From what we understand, Californians passed a measure that would give more rights to chickens and measure that would give LESS rights to homosexual couples.
According to the LAT, southern California was totally for the ban of same sex marriages.
Melissa Etheridge says we can forget her taxes on Daily Beast.
NYT reports... [FishBowlLA]
Queer Town is Clearly In The Tank for No on Prop. 8 - Posted October 23, 2008
LA Weekly's Queer Town's Patrick Range McDonald has been tirelessly following each development in the Proposition 8.
Prop. 8 proposes to change the California constitution so same sex couples can't marry each other. Who cares who marries who? Mormons. If anyone would be cool with redefining marriage - you'd think it... [FishBowlLA]
The End of Villaraigosa's Political Career - Posted September 11, 2008
Patrick Range McDonald issues a death blow to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in the LA Weekly today. The piece is called The All-About-Me-Mayor where he chronicles how truly ineffective the mayor has been to a city that desperately needs someone (besides the parking enforcement officers) to do their job.
The thing most striking... [FishBowlLA]
The End of Villaraigosa's Political Career - Posted September 11, 2008
Patrick Range McDonald issues a death blow to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in the LA Weekly today. The piece is called The All-About-Me-Mayor where he chronicles how truly ineffective the mayor has been to a city that desperately needs someone (besides the parking enforcement officers) to do their job.
The thing most striking... [FishBowlLA]





